During the month of June, No Tells is featuring "Recommended Summer Reading" selections by No Tell contributors.
Kathleen Rooney's recommendations:
Bobcat Country by Brandi Homan (Shearsman Books, 2010)
Funny, confessional, daring and dangerous—Homan’s writing is the literary equivalent of NASCAR.
Bluets by Maggie Nelson (Wave Books, 2009)
Built of a collection of facts and quotations, as well as Nelson’s own stories and interpretations, Bluets is an indispensible addition to the lyric essay genre.
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry edited by Gary L. McDowell and F. Daniel Rzicznek (Rose Metal Press, 2010)
Fifty percent anthology, fifty percent critical study, one hundred percent excellent, this is the companion book to The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction.
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Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and the author, most recently, of the memoir Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object and the essay collection For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs. Her first book of poetry, Oneiromance (an epithalamion) was released by the feminist publisher Switchback Books.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Recommended Summer Reading - Michael Gushue
During the month of June, No Tells is featuring "Recommended Summer Reading" selections by No Tell contributors.
Michael Gushue's recommendations:
Love is A Map I Must Not Set On Fire by Carol Guess (Vrzhu Press)
I love the way these poems strain against narrative, line, allusion, social-personal, and still retain and exalt their music. The infuriating Denira and a national crisis haunt in equal measure. The city in Love Is A Map is so precise, the thread through the book spun from dream logic, with a humor that slices so close to dismay, that you won’t be able to stop reading. So don’t read it while driving. And you're going to say one day, yeah I knew about Carol Guess back when...
The Difficult Farm by Heather Christle (Octopus Books)
Generous and fun and delicious, close bosom-friend of Dada and Satie, with a kind of magic hour smart aleck clarity that makes my mouth water. Cocorico has us swimming in air. The Fledgling Crocus is looking out the window, waiting at the bus stop, a mutant in fur. Also includes useful guidance on how to talk to a small husband. As I said, delicious.
The Golden Age of Paraphernalia by Kevin Davies (Edge Books)
Boy, do I love this book. It’s wry, cutting, hilarious, sly, and shot from a cannon. If there was a poetry book that was a silent movie comedian explaining Feynman’s diagrams, except the diagrams were about our psycho-capitalist, crypto-orwellian consumer brainwash instead of quantum interactions, then that book would be in the same yoga class as the Golden Age of Paraphernalia, but not as good at doing the Lion.
Life Is A Dream by Paul Durcan (Harvill Secker)
Durcan is a wild man of Irish poetry. His poems are loose, often written from a women’s point of view, conversational, bitter, funny, compassionate, and angry. In The Mary Robinson Years he’s in Rio de Janiero talking with the most stunning woman he’s ever seen: a 6 foot Irish transvestite relief aid worker. My Beloved Compares Herself to a Pint of Stout is the sexiest, scolding-est, tenderest poem there is. He's popular over there, you should get to know him over here.
Indeed I Was Pleased With The World by Mary Ruefle (Carnegie Mellon)
You’re probably way familiar already with Mary Ruefle, but I if you haven’t read her in while, give this book a try, where thank you notes get eaten by lambs. I’m always ready to read, and be rollercoastered by, her bullet-fast poems.
Your Ancient See Through by Hoa Nguyen (Duration Press)
Is Hoa Nguyen the greatest or what? I don’t have her most recent—Hecate Lochia— yet, but I recommend this earlier book for its awesomeness. She is so quick and real, we are lucky to have her around. The poems are somehow both direct and allusive, and so >>present<<. I don’t know how she does that.
The Dailies by John Gilgun (Vrzhu Press)
A selection from Gilgun’s poem-a-day discipline (how does he do it?), these poems are a like a Be Here Now brain massage. He’s completely himself, but if you had your Gilgun channel up on Pandora, you'd be getting a little New York School, then a touch of a less excitable Ginsberg, followed by a bit of Snyder, and coming up on a bit of Thom Gunn. The whole world looks a little better after you read a Gilgun poem.
That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness by Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney (Otolith Press)
A book of collaborative poems that makes you want to throw rocks at other people’s collaborative poems. Gabbert and Rooney are have this insane juju together that leave poems in its wake as tasty as BBQ, as funny as stand up, as speedy as Daytona. EG & KR, I salute you.
