Post by moira on Jul 5, 2012 12:04:05 GMT 2
Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week:
1. The Far Field
2. Lesley Wheeler’s latest blog post
3. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
4. Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics
5. News from Fringe
6. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Please visit The Far Field, a collection of Washington State Poets and Poetry:
www.kathleenflenniken.com/blog
Recent poets include: Judith Roche, Anne McDuffie, Arthur Ginsberg, Hannah Faith Notess, Christianne Balk. AND MANY MORE.
2. Lesley Wheeler’s latest blog post, "I write my way out of it," describes writing to survive an apocalyptic summer. One of the disasters: a harassing supervisor is demoted to her department, just as she’s reading proofs of her totally fictional forthcoming book about a woman with a harassing supervisor.
lesleywheeler.org/blog/
3. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Family Constellation, by Margaret S. Mullins
4. JoAnne Growney’s blog, "Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics" (at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com ), has recently offered poems about women-mathematicians.
4. 1 July 3 featured Mildred Spiewak at
poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2012/07/she-can-solve-any-equation.html ;
4.2 June 27 featured “circumference” in poems by Emily Dickinson at
poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2012/06/emily-dickinson-and-circumference.html ;
4.3 June 24 featured Sophia Kovalevsky at
poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2012/06/remembering-sophia-kovalevsky.html ;
4.4 June 21 posting at
poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2012/06/seeking-poems-about-math-women.html
offered links to earlier postings featuring Sophie Germain, Florence Nightingale, Amalie “Emmy” Noether, and Grace Murray Hopper. The June 21 posting also includes a request for submission (to JoAnne at wow@joannegrowney.com) of poems about math-women
5. News from Fringe: This week our Vintage Fringe feature is "Blackbirds," by Celia Lisset Alvarez. And poetry editor Anna Lena Phillips interviews Alvarez about the poem and her work.
www.fringemagazine.org/lit/vintage/blackbirds-2/
www.fringemagazine.org/blog/celia-lisset-alvarez-notes-on-sestinization/
Recently, we published a feature essay by Carolyn Jones about what it was like to go public about her abortion. Along with the feature, the Fringe blog seeks short poems in response to the debate in the U.S. over birth control.
Send us a short something expressing your viewpoint and/or experiences with contraception — a limerick, haiku, six-word novel, or microfiction of 50 words or less. Email submissions to FringeTheMagazine at gmail dot com. We'll post the best on our blog.
The essay:
www.fringemagazine.org/lit/features/when-stories-develop-lives-of-their-own/
The cfw: www.fringemagazine.org/blog/birth-control-poetry/
6. Ellen Moody's blogs
6.1 Foremother poet: Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/foremother-poet-louise-bogan-1897-1970/
6.2 From the woman's canon: the anthologies and handbook, essays section:
www.jimandellen.org/womenspoetry/ForemotherAnthologies.html
6.3 Mildred Pierce, 2011, starring Kate Winslet: a woman's life and a bad seed (mother-daughter story):
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/mildred-pierce-starring-kate-winslet/
6.4 Mildred Pierce, 1945, starring Joan Crawford: a muddle (film noir, womens' film)
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/mildred-pierce-1945-starring-joan-crawford-a-muddle/
6.5 Fabled glamor or abysmal invisibility: teritum non est? (women's lives):
misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/88508.html
6.6 Tick, tick, tick, tick: the ur-Pride and Prejudice epistolary; more bad Tuesdays
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/tick-tick-tick-tick-epistolarypptuesdaypatternincessanttimeclocking/
News this week:
1. The Far Field
2. Lesley Wheeler’s latest blog post
3. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
4. Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics
5. News from Fringe
6. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Please visit The Far Field, a collection of Washington State Poets and Poetry:
www.kathleenflenniken.com/blog
Recent poets include: Judith Roche, Anne McDuffie, Arthur Ginsberg, Hannah Faith Notess, Christianne Balk. AND MANY MORE.
2. Lesley Wheeler’s latest blog post, "I write my way out of it," describes writing to survive an apocalyptic summer. One of the disasters: a harassing supervisor is demoted to her department, just as she’s reading proofs of her totally fictional forthcoming book about a woman with a harassing supervisor.
lesleywheeler.org/blog/
3. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Family Constellation, by Margaret S. Mullins
4. JoAnne Growney’s blog, "Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics" (at poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com ), has recently offered poems about women-mathematicians.
4. 1 July 3 featured Mildred Spiewak at
poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2012/07/she-can-solve-any-equation.html ;
4.2 June 27 featured “circumference” in poems by Emily Dickinson at
poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2012/06/emily-dickinson-and-circumference.html ;
4.3 June 24 featured Sophia Kovalevsky at
poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2012/06/remembering-sophia-kovalevsky.html ;
4.4 June 21 posting at
poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2012/06/seeking-poems-about-math-women.html
offered links to earlier postings featuring Sophie Germain, Florence Nightingale, Amalie “Emmy” Noether, and Grace Murray Hopper. The June 21 posting also includes a request for submission (to JoAnne at wow@joannegrowney.com) of poems about math-women
5. News from Fringe: This week our Vintage Fringe feature is "Blackbirds," by Celia Lisset Alvarez. And poetry editor Anna Lena Phillips interviews Alvarez about the poem and her work.
www.fringemagazine.org/lit/vintage/blackbirds-2/
www.fringemagazine.org/blog/celia-lisset-alvarez-notes-on-sestinization/
Recently, we published a feature essay by Carolyn Jones about what it was like to go public about her abortion. Along with the feature, the Fringe blog seeks short poems in response to the debate in the U.S. over birth control.
Send us a short something expressing your viewpoint and/or experiences with contraception — a limerick, haiku, six-word novel, or microfiction of 50 words or less. Email submissions to FringeTheMagazine at gmail dot com. We'll post the best on our blog.
The essay:
www.fringemagazine.org/lit/features/when-stories-develop-lives-of-their-own/
The cfw: www.fringemagazine.org/blog/birth-control-poetry/
6. Ellen Moody's blogs
6.1 Foremother poet: Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/foremother-poet-louise-bogan-1897-1970/
6.2 From the woman's canon: the anthologies and handbook, essays section:
www.jimandellen.org/womenspoetry/ForemotherAnthologies.html
6.3 Mildred Pierce, 2011, starring Kate Winslet: a woman's life and a bad seed (mother-daughter story):
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/mildred-pierce-starring-kate-winslet/
6.4 Mildred Pierce, 1945, starring Joan Crawford: a muddle (film noir, womens' film)
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/mildred-pierce-1945-starring-joan-crawford-a-muddle/
6.5 Fabled glamor or abysmal invisibility: teritum non est? (women's lives):
misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/88508.html
6.6 Tick, tick, tick, tick: the ur-Pride and Prejudice epistolary; more bad Tuesdays
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/tick-tick-tick-tick-epistolarypptuesdaypatternincessanttimeclocking/