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  • Featured Artist of the Month

    Featured Artist of the Month

    Please enjoy all the great offerings we have this month in the categories of non fiction, poetry, drama, food & wine, essay on art, book review, and featured undergrad. Our artist of the month feature will return in March. 

  • The Written Artists Section

    The Written Artists Section

    Our Written Artists section is off the hook! Check out the Featured Guest Column hosted by John Hoppenthaler and all the great artists in the Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Drama sections. And don't miss the new play, Buddy Buddette, and the interview that proceeds it, with writer Jacqueline Wright.

  • The Undergraduate Section

    The Undergraduate Section

    Our Featured Undergrad section is unique in that our Undergrads are nominated by their teachers. This month's Featured Undergrads section includes work by Jennifer Butcher as nominated by Allison Joseph. see more...

Issue X, Volume I : July 2010

A Poetry Congeries, with John Hoppenthaler - October 2009

hoppenthaler.jpg In 1992, “Can poetry Matter?” set off a firestorm of discussion about poetry and its value to the larger society. Dana Gioia’s essay, even today, contains passages that raise my hackles; I find portions of his argument anti-democratic and otherwise flawed. 
 
This said, there are ideas in the essay that are compelling and right-minded. Though few in 1992 could have foreseen the powerful and game-changing influence the internet would have on poetry production and distribution, and though in retrospect, Gioia’s call for “poets and arts administrators “[to] use radio to expand the art’s audience” now seems quaint, he was on to something.
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Kathy Fagan - Poetry with Q&A

 

Kathy-Fagain Kathy Fagan’s newest collection is Lip (Eastern Washington UP, 2009). She is also the author of the National Poetry Series selection The Raft, the Vassar Miller Prize winner MOVING & ST RAGE, and The Charm. Fagan is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Ohioana Library, and the Ohio Arts Council. She is currently Professor of English at Ohio State and Editor of The Journal.
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Peter Makuck - Poetry

Peter-Makuck Peter Makuck grew up in Connecticut and graduated from St. Francis College in Maine where he studied French and English. After teaching French for several years, he returned to graduate school for a doctorate in American literature and was later a Fulbright lecturer in France. His Long Lens: New & Selected Poems will be released by BOA Editions, Ltd. in April 2010. 
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Rita Mae Reese - Poetry

Rita-Mae-Reese Rita Mae Reese has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Stegner fellowship, and a “Discovery”/The Nation award. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared or is forthcoming in journals and anthologies including  Imaginative Writing, From Where You Dream, Blackbird, New England Review, The Southern Review, and The Nation.

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John Gallaher - Poetry with Q&A
John-Gallaher John Gallaher is the author of the books of poetry, Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001), The Little Book of Guesses, winner of the Levis Poetry Prize, from Four Way Books, and Map of the Folded World, from The University of Akron Press, as well as the free online chapbook, Guidebook from Blue Hour Press.
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - Poetry

Honoree-JeffersHonorée Fanonne Jeffers is the author of three books of poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue, Outlandish Blues, and Red Clay Suite. She has received an award from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the MacDowell Colony.
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Margot Schilpp - Poetry

Margot-Schlipp.jpg Margot Schilpp's two books of poetry are The World's Last Night (2001) and Laws of My Nature (2005), both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. "Optimum Conditions" is from the manuscript of her third book, Civil Twilight.
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Salgado Maranhão translation by Alexis Levitin - Poetry

Alexis-Levitin Alexis Levitin’s 25th book of translations, Astrid Cabral’s Cage, was published by Host Publications last summer. Earlier books include Clarice Lispector’s Soulstorm and Eugenio de Andrade’s Forbidden Words (both from New Directions).

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Carol Peters - Poetry

Carol-Peters.jpg Carol Peters’ chapbook, Muddy Prints, Water Shine, was published by Finishing Line Press as #57 in the New Women’s Voices Series. Apobiz Press recently published Carol's first full-length book, Sixty Some, which you can sample at the Apobiz Press website.

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