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)
Kathryn Winograd has two lyric essays, "Bathing," and "Guns, Knives, and the Amazon Warrior Princess" forthcoming in the next issues of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction and Hotel Amerika. Three of her poems will be part of the upcoming Fusion III Painting and Poetry Exhibit at Square Deal Framing and Gallery, reception on October 9th, 5-9 p.m. Winograd will also be reading at the Associated Writing Programs 2010 conference in Denver this April as part of the Ashland Poetry Press: More Than 40 Years Anniversary event and will participate in a panel on creative writing and technology: "The Soul and The Machine: Teaching Creative Writing Through Technology."
#31 of Steve Schroeder’s e-magazine, Anti-, is now on-line, featuring poet Fady Joudah who will soon publish a book of translations of Mahmoud Darwish. (http://www.facebook.com/l/85bde;anti-poetry.com/).
Jared Smith has two books coming out next year. In the spring, Tamarack Editions is releasing Looking Into the Machinery: The Selected Longer Poems of Jared Smith (1984-2008). Then, in the summer, Wind Publications will released Grassroots, an all-new collections of poems written entirely since he moved to Colorado and dealing with The Front Range.
Anushka Solomon’s chapbook The Hindu and the Punk is now available. $15.96 covers chapbook and mailing. Make checks payable to Anushka Solomon (29892 Troutdale Park Place, Evergreen, CO
Poetry Saves: A Journal of Colorado Lyric Poetry, 2009, had poems by Amy Irish, Beth Paulson, Jared Smith, Kathy Conde, and Robert King. (www.fgreenfusepoeticarts.org)
Two poems by Dan Beachy-Quick, “Anniversary” and "Museums” appear in the Sept. 2009 issue of Poetry.
David Feela’s “The Tarmac Hotel” appeared Aug. 11 in The New Verse News (www.nerversenews.com)
Two of Wendy Videlock's poems, "Spin" and "Who" will appear in an upcoming issue of Poetry, one of her poems will appear in a future column of American Life in Poetry, another will appear in Measure, and her chapbook, What's That Supposed to Mean will be released from Modern Metrics Press in the fall.
Volume 6, Issue 10 of The Poetry Victims is now online at www.poetryvictims.com
Anne Waldman’s poem “the aquarium deserted now” appeared in Poetry Daily on July 26. Waldman teaches at the Naropa Institute in Boulder.
The summer 2009 issue of Statement, the journal of the Colorado Language Arts Society, has a feature article on Laurie Buyer Wagner, an article on Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, an article, “Post Card Poetry,” co-authored by Lary Kleeman, and a poem by David Feela. (See “Announcements” for submission to Statement)
Steve Tompkins has new poems appearing in upcoming issues of The Chiron Review, Fifth Wednesday, and Jelly Bucket.
Kathy Conde has a short story, “January Thaw,” in CutThroat magazine's online summer 2009 edition (http://cutthroatmag.com/ct7-09.pdf).
Bob King was interviewed on the Jane Crown Show in July, 2009, following in the footsteps of Robert Cooperman (Dec., 2008) and Jared Smith (Nov. 2008). Find the archives under for these hour-long interviews under the dates at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/The-Jane-Crown-Show.
A poem by Joseph Hutchison is one of the 100 poems selected by The Midwest Quarterly (#4, V. 50) to celebrate its 50 years of publishing.
David Feela’s poem, “Pop Star Death”, appeared on June 27, 2009 on New Verse News (http://newversenews.blogspot.com).
Dan Guenther’s poem "Lethe," published in Quadrant magazine, was a finalist for the 2009 Top Hand Poetry Award with the Colorado Authors' League. Guenther’s novel, Townsend's Solitaire, was a finalist for the 2009 Top Hand Award in genre fiction. (http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2008/9/lethe)
Veronica Patterson’s poem "Retriever" is included in the anthology Don’t Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review (University of Arkansas Press, 2009), edited by James Smith with a foreword by Billy Collins.
Lisa Zimmerman’s work appears in two 2009 anthologies: Eating the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath (Backwaters Press, Ed. John Bradley) and The Poets Guide to the Birds (Anhinga Press, Ed. Ted Kooser and Judith Kitchen).
Anushka Solomon won third prize for her poem "Gegen Klimt" in the Denver Womans' Press Club In-House Writer's Competition.
