Knox Writers’ House Contributor’s Pick of the Week 9/24/2012 Deepstep Come Shining by C.D. Wright in Providence, RI Chosen by Nicole Cooley in New Orleans, LA who says: “Beautiful things feel every vacancy,” CD Wright tells us in Deepstep Come Shining. Listening to CD Wright read these excerpts from Deepstep Come Shining, her wonderful book-length poem, which explores a […]
September 17, 2012
Knox Writers’ House Contributor’s Pick of the Week 9/17/2012 Little Commentaries by Suzanne Buffam in Chicago, IL Chosen Christopher DeWeese by in Atlanta, GA who says: What a pleasure to listen to Suzanne Buffam’s Little Commentaries! These extremely short poems build up their logic and then invert or transform it in the most satisfyingly surprising ways, and Buffam’s deadpan reading of […]
September 10, 2012
Knox Writers’ House Contributor’s Pick of the Week 9/10/2012 Poem Not To Be Read At Your Wedding by Beth Ann Fennelly in Oxford, MS Chosen by Brian Oliu in Tuscaloosa, AL who says: Whenever I am asked to list my most inspirational & favorite authors, it will take me a while to get to a male name: my early writing […]
September 3, 2012
Knox Writers’ House Contributor’s Pick of the Week 9/3/2012 Other Ways to Say Heart by Paula Cisewski in the Twin Cities, MN Chosen by MC Hyland in the Twin Cities, MN who says: Paula Cisewski writes lyric poems that bristle, pick, and rattle against the idea of feelings (perhaps the word should be italicized, or placed in quotation marks?) […]
August 20, 2012
Knox Writers’ House Contributor’s Pick of the Week 8/20/2012 Chicken by D.A. Powell in San Francisco, CA Chosen by Brad Richard in New Orleans, LA who says: Wow, there are too many great readings from which to choose just one. I have a terrible crush on Heather Christle’s poems. BJ Hollar’s stories are delights, and I think J. Robert […]
August 13, 2012
Knox Writers’ House Contributor’s Pick of the Week 8/13/2012 The Black Forest by Christopher Deweese in Atlanta, GA Chosen by Abraham Smith in Tuscaloosa, AL who says: i am enamored of the kinetics horsing along here in the short lines. the poem clips. & sizzles. the poem is dangerous. the poem looms, lingers, considers. the poem is a hanger […]
August 6, 2012
Knox Writers’ House Contributor’s Pick of the Week 8/5/2012 About Mayakovsky by Ana Božičević in New York, NY Chosen by Carolina Ebeid in Austin, Texas who says: Listen! Let us know what you think….post a comment or email us at knoxwritershouse@gmail.com
July 30, 2012
Knox Writers’ House Contributor’s Pick of the Week 7/30/2012 O Pony of South Derbigny O Leaping Yellow by Carolyn Hembree in New Orleans, LA Chosen by Casey Patrick in Galesburg, IL who says: Such a recent and well-documented event as Hurricane Katrina is hard to write about, but Carolyn Hembree’s poem captures the intensity of the disaster through […]
July 23, 2012
Knox Writers’ House Contributor’s Pick of the Week 7/23/2012 Alaska by Tom Franklin in Oxford, MS Chosen by Lucas Southworth in Tuscaloosa, AL who says: I moved to the Alabama from the Midwest seven years ago, and as I became acclimated to the place, one of the first things that often struck me was that nobody […]
July 17, 2012
Knox Writers’ House Contributor’s Pick of the Week 7/17/2012 From Mother and Child (2) by Carole Maso in Germantown, NY Chosen by M. Hayertz in Portland, Oregon who says: All memories fall at the same speed. In from Mother and Child (2), Carole Maso swirls different stories into a single, falling lock of hair. “The tables fell through the floor, but […]
September 24, 2012
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