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Sunday, November 22, 2009

O&S 2009 Pushcart Nominations

I'm nominated for my poem "Sucker."

Alan King for "The Meek"
Daryl Rogers for "Visiting Hour Dream"
Michelle McEwen for "Sucker"
Sean Patrick Hill for "When This Rose Parade Burns"
Tony Trigilio for "Sunday Morning"
Bob Hicok for "self-portrait of a self-portrait"
Posted by Michelle "Mim" McEwen

Friday, November 6, 2009

OCHO #27!

Posted by Michelle "Mim" McEwen
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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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