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Barnes Update! Top 20
Barnes Update! Top 20
#LetsConnectPhilly #Art #PhillyArtDepot
Update! Recently I wrote about the Let’s Connect! art show at Philadelphia’s famed Barnes Collection. My hipster postman mixed-media painting, “Mind, Heart, Soul” placed among the top 20 artworks out of over 310 paintings at the show. I was especially happy to see my friend Tim Barton also make the cut with his stellar wooden folk box. As a result, this…
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A new interview about my book & my writing process is up on Fjords Review. Read it here. Thanks to Jennifer Parker for the wonderful questions.
My interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz is out in bookstores now in this quarter's issue of Fjords Review. It's also on the cover!
Kirk Nesset’s Saint X follows a speaker through poems in three sections: I Will, I Will Not; The Collapse of the Heart is a Myth; Erasing the Shadow. Each section begins with an italicized poem, starting out calling to the literary muses, but then turning towards religious tones and scientific proselytizing.
How I review poetry
John Ashbery judged the 2013 Walt Whitman Award for the Academy of American Poets and it’s no wonder why he selected Chris Hosea’s collection as the winner. The poems create a different way of looking at people and things, infusing the New York School vibe of anti- and alternative-narrative throughout. The pieces confuse and delight and reveal in a mostly successful way.
A bit of my poetry critique
Within the genre of nature poetry falls the small category of horse poems. The one outstanding poem in this niche is Joy Harjo’s anaphora-filled “She Had Some Horses,” in which the speaker references horses of all types, propelling forth metaphor and allusion. Harjo comes to mind with Lisa Graley’s book-length poem, box of blue horses, the winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award for 2013.
How I get academic with poetry.
Control + Alt + Delete has become a mantra for those who have PC issues and need to restart their computers; this hot button command does the trick. Here, Alexandria Peary places a bird into the mix, and what ensues is a journey that wanders indoors and outdoors through mazes of nostalgia and dreams. Control Bird Alt Delete, the winner of the 2013 Iowa Poetry Prize, delivers a collection filled with imagistic wordplay that creates a curious landscape.
Sometimes I review poetry collections. I get all academic and stuff.
“...the wilderness wish of wanting to be everything to everybody everywhere” —Frank O’Hara
To be a silent film actor for N., who can't get enough of melodramatic eyebrow movements. To be a backpack
of PB&J & protective spells for S., who seeks adventure in the witch's forest.
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That’s the epigraph and beginning of the title poem from my full-length manuscript (”When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities”). The poem’s been published in the new issue of Fjords Review. Been reading the digital version; can’t wait to get my physical contributor’s copies.
You'll need either a digital or print subscription to read the journal. It's also available in quite a few bookstores. Many thanks to John Gosslee.
[Click on the title of this post for an official preview of the issue.]