Bin Ramke, Elizabeth Robinson, and Eleni Siskelianos are three Colorado poets represented in the Norton anthology of new American poetry, American Hybrid (2009)
On July 2 in Glasgow, work by Colorado poet Anushka Anastasia Solomon (The Hindu and the Punk, 2009) will be read at the “International Heroines” program, a partnership between the Glasgow Women’s Library and Amnesty International. Other featured writers include Shirin Ebadi, Arundhati Roy, Wangari Maathai, and others. Solomon’s website is www.atthewindow.us/
Bill Tremblay’s “Press Conference Sonnet” was published in American Poets Against the War.
David J. Rothman’s poem, “Matins,” appeared in Tar River Poetry, spring, 2009.
James Tipton's latest book, All the Horses of Heaven/Todos los Caballos del Paraiso, is now available through www.themetpress.com. Also available there is Tipton’s recent collection of haiku, Proposing to the Woman in the Rear View Mirror.
Jake York, the 2009 Summer Poet in Residence at the University of Mississippi from June 15-July 15, has new poems out in The Cincinnati Review, The Rome Review, Bayou, and Waccamaw, as well as work forthcoming in Shenandoah and The Southern Review.
An excerpt from Dan Beachy-Quick’s “This Nest, Swift Passerine” appeared on May 5, 2009 in the Poem-A-Day series from poets.org.
Barbara Sorenson has a poem, “Tasting Pomegranate,” scheduled for the August issue of Mountain Gazette, with others promised in the future.
Chris Hoffman (Cairns) has added two new you-tube videos of his poems: Shamanic Poetry 2 and Shamanic Poetry 3. The video-poems are also available at his website: www.hoopandtree.org/new_page_2.htm
Beth Paulson’s new collection of poems, Wild Raspberries, has appeared in spring of 2009 from Plain View Press.
Anushka Anastasia Solomon’s new chapbook, The Hindu and the Punk, has been released by Pudding House Press (Spring, 2009).
Steven Schroeder’s poem, “In This Country, Trail Breaks You,” appeared in the spring 2009 issue of The Bitter Oleander.
David Mason’s poem, “In Priene,” appears in the Spring/Summer 2009 issue of 32 Poem.
On Sunday, April 19, 2009, the Denver Post featured three Colorado poets: Julie Carr, Bin Ramke, and J. Michael Martinez. A poem and an interview with each is included in the ‘Lifestyles’ section.
Poetry by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers and Christian Drake and art by Amy Kohut can be found in Vol. 6, issue 5, of The Poetry Victims. http://www.poetryvictims.com
Jeffrey Spahr-Summer's new book, i believe, is available on-line at http://www.poetscoop.org/free.htm#ib_jeff
Suzanne Bronson’s visual poetry project is finally ready to view on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fRGyO57Cxw
Efrain Garza published “Cabalgadura del siglo actual,” “Cartografía sin inventariar,” and “Sueños hechos añicos” in the anthology Poetic Voices Without Borders #2, 2008.
Kathryn Winograd's poem, "My Mother Going Blind Sees the World," honorable mention in the 2008 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, now out in CUTTHROAT VI, Spring 2009.
In March, 2009, Denver poet Paul Handley’s poem “Comedian Tragedian” appears in ExPatLit, and “Scouting Report” in The Northville Review.
Vol. 6, Issue 2 of Poetry Victims is now online, featuring collaborative art by Amy Kohut and ZZ Baggins, as well as poetry by Robert King. http://www.poetryvictims.com/
Beside her chapbook, Unwritten Letters (Outlaw Artists Press, 2008), Katie Kingston published work in Mountain Gazette, Pilgrimage, and Nimrod in 2008, and is forthcoming in Rattle and Nimrod. Her poem in Isotope last year has been nominated for a Pushcart prize. On the contest scene, she was a semi-finalist for Nimrod’s Pablo Neruda Prize and for Zone 3 Press’s First Book Award, and a finalist for Arts & Letters’ Rumi Prize, the May Swenson Poetry Award, and Blue Light Press’s 2008 Poetry Prize.
Jane Hilberry’s work was featured on Jenny Kinder’s radio program, The Poet’s Weave.
L. Luis Lopez’ book, Each Month I Sing, appeared from Farolito Press in 2008 (See "Awards")
New South had an interview with Jake Adam York in its Winter, 2007-08 issue. Read it under “Past Issues” at http://www.review.gsu.edu/
Dan Beachy-Quick has several works out and now available: A Whaler’s Dictionary (Milkweed Editions), Mobius Crowns (a chapbook written with the poet Srikanth Reddy, from P-Queue Press), and Apology for the Book of Creatures (a chapbook from Ahsahta Press).
Jeffrey Bahr’s poems “Buona Fortuna” and “How Eloquent Our Intentions” appeared in the Fall, 2008, issue of The Journal.
