Category: community features
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community feature: Salamander Magazine
One of the big changes in my life that I was unable to share about during an academic year full of transition (including the present pandemic-related interruption) is how it’s been going during my first year as Editor-in-chief of Salamander Magazine. While we are currently in production for our 50th issue-and also running our annual […]
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community feature: CavanKerry Press
This particular community feature post is inspired by a recent development: I’m happy to share that I’ve been named as a member of the Board of Governors for CavanKerry Press! I’m excited to join as a new board member, along with Cornelius Eady, and help develop the already dynamic CavanKerry Press community. Special thanks to […]
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community feature: Airlie Press book launch!
This particular community feature post is focused on the upcoming book launch of three of Airlie Press’s new titles: Ordinary Gravity by Gary Lark, Savagery by J.C. Mehta, and, winner of the 2018 Airlie Prize, Wonder Tissue by Hannah Larrabee! Here’s the info for those of you in the Portland, OR area: When: Tuesday, October 1st @ 7pm Where: Annie Bloom’s […]
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writer feature: Yahia Lababidi & Laura Kaminski
Happy to be sharing a collaborative poem this week by two poet friends: Yahia Lababidi and Laura Kaminski. Collaborative poems create such singular reading experiences, the meeting of two sensibilities creating another sensibility performed through the poem. Because of the idiosyncratic nature of this creative undertaking, I asked Yahia and Laura to share some thoughts […]
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writer feature: Olivia Dresher
Jumping back into things with the work of Olivia Dresher whose latest collection of fragments and aphorisms, A Silence of Words, came out recently from Impassio Press. I actually had the opportunity to get an early read of A Silence of Words and got to share my thoughts via the following blurb: “In A Silence of Words, Olivia Dresher […]
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writer feature: Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
This week I’m excited to share two poems by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal. The first “Escribeme / Write Me” (below) is presented in both Spanish then English. Work presented bilingually always interests me as I take note of the word choice across translations. Here, the word “coloreame” stood out first in Spanish as it is a […]
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writer feature: Chelsea Bunn
This week I’m excited to share a poem by Chelsea Bunn. I’m always a fan of poems that are able to evoke through juxtaposition. In “Missed Connections” (below), what is being juxtaposed is the speaker’s present surroundings with the memories that the surroundings evoke. This evocation is set up first through the clear naming of […]
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writer feature: Clara Burghelea
This week I’m excited to share two poems by Clara Burghelea. I was taken right away by Burghelea’s work and how it develops lyric momentum through complex imagery. In “Nostalgia,” for example, the idea of being “sick” for a body “before it was a body” immediately kicks off from the title into a meditation how bodies develop […]
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