The New Century by Ewa Lipska (Northwestern)
Can I get serious here for a moment? Ewa Lipska. And I mean it. Hannah Arendt, Keats, Newton, Spinoza, God, and Gianni Versace (“We die more and more beautifully/in Gianni Versace’s collection.”) show up here, in world where a lot of bad things happen. And these short poems bite. And then kiss. And then bite again.
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Michael Gushue co-curates the Brookland Poetry Series in Washington, DC, co-runs Beothuk Books/Vrzhu Press and posts on the Vrzhu Bullets of Love blog. His work appears online and in print, most recently in the anthology Full Moon On K Street from Plan B Press. He has a poetry chapbook and it is called Gathering Down Women, from Pudding House Press.
Michael Gushue's recommendations:
Love is A Map I Must Not Set On Fire by Carol Guess (Vrzhu Press)
I love the way these poems strain against narrative, line, allusion, social-personal, and still retain and exalt their music. The infuriating Denira and a national crisis haunt in equal measure. The city in Love Is A Map is so precise, the thread through the book spun from dream logic, with a humor that slices so close to dismay, that you won’t be able to stop reading. So don’t read it while driving. And you're going to say one day, yeah I knew about Carol Guess back when...
The Difficult Farm by Heather Christle (Octopus Books)
Generous and fun and delicious, close bosom-friend of Dada and Satie, with a kind of magic hour smart aleck clarity that makes my mouth water. Cocorico has us swimming in air. The Fledgling Crocus is looking out the window, waiting at the bus stop, a mutant in fur. Also includes useful guidance on how to talk to a small husband. As I said, delicious.
The Golden Age of Paraphernalia by Kevin Davies (Edge Books)
Boy, do I love this book. It’s wry, cutting, hilarious, sly, and shot from a cannon. If there was a poetry book that was a silent movie comedian explaining Feynman’s diagrams, except the diagrams were about our psycho-capitalist, crypto-orwellian consumer brainwash instead of quantum interactions, then that book would be in the same yoga class as the Golden Age of Paraphernalia, but not as good at doing the Lion.
Life Is A Dream by Paul Durcan (Harvill Secker)
Durcan is a wild man of Irish poetry. His poems are loose, often written from a women’s point of view, conversational, bitter, funny, compassionate, and angry. In The Mary Robinson Years he’s in Rio de Janiero talking with the most stunning woman he’s ever seen: a 6 foot Irish transvestite relief aid worker. My Beloved Compares Herself to a Pint of Stout is the sexiest, scolding-est, tenderest poem there is. He's popular over there, you should get to know him over here.
Indeed I Was Pleased With The World by Mary Ruefle (Carnegie Mellon)
You’re probably way familiar already with Mary Ruefle, but I if you haven’t read her in while, give this book a try, where thank you notes get eaten by lambs. I’m always ready to read, and be rollercoastered by, her bullet-fast poems.
Your Ancient See Through by Hoa Nguyen (Duration Press)
Is Hoa Nguyen the greatest or what? I don’t have her most recent—Hecate Lochia— yet, but I recommend this earlier book for its awesomeness. She is so quick and real, we are lucky to have her around. The poems are somehow both direct and allusive, and so >>present<<. I don’t know how she does that.
The Dailies by John Gilgun (Vrzhu Press)
A selection from Gilgun’s poem-a-day discipline (how does he do it?), these poems are a like a Be Here Now brain massage. He’s completely himself, but if you had your Gilgun channel up on Pandora, you'd be getting a little New York School, then a touch of a less excitable Ginsberg, followed by a bit of Snyder, and coming up on a bit of Thom Gunn. The whole world looks a little better after you read a Gilgun poem.
That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness by Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney (Otolith Press)
A book of collaborative poems that makes you want to throw rocks at other people’s collaborative poems. Gabbert and Rooney are have this insane juju together that leave poems in its wake as tasty as BBQ, as funny as stand up, as speedy as Daytona. EG & KR, I salute you.
The New Century by Ewa Lipska (Northwestern)
Can I get serious here for a moment? Ewa Lipska. And I mean it. Hannah Arendt, Keats, Newton, Spinoza, God, and Gianni Versace (“We die more and more beautifully/in Gianni Versace’s collection.”) show up here, in world where a lot of bad things happen. And these short poems bite. And then kiss. And then bite again.
