Post by moira on Nov 30, 2017 16:58:45 GMT 2
Wompo Publishers, Bloggers and Teachers Newspaper
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Lynn Domina has posted two new reviews on her blog, A Review a Week
3. Beltway Poetry Quarterly announces 10 Best Books of 2017 + 4 Best Anthologies
4. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo
festival of women's poetry here: http://wompherence.proboards.com).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- The Association of Small Bombs, by Karan Mahajan
2. Lynn Domina has posted two new reviews on her blog, A Review a Week, of Still Pilgrim by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell and of The Cowherd's Son by Rajiv Mohabir.
lynndomina.com/?page_id=221
3. Beltway Poetry Quarterly has announced its selections of Ten Best Books of 2017 Plus Four Best Anthologies. The editors have honored ten single-author, full-length books of poetry by authors with strong ties to the greater Washington, DC region, and four anthologies with a large number of regional contributors. These books are highly recommended. Please support these authors and buy their books (or give them as gifts)!
Beltway Poetry Quarterly’s Ten Best Books of 2017
Elizabeth Acevedo, Medusa Reads La Negra’s Palm (Tupelo Press)
Sarah Browning, Killing Summer (Sibling Rivalry Press)
Jennifer Chang, Some Say the Lark (Alice James Books)
Safia Elhillo, The January Children (University of Nebraska Press)
T’ai Freedom Ford, how to get over (Red Hen Press)
Holly Karapetkova, Towline (Cloudbank Books)
Gary Copeland Lilley, The Bushman’s Medicine Show (Lost Horse Press)
Ann A. Philips, A Language the Land is Inventing (WordTech Editions)
Leona Sevick, Lion Brothers (Press 53)
Nicole Tong, How to Prove a Theory (WWPH)
Beltway Poetry Quarterly’s Four Best Poetry Anthologies of 2017
Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden, ed. Kwame Dawesand Matthew Shenoda. Contributors include: Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, A. Van Jordan, E. Ethelbert Miller, Tim Seibles, Tracy K. Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Lyrae Van Clief Stephanon (TriQuarterly Books)
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, ed. Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar, and Patricia Smith. Contributors include: Kim Addonizio, Sandra Beasley, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Kyle G. Dargan, Rita Dove, Calvin Forbes, Nikki Giovanni, Yona Harvey, Randall Horton, A. Van Jordan, Maxine Kumin, Hailey Leithauser, Philip Levine, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Erika Meitner, E. Ethelbert Miller, Gregory Pardlo, Linda Pastan, Myra Sklarew, Lisa Russ Spaar. (University of Arkansas Press).
Knocking on the Door of the White House: Latina and Latino Poets in Washington, DC (2001-2009), ed. Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Jose R. Ballesteros, and Carlos Parada Ayala. Translation eds. Burgi Zenhaeusern, Yvette Neisser, and Deborah Sobeloff. Contributors include: Francisco Aragón, Naomi Ayala, Rei Berroa, Gladys Ilarregui, Samuel Miranda, Egla Morales Blouin, Martha Sanchez Lowery. (Zozobro Publishing)
Not Without Our Laughter: Poems of Humor, Joy & Sexuality, ed. celeste doaks. Featuring the Black Ladies Brunch Collective: Saida Agostini, Anya Creightney, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, celeste doaks, Tafisha Edwards, and Katy Richey (Mason Jar Press)
4. Ellen Moody's blogs
4.1. On behalf of quiet and calm beauty of realism:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2017/11/25/on-behalf-of-quiet-and-the-calm-beauty-of-realism/
4.2. The internet under direct threat of being turned into a form of cable TV:
misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/156526.html
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Lynn Domina has posted two new reviews on her blog, A Review a Week
3. Beltway Poetry Quarterly announces 10 Best Books of 2017 + 4 Best Anthologies
4. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo
festival of women's poetry here: http://wompherence.proboards.com).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- The Association of Small Bombs, by Karan Mahajan
2. Lynn Domina has posted two new reviews on her blog, A Review a Week, of Still Pilgrim by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell and of The Cowherd's Son by Rajiv Mohabir.
lynndomina.com/?page_id=221
3. Beltway Poetry Quarterly has announced its selections of Ten Best Books of 2017 Plus Four Best Anthologies. The editors have honored ten single-author, full-length books of poetry by authors with strong ties to the greater Washington, DC region, and four anthologies with a large number of regional contributors. These books are highly recommended. Please support these authors and buy their books (or give them as gifts)!
Beltway Poetry Quarterly’s Ten Best Books of 2017
Elizabeth Acevedo, Medusa Reads La Negra’s Palm (Tupelo Press)
Sarah Browning, Killing Summer (Sibling Rivalry Press)
Jennifer Chang, Some Say the Lark (Alice James Books)
Safia Elhillo, The January Children (University of Nebraska Press)
T’ai Freedom Ford, how to get over (Red Hen Press)
Holly Karapetkova, Towline (Cloudbank Books)
Gary Copeland Lilley, The Bushman’s Medicine Show (Lost Horse Press)
Ann A. Philips, A Language the Land is Inventing (WordTech Editions)
Leona Sevick, Lion Brothers (Press 53)
Nicole Tong, How to Prove a Theory (WWPH)
Beltway Poetry Quarterly’s Four Best Poetry Anthologies of 2017
Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden, ed. Kwame Dawesand Matthew Shenoda. Contributors include: Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, A. Van Jordan, E. Ethelbert Miller, Tim Seibles, Tracy K. Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Lyrae Van Clief Stephanon (TriQuarterly Books)
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, ed. Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar, and Patricia Smith. Contributors include: Kim Addonizio, Sandra Beasley, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Kyle G. Dargan, Rita Dove, Calvin Forbes, Nikki Giovanni, Yona Harvey, Randall Horton, A. Van Jordan, Maxine Kumin, Hailey Leithauser, Philip Levine, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Erika Meitner, E. Ethelbert Miller, Gregory Pardlo, Linda Pastan, Myra Sklarew, Lisa Russ Spaar. (University of Arkansas Press).
Knocking on the Door of the White House: Latina and Latino Poets in Washington, DC (2001-2009), ed. Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Jose R. Ballesteros, and Carlos Parada Ayala. Translation eds. Burgi Zenhaeusern, Yvette Neisser, and Deborah Sobeloff. Contributors include: Francisco Aragón, Naomi Ayala, Rei Berroa, Gladys Ilarregui, Samuel Miranda, Egla Morales Blouin, Martha Sanchez Lowery. (Zozobro Publishing)
Not Without Our Laughter: Poems of Humor, Joy & Sexuality, ed. celeste doaks. Featuring the Black Ladies Brunch Collective: Saida Agostini, Anya Creightney, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, celeste doaks, Tafisha Edwards, and Katy Richey (Mason Jar Press)
4. Ellen Moody's blogs
4.1. On behalf of quiet and calm beauty of realism:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2017/11/25/on-behalf-of-quiet-and-the-calm-beauty-of-realism/
4.2. The internet under direct threat of being turned into a form of cable TV:
misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/156526.html