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
Tag: contemporary poetry
Fran Lock – Flatrock
Flatrock is a very impressive first book by any standard. Its reeling portraits of lower class life hearken to the rough speech, coarse sentiments and unapologetic sexuality of Emile Zola’s Germinal or Erskine Caldwell’s Tobacco Road by employing neo-romantic realism and social comment to create an exciting visceral experience for the reader. Ms. Lock’s voice, by turns perceptive, witty and tart, and yet still capable of great tenderness, is remarkably consistent throughout, . . .
Keston Sutherland’s The Odes to TL61P to be released in the US on June 28, 2013 [Revised Post]
What surely will be one of the main literary events of the year, if not the decade, is the U.S.Continue 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
Narcissus at 80
Sometimes, especially if I’m tired of reworking a poem for the enth time, or lack a stimulating idea for aContinue 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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