Writing News
Note: Individual poet’s recent publications may be announced here. Some citations are those I happen to run across in my own subscriptions. Please let us know about your publications and we'll post them here for a time. (Bob King, Colorado Poets Center)
Two poems by Robert King appeared in the March 2nd issue of Rusty Truck. http://rustytruck.wordpress.com/
Joseph Hutchison’s second article in his series on poetry for Suite 101, “The Poem’s Force: Metaphors,” is available at:
http://writing-poetry.suite101.com/article.cfm/the-poems-force-metaphors
Wendy Videlock's new chapbook, What's That Supposed to Mean?, appeared February, 2010,from Exot Books, New York.
Lynn Wagner of Denver won the 2009 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest for No Blues This Raucous Song, receiving $1,000 and publication. The annual prize is sponsored by the Hudson Valley Writers' Center.
Ayaz Daryl Nielsen has had poems recently in the e-zines Yellow Mama (http://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmama/id457.html) and Shemon. He was also featured on the Shreve Memorial Library electronic marquee (see Announcements for details on this unique project).
David Feela’s “The Homeless Winter Olympics” was featured on Feb. 19 at New Verse News at http://www.newversenews.com
Michael Adams’ poem “The Hat” appears in Heavy Bear #5 (Feb., 2010). http://www.heavybear.janecrown.com/HB1/
Colorado poets Candi Cooper-Towler, P. L Wick, and Judith Partin-Nielsen have work in Bear Creek Haiku #91.(See "Colorado Magazines" for information on BKH.)
Katie Kingston’s poem, “History of My Body,” from Rattle #31, Summer, 2009, is now posted at: http://rattle.com/blog/2010/02/history-of-my-body-by-katie-kingston/
A review by D. C. Waldrep of Dan Beachy-Quick’s Apology for the Book of Creatures is available at the on-line Kenyon Review: http://www.kenyonreview.org/kro_full.php
The latest issue of Denver’s Copper Nickel (#13) is now available containing poems by, among others, Noah Eli Gordon, Michael Henry, and J. Michael Martinez. See http://www.copper-nickel.org/ for ordering information.
Jessy Randall’s poems “I’m Peculiar” and “Robot in a Maze” appear in Spooky Boyfriend #4. http://spookyboyfriend4.weebly.com/jessy-randall.html
Laurie Wagner Buyer’s When I Came West (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2010), her memoir about her years on a remote homestead in Montana, is now available from the press or amazon.com. She now lives in Llano, Texas, but maintains her Colorado ties. For more info, visit: http://lauriewagnerbuyer.com/
James Wilk’s The Seven-Year Night: Poems of the Medical Training Experience, has been published by Big Table Publishing. To order a copy: http://www.BigTable Publishing.com and click on “Titles”. To read review and excerpts, please visit: http://www.TheChapbookStore.com
David Rothman has three poems, “The Great Green Wave,” “What Must Be Done Again Today,” and “Birdsong and the Old Night” in the current (fall, 2009) issue of Café Review at http://www.thecafereview.com/ Poems are forthcoming in Academic Questions; The Barefoot Muse; The Blueroad Reader; The Hot Sonnets Anthology; Measure; The Poetry Show Anthology; Sugar Mule; Think Journal; The Threepenny Review.
David Feela’s poem, “The Wounded Farm”, appeared Jan. 16 on The New Verse News: http://www.newversenews.com/
Robert Cooperman’s The Dream of the Northwest Passage (March Street Press), inspired by Henry Hudson’s final voyage, is now available at Amazon or check his website: http://www.robertcoopermanpoet.com
Colorado poet Jane Hilberry and her father Conrad Hilberry have just published This Awkward Art: Poems by a Father and a Daughter. An interview with the two may be found at:
http://krccnetwork.org/tbs/2009/12/10/poetry-the-family-business/
David Rothman's poem, "The Demon Speaks of the Bottom Line", appeared in the Winter 2010 issue of The Threepenny Review. Rothman also has an essay on Bill Ripley and Wyn Cooper in the current issue of the on-line Contemporary Poetry Review at: http://www.cprw.com
Katie Kingston's Shaking the Kaleidoscope and Bob King's Rodin & Co. received "Special Merit" recognition in the 2009 Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest sponsored by the Comstock Writers' Group.
