I’m a sucker for a good poetry book. Last week, I told myself that I could order as many books as I knocked off my reading list last month. Eight books? Well, as I blogged about the other day, yes, I’ve been going through books like a mad woman in the attic. It feels good…
. “Everything that you do and every word that you write has to be a risk. You have to not be afraid. You have to keep reinventing your writing.” -Victoria Chang from Interview with Hyphen Magazine
Great Books I Read in 2014
I went on a book reading binge two weeks ago to get my huge TBR list knocked out (still over 20 books strong) and to get some new voices trumpeting in my head. There is nothing more refreshing for a poet than to read the words of other poets. Here are a few notes on the books…
Tequila, Cats, and Prizes!
Last Saturday I accepted my first ever poetry prize for The Mas Tequila Review’s Editor’s Choice Award. It was a blast getting to meet Richard Vargas, the journal’s editor-in-chief, and hear him read poems from his new book Guernica, Revisited. I also got to take the stage—a lovely alcove of Gatsby Books complete with sleeping cat—to read…
. “In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper.” -Soren Kierkegaard
A Big Compliment from Connotation Press
Today Connotation Press included me in their year of end Poetry Column Highlight. For an editor you admire at a press you respect to stand up and say your work was among the best of the year…WHAT!? I’m shocked, and thrilled, and feeling really blessed. If you haven’t cuddled up to these poems yet, check…
. “Science class was only good for answers. We learned space is a vacuum, as in bubble. We guessed licking a nine-volt battery was like tasting champagne. A hawk ate a snake ate a mouse ate some grain.” -B.J. Best, “Commander Keen” from But Our Princess is in Another Castle
Self-Portrait Poetry Series: August 1-31, 2014
Originally posted on Silver Birch Press:
Our recent call for Self-Portrait Poetry submissions has resulted in contributions from from around the world (Austria, Canada, Australia, Colombia, India, Norway, Pakistan, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom) and throughout the United States (California, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Virginia,…
Good Werq!
I love a literary journal that goes beyond the written word. This summer’s Union Station Magazine, which landed yesterday, has some of the most eye-zapping illustrations I’ve see in a lit mag. The art is from the talented David Ayllon and it ranges from poultry love portraits to a girl eating the moon. You won’t be sorry about gave these images some…
Page Addiction
Hi, my name is Danielle and I’m addicted to poetry books. Hi, Danielle But really. We have a problem here. My TBR list is stacked, I hardly have time to read the books I already have and here I go buying more. I can’t help myself, I just love books. Especially books that I feel…
Here are the links to the things I love this week. Enjoy! These three books of prose poems have me in a state of bliss. You Good Thing by Dara Wier (technically, not prose poems but with longer lines these sonnets feel like prose poems in their composition) The World Doesn’t End by Charles Simic…
New on the Poetry Super Highway
Do you visit the Poetry Super Highway? From the website: The mission of the Poetry Super Highway is to expose as many people to as many other people’s poetry as possible. Created by the hilarious poet Rick Lupert, the Super Highway ran a Prompt-a-Day series for National Poetry Mouth. I was excited to have one…
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