Autumn Sonnet

This is the treacherous month when autumn days With summer’s voice come bearing summer’s gifts. Beguiled, the pale down-trodden aster lifts Her head and blooms again.  The soft, warm haze Makes moist once more the sere and dusty ways, And, creeping through where dead leaves lie in drifts, The violet returns.  Snow noiseless sifts Ere [...]

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Call for Submissions – The Coffin Factory

The first issue of The Coffin Factory is now available at Barnes & Noble and independent bookstores nationwide and features work by Joyce Carol Oates, Milan Kundera, Roberto Bolaño, José Saramago, and Rabindranath Tagore, as well as interviews with New Directions Publishing and Justin Taylor.  “To perpetuate an intellectually engaged culture,” The Coffin Factory publishes [...]

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Thanksgiving Magic

Thanksgiving Day I like to see Our cook perform her witchery. She turns a pumpkin into pie As easily as you or I Can wave a hand or wink an eye. She takes leftover bread and muffin And changes them to turkey stuffin’. She changes cranberries to sauce And meats to stews and stews to [...]

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Time to Submit – inter|rupture

inter|rupture, a new online journal of poetry and art, is now reading submissions for its one-year anniversary issue scheduled for release in February 2012.  The journal publishes three times annually in February, June, and October with an emphasis on poetry currently; however, submissions of fiction and visual art are also welcome.  “inter|rupture aims to startle [...]

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Melusina

My recent reading has caused me for some reason to remember myself as I was when a young girl, reading high Romances and seeing myself simultaneously as the object of all knights’ devotion – an unspotted Guenevere – and as the author of the Tale.  I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem, and [...]

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An Evening with Writers Merrill Markoe and Karen Karbo

The Pen on Fire Writers Salon is pleased to present an evening with writers Merrill Markoe and Karen Karbo on Tuesday, November 15, at 7:00 p.m.  This speaker series, hosted by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, features authors, literary agents, and others involved in the field of writing.  The events take place in the atmospheric Scape Gallery in [...]

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I Am Learning to Abandon the World

I am learning to abandon the world before it can abandon me. Already I have given up the moon and snow, closing my shades against the claims of white. And the world has taken my father, my friends. I have given up melodic lines of hills, moving to a flat, tuneless landscape. And every night [...]

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Poetry Reading – Tom Zoellner

As part of the 2011 Tabula Poetica Reading Series, Chapman University’s Department of English is pleased to present Tom Zoellner, author of A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us About the Grand Canyon State and Life in America (Viking, 2011).  Zoellner is also the author of Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock [...]

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November Night

Listen. With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees And fall.                              ~ Adelaide Crapsey    

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National Novel Writing Month

November is National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo, an annual creative writing event that challenges participants to write a new 50,000-word novel in thirty days.  The project was founded by Chris Baty in 1999 with 21 participants, and the official NaNoWriMo website was launched the following year.  The number of registered participants has [...]

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