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...]
October news– T. C. Boyle, Carol Kanter, Wally Swist, Susan Mahan and more
T. C. Boyle's fourteenth novel was published in September by Viking. It is called San Miguel and on his blog, the author describes it this way: “It is set on the island of the same name, the most northern and westerly of the California Channel Islands, and the story it tells derives from my research into the ecology and history of the region for my previous novel, When the Killing’s Done. . . . This is my first book-length narrative in the conventional realist mode, sans … [Read more...]
Laissez les bons temps rouler — AWP here we come!
Weighed Words is super excited to be going to the Associated Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair February 29 to March 3 at the Chicago Hilton and Palmer House, and we hope you will stop by. Our table is C6 and we are sharing it with Hyacinth Girl Press and Arsenic Lobster Journal. The keynote address will be given by Margaret Atwood. Another presentation we are stoked to see features U. S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine (who contributed to Solace in So Many Words) and … [Read more...]
Wrap up the old and unwrap the new
I've been putting off writing this blog, concentrating instead on the holidays and goofing off. But I wanted to tell you what the contributors have been up to because they have been busy. And, I wanted to tell you the latest about Solace in So Many Words even though I haven't been busy, exactly. First to tell you about my busy contributors. Arthur Powers ("Jardim Zological") emailed me back in November to say his short story "Thom" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by … [Read more...]