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Literary news: light and dark

11/21/2014 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

It’s another chilly one, but before I can complain about Chicago weather, I only have to look at pictures from Buffalo, NY, where more than five feet of snow blankets the city and more is predicted.  That shuts me up. Besides I don’t really want to post about the weather but literary news. First about Solace in So Many Words contributors. Brent Calderwood is featured in  OUT Magazine (as one of OUT 100)—congrats! Kathleen Kirk’s poem “Daughter of Midas” has been … [Read more...]

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mid-July news: Kirk, Somlo

07/21/2014 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Hey there—hope you're having some summer fun. For summer reading you might want to check out two recent publications by Kathleen Kirk.  She has a poem “We, the Impressionable” in One, which is a project by  by Jacara Press, "a community active press." Also she has “Laundering Instructions” in Right Hand Pointing, a digital publication featuring "Short, poetry, short fiction and short art" for the past ten years. Patty Somlo has a story “The Moment I Parted the … [Read more...]

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News and resources: Kirk, Hilbert, Vine Leaves, and indispensable info

04/25/2014 By Ellen Beals 1 Comment

I know it’s been a while. Here’s some news. Kathleen Kirk has two poems and “If I Were the Cherry Wood Piano” and "The Body" in the latest issue of Rose Red Review. On April 16, Donna Hilbert’s poem “Gravity” was published on the Silver Birch site. As I mentioned before, a photograph I took ("Cold Heart")  is the cover for the latest issue of Vine Leaves Literary Journal. This paragraph on the journal’s submission page will let you know what the publication is … [Read more...]

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The ides of April

04/15/2014 By Ellen Beals 1 Comment

Happy Poetry Month! Harumph, harrumph. It’s the smack dab middle of the month, also our tax deadline day, and in Chicago, the landscape is once again clearing from a surprise snow shower (see Glimpse of Solace). I wanted to share some stuff with you. First, as I have before in this space, I recommend you drop in on Dave Bonta’s poetry blog, Via Negativa. A recent post is "National Poetry Day is a failure." It will get you thinking. Dave links to the post "Against … [Read more...]

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News from contributors: Levine, Boyle, Bass, Meno, Somlo, Kirk, Bottiglieri, Beals

01/08/2014 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Solace in So Many Words contributors have been busy.  Here’s a look at what they have been up to. Philip Levine has a poem “The Future” in the January 6 issue of The New Yorker, which begins this way, “The past is no more past / than the future,” and ends “but the day kept going / on and on into the future.” T. C. Boyle who released his tenth book of short stories (T. C. Boyle Stories II) in 2013 is working on a novel The Harder They Come. I'm about a half-year late … [Read more...]

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