"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

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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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Monday Must Read! Teow Lim Goh: Islanders

TeowThis week meet Teow Lim Goh, the author of Islanders (Conundrum Press, 2016), a book of poems on the history of the Angel Island Immigration Station. Her writing has appeared in PANK, The Toast, Guernica, The Rumpus, Winter Tangerine Review, and Open Letters Monthly, among other publications. She also makes letterpress and art editions of poetry and other writings at her imprint Black Orchid Press. She lives in Denver.

Visit Teow’s Website: http://teowlimgoh.com/

Purchase Teow’s beautiful book! Islanders

Black Orchid Press Limited Edition! Teow’s work was the inaugural Black Orchid Press title, her work featured in a series of six letterpress postcards of poems. These were produced in a Limited Edition of 100, with all copies numbered and signed. Visit and purchase these Faraway Places.

More from Teow Online:

Selected Poems and Essays:

Three Poems at The Toast.

Split at Guernica Daily.

Flowers of Prison: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz at Open Letters Monthly.

The Stories that Bind Us at The Philadelphia Review of Books.

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Tasha Cotter: Girl in the Cave

tasha cotterThis week meet Tasha Cotter, the author of three poetry collections, including Some Churches (Gold Wake Press, 2013), That Bird Your Heart (Finishing Line Press, 2013), and Girl in the Cave (Tree Light Books, 2016). Winner of the 2015 Delphi Poetry Series, her work has appeared in journals such as Contrary Magazine, NANO fiction, and Booth. In 2015 she was named runner-up in the Carnegie Center’s Next Great Writer contest. A contributor to Women in Clothes (Blue Rider Press, 2014), The Poets on Growth Anthology (Math Paper Press, 2015), and the 2017 Poet’s Market (Writer’s Digest Books), she makes her home in Lexington, Kentucky where she works in higher education.

Buy Tasha’s books!

http://www.amazon.com/Tasha-Cotter/e/B00AO7JBX6

Read More From Tasha Online:

Superstition Review:

https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/

Interim Magazine:

http://interim.squarespace.com/

storySouth:

http://www.storysouth.com/2015/09/the-passing-of-everyone-else.html

Hear Tasha Read!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt8936wYw-g

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

Happy Reading, Y’all!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Sandra Marchetti, Confluence

sandy marchettiThis week, meet Sandra Marchetti, the author of Confluence, a debut full-length collection of poetry from Sundress Publications. She is also a co-author of Heart Radicals, a forthcoming chapbook of love poems from ELJ Publications. Eating Dog Press published an illustrated letterpress edition of her essays and poetry, A Detail in the Landscape, and her first volume, The Canopy, won Midwest Writing Center’s Mississippi Valley Chapbook Contest. Gulf Coast, Phoebe, and Prick of the Spindle have honored Sandra’s work in recent annual contests and her poetry appears widely in Subtropics, Ecotone, Green Mountains Review, Word Riot, Blackbird, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. Her essays and reviews can be found at The Rumpus, Words Without Borders, Mid-American Review and other venues. Sandra’s poetry and prose is anthologized in New Poetry from the Midwest, Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland, The World is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins, and other volumes. She lives outside of Chicago with her husband.

Learn More:
https://www.facebook.com/sandywritingservices/
http://www.pw.org/content/sandra_marchetti
http://eljpublications.com/our-authors/sandra-marchetti/

Links to Purchase Books:
https://squareup.com/market/sundress-publications/confluence-by-sandra-marchetti-pre-order
http://www.mwcqc.org/books/the-canopy-by-sandra-marchetti/

Reviews of Confluence:
http://therumpus.net/2015/03/confluence-by-sandra-marchetti/
http://lit.newcity.com/2015/07/20/looking-at-longing-chicago-poet-sandra-marchetti-debuts-with-confluence/
http://www.raintaxi.com/confluence/

Links to Read Poems Online:
http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/january-2014-sandra-marchetti.html
http://www.splitlipmagazine.com/#!14-sandra-marchetti/c1pwa
http://themuseumofamericana.net/current-issue/poetry/three-poems-by-sandra-marchetti/
http://www.wordriot.org/archives/7484
http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/grace-by-sandra-marchetti/

