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)
The 11th Muse (Winter, 2011-12) is now out, featuring many Colorado poets including, from the CPC, Robert Cooperman, Mary Crow, Lois Hayna, Robert King, Alysse McCanna, Beth Paulson, and Cynthia Storr.
Kathryn Winograd’s lyric essay, "Heresies of the Holy," will be published in the August 2012 issue of Fourth Genre.
Feb. 8’s Verse Daily features a section from Canto Fermo, a long poem by Christopher Kondrich, currently a PhD candidate at the University of Denver, with links to other sections. http://www.versedaily.org/
Dan Beachy-Quick’s Circle’s Apprentice (Tupelo Press, 2011) was picked as a Notable Book of 2011 by the Academy of American Poets.
For info on Women of the World Poetry Slam in March, in Denver, see "Announcements."
Susan Allspaw (Aurora) won the Judge's Prize in the Elixir Press 12th Annual Poetry Award for Little Oblivion.
Bob King has three poems in the February, 2012, issue of The Bacon Review. Read them at http://www.thebaconreview.com/.
Denver Poet Daniel Klawitter has had a new short poem published in the #6, 2012 edition of “Shot Glass Journal”. You can read it online here: http://www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/daniel_klawitter1.html
Michael Adams' website has an interactive blog with postings of poems, music, questions and responses.
http://www.michaeladamspoetry.com
Jeffrey Ethan Lee (formerly Colorado, now Pennsylvania) was a co-winner in the 2011 7 Kitchens Press contest for his chapbook Towards Euphoria. Read a sample and see how to order: http://sevenkitchenspress.com/our-authors/jeffrey-ethan-lee-towards-euphoria/
Claudia Putnam (Silt) was a semi-finalist and Bob King (Greeley) a finalist for the 2011 Codhill Press Poetry Chapbook Award.
The Progenitor, ACC’s award-winning art and literary magazine, invites you to submit your poetry, prose and art for their upcoming Spring issue. We accept submissions from students, faculty, and community members. Deadline for this year’s submissions is midnight, February 15. All submissions this year will be accepted electronically. For more info and how to submit: http://www.arapahoe.edu/campus-life/student-press/progenitor-art-and-literary-magazine
Jason Barry (Boulder) is the poetry editor of The Bacon Review, a new online periodical of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. http://www.thebaconreview.com/
Bombay Gin is planning a "Colorado issue," with a deadline of Feb. 15, 2012. See "Announcements" for full information.
Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined, edited by Madelyn Garner and Andrea L. Watson, is now available at 3 Taos Press for $17 + $4 for shipping/mailing (PO Box 370627, Denver, CO 80237). Colorado poets included in the anthology are Pattiann Rogers, Joseph Hutchinson, Kathleen Cain, Jessy Randall and Cheryl Loetscher.
Able Muse, Winter, 2011, provides 8 poems by featured poet David Mason and an interview with Mason by David J. Rothman.
Katie Kingston’s translations of Natalia Toledo’s poems from her book Olivo Negro (Black Olive Tree) were published in Mexican Poetry Today: 20/20 Voices, a bilingual anthology edited by Brandel France de Bravo and published by Shearsman Books, UK, 2010. Natalia is an Oaxaca poet who writes in Zapotec and translates her own work to Spanish. Kingston translates from the Spanish to the English.
Kingston has also previously published translations of poems by Pedro Serrano, a Mexican poet (professor at UNAM, Mexico City), from his book, Nueces. These translations, along with the original Spanish, can be found in Nimrod International Journal, Mexico/USA, 2009.
On another subject, the editors of Sugar House Review have nominated Kingston for a Pushcart Prize for her poem, “Concourse A Exhibit: Denver International Airport.”
For info on the 8th Annual Writers Studio Contest from Arapaho Community College, deadline March 1, see "Announcements.:"
Wendy Videlock's book, Nevertheless, is reviewed in the current Hudson Review and in the upcoming issue of New Walk, out of England. Other reviews have appeared in Shit Creek Review and Gadfly online. Her poem, "The woman with a tumor in her neck" was reproduced in The New York Times in December. Another poem, entitled "Flowers" appears in the February issue of POETRY. And two of her poems, "Comfort and Oy" and "Dear Clive" will appear in an upcoming issue of Quadrant, a literary magazine out of Australia.
Colorado poets Larry Grieco, Jack Mueller, Uche Ogbuji, and Jared Smith had poems in Art Goodtimes' "Way of the Mountain" in The Mountain Gazette in January, 2012.
