Tag: books
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Collected Poets Series.
It’s that time again: Patricia Fargnoli and Tim Mayo will read this Thursday night at Mocha Maya’s Coffee House in Shelburne Falls for the March installment of the Collected Poets Series. Patricia Fargnoli is the current Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and the author of five collections of poetry. Her latest book Duties of the…
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Butterflies & Bulls.
I keep a certain picture of Vincent behind the counter at the bookshop: he’s sitting on the grassy lawn of our old house, studying a daisy in his fingers. Very sweet, yes? Today, Lance took Vincent to the Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory & Gardens in Deerfield. It’s large, it’s warm (a nice contrast to the…
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Snow. Falling. Down.
That’s how Vincent speaks, one word, full stop, then the next. And no more than three words in a row. But we understand each other, and that’s a constant revelation: we look at each other in utter astonishment several times every day. So it’s snowing again, very hard, much much snow. It’s been snowing since…
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Graywolf Press
I’m sitting in bed with my new laptop, cat at my feet. Vincent’s asleep, Lance went for a walk — silence but for the ticking clock. Serene winter evening. Let’s hope it doesn’t all go to hell. * In terms of small presses, Graywolf Press is practically a venerable graybeard. It’s been around a while…
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University Press Round-up 3.
I expect this will my last post on university presses, unless I discover I’ve missed something particularly glaring, because I really want to start focusing on small presses. But there are still a few exciting books to mention from the university presses: University of Iowa Press Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, edited by…
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Poetry in Review.
It’s a common trope that more people are writing poetry than reading poetry, and even less are writing poetry criticism. Some of the welcome developments have been the expanded prose section in Poetry, and the reinstatement of poetry reviews in Publishers Weekly, which can be vital for library and bookstore sales. And the angel who…
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Monday, Monday…
A day without drama or excitement or good/bad news, just Vincent & I hanging out. Vincent (aka My Little Petri Dish) has a cold, so he’s subdued and amenable to quiet reading & coloring time, which suits me perfectly any day (I have latent reclusive tendencies), but especially today — a poem’s been bubbling around…
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Eleanor Wilner.
From the first essay, Eleanor Wilner’s, in Poet’s Work, Poet’s Play: “I should add that metrical, stanzaic form may be a contributing factor but is not sufficient by itself to produce aesthetic distance. I was once at a reading where an accomplished poet read an extremely well-made, metrically impeccable, elegantly and subtly rhymed sonnet whose…
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Friday Miscellany.
The Marine Honor Guard attended Uncle Joe’s funeral — “Taps” is the most devastating music — you respond viscerally, instantly. Even as we mourned, though, I was glad that they came, that they honored him, that he was remembered. Funerals, memorial services — they’re important. That kind of communal grief is comforting, the communal recognition…
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Ellen Doré Watson
I’m pressed for time, so here’s just a taste of Ellen’s newest book of poems, This Sharpening: House, the Verb The body houses what the heart won’t let loose Loosening gives way to love Oh birds happy in their feathers Something sometimes happens The heart’s lurch, stop-and-go traffic A crash course in tighten That the…
Marie Gauthier 