This image was taken by Victoria Dekoker who I met when there was a Solace in So Many Words reading event at the bookstore where she is the events planner and marketing director, Barbara's Bookstore at UIC. Then one day LinkedIn, that more biz-oriented social networking site that I hardly pay attention to, connected us. I visited her website and found this picture and asked if I could share it. Make sure you look at the other photographs on her website and her … [Read more...]
Can Poetry Matter?
As I have said in earlier blogs, I always knew I wanted to be a writer. (And I feel fortunate that my path seemed so clear for me.) One article that helped me to think about being a writer, a poet in particular, was Dana Gioa’s “Can Poetry Matter?” which first ran way back in May 1991 in The Atlantic Monthly. The essays begins: "American Poetry now belongs to a subculture. No longer part of the mainstream of artistic and intellectual life, it has become the specialized … [Read more...]
Contributor updates: Levine, biadaszkiewicz, Kirk
There's a great article on Philip Levine ("Songs," "Waking in Alicante"), our new U.S. Poet Laureate, titled "A Poet Laureate from the Proletariat: An Appreciation of Philip Levine" written by Bill Morris in The Millions. Bill Morris, who also provides a sketch of Phil, says he has committed to memory the last stanza of "This New Day," which is: And what we get is what we bring: A grey light coming on at dawn, No fresh start and no bird song And no sea and no … [Read more...]
Howard Zinn
"And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” Howard Zinn This Slice of Solace came to me through FB posts of Thomas G. Fiffer and Stacy Kamala Waltman --thanks! … [Read more...]
Connections count
I am not a business person, or at least I wasn't until I started Weighed Words. So it's kind of funny that I wanted to come up with a model for publishing that was different than the ones I was used to. Lit mags don't usually pay unless you win a contest. Anthologies by fledgling presses don't usually pay either. For small-time writers like me, payment came in the form of comp copies and the glory of publication. What was important to me as I worked on Solace in So Many … [Read more...]
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