I met Dave Bonta at the AWP Conference in March. He was working the Motion Poems booth, which was next to my table. We swapped books and talked a little poetry. We became FB friends, and I got to learn more about him through his posts, most of which are about Via Negativa, a site I encourage you to investigate. Dave describes it as a “personal web log with delusions of grandeur,” and also as a “mélange” in which he posts poems, photos, essays and videos, the occasional … [Read more...]
Kathleen Buckland
Kathleen Buckland is a photographer from Glenview, IL. We have featured her photographs many times; she likes to spend time at the Chicago Botanic Gardens and she usually takes a camera with her (we're so glad she does). Thanks, Kathy, for letting us share your work. … [Read more...]
Updates: Kirk, Mahan, Kerlikowske, McConnell and more
I can't always keep up with Kathleen Kirk's publications because there seem to be so many (YAY!). Here are her latest placements. She has two poems, "Blackberry Moon" and "Cusp," in Eclectica. Lines from "Cusp" that made me think: "just as the word 'cusp' / refers to either point on the crescent moon, / neither of which is really there, both created by / the shadow of the earth, the reflection of the sun." Kathleen's poem "The Towns" appears in the museum of americana. … [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...]
Carol Kanter “Girl with Green Balloon”
Girl with Green Balloon Shades of Vermeer, the beauty of this young maid. Though, alas, her adornment seems to lack gemstone preciousness. Never mind. She treasures it saves it from jostling by festival crowds as she would have it shield her from portraiture. She loves its green--just shy of emerald-- that grants her a glimpse of fabled seas so far off they stretch belief. Sunlight winks from its … [Read more...]
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