2. A review of Elaine Starkman's new book of poems, Hearing Beyond Sound, appears in Zara Raab's new blog post; the line is zraab.wordpress.com
3. Diane Kendig is posting three blogs this week on the Adjunct Situation: "I Quit Teaching and Why," "My Letter of Resignation," and "Why The Adjunct Situation is Bad for Faculty, Students, and Parents."
- Alicia Ostriker's "Muriel Rukeyser: Learning to Breathe Under Water" (http://murielrukeyser.emuenglish.org/welcome/rukeyser-symposium-2013/alicia-ostrikers-keynote-speech/)
- Charlotte Mandel's "Muriel Rukeyser's Akiba Inheritance" (http://murielrukeyser.emuenglish.org/essay/muriel-rukeysers-rabbi-akiba-inheritance/)
3. We've made a huge update to DC Writers' Homes! Dan Vera and Kim Roberts are proud to announce that we've added 87 new homes to the free web exhibit, nearly doubling in size the number of authors' homes we've documented in the greater Washington, DC region.
DC Writers' Homes continues to garner praise from residents, scholars, students, and (yes) real estate agents. With this major addition, we highlight more DC writers both famous and forgotten.
Well-known writers included in the latest update: Tallulah Bankhead, Art Buchwald, Katherine Graham, Ulysses S. Grant, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
More recent literary losses we document include: Maxine Combs, Carlos Fuentes, Larry L. King, Anne Truitt, Gore Vidal, and Reed Whittemore.
Follow our blog and our Facebook page in the coming months as we highlight some of our favorite writers. We will cover the war of the society hostesses, our personal awards for best facial hair, and our favorite left-handed authors. (OK, maybe not left-handed authors. Too difficult to research.)
We have also added some new categories to make your wanderings on the website easier and more fun. We have categories for writers who were also: diplomats, musicians and composers, translators, spies, and visual artists. And for those who want to set up their own personal walking tours to explore these homes in person, we have new categories for the DC neighborhoods where ten or more writers lived in close proximity (although not necessarily in the same time period). Look for new categories for: Adams Morgan, Capitol Hill, Columbia Heights/Mount Pleasant, Dupont Circle, Georgetown, Lafayette Square, Shaw/Logan Circle, and U Street/Striver's Section.
With this update, DC Writers' Homes now brings our total to an astounding 203 writers living in 228 different residences. As always, our writers must be dead but their houses must still be alive (that is, still standing) in order to qualify. We include novelists, poets, playwrights, and memoirists whose work is of literary or historical merit.
4. The Mom Egg is seeking a few good book reviewers, primarily for poetry books. If interested, please email Marjorie at themomegg@gmail.com with BOOK REVIEWER in the subject line; please include a link to a writing sample if possible.
New on The Mom Egg website, www.themomegg.com: In the Vox Mom column, the work of individual writers, on such subjects as creativity, the writing process, and Mother Tongue, is featured. This week, three compelling poems and one fiction piece. Read and enjoy!
Paint by Ellen W. Kaplan
"Mommy!"
"Don't step in the paint!"
"Mommy, look - look!"
"Shhhh. I'm working."
.... right in the middle... Lost the line, color's mud. "Alright, what?" Ow, too sharp!
"Never mind."
"Whoa. OK. Where's Margie, isn't she taking care of you? "
(Got to find another sitter, no, never.. what am I gonna do?")
(read more)
Portrait of a Poet Slicing Onions by Rosalie Calabrese
In the midst of slicing onions, the poet
Receives a message from her Kitchen Witch
In almost-iambic-pentameter.
(read more)
Selfishness Isn't a Word for Mothers (good) by Sarah Antine
Have breasts? you were made to give,
sexy -
or turn into a leafy tree branching inward.
(read more)
Jacaranda by Kate Bolton Bonnici
Summer already and too hot, time for movement, blowing
left or right even, if forward is too much to ask,
hips shifting, knees flexed like basketball players,
ankle-breakers, fast and then gone, a going somewhere
2. In the Spring Issue of Talking Writing, we are featuring poems by Dawn McGuire and Mary Cresswell.
talkingwriting.com
3. Diane Lockward, at Blogalicious interviews poet Robert Wrigley about the craft in his poem, "Earthquake Light." With audio of Wrigley reading his poem.
4. Do you write prose poems and live or work in Washington, DC, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, or Delaware? Then Beltway Poetry Quarterly wants you! One week left to submit to a special prose poem issue, guest edited by Abigail Beckel. No fees.
"Buzz Coil: April 2013" (April 27, summary of posts from blogs with similar interests, includes poetry posts)
"Just Out: Max Dashu's video, Woman Shaman:The Ancients" (April 24)
"Earth Day Invocation" (April 22)
"Artist Lydia Ruyle Receives 2 Awards" (April 13)
6. And the winner of a copy of "Letters to the World: Poems from the Wompo Listserv" and two other books of poetry as part of Moira Richards' Big Poetry Giveaway are....
