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Hot links to new writing by SISMW contributors (and more)

08/26/2015 By Ellen Beals

Hot links to new writing by SISMW contributors (and more)

Good day!  Hope life is treating you well. Concerned about the stock market? You may want to read Elizabeth Kerlikowske's poem "The Two Worlds"  on the The New Verse News today (August 26, 20015). There's a whole section of poetry by E. Michael Desilets at the VerseWrights site; his latest to be posted is "Sidetrack's Last Haircut." The Chicago Writers Conference is coming up--September 25-27. Did I mention Donna Hilbert has five poems ("Mother in Satin," … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: "Edgewater", "Hindsight", "Sidetracks's Last Haircut", "The Small Country", "The Two Worlds", "Things I Know I Love: Odes to Food", (AFTER)life, Alice McDermott, Anthology, Arthur Powers, Barbara Froman, Bill and Dave's Cocktail Hour, Donna Hilbert, E. Michael Desilets, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Ellen Bass, Ellen Wade Beals, Finishing Line Press, Greg Lukianoff, Joan Corwin, Jonathan Haidt, Poetry, Purple Passion Press, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, T. C. Boyle, The New Verse News, The New Yorker, Verse Virtual, VerseWrights, Wally Swist, Weighed Words

News on contributors (Desilets, Rodley, Mahan, McConnell, Kirk) notes on rejection

02/11/2015 By Ellen Beals 2 Comments

News on contributors (Desilets, Rodley, Mahan, McConnell, Kirk) notes on rejection

Hello sweeties. Hope you don't have the winter blues and that you are getting enough vitamin D. On January 16 there was a story on NPR by Jason Comely about embracing rejection ("By Making a Game out of Rejection, A Man Conquers Fear"). For a while there I was going to write a post about it, how writers have to embrace rejection.  I was trying to think of it in terms of the Pareto principle, the mathematical principle known as the 80-20 rule, but I couldn’t get it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: appreciation, Better View of the Moon, Cassandra is Overcome by Beauty, Contributors, E. Michael Desilets, Ellen Wade Beals, Escape into Life, Fomite Press, Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, Jason Comely, Karen Craigo, Katherine West, Kathleen Kirk, Laura Rodley, Lynn Sloan, Michael Constantine McConnell, NPR, Poetry, Principles of Navigation, rejection, Rhino, Silver Birch, Silver Birch Press, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Susan Mahan, The Moth, The New Verse News, The Review Review, Weighed Words, Women and Children First

Lots to read & do: Bass, Desilets, Kerlikowske, Fermoy International Poetry Fest, Dennis O’Driscoll, and ARDOR

02/07/2013 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Contributors to Solace in So Many Words have been busy as usual.  Ellen Bass who has four poems in our book ("And What If I Spoke of Despar," "Don't Expect Applause,""Jack Gottlieb's in Love," and "The Thing Is") has poems in the latest issues of The Sun and The New Yorker.  "At the Padre Hotel in Bakersfield, California" which appears on page 33 the February issue of The Sun, features a "deep decolletage exposed enough for open-heart surgery."  In The New Yorker, Ellen's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Anthology, ARDOR, At the Padre Hotel in Bakersfield California, Dennis O'Driscoll, E. Michael Desilets, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Ellen Bass, Ellen Wade Beals, Eye Socket Journal, Fermoy Internation Poetry Festival, Poetry, Poetry Foundation, Poetry Ireland, Poetry Magazine, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, The New Yorker, The Sun, Tomorrow, VerseWright, Weighed Words, What Did I Love

E. Michael Desilets’ “Tom sums it up on Saturday”

05/30/2012 By Ellen Beals 2 Comments

Tom sums it up on Saturday His brain was a big gray balloon and he let go of the string his frontal lobes now sky high as well as atrophied. Whose fault was this? There was no one to blame. No one whose name he could remember.   He unplugged the phone and shoved it under the bed. He was exhausted from pretending to know all the voices. The universe was full of cousins who had his number. Still Groucho said Hello, I must … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: "Nasty Stuff", brother, E. Michael Desilets, Frontal Lobe Dementia, Kattywompus Press, Pick's Disease, Poetry, Solace, Solace in So Many Words

Summer reading (or what contributors are up to)

05/30/2012 By Ellen Beals

Summer reading (or what contributors are up to)

Looking for something to read this summer? Everyone--Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist-- is excited about Solace in So Many Words contributor Joe Meno's new novel Office Girl. Published by Akashic Books, it is due out July 3. Ann McNeal ("Faith") has a new book too. Published by Nuthatch Press, it is called The Spaces Between.  BTW, if you have attended a reading of Solace in So Many Words, chances are you have heard me read "Faith." The poem sums up a lot of my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: "Nasty Stuff", Akashic Books, Ann McNeal, Anthology, Contributors, Crack the Spine, E. Michael Desilets, Ellen Wade Beals, Faith, J. Scott Smith, Joe Meno, Kattywompus Press, Midwestern Gothic, Office Girl, Patty Somlo, Penduline Press, Poetry, Pushcart Prize, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, The Spaces Between, Weighed Words

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