Kathy Conde’s short story “Georgia Nights” won CutThroat’s 2011 Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award, it was announced on January, 2012.
David Keplinger has three poems in recent Tampa Review, Issue 42.
Mary Crow, Bob King, and Lisa Zimmerman have three poems each in Issue #6 of 10 x 3 Plus.
Poetry West announces a triple celebration: "Po(e)t-Pourri: Muse Madness” on Friday, Jan. 27, from 6 to 9 p.m. at The Warehouse Restaurant, 25 W. Cimarron St., in Colorado Springs. It honors and presents Poet Emerita Lois Hayna reading from her 7th book, marks Poetry West’s 30th anniversary with a brief history and open mic opportunity, and celebrates the 100th birthday of Poetry magazine. The event is free and features, we’re told, “a substantial cake!”
Dan Beachy-Quick’s “In a Station of the Metro” (Poetry, Dec. 2011) appeared on Poetry Daily on Jan. 2, 1012. http://poems.com/poem.php?date=15342
Melissa Katsimpalis, Robert King, Jack Martin, Ashley McDiarmid, Evan Oakley, Veronica Patterson, Cameron Shinn, James Tipton, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, and John Zimmerman are Colorado poets with work in Issue 24 of Snake Nation Review, edited by Lisa Zimmerman.
Marilyn Krysl's essay "Not 'I'" appeared in The Bloomsbury Review, 31(3), winter, 2011
Kathy Winograd's poem, "The Lives of Cells," has won first place in the Chautauqua Poetry contest on the theme "War & Peace." Todd Davis was the judge. She receives $1000 and publication in Chautauqua. Her lyric essay, "Phantom Mares," will be published in Hotel Amerika.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s new book, The Miracle Already Happening: everyday life with Rumi, is nbow available from Liquid Light Press.
Jeffrey Bahr’s poem, “Note to the Newly Lost,” received an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Copper Nickel contest in poetry.
Sue Ann Simar, at 10 X 3, has nominated Mary Crow’s poem “Other” and Bob King’s poem “Confetti” for a Pushcart Prize.
http://10x3plus.blogspot.com/
Anushka Anastasia Solomon’s new chapbook, The Buying, Babe, Is Good only in America, will be released March 11th, 2012, by Finishing Line Press. Pre-publication sales will end January 11th 2011. Press run is determined by pre-publication sales, so your purchase during this period is particularly appreciated by the writer.
Send a check or money order for $12.99 plus $1.99 for shipping to
Finishing Line Press
P.O. Box 1626
Georgetown, KY 40324
Chris Hoffman’s new book, Realization Point (Poetic Matrix Press, 2011) is now available from Small Press Distribution (www.spdbooks.org) and Amazon. Joseph Bruchac says “A clear meditative voice that bridges the gap between our human lives and the healing spirit of nature.” Chris’ website is http://www.hoopandtree.org
Dan Beachy-Quick has a poem, “In a Station of the Metro” (not that one, this new one), in the November Poetry, the special Q&A issue so there’s an interview with him about the poem as well.
Steven D. Schroeder’s Anti- Issue #9, November, 2011, presents 20 poems (including Wendy Xu, Joseph P. Wood, Molly Tenenbaum) at http://anti-poetry.com
YARN Magazine has chosen Julianza Shavin's poem "Para-stalsis" as their annual submission to The Best American Non-Required Reading anthologyand her poems, "Dome," "The Dog's Good Eye," and "Child of Suicide" have been accepted into "Messages from the Hidden Lake," a publication out of Alamosa, Colorado. Some of her artwork is also included in this year's anthology. She also writes that her daughter Amadea won first prize
in the Children's category for the second year in a row, and this year also took third prize.
Kathryn Winograd's essay, "Afterward: a Draft," from her hybrid manuscript, Cosmology of Simple Motion, will be published in r.kv.r.y. quarterly literary journal And her lyric essay, "Phantom Mares," will be published by Hotel Amerika in its Spring, 2012, epistolary issue.
David Mason’s November blog is on “The Audience for Poetry” and may be found at http://www.coloradohumanities.org/blog/david-masons-blog. September’s essay is “On Poetry and Grief” on the same page.
William Notter has two poems, “”Leveling the Field” and “Burning the Cat Again,” in the Fall/Winter 2011 issue of Atlanta Review: Poetry 2011.
