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Hope Tree
Inventive lyric poems created by erasing words from a manual on pruning trees.
Vital Pursuits
Vital Pursuits is a companionable, engaging, surprising book-length poem, one that is compassionate, subtly strange, and very present in our time. Its main concerns are mortality and the possibility of connection. While the poetry is conversational and clear, the basic technique is montage: rapid movement from one idea or image or event to another. The purpose, however, is thankfully not merely to dazzle or amuse, but to convey emotional states. Most important is a close attention to the power of single words, how they can be used in one way in a certain sentence and then be repurposed in the next to convey an unexpected, yet related, even dangerous or threatening emotion or thought. This is an impressive debut from a true poet whose future work I will wait for with anticipation. -Matthew Zapruder
The Low-Residency MFA Handbook
Provides aspiring Creative Writing graduate students with all the information they need on which low-residency program is best suited to them.
Your Life Here
Your Life Here is the second volume of brief pieces from Terence Kuch's well-known blog Memorable Fancies. The first volume, Everything Wants to Happen, was published in 2015 (revised second edition, 2017). Terence Kuch's fiction, poetry, and plays have been published in the U.S., England, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Ireland, Australia, and Thailand, and have appeared in numerous periodicals including Commonweal, Diagram, Dissent, New Scientist, New York magazine, North American Review, Timber Creek Review, Washington Post Book World, Washington Post Magazine, and have been anthologized in books from Random House and other publishers. His work has been praised by the New York Times and Kirkus Reviews, and a poem has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His novels, story collections, plays, and other writings are available on Amazon and elsewhere. For more information on the author, see terencekuch.net.
Blight, Blight, Blight, Ray of Hope
Poetry. "Frank Montesonti's wit reminds me of the Depression, when all the great novelists wrote dialogue for movies. He can be as glib as the blonde bombshell in a 1930s suspense film or as deadpan as the morose sidekick. Not only will he help dump the body, he'll add the necessary wry comment. 'It was a very good year [long pause] for the wine.' Or, better still, 'I need to tell you something before it's too late: / It's too late.' When the speaker in one poem is asked what a poem should be like, all of his examples include piranhas. Indeed, the dangers of the world are presented as an integral part of a grand comedy. 'You see, I'm after what's behind the low-budget scene, ' he writes in 'Film Noir.' And, despite all the tricks and effects and zingers, that ingenious mind at work is also revealing the clown's sadness. That, too, is part of the show. The part where he is one of us."--D. A. Powell
Innovative Practices in Creative Writing Teaching
Associated with creativity, originality, newness and invention, innovation is a frequent component of creative writing. However, how, where and when does innovation occur in creative writing teaching? The writing arts combine common, established aspects of communicating through the written word with elements of originality that extend or challenge how written language is used. Different forms, genre and styles of creative writing stay close to or move further away from the writing mainstream. What about creative writing teaching—are there different levels or types of innovation? Exploring such innovation, this volume gathers together contributors whose teaching stories provide direction, stimulus and much encouragement for those seeking to innovate in how creative writing is taught and therefore, ultimately, how it is learnt.
Little Book of No Consolation
Poetry. "'How strange it is to live in these bodies /and pretend we are not judged;' writes Becka McKay in her newest collection; THE LITTLE BOOK OF NO CONSOLATION. McKay's imagination takes us far away from our earthly bodies through dreamscapes of terror and possibility. With a fanciful Dictionary of Misremembered English and mistranslated phrases as her guide; she reimagines Biblical figures; governments; and language's very syntax. McKay spins her poems as though spinning plates; on a pole of syntax all her own; the gyroscopic effect dazzling."--Denise Duhamel
I was There for Your Somniloquy
Kelli Anne Noftle's poems reside in this space of "threshold consciousness" where a voice speaks to and from the other, hovering inside a liminal world of strange admissions and abstract silences.
Something Opened
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Heat Wake
Mixing science with humor, humanity, whimsy, and love, Jason Zuzga's debut collection is a revelation
