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Monday Must Read! Sam Rasnake: Cinéma Vérité

Monday Must Read! Sam Rasnake: Cinéma Vérité

sam rasnakeThis week meet Sam Rasnake. Sam’s works, receiving five nominations for the Pushcart Prize, have appeared in OCHO, Wigleaf, Big Muddy,Literal Latté, Poem, Pebble Lake Review, Poets/Artists, New World Writing, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Santa Fe Literary Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, as well as the anthologies MiPOesias Companion 2012, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Best of the Web 2009, LUMMOX 2012, Flash Fiction Fridays, BOXCAR Poetry Review Anthology 2, Deep River Apartments, The Lost Children, and Dogzplot Flash Fiction 2011.

He is the author of Necessary Motions (Sow’s Ear Press, 1998), Religions of the Blood (Pudding House Press, 1998), Lessons in Morphology (GOSS183, 2010) and Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press, 2010). His latest poetry collection is Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press 2013). His latest poetry collection is Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press 2013).

He is chapbook editor for Sow’s Ear Poetry Review and has served as a judge for the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, University of California, Berkeley, and from 2001-2010 was editor of Blue Fifth Review. Since 2011, Rasnake has edited, with Michelle Elvy, the Blue Five Notebook Series from BFR.

Sam’s website: https://samofthetenthousandthings.wordpress.com/

Get Sam’s beautiful books!

Cinéma Vérité

(from fabulous A-Minor Press!):  https://www.createspace.com/4377102

Inside a Broken Clock: 

`https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=660

 

Read more of Sam’s work online:

http://www.connotationpress.com/poetry/1129-sam-rasnake-poetry

http://www.fwrictionreview.com/post/28048617961/three-poems-by-sam-rasnake

http://www.coriummagazine.com/?page_id=179

http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com/2013/06/some-last-things-by-sam-rasnake-so-many.html

 

Hear Sam Read his beautiful work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSOx7D62-NA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrBm91nmX6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjoGRro_1VQ

 

Happy reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Laurie Kolp: Upon the Blue Couch

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laurie kolpThis week meet Laurie Kolp. Laurie is an avid runner, lover of nature, mother of three, and wife to former Marine who enjoys living life one day at a time in Southeast Texas. She is the author of Upon the Blue Couch (Winter Goose Publishing, 2014) and Hello It’s Your Mother (Finishing Line Press, October 2015). Laurie’s poems have appeared in more than four dozen print and online journals worldwide including the 2015 Poet’s Market, Scissors & Spackle, North Dakota Quarterly, Blue Fifth Review, and Pirene’s Fountain.

You can find out more about Laurie on her website, http://lauriekolp.com

Praise for Laurie’s work!

Laurie Kolp’s new collection Hello, It’s Your Mother is a poetry that threads the hard truth of loss and grief to daily living – piano lessons, coffee tables, blueberry scones, and phones.  It’s the ordinary made universal in the relentless will to sort the fragments of life, to give us something to hold, and Kolp does this well. Her writing skill never falters, never loses voice, allowing the real moments of mother / daughter relationships to find a strong connection in all readers. This is a remarkable and penetrating work.~Sam Rasnake, author of Cinéma Vérité (Editor of Blue Fifth Review)

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Because Kolp writes of the everyday, she writes of the familiar. These poems and the life they paint are recognizable. We see ourselves in the poems; we share the emotions they evoke; and the life and lives they represent become our lives. ~Glynn Young of Tweetspeak Poetry, Author of Poetry at Work

Laurie’s Work and More Online:

Upon the Blue Couch- Amazon, Barnes & Noble

Origami Poems Project (free micro-chap)- What You Left

Turtle Island Quarterly- Muffled (bottom of Chapter 1)

Gnarled Oak- haiku

Otter Magazine- Crushed Rose

Black Heart Magazine- 3 poems

Here is a link to an interview by Robert Lee Brewer on Poetic Asides.

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Marilyn McCabe: Perpetual Motion and Rugged Means of Grace

Monday Must Read! 

marilyn mccabeThis week, meet Marilyn McCabe, author of Perpetual Motion, published by The Word Works in 2012 as the winner of the Hilary Tham Capitol Collection contest.

