Poetry News For June 6, 2008
Poetry News:
- — This Ecstatic Nation: Learning from Emily Dickinson after 9/11 —
- — Q&A: Rebecca Wolff’s Fence Turns Ten —
- — Holy Road: Paula Gunn Allen (1939 - 2008) —
- — He wanted to create, as he put it, “echoes realer / than originals.” Unfortunately, echoes have a nasty way of fading. —
- — Elizabeth Kirschner’s book of poems, ‘My Life as a Doll,’ chronicles her memories of child abuse —
- — Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago —
- — It’s easy to forget that American poetry was not always as friendly to the middle class as it is today —
The book reviews at New Pages are fresh and so are the lit mag reviews
dancing girl press has opened the chapbook manuscript reading period — they make good chapbooks.
I like persona poems - a whole online lit mag issue of them
Poetry Midwest has an e-chapbook available as a downloadable PDF file.
My family member is back from Iraq - thank you for your prayers.
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