Kathryn Winograd's lyric essay, "Talismans of the Whirlpool," on being an empty nester, has been accepted for summer publication by Literary Mama. Kathy has been invited to read for the Colorado State University's Creative Writing Series, February 11, 2010. Two poems were finalists for the 2009 Many Mountains Moving poetry contest and will be published by MMM. Four poems will be included in The Poetry Show Anthology, a print and CD compilation of poems selected from work presented on KRFC's The Poetry Show.
Stephen Beal’s poem, “The Courtship of Gertrude Stein,” appeared in the recent issue of Hanging Loose and will be added to his sample poems on the site.
Jeffrey Spahr-Summer’s new e-book, i believe, is now available at http://www.poetscoop.org. View the poems and creative photos.
M. D. Friedman’s The Body of the Mind, “an interlocking medley” of poems, is available as a special print-and-listen e-book and a paperback at http://www.poetscoop.org/
“Another Apology,” by David Feela, appears in the Dec. 4 issue of The New Verse News: http://www.newversenews.com/
Anti- (Review Special #2 issue) is now available at http://anti-poetry.com. It includes a Stuart Greenhouse review of Dan Beachy-Quick’s recent A Whaler’s Dictionary.
Three of Wendy Videlock's poems appeared in Poetry in January, 2009, followed by another one in the February issue. She’s also scheduled to appear in American Life in Poetry and in Measure, and her chapbook, What's That Supposed to Mean, is expected from Modern Metrics Press.
Dr. James Wilk of Denver has one recent chapbook published, Shoulders, Fibs, and Lies (Pudding House Press, 2008 http://www.puddinghouse.com/) and another one forthcoming, The Seven Year Night: Poems of the Medical Training Experience (Big Table Publishing, http://www.bigtablepublishing..com/).
Robert Cooperman's poem, "The Judge in the Murder Trial of the Man of High Degree," appeared in the Fall/Winter issue of Atlanta Review
David Feela’s poem “Stargazers” about the recent (Nov., 2009) drowning of North Dakota students appeared in The New Verse News on Nov. 9. Read it at:
http://www.newversenews.com/
Rosanne Sterne's chapbook, Dancing in the Gaps, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
Jeffrey Ethan Lee was interviewed on Joe Milford’s poetry show on Nov. 1. Hear the hour and a half interview at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Joe-Milford-Show/2009/11/02/Joe-Milford-Hosts-Jeffrey-Ethan-Lee. Or browse the archives: http://joemilfordpoetryshow.com/archives.php
Joe Hutchison’s poem “Mastery” and a prose poem, “Sustenance,” appears on Cerise Press: A Journal of Literature, Arts & Culture. (http://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/mastery and http://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/sustenance)
Kathy Conde has a flash-fiction called “Movement” on the Word Riot site. Read it at:
http://www.wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1969
Pam Uschuk’s book of poems, Crazy Love, has appeared from Wings Press (2009) and has been nominated for a National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and a Tufts Kingsley Award. Her chapbook, Pam Uschuk’s Greatest Hits, appeared from Pudding House Press in July, 2009.
David Feela's poem, "Poetry Updates," appeared Oct. 13, 2009, at http://www.newversenews.com
Jeffrey Lee’s poem, “The Styrofoam Firestorm,” has been accepted by Diode for publication in 2010.
Steve Tompkins' poem, "Learning to Fly in Miller's Field," will be appearing in the Fall 2009 issue of Fifth Wednesday, and three poems, "Maternal," "Poem for My Sister," and "Portrait of Jonas Jonasson, Immigrant Farmer" will be appear in the November 2009 inaugural issue of Jelly Bucket.