* * *
Michael Gushue co-curates the Brookland Poetry Series in Washington, DC, co-runs Beothuk Books/Vrzhu Press and posts on the Vrzhu Bullets of Love blog. His work appears online and in print, most recently in the anthology Full Moon On K Street from Plan B Press. He has a poetry chapbook and it is called Gathering Down Women, from Pudding House Press.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Recommended Summer Reading - Steven Karl
During the month of June, No Tells is featuring "Recommended Summer Reading" selections by No Tell contributors.
Steven Karl's recommendations:
The Wonderfull Yeare by Nate Pritts (Cooper Dillon Books)
My first response was “Holy Shit Nate Pritts, I love your book!” Once I regain the art of articulation I’ll have a “proper” review of this book on Coldfront.
Ghost Machine by Ben Mirov (Caketrain Press)
What makes this book so formidable & exultant is the ease in which Mirov’s poems remain on the page while simultaneously entering the back door of our brains & then furiously begins tunneling towards our hearts. Exercise. Take your vitamins. Heart attacks are imminent for some.
Texture Notes by Sawako Nakayasu (Letter Machine Editions)
If you know me then you know I love everything Sawako does. So don’t just take my word for it, take Reb’s too.
Underground National by Sueyeun Juliette Lee (Factory School)
I had lots of thoughts on this book. They are here.
Chapbooks
Run by Kim Gek Lin Short (Rope-a-Dope Press)
I heard Kim read from this chapbook at AWP. Myself & at least three other people bought this chapbook immediately after. Here are photos of the smitten.
Last Ride by Abraham Smith (Forklift, Ink.)
One long poem filled with gasoline & verve. Absolutely stunning.
The Lack Of by Joseph Massey (Nasturtium Press)
“Is there a voice today/ to write in,/ beyond/ what I alone/ mumble?/ These words/ plunged daily/ into hunger./”
A Pelt, A Shrub, a Soil Sample by Ross Brighton
If Joseph Massey gives us the landscapes of life & Jay Wright explains the landscape of life, then Brighton’s chapbook gives us the haunting in between.
FEELINGS, Assoc. by Nate Pritts & Matt Hart (Hubcap Art)
Recently, Matt Hart & Nate Pritts embarked on a reading tour & made a chapbook of collaborative poems. This collab seamlessly captures Hart's buzz-saw riffs & Pritts' sonic tightness. This book feels punk and d.i.y. like blood guts & lots of love.
Is This January by Jai Arun Ravine (Corollary Press)
Beautiful chapbook that invokes vellum paper so that words blur in & out like drops of dew on early winter ghosts.
The Heart Is Green From So Much Waiting by Sampson Starkweather (Immaculate Disciples Press)
"There is a precise moment in every child's life/ when they must dismantle a TV to see what little gods/ live inside."
Now that's what I'm talking about!
Journal
Cannibal 5
Okay, I know this isn’t a “book,” but at 112 pages it’s longer than most of the chapbooks I mentioned & it has an amazing amount of great work in it. Definitely a summer’s worth of inspiration & enjoyment.
Steven Karl's recommendations:
The Wonderfull Yeare by Nate Pritts (Cooper Dillon Books)
My first response was “Holy Shit Nate Pritts, I love your book!” Once I regain the art of articulation I’ll have a “proper” review of this book on Coldfront.
Ghost Machine by Ben Mirov (Caketrain Press)
What makes this book so formidable & exultant is the ease in which Mirov’s poems remain on the page while simultaneously entering the back door of our brains & then furiously begins tunneling towards our hearts. Exercise. Take your vitamins. Heart attacks are imminent for some.
Texture Notes by Sawako Nakayasu (Letter Machine Editions)
If you know me then you know I love everything Sawako does. So don’t just take my word for it, take Reb’s too.
Underground National by Sueyeun Juliette Lee (Factory School)
I had lots of thoughts on this book. They are here.
Chapbooks
Run by Kim Gek Lin Short (Rope-a-Dope Press)
I heard Kim read from this chapbook at AWP. Myself & at least three other people bought this chapbook immediately after. Here are photos of the smitten.
Last Ride by Abraham Smith (Forklift, Ink.)
One long poem filled with gasoline & verve. Absolutely stunning.
The Lack Of by Joseph Massey (Nasturtium Press)
“Is there a voice today/ to write in,/ beyond/ what I alone/ mumble?/ These words/ plunged daily/ into hunger./”
A Pelt, A Shrub, a Soil Sample by Ross Brighton
If Joseph Massey gives us the landscapes of life & Jay Wright explains the landscape of life, then Brighton’s chapbook gives us the haunting in between.
