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Poetry News:

1. — If we could read the poets that move huge audiences elsewhere in the world, would it wake up our own? —
2. — “Accident Plays a Part in Art” from Poetry Magazine Podcast … with Kasischke on Ken Burns, Lindsay on Krakatau, Sheffield on fishing, and Logan on Hart Crane (and David Foster Wallace). [mp3] —
3. — Ted Hughes’s letters contain some splendid perceptions and useful biographical material among a mass of interminable explication. —
4. — As the title suggests, Cities of Flesh and the Dead isn’t afraid of addressing loss or fear or violence. —
5. — Hey Bookslut reviewed my book thanks some happy in a cruddy week. Thanks for getting my jokes. —
6. — Poetry that doesn’t toe a party line —

Yep - testing is all scheduled. I’m looking forward to a resolution.

Poetry News:

1. — New issue of New England Review features fiction, poetry and prose —
2. — An article about me and my husband, Darryl Dybka on the Tennessean (local Nashville) paper’s website & in the Ashland City Times newspaper —
3. — This week, a chilling journey to ‘the shadow side’ with a master of psychology —
4. — Southern Gothic meets metafiction in a new novel by Minton Sparks —
5. — David Gest claims to have collaborated with pop legend on album setting poems to music —
6. — New works of poetry inspired by Katrina —

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There is a bluntness here that I respect. Both McCain and Obama are running for Caesar. I get that. But part of the game of running for Caesar has always been pretending you don’t want it, that the proles need you, and you’re one of them.

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New anthology:

“This wonderful and important anthology…is a solid act of generosity…a gift of testimony from poets across a broad range of experience and language, poems that tell us we can gather ourselves from the shock of upset and loss in life and continue…After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery is a book that seeks to stand up and walk among us as a living thing, a force to activate the good and prepare us to weather the bad.”

—Afaa Michael Weaver
Author, The Plum Flower Dance
Alumnae Professor of English, Simmons College

The poets in After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events:

Rita Dove · Simon Armitage · Carol Dine · Douglas Dunn · Cathy Smith Bowers · Patricia Wellingham-Jones · Donald Hall · Carol Ann Duffy · Molly Gloss · Thomas Lux · Pam Bernard · Elizabeth Bernardin · Sandor Kányádi · Stellasue Lee · Doug Anderson · Jim McGarrah · Sonja Besford · Martha Collins · Rachel Tzvia Back · Brian Turner · Nazand Begikhani · Liu Hongbin · Paul Sohar · Satyendra Srivastava · Marjorie Wentworth · Diana Woodcock · Majid Naficy · Shelley Davidow · J. P. Dancing Bear · Margaret Chula · Major Jackson · Lisha Adela Garcia · Ron Rash · Annie Finch · Barbara Mitchell · Roseann Lloyd · Joy Helsing · Nehassaiu deGannes · Peter Cooley · Paul Allen · R. G. Evans · Barbara G.S. Hagerty · Clinton B. Campbell · Iain Haley Pollock · Laurel Blossom · Willie James King · Satyendra Srivastava · Georgia Ann Banks-Martin · Kevin Young · Tolu Ogunlesi · Meir Wieseltier · Randall Horton · Richard Garcia · György Faludy · Bette Lynch Husted · William Stafford · Terri Wolfe · J. Stephen Rhodes · Gail Rudd Entrekin · Anthony S. Abbott · Faye J. Hoops · Annie Finch · Farideh Hassanzadeh · Rebecca McClanahan · Sister Lou Ella Hickman · Anna Rabinowitz · David Bottoms · Janet Winans ·Stellasue · Lee Alexa Selph · Dennis Ward Stiles · Renée Michele Breeden · Ellen Doré Watson · Joseph Mills · Liesl Jobson · Deborah P. Kolodji · Aimee Nezhukumatathil · Kurtis Lamkin · C.C. Thomas · Barbara Presnell · Naomi Ruth Lowinsky · Jericho Brown · Therése Halscheid · Becky Thompson · John McAllister · J. E. Pitts · William Greenway · Susan Varon · Shaindel Beers · Genie Cotner · Marcia Slatkin · David Bottoms · Barbara Mitchell · Joan Houlihan · Jenni Meredith · Rhett Iseman Trull · Pramila Venkateswaran · Diane Holland · Valerie Nieman · Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda · Susan Meyers · Meir Wieseltier · Satyendra Srivastava · Joseph Enzweiler · Jane Gentry · Rachel Eliza Griffiths · Gail Peck · Jennifer Barber · Ilya Kaminsky · Allison Hedge Coke · Steven Cramer · Linda Annas Ferguson · Kevin Simmonds · Gail Rudd Entrekin · Nancy Tupper Ling · Carole Baldock · Deema Shehabi · Kate Gale · Jeffrey Levine · Bernardo Atxaga

Order at www.poetryofrecovery.com

hahaha

link (I can’t do that btw, my skin involvement is mild.)

I guess when that program aired, people were p.o.’d at it, so ABC put a transcript of the interview with like one of the only scientists who is studying EDS. I am taking part in the NIH study mentioned - I had blood drawn for it this week. Those interviews are kind of grim. I am doing well in the pool with PT though and am not unoptimistic.

