Other Beautiful Things the mist green color of melting snow the bronze yellow of hay overdone the inside pink of a primrose the white heart of a morning glory the light that beams within the caramel color of my dog’s eyes as the morning light shines through them the almost amber color of strong tea or malt whiskey the abalone shine inside a shell the amber light on the trees two evenings ago, first evening of daylight savings time, though it never saved … [Read more...]
More news from contributors
Kathleen Kirk has a busy weekend in Chicago --maybe you can catch her at one her events. The first is Thursday, April 28 to launch Brute Neighbors: Urban Nature Prose, Poetry and Photography at the Book Cellar, 4736-38 N. Lincoln. The next day, Friday, April 29, she will be part of the The Encyclopedia Show: Creation Myths at the Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $8. Constance Vogel Adamkiewicz has an essay in Snowy Egret and two … [Read more...]
More contributor news
"The Thing Is" by Ellen Bass appeared in Solace in So Many Words and is now available as a poster from Syracuse Cultural Workers. Susan Mahan has three poems in U.M.Ph.!Prose. Her poem "Aunt Mary, Circa 1961" is part of the Boston City Hall Prose and Poetry Exhibit for Spring 2011. Brent Calderwood will be participating in the GuyWriters Presents Pinot & Poetry, from 8 until 9 on Monday, April 25, at the Blush Wine Bar, 476 Castro Street, San Francisco. … [Read more...]
Our first review
In case you have not heard the news, Solace in So Many Words got its first review. It is from The Midwest Book Review and was also uploaded to our Amazon page (thanks James A. Cox!) and is reprinted here: That bit of knowledge that everything will be alright is something not to be overlooked. "Solace" is a collection of essays, stories, and fiction compiled by Ellen Wade Beals as she offers the contributions of a wide range of individuals as they speak on the crises of … [Read more...]
Geniuses over Nameless Creek — more news about contributors
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...]