Poetry News For June 17, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Well, William Logan is back —
- — Amazon seems each year to go from one publisher to another, making increasing demands in order to achieve richer terms at our expense and sometimes at yours [link found here thank you] also see Borders Urged to Consider Sale to Amazon. I didn’t know Borders went up for sale in March. —
- — Meet Raymond McDaniel, poet and University of Michigan instructor. —
- — But there have lately been a number of feminist readings of Milton, and though they can’t explain away that primal inequality, certainly they have a lot to point to, such as Eve’s argument for independence in Eden —
- — So where do poems come from? —
- — Poet’s first collection a remarkable beginning —
- — ‘Papers’ doesn’t quite capture new U.Va. collection —
- — Bob Dylan is a real genius – just not when he has a paint brush in his hand —
- — The poems in The Mechanical Bird explore the natural and man-made worlds with an imaginative mix of fact and invention —
I got this email from DIAGRAM. Congrats to the winners and finalists.:
The 2008 Chapbook Contest Results
THE LOWDOWN:
The Winner: Marc McKee, What Apocalypse?
We will also publish:
–Chloë Joan López, Quodlibet
–Jennifer Moss, Beast, to be your Friend
Finalists: Erin Bertram, Febrile; Jack Boettcher, The Deviants; Travis Brown, Brainard’s Branch; Matthew Byrne, Captivity Practices; Dana Curtis, Antiviolet; Ori Fienberg, The Hummingbird’s Guide to the Inner Ear; Miriam Bird Greenberg, A Child’s Primer of Augury; Matthew Hittinger, Specular Reflection; Jamie Iredell, When I Moved to Nevada; Carrie Jerrell, Dearly Beloved; Trevor Kearns, Cross Words; Steve Lautermilch, The Book of Character and Change; Genine Lentine, Mr. Worthington’s Beautiful Experiments on Splashes; Clay Matthews, Sire; Christopher Nelson, The Principle of the Knot; Linnea Ogden, I and the Starling; Alexis Orgera, How Like Foreign Objects; Stephany Prodromides, Fishnet; Billy Reynolds, Moving Parts; Rebecca Rubin, Glossary; Zach Savich, Don Quixote
…. anyway, I have those trigger point injections tomorrow and some cortisone shots in my joints oh boy so send me some good vibes please because that is eek.
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