Post by moira on Jul 5, 2013 0:16:56 GMT 2
Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. a play on Muriel Rukeyser
3. Cowfeather Press
4. Beltway Poetry Quarterly's summer issue
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo
festival of women's poetry
here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Authenticity, by Deirdre Madden
2. New Zealand cultural activist Marian Evans is writing a play on Muriel Rukeyser, The Throat of These Hours. For her description of the play, and the music of Chris White, see
murielrukeyser.emuenglish.org/throat-of-these-hours/
3. Luz de Todos los Tiempos/Light of All Times by is available now from Cowfeather Press (cowfeatherpress.org/villavicencioBarras.html) and as a Kindle Book on Amazon.
In this bi-lingual collection of poems, Mexican poet Moisés Villavicencio Barras, an immigrant to Madison, Wisconsin, explores the idea of crossing from a multitude of perspectives, and comes again and again from his various journeys, back to the central figures of his parents. This is a book of love and homage, as well as a tender but honest exploration of what it means to grow into adulthood and reconcile oneself with the past.
Writing of his family and childhood in Mexico, his indigenous ancestors, and also of his own children growing up in the Midwest, Villavicencio Barras has a strong sense of himself as survivor: "I am the one who still walks the prairies / inventing my self / speaking the language of things" he writes in "Ancestros"/ "Ancestors."
Having lived now in Wisconsin for over ten years, Villavicencio Barras moves between languages and cultures, between the natural world and the city, between dreams, memories and the day's sharper delineations. Additional materials for group reading available on the Cowfeather website.
(cowfeather@versewisconsin.org or wendyvardaman@gmail.com)
4. Beltway Poetry Quarterly's summer issue is now available. The Resurrection Issue aims to reverse a great wrong and bring back into print the work of 8 significant poets with strong ties to Washington, DC. Of particular interest to WOMPO readers may be the five women:
* Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, who lived in DC during the Civil War. Her poems, popular in her time, are being rediscovered by feminist scholars. I reprint five poems about war and its aftermath; Piatt's experiences forced her to re-think her assumptions about her happy Southern childhood and her family's complicit role in slavery.
* Alice Dunbar-Nelson, always overshadowed in her lifetime by her more famous husband. Her poem, "I Sit and Sew," written during WWI, is one of the most moving poems I know about women's homefront wartime experience. She is represented by that poem and four others.
* Esther Popel is a forgotten Harlem-Renaissance-era poet. Her "Flag Salute" is a powerful protest against lynching; I reprint five of her poems total.
* Gloria C. Oden published five books; her last was a self-published chapbook consisting of a single long poem. That book is extremely rare, and I print the entire text online, a moving tribute to her family.
* Lee Lally co-founded Some of Us Press, one of the most influential small presses of the 1970s. Her work captures the excitement of feminism when it was new, in a stripped-down, plain voice that belies a deep well of emotion beneath its deceptively simple surface.
The issue also includes three men: Lewis Alexander, Waring Cuney, and John Pauker. It is my profound hope that this special issue of the journal will contribute in some small way to the re-discovery of these writers. Available for free online; subscriptions are also free.
Beltway Poetry Quarterly
Kim Roberts, Editor
www.beltwaypoetry.com
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
5.1 Our Cancer Year: a graphic novel
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/harvey-pekar-joyce-brabners-our-cancer-yearagraphicnovel/
5.2 Dancing in Austen (& YouTube of Firth/Ehle as Darcy/Elizabeth):
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/dancinginaustenjane-austen-summer-program/
5.3 Two very long drives (on North Carolina):
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/twoverylongdrives-toandfromjaustensummerprogram/
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. a play on Muriel Rukeyser
3. Cowfeather Press
4. Beltway Poetry Quarterly's summer issue
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo
festival of women's poetry
here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Authenticity, by Deirdre Madden
2. New Zealand cultural activist Marian Evans is writing a play on Muriel Rukeyser, The Throat of These Hours. For her description of the play, and the music of Chris White, see
murielrukeyser.emuenglish.org/throat-of-these-hours/
3. Luz de Todos los Tiempos/Light of All Times by is available now from Cowfeather Press (cowfeatherpress.org/villavicencioBarras.html) and as a Kindle Book on Amazon.
In this bi-lingual collection of poems, Mexican poet Moisés Villavicencio Barras, an immigrant to Madison, Wisconsin, explores the idea of crossing from a multitude of perspectives, and comes again and again from his various journeys, back to the central figures of his parents. This is a book of love and homage, as well as a tender but honest exploration of what it means to grow into adulthood and reconcile oneself with the past.
Writing of his family and childhood in Mexico, his indigenous ancestors, and also of his own children growing up in the Midwest, Villavicencio Barras has a strong sense of himself as survivor: "I am the one who still walks the prairies / inventing my self / speaking the language of things" he writes in "Ancestros"/ "Ancestors."
Having lived now in Wisconsin for over ten years, Villavicencio Barras moves between languages and cultures, between the natural world and the city, between dreams, memories and the day's sharper delineations. Additional materials for group reading available on the Cowfeather website.
(cowfeather@versewisconsin.org or wendyvardaman@gmail.com)
4. Beltway Poetry Quarterly's summer issue is now available. The Resurrection Issue aims to reverse a great wrong and bring back into print the work of 8 significant poets with strong ties to Washington, DC. Of particular interest to WOMPO readers may be the five women:
* Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, who lived in DC during the Civil War. Her poems, popular in her time, are being rediscovered by feminist scholars. I reprint five poems about war and its aftermath; Piatt's experiences forced her to re-think her assumptions about her happy Southern childhood and her family's complicit role in slavery.
* Alice Dunbar-Nelson, always overshadowed in her lifetime by her more famous husband. Her poem, "I Sit and Sew," written during WWI, is one of the most moving poems I know about women's homefront wartime experience. She is represented by that poem and four others.
* Esther Popel is a forgotten Harlem-Renaissance-era poet. Her "Flag Salute" is a powerful protest against lynching; I reprint five of her poems total.
* Gloria C. Oden published five books; her last was a self-published chapbook consisting of a single long poem. That book is extremely rare, and I print the entire text online, a moving tribute to her family.
* Lee Lally co-founded Some of Us Press, one of the most influential small presses of the 1970s. Her work captures the excitement of feminism when it was new, in a stripped-down, plain voice that belies a deep well of emotion beneath its deceptively simple surface.
The issue also includes three men: Lewis Alexander, Waring Cuney, and John Pauker. It is my profound hope that this special issue of the journal will contribute in some small way to the re-discovery of these writers. Available for free online; subscriptions are also free.
Beltway Poetry Quarterly
Kim Roberts, Editor
www.beltwaypoetry.com
5. Ellen Moody's blogs
5.1 Our Cancer Year: a graphic novel
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/harvey-pekar-joyce-brabners-our-cancer-yearagraphicnovel/
5.2 Dancing in Austen (& YouTube of Firth/Ehle as Darcy/Elizabeth):
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/dancinginaustenjane-austen-summer-program/
5.3 Two very long drives (on North Carolina):
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/twoverylongdrives-toandfromjaustensummerprogram/