Happy Birthday, Karen Klein

 

 

Wave Goodbye to the womxn

 

 

Thanks to everyone who came out for Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey's feature last night. Be sure to grab a copy of her latest poetry collection, the womxn. Be with us next week for a special *cough* Valentine's Day reading.

Here It Is

Got my copy of Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey's the womxn just before Christmas. You can grab it from ,Finishing Line Press via the link here. Hopefully it won't belong before we can announce her 2024 Stone Soup feature.

 

Coming Soon from Jamilla Vandyke Bailey

Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey has a new collection coming out from Finishing Line Press. Order The Womxn now before inevitable return as a feature at Stone Soup Poetry.

Got This in The Mail

Lee Varon's new poetry collection is out now and available to order from Finishing Line Press.

Coming Out This Fall: New Poetry Collection by Carla Schwartz

Intimacy Wtih The Wind by Carla Schwartz is being published in the fall by Finishing Line Press. This a good year for Massachusetts poets.

“Living on a solar-powered houseboat as it moves up and down Lake Champlain is bound to make one intimate with the wind — its vagaries, energies, and comforts alike. But in Carla Schwartz‘s new collection of poems, there are also the winds that pass over and through the inner landscapes. There are, for instance, the winds that bring us together in love, and the winds that draw us apart in grief. Also, there is the chill wind of the harm that some may do to others, and there are the winds of determined resilience, the kind that carry the survivor to the shore. These finely crafted poems give us this poet’s vivid sense of being in the world, as if we are with her breathing in what life has to offer, a good wind overhead, like a blessing.”

–Fred Marchant, author of Said Not Said (Graywolf Press, 2017).

Sunday is the last day to preorder  the book. 

Coming in October: New Chapbook by Lee Varon

Affairs Run In The Family is coming in October from poet and Stone Soup regular Lee Varon. It's been a long time coming, and I'm excited to finally see it come out. 

"The poems in Lee Varon‘s Affairs treat the relationships of the author and her troubled Southern white family with memorable panache and a haunted poignancy. The author’s inimitable grandmother, the focus of the drama, describes her own family as “too poor to paint // and too proud to whitewash.” Varon circumscribes the world of Grandmother’s genteel bigotry—and her own pushback against it—in poems that stir amusement and indignation. Beautifully crafted, they negotiate their way through a panoply of infidelities, Confederate ghosts, firebombed Freedom Riders, and watering cans in Virginia graveyards. The poems are lit as if with the winking luminosity of fireflies—at once discreet, charmed, and indelibly coruscating."

–Tom Daley, author of House You Cannot Reach

Preorder it from Finishing Line Press today.

 

Good News

Earlier this week, I received news from Lee Varon that her chapbook, Affairs Run In The Family, was accepted by Finishing Line Press. 

I've been waiting to give Kee a full feature at Stone Soup. Now I only have to wait a little longer.