Peek inside and purchase Marilyn’s book from Small Press Distribution:

http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780915380824/perpetual-motion.aspx

A chapbook, Rugged Means of Grace, was published by Finishing Line Press:

https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=1337

Marilyn’s poem “On Hearing the Call to Prayer Over the Marcellus Shale on Easter Morning” was awarded A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Orlando Prize, fall 2012, appeared in the Los Angeles Review.

View it at http://aroomofherownfoundation.org/on-hearing-the-call-to-prayer-over-the-marcellus-shale-on-easter-morning-by-marilyn-mccabe/

Her work has appeared in literary magazines such as Nimrod, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly, French translations and songs on Numero Cinq, and a video-poem on The Continental Review.

Visit Marilyn’s blog about writing and reading at marilynonaroll.wordpress.com

Read more of Marilyn’s work online:

Valparaiso Literary Review:

http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/v14n1/v14n1poetry/mccabelakeshore.php

The Cortland Review:

http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/52/mccabe.php

Interview at TNB:

http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/tnbpoetry/2012/04/marilyn-mccabe-the-tnb-self-interview/

 

Happy reading, y’all!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Diana Whitney: Wanting It

Monday Must Read!

DianaWhitneyheadshotThis week meet Diana Whitney. Diana’s first book of poetry, Wanting It, was released in 2014 by Harbor Mountain Press and became an indie bestseller. Wanting It won the Rubery International Book Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Julie Suk Award here in the US.  Diana is the poetry columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the winner of the 2015 Women’s National Book Association poetry prize, selected by Ellen Bass.  She is grateful to have received grants and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center.

Diana’s poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Crab Orchard Review, The Rumpus, Mud Season Review, and many more. Her irreverent parenting column, Spilt Milk, was syndicated for years, ran as a public radio commentary series, and is currently being collected into a risky memoir about motherhood and sexuality.  A yoga teacher by trade, Diana blogs about the darker side of mothering for The Huffington Post and runs a yoga studio in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and thirteen chickens.

Visit Diana’s website: www.diana-whitney.com

Get Diana’s book:

http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988275522/wanting-it.aspx

Reviews of Diana’s book, Wanting It:

Gulf Coast Magazine:

http://gulfcoastmag.org/online/blog/wanting-it,-a-review/

Coal Hill Review: 

http://www.coalhillreview.com/book-review-wanting-it-by-diana-whitney/

Read Diana’s work online:

New poems:

Mud Season Review

 http://mudseasonreview.com/2015/07/poetry-issue-11/

One: Jacar Press

http://one.jacarpress.com/?s=Diana+Whitney#Diana%20Whitney

Book Reviews:

http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Poetry-John-Burnside-Jane-Hirshfield-Rebecca-6401935.php

Essays:

http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2013/08/10/kissing-essay-diana-whitney/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-whitney/raising-a-rock-star_b_5888600.html

Author interviews:

http://mudseasonreview.com/2015/07/you-never-know-when-youre-working/

http://www.penparentis.org/interview-with-poet-diana-whitney/

 

Happy reading!

xo

Mary

 

 

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Monday Must Read! Therése Halscheid: Frozen Latitudes

 

Monday Must Read! 

Therése HalscheidThis week, meet Therése Halscheid. Therése’s new book Frozen Latitudes (Press 53), won the Eric Hoffer Book Award, HM for Poetry. Other collections include Uncommon Geography,Without Home, Powertalk, and a Greatest Hits chapbook award.

Her poems and essays have appeared in many journals, among them The Gettysburg Review,Tampa Review, Crab Orchard Review, Natural Bridge.

By way of house-sitting, she has lived the life of an itinerant writer. Her travels have taken her from a swamp in the Florida Panhandle to the Arctic north of Alaska, where she lived with and taught an Eskimo Inupiaq tribe.

Visit Therése’s website: www.ThereseHalscheid.com

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Monday Must Read! Ellen Hagan: Hemisphere and Crowned

Monday Must Read! 

