Poet’s Spotlight

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SMALL FEATHER by Jade Rosina McCutcheon, reviewed by John Van Dreal

Finishing Line Press, 2020, 40 pages, $14.99ISBN: ‎ 1646622901Available at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/small-feather-by-jade-rosina-mccutcheon/https://www.amazon.com/Small-Feather-Jade-Rosina-McCutcheon/dp/1646622901 The cover of Jade Rosina McCutcheon’s chapbook immediately caught my eye. Within a kaleidoscope of doodled line and color, a thought bubble speaking for the soul of the work declares, I AM Still Here. Within a few hours, I was at the book’s end, where […]

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Interview with poet Concepción Sámano Patiño

Interview with poet Concepción Sámano Patiño by OPA board member Erain Diaz-Horna. (English translation follows) En Español: Concepción Sámano Patiño, nació en Jaral del Progreso, Guanajuato, México en 1971. Estudió la licenciatura en Filosofía en la Universidad de Guanajuato. Fue becaria del Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes en el área de narrativa

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An Interview with Carl Adamshick, Publisher of Tavern Books

“A man said no person is educated who knows/only one language, for he cannot distinguish/between his thought and the English version,” Jack Gilbert wrote in “Foraging for Wood on the Mountain.”  But it is nearly inescapable for Americans to be monolingual, as our country is isolated by two oceans from most other languages.  If we

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