I attended FestivALL’s Authors’ Roundtable today. FestivALL is the name of Charleston, West Virginia’s city-wide arts festival. I wanted to learn more about the present state of poetry in West Virginia and it is going strong. The four poets, Mary B. Moore, Elizabeth Savage, Cameron Barnett, and James Harms, were each remarkable, and the emcee,…
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The World is Changing, Hallelujah
It should. Put countless shoulders to the wall…it cracks.
Reading Poems
I pulled out Above the River: The Complete Poems by James Wright. When I bought it last year, the poems resisted me, except for “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota” and “A Blessing.” After listening to the Poetry Off the Shelf podcast (April 2013), in which Idra Novey discusses…
June Books
“We are at war and do not speak of it.” Robyn Eversole “And you have been with methrough the long and hateful night although you are only a shadow” from “To My Reader”
Irene McKinney: Working Bibliography
Finding critical sources about McKinney isn’t as easy as I thought, though I expect to find more after I tackle the thesis below. And I have no access to the resources of an academic library. Maybe McKinney was on the right track when she confided to Maggie Anderson that she felt underappreciated on the national…