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Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week:
1. Ann E. Michael's blog
2. Ellen Moody blogs
3. Kaysa Media
4. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
5. JoAnne Growney’s blog, “Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics”
6. Fiddler Crab Review
7. Floating Bridge Press
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Ann E. Michael encounters stereotypes about feminism (yet again)...on her blog www.annemichael.wordpress.com
Shortlink: wp.me/1RDyQ
2. Ellen Moody blogs:
2.1 Lisa Moore's Sister Arts: Erotics of Lesbian Landscape:
everiesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/lisa-mo
ores-sister-arts-erotics-of-lesbian-landscape/
2.2 Foremother Poet: Amy Clampitt amid the thrushes
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/foremother-poet-
amy-clampitt-1920-94/
2.3 Graphic novels by women
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/graphic-novels-a
udrey-niffenegger-posy-simmonds/
3. Publisher, Kaysa Media has translated Tamam Kahn's book Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad, Monkfish Books, 2010 [70 poems and biographical prose narrative] into Indonesian. It is now available in bookstores in Jakarta and other cities under the title: Untold Stories: Kisah-kisah tentang Istri Rasullah.
4. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis, by Cara Black
5. JoAnne Growney’s blog, “Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics” (at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com ), featured:
“Numerical Landscape” by Eveline Pye on January 20 (at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2012/01/statistics-feels-like-poetry.html ) and
“The Story of the Ten Blackbirds” by Millicent Borges Accardi on January 23 ( at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2012/01/counting-fingers-and-blackbirds.html ) .
On January 20, JoAnne Growney’s poem “Zero-Knowledge Proofs” joined poems by Carol Dorf and Mary Cresswell in a math-science-themed posting of the online literary journal TalkingWriting at talkingwriting.com/?tag=mathematics-and-poetry .
6. Hello from Fiddler Crab Review. Today, we want to call attention to our latest chapbook review - of poet Amy Miller's chapbook The Mechanics of Rescue, published by Nine Bean-Rows Press.
Please take a little time out of your day to stop by for a visit at http://www.fiddlercrabreview.com We think you'll be glad you did.
As always, thank you,
The Reviewers Fiddler Crab review: the Home of the Poetry Chapbook Review
7. Floating Bridge Press is proud to announce the publication of Molly Tenenbaum's third full-length collection, The Cupboard Artist.
www.scn.org/floatingbridge/cupboard.html
n Molly Tenenbaum's The Cupboard Artist we get mauve and jet and puce and garnet, bronze gold thread, and flame. We get caterpillar yarn, chocolate suede, clotted malt, and firefall velvet dresses and blue aromas of pine. We get braids of burlap and rose brown grass and wedges and spindles and trusses and tweezers and peppercorn cheese. In short, we get every color, texture, taste and almost-fingertip-touched longing, in this keenly noticed collision of the inner and outer life, this erotic, musical, painterly, reflective and seriously joyous book. I love every page of it.
-Christopher Howell
These densely imagistic poems are no stream of consciousness, but instead a stream of conflicting desires. Molly Tenenbaum presents us with food and flesh and the hunger that comes from wanting them even as you hold them in your hands-in such a richly populated world of things, she gives us true longing. While the possibilities are endless-say this, say that, "Say he never came back. Would you still / love to be alone?"-the woman, that held-at-a-distance "her," that these poems turn their gaze on can't decide how to embrace the incompletion of desire. And so we join her in the pleasures of hunger, like the bees, "confused, so much air / between them and the flowers."
-Keetje Kuipers
from “What the Psychic Said”
This is not your era, that's why
you can't find a job.
Behind waving grapevines, foreground dazed
with roses, your shirt's work-blue
slivers up and down, the lush closing over.
You grow wider in empathy, straighter in reason,
but these are not your true directions.
Gold rooms and dim ones parquet the house,
and far, through the honey of dust-crusted windows,
skyscrapers sway, silver horses.
Say he never came back. Would you still
love to be alone?
