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Monday Must Read! Nate Pritts: Post Human

nate-prittsNate Pritts, author of Post Human, from A-Minor Press is this week’s recommended read. He is the author of eight books of poetry, including Revenant Tracer, which won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award and will be published in the fall of 2017. Nate is the Director and Founding Editor of H_NGM_N (2001), an independent publishing house that started as a mimeograph ‘zine and which has grown to encompass an annual online journal, an occasional digital chapbook series, a continuing series of single-author books and sporadic limited edition/low-fi projects.

His most recent collection is Post Human (2016) which Publishers Weekly says “leads readers through a poetic dystopia that reveals the fragility of the human relationship with technology. Weaving his poems together as a meditative critique of technology and its numbing effect on the everyday, Pritts asks readers to imagine other possibilities amid ‘this daily flood/ of ephemera, this electronic life.'”

Publishers Weekly described his fifth book, Sweet Nothing (2011), as “both baroque and irreverent, banal and romantic, his poems […] arrive at a place of vulnerability and sincerity.” POETRY Magazine called The Wonderfull Yeare (2009), “rich, vivid, intimate, & somewhat troubled” while The Rumpus called Big Bright Sun(2010) “a textual record of mistakes made and insights gleaned…[in] a voice that knows its part in self-destruction.”

Nate Pritts is Associate Professor at Ashford University where he serves as Curriculum Lead and Administrative head of the Film program.

Nate’s Website: http://www.natepritts.com/

Buy Nate’s Books!

Post Human

Right Now More Than Ever

Sweet Nothing

Big Bright Sun

Origin Stories

Sensational Spectacular

Honorary Astronaut

HellBent

The Wonderful Yeare (A Shepherd’s Calendar)

Read More from Nate Online

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/nate-pritts

https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue12/poetry/natepritts

http://www.poolpoetry.com/poetry-nate-pritts.html

http://sporkpress.com/weeklies/poetry/archives/00000016.htm

https://theawl.com/a-poem-by-nate-pritts-bba876458796#.5nrjez1cl

http://www.rattle.com/the-wonderfull-yeare-by-nate-pritts/

http://indigestmag.com/blog/?p=17863#.WDw65NUrKM8

Interviews

http://www.natepritts.com/essays-interviews/

http://bombmagazine.org/article/6536/

http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_02_015660.php

 

Happy reading, y’all!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Naomi Ayala: Calling Home: Praise Songs and Incantations

naomi-ayalaThe beautiful Naomi Ayala was born in Puerto Rico and moved to the United States in her teens, eventually earning an MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars. Writing in both Spanish and English, she is author of the poetry collections Wild Animals on the Moon, chosen by the New York City Public Library as a 1999 Book for the Teen Age, This Side of Early, and this week’s recommended read, Calling Home:Praise Songs and Incantations. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies Boriquén to Diasporican: Puerto Rican Poetry from Aboriginal Times to the New Millennium (2007), Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature (2006), and First Flight: 24 Latino Poets (2006).

An educator and arts administrator interested in environmental causes, Ayala has received numerous awards, including the Connecticut Latinas in Leadership Award, the 2000 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy of Environmental Justice Award, and the 2001 Larry Neal Writers Award for Poetry from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Ayala has been a visiting humanities scholar for Hermana a Hermana/Sister to Sister and was co-chair of the board of directors for the organization Change: Building Social Justice, Starting in the Classroom; she co-founded the New Haven Alliance for Arts and Cultures. A former resident of Washington, DC, she currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and works as a freelance writer, educational consultant, and teaching artist.

 

Buy Naomi’s beautiful books!