Hagan_Headshot_BWThis weeek, meet Ellen Hagan, writer, performer, and educator. Her latest collection of poetry Hemisphere was released from Northwestern University Press, Spring 2015. Ellen’s poems and essays can be found in the pages of Creative Nonfiction, Underwired Magazine, She Walks in Beauty (edited by Caroline Kennedy), Huizache, Small Batch, and Southern Sin. Her first collection of poetry, Crowned was published by Sawyer House Press in 2010.

Ellen recently joined the po­etry faculty at West Virginia Wesleyan in their low-residency MFA program. She teaches Memoir, Poetry & Nature, and co-leads the Alice Hoffman Young Writer’s Retreat at Adelphi University. She is Poetry Chair of the DreamYard Project. A proud Kentucky writer, Ellen is a member of the Affrilachian Poets, Conjure Women, and is co-founder of the girlstory collective. She lives with her husband and daughters in New York City.

Website

 http://www.ellenhagan.com

Buy Local

Hemisphere: Poems | IndieBound

Review

BOOK: Ellen Hagan’s ‘Hemisphere’ – LEO Weekly

Duende Literary Magazine

http://www.duendeliterary.org/ellen-hagan/

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Monday Must Read! Marcene Gandolfo: Angles of Departure

11222301_10206983464528561_8819456232922751560_nMonday Must Read!

This week, meet Marcene Gandolfo. Her debut book, Angles of Departure, recently won Foreword Reviews’ Silver Book of the Year Award in Poetry. Marcene’s poems have been published widely in literary journals, including Poet Lore, Bellingham Review, Bayou, DMQ Review, and Paterson Literary Review. She has taught writing and literature at several northern California colleges.

Get Marcene’s Book: http://www.amazon.com/Angles-Departure-Marcene-Gandolfo/dp/1625490658

Marcene’s Website

http://www.marcenegandolfo.com/

Reviews of Marcene’s Book:

http://www.sundresspublications.com/stirring/archives/v17/e7/gandolfo.htm

http://thewideningspell.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2015-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=3

More from Marcene Online:

Bellingham Review

http://bhreview.org/2014/10/05/after/

http://bhreview.org/2014/10/05/again/

http://bhreview.org/2014/10/05/broken-chord/

Jet Fuel Review

http://www.jetfuelreview.com/previous-issues/issue-8-fall-2014/poetry/marcene-gandolfo/

DMQ Review

http://www.dmqreview.com/15Spring/index2.h

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Monday Must Read! Robert Aquinas McNally, Simply To Know Its Name

Monday Must Read!

McNally03This week meet Robert Aquinas McNally, the author or coauthor of nine books of nonfiction, with a tenth in the works, and the author of four poetry chapbooks and the full-length collection Simply to Know Its Name, which won the Grayson Books Poetry Prize in 2014 and was published by Grayson Books this past April. His poems have appeared in a long list of anthologies and journals, including Ecotone, Spillway, Snowy Egret, Quiddity, RiverSedge, Blueline, Minnetonka Review, Sanskrit Literary Arts Magazine, Soundings East, and Runes. Five times his poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. A member of the National Association of Science Writers and the Western Writers of America, McNally has also written news, features, and essays about the wild, particularly in the American West. He wanders, wonders, and writes in Northern California.

Get Robert’s book! Simply to Know Its Name on Grayson Books:

 http://www.graysonbooks.com/simply-to-know-its-name.html

A Reading of Poems, Plus a Commentary on Poetry and Awe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP3f8lyw50E

Read more from Robert online 🙂

“Sheepshead” http://www.decompmagazine.com/sheepshead.htm

“Passage” http://minnetonkareview.com/IssueSeven/robert_aquinas_mcnally.html

“Red Fox” http://www.versedaily.org/2015/redfox.shtml

“Great Blue Heron” http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/gallery.php?item=19848

 

Happy Reading!

Xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Margaret Mackinnon, The Invented Child

Monday Must Read!

Author_Photo_MargaretMackinnonThis week meet Margaret Mackinnon, author of The Invented Child, for which she received the Gerald Cable Book Award and was given the 2014 Literary Award in Poetry from the Library of Virginia. Her work has appeared in Image, Poetry, New England Review, Georgia Review, Quarterly West, RHINO, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Poet Lore, and other publications.