News this week:
1. Ann E. Michael's blog
2. Ellen Moody blogs
3. Kaysa Media
4. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
5. JoAnne Growney’s blog, “Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics”
6. Fiddler Crab Review
7. Floating Bridge Press
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Ann E. Michael encounters stereotypes about feminism (yet again)...on her blog www.annemichael.wordpress.com
Shortlink: wp.me/1RDyQ
2. Ellen Moody blogs:
2.1 Lisa Moore's Sister Arts: Erotics of Lesbian Landscape:
everiesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/lisa-mo
ores-sister-arts-erotics-of-lesbian-landscape/
2.2 Foremother Poet: Amy Clampitt amid the thrushes
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/foremother-poet-
amy-clampitt-1920-94/
2.3 Graphic novels by women
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/graphic-novels-a
udrey-niffenegger-posy-simmonds/
3. Publisher, Kaysa Media has translated Tamam Kahn's book Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad, Monkfish Books, 2010 [70 poems and biographical prose narrative] into Indonesian. It is now available in bookstores in Jakarta and other cities under the title: Untold Stories: Kisah-kisah tentang Istri Rasullah.
4. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis, by Cara Black
5. JoAnne Growney’s blog, “Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics” (at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com ), featured:
“Numerical Landscape” by Eveline Pye on January 20 (at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2012/01/statistics-feels-like-poetry.html ) and
“The Story of the Ten Blackbirds” by Millicent Borges Accardi on January 23 ( at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2012/01/counting-fingers-and-blackbirds.html ) .
On January 20, JoAnne Growney’s poem “Zero-Knowledge Proofs” joined poems by Carol Dorf and Mary Cresswell in a math-science-themed posting of the online literary journal TalkingWriting at talkingwriting.com/?tag=mathematics-and-poetry .
6. Hello from Fiddler Crab Review. Today, we want to call attention to our latest chapbook review - of poet Amy Miller's chapbook The Mechanics of Rescue, published by Nine Bean-Rows Press.
Please take a little time out of your day to stop by for a visit at http://www.fiddlercrabreview.com We think you'll be glad you did.
As always, thank you,
The Reviewers Fiddler Crab review: the Home of the Poetry Chapbook Review
7. Floating Bridge Press is proud to announce the publication of Molly Tenenbaum's third full-length collection, The Cupboard Artist.
www.scn.org/floatingbridge/cupboard.html
n Molly Tenenbaum's The Cupboard Artist we get mauve and jet and puce and garnet, bronze gold thread, and flame. We get caterpillar yarn, chocolate suede, clotted malt, and firefall velvet dresses and blue aromas of pine. We get braids of burlap and rose brown grass and wedges and spindles and trusses and tweezers and peppercorn cheese. In short, we get every color, texture, taste and almost-fingertip-touched longing, in this keenly noticed collision of the inner and outer life, this erotic, musical, painterly, reflective and seriously joyous book. I love every page of it.
-Christopher Howell
These densely imagistic poems are no stream of consciousness, but instead a stream of conflicting desires. Molly Tenenbaum presents us with food and flesh and the hunger that comes from wanting them even as you hold them in your hands-in such a richly populated world of things, she gives us true longing. While the possibilities are endless-say this, say that, "Say he never came back. Would you still / love to be alone?"-the woman, that held-at-a-distance "her," that these poems turn their gaze on can't decide how to embrace the incompletion of desire. And so we join her in the pleasures of hunger, like the bees, "confused, so much air / between them and the flowers."
-Keetje Kuipers
from “What the Psychic Said”
This is not your era, that's why
you can't find a job.
Behind waving grapevines, foreground dazed
with roses, your shirt's work-blue
slivers up and down, the lush closing over.
You grow wider in empathy, straighter in reason,
but these are not your true directions.
Gold rooms and dim ones parquet the house,
and far, through the honey of dust-crusted windows,
skyscrapers sway, silver horses.
Say he never came back. Would you still
love to be alone?