{"id":971,"date":"2011-06-24T21:54:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T21:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=971"},"modified":"2011-06-25T02:13:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T02:13:11","slug":"kudos-to-contributors-calderwood-desilets-kirk-mcconnell-somlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2011\/06\/kudos-to-contributors-calderwood-desilets-kirk-mcconnell-somlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos to contributors: Calderwood, Desilets, Kirk, McConnell, Somlo"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I write this I am thinking of Brent Calderwood<\/strong> — tonight is his big night. Brent’s poem, “The Golden Hour,” has been selected by judge Mark Doty as winner of the Atlanta Queer Lit Broadside Contest. Brent will be accepting his award and reading his poem at annual festival’s opening ceremony in Atlanta tonight (Friday, June 25) A broadside of the poem will be published by the festival and made available for sale. \u00a0\u00a0Here is what Mark Doty had to say: “This beautiful poem evokes a city landscape lit up with the possibility of new love. But it’s also tense with the speaker\u2019s\u00a0awareness that this hope may never be realized. In this way ‘The Golden Hour’ captures how love and desire lead us forward, but can also hold us hostage.”<\/p>\n

Brent also recently received a scholarship to attend the Squaw Valley Community of Writers in July, where he will study with a faculty that\u00a0includes Robert Hass, Galway Kinnell, and Sharon Olds.\u00a0 And he has been working on a new web site<\/a>.\u00a0 Check it out.\u00a0 I was blown away by the poem \u201cElegy.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you read E. Michael Desilets\u2019<\/strong> poems (\u201cArchangel Bautista\u201d and \u201cFaithful Departed\u201d) in Solace in So Many Words<\/em> and would like to read more of his work, you can find \u201cThe Last Set of the Night\u201d on the Curbside Splendor<\/a><\/em> site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kathleen Kirk <\/strong>sent me Adanna,<\/em> a Journal for Women, about Women, and it has just occurred to me I never thanked her for it \u2013 thank you Kathleen.\u00a0 The journal has poetry, short stories and creative nonfiction.\u00a0 In it is Kathleen\u2019s poem \u201cThe Letter V\u201d which has this breath-taking line that the letter V is: \u201cpronounced by the tail of the hummingbird.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0In the small world department, Erika Dreifus who won our book giveaway also has a poem in Adanna<\/em>, a stunner called \u201cUmbilicus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contributor Michael Constantine McConnell<\/strong> is counting down to July 2 because that is when the new CD by The Jakeys comes out. Michael is a writing teacher by day and musician and singer in this raucous Scotch-Irish band by night. Born and raised in Detroit, he currently lives, loves, and plays in the awesome city of Denton, Texas.<\/p>\n

Patty Somlo\u2019s<\/strong> short story, “For the Last Time,” is in the Summer Solstice issue of Cirque Journal<\/a><\/em>. The issue also includes pages of gorgeous photography from the Northwest and Alaska.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Brent Calderwood <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I write this I am thinking of Brent Calderwood — tonight is his big night. Brent’s poem, “The Golden Hour,” has been selected by judge Mark Doty as winner of the Atlanta Queer Lit Broadside Contest. Brent will be accepting his award and reading his poem at annual festival’s opening ceremony in Atlanta tonight […]<\/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":[339,18,335,334,187,341,127,338,337,224,4,336,340,124,7,16,198,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-adonna","8":"tag-anthology","9":"tag-aqlf","10":"tag-atlanta-queer-literary-festival","11":"tag-brent-calderwood","12":"tag-cirque-journal","13":"tag-contributors-2","14":"tag-curbside-splendor","15":"tag-e-michael-desilets","16":"tag-erika-dreifus","17":"tag-kathleen-kirk","18":"tag-mark-doty","19":"tag-michael-constantine","20":"tag-patty-somlo","21":"tag-solace","22":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","23":"tag-the-jakeys","24":"tag-weighed-words","25":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","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=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}