Calling Home: Praise Songs and Incantations

http://bilingualpress.clas.asu.edu/book/calling-home

This Side of Early

http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/side-early

Wild Animals on the Moon

http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/wild-animals-moon-and-other-poems

 

Read More from Naomi Online

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/53007

http://washingtonart.com/beltway/ayala.html

http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/nayala.html

http://washingtonart.com/beltway/ayala4.html

http://www.nathanielturner.com/naomiayalabio.htm

http://www.anomalouspress.org/current/25.ayala.winter.php

http://blogthisrock.blogspot.com/2010/11/poem-of-week-naomi-ayala.html

 

Interviews

http://www.eethelbertmiller.com/muse/ayala.html

http://letraslatinasblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/pablo-miguel-martinez-interviews-naomi.html

Interview for the Oral History Program at the Institute for Latino Studies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPdLwaN2ez8

 

Hear Naomi Read!

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

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py5zfe-f9kc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84jhZutUlWo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABMXD7mY3uc

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Must Read–and Must See–Monday: Poetry of Witness

 

poetry-of-witness-posterSomething a little different this week: recommending a documentary, Poetry of Witness. Poetry of Witness is a 2015 documentary film directed by Billy Tooma and Anthony Cirilo about the lives of six contemporary poets who have lived through, and survived, extremities such as war, torture, exile, and repression, using poetry to preserve their memories.It debuted October 16, 2015 at the Buffalo International Film Festival.

The film documents the struggle of six contemporary poets who have faced the duress of war, exile, and human rights violations to give voice to their experiences while wrestling with the complex moral quandaries of artistic production, memory, and trauma. The poets: Carolyn Forché (Salvadoran Civil War), Saghi Ghahraman (Iranian Revolution), Fady Joudah (Doctors Without Borders), Claudia Serea (Socialist Republic of Romania), Mario Susko (Bosnian War), and Bruce Weigl (Vietnam War) offer first-person accounts of how their experiences as soldier, activist, doctor, and survivor imprint their poetry as evidence of those conflicts, rather than as representations of them.

Buy Poetry of Witness: The Documentary

A Couple of Suggested Anthologies (there are so many more…)

Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness

Award winning poet Carolyn Forché spent 13 years compiling Against Forgetting: 20th Century Poetry of Witness. It is an exhaustive and illuminating work of breadth, beauty, wisdom and tragedy.

Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500 – 2001

More about the Poetry of Witness

Anthony Cirilo Talks about Poetry of Witness

Carolyn Forché talks about the poetry of witness

Poet Carolyn Forché gathers 500 years of suffering in new anthology

Sandra Beasley: “Flint and Tinder – Understanding the Difference Between ‘Poetry of Witness’ and ‘Documentary Poetics’”

More About Against Forgetting at3Generations

Love y’all. 

Mary

 

 

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Monday Must Read! Peter Grandbois, Nahoonkara

peter-grandbois-b-1-1024x1024This week meet one of my most beloved brother mans 🙂 Peter Grandbois, author of seven books, including: The Gravedigger, selected by Barnes and Noble for its “Discover Great New Writers” program, The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir, chosen as one of the top five memoirs of 2009 by the Sacramento News and Review, Nahoonkara, winner of the gold medal in literary fiction in Foreword magazine’s Book of the Year Awards for 2011, a collection of surreal flash fictions, Domestic Disturbances, a finalist for Book of the Year in Foreword magazine’s 2013 awards, and the novella collections or “monster double features,” Wait Your Turn, The Glob Who Girdled Granville (Honorable Mention, IndieFab award in the category of best fantasy of 2014), and The Girl on the Swing. His essays and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and been shortlisted for both the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. His plays have been performed in St. Louis, Columbus, Los Angeles, and New York. He is senior editor at Boulevard magazine and fiction co-editor at Phantom Drift.

Peter is a graduate of the University of Denver (Ph.D. 2006) and Bennington College (M.F.A. 2003). Previously, he taught at California State University in Sacramento and is currently an associate professor at Denison University.

Nahoonkara is my favorite 🙂

Praise for Nahoonkara

In the tradition of nature writers Rick Bass and Annie Dillard, award winning writer Peter Grandbois’ new novel Nahoonkara opens up an oneiric space of wonder, a place outside preconceived notions of reality and identity, a place where we are free to re-imagine ourselves.