Jim Ciletti’s short-short memoir, “A Spire in Every Cup,” appeared in Rambler magazine.
Jane Hilberry’s poems were featured on the radio show "The Poet's Weave," hosted by Jenny Kander.
Kathryn Winograd has published two poems in Calyx (Winter, 2008), a children’s poem in Cricket Magazine (Jan. 2008), and nonfiction essays in Wazee Journal (Winter, 2008) and in Wiinds of Change (Winter, 2009).
Jim Ciletti’s “Why I Love My Brother,” the first chapter in a memoir, appeared in the winter 2009 issue of Passager. Bob King also has a poem, “The Class of ‘55,” in that issue.
David Feela’s new book, The Home Atlas (2009), is now available from WordTech Editions.
Two poems by Robert Cooperman, two by M. D. Friedman, and two by Jared Smith appear in the February 2009 premier issue of Heavy Bear at http://www. heavybear.janecrown.com.
David Feela’s new poem “Facebook” appears at www.newversenews.com. His first full-length book, The Home Atlas, is now available.
Steven Schroeder’s poem “Deathmatch Mode”, from his new book Torched Verse Ends, appeared on Verse Daily on Feb. 7, 2009. Go to www.versedaily.com and click on ‘archives’.
Find a recent poem by Joe Hutchison at Valparaiso Poetry Review, http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/hutchisonwhite.html; three at future cycle, http://www.futurecycle.org/JosephHutchison1.aspx; and three in homage to Issa at The Lower Half at http://lowerhalf.blogspot.com/2008/12/three-for-issa.html
Veronica Patterson’s poem “Pause” appeared in the latest issue of Rosebud, a $100 finalist in the magazine’s William Stafford Award.
Copper Nickel #11 contains three poems by Marilyn Krysl and three by Steven Schroeder.
Veronica Patterson’s poem “Pause” was a runner-up for the William Stafford Award and appears in the current issue of Rosebud.
James Galvin’s poem “My Sister” appeared in the November/December, 2008, issue of Orion.
Pattiann Roger’s Wayfare appeared from Penguin Press in 2008. It’s reviewed by Laurie Kutchins in the Nov/Dec. 2008 Orion. (http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/review/3659/)
Wendy Videlock’s poem, “Vanity Flare,” appears in the Feb. 2009 issue of Poetry. She has a chapbook of poems coming from Modern Metrics Press in the summer of 2009.
Bob King's poem, "Tired of Talking to the Dead," appears in the latest issue of Ascent (Fall,2008).
Joseph Hutchison has a lengthy, and well-exampled, review of a selected poems collection of Cid Corman’s work (The Next One Thousand Years, editors Rosenow and Arnold) in the Jan/Feb 2009 issue of The Bloomsbury Review.
David Rothman, Chris Ransick, and Michael J. Henry teamed up with three choreographers at Ballet Nouveau Colorado to produce dances based on their poems written on the theme of love. See “Announcements” for dates of the production.
Beth Paulson’s new book, Wild Raspberries, is due out from Plain View Press in early spring, 2009. She has again been nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize.
Rawdon Tomlinson’s poem, “Horned Lizard,” appeared in the winter 2008-9 issue of Ploughshares, a poem, we assume, in his current working manuscript of growing up in Oklahoma.
Jeffrey Franklin’s poem, “The Anthropology of Little League Baseball,” appeared in a ‘best-of’’ issue of Tar River Poetry, Fall, 2008.
Michele Harvey’s poem, “The Desert of Northern Chile,” appears in the autumn/winter 2008 issue of Wazee, as does Bob King’s “The Man from Another State.”
Read them both at: http://www.wazeejournal.org/index.htm
Juan J. Morales has a poem, “Guaman Poma, Writing by Candlelight” in Issue #3 of anti-.
(http://anti-poetry.com/)
Copper Nickel #10 contains so many poems written by Colorado poets that it’s a local treat to read as well as a solidly and beautifully designed magazine of national interest. Poets include Sheryl Luna, Jane Hilberry, Soham Patel, Pattiann Rogers, Veronica Patterson, and Julie Carr, as well as Barbara Sorenson and Eleni Sikelianos.
David Feela’s new book, The Home Atlas, is forthcoming soon from WordTech Editions. Go here to see the cover, read raves and sample poems: www.wordtechweb.com/feela.html.
David Feela has a poem at New Verse News (www.newversenews.com/)
Wendy Videlock has three poems in the upcoming (January, 2009) issue of Poetry, and a sonnet in the current issue of Redivider.
