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Sometimes the Prompt Gets By With a Little Help From Friends
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Great conversation thread yesterday started by the amazing poet and person Karen Craigo on Facebook regarding what we can do all to support poetry and other poets. Got me thinking about how my mama always quoted John Donne, his “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions,” saying “No man is an island.”
Make art about community, abut community-building, about our need for community.
Monday Must Read! Rachel Heimowitz: What the Light Reveals
Monday Must Read! Rachel Heimowitz: What the Light Reveals
This 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
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
Sometimes the Prompt Floats On the Fields
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“…careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist …”~John Geddes
Make art with mist as the central metaphor.
Monday Must Read! Callista Buchen: The Bloody Planet
Monday Must Read! Callista Buchen: The Bloody Planet
Photo Credit: Megan Kearney
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)
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Photo Credit: Megan Kearney
HeartWood Literary Magazine!
HeartWood Literary Magazine
Poetry! Fiction! Creative Nonfiction!
Our inaugural issue goes live April 1st!
We’re now reading for the October issue. Send us that beautiful work!
Monday Must Read! Teow Lim Goh: Islanders
This 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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