COLLECTING LIFE: POETS ON OBJECTS KNOWN AND IMAGINED – A NEW POETRY ANTHOLOGY

Poetry Lovers, Here is a new anthology hot off the press with poems by some of your favorite poets: “The Composer, The Bone Yard” by Pattiann Rogers, “Morpho” by Penelope Schambly Schott, “Lauds” by Kathryn Stripling Byer, “On the Beach” by Jane Hirschfield and others, including “The Collection” by Nancy Simpson.

Also included are Michael Hanner, Quinton Hallett, Susan Kenyon, and Laura LeHew!

Collecting Life was edited by Madelyn Garner and Andrea Watson with an introduction by Bill Brown Professor of  American Culture, University of Chicago. Until now, no anthology about collecting existed.

Buy your copy: http://www.amazon.com/Collecting-Life-Poets-Objects-Imagined/dp/0984792503

The Muse in Life and Poetry

A New Chapbook by Kathryn Ridall, Fae Press, 2011

Kathryn Ridall’s new chapbook is a meditation on life with a muse—exhilaration and inspiration, hard work, risk, disappointment, community between those who share a muse, and the always elusive mystery of the muse.

She will be reading from this new collection at Tsunami on January 21^st. She will be sharing the event with Jenny Root and Michael Spring.

Books can be purchased through her website: www.kathryn-ridall.com.

My poem “Lathrymus Maritimus:Beach Peas” has been published in the current edition of Conversations Across Borders, an online magazine that charges two dollars per poem or story, but donates all the contributions to literacy-related programs.

http://www.conversationsacrossborders.org/

Laura LeHew says, please check out Uttered Chaos for new interviews with:

Catherine McGuire, Palimpsests, http://www.utteredchaos.org/images/CM-interview.pdf
Joy L. McDowell, Diesel Horse, http://www.utteredchaos.org/images/JM-interview.pdf
Sharon Lask Munson, Stillness Settles Down the Lane, http://www.utteredchaos.org/images/SLM-interview.pdf

Ralph Salisbury  has three new poems in the anthology, Sing, U. Arizona Press.

The American Poetry Review has published two poems by the father of Karen McPherson, James Lowell McPherson. The article mentions Karen’s work on behalf of her father’s poetry.

This is a quick note to let you know that the poetry anthology I’ve been spear-heading for three years has a publisher, and will be in print as of Nov. 11, 2011 — it’ll be available at Amazon.com (and, we think, eligible for Super Saver shipping).

This project involves six women from different parts of the US who have never met in person, but who came together in an on-line writer’s conference and kept plugging away. We are way, way jazzed at this, and I can’t wait to get my hands on my copy. Michele Graf