NEWS (12/1/18): New broadside, Pushcart Prize nominations, and the amazing Polyphonic Folio celebrating work created in multiple languages -- our response to singularity, our push against monoculturalism, our praise of polyphony! See all below.
Collaborators’ Q&A: Writer Marsha Pomerantz: …what Amy’s work emphasizes is the tightening, the twistedness (in various senses)—binding, ingestion, tangle—which is at least as present in the poem as the undoing that I had been focusing on. Artist Amy Meissner: I loved that I was considering midwifery and women’s forbidden power at the same time Marsha was considering another type of witch.
Marsha Pomerantz is the author of The Illustrated Edge (Biblioasis, 2011). Recent poems and essays have appeared in PN Review, Raritan, Salamander, and Best American Essays 2016. Artist Amy Meissner’s textile-based artwork has shown nationally, with award-winning work residing in the permanent collection at the Anchorage Museum. www.amymeissner.com.
Approaching the Fields Chanda Feldman Louisiana State University Press, 2018 $16.95; ISBN: 9780807168295 64 pages Chanda Feldman excels in the role of storyteller as she explores her individual ancestry in Approaching the Fields, her first collection of poems. Filled with pantoums,…
We’re nominating six broadsides published by Broadsided Press for the annual Pushcart Prizes. We’re not sure what this venerable literary anthology will do with our collaborative approach, but we hope they will agree with us that these broadsides offer voices…
Space Traveler Benjamin S. Grossberg University of Tampa Press, 2014 $14; ISBN: 978-159732-119-8 Reading the poems in Ben Grossberg’s 2014 book, Space Traveler, is rather like sitting on the couch with an interesting, articulate friend, listening to his stories and…
