Arthur McMaster, PQ Contributing Editor Frederick Glaysher holds two degrees from the University of Michigan, one a master’s degree in English. The author or editor of ten books, his epic poem, The Parliament of Poets, is partly set on the …
Monthly Archives: April 2015
My Odyssey as an Epic Poet: Interview with Frederick Glaysher
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Arthur McMaster, interview, Spring 2015
Maybe a Little Closer: Interview with Poet Terri Witek
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: interview, Millicent Borges Accardi, Spring 2015
Millicent Bórges Accardi, Interviews Editor Well-known for her experimental collaborations with visual artists, poet Terri Witek’s latest project with Brazilian new media artist Cyriaco Lopes has been featured at galleries and site-specific installations. Their 2009 video “recife/s,” was a finalist …
Is Poetry Therapeutic? Define Your Terms!
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Ann E. Michael, essay, Spring 2015
Ann E. Michael Minerva, the Roman goddess of poetry, medicine, wisdom… Periodically, because I have so many friends and colleagues who are writers, the subject of whether writing is therapeutic appears in conversation or on social media. A recent New …
Innovation
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: essay, Rachel Danielle Peterson, Spring 2015
Rachel Danielle Peterson I know art as imitation is no longer a cool thing, just as art as something really really real can be quite unnerving. This is the old tug between Plato and Aristotle and those Greek all decked …
Review: Reckless Lovely by Martha Silano
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Lesley Wheeler, Martha Silano, review, Spring 2015
Lesley Wheeler Reckless Lovely Martha Silano Saturnalia Books, 2014 Paperback, 80 pages ISBN: 978-0-9899797-1-9 http://www.saturnaliabooks.com/?q=node/81 I am currently teaching an undergraduate seminar on Mid-Twentieth-Century American Poetry, a course full …
Review: Swimming in the Rain: New and Selected Poems 1980-2015 by Chana Bloch
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Chana Bloch, Charlotte Mandel, review, Spring 2015
Charlotte Mandel Swimming in the Rain: New and Selected Poems 1980-2015 Chana Bloch Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 2015 Paper, 221 pp, $19.95 ISBN 978-1-938769-00-9 http://www.autumnhouse.org/product/swimming-in-the-rain-new-and-selected-poems-1980-2015-by-chana-bloch/ Chana Bloch’s new collection, titled Swimming in the Rain: New and Selected Poems 1980-2015, …
The “Darling” of the Poetry World
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: interview, Millicent Borges Accardi, Spring 2015
Millicent Bórges Accardi, Interviews Editor Reviews have made me a better writer, one who is more articulate about her own practice. Poetry is a conversation, and your book is just the beginning. The author of over twenty books, including Melancholia …
Review: Through A Garden Gate by Charlotte Mandel (poems) and Vincent Covello (photographs)
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Charlotte Mandel, review, Sander Zulauf, Spring 2015, Vincent Covello
Sander Zulauf Through A Garden Gate Poems by Charlotte Mandel Photographs by Vincent Covello Cincinnati, OH: David Robert Books, 2015 Paper. 60pp. $20.00. ISBN: 978-1-625491-213 www.davidrobertbooks.com After this bitter cold, relentless, dangerous winter of 2015, what better to cheer the …
Review: Things That Keep Us from Drifting by Andrew Ruzkowski
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Andrew Ruzkowski, Ann E. Michael, review, Spring 2015
Ann E. Michael, PQ Contributing Editor Things That Keep Us from Drifting Andrew Ruzkowski Another New Calligraphy, 2014 88 pp., large format paperback, $18.00 www.anothernewcalligraphy.com In his writings, John Dewey mentions the phenomenon he calls “drift,” when social forces lose …
“Tree by Charity”: Robert Frost and the American Christmas
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Adam Bryant Marshall, essay, Spring 2015
Adam Bryant Marshall At the end of his book Christmas in America, historian Penne L. Restad concludes that, despite the sense that “profanation, secularization, commercialization, and prevalence throughout American life have delustered it…Christmas remains the most important holiday on our …