Julie Brooks Barbour
North Carolina College for Women 1992
We knew we were women.
I mean, there were boys about
and we knew that need.
We also had the need
to be taken seriously
outside of our hometowns,
away from parents and secrets
we didn’t want to discuss.
Read the full poem here: http://diodepoetry.com/v5n2/content/barbour_jb.html
Find out more about the MFA Writing Program here:http://mfagreensboro.org
Three by Three
April is National Poetry Month, and how appropriate, three big league poets with strong ties to North Carolina – Claudia Emerson, Michael McFee and Joseph Millar – have new books out.
Emerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for “Late Wife,” is a graduate of the MFA program at UNCG. She teaches at Mary Washington University in Fredericksburg, Va. She was poet laureate of Virginia from 2008 to 2010.
Read the full article here: http://www.news-record.com/blog/63640/entry/141784
Find out more about the MFA Writing Program here:http://mfagreensboro.org
Heidi's Pick Six: Michael Gills (RDSP)
For the next two weeks I'll be featuring authors from the cutting edge Raw Dog Screaming Press! Founded in August 2003, RDSP books are entertaining and thought-provoking and span the gamut from surreal and absurd to horror, sci-fi and fantasy.
1. Which of your characters is your favorite?
2. Tell me about your travels.
November, the Go Love tour crossed the Mississippi into Carolina, cruised the Outer Banks in a hard rain, down through Wilmington to Sunset Beach where I slept within a rock's throw of the breakers, through all of South Carolina in pitch dark (the best way), hit the Georgia Pig outside Brunswick for killer barbecue, then west toward Dothan, Alabama where the earth's premier peanut-fest went down in full splendor, south to Ocala where the author of Purple Jesus introduced me, then scenic 75 to A1A up to St. Augustine, where I made offering and prayer to Nuestra Señora de la Leche y Bien Parto, sweet lady.
Read the full list here: http://heidirubymiller.blogspot.com/2012/04/heidis-pick-six-michael-gills-rdsp.html
Find out more about the MFA Writing Program here:http://mfagreensboro.org
FAQs: Is It Hard to Get Published?
by Camille Dungy
I want to answer a question I’ve been asked quite frequently by young writers. They tell me they’ve been writing for a little while and they love writing and they want to know if it will be hard for them to publish their work.
Yes, publishing is difficult. Or at least, publishing well can be difficult. And by publishing well, I mean publishing good poems in venues other people think are important, the kind of venues that can garner you literary cache. One of the first things you have to decide as a writer is how much that matters to you, literary cache.
Read the full article here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/04/faqs-is-it-hard-to-get-published/
Find out more about the MFA Writing Program here:http://mfagreensboro.org
Find out more about the MFA Writing Program here:http://mfagreensboro.org
Butterfly's Child
by Angela Davis-Gardner
Puccini’s haunting opera, Madame Butterfly, ends with Butterfly’s suicide when her long-awaited lover, the cavalier naval officer, Pinkerton, finally returns to Nagasaki accompanied by his “real” wife, Kate. Realizing the situation, Butterfly agrees to give up their son then falls on her father’s sword. Pinkerton takes the boy to America where, presumably, Kate will raise him as her own.
In real life, of course, the story would not have ended there. Davis-Gardner picks up the thread to create a wonderful sequel to Puccini’s opera....
Read the full review here: http://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/butterflys-child/
Find out more about the MFA Writing Program here:http://mfagreensboro.org
David Rigsbee reviews Secure the Shadow by Claudia Emerson
Claudia Emerson's follow-up to Figure Studies (2008) and Late Wife (2006), which won the Pulitzer Prize, opens with two fires, one visible, one invisible. Like all fires, they manifest contrasting qualities: the prospect of utility, but also the more (and aesthetically interesting) danger of immolation (and of auto-da-fé). The visible fire is a house fire seen from the highway; the invisible one is underground, mineral, nuclear, the realm of Pluto rising. Hence to begin a book of this one's somber colors is like lighting a match on entering a catacomb.
Read the full review here: http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/12/spring/rigsbee_r.php
Find out more about the MFA Writing Program here:http://mfagreensboro.org
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