Two poems by Jen Tynes appear in issue #75 of Steven D. Schroeder’s Anti- at http://anti-poetry.com
Wendy Videlock will have two poems published in upcoming issues of Poetry. She has also recently been published in the New York Times, here:
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/poetry-pairing-the-woman-with-a-tumor-in-her-neck/
and she's recently been the featured poet at the SCR. The interview can be found here:
http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue14/issue14index/an-interview-with-wendy-videlock/
Katie Kingston’s poetry manuscript, Translating Clouds, will be published by Lost Horse Press in fall 2012. It placed as a finalist in the 2011 Idaho Prize for Poetry under the title What Does Lorca Own? Her poem “Woman Resting” placed as a finalist in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry given by Nimrod International Journal. It was written in Teotitlan del Valle at the Oaxaca Woman’s Writing and Yoga Retreat last March.
Mary Crow’s translation of Vertical Poetry: Last Poems by Roberto Juarroz appeared from White Pine Press in 2011. Crow’s upcoming book of poems is Addicted to the Horizon from CW Books in 2012. Her website is http://www.marycrow.net
Mark Irwin’s essay, “Distortion and Disjunction in Contemporary American Poetry,” appeared in the Nov/Dec. 2011 issue of The American Poetry Review.
Rosanne Sterne's poem "Candle" was accepted into the Fall/Winter 2011 issue of Echoes Poetry Journal.
Colorado’s Green Fuse Press announces the publication of Kenneth Pobo’s Contralto Crows. Also the publication of IMPROV 2011 Anthology of Grass Roots.
Both are $10. To order, e-mail greenfusepress.@yahoo.com.
Issue #74 of Steven D. Schroeder's Anti- features three prose poems by Bernd Sauermann.
http://anti-poetry.com
Two poems by Dan Beachy-Quick, originally published in Poetry, appeared on Poetry Daily on Oct. 25, 2011. (http:poems.com)
Bob King’s poem, “The Examination,” appeared on the Facebook page of the Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Café on Oct. 13th, 2011.
Kathryn Winograd's essay, "Bathing," published in Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, has been named a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2011.
Julie Carr’s poem “Narrative Poem” from 100 Notes on Violence appeared on Poetry Daily (poems.com) Oct 1, 2011.
Dan Beachy‐Quick’s chapbook Heroisms has appeared from Poor Claudia Press in 2011. See a sample here: http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.2/dan_beachy-quick_heroisms_1.php
Padma Thornlyre’s latest book, Mavka: A Poem in 50 Parts, is now available. The Turkey Buzzard Press title appears in 100 limited edition, signed and numbered copies, of which approximately 80 are available for purchase. It is an over-sized book, at 17″ x 5.5″, with exquisite full-color cover art by Brian Comber.
The cost per book is $20, plus $5 if you would like it mailed to you. To reserve a copy, please e-mail turkeybuzzard@creeksidecellars.net, or, better yet, mail a check, made payable to Padma Thornlyre, P.O. Box 354, Kittredge, CO 80457
Dan Beachy-Quick’s latest book, Circle's Apprentice, has appeared from Tupelo Press, 2011.
Dan Beachy-Quick has two poems in the Oct., 2011, Poetry
Two first chapbook contests with Dec. 31st deadlines are being sponsored by Green Fuse Press. See "Announcements" for details.
Juan Morales has a 7-poem sequence in the latest on-line Antique Children, a Mischievous Literary Magazine.
Kathryn Winograd's lyric essay, "On White Space and Silence," will be published in the literary journal, Puerto del Sol.
Jeffrey L. Bahr’s poem “Alley” first published in 32 Poems, appeared on Verse Daily, Aug. 24, 2011.(www.versedaily.org)
William Notter's poem "Morning News in the Big Horn Mountains" appears in Garrison Keillor's new anthology Good Poems, American Places (Viking, 2011).
Kathryn Winograd's poem, "Migrations," has won first place in the non-rhyming poetry category of this year's Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition. She wins “a thousand dollars and a bunch of other stuff”.
Jessy Randall has had poems lately in Asimov's LUNGFULL: The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, and Escape into Life.
Chris Hoffman's book Realization Point has been accepted by Poetic Matrix Press and will appear later this year.
