July 21, 2013, 10:08 am Munson, Sharon Lask Sharon Lask Munson is a finalist in the Blue Light Press 2011 Full-Length Poetry Book Contest. Her full-length book of poems will go into production in September. Her poems have also been recently accepted by Punkin House Digest.
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July 21, 2013, 10:04 am LeHew, Laura Laura LeHew had an interview with the Oregon Arts Alliance, http://oregoncrafted.blogspot.com/and they republished her poem, “The Other Laura.” Her poem “The New Math” was published by Pank, read her interview with Pank http://www.pankmagazine.com/pankblog/2011/05/. She’s had poems accepted/published in: Amaterasu published “Our People” in their anthology-all the anthology profits ($20) to aid the
July 21, 2013, 10:03 am Harrison, Ruth F Ruth F. Harrison has two neat bits of news: a half-dozen of her poems are to be included in the fourth edition of Lewis Turco’s The Book of Forms, coming out in October (2012). And she will have a poem included in an anthology of poems for
Review by John Sibley Williams Understory: Poems By Paulann Petersen Lost Horse Press 2013, 196 pp., $21.95 Paulann Petersen’s web site / Powell’s Books Before even opening Paulann Petersen’s latest collection, Understory, I was greeted with a haunting question: what is an “understory”? My mind raced with potential metaphors, each speaking directly to the core of all Petersen’s
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Review by Kelly Eastlund Motionless from the Iron Bridge: A Northwest Anthology of Bridge Poems Edited by John Sibley Williams Bare bone books 2013, 38 pp., $7.50 Ordering information The first thing that struck me about this anthology, after Jonette Swanson’s haunting iron bridge image on the cover, was the word “motionless” in the title.
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. Finishing Line Press. $14 Comment by Erik Muller One virtue of chapbooks is their clarity of intent that can be sustained for a reading straight through. It is a rare larger volume that allows this. Sara Burant’s Verge assuredly develops its title as theme and variations. The verge is principally a border, an edge, the brink of
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Love At First Read by Toni Van Dusen (first printed in CALYX, 2010 – reprinted with permission) PHOTOGRAPH WITH GIRLS: POEMS, Nancy Carol Moody. Traprock Books, 66 pages, $15 paper. There are many reasons to buy and read Nancy Moody’s PHOTOGRAPH WITH GIRLS. The cover photo is a wonder—four girls (Moody’s mother among them) lying on a
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The Matter and Manner of At This Distance, a review by by Erik Muller Bette Lynch Husted. At This Distance. Wordcraft of Oregon, 2010, $14. Bette Lynch Husted is another strong voice among Eastern Oregon poets published by David Memmott. At This Distance is her first full collection and thus deserves attention to its matter and manner. As the
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WESTWARD EXPANSION: The Discovery of Medford Dee Chadwell “Go west, young man,” Horace Greeley declared, and a hundred years later we did. From six miles up we watched as the patchwork quilt of the plains rolled past beneath us and wrinkled into ridge after ridge of mountains. We changed planes in San Francisco and veered
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On reading the news of my neighbor’s foreclosure Your daughter was building a bookshelf that last time we had tea, sunlight a shawl over your shoulders. Two curly haired grandchildren pushed past our legs and we each brushed our fingers along their backs, they arched like lazy cats and then crawled away. The pines behind
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