Links to Listen/Watch Sandy Online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5m34WhZoRc
https://vimeo.com/125487102
http://sugarhousereviewblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-sound-of-sugarsandra-marchetti.html
http://www.menacinghedge.com/summer2014/entry-marchetti.php

Interviews:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07wPT0pxXyw
https://geosireads.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/interview-with-sandra-marchetti-author-of-confluence/
http://entropymag.org/getting-lit-round-4-with-sandra-marchetti/

Happy reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Hilary Rogers King; The Maid’s Car

bio picThis week meet Hilary Rogers King, author of The Maid’s Car. Hilary was born and raised in Virginia, lived in Atlanta for the last twenty years. In Atlanta, Hilary was active as a poet and playwright. She helped found The Atlanta Women’s Poetry Collective and Atlanta Women in Theatre, two groups created for women artists to connect and collaborate. Hilary’s poems have appeared in Blue Fifth Review, The Cortland Review, PANK, Gertrude,Vinyl Poetry and other fine publications. Hilary is also an accomplished playwright. In December 2015, Hilary moved with her family to the Bay Area of California for her husband’s job. She looks forward to discovering the poetry scene in Silicon Valley, or creating one.

Buy Hilary’s Book!

Her first book of poetry, The Maid’s Car was released last summer by Aldrich Press.

http://www.amazon.com/Maids-Car-Hilary-King/dp/0692498397/ref=sr_1_1

Visit Hilary’s website!

http://hilarykingwriter.com/

Hilary also blogs about podcasts at

www.hilaryhearssomething.com

Read more from Hilary online!

http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/53/king.php

http://vinylpoetry.com/volume-3/page-35/

https://postcardpoemsandprose.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/third-snow-atlanta-georgia-2011-by-hilary-king/

http://www.gravelmag.com/hilary-king.html

Interview at Pank

http://pankmagazine.com/2011/04/26/ask-the-author-hilary-king/

Happy reading, y’all!

xo

Mary

 

 

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Monday Must Read! Carla Panciera: One of the Cimalores

 

Carla Panciera headshotThis week meet Carla Panciera, author of two collections of poetry: One of the Cimalores (Cider Press) and No Day, No Dusk, No Love (Bordighera). Her collection of short stories, Bewildered, received AWP’s 2013 Grace Paley Short Fiction Award and is available from the University of Massachusetts Press. Her work has appeared in several journals including The New England Review, Nimrod, The Chattahoochee Review, Painted Bride, and Carolina Quarterly. 

A high school English teacher, Carla lives in Rowley, MA, with her husband and three daughters.

Buy Carla’s Books!

Bewildered:

http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/bewildered

or http://www.amazon.com/Bewildered-Stories-Grace-Paley-Fiction/dp/1625341334/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452528946&sr=1-2&keywords=one+of+the+cimalores

No Day, No Dusk, No Love:

http://www.amazon.com/Dusk-Love-Bordighera-Poetry-Prize/dp/159954024X

One of the Cimalores:

http://www.amazon.com/One-Cimalores-Carla-Panciera/dp/1930781008/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452528946&sr=1-1&keywords=one+of+the+cimalores

Read Carla’s Work Online

Poetry:

http://euphonyjournal.org/2015/02/27/poetry-memoir-by-carla-panciera/

http://pbq.drexel.edu/carla-panciera-the-memory-i-would-have-chosen/

http://www.masspoetry.org/poemofthemoment5/ (scroll down the page)

http://bryantliteraryreview.org/index.php?page=selected-poems (scroll down the page)

Fiction: 

http://www.nereview.com/2013/03/20/all-of-a-sudden/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carla-panciera/featured-fifty-fiction-it-cant-be-this-way-everywhere_b_3362348.html

Follow Carla’s Blog!

http://carlapanciera.com/

 

