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Must Read Monday! Doug Van Gundy: A Life Above Water

 

VanGundyThis week meet Doug Van Gundy, author of A Life Above Water. Doug teaches in both the BA and MFA writing programs at West Virginia Wesleyan College. His poems, essays and reviews have appeared in The Oxford American, Poems & Plays, Ecotone, Appalachian Heritage, Waccamaw and Poetry Salzburg Review. He is currently co-editing an anthology of contemporary writing from West Virginia for WVU Press and working on his second book of poems, tentatively titled, No Dog Inside.

Doug has also has been an elephant keeper, a copywriter, a country radio disk jockey, a letterpress operator, a television game show winner, and is a multi-talented musician. He’s an incredible old-time fiddler (along with playing a kajillion other instruments), performing with Paul Gartner in the duo Born Old.

Buy Doug’s beautiful book!

http://redhen.org/book/?uuid=F6650841-8509-33C3-0C69-129FD872CC95

Praise for A Life Above Water

Doug Van Gundy s poems are pitch-perfect and packed with indelible images, each as striking and distinct as a hawk in a clear blue sky above one of his beloved mountains. This poet has a genius for quick characterization, too; I love his crow-eyed bachelor men/who lived on the hillside and smelled/of fried potatoes and machine oil, for instance. Some of these poems are like whole novels. Doug Van Gundy has captured a culture in this book. –Lee Smith

More about Doug, poetry and music, at his website

http://www.dougvangundy.com/

Learn More About Doug’s Music and Born Old

https://www.facebook.com/bornoldband

http://www.countysales.com/products.php?product=DOUG-VAN-GUNDY-%26-PAUL-GARTNER-%27Born-Old%27

Read More from Doug Online

http://www.connotationpress.com/featured-guest-editor/poetry-october-2009/137-doug-van-gundy-poetry

http://www.storysouth.com/poetry/2008/06/west_virginia_vs_extractive_in.html

http://www.fishousepoems.org/keeper/

http://appalachianheritage.net/author/dougvangundy/

http://www.datelinewheeling.com/blog/2015/10/22/music-and-muse-mountaineer-poet-says-the-two-meld-perfectly

Hear Doug Read

https://soundcloud.com/storyweb/doug-van-gundy-a-beautiful-jar-of-jelly

And Play!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeOj7nLF3_Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnKAOWSO410

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

 

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Monday Must Read! Ace Boggess: The Prisoners

 

boggess-photoThis week meet Ace Boggess, the author of two books of poetry: The Prisoners (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2014) and The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled (Highwire Press, 2003). His novel, A Song Without a Melody, is forthcoming from Hyperborea Publishing. His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, RATTLE, River Styx, North Dakota Quarterly and many other journals. He lives in Charleston, West Virginia.

(I first read Ace’s poetry years ago when I was editing The Dos Passos Review and loved it, the boldness, the elegance, the careful heartbreaking balance between humor and humanity. Good good stuff, y’all.)

Buy The Prisoners!

http://brickroadpoetrypress.com/order-books/the-prisoners-by-ace-boggess

Buy The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Unfulfilled

http://www.amazon.com/Beautiul-Girl-Whose-Wish-Fulfilled/dp/0972180117

Read More From Ace Online

http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/aceboggess/

http://www.rattle.com/tag/ace-boggess/

http://lightningkeyreview.com/blog/life-of-crime-ace-boggess/

https://voxpopulisphere.com/2014/09/27/ace-boggess-four-poems/

http://www.subtletea.com/aceboggesspoetry.htm

http://www.caveat-lector.org/2401/website/poetry/boggess.html

http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/69/boggess.php

http://www.reduxlitjournal.com/2014/02/118-two-poems-by-ace-boggess.html

https://themuseumofamericana.net/issues/current-issue-7/poetry/two-poems-by-ace-boggess/

