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national poetry month

2011 Indie Lit Awards Poetry Runner-Up Review: What Looks Like an Elephant by Edward Nudelman

April 18, 2012

What Looks Like an Elephant by Edward Nudelman, published by Lummox Press, was the 2011 Indie Lit Awards Poetry Runner-Up.  Initially, readers may fear the collection’s use of math and science, but Nudelman’s poetry makes these concepts accessible in most cases.  Broken down into four sections, the collection explores the known and the unknown, that [...]

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Guest Post & Giveaway: Sarah Pekkanen Shares Poetry from John Pekkanen

April 17, 2012

Sarah Pekkanen is a best-selling author, whose work is very popular in the book blogging community and she’ll be attending the Gaithersburg Book Festival (I hope I get to see her there). Her latest novel, These Girls, is about three women – Cate, Renee, and Abby — who come to New York City for very different [...]

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Wild Place by Erica Goss

April 16, 2012

Wild Place by Erica Goss is a chapbook, published by Finishing Line Press, examining the wild places within ourselves and our interactions with nature.  Wild and untamed, the verse sings the beauty in the blame as humanity encroaches on nature, sometimes leading to its destruction and at other times unveiling the beauty beneath the scars.  [...]

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Curiosity Quills Press Interviews Savvy Verse & Wit, Nominated for IBBA

April 15, 2012

Curiosity Quills is a press that strives to create a community of writers, editors, illustrators, and others to create, develop, publish and promote each other’s work to the reading public.  Through collective action they seek to get books noticed by more readers and provide services to the writers that need them. I first learned of [...]

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145th Virtual Poetry Circle

April 14, 2012

Welcome to the 145th Virtual Poetry Circle! Remember, this is just for fun and is not meant to be stressful. Keep in mind what Molly Peacock’s books suggested. Look at a line, a stanza, sentences, and images; describe what you like or don’t like; and offer an opinion. If you missed my review of her [...]

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2011 Indie Lit Awards Short-Listed Poetry Review: Sonics in Warholia by Megan Volpert

April 13, 2012

Indie Lit Awards 2011 short-listed poetry title, Sonics in Warholia by Megan Volpert is highly experimental with poetic form meshing together pop culture and prose with lines from songs and other elements many will recognize in a homage to the conundrum that was Andy Warhol (most famous for the Campbell’s Soup Can).  An interesting thing [...]

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Guest Post: Author Beth Hoffman Shares Her Favorite Poem by Ted Kooser

April 12, 2012

Today, I’ve got a real treat.  Not only is one of my new favorite authors — Beth Hoffman, author of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt — visiting today, but she’s also sharing her love of a poem written by one of my favorite poets — Ted Kooser, a former U.S. Poet Laureate (2004 – 2006). I adore [...]

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Listening to Africa by Diana M. Raab

April 11, 2012

Listening to Africa by Diana M. Raab are the poet’s thoughts on her trip to Africa in 2008.  The poems are not about Africa and the events that happen there, so much as the effect the trip had on Raab and her family.  A trip motivated by death and malignancy, Raab is seeking a spiritual [...]

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Guest Interview: Emma Eden Ramos Interviews Poet Lisa Maria Basile

April 10, 2012

You may remember Emma Eden Ramos from my earlier review of her poetry collection and Indie Lit Award short-listed title, Three Women.  Today, she’s come to celebrate National Poetry Month with an interview of a poet she adores, Lisa Marie Basile. First, we wanted to share with you a poem from Basile’s latest collection Andalucia: [...]

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The Virgin Journals by Travis Laurence Naught

April 9, 2012

Imagine a life in which everything is viewed from a wheelchair or from the arms of someone moving you from the bed to the chair and back again.  The Virgin Journals by Travis Laurence Naught is that story and more.   Naught was diagnosed as an infant with incurable spinal muscular atrophy, and his poems and [...]

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Real Courage by Michael Meyerhofer

April 8, 2012

Real Courage by Michael Meyerhofer is a chapbook that showcases a unique perspective and use of imagery and comparison.  Much like “BPM 37093″ (Page 5), Meyerhofer takes often wildly different images and situations together in comparisons that generate an “aha” from the reader after a momentary question mark hovers over their heads. A smoldering white [...]

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144th Virtual Poetry Circle

April 7, 2012

Welcome to the 144th Virtual Poetry Circle! Remember, this is just for fun and is not meant to be stressful. Keep in mind what Molly Peacock’s books suggested. Look at a line, a stanza, sentences, and images; describe what you like or don’t like; and offer an opinion. If you missed my review of her [...]

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