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.
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
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
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 21st. She will be sharing the event with Jenny Root and Michael Spring.
Books can be purchased through her website: www.kathryn-ridall.com.