Interviews

https://permafrostmag.com/2015/09/09/interview-with-ace-boggess/

http://www.missourireview.com/tmr-blog/2013/10/literature-on-lockdown-ace-boggess/

https://geosireads.wordpress.com/2014/09/24/ace-boggess-on-drug-addiction-life-in-prison-writing-advice-for-drug-addicts/

Hear Ace Read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N75JaAp963A

And Sing 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ychiXKghuU

 

 

Happy Reading, y’all!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Allison Joseph, My Father’s Kites

 

allison jospehThis week, meet one of the most amazing writers and literary citizens in our community, Allison Joseph! Allison lives, writes, and teaches in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is part of the creative writing faculty at Southern Illinois University.  She serves as editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review, moderator of the Creative Writers Opportunities List, and director of the Young Writers Workshop, a summer writers’ workshop for teen writers.

 Her books and chapbooks include What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand Press), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon University Press), In Every Seam(University of Pittsburgh Press), Worldly Pleasures (Word Tech Communications), Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon UP), Voice: Poems (Mayapple Press), My Father’s Kites (Steel Toe Books), Trace Particles (Backbone Press), Little Epiphanies (Imaginary Friend Press), Mercurial (Mayapple Press), Mortal Rewards (White Violet Press), Multitudes (forthcoming, Word Tech Communications), The Purpose of Hands (forthcoming, Glass Lyre Press), Corporal Muse(forthcoming, Lucky Bastard Press). Her next full-length collection,Confessions of a Barefaced Woman, has been accepted for publication by Red Hen Press. She is the literary partner and wife of Jon Tribble.

I go back again and again to Allison’s work, but especially My Father’s Kites.

Buy Allison’s Books!

My Father’s Kites

http://www.steeltoebooks.com/books/39-my-fathers-kites.html

Praise for My Father’s Kites

“‘Tell me about the poet,’ urges Allison Joseph in the very first line of her remarkable new collection — and it is with insight, honesty and extraordinary technical skill that she accomplishes exactly this. My Father’s Kites is a self-revelatory collection of carefully wrought, jewel-like poems that explore the often paradoxical complexities of family relationships. Her strategy is tightly linked to her remarkable expertise as a formalist — a gift that becomes most evident in ‘What the Eye Beholds,’ a series of sonnets about her father’s flamboyant life, his gradual ‘dereliction,’ his inevitable early death, and its poignant aftermath. The arc of this sequence, flanked as it is by graceful villanelles and rondeaus. I cannot think of another contemporary poet who has done a finer job of combining form and content, to dazzling effect.” — Marilyn Taylor

Soul Train

http://www.upne.com/0887482472.html

In Every Seam

https://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=34548

Wordly Pleasures

http://www.wordpoetrybooks.com/joseph.htm

Imitation of Life

http://www.amazon.com/Imitation-Life-Carnegie-Mellon-Poetry/dp/0887483860

Voice: Poems

http://mayapplepress.com/voice-poems-allison-joseph/

Trace Particles

http://backbonepress.org/chapbooks/

Mercurial

http://mayapplepress.com/mercurial-allison-joseph/

Mortal Rewards

http://www.amazon.com/Mortal-Rewards-Allison-Joseph/dp/0692657045/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1463483270&sr=8-1&keywords=mortal+rewards+allison+joseph

Read More from Allison Online

20 Poems from Allison Joseph

http://www.culturalfront.org/2011/10/20-poems-by-allison-joseph.html

http://www.heartjournalonline.com/joseph/2013/12/1/two-poems-by-allison-joseph

http://atticusreview.org/september-featured-poet-allison-joseph/

https://sliverofstonemagazine.com/running-while-black-by-allison-joseph/

http://rlpoetry.org/extraction-allison-joseph/

http://www.bradley.edu/sites/poet/steel/poems/joseph.dot

Interviews

http://lunchticket.org/allison-joseph-poet/

http://www.thefourthriver.com/index.php/the-mark-of-real-life-an-interview-with-allison-joseph

http://www.midwestwriters.org/2014/06/interview-with-allison-joseph/

Hear Allison Read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2TEGGSxUeA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BWP3KtEXpo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h5E1KynLY4

Happy reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Claudine Moreau: Dark Machines

claudine moreau author photoThis week meet Claudine R. Moreau, author of Dark Machines. Claudine is a poet who teaches physics and astronomy at Elon University where her biggest thrill is showing students the cosmos through a telescope.

Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Tar River Poetry, 34th Parallel, PANK, Neon Magazine, Iodine Poetry Journal, Oysters and Chocolate, The Pinch, Segue, The Bitter Oleander, Arsenic Lobster, The GW Review, and Pivot among others. She is currently working on a new collection of astronomy themed poems.

Buy Claudine’s Dark Machines!

http://www.amazon.com/Claudine-R.-Moreau/e/B007L2J2J0/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1462796595&sr=8-1

https://www.createspace.com/3760500

Claudine’s Website

http://facstaff.elon.edu/cmoreau/Claudine_R._Moreaus_Physics_Page/Prof._Claudine_R._Moreau.html

Read More from Claudine Online

http://www.physikgarden.com/interstellar.html

http://www.astropoetica.com/Spring10/cometgirl.html

http://pankmagazine.com/piece/no-witnesses/

Interview

http://www.artvilla.com/plt/poetnewsMay01.html

Hear Claudine Read

https://spaceslitmag.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/writers-reading-claudine-moreau/

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

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Monday Must Read! D.M. Aderibigbe, In Praise of Our Absent Father

DMD.M. Aderibigbe was born in 1989 in Lagos, Nigeria. He holds a B.A in History and Strategic Studies from the University of Lagos. He’s the author of In Praise of Our Absent Father, selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the APBF New Generation African Poets Chapbook Series and is a recipient of 2015 honours from The Dickinson House and the Entrekin Foundation. His poems appear in African American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Normal School, Notre Dame Review, Poet Lore, RATTLE, Spillway, Stand, among others, and have been featured on Verse Daily. His first full-length manuscript, My Mothers’ Songs and Other Similar Songs I Learnt received a special mention in the APBF/Prairie Schooner 2015 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. D.M. is a 2016 Pushcart Prize nominee. He’s also co-editor of More Than a Number: Poems and Prose for Baga. His essays appear in B O D Y, Blueshift Journal and Rain Taxi. He lives in Boston where he’s studying for his MFA in Creative Writing at Boston University as a BU Fellow.

D.M.’s website: http://damilolapoetry.weebly.com/about.html

Where to Find D.M.’s Chapbook

http://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/new-generation-african-poets-a-chapbook-box-set-tatu/

http://africanpoetrybf.unl.edu/?page_id=3372#

Praise for In Praise of Our Absent Father

“Here is a poet whose vision and empathy reach into the intimate corners of family history, bearing witness to generations of tenderness, violence, generosity, survival and imagination with rare precision. At the intersection of the public and the personal his politics emerge with integrity – if these stories emerge from the private world of his own family, their resonance and relevance, marked in the title’s naming of our absent father, call his readers to bear witness and join in imagining other possibilities.” Tsitsi Jaji

Read more from D.M. Online

http://www.rattle.com/the-origin-of-kindness-by-d-m-aderibigbe/

http://www.wordriot.org/archives/4730

http://bodyliterature.com/2013/09/02/d-m-aderibigbe/

http://www.connotationpress.com/poetry/2485-d-m-aderibigbe-poetry

http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/two-poems–41

http://ampersandreview.com/2015/08/last-forever-by-d-m-aderibigbe/

http://thenormalschool.com/to-be-my-father-and-mirror-by-d-m-aderibigbe/

Interviews

https://waleowoade.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/aderibigbe/

http://www.theblueshiftjournal.com/#!Interview-with-DM-Aderibigbe/cltp/FF25B6CA-DB36-4157-A372-B59C8D787A78

