AND the Minnesota Review has published “How Borders Are Built” http://www.theminnesotareview.org/

Elizabeth Tannen’s essay, “My Mother Reads My Blog” pubslished in the online magazine, StyleSubstanceSoul:
http://stylesubstancesoul.com/2011/05/my-mother-reads-my-blog-by-elizabeth-tannen/

Tanaya Winder’s poems “consider the assemblage of a longing” and “measure by measure: the body begs” published on Superstition Review http://superstitionreview.asu.edu/n7/bio.php?author=tanayawinder&bio=poetry

CONGRATULATIONS !

For more information:
http://www.graywolfpress.org/Latest_News/Latest_News/Gary_Jackson_wins_2009_Cave_Canem_Poetry_Prize/

Congratulations to one of our own!

My writing process is a bit like me: irrational.

Sometimes images seem to haunt me until I am compelled to write a poem around them; other times I do everything I can to “break my eye open” (this concept comes from my favorite TV series, “Six Feet Under.”) To break your eye open is exactly what it sounds like— to see the world in a new way, to make unusual associations. I do this is by delving into my subconscious—a fecund and frightening place. I love writing exercises for that reason. They help me find startling images and fresh language after I feel I’ve exhausted all of my own. One of my favorites is

a dada exercise that I learned from my wonderful poetry instructor in Spain– Jesús Urceloy. What a brilliant man. He had everyone follow the most specific and absurd instructions and the end result was amazing. For example, he made us write the word “lamp” on a sheet of paper and leave it near our bed. Upon waking we were to immediately write every word that came to mind when we thought of “lamp.” Then in class he made us write all of the words we associated with “fish” along with a series of other similar instructions. Towards the end we were to give one of the lines we had written to a partner as a gift. He then instructed us to recite our lines in a specific order, then at random until they began sounding like an incantation. Everyone wrote incredible poems and that class remains as one of my most beloved memories. I miss those people profoundly…

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Best,
Erika Sanchez

…but wait! there’s more!

The e-zine Heavy Bear will feature Anastasia’s “Van Leeuwenhoek”, “slitting the wrists of the old astronomy”, and “Flowers. In bad times” in the Fall Issue #4.

Congratulations! and keep the good news coming!

“Childhood’s End” will appear in Big Hammer magazine

The anthology Poets of the American West from Many Voices Press will feature:  “Laid Off”,  “Ancestor”,  “Baby Brother’s Blues”  and “Race War”

The anthology Mezcla: Art & Writings from the Tumblewords Project will feature “Strange Fruit”

The ezine Lunarosity will feature “McLife II”, “Walton’s Girls”, “McLife III” and “Hard Peepees”

The ezine Heavy Bear will feature “Climate Change” and “Rival”

Good Job Richard!  and I know many of my fellow MFA students are publishing, so if you’ve got ink…  Let me know!

Kyle Churney (MFA Poetry)  successfully defended his dissertation, Paradise Theories, on March 30

AND…   one of his poems has been accepted for an ekphrastic section in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review (www.borderlands.org)…

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! Three poems  more accepted by Weber (http://weberjournal.weber.edu), appearing online and in print.