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 …
Tag Archives: January 2013
Revisiting Jack Gilbert… by Brian Fanelli
Posted in January 29, 2013
Tags: Bedside Table Series, Brian Fanelli, essay, January 2013
Top of the stack… by Shauna Osborn
Posted in January 19, 2013
Tags: Bedside Table Series, essay, January 2013, Shauna Osborn
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 …
Essay: The Instructional Dose—One Lump or Two?
Posted in January 3, 2013
Tags: essay, January 2013, Leslie L. Nielsen
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 …
Ghost in a Red Hat by Rosanna Warren
Posted in January 3, 2013
Tags: Dawn Leas, January 2013, review
Ghost in a Red HatRosanna WarrenW.W. Norton &Company Inc., 2011 Perfect Binding, 99 pages ISBN: 978-0-393-34370-0Purchase at wwnorton.com Reviewed by PQ Contributing Editor Dawn Leas Reading Rosanna Warren’s Ghost in a Red Hat is like taking a long walk in …
Vermont Exit Ramps by Neil Shepard
Posted in January 3, 2013
Tags: Brian Fanelli, January 2013, review
Vermont Exit Rampsby Neil ShepardBig Table PublishingPaperback, 44 pagesISBN: 9780984956760Purchase link Reviewed by PQ Contributing Editor Brian Fanelli Anyone who has ever hopped in the car for a cross-state or cross-country road trip will find familiarity in the images in …
The Kangaroo Girl by Judith Baumel
Posted in January 3, 2013
Tags: Edan Mohr, January 2013, review
The Kangaroo Girl Judith Baumel GenPop Books Paperback, 78 pages ISBN: 9780982359433 Purchase at SPD Books Reviewed by Edan Mohr Judith Baumel’s latest book conveys both a playful nostalgia and a haunting regret. In navigating a course through personal history, …
Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke
Posted in January 3, 2013
Tags: Arthur McMaster, January 2013, review
Space, in Chainsby Laura KasischkeCopper Canyon Press, 2011paper, 110 pages, $16 Purchase Link Reviewed by PQ Contributing Editor Arthur McMaster Michigan poet Laura Kasischke’s latest volume, her eighth, won the National Book Critic’s …
Shouters and Whisperers: An interview with Mary Ruefle
Posted in January 3, 2013
Tags: Georgia Jones-Davis, interview, January 2013
Author Mary Ruefle Shouters and Whisperers:An interview with Mary Ruefle Interview by Georgia Jones-Davis Mary Ruefle is the author of Madness, Rack and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012) and Collected Poems (Wave Books, 2010). She has published ten books …
She Returns to the Floating World by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Posted in January 3, 2013
Tags: Ann E. Michael, January 2013, review
She Returns to the Floating Worldby Jeannine Hall GaileyKitsune Books, 2011ISBN: 978-0-9827409-2-7 Purchase Link Reviewed by PQ Contributing Editor Ann E. Michael When a writer chooses to call upon myth and folktales in her work, readers generally feel comfortable—most readers …
Essay: A Public Poesy
Posted in January 3, 2013
Tags: Denice Rovira Hazlett, essay, January 2013
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. …