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Monday Must Read! Erica Plouffe Lazure, Heard Around Town

ericaMust Read Monday! Erica Plouffe Lazure, Heard Around Town

This week, meet Erica Plouffe Lazure, author of the flash fiction collection, Heard Around Town, winner of the 2014 Arcadia Fiction Chapbook Prize. Another fiction chapbook, Dry Dock, was published by Red Bird Press in Spring 2015.

Her fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, the Greensboro Review, Meridian, American Short Fiction, The Journal of Micro Literature, Fiction Southeast, Flash: the International Short-Short Story Magazine (UK), and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in Exeter, NH

Erica’s website: ericaplouffelazure.com

Erica’s books!

Pre-order Heard Around Town:

http://www.arcadiamagazine.org/#!product/prd15/4198023721/heard-around-town-pre-order

Get Dry Dock: http://www.redbirdchapbooks.com/store/p181/Dry_Dock_by_Erica_Plouffe_Lazure.html

Interview with Erica at American Short Fiction: http://americanshortfiction.org/2014/09/07/online-fiction-interview-erica-plouffe-lazure/

Interview with Erica at One Bike, One Year, by the fabulous Devi Lockwood:

https://onebikeoneyear.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/interview-with-erica-plouffe-lazure/

Read more from Erica online:

MadHat Lit: http://madhatlit.com/red-thread-erica-plouffe-lazure/

Smokelong Quarterly: http://www.smokelong.com/smoking-with-erica-plouffe-lazure/

Black Heart Magazine: http://blackheartmagazine.com/2014/11/06/hickory-wind-by-erica-plouffe-lazure/  

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Julie Brooks Barbour, Small Chimes

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This week meet Julie Brooks Barbour, the author of Small Chimes (Aldrich Press, 2014) and two chapbooks: Earth Lust (2014) and Come To Me and Drink (2012), both from Finishing Line Press.

She is a recipient of an Artist Enrichment Grant from Kentucky Foundation for Women and a residency at Sundress Academy for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in Waccamaw, Four Way Review, diode, storySouth, Prime Number Magazine, burntdistrict, The Rumpus, Midwestern Gothic, Blue Lyra Review, and Verse Daily.

She is co-editor of the journal Border Crossing and an Associate Poetry Editor at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. She teaches composition and creative writing at Lake Superior State University. 

 

Julie’s website: http://www.juliebrooksbarbour.com

 

Where to get Julie’s book Small Chimes:

http://www.amazon.com/Small-Chimes-Julie-Brooks-Barbour/dp/0615993508/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435575777&sr=1-1&keywords=julie+brooks+barbour

 

Check out Earth Lust!

https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=2113

 

Come to Me and Eat

https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=723

 

More from Julie online:

At Connotation Press: http://www.connotationpress.com/poetry/1793-julie-brooks-barbour-poetry

At Negative Capability: http://www.negativecapabilitypress.org/blog/2015/3/22/featured-poet-julie-brooks-barbour

At Verse Daily:  http://www.versedaily.org/2012/aboutjuliebrooksbarbour.shtml

 

A Great Interview with Julie:

http://www.lauramadelinewiseman.com/blog/2014/07/28/the-chapbook-interview-with-julie-brooks-barbour-on-retellings/

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Annie Finch, Spells

Annie-Finch-author-photo1This week, meet Annie Finch, an American poet, author, playwright, spiritual writer, and entrepreneur, author of six books of poetry, many books and anthologies on poetic form, and numerous verse plays and poetic collaborations with composers, dancers, and artists.

Annie’s most recent books are Spells: New and Selected Poems, Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, and A Poet’s Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, The Norton Anthology of World Poetry, and The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry.

A mesmerizing performer of her work and a beloved poetry teacher, Annie is the founder of PoetcraftCircles.com (on Facebook as Poetcraft Circles), where she loves to hang out, teach, and discuss poetic meter and form.