Noah Eli Gordon interviews Jennifer Moxley at Jacket http://jacketmagazine.com/37/iv-moxley-ivb-gordon.shtml
David Mason’s poem, "Fathers and Sons", appeared in the Sept. 27, 2009, issue of The New Yorker.
Kathryn Winograd has two lyric essays, "Bathing," and "Guns, Knives, and the Amazon Warrior Princess" forthcoming in the next issues of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction and Hotel Amerika. Three of her poems will be part of the upcoming Fusion III Painting and Poetry Exhibit at Square Deal Framing and Gallery, reception on October 9th, 5-9 p.m. Winograd will also be reading at the Associated Writing Programs 2010 conference in Denver this April as part of the Ashland Poetry Press: More Than 40 Years Anniversary event and will participate in a panel on creative writing and technology: "The Soul and The Machine: Teaching Creative Writing Through Technology."
#31 of Steve Schroeder’s e-magazine, Anti-, is now on-line, featuring poet Fady Joudah who will soon publish a book of translations of Mahmoud Darwish. ( http://www.facebook.com/l/85bde;anti-poetry.com/ ).
Jared Smith has two books coming out next year. In the spring, Tamarack Editions is releasing Looking Into the Machinery: The Selected Longer Poems of Jared Smith (1984-2008). Then, in the summer, Wind Publications will released Grassroots, an all-new collection of poems written entirely since he moved to Colorado and dealing with The Front Range.
Anushka Solomon's chapbook The Hindu and the Punk is now available. $15.96 covers chapbook and mailing. Make checks payable to Anushka Solomon (29892 Troutdale Park Place, Evergreen, CO
Poetry Saves: A Journal of Colorado Lyric Poetry, 2009, had poems by Amy Irish, Beth Paulson, Jared Smith, Kathy Conde, and Robert King. ( http://www.fgreenfusepoeticarts.org )
Two poems by Dan Beachy-Quick, “Anniversary” and "Museums” appear in the Sept. 2009 issue of Poetry.
David Feela's“The Tarmac Hotel” appeared Aug. 11 in The New Verse News (www.nerversenews.com)
Volume 6, Issue 10 of The Poetry Victims is now online at http://www.poetryvictims.com
Anne Waldman's poem “the aquarium deserted now” appeared in Poetry Daily on July 26. Waldman teaches at the Naropa Institute in Boulder.
The summer 2009 issue of Statement, the journal of the Colorado Language Arts Society, has a feature article on Laurie Buyer Wagner, an article on Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, an article, “Post Card Poetry,” co-authored by Lary Kleeman, and a poem by David Feela. (See “Announcements” for submission to Statement)
Kathy Conde has a short story, “January Thaw,” in CutThroat magazine's online summer 2009 edition ( http://cutthroatmag.com/ct7-09.pdf ).
Bob King was interviewed on the Jane Crown Show in July, 2009, following in the footsteps of Robert Cooperman (Dec., 2008) and Jared Smith (Nov. 2008). Find the archives under for these hour-long interviews under the dates at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/The-Jane-Crown-Show.
A poem by Joseph Hutchison is one of the 100 poems selected by The Midwest Quarterly (#4, V. 50) to celebrate its 50 years of publishing.
David Feela's poem, “Pop Star Death”, appeared on June 27, 2009 on New Verse News (http://newversenews.blogspot.com).
Dan Guenther's poem "Lethe," published in Quadrant magazine, was a finalist for the 2009 Top Hand Poetry Award with the Colorado Authors' League. Guenther's novel, Townsend's Solitaire, was a finalist for the 2009 Top Hand Award in genre fiction. ( http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2008/9/lethe )
Veronica Patterson's poem "Retriever" is included in the anthology Don't Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review (University of Arkansas Press, 2009), edited by James Smith with a foreword by Billy Collins.
Lisa Zimmerman's work appears in two 2009 anthologies: Eating the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath (Backwaters Press, Ed. John Bradley) and The Poets Guide to the Birds (Anhinga Press, Ed. Ted Kooser and Judith Kitchen).