Hear D.M. Read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSdpXPQoaU8

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

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Monday Must Read! Remica Bingham-Risher: What We Ask of Flesh

Remica-Bingham-FInalRemica L. Bingham-Risher earned an MFA from Bennington College, is a Cave Canem fellow and a member of the Affrilachian Poets. Her first book, Conversion (Lotus Press, 2006), won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award and was published by Lotus Press. Her second book, What We Ask of Flesh, was published by Etruscan Press in February 2013. She is the Director of Writing and Faculty Development at Old Dominion University and resides in Norfolk, VA with her husband and children. She is currently finalizing a book of interviews entitled Blood on the Page—African-American Poets from the Black Arts Movement to the Neo-Urban Modernist Movement: Interviews, Essays and Poems.

For more information on her work and upcoming events, please visit: www.remicalbingham.com.

Buy Remica’s beautiful books!

http://www.remicalbingham.com/publications.htm

Reviews and Praise for What We ask of Flesh

“She sees with a brave eye and hears the music of all our languages, validating each. Her story is the human story; her sharing it an act of great generosity.”  – Lucille Clifton

Remica L. Bingham addresses a woman’s sense of body graced with spirituality in its most powerful or most vulnerable moments in the collection…From the opening poem drawn, from the distant past, to the final three elegiac poems, which beautifully anchor the book to the present, Bingham pursues the female body in all its fierce beauty…with eloquence and urgency in a bitter sweet salute to those women who have paved the way for us all.  – Colleen J. McElroy

What We Ask of Flesh, like the flesh itself, is full of honey and fire. It’s impossible not to feel called by these poems, summoned by their rich sound and vatic voice. Remica Bingham-Risher reckons with the big stuff: the complexities of womanhood, the problem of suffering, family, and childhood’s darker aspects. Every poem is uttered with fervor and a timeless sense of gravity and rapture. – Amy Gerstler

http://www.poetsquarterly.com/2013/10/what-we-ask-of-flesh-by-remica-l-bingham.html

http://etruscanpress.tumblr.com/post/81709836371/flesh-contemplates-social-issues-of-womanhood

http://www.rattle.com/what-we-ask-of-flesh-by-remica-l-bingham/

https://mosaicmagazine.org/2013/07/15/what-we-ask-of-flesh-review/

Read More From Remica Online

http://danmurano.com/poetry/remica-l-bingham-risher

http://etruscanpress.tumblr.com/post/100861154416/remica-l-bingham-risher

http://www.connotationpress.com/featured-guest-editor/february-2011/727-remica-l-bingham-poetry

http://danmurano.com/poetry/remica-l-bingham-risher

http://therumpus.net/author/remica-bingham-risher/

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

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Must Read Monday! Laura Long: Out of Peel Tree

laura longThis week meet Laura Long, author of Out of Peel Tree, a novel in stories, and two collections of poetry, The Eye of Caroline Herschel:A Life in Poems and Imagine a Door. Laura has received a James Michener Fellowship, James River Writers Award, Donald Barthelme Fellowship, PEN-Texas Award, Virginia Center for Creative Arts fellowships, and has published in magazines including The Southern Review and Shenandoah. She teaches at Lynchburg College in Virginia and with the low-residency MFA at West Virginia Wesleyan College, and has taught in numerous community and university settings.

Buy Laura’s Beautiful Books!

Out of Peel Tree

http://wvupressonline.com/long_out_of_peel_tree_9781940425009

Imagine a Door

http://www.amazon.com/Imagine-Door-Laura-Longsong/dp/1934999512

The Eye of Caroline Herschel:A Life in Poems

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

Praise for Out of Peel Tree

“Aside from the gorgeous writing and deeply compelling characters, what I especially value about Laura Long’s Out of Peel Tree is its honoring both the region and the literature out of which it springs, at the same time it brilliantly offers a new vision and shines a light on the path ahead. This is a book to be enjoyed immediately and cherished for years to come.”~David Huddle, author of Only the Little Bone and The Story of a Million Years


