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Monday Must Read! Shaindel Beers: The Children’s War

 

 

 

Monday Must Read!

WhiteAuthorPhoto ShaindelThis week meet Shaindel Beers, the author of two full-length poetry collections, A Brief History of Time (2009) and The Children’s War and Other Poems (2013), both from Salt Publishing. Her awards include First place Karen Fredericks and Frances Willitts Poetry Prize, Grand Prize Co-winner Trellis Magazine sestina contest, First place Dylan Days Poetry Competition, and others. She currently serves as English department chair at Blue Mountain Community College, as Poetry Editor forContrary Magazine, and on the executive board of PAWS, the Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter. She lives in Pendleton, Oregon, with a zoo of pets and a wild four-year-old son.

Learn more

Official Site of Shaindel Beers

Buy Shaindel’s beautiful books!

A Brief History of Time

http://www.saltpublishing.com/products/a-brief-history-of-time-9781844715053

The Children’s War and Other Poems

http://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-children-s-war-9781844719303

Read More From Shaindel Online:

“Death, Sleep, Beauty” by Shaindel Beers | Pine Hills Review

poemeleon – Shaindel Beers

http://www.voiceinjournal.com/shaindel-beers-the-imprecision-of-language/

An American Meditation — Poetry by Shaindel Beers

http://www.theenchantingverses.org/uploads/4/6/1/6/461698/shaindelbeers.pdf

http://ithacalit.com/shaindel-beers.html#.Vm7AYEorLDd

http://www.shadowgraphquarterly.com/shadowgraph-quarterly-winter-2015/shaindel-beers/

Essays by and about Shaindel:

“Creep”: Thoughts on Abuse and Survival » Real Pants

Hundreds of Dollars | i believe you | it’s not your fault

Hot Teachers, Gaslighting, and Sexual Abuse in Academia: Reflecting on Essays by Shaindel Beers by Leslie Salas

https://thegloriasirens.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/hot-teachers-gaslighting-and-sexual-abuse-in-academia-reflecting-on-essays-by-shaindel-beers/

Hear Shaindel read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1wdbxsNAc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2tucUP8yYI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-ETvj3LeE

 

 

 

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Monday Must Read! Sarah Busse: Do It Yourself Airplanes

Monday Must Read!

sarah busseThis week meet Sarah Sadie (Sarah Busse). Sarah is co-editor of Cowfeather Press and one of the Poets Laureate of Madison, Wisconsin (2012-2015). Her poems and books have won the Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Niedecker and Posner Prizes, as well as a Pushcart. Her most recent chapbook, Do-It-Yourself Paper Airplanes, was published in 2015 by Five Oaks Press.

Sarah teaches online at the Loft, at the University of Iowa’s Summer Writing Festival, and occasionally elsewhere. These days you can find her blogging at Dowsing for Divinity on the Patheos Pagan channel, tweeting as @sarahsadie1313 and occasionally posting articles, pictures and notes of interest at sarahsadiesadiesarah.tumblr.com. This month she is participating in Tupelo Press’s 30/30 poetry challenge.

Buy Sarah’s beautiful books!

Do-It-Yourself Paper Airplanesc

http://five-oaks-press.com/our-titles/

Somewhere Piano

http://mayapplepress.com/somewhere-piano-sarah-busse/

Given These Magics

https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?cPath=2&products_id=1060&osCsid=k0mh09kddebblprtjbvqqed1j5

Visit Cowfeather Press

http://cowfeatherpress.org/

Follow Sarah on Tumblr:

http://sarahsadiesadiesarah.tumblr.com/

Read More of Sarah Online

http://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=442

http://www.webdelsol.com/Perihelion/busse.htm

http://www.dmqreview.com/nov02/bussej.html

http://www.dmqreview.com/nov02/busseo.html

http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/03/sarah-busse-evening-walk-mid-march.html

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

 

 

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Monday Must Read! Amy Tudor: Book of Birds, Professor of Bees

 

amy tudorThis week meet Amy Tudor, whose first collection of poetry, A Book of Birds, won the Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry from Briery Creek Press and was published in 2008. Her second collection, Studies in Extinction, is forthcoming from Aldrich Press in early 2016. Her honors and awards include individual artist grants from the Kentucky Arts Council, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She holds both a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Humanities and a M.F.A. in creative writing and currently teaches creative writing and interdisciplinary courses in thanatology at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. In addition, Amy is a published essayist, short fiction writer, and photographer, and she is also a working songwriter, with recent collaborations with British artists Mark Chadwick of the Levelers and Jamie Freeman of the Jamie Freeman Agreement.

