Good News: September
When we started thinking about forming an online literary community, one of the things we talked about was that word: community. What does it mean to us, and what do we hope to accomplish?
There is no us without the friends and colleagues who trust us enough to hold their book launches or read from their work or join in conversation with another creative.
And we want to celebrate past contributors, supporters, and friends as they publish new work, win awards, and otherwise continue to do what matters to us all: the work.
So, please, check this space each month for updates from the incredibly talented people we get to work with and celebrate with us by sharing their successes on social media or reaching out to tell them what you love about their work!
Allison Adair, poetry editor of A Mighty Blaze, continues to host Poets in Conversation, most recently Tishani Doshi and Zeina Hashem Beck. She was also interviewed in September by Rob Mclennan for his blog, “12 or 20 (second series) questions with Allison Adair.”
José Angel Araguz‘s lyric memoir, Ruin and Want, was the winning selection of Sundress Publications’ 2022 Prose Open Reading Period. The memoir is scheduled for release in 2023. José also published two poems, “On Touch” and “Listening,” in the journal Talking Writing; the poem “Pen” in The Shore, “Mexican” in Thrush Poetry Journal, and “Certain Rivers,” “Conditioning (City Study),” and “Four Dirges” in Poetry is Currency. He wrote a blog post titled “Finding Your People” for Grubstreet and, as editor of Salamander, published the magazine’s 53rd issue.
Ellen Austin-Li published several poems: “The Rainstorm” was published in the August issue of Anti-Heroin Chic; “Anam Cara” was published in Sheila-Na-Gig; “Wound City Diptych” was published in Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices; “In Which Little Red Riding Hood Learns a Lesson” was published in the spring 2022 issue of Words, the literary arts magazine of Thomas More University; “House of Trees” and “The Katsura at 4249,” will be in Poetry Contests for a Cause’s anthology Whispering Willow: Tree Poems, with book proceeds to benefit the Arbor Day Foundation; “Spring Morning at Bryce Canyon” and “The Miracle Between My Mother and Me” were published in The Well as part of its “Mindful Poetry Moments” in conjunction with NPR’s “The On-Being Project;” “Incidental Pollen,” “Monarch,” and “Magicicada, 2021” were published in Stone Canoe, issue 16; “Visible Woman” was published in the March issue of Masque & Spectacle; “Found Poem of War” was published in New Verse News in March; “If a Woman’s Eggs Had No Expiration Date,” “Means Freedom in Hebrew,” “At Home in the World,” and “To Save My Sister from Drowning” were published in Pink Panther Magazine.
M. Soledad Caballero‘s collection I Was a Bell won a gold medal in the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award from the International Latino Book Awards and was a Silver Winner in the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book Award. Her poem, “Someday I Will Visit Hawk Mountain, was featured in the podcast Poetry Unbound from OnBeing.
Eileen Cleary published the Summer 2022 volume of The Lily Poetry Review (Volume 8). She also interviewed Robbie Gamble about his poetry chapbook A Can of Pinto Beans for the spring 2022 issue of Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices.
Quintin Collins‘ poems “Terror Management Theory,” “Elegy as a Room for My Dead,” and “etymology ft. urban dictionary,” from his second collection of poetry, Claim Tickets for Stolen People, were published in the spring 2022 issue of Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices. Quintin was also named a poetry editor at Salamander.
Jessica Cuello‘s most recent book, Liar, was a long-list finalist for the Julie Suk Award from Jacar Press. Her translation of “Pendant que Perceval tombait,” by Tania Langlais, was published in Plume.
Randall Horton was in conversation with student Deniqua Campbell at Writer’s Foundry Review.
Marcia Karp‘s collection If By Song was a finalist for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize.
Daniel B. Summerhill was named a Baldwin Fellow for the 2022-23 Baldwin For the Arts Residency. His poem “Pimu” was published in Tikkun, and he was commissioned by The Wall Street Journal to write a poem (“In Praise of Floating“) for its section “An Ode to the Home Office and 5 More Poems About Life in 2022.” Daniel will also be a featured poet at this year’s Dodge Poetry Festival.
Co-founder and director Lisa Allen‘s poem “Bragging Rights” was published by Anti-Heroin Chic; her poem “And Now That I Am 51” was published by The Normal School; and her poem “Prolapse: Etymology” was published by South 85 Journal and nominated for the Best of the Net anthology.
Co-founder and director Rebecca Connors‘ poem “Womb Weary” was published in the April issue of Anti-Heroin Chic.