Each Wild Thing’s Consent by Lauren Davis / Poetry Wolf Press / 30 pages / 2018 / digital ($8) and soft bound ($10). All proceeds benefit Dove House Advocacy Services, which provides crisis intervention and advocacy services to victims of domestic and sexual violence. In this collection evocatively titled Each Wild Thing’s Consent, the poet Lauren Davis has graced us … [Read more...]
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A conversation with poet Meaghan Quinn
Meaghan Quinn is a poet of the body and the spirit, combining both subjects in poems which celebrate the deeper struggles of being human. I met Quinn at the Bennington College Writing Seminars while we were both working to get our MFAs. To now, years later, hold her book—this stunning baby blue volume loaded with lifegiving verse—is a gift. Rarely do we have a poet who presents … [Read more...]
A Conversation with Risa Denenberg
Risa Denenberg is a Pacific Northwest poet and publisher. We met during her launch of slight faith at Imprint Books in Port Townsend, Washington. She slipped a free copy into my hands, her asymmetrical haircut framing her sly smile. I immediately began to follow her work, discovering again and again the words of a woman unafraid to ask the hard questions. I am grateful for the … [Read more...]
Poetry as a Last Letter: Thomas James and his Influences Sylvia Plath and Georg Trakl
Buried in Joliet, Illinois, lies Thomas Edward Bojeski. He died young at the age of twenty-seven on January 7, 1974. The public and his family disagree on the cause. One says murder. The other says suicide. He was born and raised in Joliet, working varied jobs such as a night watchman and a school teacher. His parents died within ten days of each other two years before his … [Read more...]
(Part VI) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir
This is the final excerpt and contains chapters 11-Denouement. Here are all of the installments: Part I · Part II · Part III · Part IV · Part V · Part VI 11. Jack Kerouac School Revisited at Columbia University (Sam Kashner and Honeybee Panties) Reader Road Map: Sam Kashner (aka "Sam Jake Seuss") plights his troth. News topics: … [Read more...]