Marly Youmans's Blog, page 168

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In a recent interview, Robin Robertson said, "Any comparison between North America and the UK and Ireland always involves scale. They have many poetry publishers and almost too many literary magazines; we have too few." Into the breach leaps the brave and always-surprising writer and publisher Pete Crowther, who has now founded a new English poetry press: Stanza Press.They're bringing out an

"He is known as an author who changes greatly from one book to the next. And in these very changes you recognize him as himself." -Calvino on Calvino

Moi, last on the list: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/02/... Always surprising to see what makes a list...

I'm not sure how all this works, but I'm glad that one of my 2009 poems is nominated for a Rhysling Award and will be in the Rhsyling anthology. Poets appearing in past anthologies include: Isaac Asimov, MargaretAtwood, Diane Ackerman, Alan P. Lightman, Ray Bradbury, Ursula LeGuin, Bruce Boston, Peter Redgrove, Jane Yolen, Robert Frazier, GeneWolfe, Joe Haldeman, Thomas Disch, Catherynne M.

Tony Jones, The Teaching of the 12 (Brewster, Mass: Paraclete Press, 2009)*A Syllable of Water, Emilie Griffin, Editor (Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2008)The Didache is a curious little document that reflects the workings of a young church innocent of the teachings of St. Paul and with its eye on right practice, and Tony Jones has mulled over this work and considered how it might relate to the

Deadlines and minor panics have been sprouting up for several months, but now at least the current round of college applications is done--much more to do there, but at least we hit the eleventh hour with submissions on Friday. Make that the eleven fifty-ninth minute. And The Throne of Psyche has gone to Mercer University Press. I made the deadline of Friday; then my mother (wonderful

I recommend this Haitian charity: The Sisters of St. Margaret (Episcopal, associated with The Society of St. Margaret based in Boston) in Haiti have long served the handicapped. No doubt they will have more handicapped patients and students to care for than ever after the earthquake. Their convent was destroyed along with their rehabilitation hospital and Holy Trinity School. The Cathedral and

Poems "Scout Ceremony" and "Interregnum" are up at "Mezzo Cammin."(http://www.mezzocammin.com/iambic.php... Ceremony" is about just that--but set on and around the crenellated, arched bridge near the mouth of the Susquehanna (the second bridge.) "Interregnum" was written for a young writer who has gone through a lot of eye surgery, Eileen St. Lauren, and

A second poem of mine is up at the Words of Power issue of qarrtsiluni If you want to make a comment, please leave it there, not here. Beth Adams and Dave Bonta have worked hard on this issue, so I'd like to share any appreciation with them. http://qarrtsiluni.com/2010/01/13/a-t...