“[Nahoonkara]…incorporates elements of historical fiction with experimental fiction, but nothing that pulls the reader out of the fictional dream.”
—Robin Martin,Gently Read Literature

“Departing from traditional narrative form, Grandbois moves masterfully between first, second, and third persons to invite readers into a textual visualization of how individual choices affect the well-being of the community.” —Review of Contemporary Fiction

“Peter Grandbois is a splendid writer I intend to follow very closely.”
—Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize Winning author of A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain

“Vividly drawn, exquisitely crafted, Nahoonkara bespeaks not just the promise of its author, but also his undeniable power.”—Laird Hunt, author of Ray of the Star

Buy Peter’s beautiful books!

Nahoonkara

https://www.amazon.com/Nahoonkara-Peter-Grandbois/dp/0981968767/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478522617&sr=8-1&keywords=nahoonkara

The Gravedigger

https://www.amazon.com/Gravedigger-Peter-Grandbois/dp/0811858189

The Girl on the Swing: Two Novellas

http://www.wordcraftoforegon.com/#wsfn3_girl

The Glob Who Girdled Granville & The Secret Lives of Actors: Two Novellas

http://www.wordcraftoforegon.com/#wsfn2_glob

Wait Your Turn & The Stability of Large Systems: Two Novellas

http://www.wordcraftoforegon.com/#grandbois1_waityourturn

The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir

http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/arsenic-lobster1.html

Domestic Disturbances

http://www.subitopress.org/catalog/2013-2/grandbois

More from Peter Online

http://www.wordriot.org/archives/2971

http://penmenreview.com/spotlight/penmen-profile-peter-grandbois/

http://midwestgothic.com/2015/07/interview-peter-grandbois/

https://heavyfeatherreview.com/2015/01/14/we-push-up-against-change-and-resist-it-sometimes-violently-so-an-interview-with-peter-grandbois/

http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2013/10/peter-grandbois-listens-to-images.html

http://www.smokelong.com/smoking-with-peter-grandbois/

And he fences too!!! 🙂

https://denisonmagazine.com/article/uncommon-ground-the-secret-lives-of-professors-peter-grandbois

Hear Peter Read 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awJ9W7SlQ6o

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su84xHD7PXs

And there’s fencing video too! 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeJK5-q1WG0

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Gabrielle Brant Freeman, When She Was Bad

gabbyAnd we’re back—with the amazing Gabrielle Brant Freeman, author of the stunning debut collection When She Was Bad. Gabrielle’s poetry has been published in many journals, most recently in Barrelhouse, Hobart, Melancholy Hyperbole, Rappahannock Review, storySouth, and Waxwing. She was nominated twice for the Best of the Net, and she was a 2014 finalist. Gabrielle won the 2015 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition. Press 53 published her first book, When She Was Bad, in 2016. Gabrielle earned her MFA through Converse College.

Visit Gabrielle’s Website

http://gabriellebrantfreeman.squarespace.com/

Buy Gabrielle’s Beautiful Book! At Press 53!

http://www.press53.com/Gabrielle_Brant_Freeman.html

Praise for When She Was Bad

Lust. Love. Betrayal and loyalty. Temptation and hilarity. Gabrielle Freeman dissects her speakers’ hearts, tenderly, with supreme attention to what it is to be human, female, and fierce. Gabrielle Freeman’s poems are bad–by which I mean badass bold. Michael Jackson bad. Freeman’s bad and you know it. That’s why you read her. When She Was Bad is a smart, compassionate, tightly crafted and explosive debut. — Denise Duhamel

Read More from Gabby Online

http://gabriellebrantfreeman.squarespace.com/poems-1/

http://ciderpressreview.com/tag/gabrielle-freeman/#.WBc8rdUrKM8

http://www.chagrinriverreview.com/gabrielle-freeman.html

Hear Gabby Read!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnC84HvJl94

You don’t want to miss this poet!

