David Anthony Sam's Blog, page 164
February 10, 2018
In 2017, 32 journals/collections accepted 66 of my poems.
In 2017, 32 journals/collections accepted 66 of my poems. My thanks to the following: 50 Haikus; Aji Magazine; Allegro Poetry Magazine; Burningword Literary Journal; Chantwood Magazine; The Deadly Writers Patrol; Dual Coast Magazine; Foliate Oak Literary Magazine; Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review; GFT Press One in Four; Glass: A Journal of Poetry; Gravel: A Literary Journal; Heron Tree; The Hungry Chimera; Into the Void Magazine; Inwood Indiana; Literature Today; The Muse: An International Journal of Poetry; The Mystic Blue Review; Piedmont Virginian Magazine; Poetry Quarterly; The Ravens Perch; Red Earth Review; The Sea Letter; Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine; Summerset Review; Temenos Journal; Three Line Poetry; Two Cities Review; The Voices Project; The Wayfarer; and The Write Place at the Write Time.
February 9, 2018
Eating Illusions
“But that’s illusion, and when you eat illusions you end up hungrier than before.” Ursula K. Le Guin
February 6, 2018
February 5, 2018
The Magnolia Review has accepted 4 of my poems for their upcoming issue
The Magnolia Review has accepted 4 of my poems for their upcoming Vol. 4 Issue #1. They have previously published one of mine. Thank you Magnolia Review.
My poem “Anticipation” has been published in the UK-based magazine Peeking Cat.
February 3, 2018
The Piedmont Virginian Magazine reprints my poem “Echoes” in their Best of 10th Anniversary November/December 2017 issue.
The Piedmont Virginian Magazine reprints my poem “Echoes” in their Best of 10th Anniversary November/December 2017 issue. Buy a copy or read it online here. Thank you Editor Pam Kamphuis.
Peeking Cat Poetry–a UK journal–has accepted my poem “Anticipation” for publication in February.
Peeking Cat Poetry–a UK journal–has accepted my poem “Anticipation” for publication in February.
February 1, 2018
Read and Savor
The Kingfisher by Amy Clampitt
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Amy Clampitt’s career as a poet was far too short—just 11 years. But she created a body of work any poet would be proud of. “The Kingfisher” was her amazing debut collection back in 1983 when she was 63 years old, and it stands today was one of the best collections of the second half of the 20th Century. For that matter, it has staying power. As I read and reread it in 2018, I hear echoes of Gerard Manley Hopkins AND Wallace Stevens. Her love of words as music, her encyclopedic incorporation of art, geography, botany, nature, travelogue, biography can make some of her poems dense. But each one bears rereading. Even those that seem most approachable at first have depths of feeling, thinking and experience. Read and savor.
January 29, 2018
A joy to read—and sorrow she will write no more
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
How much I already miss Ursula Le Guin. Her fantasy and sci-fi novels explore what it means to be a human, to be gendered, to live with a natural world instead of against it. This collection of essays from her blog are more personal–and leave me with the illusion that I knew her or at least the wish that she had been my neighbor. Here we watch the natural world together. Here I listen to her thoughts on politics and science vs belief and find myself nodding.
Whether you are already an avid reader of Le Guin or if you are not a fan of sci-fi and fantasy, this collection is thought-provoking, full of heart and joy, and a joy to read.