“Laura Long has eyes like no other. The world she sees has more dimensions than the mundane 3-D world the rest of us inhabit. In her world even dry leaves and red tomatoes and postcards are sentient.“~Marie Manilla, author of The Patron Saint of Ugly and Still Life with Plums

“In an elaborate mosaic that is both moving and uplifting, Out of Peel Tree tells the story of three generations of West Virginia women and their survival against the odds. This vivid, compact work is akin to an unforgiving family portrait that reveals everything—warts and all.”~Clifford Garstang, author of What the Zhang Boys Know and 2013 recipient of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction.

“Laura Long writes with such tenderness for her characters, for place, for the natural world. The images shimmer and the links delight. Out of Peel Tree is tatted into the finest lace—delicate, seamless, and strong. Is it any wonder this is a poet’s novel?”~Sara Pritchard, author of Help Wanted: Female and Crackpots

Read More from Laura Online!

http://www.connotationpress.com/poetry/1680-laura-long-poetry

http://readherlikeanopenbook.com/2015/03/01/untranslatable-writing-fiction-in-the-garden-of-uncertainty-or-being-uncertain-is-a-quality-that-writers-cultivate/

Interview

https://chapbookinterviews.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/laura-long/

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

 

 

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Monday Must Read: Kate Litterer, Ghosty Boo

 

tumblr_inline_nu5opjKRpu1repb9q_500Meet Kate Litterer, author of Ghosty Boo, just released from A-Minor Press. Kate received her MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Program for Poets and Writers. Her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from Coconut, The Destroyer, Dusie, Finery, Forklift, Ohio, h_ngm_n, Ilk, inter|rupture, Jellyfish, La Vague, Mistress, NonBinary Review, Phantom Limb, Route Nine Literary Journal, Sixth Finch, Spoke Too Soon, Quaint, the anthology Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation, and the anthologyHysteria. She is pursuing a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she focuses on queer and feminist historiography, butch/femme experience, and archival research. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her two maine coon cats.

Kate’s Website: katelitterer.com

Buy Kate’s Book!

Ghosty Boo

https://www.createspace.com/5662024

Praise for Ghosty Boo!

“Ghosty Boo lives inside of a book by Kate Litterer who lives with “a hard job to hurt out of revolted love.” Poetry is always asking us what is it we’re willing to do, and when we take into our own private worlds what’s sincere and true, fierce and relentlessly unforgiving are we able to ever feel safe again? Ghosty Boo has an answer for that.” -Dara Wier, author ofYou Good Thing

Featured Excerpt in A-Minor Magazine

http://aminormagazine.com/2015/09/28/featured-excerpt-six-from-ghosty-boo/

Read More from Kate Online

http://quaintmagazine.com/issues/issue-four/from-ghosty-boo-kate-litterer/

http://ilkjournal.com/journal/issue-six/kate-litterer/

http://www.coconutpoetry.org/litterer18

http://www.barrelhousemag.com/once-we-posed-our-barbies-like-a-playboy-shoot-by-kate-litterer/

http://www.interrupture.com/archives/june_2013/kate_litterer/

http://phantombooks.net/kate-litterer-2/

Interview at Please Excuse This Poem

http://pleaseexcusethispoem.tumblr.com/post/97735057265/q-a-with-kate-litterer

Hear Kate Read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij9FYcdF6Ag

 

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Rachel Heimowitz: What the Light Reveals

Monday Must Read! Rachel Heimowitz: What the Light Reveals

rachel HThis week meet Rachel Heimowitz, the author of the chapbook, What the Light Reveals (Tebot Bach Press, 2014.) Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, Spillway, Crab Orchard Review, and Prairie Schooner and she has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. She is currently the editor of arc-24, the literary journal of The Israel Association of Writers in English and she is due to receive her MFA from Pacific University in Spring 2015.

Visit Rachel’s Website

 http://www.rachelheimowitz.com/#!bio/c1ktj

Buy Rachel’s book!