Margaret Mackinnon grew up in the South, influenced by a lush landscape and a family that emphasized a deep connection between language and meaning. Her mother wrote poetry as a young woman (and generously encouraged all her earliest literary efforts). Her father was a Presbyterian minister, so every Sunday, she watched him try to give shape to beliefs and questions through the words of sermons, prayers, and creeds.

In college, at Vassar and the University of North Carolina, Mackinnon studied art history and religion, thinking about how image and pattern intersect with what we see as significant. And then came five years in Japan, where she taught English and studied textile design in a small circle of Japanese women artists. She learned something there about the discipline of a craft, and how that kind of focus can take one into a deeper attention to the everyday world. Back in the United States, she entered the graduate program in creative writing at the University of Florida.

Her awards include the Richard Eberhart Poetry Prize from Florida State University, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She teaches at a private girls’ high school and lives in Falls Church, Virginia.

She lives with her husband and daughter in Falls Church, Virginia.

More about The Invented Child

Margaret Mackinnon is a compelling voice in American poetry. Her début collection, The Invented Child, is beautifully poised between reticence and candor. Frequently inspired by visual art, she writes lovingly of her parents, her husband, her child, but also of Sophia Hawthorne and Walt Whitman and Grant Wood, reminding us of the “sweet amplitude” of life. These are splendid poems of feeling that look far beyond the self to the miraculous other. Brava! — Kelly Cherry

Four Poems from The Invented Child

http://www.beltwaypoetry.com/invented-child/

“For Grant Wood” at The Poetry Foundation

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/29417

“Mary Shelley’s Dream”

http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/v12n1/v12n1poetry/mackinnonmary.php

More poems and reviews at Verse Daily

http://www.versedaily.org/2013/aboutmargaretmackinnon.shtml

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Lennart Lundh, So Careless of Themselves, and Poems Against Cancer

 

Mac's Backs, June 2014, by Jen PezzoThis week, meet Lennart Lundh, the author of six poetry chapbooks. Four Poems, Pictures of an Other Day, and So Careless of Themselves were published by Writing Knights Press. Fifth April 1975, an extended poem written during the American bombing of Cambodia, is self-published. Poems Against Cancer 2014 and Poems Against Cancer 2015 were written and distributed as fundraisers for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation and its research into childhood cancers.

Len’s poetry has appeared in print since 1967, and online since the turn of the century. In the last year and a half, his work has been found in the real or virtual pages of Binnacle, Children Churches and Daddies, Copperfield Review, Crisis Chronicles, Drunk Monkeys, Hessler Street Poetry 2015, Liminal Age, NonBinary Review, Poetry Quarterly, Poetry Storehouse, River Poets Journal, Silver Birch Press projects, and anthologies from Writing Knights Press. He reads regularly at Lit by the Bridge, Traveling Mollies, Waiting for the Bus, and Waterline Writers in the Chicago area. Three or four times a year, he can be found featuring at various venues in Ohio.

He is also a historian (five books and a score of articles between 1984 and 2002) and short-fictionist. His fiction has appeared in Coffee Shop Blues, Ethereal Tales, Flashquake, Inkburns, Jet Fuel Review, Liar’s League, Litro, Mocha Memoirs, NonBinary Review, Page & Spine, postcard poems and prose, Quotable, River Poets Journal, SmokeLong Quarterly, Song of the Siren, Stray Branch, and Weird Lies. A short-fiction chapbook, After the Wolves, is scheduled to appear from Writing Knights Press this year.

Len and his wife of 47 years, Lin, live in northeastern Illinois.

One of these days, Lennart will have a Web site.

He is on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/lennart.lundh.5

Audio and video files of his work can be found on YouTube and Soundcloud.

To order his books from Writing Knights Press, go http://writingknights.bravesites.com/

To order his self-published chapbooks, contact Len at lenlundh@aol.com. Please note that all proceeds from Poems Against Cancer 2014 and Poems Against Cancer 2015 will go to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

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