Happy reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Lesléa Newman, I Carry My Mother

leslea newmanThis week meet Lesléa Newman, the author of 70 books for readers of all ages including the poetry collections, Still Life with Buddy, Nobody’s Mother, and Signs of Love. In 2012, her novel-in-verse, October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard, received a Stonewall Honor from the American Library Association and was named a “Must Read” title by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Ms. Newman has won many literary awards including poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation; the Burning Bush Poetry Prize; the Americus Review poetry prize, and second place runner-up in the Solstice Literary Journal poetry competition. Her poetry has been published in Spoon River Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Evergreen Chronicles, Moment Magazine, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Lilith Magazine, Kalliope, The Sun, Bark Magazine, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review,  Seventeen Magazine and others. Nine of her books have been Lambda Literary Award Finalists and she has received four Pushcart Prize nominations. From 2008-2010 she served as the poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts. Currently she is a faculty member of Spalding University’s low-residency MFA in Writing program. Her newest poetry collection, I Carry My Mother was published in January 2015 by Headmistress Press.

Lesléa’s website: http://www.lesleanewman.com/newbks.htm

Buy Lesléa Newman’s latest poetry book, I Carry My Mother:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0692277056/leslenewmawrite/

Buy Lesléa Newman’s novel-in-verse, October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0763658073/leslenewmawrite/

Poetry by Lesléa Newman:

“How to Watch Your Father Watch Your Mother Die”

http://www.masspoetry.org/poemofthemoment4/#pomnewman

“Looking at Her”

http://www.lavrev.net/2014/12/leslea-newman.html

“I Carry My Mother”

http://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2015/06/12/i-carry-my-mother-by-leslea-newman/

“Teen Angels”

http://gottabook.blogspot.com/2013/04/leslea-newman-teen-angels.html

Interviews

“Getting to Know Lesléa Newman and her new book, I Carry My Mother

http://www.masspoetry.org/newbooknewman/

“Poet to Poet: Jane Yolen interviews Lesléa Newman”

http://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com/2015/01/poet-to-poet-jane-yolen-and-leslea.html

“On Poetry, Mentoring, and Writing for Adults and Teens”

http://scbwi.blogspot.com/2015/03/leslea-newman-on-poetry-mentoring-and.html

“It’s My Job To Use My Imagination: Writing October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard”

http://www.recorder.com/home/11350058-95/its-my-job-to-imagine

Articles:

“Formally Yours: The Joys of Writing Formal Verse”

http://www.spaldingmfablog.org/?p=318

“Writing October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard: An 11 Year Journey”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leslea-newman/october-mourning-a-song-for-matthew-shepard_b_1909595.html

“Dear Professor H.”

http://passagesnorth.com/2014/10/writers-on-writing-95-leslea-newman/

“Allen, Adieu: A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg”

http://www.lesleanewman.com/allen_adieu.html


Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Sarah Nichols: Edie (Whispering)

Monday Must Read!

sarah nichols monday must readThis week meet Sarah Nichols, a writer living in Connecticut. Her chapbook, Edie (Whispering): Poems from Grey Gardens, was recently published by dancing girl press. Her first book, The Country of No, was published in 2012 by Finishing Line Press. Her poem, “My Stepmother Responds to My Recovered Memory,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Thank You for Swallowing. Her poems have also appeared inYellow Chair Review, Found Poetry Review, Right Hand Pointing, and Porkbelly Press’s Emily Anthology (2015).

Links to Sarah’s beautiful books

Edie (Whispering)(dancing girl press): Edie (Whispering): Poems from Grey Gardens | Sarah Nichols

Country of No (Finishing Line Press) https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=971

Read Sarah’s work online

“My Stepmother Responds to My Recovered Memory,” thankyouforswallowing.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/my-stepmother-responds-to-my-recovered-memory

“Batman’s Wife,” Yellow Chair Review: Yellow Chair Review – Pop Culture Issue 2015  (Pg. 60)

“The Secret,” Found Poetry Review, Volume Eight:volumeeight.foundpoetryreview.com/855

“Smoke Horse,” in Right Hand Pointing: www.righthandpointing.net/#!sarah-nichols/ci1b

Interview with Sarah

http://www.nicolerollender.com/carpe-noctem-blog/chapbook-interview-with-sarah-nichols

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

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