Buy Amy’s Beautiful Books!

Professor Of Bees

https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=227

The Secret Museum

https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=1893

Book of Birds

http://www.amazon.com/Amy-Tudor/e/B00J7CGLL4

And watch for Amy’s new book, Studies in Extinction, forthcoming from Aldrich Books in 2016!

Read More of Amy’s Amazing Work Online!

http://www.newsoutherner.com/2012/12/19/studies-in-extinction/

http://www.stilljournal.net/amy-tudor-poetry.php

http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v12n2/poetry/tudor_a/death_page.shtml

http://www.newsoutherner.com/tag/amy-tudor/

http://www.connotationpress.com/a-poetry-congeries-with-john-hoppenthaler/2011/april-2011/812-amy-tudor-poetry

Interview at Boxcar Poetry

http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/019/interview_tudor_cunningham.html

 

 

 

 

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MONDAY MUST READ! LYNN PEDERSEN: TIKTAALIK, ADIEU

Monday Must Read!

pedersenauthorphotoThis week meet Lynn Pedersen. Lynn’s poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in New England Review,Ecotone, Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, Palo Alto Review, and Heron Tree. She has two chapbooks, Tiktaalik, Adieu (2014 Finishing Line Press New Women’s Voices Series) and Theories of Rain (2009 Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Choice Chapbook Series). A full-length collection, The Nomenclature of Small Things, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in early 2016. A graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lynn’s website:

www.lynnpedersen.wordpress.com

Buy books!

Finishing Line Press

https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=2179

Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Tiktaalik-Adieu-NWVS-Lynn-Pedersen/dp/1622297997

Praise for Tiktaalik, Adieu

Science looms large and lives well in Tiktaalik, Adieu. Pedersen’s lovely poems speak for, and to, our ever evolving, rapidly changing natural world, wherein the human animal seeks peace, or simply survival, from “resting place to resting place.” ~ Nance Van Winckel, author of Pacific Walkers

Lynn Pedersen gathers the world into her poems: its classical elements, its intricate patterns, its infinite mysteries. She makes gorgeous lyrics of stars and bone. ~Tania Rochelle, author ofKaraoke Funeral and The World’s Last Bone

Interviews/Reviews of Tiktaalik, Adieu:

https://chapbookinterviews.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/lynn-pedersen/

http://dailydoseoflit.com/2015/08/17/three-questions-lynn-pedersen/

Find more Lynn’s works online:

Heron Tree

“A Catalog of What We’re Not Meant to See” Heron Tree (2014)

http://herontree.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/pedersen2pdf.pdf

“Wilson’s Warbler” Heron Tree (2013)

http://herontree.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/pedersen1pdf.pdf

Cider Press Review

“Begin” Cider Press Review (2014)

http://ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-16-1/begin/#.Vjdvy6SirmG

“Eve Paints the Apple Tree” Cider Press Review (2013)

http://ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-15-4/eve-paints-the-apple-tree/#.

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Monday Must Read! Jenny Sadre-Orafai: Paper, Cotton, Leather

 

sadre-orafaiMonday Must Read! 

This week meet Jenny Sadre-Orafai, the author of Paper, Cotton, Leather (Press 53) and four chapbooks. Recent poetry has appeared in Tammy, Loose Change, Bear Review, Linebreak, Redivider, Eleven Eleven, Thrush Poetry Journal, PANK, and Rhino. Her prose has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, The Rumpus, The Toast, and South Loop Review. She is co-founding editor of Josephine Quarterly and an Associate Professor of English at Kennesaw State University.