FEELINGS, Assoc. by Nate Pritts & Matt Hart (Hubcap Art)
Recently, Matt Hart & Nate Pritts embarked on a reading tour & made a chapbook of collaborative poems. This collab seamlessly captures Hart's buzz-saw riffs & Pritts' sonic tightness. This book feels punk and d.i.y. like blood guts & lots of love.
Is This January by Jai Arun Ravine (Corollary Press)
Beautiful chapbook that invokes vellum paper so that words blur in & out like drops of dew on early winter ghosts.
The Heart Is Green From So Much Waiting by Sampson Starkweather (Immaculate Disciples Press)
"There is a precise moment in every child's life/ when they must dismantle a TV to see what little gods/ live inside."
Now that's what I'm talking about!
Journal
Cannibal 5
Okay, I know this isn’t a “book,” but at 112 pages it’s longer than most of the chapbooks I mentioned & it has an amazing amount of great work in it. Definitely a summer’s worth of inspiration & enjoyment.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Recommended Summer Reading - Kim Roberts
During the month of June, No Tells is featuring "Recommended Summer Reading" selections by No Tell contributors.
Kim Roberts' recommendations:
I recommend four new books by authors with strong DC ties:
non/fiction by Daniel Gutstein (Edge Books)
Are they short stories? Are they poems? They are both--and they are terrific.
Glow of Our Sweat by Francisco Aragon (Scapegoat Press)
Steamy poems of sexual desire, perfect reading for summer nights.
Up Jump the Boogie by John Murillo (Cypher Books) http://www.cypherbooks.org
Gritty urban poems that move from stark violence to glorious beauty.
Immigrant by Marcela Sulak (Black Lawrence Press)
A series of poems on the origins of fruits and vegetables that will make your mouth water.
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Kim Roberts is the editor of the online journal Beltway Poetry Quarterly, now in its tenth anniversary year. She edited the anthology Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC, and her third book of poems, Animal Magnetism, won the Pearl Poetry Prize and will be published in January 2011. Her website: http://www.kimroberts.org.
Kim Roberts' recommendations:
I recommend four new books by authors with strong DC ties:
non/fiction by Daniel Gutstein (Edge Books)
Are they short stories? Are they poems? They are both--and they are terrific.
Glow of Our Sweat by Francisco Aragon (Scapegoat Press)
Steamy poems of sexual desire, perfect reading for summer nights.
Up Jump the Boogie by John Murillo (Cypher Books) http://www.cypherbooks.org
Gritty urban poems that move from stark violence to glorious beauty.
Immigrant by Marcela Sulak (Black Lawrence Press)
A series of poems on the origins of fruits and vegetables that will make your mouth water.
* * *
Kim Roberts is the editor of the online journal Beltway Poetry Quarterly, now in its tenth anniversary year. She edited the anthology Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC, and her third book of poems, Animal Magnetism, won the Pearl Poetry Prize and will be published in January 2011. Her website: http://www.kimroberts.org.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Recommended Summer Reading - Jessy Randall
During the month of June, No Tells is featuring "Recommended Summer Reading" selections by No Tell contributors.
Jessy Randall's recommendations:
Scary, No Scary by Zachary Schomburg (Black Ocean Press)
I came to this book after Verse Daily printed "Love is When a Boat is Built From All the Eyelashes in the Ocean." Maybe you will too.
Are You There, God? It's Me, Whitney Houston by Brad Liening (Hell Yes Press)
A zine-like chapbook of poems with a throwaway elegance and humor that strikes me as just right for summer reading. I got this book as a bonus gift when I ordered something else from Hell Yes Press, and ended up liking it more than the thing I originally ordered.
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Jessy Randall's collection of poems A Day in Boyland (Ghost Road, 2007) was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Her young adult novel, The Wandora Unit (Ghost Road, 2009) is about friendship and love in the high school literary magazine crowd. She has books forthcoming from Pecan Grove and Red Hen. Her website is http://personalwebs.coloradocollege.edu/~jrandall.
Jessy Randall's recommendations:
Scary, No Scary by Zachary Schomburg (Black Ocean Press)
I came to this book after Verse Daily printed "Love is When a Boat is Built From All the Eyelashes in the Ocean." Maybe you will too.