Anushka Solomon won third prize for her poem "Gegen Klimt" in the Denver Womans' Press Club In-House Writer's Competition.
Bin Ramke, Elizabeth Robinson, and Eleni Siskelianos are three Colorado poets represented in the Norton anthology of new American poetry, American Hybrid (2009)
On July 2 in Glasgow, work by Colorado poet Anushka Anastasia Solomon (The Hindu and the Punk, 2009) will be read at the “International Heroines” program, a partnership between the Glasgow Women's Library and Amnesty International. Other featured writers include Shirin Ebadi, Arundhati Roy, Wangari Maathai, and others. Solomon's website is http://www.atthewindow.us/
Bill Tremblay's“Press Conference Sonnet” was published in American Poets Against the War.
David J. Rothman’s poem, “Matins,” appeared in Tar River Poetry, spring, 2009.
James Tipton's latest book, All the Horses of Heaven/Todos los Caballos del Paraiso, is now available through http://www.themetpress.com. Also available there is Tipton’s recent collection of haiku, Proposing to the Woman in the Rear View Mirror.
Jake York, the 2009 Summer Poet in Residence at the University of Mississippi from June 15-July 15, has new poems out in The Cincinnati Review, The Rome Review, Bayou, and Waccamaw, as well as work forthcoming in Shenandoah and The Southern Review.
An excerpt from Dan Beachy-Quick’s “This Nest, Swift Passerine” appeared on May 5, 2009 in the Poem-A-Day series from poets.org.
Barbara Sorenson has a poem, “Tasting Pomegranate,” scheduled for the August issue of Mountain Gazette, with others promised in the future.
Chris Hoffman (Cairns) has added two new you-tube videos of his poems: Shamanic Poetry 2 and Shamanic Poetry 3. The video-poems are also available at his website: http://www.hoopandtree.org/new_page_2.htm
Beth Paulson’s new collection of poems, Wild Raspberries, has appeared in spring of 2009 from Plain View Press.
Anushka Anastasia Solomon’s new chapbook, The Hindu and the Punk, has been released by Pudding House Press (Spring, 2009).
Steven Schroeder’s poem, “In This Country, Trail Breaks You,” appeared in the spring 2009 issue of The Bitter Oleander.
David Mason’s poem, “In Priene,” appears in the Spring/Summer 2009 issue of 32 Poem.
On Sunday, April 19, 2009, the Denver Post featured three Colorado poets: Julie Carr, Bin Ramke, and J. Michael Martinez. A poem and an interview with each is included in the ‘Lifestyles’ section.
Jeffrey Spahr-Summer's new book, i believe, is available on-line at http://www.poetscoop.org/free.htm#ib_jeff
Poetry by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers and Christian Drake and art by Amy Kohut can be found in Vol. 6, issue 5, of The Poetry Victims. http://www.poetryvictims.com
Suzanne Bronson’s visual poetry project is finally ready to view on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fRGyO57Cxw
Efrain Garza published “Cabalgadura del siglo actual,” “Cartografía sin inventariar,” and “Sueños hechos añicos” in the anthology Poetic Voices Without Borders #2, 2008.
Kathryn Winograd's poem, "My Mother Going Blind Sees the World," honorable mention in the 2008 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, now out in CUTTHROAT VI, Spring 2009.
In March, 2009, Denver poet Paul Handley’s poem “Comedian Tragedian” appears in ExPatLit, and “Scouting Report” in The Northville Review.
Vol. 6, Issue 2 of Poetry Victims is now online, featuring collaborative art by Amy Kohut and ZZ Baggins, as well as poetry by Robert King http://www.poetryvictims.com/
Jane Hilberry’s work was featured on Jenny Kinder’s radio
program, The Poet’s Weave.
L. Luis Lopez’ book, Each Month I Sing, appeared from Farolito Press in 2008 (See "Awards")
New South had an interview with Jake Adam York in its Winter, 2007-08 issue. Read it under “Past Issues” at http://www.review.gsu.edu/
Dan Beachy-Quick has several works out and now available: A Whaler’s Dictionary (Milkweed Editions), Mobius Crowns (a chapbook written with the poet Srikanth Reddy, from P-Queue Press), and Apology for the Book of Creatures (a chapbook from Ahsahta Press).
