Karen McPherson has a poem in the anthology Bigger Than They Appear: An Anthology of Very Short Poems, edited by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer. http://www.accents-publishing.com/biggerthantheyappear.html
She was also awarded a month-long residency for spring 2012 at Playa in Summer Lake, OR. http://www.playasummerlake.org/blog/
Quinton Hallett shares this: http://www.dianelockward.blogspot.com
Here’s a link to a blog by Diane Lockward, New Jersey poet, blogger, who also posts an informative monthly newsletter.
This month’s blog and newsletter highlight Ingrid Wendt’s new book, Evensong, with a craft piece on Ingrid’s practice of saving words, lines, phrases she has to cut from a poem at hand but which she savors and which might find new life in a future poem.
Lockward features craft tips, books on writing, prompts, links, in her monthly offerings. If you check out the blog, you will find a window to subscribe to the newsletter. It’s easy to unsubscribe, so you may try it or not, as time allows.
Tsunami Books Presents! Third Saturday Literary Reading – Saturday, January 21st, 5 P.M., 2585 Willamette St., Eugene
Poets Kathryn Ridall, Michael Spring & Jenny Root
Michael Spring is the author of three poetry collections: blue crow (2003) Mudsong (2005) and Root of Lightning (2011). His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The Atlanta Review,DMQ Review, The Dublin Quarterly, Gavea-Brown, The Midwest Quarterly, NEO, and The Oregonian. Michael lives in O’Brien, OR. He is currently a natural builder, a martial art instructor, and a poetry editor for The Pedestal Magazine.
Jenny Root’s poems will be appearing in Fault Lines and Edge by Tahoe Writers Works, and are in the current issue of basalt. Her work has appeared in other literary journals and anthologies, including New Poets of the American West, River Poets Journal, Windfall and The New Southerner (of all places). That manuscript she’s been talking about is coming along swell, and should see the light of day soon.
Kathryn Ridall moved to Eugene in the summer of 2010 after many years in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the editor of an anthology, When the Muse Calls: Poems for the Creative Life and author of two chapbooks. She will be reading poems from Visitations, a collection that explores the many sides of life with a muse.
Geri Doran is the author of Resin (LSU, 2005), selected by Henri Cole for the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award, and Sanderlings (Tupelo, 2011).
She has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, as well as fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Portland’s Literary Arts. Born in northwestern Montana, she holds degrees from Vassar College and the University of Florida, and currently teaches poetry in the University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program.
Lauren Kessler is the author of six works of narrative nonfiction, including her most recent book, My Teenage Werewolf: AMother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence. She is also the author of Dancing with Rose, which won a Pacific Northwest Book Award and Stubborn Twig, which won an Oregon Book Award and was chosen as the book for all of Oregon to read in honor of the state’s 2009 sesquicentennial.
Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Utne Reader, The Nation, as well as newsweek.com and salon.com. Lauren Kessler is also the founder and editor of Etude, the online magazine of narrative nonfiction, and she directs the Multimedia Journalism master’s program at the University of Oregon’s Portland center. She lives in Eugene with her writer husband Tom Hager and their three children.
January 17th, 5:30 p.m. Eugene Public Library — FREE!
has a poem accepted by Vagabondage Press for their upcoming anthology, Love Notes. Fault Line Press has accepted two poems. American Poetic Soul has accepted a poem for their soon to be released anthology. Wayne State University has taken a poem for their Wayne Literary Review. And, finally, a poem has been accepted from Mod Cloth for their online journal, The Written Wardrobe.
Michael van Mantgem just published a short story in a new literary magazine, “The Rag.” Based in of Portland, Oregon, “The Rag” is a quarterly electronic literary magazine that publishes short stories and poetry.
The Rag is available for download in PDF and ePub formats from the publisher’s site, Amazon.com and BN.com
Within the next two weeks (say, up until about the 19th of January) you can stream Sam Roderick on the radio, reading his very own poems! Sam is a member of the Guild’s Red Sofa Poets. Click the link below and go to January 5, 6 p.m. “Counterspin/Poets West.”