Interview With Dr. Nazli McDonnell, Part 1

Interview With Dr. Nazli McDonnell, Part 2

Anyway, STEP RIGHT UP here is a free chapbook pdf of my sideshow poems. It is for sale for $5.55 for a regular copy.

Jilly Dybka
PO Box 81
Kingston Springs TN 37082
jilly9@gmail.com

PUBLICATIONS

BOOK

Trouble And Honey, 2008. Free download or you can buy it.

CHAPBOOKS

Fair Territory: Baseball Poems, 2004. [link is a PDF]

The Book of the Tales of Circus Zimba, 2008. Free download or you can buy it.

ANTHOLOGIES

Lost Things. Letters To The World: Poems From The WOM-PO Listserv. Red Hen Press, 2008.

The Log Lady’s Log Whispers To Her. A Slice of Cherry Pie, Private Press, 2006.

I have married a crow. The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, No Tell Books, 2006.

2 hay(na)ku. The First Hay(Na)Ku Anthology. Meritage Press, 2005.

REVIEWS / INTERVIEWS

“This is poetry that encourages attention and patience, as does much of Dybka’s best work.” — Janis Lull, Bookslut, September 2008.

KS couple makes art for love’s sake Ashland City Times/Tennessean newpaper, August 27, 2008.

POEMS

Obstacles I Have Faced in Life and How I Have Overcome Them. tuesday; An Art Project, 2007.

5 poems. The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, 2007. read online

The Magician’s Tale. Harpur Palate, Volume 6.2 Winter 2007.

2 poems. Storysouth, 2007. read online

Wartime Terzanelle. Arabesques Review (Algeria), 2007.

Haiku. Mainichi Daily News (Japan), 2007.

Ryman Auditorium, Court Green, 2006.

palindromic sestina. La Petite Zine, Issue 18 2006. read online

The Retired Vietnam Munitions Loader Attempts To Open A Can Of Biscuits. Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2005.

abcedarian on astrology. MiPOesias, 2005.

3 Poems. Awakenings Review, 2005.

memphis 1976. McSweeneys, 2005. read online

John Ashcroft Covers The Naked Breasts Of The “Spirit Of Justice” Statue. pemmican, 2005.

Midnight Wire Transfer, Southern Gothic Online, 2005. read online

Like a Wild Pitch. Elysian Fields Quarterly, 2006.

haiku. Triptych Haiku, 2005. read online

5 poems. No Tell Motel, 2005. read online

Bop: Parkinson’s. Ink Pot, Fall 2005.

4 haiku. paper wasp, (Australia), 2005. read online

2 poems. Breath & Shadow, 2005.

Homeland Security Alert Orange. vs magazine, 2005.

Dock Ellis Pitches A No No While On LSD. Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Baseball Review, Vol. 22/No. 1, 2005. read online

3 Poems. Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine, #58 2004.

Urban Legend. MÖBIUS, 2004

Lost Things. Penwood Review, 2004.

psilocybin mushrooms sprout at the arizona community college. defenestration, 2004. read online

Stan Getz/Blue Slur. Main Street Rag, 2005.

2 Visual Poems. Spore, 2004.

Harmonic Sympathy. Flashquake, 2004. read online

The Manic Taxidermist. Split Shot, 2004.

Still Walking. A Gathering Of The Tribes, Issue 10, 2003.

Haiku. presence (England), #16 2002.

4 Detroit Haiku. Struggle, Summer 2001.

The Beatles Play Shea Stadium For The First Time. Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Baseball Review, Vol. 18/No. 3 2001.

ESSAY

My Sister, The Satellite. Student, Self & Society: Stories From the Lives of Learners, McGraw-Hill, 1996.

The Tragedy of Tibet. Op-Ed Essay. Tennessean, July 8, 1991.

AWARDS

Grand Prize: Chronogram 2007 Humor Contest. Read online

Pushcart Prize nomination, December 2005, for The Retired Vietnam Munitions Loader Attempts to Open a Can of Biscuits, which appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review.

Honorable mention: Poems Niederngasse Poetry Contest (Switzerland), May 2005.

West Chester Poetry Conference, Scholarship Recipient, 2004.

Honorable mention: Out & About Nashville. 2003 Pride, Prose and Pose Contest.

CONFERENCES

Presenter, baseball poems: The 12th Conference on Baseball in Literature & Culture, 2007.

AFFILIATIONS

UAW LOCAL 1981 National Writers Union

Tennessee Writers Alliance

EDUCATION

Tennessee State University, 1996, BA English/Honors Program

University of Tennessee, 1998, MS Information Sciences

Queens University of Charlotte, 2004, MFA Creative Writing

Hi — an announcement

My first book of poetry, Trouble And Honey, is available for purchase at Lulu.com for a special recession-rate of $7.77. And if you live overseas, why not take advantage of the crappy fiat US dollar hahaha?

The book is also available as a PDF file, for free. This is an experiment. (My baseball poems free chapbook PDF has been downloaded just over 2,500 times so far, BTW. I’m sure that has everything to do with the subject matter.) The PDF of Trouble And Honey is genuinely free without any Read the rest of this entry »