Laura Weldon Kids are eager to liberate poetry from the stuffy good-for-you closet where it’s so often kept. That is, as long as they can do so playfully. Each time I lead poetry-writing workshops I learn from students as young …
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Poetry Writing Hacks: 7 Playful Ways To Create Poetry
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: essay, Laura Weldon, Spring 2015
Review: The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2014
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Lori A May, Molly Peacock, review, Sonnet L'Abbe, Spring 2015
Lori A. May, PQ Founder and Past Editor-in-Chief The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2014 Guest Editor: Sonnet L’Abbe Series Editor: Molly Peacock Tightrope Books, Nov 2014 ISBN: 978-1926639833 http://tightropebooks.com/best-canadian-poetry-2014/ This is a biased review. I confess bias since I’ve …
Review: Divining the Prime Meridian by Carol Smallwood
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Carol Smallwood, Nancy Means Wright, review, Spring 2015
Nancy Means Wright Divining the Prime Meridian Carol Smallwood Word Poetry, 2015 Trade paper, 118 pages 978-1-62549-111-4 http://www.wordpoetrybooks.com/smallwood.html Poet Carol Smallwood knows how to tell the truth slant, as Emily Dickinson advised, with double meanings, like the prime meridian in …
Review: Naked by Donnelle McGee
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Brian Fanelli, Donnelle McGee, review, Spring 2015
Brian Fanelli, PQ Contributing Editor Naked Donnelle McGee Unbound Content Paperback, 110 pages ISBN-13: 978-1936373437 http://unboundcontent.com/naked-by-donnelle-mcgee/ In his manifesto “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Langston Hughes defines blues and jazz as a “revolt against weariness in a white …
Review: Lillie was a goddess, Lillie was a whore by Penelope Scambly Schott
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Penelope Scambly Schott, review, Spring 2015, Therése Halscheid
Therése Halscheid Lillie was a goddess, Lillie was a whore Penelope Scambly Schott Mayapple Press, 2013 Perfect bound, 85 pages ISBN: 978-1-936419-25-8 Purchase: Mayapple Press From a prone prostitute to a flower of purity—Penelope Scambly Schott examines all manner of …
Review: Habeas Corpus by Cindy Hochman
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Arthur McMaster, Cindy Hochman, review, Spring 2015
Arthur McMaster, PQ Contributing Editor Habeas Corpus by Cindy Hochman Glass Lyre Press Paper, 2015, 27 pages ISBN: 978-1-941783-02-3 http://www.glasslyrepress.com/catalogue.html Cindy Hochman knows what makes a memorable poem—fresh use of language and captivating imagery, of course, but equally so “that …
Review: Frozen Latitudes by Therése Halscheid
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Ann E. Michael, review, Spring 2015, Therése Halscheid
Ann E. Michael, PQ Contributing Editor Frozen Latitudes Therése Halscheid Press 53, 2014 Paperback, 75 pp. $14.95 ISBN 978-1-941209-12-7 www.measurepress.com Therése Halscheid’s latest collection begins with the cold: “icy flakes” and “sentence after sentence moving words/over the winter earth.” She …
Children of a Difficult Labor
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Bruce Bond, essay, Spring 2015
Bruce Bond There is no birth of consciousness without pain. —Carl Jung You must revise your life. —Rainer Maria Rilke When I first read Jung, I was 23, fresh out of my …
Going Inside the Cave: Where the Personal and Political Intersect in Contemporary Narrative American Poetry
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Brian Fanelli, essay, Spring 2015
Brian Fanelli In his essay “A Defence of Poetry,” Percy Shelley declares that poets should be “the unacknowledged legislators of the world. In Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke takes a more confessional stance, stating that to write …
Forming Functional Friction
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Leslie L. Nielsen, letter from editor, Spring 2015
The course of a knot—its overs, unders, and throughs—determine its holding strength. There are hundreds, some with a single strand of rope or twine, some binding two or more strands. Some have names describing their function (Lobster Buoy hitch), origin …