05 Tuesday May 2015
Posted in 2sDay Poems
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2sDay Poems, Amorak Huey, Han Solo Explains the Universe, Hyacinth Girl Press, Indian Jones mashup, pop culture poems, Portrait of My Brother As Indiana Jones, stars wars poem, The Insomniac Circus, Tupelo Quarterly
buy his latest THE INSOMNIAC CIRCUS at hyacinth girl press
01 Thursday May 2014
Posted in C.A. Explains It All
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Bibliophilopoly, Dancing Girl, Deal Me In Reading Challenge, Hyacinth Girl Press, short story "playlist", Short Story Month, StoryaDay.org Extreme Writing Challenge
Bridget Reading (1959) by Peter Samuelson
April was an exhausting month filled with frenzied poetry writing challenges and a steady diet of readings.
May has now dawned, but it looks to be no less action-packed. Many are polishing poetry manuscripts for the open calls at small presses like Dancing Girl and Hyacinth Girl.
And then there is the lesser known but increasingly popular StoryADay.org Extreme Writing Challenge, which much like the Poetry Month challenges calls on participants to produce daily work from prompts.
Some of the exercises look really interesting, and they have big names like Neil Gaiman contributing, but I am not sure that the pace is something I can maintain. I prefer to take story writing much slower, but am always up for a dose of good reading.
That’s why I am recommending the Deal Me In Reading Challenge as an alternative way to celebrate the genre. This is a year-long readathon with a story-a-week pace, but participants are certainly welcome to move at their own schedule.
Jay already has a great list of selections up on the site with more recommendations at his twitter account @Bibliophilopoly.
I haven’t quite got a 52 track “playlist” ready just yet, but here are some of my favorite reads in the form:
Available Online:
Barn Burning by William Faulkner
Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty
The Storm by Kate Chopin
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Shiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Miriam by Truman Capote
From Collections:
Cry Cry Cry by Sherman Alexie
Eisenheimer the Illusionist by Steven Millhauser
Room 101-Benny Does Dublin by Roddy Doyle
Gerald’s Monkey by Michael Knight
Men on the Moon by Simon J. Ortiz
Angry Fish by Susan Power
Grit by Tom Franklin
Monstress by Lesley Tenorio
The Littoral Zone by Andrea Barrett
Lucho by Patricia Engel
Walk the Blue Fields and Night of the Quicken Trees by Claire Keegan
Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros
The Problem with Susan by Neil Gaiman
Melinda Falling by Jincy Willet
Love too Long by Barry Hannah
Leave your own “playlist” in the comments and I’ll feature the best compilations in a future post.
14 Friday Feb 2014
Posted in Thoughts on Poetry
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Ahsahta Press, Apogee Press, Belladonna, Black Radish Books, BlazeVox, Blood Pudding, Blue Light Press, Calyx Books, CavanKerry, Cervena Barva Press, Chax Press, Cider Press Review, Counterpoint Press, Fence Books, Futurepoem, Gold Wake, Headmistress Press, Hedgerow Books, Hobblebush, Hyacinth Girl Press, Kelsey Street Press, Knives Forks and Spoons, Kore Press, Lavender Ink/Dialogos, Les Figues, Maverick Duck, Nightboat, Omnidawn, Salmon Poetry, Seven Kitchens Press, Shape and Nature, Sheep Meadow Press, Spuyten Duyvil Press, Sundress Publications, Ugly Duckling Press, Wild Ocean Press, Wind Publications, Wings Press
Thanks to everyone who chimed in. Here are your favorites:
Late Additions:
| Shearsman Books | UK/Eng | http://www.shearsman.com/ |
| White Violet Press | US/CA | http://kelsaybooks.com/guidelines/guidelines-for-white-violet-press |
| Accents Publishing | US/KY | http://www.accents-publishing.com/contact.html |
| Wilderness House Press | US/MA | http://www.wildernesshousepress.com/ |
| Autumn House Press | US/PA | http://www.autumnhouse.org/contact-us/ |
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