Month: November 2010

• When the lights go on in the library

  We go to the library three times a week most weeks, some days more than once. It’d be more, but the library’s only open three days a week. This schedule is something my husband can never keep straight in his head, but we live so close to the library that he’s bound to look out […]

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  November 30, 2010

  books, poetry, Time, Writing

  books, libraries, Mentor and Muse, reading, The Emperor of All Maladies, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry

• A Life of Plenty

  Gennady Privedentsev, “Still life with horn of plenty” Spell to Be Said upon Waking Trout’s maculate body, delible house of the wasps’ nests, white face of the horse — Draw close. A shadow closes your foxgrass, lichens your boulders. Cloudy the vow of the leaf in the water. Lion, where is your hunger? Come tortoise, […]

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  November 24, 2010

  family, food, friends, poetry, Time

  Jane Hirshfield, poetry, Thanksgiving

• The Giller Kerfuffle & the Challenges of the Small Press & Carmine Starnino

  There’s nothing wrong with making money, not a bit, but if you’re looking for a fat profit, the literary world, and the world of the small press, is the wrong place to be looking. So let me begin by acknowledging all the brave hearts who put their all into publishing necessary books in beautiful editions […]

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  November 15, 2010

  books, poetry, Time, Writing

  books, Carmine Starnino, Gaspereau Press, Giller Prize, poetry, small press

• CPS: Notes Toward a Report

  A poet will read to an audience of one if necessary, and do so with thanks for the opportunity, but nothing beats the energy of a full house — we continue to be so grateful for such great attendance. Great poets, great audiences, etc. etc. etc.. Melody Gee has a sweet smile and conversational reading […]

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  November 8, 2010

  books, Collected Poets Series, poetry

  Barbara Ras, Collected Poets Series, Jennifer Sweeney, Melody Gee, poetry, poetry readings, Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry

• Barbara Ras, Jennifer K. Sweeney, & Melody S. Gee (via The Collected Poets Series)

  Thursday, November 4, 2010, at 7:00pm, poets Barbara Ras, Jennifer K. Sweeney, and Melody S. Gee will read as part of the fourth season of the Collected Poets Series. ($2-5 suggested donation)     Barbara Ras is the author of the poetry collections Bite Every Sorrow (LSU Press, 1998), chosen by C. K. Williams to receive the 1997 Walt […]

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  November 3, 2010

  books, Collected Poets Series, poetry

  Barbara Ras, Collected Poets Series, Jennifer Sweeney, Melody Gee, poetry

• Squared

  Holy smokes, it’s November. This is when I really began to panic. Not because of the holidays or shopping — we simply don’t participate that way — but because of what it all represents: the end of another year, the lightning passage of time. If you haven’t noticed, it’s speeding up. Someone needs to look […]

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  November 1, 2010

  books, poetry, Time, Writing

  brian clements, firewheel editions, intro to the prose poem, jamey dunham, poetry, prose poems, Writing