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Winter weekend: reading Philip Levine and Donna Hilbert

02/24/2013 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

It's a quiet weekend here and a perfect time to post. Did you read The New Yorker (Feb 11 & 18 issue)?  Philip Levine has a poem "In Another Country" and when I say it's dreamy, I mean it literally. In this other country, ". . . There is no town, only / fields of long grass blowing in the wind / and beyond the wind the gray mountains." It ends, ". . . . The wind kept prodding / at my back as though determined / to push me away from where I was, / fearful, perhaps, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Aortic Books, CCLaP, Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, Donna Hilbert, Ellen Wade Beals, Goodreads, In Another Country, Jason Pettus, Lorene Delaney-Ullman, Phil Levine, Philip Levine, Poetry, Silver Birch Review, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, The Congress of Luminous Bodies, The New Yorker, The Next Big Thing, Weighed Words

Laura Rodley, Donna Hilbert and a call for submissions here

01/28/2013 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Laura Rodley's chapbook Rappelling Blue Light, a Massachusetts Book Award nominee, won honorable mention for the New England Poetry Society Jean Pedrick Award. Her second chapbook Your Left Front Wheel is Coming Loose was also nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award and an L.L.Winship/Penn New England Award.  Both these chapbook were published by Finishing Line Press. Past co-curator of Collected Poets Series and editor of As You Write It: A Franklin County Anthology, … [Read more...]

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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...]

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Donna Hilbert — The Green Season

09/20/2012 By Ellen Beals

The Green Season O sweet morning-- coffee on the patio, the Sunday Times spread between us, red geraniums in the window box, a dog at your feet. Stop, Love. Don't move. Don't even breathe. I wish us fixed this way, cups raised the green season before us. ©  Donna Hilbert, 2009 & 2011 This poem is used with permission and appears in The Green Season by Donna Hilbert (World Parade Books, 2011) Donna Hilbert was born in the … [Read more...]

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What’s new? Mahan, Kirk, Donahoo, Hilbert, Bottiglieri, Antler, Meno, Corwin and a contest too!

07/25/2012 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

As usual contributors to Solace in So Many Words have been busy writing and publishing. Susan Mahan has two poems "Voiceover" and "Cabbage Days" in U.M.Ph! Since May, two of her poems with Boston themes have been hanging in Boston City Hall --- they are "Mayday" and "Getting Lucky."  Susan's poem "On the Lower Left Quadrant" is included in the online journal Poetry Porch; the theme was bridges. Kathleen Kirk also has a poem ("Last Step")  in that issue. Fathers was the … [Read more...]

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