
{"id":4037,"date":"2012-10-16T15:22:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T15:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2012-10-16T15:32:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T15:32:40","slug":"updates-kirk-mahan-kerlikowske-mcconnell-and-an-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2012\/10\/updates-kirk-mahan-kerlikowske-mcconnell-and-an-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates: Kirk, Mahan, Kerlikowske, McConnell and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2657.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4039\" title=\"IMG_2657\" src=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2657-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2657-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2657-897x1024.jpg 897w, https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2657.jpg 1113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a>I can&#8217;t always keep up with <strong>Kathleen Kirk&#8217;s <\/strong>publications because there seem to be so many (YAY!). \u00a0Here are her latest placements. She has two poems, &#8220;Blackberry Moon&#8221; and &#8220;Cusp,&#8221; in <em><strong><a title=\"Eclectica &quot;Blackberry Moon&quot; and &quot;Cusp&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eclectica.org\/v16n4\/kirk.html\" target=\"_blank\">Eclectica<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. Lines from &#8220;Cusp&#8221; that made me think: \u00a0&#8220;just as the word &#8216;cusp&#8217;\u2028\/ refers to either point on the crescent moon,\u2028\/ neither of which is really there, both created by\u2028\/ the shadow of the earth, the reflection of the sun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen&#8217;s poem &#8220;The Towns&#8221; appears in the <em><strong><a title=\"the museum of america &quot;The Towns&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/themuseumofamericana.wordpress.com\/current-issue\/poetry\/the-towns\/\" target=\"_blank\">museum of americana<\/a>. <\/strong><\/em>Her poem, &#8220;Cassandra Retakes the Driver&#8217;s Exam&#8221; \u00a0appears in the latest issue \u00a0(no. 32) of <em><strong><a title=\"Slipstream\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slipstreampress.org\/issue32.html\" target=\"_blank\">Slipstream<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, which is the cars\/bars\/stars issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Susan Mahan&#8217;s <\/strong>poem &#8220;Milk Pitcher&#8221; appeared on <em><strong><a title=\"Your Daily Poem &quot;Milk Pitcher&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdailypoem.com\/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=1247\" target=\"_blank\">Your Daily Poem<\/a><\/strong><\/em> on October 12.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At fifty, you&#8217;ll need to decide how to spend \/ the second half of your life.&#8221; So begins <strong>Elizabeth Kerlikowske&#8217;s<\/strong> poem &#8220;Decades Away, The Checkered Flag&#8221; in <em><strong><a title=\"Poetry Repairs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryrepairs.com\/v11\/011.html#Q1\" target=\"_blank\">PoetryRepairs<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, a site of international poetry. Elizabeth posted on FB that the site has a miscellany of her work, and although I couldn&#8217;t find it exactly, I did enjoy reading the poetry on the site.<\/p>\n<p>I am glad to say that <strong>Michael Constantine McConnell<\/strong> is back on <strong>Facebook <\/strong>after a break, and he posted that his essays &#8220;Alleys&#8221; from <em><strong>Solace in So Many Words<\/strong><\/em> has found a new incarnation on the <a title=\"Creative Nonfiction Page of Central Michigan College\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cmich.edu\/academics\/humanities_social_behavioral_sciences\/CHSBSTemenos\/CHSBSTEMSpring2010\/Pages\/Creative-Nonfiction.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Creative NonFiction page<\/a> of Central Michigan College (College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences). \u00a0All the essays on the site are worth a read, so check it out.<\/p>\n<p>I was honored to be asked by <strong>Barb Froman<\/strong>, author of <em><strong>Shadows and Ghosts <\/strong><\/em>(Serving House Books), to write about a favorite movie for her blog <strong><a title=\"Beyond Willow Bend\" href=\"http:\/\/beyondwillowbend.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/a-delectable-madness.html\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond Willow Bend.<\/a><\/strong> So which movie from my youth gives me solace? You&#8217;ll have to read the blog to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Also I want to congratulate \u00a0<strong>Zhanna Vaynberg<\/strong> who I met at Printers Row Book Fest. \u00a0We were neighbors at the same table. I was selling <em><strong>Solace in So Many Words<\/strong><\/em>, and she was selling the many books put out by <strong>Academy Chicago Press<\/strong>. \u00a0 Zhanna is a writer and her story \u00a0\u201cThings You Should Never Tell Your Mother\u201d in the latest issue of <em><strong><a title=\"Bellevue Literary Review\" href=\"http:\/\/blr.med.nyu.edu\/content\/archive\/2012\/fall\" target=\"_blank\">Bellevue Literary Review<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Fall 2012). Looks like I&#8217;ll have to buy a copy now.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t always keep up with Kathleen Kirk&#8217;s publications because there seem to be so many (YAY!). \u00a0Here are her latest placements. She has two poems, &#8220;Blackberry Moon&#8221; and &#8220;Cusp,&#8221; in Eclectica. Lines from &#8220;Cusp&#8221; that made me think: \u00a0&#8220;just as the word &#8216;cusp&#8217;\u2028\/ refers to either point on the crescent moon,\u2028\/ neither of which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,1322,1327,1323,1325,127,162,96,12,4,197,1324,13,1321,1326,1320,7,16,184,32,1284,1106],"class_list":{"0":"post-4037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-anthology","8":"tag-barb-froman","9":"tag-bellevue-literary-review","10":"tag-beyond-willow-bend","11":"tag-college-of-central-michigan","12":"tag-contributors-2","13":"tag-eclectica","14":"tag-elizabeth-kerlikowske","15":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","16":"tag-kathleen-kirk","17":"tag-michael-constantine-mcconnell","18":"tag-museum-of-americana","19":"tag-poetry","20":"tag-poetry-repairs","21":"tag-shadows-and-ghosts","22":"tag-slipstream","23":"tag-solace","24":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","25":"tag-susan-mahan","26":"tag-weighed-words","27":"tag-your-daily-poem","28":"tag-zhanna-vaynberg","29":"entry","30":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4087,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions\/4087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}