Are You There, God? It's Me, Whitney Houston by Brad Liening (Hell Yes Press)
A zine-like chapbook of poems with a throwaway elegance and humor that strikes me as just right for summer reading. I got this book as a bonus gift when I ordered something else from Hell Yes Press, and ended up liking it more than the thing I originally ordered.
* * *
Jessy Randall's collection of poems A Day in Boyland (Ghost Road, 2007) was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Her young adult novel, The Wandora Unit (Ghost Road, 2009) is about friendship and love in the high school literary magazine crowd. She has books forthcoming from Pecan Grove and Red Hen. Her website is http://personalwebs.coloradocollege.edu/~jrandall.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Recommended Summer Reading - Evie Shockley
During the month of June, No Tells is featuring "Recommended Summer Reading" selections by No Tell contributors.
Evie Shockley's recommendations:
Summer reading is reading you think you're going to get to do between the time you grade the last spring semester final and the time some very energetic student emails you for a fall semester syllabus -- if you're me. And I say to you (myself): good luck! With great optimism and a strong sense of purpose, I present (in no particular order) my list of Poetry Books I Will Read This Summer, If I'm Lucky:
Nox by Anne Carson (New Directions Press, 2010)
Nothing like an art book to heighten one's experience of poetry. In this case, the unusual presenation has an utterly mournful history, but having heard Carson read from the poem, I'm grateful that she went so some lengths to share her grieving with the rest of us.
The Heart's Traffic by Ching-In Chen (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2009)
I won this book in a National Poetry Month Giveaway! How lucky am I? I'd otherwise have bought it. Look at how Chen arranges her poems on the page -- it's "open field," not "boring field" or "random field." I know with this much care for the visual, the language is going to be good...
Lighthead by Terrance Hayes (Penguin, 2010)
Actually, I've already buzzed through most of this collection -- had the good and unusual fortune of acquiring it just hours before a plane ride -- but I'm planning to go back and savor it. From "Lighthead's Guide to Addiction": "If you are addicted to masturbation, seek company."
God Damsel by Reb Livingston (No Tell Books, 2010)
Is it tacky to mention the new book by the blog's host, if it's on your summer reading list? It is? Well, pretend I didn't do it.
Tongue by Rachel Contreni Flynn (Red Hen Press, 2010)
Rachel and I have something in common besides poetry. : ) But that has nothing to do with her new book. Or does it?? I guess I'll find out when I read it! The cover is terrific, by the way.
Suck on the Marrow by Camille Dungy. (Red Hen Press, 2010)
We have a lot of catching up to do, trying to conceive of the experience of African Americans, enslaved and free, during the 19th century, /in poetry/. Dungy is moving that collective project ahead a few steps. I want some of that.
The Plot Genie by Gillian Conoley (Omnidawn, 2009)
I also won this book and I also have already begun reading it, but because I didn't fly away from my routine that day, I didn't get terribly far with the read. Looking forward to this new incarnation of star-crossed lovers.
Apocalyptic Swing by Gabrielle Calvocoressi (Persea, 2009)
For a good while, I thought the title referred to the kind of music that would be playing at the end of days. It is now my understanding that, instead, it has something to do with boxing. I will read and learn more!
A Toast in the House of Friends by Akilah Oliver (Coffeehouse Books, 2009)
I've been wanting to read this book since Oliver's magnificent reading at St. Mark's almost 2 years ago. This poetry sings (as I recall)! It also does a total takeover of the page. I want to dive into this book and swim -- an appropriate summer activity, no?
Words in the Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell ed. Thomas Travisano w/ Saskia Hamilton (FSG, 2008)
Okay, this isn't poetry, it isn't small press, and it isn't even new. But it's about poets, poets writing to one another about lives in/and poetry! And, damn it, I want to read it this summer! Who else besides you, dear poetry readers, would I tell??
* * *
Evie Shockley is the author of a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006), the new black (Wesleyan UP, forthcoming 2011), and two chapbooks. She co-edits jubilat and teaches African American literature and creative writing (poetry) at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Evie Shockley's recommendations:
Summer reading is reading you think you're going to get to do between the time you grade the last spring semester final and the time some very energetic student emails you for a fall semester syllabus -- if you're me. And I say to you (myself): good luck! With great optimism and a strong sense of purpose, I present (in no particular order) my list of Poetry Books I Will Read This Summer, If I'm Lucky:
Nox by Anne Carson (New Directions Press, 2010)
Nothing like an art book to heighten one's experience of poetry. In this case, the unusual presenation has an utterly mournful history, but having heard Carson read from the poem, I'm grateful that she went so some lengths to share her grieving with the rest of us.
