Writing News
Note: Individual poet’s recent publications may be announced here. Some citations are those I happen to run across in my own subscriptions. Please let us know about your publications and we'll post them here for a time. (Bob King, Colorado Poets Center)
Anushka Anastasia Solomon will be one of 12 authors Amnesty International UK pays tribute to at an exhibition called “Heroes and Heroines” at the Edinburgh International Book Festival occurring Aug. 1-27, 2008. Her poem “Raped, Draped, and Relegated” from her 2007 book Please God, Don’t Let Me Write like a Woman (Finishing Line Press) was read and honored at last year’s Edinburgh Book Festival.
Jared Smith’s 2008 book, The Graves Grow Bigger, received a long review in the latest issue of The Pedestal. “Although Smith writes eloquently of the destruction of nature and the alienation of the American worker, he is not a poet of despair. The Graves Grow Bigger is as much memento mori as it is a defiance of death and a celebration of life, of the struggle not to give in to despair—i.e., "To Be Alive"—and of the very flesh that covers our bones ("After a Woman Is Removed From A Rome Necropolis"). For Smith, the stuff of this defiance—indeed the stuff of life itself—is poetry, and the men and women who create it.” (JoSelle Vanderhooft)
Joe Hutchison has a poem, “Kooser’s Creek, in the summer 2008 issue of HeartLodge, a Colorado magazine edited by Andrea Watson, Cheryl Loetscher, and Leta McDonald.
It may not be writing but it’s art from a poet. Stephen Beal, Colorado poet and fabric artist, has won The Lillian Elliott Award for Excellence in Fiber Art for 2008. See “Awards” for more info.
Joe Hutchison’s website, The Perpetual Bird, has links to ten of his recent on-line poems.
Sandra Dorr’s essay on "The Hearts of Horses" and the myth of the West appeared in the spring/summer 2008 issue of The Bloomsbury Review.
Katie Kingston’s poem, “Vista Verde,” appeared in the 2008 spring/summer issue of Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing.
Daniel Grandbois’ collection of stories, Unlucky Lucky Days, is now available from BOA editions (as well as Amazon, Borders, B&N). It was selected by the American Booksellers Association as a July 2008 Book Sense Notable Book.
Publishers Weekly says “Brief, animist epiphanies—most shorter than a page—comprise Grandbois's folkloric debut….Absurdist and surreal, witty and ironical, Grandbois's observations make for pleasant grotesques: impressionistic idées fixes "like the heads of soldiers... large enough to block passages against intruders."
David Feela’s poem, “Earthquake, Flood, Tornado”, is at www.newversenews.com, May 29, 2008.
Jessy Randall has two "poetry comics" in the summer 2008 issue of Rattle.
Steve Tompkins' prose poem "Last Supper" will be appearing in the Fall 2008 issue of Natural Bridge: A Journal of Contemporary Literature.
Colorado prose writer and poet Steven J. Meyers has two poems in the Spring 2008 issue of Cutthroat.
Serendipitously, Lisa Zimmerman and Bob King both have poems in the Spring 2008 issue of Hiram Poetry Review.
Lois Beebe Hayna has a poem in the spring, 2008, issue of The Louisiana Review, as does Bob King.
Rawdon Tomlinson’s poem, “The Home Place,” appeared in South Dakota Review, Winter 2007.
Mark Irwin’s poem, “Empire,” appeared in Poetry, May, 2008. His sixth collection of poetry, Tall lf, is forthcoming from New Issues.
Padma Thornlyre's newest book, Eating Totem: the Mossbeard Poems, has just been released from Turkey Buzzard Press ($13 including mailing). Order from the Press at 1500 Sagrimore Circle, Lafayette,CO 80026.
Lisa Zimmerman’snew book, The Light at the Edge of Everything (2008), is now available from Anhinga Press (http://anhinga.org.) George Kalamaras has said, “Lisa Zimmerman’s poems are deeply humane meditations on joy, loss, love, suffering, but never defeat. The Light at the Edge of Everything is precisely that, a reservoir of endurance and courage from which we can draw to make a world of luminous presence, through the daily practice of attention, amidst the complexity of living our lives.”
Art Goodtime’s recent book, As If The World Really Mattered, got a long review in the March-April 2008 issue of Bloomsbury Review. “In poem after poem, he reminds us that our addiction to the maps our culture provides has been a disaster for the natural world around and within. ($14, paper, La Alameda Press, 9636 Guadalup Trail NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87114)
Figures for a Darkroom Voice, Noah Eli Gordon’s collaboration with Joshua Marie Wilkinson, is now out from Tarpaulin Sky Press, and got noted by The Bloomsbury Review (March-April, 2008): “In a hyper-surreal collaboration, Gordon and Wilkinson take the prose poem to new, wild heights. Fragments, paragraphs, and elliptical aphorisms unleash voices and movements from the past as they transform poetic experience into present-day allusions, puzzles, and dramatic resolution. The point of this mixed-genre text is that beneath the layers of textual composition the two poets show how simply seeing is the door to complex experience.”
($14 paper, Tarpaulin Sky Press, Box 189, Grafton, VT 05146)
The recent Many Mountains Moving (Vol. 8, 2008) contains Colorado poets Aaron Anstett, Jeffrey Franklin, Jane Hilberry, Tim Hernandez, Rita Kiefer, Robert King, Ginger Knowlton, John Latham, Juan Morales, and Chris Ransick.
