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Irene Willis’s new poetry collection, Those Flames, is now available and may be ordered from:
 
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Click Here To Read:  Bisexual Poet H.D.’s paragon lesbian relationship survived WWII by Susan Jordon on the  website Bay Windows newspaper on October 16, 2009.

 Joan Peronto

Joan Peronto is an emerging poet it gives me great pleasure to introduce.  Her poems thus far have appeared only in a number of small publications and in Crossing Paths, an anthology of Western New England poets, but we will be hearing more of her.  Currently, after raising seven children who are now, as she tells us “educated and thrust upon the world,” and after working for thirty-four years as a reference librarian, she has retired to devote herself to poetry.  Her new and soon-to-be-realized project is a collection of poems about a small Midwestern town, similar to the one in which she grew up. Continue reading October Poetry Monday: Joan Peronto

Five riddles for psychoanalysts

(In honor of the Sphynx whose code was cracked  When Sophocles and Freud the myth attacked)

                                                                  1.
    What looks up
    But sees below
    The surface 
    Of all human show,
    By wording all the things
    In flight
    From reason
    And the rhymes of night? Continue reading Five Riddles for Psychoanalysts

JAY UDALL

Jay Udall’s poems and short-stories have appeared in many literary journals, magazines, newspapers and anthologies.  He is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which is The Welcome Table, published this year by the University of New Mexico Press. Born in Washington, D.C., the sixth child of parents he describes as “an environmentalist politician and an arts activist,” he taught at community colleges and worked as a legal aide on behalf of Navajo uranium miners pursuing compensation from the United States Justice Department before completing an M.F.A. at New England College.  He is now a
Visiting Lecturer in writing at the University of Nevada.

Here, for your pleasure, are three new poems by Jay Udall.

                                              
                                                                                 Irene Willis
                                                                                 Poetry Editor
                                    

Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: September 7, 2009

Jules Gibbs

POETRY MONDAY: August 3, 2009

Jules Gibbs’ poems have appeared in literary journals such as Spoon River Poetry Review, Salt Hill, Pearl and others, as well as in several anthologies. Twice the recipient of the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize for Poetry, she was awarded a Ucross Foundation Fellowship in 2007.  This summer her poetry is accompanying a multi-gallery photography show of the work of Kevin O’Connell at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, Colorado. Further, we’ve just learned that Jules Gibbs has been selected by Kim Addonizio for inclusion in the annual anthology, Best New Poets, 2009, to be released this October by University of Virginia Press.  This is an annual competition for poets without first books, and Gibbs was one of only fifty poets chosen nationwide. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: August 3, 2009 Jules Gibbs

Cheryl Keeler

Poet Cheryl Keeler lives with her husband and son in a small town in Virginia where, she tells us, she is taken on brisk morning walks by her rescued Jack Russell terrier. Her poems have been published in 5 A.M. and the online journal, Dirty Napkin. An early childhood specialist, she has also published several short-stories for children. Currently, she is firming up a manuscript of breast cancer poems, Six Letters and a Lump, which awaits a publisher. This isn’t the only important thing Cheryl Keeler is doing, however. Since her small town lacked a public library, she started one, which she now manages—always trying to work in a little poetry with her brown bag lunches. Continue reading July Poetry Monday: Cheryl Keeler

POETRY MONDAY:  June 1, 2009

LOIS MARIE HARROD

Lois Marie Harrod has won many awards for her poetry, including three fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and seven Pushcart Prize nominations.  She has published six full-length collections and three chapbooks, the most recent of which,  Furniture, won the Grayson Books 2008 Poetry Chapbook Competition.  Wisdom, humor and compassion run through all of her poems, but most noteworthy, in our view, are those in Spelling the World Backwards, which, as she says, is “both a story of a family coping with Alzheimer’s disease and a meditation on the nature of memory and poetry.”  The strikingly original Furniture deserves to be read in its entirety, but the sample below will give you an idea of how Lois Marie Harrod imbues even inanimate objects with soul.

The third poem, “Her kisses were more stone than licorice,” is published here for the first time.

                                                                          Irene Willis
                                                                          Poetry Editor Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: June 1, 2009

Click Here To Read: Two Riddles: These poems have right answers. Does that diminish them? By Robert Pinsky on the Slate website on May 26, 2009.

Sir Walter Raleigh