The Heart's Traffic by Ching-In Chen (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2009)
I won this book in a National Poetry Month Giveaway! How lucky am I? I'd otherwise have bought it. Look at how Chen arranges her poems on the page -- it's "open field," not "boring field" or "random field." I know with this much care for the visual, the language is going to be good...
Lighthead by Terrance Hayes (Penguin, 2010)
Actually, I've already buzzed through most of this collection -- had the good and unusual fortune of acquiring it just hours before a plane ride -- but I'm planning to go back and savor it. From "Lighthead's Guide to Addiction": "If you are addicted to masturbation, seek company."
God Damsel by Reb Livingston (No Tell Books, 2010)
Is it tacky to mention the new book by the blog's host, if it's on your summer reading list? It is? Well, pretend I didn't do it.
Tongue by Rachel Contreni Flynn (Red Hen Press, 2010)
Rachel and I have something in common besides poetry. : ) But that has nothing to do with her new book. Or does it?? I guess I'll find out when I read it! The cover is terrific, by the way.
Suck on the Marrow by Camille Dungy. (Red Hen Press, 2010)
We have a lot of catching up to do, trying to conceive of the experience of African Americans, enslaved and free, during the 19th century, /in poetry/. Dungy is moving that collective project ahead a few steps. I want some of that.
The Plot Genie by Gillian Conoley (Omnidawn, 2009)
I also won this book and I also have already begun reading it, but because I didn't fly away from my routine that day, I didn't get terribly far with the read. Looking forward to this new incarnation of star-crossed lovers.
Apocalyptic Swing by Gabrielle Calvocoressi (Persea, 2009)
For a good while, I thought the title referred to the kind of music that would be playing at the end of days. It is now my understanding that, instead, it has something to do with boxing. I will read and learn more!
A Toast in the House of Friends by Akilah Oliver (Coffeehouse Books, 2009)
I've been wanting to read this book since Oliver's magnificent reading at St. Mark's almost 2 years ago. This poetry sings (as I recall)! It also does a total takeover of the page. I want to dive into this book and swim -- an appropriate summer activity, no?
Words in the Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell ed. Thomas Travisano w/ Saskia Hamilton (FSG, 2008)
Okay, this isn't poetry, it isn't small press, and it isn't even new. But it's about poets, poets writing to one another about lives in/and poetry! And, damn it, I want to read it this summer! Who else besides you, dear poetry readers, would I tell??
* * *
Evie Shockley is the author of a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006), the new black (Wesleyan UP, forthcoming 2011), and two chapbooks. She co-edits jubilat and teaches African American literature and creative writing (poetry) at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Recommended Summer Reading - Mike Gubser
During the month of June, No Tells is featuring "Recommended Summer Reading" selections by No Tell contributors.
Mike Gubser's recommendations:
Here's four books I've liked recently, three by modern American poets and one by an Albanian:
Bird and Forest Brent Cunningham (Ugly Duckling)
Irresponsibility by Chris Vitiello (Ahsahta)
Key Bridge by Ken Rumble (Carolina Wren -- about DC)
The Condemned Apple by Visar Zhiti (Green Integer)
* * *
Mike Gubser is a history professor at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. His first book of poetry, Secret but Kept it Room, was published in 2006 by Ahadada Press. You can read poems from his latest manuscript, entitled The Historian, in Effing Magazine #7 and No Tell Motel.
Mike Gubser's recommendations:
Here's four books I've liked recently, three by modern American poets and one by an Albanian:
Bird and Forest Brent Cunningham (Ugly Duckling)
Irresponsibility by Chris Vitiello (Ahsahta)
Key Bridge by Ken Rumble (Carolina Wren -- about DC)
The Condemned Apple by Visar Zhiti (Green Integer)
* * *
Mike Gubser is a history professor at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. His first book of poetry, Secret but Kept it Room, was published in 2006 by Ahadada Press. You can read poems from his latest manuscript, entitled The Historian, in Effing Magazine #7 and No Tell Motel.
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