Benjamin Aleshire sits down with Didi Jackson in a conversation about her collection MOON JAR. Read the full interview here!
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Substantial Q&A with Didi Jackson on MOON JAR. Thank you Adroit Journal!
Tea by the Sea & High Skies featured in “books you may have missed”
Photographer Matt Witt has a large list of media you may have missed. Donna Hemans’ Tea by the Sea and Tracy Daughtery’s High Skies have been featured in the list. Read the full blog below!
Rex Wilder and Ron Koertge to present at Vroman’s Bookstore virtual event!
In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives.
As the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if, and what, they were writing under quarantine. Moved and galvanized by the response, the onetime New Yorker poetry editor and recent former director of the Poetry Society of America began collecting the poems arriving in her inbox, assembling this various, intimate, and intricate portrait of our suddenly altered reality…
Click here to read more and register for the Dec. 7th event.
ANIMAL WIFE wins BEST book cover of the year at Electric Literature!
Thank you all for voting! Congratulations to Lara Ehrlich (author), Caitlin Sacks (designer of ANIMAL WIFE) and everyone else at Red Hen. Here is a brief snippet of the article from Electric Literature. Read the rest below!
What was the most important thing for you to convey about the book? How did you use the design to get that across?
The author, Lara, really guided me with the direction for the cover. We wanted to emphasize the duality of the title Animal Wife. Is she the human wife of an animal? Or is she the animal? The answer changes between stories.
I think there’s this idea so many women have, that once you get married and have kids, you’re trapped. Your life isn’t your own anymore. The cover wolf/housewife can be seen as a wild animal that’s been domesticated, or she’s a wife with a growing resentment for her family. Either way, those animal instincts are bound to kick in for self preservation eventually.
Q&A with Jennifer Risher, writing on tough topics!
Marion Roach Smith sits down with Jennifer Risher, author of WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH for a questions and answers podcast/interview. This topic includes writing on the tough topics. Read the full transcript here, or listen to the interview here!
Excerpt from THE PRESENCE OF THINGS PAST translated into Italian!
” I had been there twice, but by now so many years had gone by that I had to ask the girl in the office where it was. She gave me a concerned look, and I felt embarrassed, then she opened a large register. She confirmed the first name, looking up at me in the same way, then took a small card and wrote numbers on it. She handed me the card, a map, leaned over the counter; with the tip of her pencil she showed me where the entrance was. Then she traced a line along the road I would have to follow…”
Read more of “Home” written by Red Hen author John Taylor, translated by Marco Morello, here.
THE LIKELY WORLD by Melanie Conroy-Goldman, on Lit Reactor’s staff picks of best books in 2020!
Thank you Lit Reactor! Read the rest of their list here!
Listen to Elise Paschen as she reads Heritage, X for the Library of Congress
Elise Paschen reads and discusses her poem “Heritage, X” on July 13, 2020, from her study in Harbert, Michigan. Paschen is the author of The Nightlife, Bestiary, Infidelities, and Houses: Coasts. She has edited numerous poetry anthologies and teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Paschen is an enrolled member of the Osage Nation.
ANIMAL WIFE on a holiday reading list from the Kenyon Review!
ANIMAL WIFE by Lara Ehrlich, a collection of fairy tales that turn up the volume on the quiet desperation in the lives of women and girls until the characters scream, rage, screw, and otherwise manifest their discontents, and that crackle and pop with such imagination and innovation that I was left roiling with jealousy and love;
Coastal Shelf has featured one of Tina Schumann’s poems this week!
Issue 1|2: “Nothing Personal” by Tina Schumann
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Nothing Personal
Is it the wind carousing the birch tree across the street?
The reliable creak of the screen door, or the cats
sleeping face in sunlight? Maybe it’s last night’s dream
of your mother played by an actress who looked…
UNSEEN CITY (Amy Shearn) on Writer’s Bone’s list of 32 books to keep on your radar!
Editor’s note: We’re hard at work finalizing our Best of 2020 book list, so we’re playing a lightning round version of #bookradar! We may be a little pithier than usual, but don’t take that as a sign as we loved any of these terrific books any less than the others we’ve featured this year. Also important to note with the holiday season upon us, all the links we feature below lead to Bookshop.org or IndieBound. We encourage you to do whatever you can to support your local bookstore, including purchasing audiobooks from our sponsor Libro.fm. Feel free to share what’s on your bunker reading list by tweeting us @WritersBone or in the comments section below. Stay safe, stay home, and keep reading!—Daniel Ford
GLORIOUS BOY written by Aimee Liu on list of 51 best books of 2020!
Washington Independent Review of Books has crafted a list, in no particular order of their most loved titles of 2020. View the list here!
Marie Tozier has her poem “Aakuaksrak” featured in Poetry Daily!
From her collection OPEN THE DARK.
Lara Ehrlich’s Alumni Profile (Q&A) w/ The University of Chicago!
What kind of work have you done since MAPH? I see you work as marketing director for an arts festival, do you feel that your time at MAPH prepared you for this career?
After graduating from MAPH, I worked in telemarketing at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, front of house at Goodman Theatre, and subscription sales at Steppenwolf Theatre before securing my first full-time job at a publishing company in Chicago suburbs. There, I wrote sympathy cards and joke-a-day calendars that ended up in the remainder bins at Walmart. I quickly began looking for an organization with a more humanitarian mission where I could put my writing and editing skills to better use…
Vote for ANIMAL WIFE to Win Electric Lit’s ‘Best Book Cover of 2020’!
Vote for your favorites on Electric Literature’s Twitter and Instagram stories every day this week: round 1 (a whopping 16 matchups) today, round 2 Tuesday, quarterfinals Wednesday, semifinals Thursday, and the final face-off on Friday. You can familiarize yourself with the competitors and their first-round opponents below. If you want to make your own predictions, click the bracket above for a large version or download one here. The winner will receive bragging rights, which in many ways is the most any of us can hope for this year!
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