Month: April 2020
Posted on April 29, 2020
by Lesley Wheeler
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Since poetry, like bourbon, has a long shelf life and often a long trajectory of rising to wider attention, I’m including a couple of 2019 authors in this salon series, including Sara M. Robinson. Blurbing her new book, Needville, I wrote, “So many voices…
Posted on April 22, 2020
by Lesley Wheeler
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Marianne Chan’s brilliant debut collection engages a wide array of topics with insight, wit, and brio: not only religion but colonization, copulation, space exploration, and family relations (her mother is a funny and wonderful recurring character). I fell hard for Chan’s work in the…
Posted on April 18, 2020
by Lesley Wheeler
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I’ve always liked fierce poems and feminist poems, but it wasn’t that long ago that I noticed how many of the poetry collections I like best are deeply grounded in place. In Tess Taylor’s new collection, Rift Zone, that place is California in a…
Posted on April 12, 2020
by Lesley Wheeler
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Featured at today’s virtual salon are two lovely new chapbooks, a brand new one from blogger-extraordinaire Ann E. Michael and one from late 2019 by Kestrel Poetry Editor Elizabeth Savage. Both are poets whom I’ve admired for ages. If this were a live reading,…
Posted on April 10, 2020
by Lesley Wheeler
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Just a quick note from my hermit’s retreat: I am so impressed by the gallantry of writers, editors, and reading series organizers, so many of whom are ingeniously making the show go on. I wrote last time about hitches in publication pipelines, but for…
Posted on April 7, 2020
by Lesley Wheeler
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I’m not processing very well, here at the quiet edge of apocalypse. Sometimes I’m fine, scared, down, or stir-crazy; often I’m busy teaching remotely, being fortunate enough to still have a job; generally I can’t concentrate. New York City has always been the center…
Category: Shenandoah, The State She's In, UnbecomingTags: Choice Words, Dear America, Ecotone, editing, Massachusetts Review, Publishers Weekly, publishing, quarantine, Rocked by the Waters, social isolation, uncertainty