Wendy Videlock is the current featured poet on The Shit Creek Review, which means, in her words, "a gaggle of poems," an interview, and a review of her book,
"Nevertheless". Go to http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue14/issue14index/
Kathryn T. S. Bass's new book of poems, The Mysteries, is now available at http://www.kadroodle.com/poetry/book/tmbook_purchase.html --
Dan Beachy-Quick’s “Poem,” from his new book Circle’s Apprentice (Tupelo Press, 2011) appeared July 1 on Poetry Daily. http://poems.com/poem.php?date=15157
William Pitt Root has been appointed the John C. Hodges Distinguished Visiting Writer at Univ. of Tennessee/ Knoxville for the 2011 fall term. His book of translations, Selected Early Odes of Pablo Neruda, is planned for publication in 2012 from Wings Press.
Julie Shavin has had poems in YARN, Messages from the Hidden Sky, and Atlanta Jewish Times.
Robert Cooperman’s latest book Cage Dweller (Wind Publications, 2011) is now available on Amazon.com (scroll down to last entry under his name).
Joseph Hutchison has a poem, “Riddles for My Father,” in the inaugural issue of The Rattling Wall, spring, 2011.
Veronica Patterson was a finalist for the 2011 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry prize, sponsored by Crazyhorse magazine.
See "Announcements" for finalists and information on the 2011 Colorado Book Award in Poetry.
M. D. Friedman’s new book, Leaning Toward Whole, is now available from Liquid Light Press as a paperback or download. See their website.
Vol. 8, Issue 3 of Jeffrey Spahr-Summers’ Poetry Victims is available at http://currentissuepv.blogspot.com/2011/05/volume-8-issue-3.html
Robert King’s chapbook, Rodin & Co., winner of this year’s Grayson Books Chapbook Competition, may be ordered on-line at http://www.graysonbooks.com or at Grayson Books, P. O. Box 270549, West Hartford, CT, 06127. Cost is $10 and $2 shipping fee.
Dan Guenther’s collection of selected poems, The Crooked Truth,won the Colorado Authors’ League 2011 Award for a Poetry Book.
New Verse News published David Feela’s poem, “Modern Mythology,” on May 12, 2011. http://www.newversenews.com/
Sheryl Luna reviews Diana Garcia and Tim Hernandez gets reviewed by Rene Perez in the March/April 2011 issue of American Book Review, with a special feature about Mexican American writing.
Visit “Awards” to see what’s been happening lately with Sandra Dorr, Kathryn Winograd, Rawdon Tomlinson, Rosemerry Wahtola Tromer, Robert Cooperman, Sasha Steensen and Robert King
Matthew Cooperman's new book, Still: of the Earth as the Ark Which Does Not Move,has appeared from Counterpath Press.
Dan Beachy-Quick's new chapbook, Overtakelessness has appeared from Stork Press. He's also had work in The Black Warrior Review.
Bill Tremblay's poems have recently appeared in Sketchbook, Quint, Anemone Sidecar, and The Planet Formerly Known as Earth.
Sasha Steensen's chapbook, A History of the Human Family, recently won Flying Guillotine's chapbook contest and was published in February, 2011.
Steven D. Schroeder’s Anti- #63 features Trey Moody. http://www.facebook.com/l/7d0b5bZTfUY3zmqxsRP64fc4f_w/anti-poetry.com/
Aaron Abeyta's "a river poem for someone i never knew" appears in Sugar Mule, 2011. http://www.sugarmule.com/37frame.htm
Wendy Videlock's full-length book Nevertheless from Able Muse Press is available for pre-order and will appear May 2. See: http://www.ablemusepress.com/wendy-videlock-nevertheless#book_order_info
The May, 2011, issue of Poetry has a poem by Mark Irwin, "Poem Beginning with a Line by Milosz," and one by Wendy Videlock, "the woman with a tumor in her neck."
Rawdon Tomlinson won the 2010 Stevens Manuscript Competition and his book, Lines from the Surgeon's Children, 1862-18256, will be published. See "Awards" for more details.
Bob King has three poems in the Spring 2011 issue of Red Rock Review and three poems in Sugar Mule: http://www.sugarmule.com/37frame.htm
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer won first place in the 2011 ACC Writers Studio Literary Contest with "Because Sometimes I Get that No Gets Me Nowhere" and Kathleen Willard won second with "Reanimation Experiment: Final Observations".
Lary Kleeman has a 2010 chapbook, Negotiating a Lower Angle, for sale at http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2066550.