Praise:

”Annie Finch’s Spells is a pure tone that calls us home to the first impulse of poetry. We link to mystery. We lift off.”~Joy Harjo

About Spells

Spells: New and Selected Poems brings together Annie Finch’s most memorable and important poems written over forty years. Finch’s uniquely mysterious voice moves through the book, revealing insights on the classic themes of love, spirituality, death, nature, and the patterns of time. Finch is celebrated for her extraordinary love and knowledge of poetic craft, and Spells displays her virtuosity in a broad range of genres and forms. The book also includes a number of new and previously unpublished poems.

Annie’s website: http://www.anniefinch.com/

More about Annie’s most recent book Spells:

http://www.anniefinch.com/spells-new-and-selected-poems/

Annie also writes about feminism and women’s spirituality for The Huffington Post and elsewhere, and is completing a book on her spiritual path called American Witch.

She is the founder of American Witch Community & Marketplace, a craft collective of witchy products and online membership community based in female-centered spirituality.

Learn more about American Witch at www.americanwitch.com, or on Facebook as American Witch.

Magical Tools for Your Inner Goddess https://american-witch.myshopify.com/

More Annie online:

Annie’s Work at The Poetry Foundation: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/annie-finch

Hear Annie read her work: http://www.anniefinch.com/audio/

Annie on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Arcfinch

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Diane Lockward, The Crafty Poet, and Temptation by Water

diane_lockwardThis week, meet Diane Lockward, author of The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop (Wind Publications, 2013) and three poetry books, most recently Temptation by Water. Her previous books are What Feeds Us, which received the 2006 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, and Eve’s Red Dress. A new poetry collection, The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement, is scheduled for publication in 2015. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Against Perfection and Greatest Hits: 1997-2010. Her poems have been included in such anthologies as Poetry Daily: 360 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Poetry Website and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times, and in such journals as Harvard Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her work has also been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Gwarlingo, and The Writer’s Almanac. She is the Poet Laureate of West Caldwell, New Jersey, where she runs two annual poetry events: The West Caldwell Poetry Festival and Girl Talk. She publishes a free monthly e-mail Poetry Newsletter and is happy to have new subscribers.

She blogs at Blogalicious, http://www.dianelockward.blogspot, and keeps a website at www.dianelockward.com.

Crafty Link to Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Crafty-Poet-Portable-Workshop/dp/193613862X%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJBDF5XQBATGDX4VQ%26tag%3Dspea06-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D193613862X

For information about The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop

http://www.dianelockward.blogspot.com/p/the-crafty-poet-portable-workshop.html

Description: The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop is a poetry tutorial to inform and inspire poets. It contains model poems with prompts, writing tips, and interviews contributed by fifty-six poets, including thirteen former and current state Poets Laureate. An additional forty-five poets contributed sample poems. Geared for experienced poets and aspiring poets, this book is ideal for individual use at home or group use in the classroom or workshop.

Review by Lynn Domina

http://lynndomina.com/?p=162

Review by Christine Veladota

http://maybesopoetry.com/2014/12/20/the-crafty-poet-a-portable-workshop-by-diane-lockward/

Comments from readers:

I LOVE the poet interviews sprinkled in with the craft tips. These alone are worth the price of the book. I highly, highly recommend it to any poet writing today. It brings forth much fruit! Do go and secure a copy immediately. (C.A. LaRue)

Here is a must for teachers of poetry. . . a feast of poems and instructions. (Grace Cavalieri)

Sample Bonus Prompt

http://adelekenny.blogspot.com/2013/10/prompt-166-word-chain-poem-by-guest.html

Sample Prompt with model poem

http://adelekenny.blogspot.com/2014/11/prompt-210-loveliness-of-words-by-guest.html

Happy Reading—and Writing!

xo

Mary

 

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Monday Must Read! Melissa Eleftherion, Pigtail Duty

melissa eletherionThis week, meet Melissa Eleftherion, the author of huminsect (dancing girl press, 2013), prism maps (dusie kollektiv, 2014), Pigtail Duty (dancing girl press, 2015), and several other chapbooks and fragments. Melissa grew up in Brooklyn.

Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Bone Bouquet, Bukowski Erasure Poetry Anthology, Delirious Hem, Dusie, Entropy, Finery, Manifesting the Female Epic, Mom Egg Review, Open Letters Monthly, Poet as Radio, So to Speak, & TRUCK.