Rosemerry Wahtola-Trommer’s newest book is Holding Three Things at Once, now available from Turkey Buzzard Press (2008).
Robert Cooperman’s poem “Red Sky at Dawning” appears in the Fall/Winter 2008 issue of Pearl as does Bob King’s “Generations”.
Robert Cooperman’s “My Expendable Blood” appears in Atlanta Review, 2008, 25 (1).
Michelle Harvey has a poem, ”The Desert of Northern Chile”, in the upcoming winter/spring issue of Wazee Journal.
Robert Cooperman’s The Words We Used will be out in January, 2009, from Main Street Rag.
Jane Crown’s 90-minute interview with Colorado poet Robert Cooperman is now available at http://www.janecrown.com.
Steven Schroeder, a Colorado poet now at Vanderbilt, is the editor of the “Anti-poetry” website which includes poems by Jake Adam York and Aaron Anstett. (See http://anti-poetry.com)
A review by Janis Lull of Bob King’s Old Man Laughing is available at www.rattle.com/ereviews.htm.
Steve Katz has a long poem on 9/11 entitled “Total Recall” in the Fall, 2008, issue of Mad Hatters’ Review.
The current issue of Sugar Mule, an on-line literary magazine “with ecccentric buddhist leanings” based in Colorado Springs and edited by M. L. Weber, is now at www.sugarmule.com
William Pitt Root has a poem, "The Day the Sun Rises Twice," in the 2008 "American Apocalypse" issue of Green Mountains Revew.
Noah Eli-Gordon has a poem, “Dubtone,” up on issue #7 of H_NGM_N (http://www.h-ngm-n.com/h_ngm_n-7/noah-eli-gordon.html)
Vol. 5, Issue 15 of The Poetry Victims is now online at http://thepoetryvictimsvol5.blogspot.com with work by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers and Jared Smith, along with vivid artwork.
Mark Irwin's book of poems, Tall If, appears in November, 2008, from New Issues Press.
Lisa Zimmerman's poem, "Forgiving My Father," appears in the Fall/Winter 2008 issue of Poet Lore.
Joe Hutchison has a poem, “White Peak,” in the Fall/Winter 2008-09 issue of the Valparaiso Poetry Review. (Read it at http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/hutchisonwhite.html)
David Keplinger has three poems (“Messina,” “Supermax,” and “Mercury”) and Jeffrey Bahr has one poem (“Mountain Standard Time) in the spring 2008 issue of Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts (www.blackird.vcu.edu)
Dan Guenther reports three of his poems (“Lethe,” “Meditations After the Supernova,” and “Humpback Whales) in Quadrant magazine this year. Links are http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2008/9/ followed by the title with dashes between words. The link to Quadrant magazine itself: http://www.quadrant.org.au/
Katie Kingston’s new chapbook, Unwritten Letters, has appeared from Outlaw Press in Utah (2008).
Kathy Conde's story "Echoing the Wind" won the Hemingway Festival Short Story Contest 2008. Her story "Hanging Houses" was a finalist in Glimmer Train's May 2008 Short Story Award for New Writers competition. She also has two poems forthcoming in Talking River.
Steve Tompkins' poem "Clay County Pastoral" will be appearing in the Fall/Winter 2008 Issue of NEW SOUTH.
Word just came in that Pudding House Press will publish Pam Uschuk’s Greatest Hits in their chapbook series. Four U.S. poets are nominated a year for this unique series. The chapbook should be out by the end of the year.
Cheryl Loetscher’s Unclaimed Baggage has won the chapbook contest sponsored by the New England Poetry Club.
Steve Tompkins' poem "Off-Season Tourists" will appear in the Fall/Winter 2008 issue of Borderlands-The Texas Poetry Review.
James Tipton has work in Issue 47 (Summer, 2008) of The Pedestal Magazine.
James Wilk’s chapbook, Shoulders, Fibs, and Lies, has been published by Pudding House Press and is available at their web site, puddinghouse.com
Joy Roulier Sawyer's poem, "The Principled Poet Addresses the School Board" appeared June 30 in Issue #12 of The Other Journal: http://www.theotherjournal.com/article.php?id=383
David Feela’s poem, “Ecnomics,” appeared Aug. 5, 2008 on The New Verse News (www.newversenews.com).
Jeffrey Spahr-Summers has a poem reprinted in The Poetry Victims #5. To see it and other blogs, photos and art, check out: http://thepoetryvictimsvol5.blogspot.com
Veronica Patterson's poem, "Marry Me", appeared on Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry, Column 172, on July 10, 2008 (www.americanlifeinpoetry.org).
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