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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Sweetwater, Saltwater

Check out a review written by me at http://www.rattle.com/blog/2008/12/sweetwater-saltwater-by-rosie-king/
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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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)

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