Monthly Archives: July 2013

Going the Distance, an essay by John McCarthy

Posted in July 30, 2013
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Mid-foot strike. Circle breathing. An explosion of words ready to rattle inside the steady skull. There is a synchronous, quiet glide. Most of the time, I am not thinking about anything on a run. Only when I stop, and a …

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Interview with Tim Z. Hernandez

Posted in July 11, 2013

Home, Place, and All They Will Call Us: An Interview with Tim Z. Hernandez by Juan Luis Guzmán  Award-winning author and performance artist Tim Z. Hernandez writes about the lives of the marginalized, about poverty, small-town families and rural landscapes …

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Interview with Tim Z. Hernandez

Posted in July 11, 2013

Home, Place, and All They Will Call Us: An Interview with Tim Z. Hernandez by Juan Luis Guzmán  Award-winning author and performance artist Tim Z. Hernandez writes about the lives of the marginalized, about poverty, small-town families and rural landscapes …

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July 2013: Summer Issue

Posted in July 11, 2013

Greetings PQ friends!   Welcome to our summer issue of PQ. Please visit the Current Issue to see our latest content. In this issue, we have 19 reviews, 4 essays, and 3 interviews for you to enjoy and share. If …

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Listening for Earthquakes by Jasmine Dreame Wagner

Posted in July 11, 2013

Listening for Earthquakes Jasmine Dreame Wagner Caketrain, 2012 Perfect bound, 103 pages Purchase Link Review by PQ Contributing Editor Kaitlin Keller In a powerful and emotionally vivid sequence of poems, Jasmine Dreame Wagner juxtaposes the purity and divinity of nature …

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Search for a Velvet-Lined Cape by Marjorie Manwaring

Posted in July 11, 2013

Search for a Velvet-Lined Cape Marjorie Manwaring Mayapple Press, 2013 Paperback, 86 pp ISBN 978-1-936419-15-9 Purchase Link Reviewed by PQ Contributing Editor Ann E. Michael Inquisitive creatures that we are, we find the unexplained and the mysterious compelling; the idea …

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Sonata Mulattica: Rita Dove

Posted in July 11, 2013

Sonata Mulattica: Rita Dove’s Juggling Act Essay by Jillian Wriston With an ever-increasing number of poets taking on research-demanding projects and spitting out books that obsess—beautifully—over their material, it is no surprise that our former U.S. Poet Laureate, Rita Dove, …

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Sprung by Laura Madeline Wiseman

Posted in July 11, 2013

Sprung Laura Madeline Wiseman San Francisco Bay Press Paperback, 100 pages ISBN: 978-0982829578 Purchase Link Reviewed by Susana Case There’s fun in these irreverent poems, but also a serious look at gender and sexuality. What has sprung in this debut …

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Numbered Bones by Bobby Steve Baker

Posted in July 11, 2013

Numbered Bones Bobby Steve Baker Accents Publishing, Winged Series Chapbook, 29 pages ISBN: 978-1-936628-00-1 Purchase Link Review by PQ Contributing Editor Kaitlin Keller Dr. Bobby Steve Baker is a plastic surgeon who tackles the issue of loss and the condition …

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miracles of the Blog: A series by Carolyn Srygley-Moore

Posted in July 11, 2013

miracles of the Blog: A series   Carolyn Srygley-Moore Punk Hostage Press, 2012 Perfect bound, 114 pages ISBN 978-0-9851293-5-4 Purchase Link  Reviewed by PQ Contributing Editor Dan Coffey One of the supreme “Don’ts” that is almost implicit in book reviewing …

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