To buy a copy, visit www.mmminc.org.
Shirley Sullivan’s January, 2008 poem, “January, 2008”, can be viewed at www.tigerseyepoet.blogspot.com
Jeffery Bahr’s “The History of Bluegrass” appeared on Verse Daily on Jan. 1, 2008
Rawdon Tomlinson’s poem “Brothers” appears in Birmingham Poetry Review, No. 34, Winter 2007.
Wendy Videlock's poem entitled "There's Nothing More" is in the Jan. 2008 of Poetry, and another of hers is slated for a future issue. Her poem "Drink" appears in the current issue of Alehouse Press and Measure will publish her sonnet, "Snag" in an upcoming issue. Her poem, "Coyote", published in Smartish Pace in 2007, has received a Pushcart Nomination.
Katie Kingston has two poems, "Fish Like Angels" and "Blue Steel," in the fall 2007 issue of Weber Studies.
Garrison Keillor's Writers' Almanac for Nov. 30 featured David Keplinger's "Life on Earth" from his book The Prayers of Others which won the 2007 Colorado Book Award for Poetry.
Steve Tompkins' poem "This Day's Work" will be appearing in the Spring 2008 issue of BIG MUDDY: A JOURNAL OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY.
Jessy Randall's "Superhero Pregnant Woman" appeared Nov. 8 in Ted Kooser's "American Life in Poetry", column 137.
James Tipton’s poem, “Mr. Beeson’s Shop of Mirrors” appears in Pedestal 41 (Fall, 2007).
Noah Eli Gordon's "Novel Pictorial Noise 1-5" appeared on Poetry Daily (www.poems.com), September 26, 2007.
Mary Crow has recently had poems in Field, Main Street Rag, and Interim, She is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Verse, and Asheville Review. Her translations have appeared in Seneca Review, Chelsea, and Basalt, and poems are in two anthologies, Deep Travel: Contemporary Poets Abroad Uncontained and The Great Poetry Book.
Pamela Uschuk has two poems on line, “Words on Operation Iraqi Freedom” and “Cobbblestones” in Poetry Miscellany as well as an aritcle, “Listening Without Distraction” at www.terrain.org. Upcoming publications include an article in Parabola.
David Rothman has recent poetry in cold drill and Literary Imagination and is forthcoming in Blue Unicorn, The Journal, and Pilgrimage, in addition to his scholarly essays and articles on such writers as Milosz, Merwin, Yeats, and Jeffers, and his sports and travel writings.
Pattiann Roger’s poem “Intimacy: A Lighting” appeared on Poetry Daily on Aug. 27 (www.poems.com)
Aaron Abeyta, Michael Adams, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, David Feela. Wendy Videlock, Phil Woods and Danny Rosen have work in “Santa Fe Poetry Broadside: Poets of the Region and Beyond”
David Feela has three poems (“Our Best Behavior” “Roadside Bomb Sonnet," and “Why I Watch the News”) in the on-line New Verse News.
Pam Uschuk and William Pitt Root have poems in the current Poetry Miscellany. View the issue on-line (PDF).
Anushka Anastasia Solomon’s chapbook, Please, God, Don’t Let Me Write Like a Woman, is forthcoming from Finishing Line press. Pre-publication sales end Sept. 5th with Oct. 5th as a release date. See: http://www.finishinglinepress.com/2006newreleasesandforthcomingtitles.htm
One of the poems in the book has been chosen by Amnesty International to be read at the Edinburgh International Poetry Festival.
Anushka Anastasia Solomon’s latest publication is in the on-line MalaysiaKini. (http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/69791)
Verse Daily's June 29 offering was "From a Swaying Hammock" by Joseph Hutchison, originally published in Chautauqua Literary Journal.
Bob King has a poem in the spring 2007 issue of South Dakota Review and one in the latest The Cape Rock.
Jeffrey Franklin’s poem “Drucker’s Mule Barn”, first published in Arts & Letters, appeared on Poetry Daily, April 20.
Jim Ciletti’s new book, Sunfire, has just (March, 2007) been released by Odyssey Books.
Marilyn Krysl's manuscript of short stories, Dinner with Osama, has won Notre Dame's Richard Sullivan Prize and will be published in January.
The just-out issue of Marginalia includes poems by Colorado poets Mark Irwin, Chris Ransick, Wendy Videlock, Ginger Knowlton, Cameron Scott, Carol Bell, and Steve Katz. Marginalia's website is: http://www.western.edu/marginalia/
This past year Jeffrey Bahr has had two poems in Verse, two in 13th Muse, and one in Iowa Review which was then featured on Poetry Daily.
Joseph Hutchison has a poem in the e-magazine futurecycle.
David Mason’s verse-novel, Ludlow, came out from Red Hen Press in spring, 2007.
Cheryl Loetscher’s chapbook, Unclaimed Baggage, is now available from Finishing Line Press. See Finishing Line Press, ‘new releases’.
Wendy Videlock’s poem, “Hullo,” appears in the March 2007 issue of Poetry, and she has two poems in the current Smartish Pace.