Somehow it's September. Are you like me and wondering where the summer went? Well, at least I still have a vacation attitude in that I remain indolent and easily distracted. Contributors to Solace in So Many Words have been busy. I want to remind you again that Jan Bottiglieri's new chapbook "Where Gravity Pools the Sugar" is out from Finishing Line Press. Daniel Chacón has revamped his website. His next book," is a hybrid of flash-stories and loops in text and … [Read more...]
News and updates: Pamela Miller, Ellen Bass (and me)
Happy Father's Day to all. Please make sure to read Laura Rodley's poem, which I have posted as a guest blog. Pamela Miller (who contributed "What It's All About" to Solace in So Many Words) has new book from Mayapple Press. It's called Miss Unthinkable. Here's how it's described: "Who is Miss Unthinkable? In this latest collection from Chicago poet Pamela Miller, she’s a shape-shifting sorority of mysterious, funny and wise female characters who don’t let anything get … [Read more...]
Glimpse of Solace: Bloom in Black and White
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...]
Lots to read & do: Bass, Desilets, Kerlikowske, Fermoy International Poetry Fest, Dennis O’Driscoll, and ARDOR
Contributors to Solace in So Many Words have been busy as usual. Ellen Bass who has four poems in our book ("And What If I Spoke of Despar," "Don't Expect Applause,""Jack Gottlieb's in Love," and "The Thing Is") has poems in the latest issues of The Sun and The New Yorker. "At the Padre Hotel in Bakersfield, California" which appears on page 33 the February issue of The Sun, features a "deep decolletage exposed enough for open-heart surgery." In The New Yorker, Ellen's … [Read more...]