Post by moira on Jul 21, 2011 9:53:31 GMT 2
Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week from
1. Verse Wisconsin
2. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
3. Spoon River Poetry Review
4. Finishing Line
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Verse Wisconsin 106 is available in different forms, online and in print, and includes "Luck of the Draw" Poems, guest edited by Shoshauna Shy of Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf, prose about poetic obscurity, an interview with Denise Duhamel, book reviews, audio & more.
Many Wom-pos are represented in both the poetry and review sections.
The online issue is at versewisconsin.org/issue106.html.
2. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Not Dead Enough, by Peter James
3. The latest issue of the Spoon River Poetry Review (SRPR) is hot off the press! Check out the many wonderful poems by WomPos and others:
new work by Jeannie Marie Beaumont, Kristin Prevallet, Danielle Pafunda, Jackie K. White, Edward Hirsch, Spring Ulmer, Annie Boutelle, Maya Jewell Zeller, Kathleen Spivack, and many more.
This issue features the work of and an interview with Freeport, IL. poet Austin Smith, as well as a stellar review essay on Beaumont's new book, Burning of the Three Fires, and Duriel Harris' latest, Amnesiac, written by Judith Harris. Plus fabulous cover art by Kristin Beinner as well as our new logo debut! Here's how to subscribe or simply order a copy: www.litline.org/Spoon/subscribe.html
4. Finishing Line is happy to announce the forthcoming publication of Kirstin Hotelling Zona's chapbook, Drift . Now's the time to preorder a copy should you like one (number of preorder determines the press run). You can preorder until August 11, and the book will be shipped around Oct. 8th. Each copy is "13.49 ($12.00 plus shipping). Go to: www.finishinglinepress.com/NewReleasesandForthcomingTitles.htm
Books are listed alphabetically (by author's last name), which means that her book is super-easy to find: it's the last one listed!
Here's a blurb by Spring Ulmer:
Kirstin Hotelling Zona dares readers to follow her. “To drift may always be to risk,” she warns. Displacement often fosters observation. Zona is a keen witness. Her catalog of washed up natural and human debris is a hot-blooded meditation on love and loss. She finds a dismembered crab and pieces it back together. This beachcomber, archivist, mother, lover’s voice weaves itself between dramatically broken lines: “How to nurture curiosity/ but not the need/ to know?” Kin to Elizabeth Bishop’s geography and questions, Zona ventures farther. To understand Drift is to take in its unending inventory and intensely just way of looking. What a noble poem. I need Drift’s gnawing tenderness. I covet Zona’s voice—lost and found at once.
News this week from
1. Verse Wisconsin
2. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
3. Spoon River Poetry Review
4. Finishing Line
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Verse Wisconsin 106 is available in different forms, online and in print, and includes "Luck of the Draw" Poems, guest edited by Shoshauna Shy of Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf, prose about poetic obscurity, an interview with Denise Duhamel, book reviews, audio & more.
Many Wom-pos are represented in both the poetry and review sections.
The online issue is at versewisconsin.org/issue106.html.
2. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Not Dead Enough, by Peter James
3. The latest issue of the Spoon River Poetry Review (SRPR) is hot off the press! Check out the many wonderful poems by WomPos and others:
new work by Jeannie Marie Beaumont, Kristin Prevallet, Danielle Pafunda, Jackie K. White, Edward Hirsch, Spring Ulmer, Annie Boutelle, Maya Jewell Zeller, Kathleen Spivack, and many more.
This issue features the work of and an interview with Freeport, IL. poet Austin Smith, as well as a stellar review essay on Beaumont's new book, Burning of the Three Fires, and Duriel Harris' latest, Amnesiac, written by Judith Harris. Plus fabulous cover art by Kristin Beinner as well as our new logo debut! Here's how to subscribe or simply order a copy: www.litline.org/Spoon/subscribe.html
4. Finishing Line is happy to announce the forthcoming publication of Kirstin Hotelling Zona's chapbook, Drift . Now's the time to preorder a copy should you like one (number of preorder determines the press run). You can preorder until August 11, and the book will be shipped around Oct. 8th. Each copy is "13.49 ($12.00 plus shipping). Go to: www.finishinglinepress.com/NewReleasesandForthcomingTitles.htm
Books are listed alphabetically (by author's last name), which means that her book is super-easy to find: it's the last one listed!
Here's a blurb by Spring Ulmer:
Kirstin Hotelling Zona dares readers to follow her. “To drift may always be to risk,” she warns. Displacement often fosters observation. Zona is a keen witness. Her catalog of washed up natural and human debris is a hot-blooded meditation on love and loss. She finds a dismembered crab and pieces it back together. This beachcomber, archivist, mother, lover’s voice weaves itself between dramatically broken lines: “How to nurture curiosity/ but not the need/ to know?” Kin to Elizabeth Bishop’s geography and questions, Zona ventures farther. To understand Drift is to take in its unending inventory and intensely just way of looking. What a noble poem. I need Drift’s gnawing tenderness. I covet Zona’s voice—lost and found at once.