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, …
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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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
My Odyssey as an Epic Poet: Interview with Frederick Glaysher
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Arthur McMaster, interview, Spring 2015
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …