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Mourning in Kalamazoo and other news

02/26/2016 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Mourning in Kalamazoo and other news

Hello. I missed writing to you. But a project came up that needed my immediate attention. Besides, I haven’t much to report. To tell you the truth, socializing has taken up a lot of time recently. I can always talk myself into going out because human relations are what count in this lifetime. So why say no to a nice lunch? No doubt, you heard about the shooting in Kalamazoo, MI. Elizabeth Kerlikowske (who wrote two poems in Solace in So Many Words) has written about the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Anthology, Contributors, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Highland Park Poetry, Kalamazoo shooting, Litro, McSweeney's, Patty Somlo, Photography, Poetry, Poetry Magazine, Ralph Murre, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, sonnet contest, submit, The New Yorker, The NewVerse News, Weighed Words

News from contributors: Levine, Boyle, Bass, Meno, Somlo, Kirk, Bottiglieri, Beals

01/08/2014 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Anthology, Arsenic Lobster, Camille Claudel, Contributors, Dancing Girl Press, Ellen Bass, Ellen Wade Beals, Emerge Literary Journal, Fickle Muses, How I Became Miss America, Jan Bottiglieri, Joe Meno, Kathleen Kirk, McSweeney's, Olentangy Review, Patty Somlo, Philip Levine, Pithead Chapel, Poetry, Rattle, Raven Chronicles, Scholars and Rogues, Selected Shorts, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Susan Yount, TC Boyle, The Boiler Review, The Future, The New Yorker, Weighed Words, WNYC, Work Literary Magazine

Geniuses over Nameless Creek — more news about contributors

04/17/2011 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Reader Peter Christie sent me notice that T. C. Boyle was interviewed in the Small Talk column of Financial Times, a publication I do not usually read.  Thanks Peter! The May Atlantic Monthly explores How Genius Works, and T. C. Boyle shares a page from his draft of The Tortilla Curtain. Dennis Saleh has ten pages of poetry in Little Star 2, and is in the Hotel Amerika "Aphorisms" issue. Other new work is forthcoming in Chautauqua, Illuminations, and Poem. Later this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: "Nameless Creek", Anthology, Bast, C. G. Jung Institute, Chautauqua, Cincinnati Review, Contributors, Dennis Saleh, ECLECTICA, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Financial Times, Forever Books, Hotel Amerika, Illuminations, Joe Meno, Kathleen Kirk, Little Star 2, McSweeney's, poem, Psychological Perspectives, publication, Smoking Poet, Solace in So Many Words, T. C. Boyle, The Atlantic

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