Jeffrey Bahr’s poems “Buona Fortuna” and “How Eloquent Our Intentions” appeared in the Fall, 2008, issue of The Journal.
Jim Ciletti’s short-short memoir, “A Spire in Every Cup,” appeared in Rambler magazine.
Jane Hilberry’s poems were featured on the radio show "The Poet's Weave," hosted by Jenny Kander.
Kathryn Winograd has published two poems in Calyx (Winter, 2008), a children’s poem in Cricket Magazine (Jan. 2008), and nonfiction essays in Wazee Journal (Winter, 2008) and in Wiinds of Change (Winter, 2009).
Jim Ciletti’s“Why I Love My Brother,” the first chapter in a memoir, appeared in the winter 2009 issue of Passager. Bob King also has a poem, “The Class of ‘55,” in that issue.
David Feela’s new book, The Home Atlas (2009), is now available from WordTech Editions.
Two poems by Robert Cooperman, two by M. D. Friedman, and two by Jared Smith appear in the February 2009 premier issue of Heavy Bear at http://www. heavybear.janecrown.com.
David Feela’s new poem “Facebook” appears at http://www.newversenews.com. His first full-length book, The Home Atlas, is now available.
Steven Schroeder’s poem “Deathmatch Mode”, from his new book Torched Verse Ends, appeared on Verse Daily on Feb. 7, 2009. Go to www.versedaily.com and click on ‘archives’.
Find a recent poem by Joe Hutchison at Valparaiso Poetry Review, http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/hutchisonwhite.html; three at future cycle, http://www.futurecycle.org/JosephHutchison1.aspx; and three in homage to Issa at The Lower Half at http://lowerhalf.blogspot.com/2008/12/three-for-issa.html
Veronica Patterson’s poem “Pause” appeared in the latest issue of Rosebud, a $100 finalist in the magazine’s William Stafford Award.
Copper Nickel #11 contains three poems by Marilyn Krysl and three by Steven Schroeder.
Veronica Patterson’s poem “Pause” was a runner-up for the William Stafford Award and appears in the current issue of Rosebud.
James Galvin’s poem “My Sister” appeared in the November/December, 2008, issue of Orion.
Wendy Videlock’s poem, “Vanity Flare,” appears in the Feb. 2009 issue of Poetry. She has a chapbook of poems coming from Modern Metrics Press in the summer of 2009.
Bob King's poem, "Tired of Talking to the Dead," appears in the latest issue of Ascent (Fall,2008).
Joseph Hutchison has a lengthy, and well-exampled, review of a selected poems collection of Cid Corman’s work (The Next One Thousand Years, editors Rosenow and Arnold) in the Jan/Feb 2009 issue of The Bloomsbury Review.
Rawdon Tomlinson’s poem, “Horned Lizard,” appeared in the winter 2008-9 issue of Ploughshares, a poem, we assume, in his current working manuscript of growing up in Oklahoma.
Juan J. Morales has a poem, “Guaman Poma, Writing by Candlelight” in Issue #3 of anti-.
http://anti-poetry.com/
Copper Nickel #10 contains so many poems written by Colorado poets that it’s a local treat to read as well as a solidly and beautifully designed magazine of national interest. Poets include Sheryl Luna, Jane Hilberry, Soham Patel, Pattiann Rogers, Veronica Patterson, and Julie Carr, as well as Barbara Sorenson and Eleni Sikelianos.
David Feela’s new book, The Home Atlas, is forthcoming soon from WordTech Editions. Go here to see the cover, read raves and sample poems: http://www.wordtechweb.com/feela.html.
Robert Cooperman’s The Words We Used will be out in January, 2009, from Main Street Rag.
Joe Hutchison’s website, The Perpetual Bird, has links to ten of his recent on-line poems.