Solace in So Many Words contributors have been busy. Here’s a look at what they have been up to. Philip Levine has a poem “The Future” in the January 6 issue of The New Yorker, which begins this way, “The past is no more past / than the future,” and ends “but the day kept going / on and on into the future.” T. C. Boyle who released his tenth book of short stories (T. C. Boyle Stories II) in 2013 is working on a novel The Harder They Come. I'm about a half-year late … [Read more...]
Poetry on Sunday afternoon
On July 22, a Sunday afternoon, Woman Made Gallery (and Nina Corwin) hosted a poetry reading by “Poets who Open Doors.” Featured readers were Kristy Bowen (dancing girl press), Shanny Jean Maney (The Encyclopedia Show), Jennifer Karmin (Red Rover Series), Emily Rose Kahn–Sheahan (Mental Graffiti, Real Talk Live), Johanny Vazquez Paz (Palabra Pura, Guild Complex) and Susan Yount (Arsenic Lobster, Chicago Poetry Bordello). It was a lively and lovely event. Jennifer Karmin … [Read more...]
Updates, late September
I can't believe it's late September already. I love Fall and want to make it last. Already there is less than week left of September. E. Michael Desilets who has two poems ("Archangela Bautistsa" and "Faithful Departed") in Solace in So Many Words is a contributor from Los Angeles who I met only through correspondence until I got on Facebook and he "friended" me. It is great because I get to keep up on his news and posts and have gotten to know him. He sent me an … [Read more...]