Bill Carty is the author of
Huge Cloudy (Octopus Books, 2019), which was long-listed for the Believer Book Award. He has received poetry fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Artist Trust, Hugo House, and Jack Straw. Originally from coastal Maine, Bill now lives in Seattle, where he is senior editor at
Poetry Northwest and teaches at Hugo House, the UW Robinson Center for Young Scholars, and Edmonds College. His poem “The Marshes Have No Memory” can be found here. It appears along with another poem in the May/June 2021 issue of the
Kenyon Review and another poem, “We Sailed on the Lake,” appears this month in KROnline.
Release date: May 10, 2021
Raven Chronicles Press is giving away 10 signed copies of the new edition of Spirits of the Ordinary with a foreword by Rigoberto González.
Set in northern Mexico in the 1870s, Spirits of the Ordinary tells interweaving stories centered on Zacarìas Carabajal, who leaves his comfortable cit Set in northern Mexico in the 1870s, Spirits of the Ordinary tells interweaving stories centered on Zacarìas Carabajal, who leaves his comfortable city home to prospect for gold in the wilderness while his abandoned wife, Estela, struggles to build a new life.
Visions, dreams, and portents are part of the everyday world of Spirits of the Ordinary. Estela s siblings, the enigmatic and supernaturally beautiful twins Manzana and Membrillo, discover their gift for water divining. Zacarìas s mother, Mariana, has been silent all her adult life after experiencing an apocalyptic vision of angels in her teens. His father, Julio, is an apothecary devote
Philip Levine: A Large, Ironic Whiteman Of The Industrial Heart Home
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Philip Levine âa large, ironic Whiteman of the industrial heartland,â according to Edward Hirsch(www.poetryfoundation.org 1). Levine was born in Detroit, Michigan, on January 10, 1928 during the era of the Great Depression. Politics and family influenced Levine to write plenty of poetry. One of his many famous poems is âStarlight,â written in the journal Inquirey and reprinted in Ashes: Poems New and Old in 1979, however criticized by Paul Gray and Richard Hugo allowing readers to see his loss and regret toward his poems.
Levineâs parents Harry Levine and Esther Gertrude Prisol were Russian-Jewish immigrants that met in Detroit raising three children, Philip was the second child though was the first twin to be born. Through his life Levineâs father passed away when he was only five years old leaving his mother raising her children. He was raised in the cityâs wo
James J. Siegel is the author of the poetry collection
The God of San Francisco published in 2020 by Sibling Rivalry Press. He is the host and curator of the monthly Literary Speakeasy show at Martuni’s piano bar in San Francisco. Originally from Toledo, Ohio, his first poetry collection,
How Ghosts Travel, was inspired and fueled by his coming of age in the Midwest and was a finalist for an Ohioana Book Award. He was a scholarship recipient to the Antioch Writers’ Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and his poems have been featured in a number of journals including
The Cortland Review,
This week on
The Write Question, poet and scholar Heather Cahoon talks about the ways her poetry and tribal policy intersect and how her new book of poetry,
Horsefly Dress, addresses issues of suffering, danger, and ultimately transformation.
About Heather Cahoon:
Heather Cahoon, PhD, earned her MFA in poetry from the University of Montana, where she was the Richard Hugo Scholar. She has received a Potlatch Fund Native Arts Grant and Montana Arts Council Artist Innovation Award. Her chapbook,
Elk Thirst, won the Merriam-Frontier Prize. Her roles at the University of Montana have included assistant professor of Native American studies and director of the American Indian Governance and Policy Institute. She is from the Flathead Reservation and is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.