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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

O & S (April 2009)

Open publication - Free publishing - More poets

Check out four poems by me— starting on page 58!

Posted by Michelle "Mim" McEwen

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"The black telephone's off at the root/ The voices just can't worm through." from Daddy by Sylvia Plath

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Michelle "Mim" McEwen: I'm a bibliophile, logophile, magazine junkie, library-lover, poet, storyteller, and bookworm living in central Connecticut.

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THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (interviews)

JENNIFER CHANG: "...other poets appear in my poems when I'm feeling the anxiety of influence, which is really the anxiety of self..."
CECILY PARKS: "A really good poem makes me feel like I might cry. I get that tingly feeling on the backs of my eyeballs."
LEIGH ANNE COUCH: "I have really enjoyed seeking out first books by poets I love..."
ERICA DAWSON: "I have a little mission to prove that things from the 17th century and earlier were pretty damn sexy and sassy in their day, and still can be sassy today."
JULIANA GRAY: " I'm not sure I believe in writer's block. Certainly there are times when the creative powers are lying fallow and we aren't producing much or any work, but as for a "block"– some kind of barrier between you and the language – I just don't buy it."
CHUCK RYBAK: "...everything I hope for in my own writing: a chance to refashion the seemingly mundane as magical."
STEPHEN FRECH: "...while I rarely work on poems at night, I am doing the kind of reading that fills me up with images and language that enter my poetry."
RHETT ISEMAN TRULL: "...I think my urge to write poetry was more of a need to search ... to find the right words for emotions that had been too complicated for me to begin to express before."
DAN ALBERGOTTI: "To write a poem is to ... attempt to connect at a deeper level than our daily interactions and superficial conversations will allow."
DOUG VAN GUNDY: "Making whiskey and making poetry both involve distillation, to my mind: the extraction and concentration of the essential."
IAN DOUGLAS: "But I'd like to think there is someone out there who needs my poems desperately, as I've needed the poems of others."
JENNYLYNN KELLER: "Jocks. But maybe that just means I haven't found the right poet yet."
TONY MANCUS: "...I don't really know what makes someone a 'poet' or what makes someone fated to be this thing. The best handle I've got has to do with attention and intention."
PAUL SIEGELL: "Poets are not hard to find. Poetry readers are."
MISSY MCEWEN: "My favorite word at the moment, and probably for always, is 'obsession' "

For some poetry & stories written by me, Press 1:

O&S: four poems (recording)
Trouble (a short story)
four poems: Sucker, Jelly, July, & Even on Sunday
Red Velvet Cake
Two poems
Orange Lover
All I Know about my Aunt Philomena (a short story)
Blood (Best New Poets 2007)

Dial B for more blogs:

Glass Half Full

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ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL

"The Blogger Who Stepped Into Book Publishing" - *PASTE* ASKED ME TO WRITE A BOOK REVIEW, BUT THEY WANTED THE REVIEW TO BE IN THE FORM OF A POEM! I WAS LIKE, "*MONUMENTAL*." *Mr. Miner’s Phish Thoughts – ...
Missy McEwen's Immunization Against Invisibility

Introducing Nick Paradise - Although rapper Nick Paradise is Yonkers based his sound and indefinable style can't be pegged to one specific region and his energetic delivery, unique ...
Qwik-Bake Synthetics

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Blog Archive

► 2011 (1)
- ► January (1)
  - The Poetry Chain Gang (Volume 3)

► 2010 (11)
- ► November (1)
  - On Poetry
- ► October (1)
  - Poets & artists paired!
- ► September (2)
  - It's MiPO, Yo!
  - Trouble (an e-chapbook by me)
- ► August (3)
- ► July (1)
  - Delicious Dangerous (chapbook by me!)
- ► June (1)
  - More me on the World Wide Web:
- ► February (1)
  - Saturday Pie by Melissa McEwen
- ► January (1)
  - Ocho #29: featuring my poem "Peach Juice"

▼ 2009 (25)
- ► December (1)
  - Me, Interviewed:
- ► November (2)
  - O&S 2009 Pushcart Nominations
  - OCHO #27!
- ► September (3)
- ► August (2)
  - THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 13 w/ Leigh Anne Couch...
  - THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 12 w/ Erica Dawson)
- ► July (2)
  - Michelle McEwen (that's me!) will be reviewing you...
  - THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 11 w/ Juliana Gray)
- ► June (2)
  - THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 10 w/ Chuck Rybak)
  - THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 9 w/ poet Stephen Frec...
- ► May (2)
  - THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 8 w/ Rhett Iseman Trul...
  - THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 7 w/ Dan Albergotti)
- ► April (2)
  - Poet Al Young discusses daybreak, Jazz, & "slithy ...
  - THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 6 w/ Doug Van Gundy)
- ▼ March (2)
  - Michelle McEwen: The O & S Recording (four poems)
  - O & S (April 2009)
- ► February (3)
- ► January (4)

► 2008 (5)
- ► December (1)
  - Sweetwater, Saltwater
- ► November (4)

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