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Review: LIES, KNIVES AND GIRLS IN RED DRESSES by Ron Koertge
Candlewick Press, July 2012. There are two things that pretty much guarantee my interest in a book I haven’t yet read: 1. Fairy tale retellings. 2. Ron Koertge. I have yet to read anything by Koertge...
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Ask A Twitter Poet, Volume 2: What topic (not abstract, but concrete) shows...
Welcome to the second edition of Ask a Twitter Poet. This week I was thinking about how often water comes up in my writing. Maybe because I’m from New England, grew up on the coast, and then lived in...
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Social Skills for Poets
Buy it from Amazon! It’s the launch party for my teen poetry collection Dog at the End of the World in three days, and a terrible thought has struck me: I’m going to have to mingle. Now, I’m sure there...
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REVIEW: 666 SHOULD BECOME THE SEA BY SHANE JESSE CHRISTMASS
Illustration Cover by Hannah FantanAt first glance this collection reminds me of the way MTC CRONIN accounts for each image, the way one might do so with a list, or taking stock of an item. It’s kind...
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REVIEW: THE LONG MOMENT BY KATE FAGAN
Kate Fagan – The Long Moment Salt Publishing $19.95 Kate Fagan is an exceptional Australian poet and musician whose collection, The Long Moment, was published in 2002. Her latest offering is First...
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Keep Singing: Catherine Bateson On Being Inked
Last year I had the words ‘you that sang to me once sing to me now’ tattooed on my right inside forearm. This was not a mid-life crisis act but was overwhelmingly to do with poetry. The quotation is...
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Sherry O’Keefe On Laundering Imagery
Sherry O’Keefe presents us with 4 vignettes which teach us how to launder our own imagery. This post reminds us constantly to look around ourselves, even the smallest of happenings are ones which can...
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No Abandoned Cow: Ada Limón on Poetry & the American Road
Milkweed Editions, October 2010. For the most part, I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing. I don’t mean with poetry, or with prose, but with life. Most days, there’s a devilish beast at the bottom...
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How To Pay For Poetry: Rita Mae Reese
When I was a student in a Master’s program, I found I’d been accepted into a prestigious program for fiction and had also gotten a fellowship at another brand new program in poetry. I went to my...
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Pride Week: Chloe Brien
Kicking off Pride Week 2013 with a beautiful piece of poetry from Chloe Brien. This piece shows us how to see, how to fall head first into a disaster, into love and then learn how to walk without a...
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