Post by moira on Dec 17, 2015 21:12:36 GMT 2
Wompo Publishers, Bloggers and Teachers Newspaper
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Helen Ruggieri blogs about the immortality of mystery writers
3. Announcing the 8th issue of Posit
4. Barbara Crooker will lead a poetry workshop
5. Beltway Poetry Quarterly announces its Top Ten Books of 2015 (plus two anthologies)
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. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Playlist 2015
2. Helen Ruggieri blogs about the immortality of mystery writers. Check out my new blog at
www.helenruggieri.comand let me know how it works.
3. Announcing the 8th issue of Posit, edited and published by Susan Lewis, featuring work by Susan Charkes, Norma Cole, Christine Hamm, Anna Leahy, Christina Mengert, Carol Shillibeer, Danielle Susi, and other fine writers and visual artists. www.positjournal.com. susanlewis@exchange.law.nyu.edu
4. Barbara Crooker will lead a poetry workshop at the annual Blue Mountain Winter Women's Weekend, 1540 Mountain Road, Hamburg, PA, on Saturday, February 6th, from 12-1:30 pm. Registration fee is required; one-day participants are welcome. For more info, see:
gallery.mailchimp.com/2ae849b12a261d65f614fd4df/files/WWW_32_brochure_12_15_doc.pdf
5. Beltway Poetry Quarterly announces its Top Ten Books of 2015 (plus two anthologies)
www.beltwaypoetry.com
Editors Kim Roberts and Gowri Koneswaran are pleased to announce their picks for best books of the year. Listed alphabetically, the books are:
JoAnn Balingit, Words for House Story, WordTech Editions
Sandra Beasley, Count the Waves, W.W. Norton
Reginald Dwayne Betts, Bastards of the Reagan Era, Four Way Books
Kyle G. Dargan, Honest Engine, University of Georgia Press
celeste doaks, Cornrows and Cornfields, Wrecking Ball Press
Linda Pastan, Insomnia, W.W. Norton
Elizabeth Poliner, What You Know In Your Hands, David Robert Books
Rod Smith, Touche, Wave Books
Abdourahman Waberi, The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper, Seagull Books, translated from French to English by Nancy Naomi Carlson
Carina Yun, On Loving a Saudi Girl, Headmistress Press
The two anthologies are:
The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, edited by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana and Nate Marshall, Haymarket Books
Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres, edited by Marcela Sulak and Jacqueline Kolosov, Rose Metal Press
These ten notable single-author collections of poetry are by authors with strong ties to Washington, DC and the surrounding region. The two anthologies include a number of contributors from the DC region. The editors congratulate the authors and editors for their considerable achievements.
6. Ellen Moody's blogs
6.1. Trumbo: an effective political fable in the tradition of 1930s to 40s films:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/trumboaneffectivepoliticalfableinthetraditionof1930s40sfilms/
6.2. Theater en rapport: Pericles and West Side Story speaking to our time:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2015/12/14/theateren-rapport-too-the-folger-pericles-signature-west-side-story/
6.3. Deborah Cherry: Beyond the Frame (suffragettes, visual culture):
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/deborah-cherrys-beyond-the-frame-feminism-visual-culture-britain-1850-1900/
6.4. Piaf
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/piaf/
6.5. Winter Solstice? The Death of Cancer?
misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/131271.html
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Helen Ruggieri blogs about the immortality of mystery writers
3. Announcing the 8th issue of Posit
4. Barbara Crooker will lead a poetry workshop
5. Beltway Poetry Quarterly announces its Top Ten Books of 2015 (plus two anthologies)
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. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Playlist 2015
2. Helen Ruggieri blogs about the immortality of mystery writers. Check out my new blog at
www.helenruggieri.comand let me know how it works.
3. Announcing the 8th issue of Posit, edited and published by Susan Lewis, featuring work by Susan Charkes, Norma Cole, Christine Hamm, Anna Leahy, Christina Mengert, Carol Shillibeer, Danielle Susi, and other fine writers and visual artists. www.positjournal.com. susanlewis@exchange.law.nyu.edu
4. Barbara Crooker will lead a poetry workshop at the annual Blue Mountain Winter Women's Weekend, 1540 Mountain Road, Hamburg, PA, on Saturday, February 6th, from 12-1:30 pm. Registration fee is required; one-day participants are welcome. For more info, see:
gallery.mailchimp.com/2ae849b12a261d65f614fd4df/files/WWW_32_brochure_12_15_doc.pdf
5. Beltway Poetry Quarterly announces its Top Ten Books of 2015 (plus two anthologies)
www.beltwaypoetry.com
Editors Kim Roberts and Gowri Koneswaran are pleased to announce their picks for best books of the year. Listed alphabetically, the books are:
JoAnn Balingit, Words for House Story, WordTech Editions
Sandra Beasley, Count the Waves, W.W. Norton
Reginald Dwayne Betts, Bastards of the Reagan Era, Four Way Books
Kyle G. Dargan, Honest Engine, University of Georgia Press
celeste doaks, Cornrows and Cornfields, Wrecking Ball Press
Linda Pastan, Insomnia, W.W. Norton
Elizabeth Poliner, What You Know In Your Hands, David Robert Books
Rod Smith, Touche, Wave Books
Abdourahman Waberi, The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper, Seagull Books, translated from French to English by Nancy Naomi Carlson
Carina Yun, On Loving a Saudi Girl, Headmistress Press
The two anthologies are:
The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, edited by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana and Nate Marshall, Haymarket Books
Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres, edited by Marcela Sulak and Jacqueline Kolosov, Rose Metal Press
These ten notable single-author collections of poetry are by authors with strong ties to Washington, DC and the surrounding region. The two anthologies include a number of contributors from the DC region. The editors congratulate the authors and editors for their considerable achievements.
6. Ellen Moody's blogs
6.1. Trumbo: an effective political fable in the tradition of 1930s to 40s films:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/trumboaneffectivepoliticalfableinthetraditionof1930s40sfilms/
6.2. Theater en rapport: Pericles and West Side Story speaking to our time:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2015/12/14/theateren-rapport-too-the-folger-pericles-signature-west-side-story/
6.3. Deborah Cherry: Beyond the Frame (suffragettes, visual culture):
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/deborah-cherrys-beyond-the-frame-feminism-visual-culture-britain-1850-1900/
6.4. Piaf
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/piaf/
6.5. Winter Solstice? The Death of Cancer?
misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/131271.html