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February 24, 2016
My poem “Blackberry Reduction” is included in the new issue of Three Line Poetry.
My poem “Blackberry Reduction” is included in the new issue of Three Line Poetry.
February 22, 2016
Route 7 Review will publish my poem “Emily’s Ghost Machine” later this year.
Route 7 Review will publish my poem “Emily’s Ghost Machine” later this year.
February 21, 2016
Heron Tree will publish my poem “After Bashō”
Heron Tree will publish my poem “After Bashō”
February 20, 2016
Vendler helps to unslant Dickinson
Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries by Helen Vendler
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Emily Dicksinson’s poetry was unlike just about everything being written at the time by her more famous mostly male contemporaries. She distilled complexities of experience and emotion into language that truly told it slant. Her verse is like Shakespeare’s sonnets which are are at their most difficult because they contain deep and sometimes contradictory emotion.
Helen Vendler proves again to be a great companion for the reader, unpacking and guiding. The best way to read this selection is to read each poem, Vendler’s commentary, and then reread that poem once or twice more. Windows open. I cannot say I always agree with Vendler’s interpretations, but they are always illuminating.
February 19, 2016
The Red Earth Review has accepted a 2nd poem for future publication
The Red Earth Review has accepted a 2nd poem for future publication. Like the first “A Last Bend in the Huron River,” this second poem “Vessel” is from an unpublished collection about my mother.
February 16, 2016
Please Visit my new Facebook Author Page
My new Facebook Author Page is live. Please visit often and Like it .
February 15, 2016
Giving voice to the voiceless
Unpeopled Eden by Rigoberto González
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Rigoberto Gonzalez writes for the missing, the dead, the mourning, the lost and about unspeakable loss. He give s voice to the voiceless, wives without husbands, sons without fathers. The poetry is beautiful in many places. Modern Central American interweaves with the mythical Aztec realm of th dead. Language warps to fit the damage and destruction. Whole villages are ghost towns filled with memory.
So much poetry today is topicless solipsism. Unpeopled Eden studies murder, the drug trade, and the destructive effects of emigration to North American in oblique but vivid ways. Gonzalez’s collection forces us to see hard realities without ever becoming polemical.
February 14, 2016
My poem “Schrödinger’s Anticipation” is in Dark Matter Journal.
My poem “Schrödinger’s Anticipation” is on page 65 of the January 2016 issue of Dark Matter Journal.
My poem “Final Inventory” is published at Two Cities Review online
My poem “Final Inventory” has been published at Two Cities Review online. This poem used some of Mom’s final words when she was trying to keep memories alive,
February 12, 2016
GFT Press will publish 3 of my poems
GFT Press will publish 2 of my poems online in March & 1 more in its print journal in April.
