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April 24, 2015
NPM4: I give you water-devil whirligigs--
April, national poetry month, no. 4
Image by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
from the back of The Foliate Head
"I Heard Their Wings Like the Sound of Many Waters,"
The Foliate Head (hardcover from Stanza Press, 2012)
*
I like bigness in a poem, and this one started with a phrase that has a cosmic largeness to it. I also like mystery in a poem, and don't think all that much of a poem that exhausts
Image by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
from the back of The Foliate Head
"I Heard Their Wings Like the Sound of Many Waters,"
The Foliate Head (hardcover from Stanza Press, 2012)
*
I like bigness in a poem, and this one started with a phrase that has a cosmic largeness to it. I also like mystery in a poem, and don't think all that much of a poem that exhausts
April 23, 2015
NPR3: I give you the feathered snake--
Jacket art, detail from Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Design by Mary-Frances Glover Burt
April, national poetry month, 3
Here's a blank verse passage from the title poem of The Throne of Psyche (Mercer, 2011.) We've had harpies and grief for April-the-cruelest-month in the first two selections; here is Eros bedding Psyche, love and the soul forcibly entwined.
Available in hardcover and paperback.
Design by Mary-Frances Glover Burt
April, national poetry month, 3
Here's a blank verse passage from the title poem of The Throne of Psyche (Mercer, 2011.) We've had harpies and grief for April-the-cruelest-month in the first two selections; here is Eros bedding Psyche, love and the soul forcibly entwined.
Available in hardcover and paperback.
April 22, 2015
NPM2: I give you crazy epic adventure
April, national poetry month, no. 2
All art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Design by Elizabeth Adams
Yesterday, harpies. Today? Murder! Invasion! Grief! Loss! Even a happy ending of sorts... Here's a snip from late in the long-poem Thaliad, at the end of the 21st chapter, a point in which Something Terrible has happened, and death has paid a demanding call. Thalia is attempting to comfort Samuel, but
All art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Design by Elizabeth Adams
Yesterday, harpies. Today? Murder! Invasion! Grief! Loss! Even a happy ending of sorts... Here's a snip from late in the long-poem Thaliad, at the end of the 21st chapter, a point in which Something Terrible has happened, and death has paid a demanding call. Thalia is attempting to comfort Samuel, but
April 21, 2015
NPM: I give you harpies
April, national poetry month, no. 1
I am finally getting around to celebrating national poetry month. Last year I did a giveaway; this year I'm just going to give everybody a few poems. Here's one about harpies because everyone loves to spot some harpies except the people who are persecuted by them. Those unfortunate people would be men, mostly. Sometimes it is way beyond first-rate to be a
I am finally getting around to celebrating national poetry month. Last year I did a giveaway; this year I'm just going to give everybody a few poems. Here's one about harpies because everyone loves to spot some harpies except the people who are persecuted by them. Those unfortunate people would be men, mostly. Sometimes it is way beyond first-rate to be a
April 20, 2015
Word soup
Reconnecting with Beautyfor our Common Life.
Poems in the world
I've been a bit lazy about submissions but have poems out or coming out in print journals Artemis ("The Dawn Horse," a poem about Leonora Carrington) and Trinacria ("God and the Mandrake Root," the weird biography of a mandrake root.) Thanks again to editor Joseph Salemi for a Pushcart nod for "The Nuba Christians," which he
Poems in the world
I've been a bit lazy about submissions but have poems out or coming out in print journals Artemis ("The Dawn Horse," a poem about Leonora Carrington) and Trinacria ("God and the Mandrake Root," the weird biography of a mandrake root.) Thanks again to editor Joseph Salemi for a Pushcart nod for "The Nuba Christians," which he
April 18, 2015
On the boundaries
clips from Tom Atherton's review at Strange Horizons
It’s brilliantly well-written, shockingly raw, and transportingly—sometimes confusingly (but not in a bad way)—weird.
Glimmerglass shimmers on the boundaries of the real and the unreal, of poetry and prose, of the ordinary and the fantastic. It’s down to the caprice of the individual reader, therefore, to decide exactly what sort of
It’s brilliantly well-written, shockingly raw, and transportingly—sometimes confusingly (but not in a bad way)—weird.
Glimmerglass shimmers on the boundaries of the real and the unreal, of poetry and prose, of the ordinary and the fantastic. It’s down to the caprice of the individual reader, therefore, to decide exactly what sort of
April 16, 2015
Pen Parentis and more
Photo by Lawrence DeVoe for Pen Parentis at the Hotel Andaz
Frolics in the city: Pen Parentis reading
Still having problems with my eye, as well as my throat (laryngitis, again), I took it easy. Let's see; we need to see and to have a voice for a reading? I was whiskey-voiced, but that worked. It was great fun to read with Lev Grossman and Kelly Link--they're both funny, interested people.
Frolics in the city: Pen Parentis reading
Still having problems with my eye, as well as my throat (laryngitis, again), I took it easy. Let's see; we need to see and to have a voice for a reading? I was whiskey-voiced, but that worked. It was great fun to read with Lev Grossman and Kelly Link--they're both funny, interested people.
April 11, 2015
Pen Parentis, Tuesday
Spare Times for April 10-16, The New York Times
A Fantasy Salon (Tuesday) Pen Parentis’s April salon features the fantasy writers Kelly Link, Lev Grossman and Marly Youmans. They will read from their works, and a book signing will follow. Afterward, there will be a Q. and A. moderated by Pen Parentis’s founder, M.M. De Voe, and the salon’s curator, the novelist Christina Chiu. Registration is
A Fantasy Salon (Tuesday) Pen Parentis’s April salon features the fantasy writers Kelly Link, Lev Grossman and Marly Youmans. They will read from their works, and a book signing will follow. Afterward, there will be a Q. and A. moderated by Pen Parentis’s founder, M.M. De Voe, and the salon’s curator, the novelist Christina Chiu. Registration is
April 9, 2015
Clive Hicks-Jenkins, again
Follow Marly's board Maze of Blood - Sept. 2015! on Pinterest.
Here is a little collection of images from Maze of Blood,
forthcoming from Mercer in September, 2015.
Here is a little collection of images from Maze of Blood,
forthcoming from Mercer in September, 2015.
April 6, 2015
Pen Parentis, NYC
from the Pen Parentis site:
The incomparable Kelly Link, Lev Grossman and Marly Youmans share the Pen Parentis stage at the April Pen Parentis Literary Salon reading from their highly-regarded, highly-creative works. The night begins at 7pm with networking over wine, compliments of Andaz Wall Street. Readings and signings will be followed by Q&A moderated by Pen Parentis founder M. M. De
The incomparable Kelly Link, Lev Grossman and Marly Youmans share the Pen Parentis stage at the April Pen Parentis Literary Salon reading from their highly-regarded, highly-creative works. The night begins at 7pm with networking over wine, compliments of Andaz Wall Street. Readings and signings will be followed by Q&A moderated by Pen Parentis founder M. M. De