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

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Monday Must Read! Pattiann Rogers: Holy Heathen Rhapsody

The most recent book from one of my always favorite poets, Pattiann Rogers.

pattiannrogers_newbioimage_0Ms. Rogers has published eleven books of poetry; two book-length essay collections, The Dream of the Marsh Wren and The Grand Array; and A Covenant of Seasons, poems and monotypes, in collaboration with Joellyn Duesberry. She is the recipient of two NEA grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award for poetry. She lives in Colorado.

 

Read the title poem here in American Scientist

http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/holy-heathen-rhapsody

Buy Holy Heathen Rhapsody

https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Heathen-Rhapsody-Penguin-Poets/dp/0143123882

Praise for Holy Heathen Rhapsody

“I believe Pattiann Rogers walks the world at night when we are sleeping. Her poems are translations of our dreaming life—what we know to be true but fail to remember. We read her words, sentence by sentence, image by image, and return to all that is beautiful, mysterious, and erotic.”
—Terry Tempest Williams

“Pattiann Rogers is a visionary of reality, perceiving the material world with such intensity of response that impulse, intention, meaning, interconnections beyond the skin of appearance are revealed. Her language, unmarred by clichés, springs up out of a sense of how various and endlessly amazing are the forms of life and the human ability to notice them.”
—Denise Levertov

“How the densely detailed, thickly textured, imaged stanzas of Pattiann Rogers result in so much light-as-air wonderment is surely one of the greater questions—one of the greater magics—of contemporary poetry. But however it happens, we must be thankful—for both the science text and the psalter of her work, for both the physical abundance and for the spirit flimmering over it.”
—Albert Goldbarth

Read More from Ms. Rogers Online

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/pattiann-rogers#about

http://www.terrain.org/2014/poetry/two-poems-by-pattiann-rogers/

https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/pattiann-rogers-poem/

https://imagejournal.org/article/speak-rain/

Interviews

http://www.missourireview.com/anthology/interview-with-pattiann-rogers

http://www.pw.org/content/interview_poet_pattiann_rogers?cmnt_all=1

Ms. Rogers on Merging Science and Poetry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gicNcqk08Pk

http://www.cennamology.com/home/pattiann-rogers-review-merging-poetry-science-and-philosophy

Reading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vBelOceSMA

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Patricia Jabbeh Wesley: When the Wanderers Come Home

 

jabbeh-wesleyThis week’s Must Read is Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, author of When the Wanderers Come Home( 2016), Where the Road Turns (2010), The River Is Rising (2007), Crab Orchard Series in Poetry–winner Becoming Ebony (2003), and Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa (1998),

Patricia was born in Monrovia, Liberia, and raised there and in her father’s home village of Tugbakeh, where she learned to speak Grebo in addition to English, the national language. In 1991, Wesley immigrated with her family to southern Michigan to escape the Liberian civil war. She earned a BA at the University of Liberia, an MS at Indiana University, and a PhD at Western Michigan University.Her poems have also been featured in former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry.”

Vulnerable in their combination of grief and levity, Wesley’s poems deal with family, community, and war. “What I try to do in my poetry is to show that the artist does not exist in isolation from his surroundings,” Wesley has stated in interviews.

Patricia teaches as an Associate Professor at Penn State University.

Visit Patricia’s Wesbites:

Author Website:

http://pjabbeh.com

Poetry for Peace

http://poetryforpeace.wordpress.com

Buy Patricia’s Beautiful Books!

