Suzanne Cleary’s Beauty Mark wins the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize.
Beauty Mark (BkMk Press 2013) by Suzanne Cleary is the 2014 winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize. Cleary is aContinue Reading
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“Roleplay” by Juliana Gray wins the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize
Roleplay by Juliana Gray My rating: 5 of 5 stars Juliana Gray’s Roleplay is the winner of this year’s EugeneContinue Reading
Reading Ange Mlinko’s Marvelous Things Overheard
Ange Mlinko’s new book of poetry, Marvelous Things Overheard, expresses our contemporary experience by way of micronarratives, using poetry’s familiar lens of myth, fable, and anecdote, and overlaying these with the received “truth” of the arts, science and technology as they are filtered through our national experiences and family histories. The psychological perspective, one that Mlinko surely sees as uniting us with ancients, discloses an unsettling arrhythmia at the heart of our existence in the modern world.
Colgate Writers Conference (June 16 – 22, 2013)
I thought readers might like to hear about the Colgate Writers Conference (CWC), my first workshop experience. The CWC isContinue Reading
On Louise Glück and the Yale Series of Younger Poets | Kenyon Review Online
On Louise Glück and the Yale Series of Younger Poets | Kenyon Review Online. This is an interesting article byContinue Reading
Reading Michael Dickman – Part II – Flies
The twenty poems in Michael Dickman’s Flies (2011) employ the recognizable forms of his prosody, viz., a lyric mode mixed withContinue Reading
Reading Michael Dickman – Part I – The End of the West
Despite the naïve generation X persona that Michael Dickman adopts in The End of the West (2009), his poetry isContinue Reading
Jennifer Grotz Wins the 2012 Eugene Paul Nassar Prize for Best Book of Poetry by an Upstate New York Author
Jennifer Grotz won the inaugural Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize for The Needle. The prize carries a $2,000 award forContinue Reading
MURDER Ballad by Jane Springer
Murder Ballad by Jane Springer Jane Springer has taken her game to a higher level in her second book ofContinue Reading
Reading Anthony Madrid’s I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say
Of late Anthony Madrid seems inextricably linked with Michael Robbins, whom he met at the University of Chicago where bothContinue Reading
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