The online journal Right Hand Pointing has a fine double-issue up, wherein every poem is titled with the name of an American State. Go USA! And go on with your bad selves reading these cool works.
There's a writing contest associated with The new "One Book, One Chicago" pick. It's judged by Stuart Dybek. Not a big prize monetarily, but a lot of glory. I think I am going to enter it as an assignment to myself to write a new short-short. You should too!
I am very much infatuated with two poets recently features at Escape Into Life: Charles Rafferty and Jeannine Hall Gailey. As always with this gem of an online magazine, the accompanying artwork is strange and lovely and evocative. And I wish I did not know this, but the site just started a store devoted to the artwork shown on its pages.
Faithful readers (the entire trio of you) may remember how I raved about the new Tim Dlugos collection, A Fast Life, edited by David Trinidad. Here's some more insightful commentary about Dlugos' work. Here are two more of Tim's poems.
Speaking of Mr. Trinidad, here's a place where you can read his poem "The Late Show" and either listen to or read the text of a conversation he had with Robert Politio.
Finally, I know I am so late to the party on this one, but I have to say that I am bowled over by the inventiveness, the beauty, and the pleasure-in-language zing that is all between the covers of Jennifer Karmin's aaaaaaaaaaalice. My favorite sections are the ones that riff off of text found in Beginning Japanese Part 2.
Charles is an old acquaintance of mine; he's a good friend of Ian Morris. I got Kathleen Kirk in touch with him. He's quite a remarkable poet.
ReplyDeleteGreat to see all these links, and thanks for loving the EIL posts. (And thanks to Richard Fox for recommending him.)
ReplyDeleteDo explore the store! I gave in to temptation on a blue hibiscus...unlike anything in nature, where I also love hibiscus, but transformed into something new by the imagination of artist Maria Oliva Tyra!