Solace in a Book

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

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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...]

News of contributors: Poniewaz, Somlo, Hilbert, Miller, Levine, Subprimal and Nelson Algren contest

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I was sorry to read at various sources that Jeff Poniewaz recently passed away. He was currently serving as Milwaukee’s Poet Laureate. Known as an eco-poet Jeff taught Literature of Ecological Vision via the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since 1989. His book Dolphin Leaping in the Milky Way was awarded the Discovery Award from PEN in 1987. Submission letters and his bio always came with this note: “His last name is pronounced POE-nYEAH-vAHsh and is Polish for … [Read more...]

Artist’s failings, a new review, and contributor news (Somlo, Calderwood)

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I am peeking at you from the crest of Thursday, September 11, to say hello and tell you I’ve returned to my post.  My hiatus was great (I've posted some pics in Glimpse of Solace). Hope the summer had some high points for you. One recent Facebook craze is to be tagged to name your ten favorite or life-changing books.  I am a little daunted by the list because it will show I am not that well read, certainly not as well read as some of my friends with advanced degrees. And … [Read more...]

Guest Post: Laura Rodley “Meeting the Father”

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Meeting the Father Sister Isabelle Rose has met the Father, sits swinging in a long roped swing descending from Heaven where mists   rise like those over the Holyoke Bridge. She sits swinging, her body slim her hair light brown, curled,   no glasses set upon her nose, happy to be held in God’s grace but not in his arms, just as she   was in the convent when married to his son, Jesus Christ, swinging through the … [Read more...]