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[jeffalessandrelli]

4/17/25

I tried to be the star

of my own life

and so gave myself a name

but something was always occluding me

I slept wrong

in order to accommodate

someone else’s dream

Stella Corso, Green Knife

[jewishbookworld]

The Usu­al Uncer­tain­ties: Stories by Jonathan Blum Jonathan Blum's highly anticipated first collection--is storytelling at its finest. In precise, elegant prose, these stories follow characters and communities often consigned to the edge of the frame: a community college dropout, a geriatric care manager, a square dance bar mitzvah, a Scrabble club, an entrepreneurial Thai immigrant, and a South Florida country club.

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Review: Spain by Caren Beilin

Review: Spain by Caren Beilin was last modified: February 28th, 2019 by

Lovely review of Caren Beilin's SPAIN (Rescue Press) up at Entropy:

"Throughout 'Spain,' Beilin continues to convince me that she’s one of my favorite living writers, producing work that I savor when I revisit it. At her best, Beilin offers sentences that feel like they could discuss anything and get away with it, as evidenced by some of my favorite lines in this book: 'A cloud masturbated against the mortar of a castle—the heap of a ruin that was in view;' 'Like an embarrassment of bird graphs;' 'I’d like to kill a star to eat its dark buoyant lard.'”

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[thedollhousereads]

Saturday at DH #43, Chicago!

Lauren Haldeman is the author of the poetry collection Calenday (Rescue Press, 2014) which was a finalist for the 2014 Julie Suk Award. Her work has appeared in Fence, jubilat, Fourteen Hills and The Rumpus. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she was a recent recipient of the 2015 Sustainable Arts Foundation Award.

Check out this PBS video to get acquainted with her work:

[prairielights]

Interview with Lauren Haldeman curated by Dan Rosenberg

Iowa City poet (and PL Cafe regular) Lauren Haldeman interviewed in the current issue of American Microreviews and Interviews.

[jordanstempleman]

So, lemme tell you, after reading with Lauren Haldeman last week in Des Moines, listening to her read poems from Calenday, then reading her book in one sitting back in KCMO, I am telling you, please, please buy this book! It'll clean your eyeballs right up and give you back some old fashioned homegrown mystery.

I'm honored to host a poem turned video from the collection at The Continental Review.