Monthly Archives: January 2013

Revisiting Jack Gilbert… by Brian Fanelli

Posted in January 29, 2013
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Bedside Table Series: #3by PQ Contributing Editor Brian Fanelli During my M.F.A. course work at Wilkes University, I plowed through dozens of poetry collections and essays. One of the books on the list was The Great Fires, poems by Jack …

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Top of the stack… by Shauna Osborn

Posted in January 19, 2013
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Bedside Table Series: #2by PQ Contributing Editor Shauna Osborn Full discloser—I do not own a nightstand. What I have instead is a rather large stack of books that live on the floor next to my bed. They stay there until …

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Essay: The Instructional Dose—One Lump or Two?

Posted in January 3, 2013
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The Instructional Dose—One Lump or Two?Essay by Leslie L. Nielsen We all are taught; some of us are also teachers. Part of instruction is assertion and part of it is redirection. In a creative writing classroom, right and wrong become …

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Books on the nightstand… by Ann E. Michael

Posted in January 3, 2013
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Bedside Table Series: #1 by PQ Contributing Editor Ann E. Michael Wow, where does one begin? Or more accurately, where does it all end? The books on the nightstand—which, in my case, is a blanket chest—represent a kind of temporary …

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Essay: The Poetry of Comics

Posted in January 3, 2013
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The Poetry of ComicsEssay by Dale Mettam In an attempt to expose (and by expose, I obviously mean force) some culture on my kids, I sat them down in front of a recent PBS broadcast of Wagner’s “Ring Cycle”…the whole …

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Back to the Future: Interview with Mark Jarman

Posted in January 3, 2013
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Back to the Future with Mark Jarman Author Mark Jarman Interview by PQ Contributing Editor Arthur McMaster Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, the writer Mark Jarman has championed the poetry of New Formalists for several years. We owe …

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A (short) history of l. by rob mclennan

Posted in January 3, 2013
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A (short) history of l.by rob mclennanBuschekBooksPerfect Bound, 95 pagesISBN: 978-1-894543-69-9Purchase Link Reviewed by PQ Contributing Editor Elizabeth Kate Switaj T.S. Eliot’s observation that “genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood” has become something of a critical cliché. Nonetheless, …

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January 2013: a new issue and more

Posted in January 3, 2013
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Greetings PQ friends!  Welcome to 2013 and to a new issue of PQ. Please visit the Current Issue to see our latest content. We have a nice assortment of reviews, interviews, and essays for you this time around.  We’d also …

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Painting Czeslawa Kwoka, Honoring Children of the Holocaust

Posted in January 3, 2013
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Painting Czeslawa Kwoka, Honoring Children of the HolocaustPaintings by Lori Schreiner, Poems by Theresa Senato EdwardsUnbound ContentPaperback, 58 pagesISBN: 9781936373277Purchase Link   Reviewed by PQ Contributing Editor Brian Fanelli Too often, history is reduced to names and dates in textbooks, or …

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Essay: A Public Poesy

Posted in January 3, 2013
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Denice Rovira Hazlett A Public Poesy Essay by Denice Rovira Hazlett *Poesy: [poh-uh-see, -zee] noun, plural po•e•sies. The work or the art of poetic composition. Sometimes you plan a poetry event, but can’t ensure even a modest modicum of success. …

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