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 …
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. …
Painting Czeslawa Kwoka, Honoring Children of the Holocaust
Posted in January 3, 2013
Tags: Brian Fanelli, January 2013, review
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 …
January 2013: a new issue and more
Posted in January 3, 2013
Tags: January 2013, letter from editor, new issue
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 …
A (short) history of l. by rob mclennan
Posted in January 3, 2013
Tags: Elizabeth Kate Switaj, January 2013, review
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, …
Back to the Future: Interview with Mark Jarman
Posted in January 3, 2013
Tags: Arthur McMaster, interview, January 2013
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 …