A new poem by Sara Slaughter (poetry, ’11) at every day, a century, “a curated writing project that challenges writers to create a one-hundred word prose poem every day”:
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In the South, as elsewhere, fried chicken is called by the bone it’s served on. In the South, any good fried chicken joint will highlight the plates or baskets that include the pulley bone. This is the wishbone we fight over from Thanksgiving’s turkey. Smaller, though. Hollow. Its given name, furcula…[keep reading]
Alumni Matthew Olzmann’s poem, “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” is up at Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century.
MOUNTAIN DEW COMMERCIAL DISGUISED AS A LOVE POEM
Here’s what I’ve got, the reasons why our marriage
might work: Because you wear pink but write poems
about bullets and gravestones. Because you yell
at your keys when you lose them, and laugh,
loudly, at your own jokes. Because you can hold a pistol,
gut a pig. Because you memorize songs, even commercials
from thirty years back and sing them when vacuuming… [Keep Reading]
Read alumna Glenis Redmond‘s new poem in the latest issue of Tongues of the Ocean, Words and Writing from the Islands.
Stomach Trouble
Congenital defect means
my first breath was snatched
by trouble’s hand.It held me
before I felt
my mama’s embrace.All five of her babies,
born before time:
I was a whole month shy,a small mahogany fist of cries
straining against a world
I was not ready to enter.At 4 lbs. 6 oz.,
I arrived with loss
at my center: umbilical hernia.My insides
pushing out:
the disposition of a poet… [Keep Reading]
Glenis is the author of the poetry collection, Backbone
Gail Peck (poetry, ’87): Gail’s book Counting the Lost was published in September by Main Street Rag. Her essay, “In the Shadow of Beauty” is included in the online journal Connotation Press. Her poems are forthcoming in Nimrod, Comstock Review, and elsewhere.
Reginald Dwayne Betts (poetry ’10) reads at PoetryFoundation.org
Reginald has received an NAACP Image Award and a Radcliffe Fellowship to Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies.
He is the author of the poetry collection Shahid Reads His Own Palm
Faith S. Holsaert (fiction ’82): Faith has a short sequence of poems forthcoming in So to Speak, a Feminist Journal of Language and Art, where she was selected by Claudia Rankine for an honorable mention in the journal’s poetry contest. You can find an excerpt as well as her artist’s statement here.
Faith’s short story “Appalachian Mitzvah,” appeared in the December 2011 issue of Spittoon. Faith also blogs at A Writer’s Work: an agitation of writing and reading.
Bob Ayres (Poetry ’93): Bob’s first collection of poems, Shadow of Wings, will be published this spring by Main Street Rag Publishing Company as part of its Author’s Choice Chapbook Series. The manuscript was recommended for the series by fellow alum Gail Peck (poetry ’87).
The March/April 2012 issue of Poets and Writers Magazine will carry an article by Warren Wilson graduate Jennifer Wisner Kelly titled, “Why We Write: The Tax Man Cometh.” From Poets and Writers:
As if rejections from literary magazines weren’t enough, the ultimate rejection (with an eight-thousand-dollar invoice to boot) comes from the IRS. Contributor Jennifer Wisner Kelly chronicles what it takes to be a Writer in the eyes of Uncle Sam.
Jennifer’s first published story is forthcoming in the Greensboro Review.
Krys Lee (fiction ’08) talks about her book Drifting House
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Robert V.S. Redick (fiction ’2001): Robert’s novel The River of Shadows was published in March 2011 by Gollancz (U.K.) and Del Rey (U.S.). The fourth and final book in the series will be published in May 2012. In October, Robert was a finalist in the Esquire 2011 short-short fiction contest, and was selected to attend a workshop with National Book Award-Winner Colum McCann.
Kristen Rembold (poetry ’06): Kristen’s poetry chapbook, Leaf and Tendril (2011, Finishing Line Press) is now available.
Joe Schuster (fiction ’91): Joe’s novel, The Might Have Been, will appear in March 2012 from Ballantine Books.
Natalie Serber (fiction ’05): Natalie’s short story collection, Shout Her Lovely Name, will be released in June 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She is working on a new novel that the publisher purchased in a two book deal.
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