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REVIEW: Big Bright Sun by Nate Pritts (reviewed by Callista Buchen)
Big Bright Sun by Nate Pritts, BlazeVox [books] (2010) 100 pages, paper. Big Bright Sun, Nate Pritts’ fourth poetry collection, is full of layered images, the gathering of a world and encounters with...
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INTERVIEW: Ishion Hutchinson
Recently noted as one of four “significant new books of poetry” by poet Carol Muske-Dukes in her blog at The Huffington Post, Ishion Hutchinson’s FAR DISTRICT received its first review in the Fall 2010...
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Without Poetry
Last week, due to financial necessity, administrators at Johns Hopkins University axed the poetry concentration in the MA in Writing Program. Why would I, a student in the Fiction track, care? Why...
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April Literary Events and Workshops in Baltimore
FICTION READING/FUNDRAISER Alice McDermott Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 7pm, Notre Dame of Maryland University, 701 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210 $35 Join the Continuing Education Chapter of...
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ORIGINS: “A Visitation” by Jessica Pierce
In today’s ORIGINS, Jessica Pierce talks about the inspiration for her poem “A Visitation.” which appears in the summer 2013 issue of jmww. This poem began when I lived and worked in Guatemala from...
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ORIGINS: “Krakatoa Picnic” by James Heflin
In today’s jmwwblog, James Heflin discusses the origin of his poem “Krakatoa Picnic,” which appears in the Winter 2014 issue of jmww. If the Big Bang and the expansion that followed had gone slower or...
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Interview with Linda Simoni-Wastila in Writers Digest
jmww senior fiction editor Linda Wastila is interviewed in Writers Digest about her other writing love, poetry, her favorite poets, her favorite locales for poems, and her favorite things about poems...
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2015 Pushcart Nominees
We are please to announce our 2015 Pushcart Prize nominees: Poetry “Sacrament” by Sarah Jane Miller “Memory Palace” by Aaron Brown “The Tomb of Lady Fu Hao” by Barbara Daniels Honorable mention:...
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Chapbook Deadline Extended
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Claudia Emerson this past week. In her spirit, and to continue our chapbook contest, we are securing another judge, whom we will announce as soon as possible. In...
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Four poems by Jane Ann Fuller
Because one death belongs to us all “…but often the shadow seems more real than the body.” —Tomas Tranströmer, “After a Death” in this small Appalachian town, we prefer metaphor: suicide becomes...
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Review: Count the Waves by Sandra Beasley (reviewed by Rachel Carstens)
Count the Waves By Sandra Beasley 96 pages W.W. Norton, 2015 $26.95 Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24320-8 Enter Count the Waves: engaging, sharp, and playful. Beasley’s third collection is...
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Six poems by Chen Chen
Big Mug Found last August in a barn prolific with gorgeous, made by artist friend E. who likes to keep a copy of Being & Time in the bathroom, made with her hands that can’t stop making things,...
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Six Poems by Nancy Allen
Casualties of War My brother and I tattooed the naked G.I. Joe with magic marker, unhooked limbs and head from his sexless torso and buried him in pieces all over the yard. We had nothing against...
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Four poems by Alec Hershman
Salut To hail a yellow aspect or be overcome by it is a solar conundrum at the park’s regenerating edge. A cypress grown around a hollow of itself, I passed, as well as families in the grass, in...
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Five poems by Kathleen S. Burgess
Upstairs On a bicycle, she’s standing to pedal uphill. She’ll have to pedal the bike nearly as hard to go back down. Once a gift, it’s old now. She longs for responsive. A frame aluminum- light, thin...
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Review: Poets’ State of the Union: Tony Hoagland (by G. H. Mosson)
Application for Release from the Dream 96 Pages Graywolf Press, 2015 $16.00, Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1555977184 Don’t Tell Anyone 48 Pages Hollyridge Press, 2014 $10.00, Paperback ISBN-13:...
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Six Poems by Jen Karetnick
Massage Sonnet At Mandara Spa, Aruba Marriott, remembering Deborah Digges Offer yourself in the way of a child, splayed and unconcerned about the curl of a limb, the arrangement of towel revealing...
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Review: Charles Simic’s American Noir (by G.H. Mosson)
New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012 by Charles Simic 384 Pages Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013 Hardcover $29.99 ISBN: 0547928289 America poet Charles Simic, a World War II immigrant as a child from...
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Review: Why Is It So Hard to Kill You? by Barrett Warner (reviewed by Alexa...
Why Is It So Hard to Kill You? by Barrett Warner 63 Pages Somondoco Press, 2016 ISBN: 0985389893 Barrett Warner’s new collection Why Is It So Hard to Kill You? is perhaps best explained through...
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Four poems by Clare Banks
With the Dog at Bernheim Forest We walked the field where the path edged the trees, spindly stands of cedar at first, then oaks, chestnut — their numbers, I could see, farther in, shut out even the...
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