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Death of a legend, contributor news, new call for submissions

01/28/2015 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Death of a legend, contributor news, new call for submissions

Hey there sports fans.  If you are into baseball, I‘ve got to think you’re mourning the death of the great Ernie Banks, #14. His face as a rookie ballplayer, which graced the front pages of the papers in Chicago, is something to behold: there’s a purity there not seen often. It shines through. Beautiful. It struck me because Sunday’s Chicago Tribune covered the death of Chicago’s hometown legend in the front pages and back in the sports pages too while the arts section … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: "Reincarnation", "Solitaire", #14, Cadence Collective, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Donna Hilbert, Ecco, Ellen Bass, Ellen Wade Beals, Ernie Banks, Frank Sinatra, Kerry Langan, Laura Rodley, Long Beach, Mr. Cub, New Orleans, NOLA, novel, Photography, siblings, Susan Mahan, T. C. Boyle, The Harder They Come, The New Verse News, The New Yorker, Travelogue, Universal Table, Waypoints, Wising Up Press

What’s new with SISMW contributors? Rodley, Boyle, Hilbert, Mahan, Swist, Bass, Meno

03/25/2014 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

What’s new with SISMW contributors? Rodley, Boyle, Hilbert, Mahan, Swist, Bass, Meno

Supposedly it’s spring. Last night we had a dusting of snow and today the temps are in the 20s.  Most of the mounds of snow that accumulated over the winter are gone except for the waning piles that remain in the shady spots.  I’ve seen robins and blue jays and all kinds of birds in the yard. Today’s photos in Glimpse of Solace are from a new contributor,  Lisa Comperry. Today's Guest Post is a poem ("Seed Catalogs") by Laura Rodley. BTW, did you read Laura's poem for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Anthology, As Your Write It, Bella English, Cobalt, Contributors, Copper Canyon Press, Country Folk, Deborah Treisman, Donna Hilbert, Ellen Bass, Ellen Wade Beals, fiction, Franklin County, Ireland, Joe Meno, Kent State University Press, Lamar University Press, Laura Rodley, Like a Beggar, Lisa Comperry, Page Turner, Poetry, So we die, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Spring, Susan Mahan, T. C. Boyle, T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Ambassador or Brown Swiss, The Boston Globe, The Daodejing, The New Verse News, The New Yorker, The Relive Box, The Widow's Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival, This Week in Fiction, True Confessions of a Reluctant Vegetarian, Wally Swist, Weighed Words

Updates and news: Mahan, Adamkiewicz, Hilbert, Kirk, Langan, Levine (and me)

11/26/2012 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Due to construction I have been slacking, but not so with Solace in So Many Words contributors. Kathleen Kirk has four poems,  "Daughter of Midas," "Children Again," "Goldfinches," and "Mythology" in Glasschord Magazine (volume 27).  I hadn't heard of this online magazine before but the website explains,  "Glasschord Magazine was founded by a community of emerging artists as an open forum for creative expression. Each monthly issue explores a single theme from a variety of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Anthology, Coming Close, Constance Vogel Adamkiewicz, Contributors, Dan Sklar, Daniel James McCabe, Donna Hilbert, Doug Holder, Ellen Wade Beals, Glasschord Magazine, Kathleen Kirk, Kerry Langan, Lummox, Oberlin, Philip Levine, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Susan Mahan, Universal Table, University of Iowa ress, Weighed Words, Wising Up Press, Your Daily Poem

Updates: Kirk, Mahan, Kerlikowske, McConnell and more

10/16/2012 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Updates: Kirk, Mahan, Kerlikowske, McConnell and more

I can't always keep up with Kathleen Kirk's publications because there seem to be so many (YAY!).  Here are her latest placements. She has two poems, "Blackberry Moon" and "Cusp," in Eclectica. Lines from "Cusp" that made me think:  "just as the word 'cusp'
/ refers to either point on the crescent moon,
/ neither of which is really there, both created by
/ the shadow of the earth, the reflection of the sun." Kathleen's poem "The Towns" appears in the museum of americana. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Anthology, Barb Froman, Bellevue Literary Review, Beyond Willow Bend, College of Central Michigan, Contributors, ECLECTICA, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Ellen Wade Beals, Kathleen Kirk, Michael Constantine McConnell, museum of americana, Poetry, Poetry Repairs, Shadows and Ghosts, Slipstream, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Susan Mahan, Weighed Words, Your Daily Poem, Zhanna Vaynberg

October news– T. C. Boyle, Carol Kanter, Wally Swist, Susan Mahan and more

10/02/2012 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

T. C. Boyle's fourteenth novel was published in September by Viking. It is called San Miguel and on his blog, the author describes it this way:  “It is set on the island of the same name, the most northern and westerly of the California Channel Islands, and the story it tells derives from my research into the ecology and history of the region for my previous novel, When the Killing’s Done. . . . This is my first book-length narrative in the conventional realist mode, sans … [Read more...]

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