She works as a librarian with Mendocino County Libraries, and created, developed, and currently manages the Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange.

Melissa’s website: www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com

Follow Melissa on Twitter! @apoetlibrarian

Where to find Melissa’s books:

Pigtail Duty

http://dulcetshop.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/pigtail-duty-melissa-eleftherion

Huminsect

https://dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/huminsect-melissa-eleftherion

 

Check out this very cool project!

Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange: http://poetrychapbooks.omeka.net/

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Jessica Goodfellow, Mendeleev’s Mandala

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16757_10152358444066238_732481883340469962_nThis week, meet Jessica Goodfellow, author of Mendeleev’s Mandala (Mayapple Press, 2015) and The Insomniac’s Weather Report (Isobar Press, 2014).

Her chapbook, A Pilgrim’s Guide to Chaos in the Heartland, won the 2006 Concrete Wolf Chapbook Competition.

Her work has appeared in Best New Poets, Verse Daily, and NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac. Jessica received the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize from the Beloit Poetry Journal, as well as the Linda Julian Essay Award and the Sue Lile Inman Fiction Prize, both from the Emrys Foundation. Her work was made into a short film by Motionpoems (May 2015) and screened at the Minneapolis/St Paul International Film Festival and AWP 2015. Jessica has graduate degrees from Caltech and the University of New England. She lives and works in Japan.

Praise for Jessica Goodfellow “Here is a poet who has boldly refused to abide to the expectations of genre—but instead, pushes language and form as a means of asking the most urgent questions. The result is a courageous and kaleidoscopic, at times tender and vulnerable, exploration of motherhood and family—set against the backdrops of science, history, religion, myths, and mathematics. When a poet embarks on a book as myriad and borderless as this one, we are gifted the rare chance to stand at the threshold of a formidable human storm. And from here, it is clear that Goodfellow’s Mendeleev’s Mandala is an electric book. But its lines are not limited to lightning. They move more like thunder, startling, resonant, and suddenly everywhere in the mind at once. –Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky With Exit Wounds

Jessica Goodfellow has a joyous intelligence and electric tongue. Reading this book a first time, my only regret was that I couldn’t read it a second first time. But then I read it a first second time and a first third. You see what I’m doing? I’m reading this book over and over, without ever completely taking it in. I think you will too. And like me, want only one thing from Jessica Goodfellow – more. – Bob Hicok

Jessica’s website: http://www.jessicagoodfellow.com/

Links to some poems from Mendeleev’s Mandala: http://www.diodepoetry.com/v6n2/content/goodfellow_j.html http://www.versedaily.org/2007/roadtrip.shtml http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/march-2012-jessica-goodfellow.html

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Karen Paul-Holmes, Untying the Knot

Another poetry house concert to tell you about from this fabulous weekend, but in the spirit of this whole adventure of getting more poetry out into the world, I’m going to start a lil sumpin-sumpin here weekly, promoting other contemporary poets out there making the world beautiful with their words!

I’m gonna post links etc for fabulous poets out there in the world right now, a post I’m calling

Monday Must Read!

Karen Headshot May1 9 08 033This week, meet Karen Paul-Holmes, author of Untying the Knot, from Aldrich Press, a memoir in poetry, telling the story of the end of long marriage and the healing that follows.

Tom Lux says this lovely book is written with “grace, humor and self-awareness and without a dollop of self-pity,” and William Wright says the book “possesses the potential to teach us ways to navigate and ultimately transcend the difficulties of divorce and the feelings of loss and grief such division engenders.”

Karen, in support of other writers, also hosts a critique group in Atlanta and a Writers’ Night Out in the Blue Ridge Mountains. You can see more about Karen and Untying the Knot at the following links

Untying the Knot on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/untying

Karen Paul-Holmes at P&W: http://www.pw.org/content/karen_holmes

Four Poems from Karen at The Dead Mule: http://www.deadmule.com/poetry/karen-paul-holmes-four-poems/

Untying the Knot on Extract(s): http://dailydoseoflit.com/2015/02/27/excerpt-karen-paul-holmes/

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

 

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