Tebot Bach Press: http://www.tebotbach.org/publication.html#lightreveals

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/What-Light-Reveals-Rachel-Heimowitz/dp/1939678072/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458560531&sr=8-1&keywords=Rachel+Heimowitz

Praise for What the Light Reveals

In poem after vivid poem, Rachel Heimowitz “gather[s] what is holy/into [her] palms,” using words and “the light between words” to describe life in contemporary Israel—fraught with danger and uncertainty as well as joy and vision. The precise music of these poems moves from somber moments of religious and historical reflection to the description of dramatic, even frightening, events in contemporary life, proving once again that political realities, faith, and personal, familial life are inescapably intertwined. These are, above all, accomplished and beautiful poems that will be read and reread for a very long time.
—Gale Wronsky

Rachel Heimowitz’s collection of poems, What the Light Reveals, is a remarkable debut. This brilliant, sobering, often harrowing – yet always lyrical – account of life in Israel is also a meditation on faith and family, both immediate family and the larger human family as well. As Rachel Heimowitz reckons her place as a woman in a time and place of war, we find ourselves, as readers, enveloped in one of the most intimate and dramatic sequences of poems in recent years. This is a book to cherish.—David St. John

“Holding”, Rachel Heimowitz says, “is a woman’s purpose”, and by “holding” she means keeping, securing, preserving, remembering, carrying deep inside as in prayer, witnessing, and testifying truthfully, earnestly and urgently. It is a woman’s purpose, this is true, and it is the poet’s purpose, too. Sometimes it is a splendid accident when a gifted poet is thrown into places and times that demand the poet’s heart and eye. In What the Light Reveals, Heimowitz shows herself to be precisely that poet, and the result is poetry of grace, exquisite wrenching, and stark honesty.—Kwame Dawes

Listen to Poems from What the Light Reveals

http://www.rachelheimowitz.com/#!blank/c6ll

Read More From Rachel Online:

http://composejournal.com/articles/rachel-heimowitz-two-poems/

http://www.crowhollowbooks.com/m1-1–rachel-heimowitz.html

http://www.soul-lit.com/poems/v5/Hemiowitz/index.html

http://atticusreview.org/bright-eyes-tight/   

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Callista Buchen: The Bloody Planet

Monday Must Read! Callista Buchen: The Bloody Planet

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This week meet Callista Buchen, author of poetry chapbooks The Bloody Planet (Black Lawrence Press, October 2015) and Double-Mouthed (dancing girl press, April 2016). Callista earned an MA in literature from the University of Oregon, an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University, and a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Kansas. She is the winner of DIAGRAM‘s essay contest and the Langston Hughes award, with work appearing in Harpur Palate, Salt Hill, Cimarron Review, Fourteen Hills, Puerto del Sol, Salamander, Whiskey Island Review, and many other journals. She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Franklin College in Indiana.

Get Callista’s beautiful book!

The Bloody Planet: http://www.blacklawrence.com/the-bloody-planet/

Visit Callista’s website and sample her new chapbook, Double-Mouthed, forthcoming from dancing girl press: http://callistabuchen.com/double-mouthed/

Read More from Callista online!

Diagram: http://thediagram.com/13_2/buchen.html

Thrush: http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/march-2012-callista-buchen.html

Kill Author: http://killauthor.com/issueten/callista-buchen/

Atticus Review: http://atticusreview.org/lost/

Blue Mesa Review: http://bluemesareview.org/issues/issue-26/bluebird-by-callista-buchen/

Alice Blue Review: http://www.alicebluereview.org/twentyfour/poetry/buchen.html

Arsenic Lobster: http://arseniclobster.magere.com/archive/issuethirtyone/310101.html

and in one of my favorite journals 🙂

A-Minor Magazine: http://aminormagazine.com/2012/05/21/on-mars/

Hear Callista read (With Amy Ash)

https://vimeo.com/99163516

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

 

 

 

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