When the Wanderers Come Home

http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/When-the-Wanderers-Come-Home,677245.aspx

Where the Road Turns

http://www.autumnhouse.org/product/where-the-road-turns-patricia-jabbeh-wesley/

The River Is Rising

https://www.amazon.com/River-Rising-Patricia-Jabbeh-Wesley/dp/1932870180/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1453482993&sr=8-2

Becoming Ebony

http://www.siupress.com/catalog/productinfo.aspx?id=104&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Before the Palm Could Bloom

https://www.amazon.com/Before-Palm-Could-Bloom-Africa/dp/0932826644/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1474893728&sr=1-2

Read More from Patricia Online!

http://www.pjabbeh.com/faq-home.htm

http://www.pjabbeh.com/exile.html

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/54801

http://www.literaryorphans.org/playdb/two-poems-patricia-jabbeh-wesley/

http://homeslicemag.com/poetry-woman-patricia-jabbeh-wesley/

http://www.connotationpress.com/hoppenthaler-s-congeries/2015-08-19-18-45-41/april-2014/2266-patricia-jabbeh-wesley-poetry

http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/19/wesley19.html

http://www.nathanielturner.com/patriciajabbehwesleytable.htm

Interviews

http://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/interview-with-liberian-prize-winning-poet-professor-patricia-jabbeh-wesley

http://liberianobserver.com/poetry/conversation-liberia%E2%80%99s-celebrated-poet-dr-patricia-jabbeh-wesley

https://wpsu.psu.edu/tv/programs/conversations/patricia-jabbeh-wesley/

http://radio.wpsu.org/post/take-note-poet-patricia-jabbeh-wesley-surviving-liberian-civil-war

Hear Patricia Read!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eZeb8b4qVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmc9BPgH3UE

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Must Read Monday! Karenne Wood: Weaving the Boundary

karenne-woodThis week, meet Karenne Wood, a poet and linguistic anthropologist who grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC. She earned an MFA at George Mason University and a PhD in anthropology at the University of Virginia, where she was a Ford Fellow. Wood is the author of the poetry collection Markings on Earth (2001), which won a Diane Decorah Award for Poetry from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. Her work was included in the anthologies Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers in Community (2002) and The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal (2010). In her poems, she often explores themes of identity, cultural practice, and language within portraits of historical and contemporary Virginia Indians.

An enrolled member of the Monacan Indian Nation, Wood serves on the Monacan Tribal Council and directs the Virginia Indian Programs at the Virginia Center for the Humanities. She has served as the repatriation director for the Association on American Indian Affairs and as a researcher for the National Museum of the American Indian. Wood curated Beyond Jamestown: Virginia Indians Past and Present, exhibited at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. She has served as chair of the Virginia Council on Indians and as a member of the National Congress of American Indians’ Repatriation Commission.

Get Karenne’s Beautiful Books!

Weaving the Boundary

http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2592.htm

Markings on Earth

https://www.amazon.com/Markings-Earth-First-Book-Award/dp/0816521654/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474287586&sr=8-1&keywords=karenne+wood

Read More from Karenne Online

http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2015-spring/selections/karenne-wood-763879/

http://www.mudcityjournal.com/karennewood/

http://virginiahumanities.org/2013/11/a-conversation-with-karenne-wood/

https://news.virginia.edu/content/anthropologist-karenne-wood-researches-language-her-monacan-tribe

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/04/12/5-native-selections-national-poetry-month-164115

http://uvamagazine.org/articles/required_reading_karenne_wood

Great Conversation with Karenne

Acts of optimism: Karenne Wood on language, silence, and healing

http://www.jmu.edu/stories/fightandfiddle/2016/interview-karenne-wood.shtml

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Karen Craigo: No More Milk

karen craigoThis week meet the fabulous Karen Craigo. Karen is the author of the poetry collection No More Milk (Sundress Publications, 2016), as well as the forthcoming collection Passing Through Humansville (ELJ Publications, 2017). Her poetry and essays appear in numerous journals, and she is the author of two chapbooks,Someone Could Build Something Here (Winged City, 2013) and Stone for an Eye (Kent State/Wick, 2004).

Karen teaches writing in Springfield, Missouri.

Visit Karen’s Website

http://betterviewofthemoon.blogspot.com/

Get Karen’s Books!

