chapbook review: karen rigby’s savage machinery

A chapbook is a miraculous venue for poets. It can be a remarkable publishing opportunity to showcase a group of poems that may not have found a single home together. It can also be an incredible challenge to present twenty or so pages of poetry in a cohesive aesthetic and theme. Karen Rigby’s [...]

Posted by Jessica on 05.29.2008 at 12:01 am// Tagged: Book Review, Jessica , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,


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      "Adam Penna is on a roll. For nearly a decade, he’s written one poem every day, almost without fail. He writes for the love of poetry, believing that poems reveal truths that can easily be missed, and offer a way of connecting the universal human condition with individual experiences.

      Mr. Penna writes poetry because he believes it’s the best type of writing to distill the essence of a simple moment. Simply put, poems transform the ordinary into extraordinary, he said."

      Read the full article, which includes news about his *two* new books, published by different houses. "Success for an everyday poet" is written by Pat Rogers for The East Hampton Press & The Southampton.

      And visit Adam Penna's online poetry journal, Best Poem.

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      Have you visited The Page? It's a spot for gleaning bits of "poetry, essays, language, ideas."

      Cool content, and it looks good, too. Edited by Andrew Johnston, with contributions by Stephen Burt.

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      Dana and Jacob are at it again. If you are interested in learning more about The Seattle Poetry Brothel they are creating, visit My Gorgeous Somewhere for the scoop.

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      A new poem by Sean O'Brien, written in response to the latest phase of conflict between Israel and Hamas:

      Katyusha, Katyusha

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      One of our new participants, Lyn Hopper, will be using our writing prompts as a way to fulfill her personal challenge and be creative every day. Sound like something you'd like to do? I am sure you would be welcomed by Leah Piken Kolidas, the CED diva, into her creative fold.

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    Put together a group of words you like, and send it to a collaborator with instructions to use those words in a poem.


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    Think of all the things that provoke anxiety in you, and write them into a poem.

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    We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. — Yeats