2. In “The exquisite hush I require, being a sensitive artist,” Lesley Wheeler blogs about being a middle-aged poet-professor-scholar-parent at her first writing residency, at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. http://lesleywheeler.org/2013/04/27/the-....nsitive-artist/
3. The Mom Egg has announced the publication of its eleventh annual issue, themed "Mother Tongue". The work of many WOM-POs is represented, along with other incisive, perceptive writers.
Mother's Day SpecialLimited time offer( through 5/4)-- With your order of The Mom Egg Mother Tongue (at our discounted Community rate of $15), receive a FREE copy of a vintage issue of The Mom Egg! Happy Mother's Day from The Mom Egg!
3. Ann E. Michael's blog continues her National Poetry Month posts with musings on creative engagement with art and thoughts on some troubling aspects of young adults (Boston, Newtown, et al): www.annemichael.wordpress.com
4. Last chance to win Moira Richards' give-away of a copy of "Letters to the World: Poems from the Wompo Listserv" and two other books of poetry on her blog as part of the Big Poetry Giveaway.
6. Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime Against Nature Reissued as First "Sapphic Classic" from A Midsummer Night's Press & Sinister Wisdom
A Midsummer Night's Press and Sinister Wisdom are pleased to announce the reissue of Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime Against Nature in a new edition with an introduction by Julie R. Enszer, a new afterword by Pratt, a reprint of Pratt's speech at the Lamont award ceremony, photographs of Pratt and her family, and a bibliography.
Crime Against Nature was the 1989 Lamont Poetry Selection from the Academy of American Poets, which recognizes a poet's second collection of poetry, and has been long out of print, until now.
Enszer, co-editor of Sinister Wisdom, noted, "It is an extraordinary privilege for Sinister Wisdom to inaugurate this series with Minnie Bruce Pratt's timeless and important collection of poetry. A new generation of readers can now enjoy these urgent poems."
Crime Against Nature is the first title in the Sapphic Classics Series, reprint edition of iconic works of lesbian poetry, co-published by A Midsummer Night's Press and Sinister Wisdom. Lawrence Schimel, publisher of A Midsummer Night's Press, said, "This is independent publishing at its best: collaborative, creative, and compelling, making sure that important and necessary voices get heard."
- Bloody Falls of the Coppermine, by McKay Jenkins
2. Karren L. Alenier celebrates National Poetry Month by blogging daily reviews of poems published in the Spring 2013 (#40) of the Birmingham Poetry Review. Includes poems by Claudia Emerson, Jane Satterfield, Caitlin Doyle, Deborah Ager, Edward Hirsch, Chad Davidson and more.
3. Beltway Poetry Quarterly has a new issue online! The Spring 2013 issue features a generous selection of poems by six extraordinary writers from the Washington, DC region. Featured poets: Kirsten Hampton, Tarfia Faizullah, Tony Mancus, celeste doaks, Zein El-Amine, and Tony Medina. Edited by Kim Roberts.
4. Verse Wisconsin 111, available online and in print, focuses on women publishers of poetry in Wisconsin, and includes tributes to Phyllis Walsh and the publication she edited for twenty-two years, Hummingbird, the magazine of the short poem, and to Wisconsin's first poet laureate, Ellen Kort, as well as essays about and interviews of women publishing--and blogging about--poetry in Wisconsin, plus more than thirty book reviews. The next online call (for October 2013) is "Parents & Children," reading April 1-May 15.
The issue and submission details are at versewisconsin.org .
5. This week on her blog, "Coming Home," Diane Kendig for "The Big Poetry Giveaway 2013," gives away two gorgeous broadsides. (These are in addition to the two books that she will give away on May 1st, one of hers and Ann Fisher-Wirth's Dream Cabinet.). Also, Diane hosts author Julie Williams on her new Y-A novel:
3. In “Poets do it for free,” (http://lesleywheeler.org/blog) Lesley Wheeler joins the Big Poetry Giveaway, offering up a copy of The Receptionist and Other Tales and Janet McAdams’ book Feral. Post a comment to enter the drawing.
4. Diane Kendig's blog is her "Great Poetry Giveaway 2013" page, wherein you find how to win a book by Diane or our beloved Ann Fisher-Wirth. In addition, Diane will be giving away broadsides every week: http://dianekendig.blogspot.com/
2. Susan Rich is curating the Big Poetry Giveaway at her blog: The Alchemist’s Kitchen and thanks the wom-pos who are already participating in promoting their books and those of other poets they love. You don’t need to have a blog to join in.
3. Moira Richards gives away a copy of "Letters to the World: Poems from the Wompo Listserv" and two other books of poetry on her blog as part of the Big Poetry Giveaway. Drop by soon for a chance to win one of them!
1. Diane Kendig's blog, "Home Again" deals for a second time with the recent rape trial in Ohio in, "Steubenville: Clean the Wound Before You Talk About Healing." http://dianekendig.blogspot.com/
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