Jenny’s Website!

http://www.jennysadre-orafai.com

Get Jenny’s Book

Paper, Cotton, Leather (Press 53)

http://www.press53.com/bioJennySadreOrafai.html

Read Jenny’s Work Online

Poetry

“The Burn I Put” in Bear Review

http://issuu.com/bearreview/docs/bear_review_1.1/1

“How Much Gospel” in Loose Change

http://loosechangemagazine.org/jenny-sadre-orafai52/

“The Morning of Your 35th Birthday” in Linebreak

https://linebreak.org/poems/the-morning-of-your-35th-birthday/

“Karaj” in Thrush

http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/may-2014-jenny-sadre-orafai.html

Creative Non-Fiction

“Kamehameha The Great” in The Rumpus

http://therumpus.net/2012/05/kamehameha-the-great/

“Live Bears “ in The Toast

http://the-toast.net/2014/02/05/live-bears-on-living-in-tourist-towns/

“The Prettiest Girls in the World Are Born in Alabama in The Rumpus

http://therumpus.net/2014/01/the-prettiest-girls-in-the-world-are-born-in-alabama/

Hear Jenny read!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCYioPwKz1I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZScp7oxC9U

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Monday Must Read! Christine Stoddard: The Children of Jackson Ward

christine stoddardThis week meet Christine Stoddard, a Salvadoran-Scottish-American writer and artist. In 2014, Folio Magazine named her one of the media industry’s top 20 visionaries in their 20s for starting Quail Bell Magazine. She also is a Puffin Foundation national emerging artist. She has edited two anthologies for Quail Bell Magazine, in addition to co-authoring Images of America: Richmond Cemeteries and directing a documentary on Edgar Allan Poe.

Currently, she is completing her book, Hispanic and Latino Heritage in Virginia, for The History Press. Christine’s work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, So to Speak, The New York Transit Museum, Bustle, Yellow Chair Review, the Poe Museum, local PBS stations, and beyond.

In early 2016, Christine will be participating in Tupelo Press’ 30/30 Project and completing a writing residency at Sundress Academy for the Arts.

Learn more about her at www.wordsmithchristine.com

More from Christine online!

The Children of Jackson Ward, an art project with a social justice perspective. http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/about/the-children-of-jackson-ward-manuscript

YesPoetry

http://yespoetry.com/post/108735306281/photo-poetry-christine-stoddard

Brooklyn Quarterly

http://brooklynquarterly.org/tbq-artist-series-christine-stoddard/

The Poet Time

http://thepoettime.com/

Fourth and Sycamore

http://fourthandsycamore.com/2015/09/14/my-nightingale-a-poem-by-christine-stoddard/

 

Video

The Persistence of Poe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_eKwn5D8Vg

Everyday Seeing (from The Children of Jackson Ward)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRWdDriov4

Nine Flights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWVgBHla2Bk

Chalk Poetry

https://vimeo.com/21420381

Before Morning Sobers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtFJu_XHvhI

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Monday Must Read! Jennifer K. Sweeney: Little Spells

Monday Must Read! 

jennifer sweeneyThis week, meet Jennifer K. Sweeney, the author of three poetry collections: Little Spells, newly released from New Issues Press, How to Live on Bread and Music, which received the James Laughlin Award, the Perugia Press Prize and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize, and Salt Memory. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, a Hedgebrook residency, the Elinor Benedict Poetry Award from Passages North and two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg awards. Recent poems have appeared in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, American Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Linebreak, Mid-American Review, New American Writing, Pleiades, and Verse Daily.

Jennifer’s Website:

http://www.jenniferksweeney.com/

Get Jennifer’s Beautiful Books!

Little Spells

http://www.wmich.edu/newissues/titles/sweeney-littlespells.html


How to Live on Bread and Music

http://www.perugiapress.com/books/how-to-live-on-bread-and-music/

 

Read more of Jennifer’s work online!

Academy of American Poets

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/jennifer-k-sweeney

The Noe Valley Voice

http://www.noevalleyvoice.com/2010/July-August/OVJS.htm

Connotation Press

http://www.connotationpress.com/featured-guest-editor/may-2010/427-jennifer-k-sweeney-poetry

Linebreak

https://linebreak.org/poems/the-somnambulist/

Hear Jennifer read!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csxTf4xmK8k

Interviews

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/01/poet_jennifer_k_sweeney_discus.html

At Donna Vorreyer’s Fill in the Blanks

https://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/fill-in-the-blanks-with-jennifer-k-sweeney/

http://tinderboxeditions.blogspot.com/2015/07/book-interview-little-spells-by.html

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Alexis Fancher: How I Lost My Virginity to Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stab Poems

 

Monday Must Read! 

