Palimpsests by Catherine McGuire has now been released by Uttered Chaos, Laura LeHew’s Eugene press.  It can be ordered at http://www.utteredchaos.org/publications.html, where you can also read an interview with Cathy.

A lifelong poet, Catherine McGuire has had poems published in the US and abroad, and has been included in publications such as: Adagio, Folio, Fireweed, Gray Sparrow Press, Green Fuse, New Verse News, Nibble, Portland Lights Anthology, Post Poetry, The Quizzical Chair anthology and The Smoking Poet. …. She currently lives in Sweet Home, OR, where her large garden and flock of chickens is the perfect excuse to sit outside and write poems. She is webmaster for the Oregon Poetry Assocation and has two self-published chapbooks. Her website is www.cathymcguire.com.

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.

Young Writers Association (YWA) is taking submissions for its 2012 creative writing contest MANY VOICINGS: IN TRANSLATION. Many cultures or many voices make up our community.  Our multi/trans cultural traditions and languages are a rich creative source for writers.

• Open to ages 5 and up (including adults) who are residents of Lane County

• Entries can be up to 600 words

• See www.ywalane.org for full guidelines or contact 541/485-2259 or ywalouisa@aol.com

• Possible inspirations: starting January 3rd, writing samples and literary examples will be added to the website: www.ywalane.org

• Send submissions to YWA Contest, PO Box 51538, Eugene, OR 97405 or email ywalouisa@aol.com

• Postmark deadline February 1, 2012.  Winners notified by March 7, 2012.

Winners receive prizes from local businesses and a workshop with bi-lingual, award-winning author Gary Soto. Winners also read at the YWA Glitterary Word Festival on April 28, in the Eugene Public Library and are published in YWA’s creative writing journal, UpStarts.

Since 1994, YWA has stirred up literary play in youth and community. A nonprofit organization, YWA provides Lane County elementary through high school students with interactive, literature-based experiences in workshops, publications, camps, classrooms, and in intergenerational settings. More information is available at www.ywalane.org.

Young Writers Association ~ POB 51538, Eugene, OR 97405 ~ 541/485-2259 ywalouisa@aol.com ~ www.ywalane.org

Find us on facebook: Young Writers Association (Lane County, Oregon)

Donate by 12/31 to claim 2011 tax deductions & tax credit: www.ywalane.org

Sharon Lask Munson’s full-length book of poems, That Certain Blue, is just out from Blue Light Press.  It is available on Amazon.com, 1st World Publishing, or from Sharon. www.sharonlaskmunson.com

Sharon Lask Munson, Charles F. Thielman, Quinton Hallett, and Toni Hanner have poems in Issue 21 of Tiger’s Eye, just out.

http://www.tigerseyejournal.com/

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

Joan Irene Edwards, poet and formerly active member of the Lane Literary Guild, died in Reno, NV in October following complications from a fall.  She was 79.   Joan moved  from Eugene many years ago and she remained active with her sheet music collecting and writing poetry. She published three books,  A Blessing, An Old Nun Said, 2001; Choice Lamb, 2005; and Ink of Courage, a ghazal sequence, 2005.     There will be a memorial service in the California Bay Area November 26, 2011.