Post by moira on Dec 14, 2011 18:47:22 GMT 2
Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Umbrella: A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose
3. Hayden's Ferry Review
4. Elephant Tree House
5. Fiddler Crab Review
(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/
- The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, by Marion Winik
2. The fifth anniversary edition of Umbrella: A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose, edited by Kate Bernadette Benedict, recently went live. The issue features a special section on the Carmine Street Metrics reading series in New York City.
www.umbrellajournal.com/
3. Lesley Wheeler is the featured blogger this week for
Hayden's Ferry Review
(http://haydensferryreview.blogspot.com/).
"Dead Cats, Quince Jelly, and the Rolling Stones" considers how
nostalgia works in poems--particularly those poems that might be paraphrased "I have a memory and it's really important to me."
wheelerlm@wlu.edu
thecavethehive.wordpress.com/
4. Elephant Tree House
Elephant Tree House announces the publication of Nan Becker's poetry collection, "After Rain." It is available for order at www.elephanttreehouse.com/index.php?s=after-rain at an introductory price of $12 until January 5, 2012.
"In After Rain, Nan Becker rewrites the elegy as a celebration of what remains, the consolations to be found in nature, the serendipitous joys solitude can bestow. Her poems are impossible to define, not because they confuse, but because, disarmingly clear and pared to a spareness that shines like, the bright white of the moon / or of thoughts of the moon, her poems encompass the world: the world as it exists outside, simply, of itself, and the world as experienced so deeply within the self, the only appropriate answer is silence-of trust, of awe.
"I am just something alive, she writes, with wise humility, in an early poem: and yet how alive is her voice, full of wonder at the lives of others, human and non-human, completely unknowable and yet close as an echo in the ear; wonder, too, at memory, how it's slippery as butter on a hot corn cob.
"Becker's poems do something rare in contemporary American poetry: simply, gracefully, they take us to that place of stillness which is impossible to name or even to indicate, to the heart of all origins and orisons, a place where peace can be the same exact thing as hurt or ache or loneliness, a core neither hot nor cold."
---Gillian Cummings
Also, please "like" the Elephant Tree House page on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/pages/Elephant-Tree-House-Press/105238292883875
Elephant Tree House: Publisher: Alan Hayes. Editor: Rosemary Starace.
5. The NEW featured chapbook review on Fiddler Crab Review is of poet Richard Taylor's chapbook Fading into Bolivia published by Accents Publishing of Lexington, Kentucky.
Thanks so much for your interest in all things chapbook.
The Reviewers
Fiddler Crab review: the Home of the Poetry Chapbook Review
fiddlercrabreview.blogspot.com/
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Umbrella: A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose
3. Hayden's Ferry Review
4. Elephant Tree House
5. Fiddler Crab Review
(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/
- The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, by Marion Winik
2. The fifth anniversary edition of Umbrella: A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose, edited by Kate Bernadette Benedict, recently went live. The issue features a special section on the Carmine Street Metrics reading series in New York City.
www.umbrellajournal.com/
3. Lesley Wheeler is the featured blogger this week for
Hayden's Ferry Review
(http://haydensferryreview.blogspot.com/).
"Dead Cats, Quince Jelly, and the Rolling Stones" considers how
nostalgia works in poems--particularly those poems that might be paraphrased "I have a memory and it's really important to me."
wheelerlm@wlu.edu
thecavethehive.wordpress.com/
4. Elephant Tree House
Elephant Tree House announces the publication of Nan Becker's poetry collection, "After Rain." It is available for order at www.elephanttreehouse.com/index.php?s=after-rain at an introductory price of $12 until January 5, 2012.
"In After Rain, Nan Becker rewrites the elegy as a celebration of what remains, the consolations to be found in nature, the serendipitous joys solitude can bestow. Her poems are impossible to define, not because they confuse, but because, disarmingly clear and pared to a spareness that shines like, the bright white of the moon / or of thoughts of the moon, her poems encompass the world: the world as it exists outside, simply, of itself, and the world as experienced so deeply within the self, the only appropriate answer is silence-of trust, of awe.
"I am just something alive, she writes, with wise humility, in an early poem: and yet how alive is her voice, full of wonder at the lives of others, human and non-human, completely unknowable and yet close as an echo in the ear; wonder, too, at memory, how it's slippery as butter on a hot corn cob.
"Becker's poems do something rare in contemporary American poetry: simply, gracefully, they take us to that place of stillness which is impossible to name or even to indicate, to the heart of all origins and orisons, a place where peace can be the same exact thing as hurt or ache or loneliness, a core neither hot nor cold."
---Gillian Cummings
Also, please "like" the Elephant Tree House page on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/pages/Elephant-Tree-House-Press/105238292883875
Elephant Tree House: Publisher: Alan Hayes. Editor: Rosemary Starace.
5. The NEW featured chapbook review on Fiddler Crab Review is of poet Richard Taylor's chapbook Fading into Bolivia published by Accents Publishing of Lexington, Kentucky.
Thanks so much for your interest in all things chapbook.
The Reviewers
Fiddler Crab review: the Home of the Poetry Chapbook Review
fiddlercrabreview.blogspot.com/