The Battered Suitcase (Vagabondage Press) has interviewed Tom (Word Wulf) Sterner and posted the piece on their blog: http://vagabondagepress.blogspot.com/2011/03/author-insides-tom-sterner.html. He was also a guest poet on The New American Dream Show (www.theshow.newamericandream.info ) on March 24; the shows are archived so you can listen at your leisure.
Lisa Zimmerman has three poems in the February 2011 issue of Tryst.See http://www.tryst3.com/issue21/zimmerman.html. She also is represented in the recent issue of Cave Wall and is forthcoming in Natural Bridge and 10x3 Plus.
A “Complete Collected” of Jared Smith is coming out in 2012 from New York Quarterly Books.
David Feela’s poem “Political Storms” appeared in New Verse News on Feb. 22, 2011. http://www.newversenews.com/
Read David J. Rothman’s essay on “W. S. Merwin and the Legacy of Robinson Jeffers” in the current Sugar Mule # 36 at http://www.sugarmule.com/36frame.htm
David Mason’s new book of essays, Two Minds of a Western Poet, has appeared from Univ. of Michigan Press in their Poets on Poetry series. He also has a poem in the Winter, 2011 issue of The Hudson Review.
Steven D. Schroeder's Anti #58, featuring two poems by G. C. Waldrup, is now available at http://www.facebook.com/l/23017oIz9zkeMVuCaThccy3zk8g;anti-poetry.com/
Suzanne Bronson’s most exciting news is her new book, The Keeper of Days, coming out from Farolito Press (See “Readings” for Feb. 17 premier in Grand Junction). She had three poems in Dec-Jan. in The Aspen Daily News and one in January in The Daily Sentinel. Two poems will appear in the Winter, 2011, edition of The Scissor Tale Review.
Her “Gone to Fair” was a local winner for the Intro Journals Project and is moving on to the national competition.
Lois Beebe Hayna’s poem, “Brief Eden,” was featured in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, Column 307, 2/7/11.
See/hear David Mason reading from his memoir of Greece, News from the Village at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cSBEaqmvZU
Jared Smith was the guest poetry editor for Issue 61 of The Pedestal Magazine, a 10th anniversary issue.
David Feela’s "Territorial Imperatives” appeared in The New Verse News, Jan. 4th, 2011 (http://www.newversenews.com)
Dan Guenther's book of poems, The Crooked Truth , appeared at the end of 2010 from Redburn Press. Available at Amazon, B&N.
Robert Cooperman, David J. Rothman,Katie Kingston, Carol Bell and Juan J. Morales have work in the current Pilgrimage, Vol. 35 (3). To subscribe to this magazine originating in southern Colorado and edited now by Maria Melendez, see http://www.pilgrimagepress.org
Robert Cooperman has three new collections out, Letters to Juliet (March Street Press), My Shtetl (Logan House Press) and The Ranch Wife (Turning Point Books).
Kathryn Winograd has two essays that will be included in the sixth edition of The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction, scheduled for publication by Longman in 2011-2012: "Bathing," recently published in Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, and "(Note to Self): The Lyric Essay," published in the Colorado Poets Center E-Words, Issue #9 newsletter.
A review of Michael Adams’ Steel Valley may be found at Black Sheep Dances, beginning with this quote: “Maybe it’s all for the better. You weigh the clean air and water, the way the rivers have come back to life, against the boarded up storefronts, abandoned downtowns, suicides and divorces, low wage jobs or no jobs at all….I don’t have the heart to balance the scales of misery and hope and come up with an answer.” See: http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/12/steel-valley-by-michael-adams-poetry.html#comment-form
>Laurie Wagner Buyer announces her new collection of poems, Accidental Voices, through the newly resurrected Seven Oaks publishing. See her blog to learn more about the journey. Available from her and amazon.com http://lauriewagnerbuyer.com/content/blogdaily
A review of Jared Smith’s new volume, Grassroots, is available at BigCityLit. http://www.bigcitylit.com/bigcitylit.php?inc=fall2010/reviews/wallace"
Wendy Videlock's manuscript, "Nevertheless," has been selected by Able Muse Press for publication and is due out in the summer of 2011.
Brian Barker's The Black Ocean received a Crab Orchard Series Open Competition award and will be forthcoming in 2011.
Mary Crow, Marilyn Krysl, and Art Goodtimes have new poems in the latest Pilgrimage, "Atmosphere," Vol. 35, #2. For info on the magazine: http://www.pilgrimagepress.org