Three contributors to Solace in So Many Words have new books! Congrats! Daniel Chacon’s newest publication is Hotel Juarez, which was published in March by Arte Publico Pr. Here’s what Publishers Weekly said in its starred review: “Chacon, winner of the 2007 Hudson Prize for Unending Rooms, returns with a collection of short fiction concerned with American and Mexican relations in which a world of race and identity politics emerges. Linked but never repetitive, these … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2013
Glimpse of Solace: Tulips by Kathy Buckland
Given that yesterday's images of the Boston Marathon bombing are still in my mind, today I am especially thankful to have Kathy Buckland's spring images to contemplate. A photographer residing in Chicago's North Shore, Kathy loves the Chicago Botanic Garden and captures its beauty in all seasons. Thanks KB! … [Read more...]
Be there or be square!
Our latest review — from Verse Wisconsin Online
Book Review Ellen Wade Beals, Ed., Solace, in So Many Words, Weighed Words, 2011 Reviewed by Kathleen Eull Those of us who have read more than a few anthologies know they can be, in a word often employed by critics, uneven. Collected by well-meaning editors with an unenviable task, we can find ourselves wondering why these pieces were selected as the best or representative. What a pleasure, then, to discover Ellen Wade Beals’s ambitious Solace In So Many Words. … [Read more...]
Glimpse of Solace: First tweet
A Glenview area photographer, Kathy Buckland finds solace wherever she finds the beauty of nature. In this case, it was in her own backyard. Thanks Kathy for sharing this. … [Read more...]