story, by Laura Walker. Berkeley, California: Apogee Press, May 2016. 89 pages. $15.95, paper.
In Laura Walker’s story, a person is a temporary experience and their history can be told many different ways. It’s as though development is a series of changing selves, not just perspectives: “something that won’t dissolve persists, either standing out starkly or never seen.”
It’s with pleasure that I am able to say that my book review of Katie Ford’s Blood Lyrics has been published as Nightmusic Journal’s first piece of literary criticism.
Click here to see the review and before to like and retweet if you enjoyed what you saw! Check out Nightmusic Journal for more!
“Reading Kingdom is like seeing the Hubble space telescope’s “Galaxies Galore” image from 2004 where within a sliver of space no larger than the hole of a straw we’re able to see millions of solar systems (thousands of galaxies). Endless possibility for contemplation.”
My review of Noah Eli Gordon’s latest collection of poems The Word Kingdom in the Word Kingdom has been published by Heavy Feather Review.
Check out the review here. You can also purchase the book here, it comes highly recommended!
“A poet sees what you see but brings back the image in words that makes the seeing more memorable and always within reach”
Heavy Feather Review has published my review of David Meltzer’s Two-Way Mirror: A Poetry Notebook. You can check out the review here: at Heavy Feather and you can purchase the book at City Light Books.
My Poem ‘Intuition’ has been published in The Cossack Review’s Spring 2015 Web Issue.
The poem can be found here at the website. ‘Intuition’ was written in poetic conversation with a poem entitled ‘forgiveness’ in Elizabeth Robinson’s The Orphan & It’s Relations which can be found here at Small Press Distribution. Thanks to the editors of The Cossack Review for publishing the poem!
Your Impossible Voice has published two experimental poems entitled He has brought it, I will lift it & That He Didn’t Say Pink but the Image Was There in their seventh issue, available here in print or as an epub.
From the site blurb:
YOUR IMPOSSIBLE VOICE #7
Our first issue of 2015 is a veritable soirée! “Off-Season With Snake” chronicles writer Xu Xi’s return to Hong Kong to care for her aging mother. Raymund P. Reyes’s “Asian Goddess” introduces us to Jameel, a Filipino hustler plying his trade in Saudi Arabia. In Zdravka Evtimova’s “Distinction,” we visit Bulgaria and an epic cart race with love and brandy hanging in the balance. All this and more, including new work from Archer/Straus, M. A. Schaffner, Suzanne Scanlon, Amy Wright, David C. Hall, Clarissa N G, Daniel Coshnear, Mazzer D’Orazio, Jennie Malboeuf, Alex Rieser, Craig Martin Getz, Melanie Dunbar, Arkava Das, and Gregg Williard.
My short fiction piece Why Some Girls Come To Arroyo Sin Tiempo has been published in the 12/13 issue of the Rufous City Review. Free for download online, you can see my short story on page 10 of the issue. This piece was read aloud to a fantastic audience at San Francisco’s 2014 LitQuake LitCrawl event at RetroFit in the Mission District. Thanks to the editors of RCR and to all who came to the reading.
The LitQuake schedule has been announced and I’ll be reading with the wonderful Shades & Shadows in the 3rd round of Lit Crawl from 8:30-9:30 pm on Saturday, October 18. I’m closing out the night at Retro Fit. At 910 Valencia Street. I’ll be reading with Ben Loory, Jennifer Bosworth, and Candy Shue. You can find out more at this link to their website. Or connect with S&S on facebook here.
I hope to see you there!
My poem “The House Changes” from the unpublished manuscript of In All Important Ways has been published in Paris Lit Up Magazine out of Paris, France. I’d like to thank editors: Annie Brechin, Louisa Dunnigan, Emily Ruck Keene, Jason Francis Mc Gimsey, Kate Noakes, Helen Cusack O’Keeffe for their attention to my work. You can view and purchase this second issue as an ePub here. Or get the full bound book here.
My short fiction piece entitled “The Voyage of the Mimi Starring Ben Affleck” has been published in Almost Five Quarterly. You can view the work here.
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