No More Milk

https://squareup.com/store/sundress-publications/item/no-more-milk-by-karen-craigo-pre-order?square_lead=item_embed

Stone for an Eye

https://www.amazon.com/Stone-Eye-Wick-Poetry-Chapbook/dp/0873388038/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1471865341&sr=8-2&keywords=karen+craigo

Praise for No More Milk

Despite the seeming refusal implied by No More Milk, there’s vast generosity in these poems, a sense of holiness in even the smallest of gestures. Holy, but not numinous: these are embodied prayers, “in praise of what’s left/ and all the hands it has known,” the kind that makes you “bow beneath the burden of words.” There is a profound personal morality at stake for this poet who loves the people and things of this earth in all their itchy-butt blessedness, “the slugs/ as much as the lilacs,” who manages to sing like “the bird/ that has made us rise…/…yesterday’s anger/ reduced to syllables in the air.” Alleluia.
—Heidi Czerwiec, author of Self-Portrait as Bettie Page and Sweet/Crude: A Bakken Boom Cycle

Read More from Karen Online

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/41424

http://atticusreview.org/featured-poet-karen-craigo/

http://www.connotationpress.com/hoppenthaler-s-congeries/2015-08-19-18-45-41/january-2014/2166-karen-craigo-poetry

http://www.radarpoetry.com/issue-2-contributors/

https://asitoughttobe.com/2013/11/30/saturday-poetry-series-presents-karen-craigo/

http://www.barrelhousemag.com/blogall/2016/2/4/negative-creep-by-karen-craigo

http://www.diodepoetry.com/v7n3/content/craigo_k.html

http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/does-the-road-run-east-or-west-by-karen-craigo/

Interviews

https://sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/interview-with-karen-craigo/

http://www.rappahannockreview.com/interviews/rappahannock-review-contributor-spotlight-interview-with-karen-craigo/

http://mcblogs.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacreview/2015/08/13/duplicated-qa-with-poet-karen-craigo/

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Monday Must Read! Pamela Duncan: Moon Women

 

Pam_Duncan_MHLF_2011This week meet Pamela Duncan! Novelist Pamela Duncan was born in Asheville and grew up in Black Mountain, Swannanoa, and Shelby, North Carolina. She holds a B.A. in journalism from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from North Carolina State University in Raleigh. She lives in Cullowhee, North Carolina and teaches creative writing atWestern Carolina University.

Her first novel, Moon Women, was a Southeastern Booksellers Association (now Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) Award Finalist, and her second novel, Plant Life, won the 2003 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction. She is the recipient of the 2007 James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South, awarded by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Her third novel, The Big Beautiful, was published in March 2007. An excerpt from Pam’s current novel-in-progress, The Wilder Place, can be heard here: http://www.pameladuncan.com/the_wilder_place__a_novel_in_progress__80970.htm

Visit Pam’s Website

http://www.pameladuncan.com/

Buy Pam’s Beautiful Books

Moon Women

https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Women-Pamela-Duncan/dp/0440236487

Plant Life

https://www.amazon.com/Plant-Life-Pamela-Duncan/dp/0385335261/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

The Big Beautiful

http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/43755/the-big-beautiful-by-pamela-duncan/9780385338387/

Excerpts, Interviews, & Reviews

Moon Women

http://www.pameladuncan.com/moon_women_15139.htm

Plant Life

http://www.pameladuncan.com/plant_life_15138.htm

The Big Beautiful

http://www.pameladuncan.com/the_big_beautiful_52887.htm

More About Pam Online

Publishers Weekly

http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-385-33518-8

Fantastic Fiction

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/d/pamela-duncan/plant-life.htm

BookPage

https://bookpage.com/reviews/2902-pamela-duncan-plant-life#.V7GuHfkrLDc

IndyWeek

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/pamela-duncan/Content?oid=1181965

Hear Pam Read

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

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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