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March 21, 2020
My poem”Half-life” has been published by Backchannels and can viewed online
My poem”Half-life” has been published by Backchannels and can viewed online HERE. My thanks to the editors.
This is the introductory poem in an unpublished collection, Shards.
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March 17, 2020
If you will review my new poetry collection, Dark Fathers, on Amazon and/or Goodreads, I will send you a free eBook copy.
If you will review my new poetry collection, Dark Fathers, on Amazon and/or Goodreads, I will send you a free eBook copy.
Email me at davidanthonysam@gmail.com if you want to participate. This offer is good through the month of March 2020.
March 15, 2020
Review: Early Hour – A fine a small collection to be savored.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
In “Early Hours,” Michael McGriff weaves his wife into the world of nature around her, using imagery that in itself would not be erotic to describe the emotional and physical love he has for her. These are not simple poems, though the language is accessible and real. Death lingers at the center as well as at the edges, but the knowledge of mortality makes his love grater and not bitter.
So many poets today strain to juxtapose images in an attempt at some kind of surrealism–and most often fail. McGriff’s imagery seems right even as it causes you to gasp at what has been gathered together in a sentence or a phrase:
the outline of your face
is sky-written in the black loam
of thunderheads.
Another example:
because the river’s teeth
still gnash
against [the horse’s] flank
and its eyes
stil have the luster
of black china
glowing black-bright
in the glass hutch of memory
The imagery is both from nature and domestic life, putting himself, his wife, their relationship and their daily living deep into the natural world–as it should be.
A fine a small collection to be savored.
March 11, 2020
An Evening of Poetry CANCELLED
Germanna
Community College is responding to the Coronavirus in a number of ways
including canceling all events until at least April 3.
Therefore, we will be cancelling the April 3 Poetry Night.
We will plan on one again for October of 2020 and will delay any PSV-NC Region
meetings until at least May.
Please
feel free to respond with any questions or concerns. I will be in touch by
email with further updates.
David
March 4, 2020
The Red Earth Review has accepted my poem, “Nothing Like,” for their forthcoming issue, Vol 7.
The Red Earth Review has accepted my poem, “Nothing Like,” for their forthcoming issue, Vol 7. This is the second poem of mine accepted for that issue and the sixth they have published in all issues. I am grateful to the editors.
February 28, 2020
My poem “The Freelance Geographer” — in memory of my departed friend, Don Bivens, has been published by the Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine
My poem “The Freelance Geographer” — in memory of my departed friend, Don Bivens, has been published by the Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine. You can read it HERE on page 62.
I met Don in college at Eastern Michigan University in 1968 and we became lifelong friends until he died in 2018.
February 26, 2020
February 6, 2020
Thank you Red Earth Review for accepting my poem “Peering through the Narrow End” for publication in an upcoming issue.
Thank you Red Earth Review for accepting my poem “Peering through the Narrow End” for publication in an upcoming issue.
February 3, 2020
The Red Wheelbarrow Review will publish my poems “Verbal” and “Names for the Earth” in their Summer 2020 issue.
The Red Wheelbarrow Review will publish my poems “Verbal” and “Names for the Earth” in their Summer 2020 issue.
In their previous incarnation as the Red Savina Review they previously published another 2 of my poems. My thanks to the editors.
