Poetry
A Poem in Homage
Poem for Mom By Priscilla Galligan Priscilla Galligan (@cillagalligan) is a researcher, grant and freelance writer. She has [...]
Moms in Lit
Responding to our invitation to include noteworthy mothers in literature in our May Mom Project, Gary Iorio recalled, In one of Vance’s [Bourjaily] classes we were doing ‘Comic Novels,’ or ‘Humor In Literature.’ We read A Mother’s Kisses by Bruce Jay Friedman. The mom’s name was Meg, and she was unforgettable. I can’t nominate the mother from The Grapes [...]
A Poem for Valentines
Among the Tall Englemann Spruce By Dan Guenther Dan Guenther is the author of four novels, most recently Glossy Black Cockatoos, the 2010 Colorado Authors’ League award selection for genre fiction. His collection of selected poems, The Crooked Truth, is the 2011 Colorado Authors’ League poetry award winner. This drizzly morning the Black-capped Chickadees chase one another [...]
Of Labor and Literature
Do Good Fences Make Good Writers? By Jeffrey Abrahams With January’s chill, I am reminded of an experience in Iowa City while a Workshop student that has stuck with me for more than 35 years. Vance Bourjaily, the celebrated novelist and long-time teacher at the Workshop had badly injured his foot while working at his [...]
Joy Harjo’s Poetry on the Table
Word lovers are a generous and appreciative lot. Witness this by Doug Borsom, reporting on the Thanksgiving segment on NPR’s “Morning Edition” about a new poetry anthology, The Hungry Ear. “The poems in the collection are about food and its role in our social connections,” he explains. “Snippets of some of the poems were read [...]
Dan Guenther and His State On Fire
Dan Guenther is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of four novels, most recently Glossy Black Cockatoos, the 2010 Colorado Authors’ League award selection for genre fiction. His collection of selected poems, The Crooked Truth, is the 2011 Colorado Authors’ League poetry award winner. Driving back to Denver By Dan Guenther © 2012 [...]
A Poem by Dan Guenther
Dan Guenther is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of four novels, most recently Glossy Black Cockatoos, the 2010 Colorado Authors’ League award selection for genre fiction. His collection of selected poems, The Crooked Truth, is the 2011 Colorado Authors’ League poetry award winner. This poem is Dan’s response to Eric‘s question about [...]
The Writer/Reviewer Collaboration
Should a Writer Reply to a Bad Review? By Eric Olsen Continued from The Writer/Editor Collaboration. I figured from the title of Arthur Krystal’s piece, “Should Writers Reply to Reviews?” that he was going to discuss Helen Vendler’s delightfully nasty review of The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, edited and with an intro by our [...]
Books by Robert Peake’s Bed
Robert Peake first came to our attention as one of the poets featured in New Poets/Short Books, a series published by Lost Horse Press edited by Marvin Bell. We ran Marvin’s inspirational intros to the five volumes last May. Now across the Pond, Robert writes about poetry and culture shock on his website. A native [...]
Poetry Takes Wing
Dan Guenther’s collection of selected poems, The Crooked Truth, is the 2011 Colorado Authors’ League poetry award winner. Early in their 38-year marriage, Dan and his wife took a transformative trip to New South Wales, Australia. Dan says Whitney Houston’s death reminded him of the importance of celebrating the best of times—and long unions. He acknowledged that [...]
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