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Photo Credit: BAZ HERE

This week meet Alexis Rhone Fancher, author of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stab Poems, from Sybaritic Press, 2014. Find her work in Rattle, The MacGuffin, Slipstream, The Chiron Review, and elsewhere. Her poems have been published in over twenty American and international anthologies. Her photos have been published worldwide. Since 2013 Alexis has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and a Best of The Net award. She is photography editor of Fine Linen, and poetry editor of Cultural Weekly, where she also publishes The Poet’s Eye, a monthly photo essay about her ongoing love affair with Los Angeles.

Alexis’ website: www.alexisrhonefancher.com

Buy Alexis’ fabulous book!

 http://www.amazon.com/How-Lost-Virginity-Michael-Cohen/dp/1495123197/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438633881&sr=1-1&keywords=alexis+rhone+fancher

Read more from Alexis online:

Rattle

“over it”

Cultural Weekly

“Black & White Noir”

“Molten”

“On The Street”

“L.A.’s Long Legged Lovelies”

“Subterranean Lovesick Clues”

“Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera”

“L.A.’s Long Legged Lovelies”

“Black and White Noir”

QUAINT MAGAZINE

Daddy’s Friend Stan

PATRIA LETTERATURA

This Is Not A Poem

Walk All Over You

White Flag

Reviews of Alexis’ book:

ENTROPY

Review of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stab Poems

Black and White Gets Read

Review of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stab Poems

Interviews:

Alexis Rhone Fancher: Poetic Rhythms: LA poet / photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher talks about the progressive line between music and poetry

http://blues.gr/profiles/blogs/la-poet-photographer-alexis-rhone-fancher-talks-about-the

WICN

Radio Interview on Inquiry: WICN’s Mark Lynch interviews Alexis.

WORDS AT NINE

Interview with Anna Grace: “Alexis Next Door”

PUNK GLOBE

Author Interview

Find more of Alexisa online here: http://alexisrhonefancher.com/links.html

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

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Monday Must Read! Susan Lewis, How To Be Another

 

susan lewis author photoMonday Must Read! 

This week meet Susan Lewis, the author of six chapbooks and two full-length poetry collections, This Visit (BlazeVOX [books], 2015), and How to be Another (Červená Barva Press, 2014). Her poetry and flash fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize several times and published in such journals as The Awl, Berkeley Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Cimarron Review, Connotation Press, EOAGH, Fact-Simile, Fourteen Hills, Gargoyle, The Journal, Luna Luna, The New Orleans Review, Phoebe, Ping Pong, Pool, Prelude, Propeller, Raritan, Seneca Review, So To Speak, Verse Daily, Word For/Word and Yew. She lives in New York City and edits Posit (www.positjournal.com).

Get Susan’s most recent books here:

http://www.spdbooks.org/Search/Default.aspx?AuthorName=Susan+Lewis

Read more from Susan online:

http://www.susanlewis.net/poetry-online/

Read reviews, interviews, blurbs, etc.:

www.susanlewis.net

 

 

 

 

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Monday Must Read! Natasha Kochicheril Moni, The Cardiologist’s Daughter

 

Monday Must Read! 

Natasha Moni Poets in ParkNatasha Kochicheril Moni is a first-generation American of Dutch and Indian descent. Born in the North and raised in the South, she finds home in the Pacific Northwest. Natasha’s first full-length poetry collection, The Cardiologist’s Daughter, was released by Two Sylvias Press in late 2014. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews have been published in fifty journals including: Verse, DIAGRAM, [PANK], Hobart, Rattle, Indiana Review, and Fourteen Hills. In 2015, it was acknowledged on Straight Forward Press’s The Poetry Shopping List: Your Next Must Read.

She holds a BA in Child Development from Tufts University, received her Post-baccalaureate pre-medical certificate from Mills College, and is in her fourth year of naturopathic medical school at Bastyr University.

Website: http://www.natashamoni.com/

Natasha’s Poetry:

DIAGRAM

Hobart 

LunaLuna

Rattle

Toasted Cheese Literary Journal

Support your local WA State bookstores/poet by buying a copy of The Cardiologist’s Daughter at one of the following locations:

Washington State
Edmonds

Edmonds Bookshop

Port Townsend

The Writers’Workshoppe/Imprint Books

Seattle

Elliott Bay Book Co. 
Open Books 
Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park)

Tacoma

The Nearsighted Narwhal 

Or purchase a paperback or Kindle version online through Amazon

Reviews of The Cardiologist’s Daughter:

Amazon

Good Reads

ThePedestal Magazine

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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