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Praise from novelist and poet Philip Lee Williams

A new edition from Philip Lee Williams.
The brand new paperback from the University of Georgia:
A Distant Flame, winner of The Michael Shaara Award.


I am back from the West Chester poetry conference and may post some pictures if  I ever find out what I did with my camera... Meanwhile, my longtime penpal Philip Lee Williams has posted the most generous and extravagant piece of praise about my

The House of Words: the Annex

I am fresh back from the West Chester poetry conference (more about that later, when I am genuinely "fresh") and thinking about The House of Words again. This time I'm linking to an article by my former student Gary Dietz (the era when I taught is so very long ago that he is quite, quite grown up, a sparkling outside-the-box marketer and a marvelous single dad of Alexander) on his

Red King poems at length at AT LENGTH

Here's "King of Finisterre" by my correspondent Graham Ward,
who I hoped to meet in Wales and did not, alas.
Find more of him here:
grahamward.blogspot.com
grahamward.co.uk

Poetry editor Jonathan Farmer has picked thirteen Red King poems for At Length.

Here's what the conspirators say about the magazine:

At Length is a venue for ambitious, in-depth writing, music, photography, and art that

The House of Words, no. 33: Luisa Igloria on daily writing practice

The header to Dave's "The Morning Porch."
From a detail of "Paper Garden" by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
Earlier in the series, Dave Bonta talked about his "accidental" collabration with Luisa A. Igloria. Here the poet and professor discusses her ongoing morning-porch project. Luisa Igloria's ninth and most recent book is Juan Luna's Revolver, winner of the Sandeen Prize (Notre Dame, 2009.) Visit her

The Marly Shelf

Up-to-date information about forthcoming books,books in print, books out of print, books that are in the process of coming back into print, and how to order."Mid-list" writers have a complicated bibliography with books often going out of print.
This will become a permanent link in the sidebar and receive changes as needed.I do have a few copies of some books that I am willing to sell at author 

This week, Mezzo Cammin twice--

The new issue of "Mezzo Cammin" is up--
work by Taylor Jillian Altman, Sarah Busse,
Nicole Caruso Garcia, Brittany Hill, Lisa Huffaker,
 Jean Kreiling, Barbara Loots, Charlotte Mandel,
Annabelle Moseley, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell,
Ann Walker Phillips, Carolyn Raphael, Hollins Robbins,
Catherine Tufariello, Doris Watts, Joyce Wilson,
and Marly Youmans.
As ever, I am the little red caboose.

Below

Wales Album: Stairs to other realms

Up to the tiptop of Ty Isaf
and the studio of Clive Hicks-Jenkins



Aberystwyth flower steps.



The pheasants take the stairs at Ty Issaf.



Steps to Jack's world.
"Throw my frisbee?"



From garden lawn to paddock, past a Meri Wells tutelary spirit.
At Ty Isaf.



Castell Powis stairs.



Peacocks take and fan the stairs at Castell Powis.

Wales Album: Clare Dudman (& the Stars-and-Garters)

I dragged the jet-lagged Dave Bonta
to meet penpal-and-novelist
Clare Dudman at Castell Powis.
Sunny. Lots of glare. Not Welshy weather...
except for the chilliness in the air.



Correspondents meet in the flesh, hurrah!
Lovely, that feeling of already
knowing and being known...




Clare treated me and Dave to a lovely lunch
at Lady Somebody or Other's Tea Shop at Castell Powis.
Lady

May glimpse: the shade garden

When I got home from Wales, the Virginia bluebells and the uvularia were already fading, but trillium and ginger (those little brown jugs!) and some of the dwarf iris, false and true Solomon's seals, celandine poppies, bleeding hearts (white or pink-and-white), and more were in bloom.

My friend Clive has asked me so many times in the past for glimpses of my garden, and at last I shall

The House of Words (no. 32): Building culture, supporting artists, example of poetry, leveling, possibilities

A house for Orpheus
in Aberystwyth, Wales
Out walking, May 2011.

THE HOUSE OF CULTURE
We readers and writers are constructing a kind of house and helping to build the culture we would like to see when we read and when we write. When we buy a book or a piece of art or a ticket to a performance, we vote for an artist, a store, a gallery, a performance space. We register a liking and a support