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Issue 4.1 of The Magnolia Review includes 3 of my poems

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Another wonderful collection by Seamus Heaney

North by Seamus Heaney

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Another wonderful collection by Seamus Heaney. Part I uses the landscape of and in particular the bog as extended symbol and metonymy, as the past rises in corpses preserved by the peat to speak to and about the violence of the present. Part II questions the proper role of the poet when facing tyranny, political violence, or other moral outrages.

Heaney’s musicality and eloquence sing, his diction somehow rich with echoes of the past and yet modern enough. There is a universality to Heaney that assures he will continue to be read, like Yeats, even though the political events have faded into the past.

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Giving thanks this Thanksgiving

Weary Blues Magazine will publish my poems “Apparition” and “Brilliant Victory” in their first issue this winter.

Weary Blues Magazine will publish my poems “Apparition” and “Brilliant Victory” in their first issue this winter.

Crosswinds Poetry Journal will publish my poem “An Old Chaos (Sunday Morning)” in its Spring 2019 issue.

Crosswinds Poetry Journal will publish my poem “An Old Chaos (Sunday Morning)” in its Spring 2019 issue.

My poem “Khamsin” was shortlisted for The Pangolin Review Poetry Prize

My poem “Khamsin” was shortlisted for The Pangolin Review Poetry Prize but did not win.

 

Thank you Orange County Library for making all of my poetry collections available to patrons, including my new chapbook, Final Inventory.

Thank you Orange County Library for making all of my poetry collections available to patrons, including my new chapbook, Final Inventory. You can check a copy out now.

Thank you Culpeper County Library for making all of my poetry collections available to patrons, including my new chapbook, Final Inventory.

Thank you Culpeper County Library for making all of my poetry collections available to patrons, including my new chapbook, Final Inventory. You can check it out now.

One of my creative writing students is in this play at Germanna Community College

One of my creative writing students is in this play at Germanna Community College:

“It’s a Wonderful Life” radio play

It’s free November 15, 16 and 17 at 7pm.

So proud of the student poets from my Creative Writing class at Germanna Community College

I am proud of all the students in my Creative Writing class at Germanna Community College for stretching themselves in four genres! But I have to say I am especially proud of the eight who read during yesterday’s poetry reading at Germanna-Fredericksburg, cosponsored by the Poetry Society of Virginia. They did a great job and for many if not all it was their first time reading their own writing before a public audience.

(from left to right: Deborah Gerhardt, Jessie Harper, Jonni Hower, Anthony Martinez, Brianna Colon, Gerard Puckerin, Harris PlesKovitch, Lecsi Pillar)

And appreciation to Jordan Norris and Isaiah Cabino in joining their classmates in the audience and giving rousing support as each took the stage.