Check out www.amazonneighbors.com . Erik Muller has written articles about poetry reading and writing, including a new one motivated by the daylight savings change. Comments and other articles and poems are invited; I am the expextant editor of the literary page for this neighborhood website.
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3:31 pm • Sunday • November 6, 2011
Charles F. Thielman has one poem in the last Battered Suitcase, six poems, 2 apiece, accepted/published by Breath & Shadow, Miller’s Pond and Poetry Salzburg [Austria], AND one poem in the upcoming Tiger’s Eye !
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6:28 pm • Wednesday • October 26, 2011
** Poet’s Choice: Judged by Penelope Scambly Schott
1st Place: M.E. Hope
2nd Place: Scot Siegel
3rd Place: Joy McDowell
1st HM: David Hedges
2nd HM: Michael Hanner
3rd HM: Toni Hanner
4th HM: Margaret Chula
5th HM: Adrian Potter
** New Poets: Judged by John C. Morrison
1st Place: Fred Melden
2nd Place: A. Molotkov
3rd Place: Julie Stuckey
1st HM: Shirley Plummer
2nd HM: Jacqueline Barnas
3rd HM: Pamela Devereaux Wilson
4th HM: Marisa Petersen
5th HM: Nghiem Do
** Traditional Form (Prose Poem): Judged by Jonah Bornstein
1st Place: David Hedges
2nd Place: Toni Hanner
3rd Place: Michael Hanner
1st HM: Tiel Aisha Ansari
2nd HM: Marilyn Johnston
3rd HM: Liz Robinson
4th HM: Clarence Socwell
5th HM: Kathryn Ridall
** Free Verse: Judged by Shaindel Beers
1st Place: Colette Tennant
2nd Place: Scot Siegel
3rd Place: Pepper Trail
1st HM: Joy McDowell
2nd HM: Tiel Aisha Ansari
3rd HM: Nancy Flynn
4th HM: Rachel Barton
5th HM: Linda Knowlton Appel
** Member’s Choice: Judged by Arlene Ang
1st Place: M.E. Hope
2nd Place: Stephanie Lenox
3rd Place: Margaret Chula
1st HM: Karen Keltz
2nd HM: Clarence Socwell
3rd HM: Catherine McGuire
4th HM: Toni Hanner
5th HM: Marilyn Johnston
** You Do, Too! Any form but written in second person point of view. (sponsored by the Eugene/Springfield Unit): Judged by Brent Goodman
1st Place: Margaret Gish Miller
2nd Place: Colette Tennant
3rd Place: Toni Hanner
1st HM: Shelley Reece
2nd HM: Stephanie Lenox
3rd HM: Dennis Davis
4th HM: Nancy Flynn
5th HM: Liz Robinson
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6:12 pm • Monday • October 10, 2011
Nancy Carol Moody has accepted an appointment as Worm Bin Poet Laureate. She will be reading at the October 2 inaugural of a four-family, flow through bin supported by a grant from the City of Eugene and located on the north edge of the Eugene Masonic Cemetery. Ceremonies begin at 2pm. Feel free to suggest to Nancy anything rhyming with “wriggle”!
Please visit a neighborhood website, Amazon-ish, at www.amazonneighbors.com, where among many features and tidbits you will find a literary page, including three articles about poetry practice by page-editor Erik Muller. Your comments are welcome there.
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2:10 pm • Saturday • September 10, 2011
my story collection, Close Is Fine, was accepted by Ooligan Press and should be available Fall 2012. You probably already know, but Ooligan is a great nonprofit press connected to Portland State University. And “Stargazer,” one of the stories in the collection, was recently featured as a Story of the Week at Narrative: http://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/stories-week-2010–2011/stargazer
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2:02 pm • Friday • August 26, 2011
Sharon Lask Munson has poems forthcoming in Punkin House Digest, Tiger’s Eye, and in the 2011 issue of The Michigan Jewish Historical Society Journal.
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1:59 pm • Friday • August 26, 2011
has also had a poem accepted by Gargoyle (keepin’ it in the family!)
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10:03 am • Wednesday • June 29, 2011