Subscriber News: October 2024
Recent Honors
Congratulations to Judy Juanita. PEN Oakland honored her with the 2024 Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award. The award ceremony will be held online on Saturday, December 7, from 2:00-5:00 pm Pacific time. Check their website's Events page for the link to be posted.
Congratulations to Koss. She was a 2024 Best of the Net Finalist for art entitled "Love Letter to Queers Who Suicided", first published in Sage Cigarettes Magazine. Her prose poem "The Short Lives of Wombats", first published in MoonPark Review (Summer 2023), was longlisted for the 2024 Wigleaf Very Short Fictions Prize. Her poem "Black Synchronicity" was included in Red Ogre Review Anthology. Her prose poem "The Thief" appeared in Ran Off With the Star Bassoon. Two of her poems were included in Fallen, an anthology edited by Jimmy Broccoli. Her queer poem "Interrupta: Two" appeared in Hyacinth Review. Her poem for the poet Paula Harris, "Living With Dead Poets", was published in Anti-Heroin Chic.
Congratulations to Tara Campbell. Her sixth novel, City of Dancing Gargoyles, was published by Santa Fe Writers Project in September. Publishers Weekly writes: "In this wild postapocalyptic outing...Campbell's unfettered imagination is sure to win readers over. Quirky and occasionally mystifying...offers plenty to entertain."
Congratulations to Mary Buchinger. Her poetry chapbook my heart eats the world won the 2024 Elyse Wolf Prize and will be published by Slate Roof Press. The most recent submission period for this $500 prize was May 15-June 30. Visit her website for more of her work. On Saturday, October 19 at 3:00 pm Eastern, she will be reading at the Stockbridge Library, 46 Main Street, Stockbridge, MA, in the Voices Of Poetry series, hosted by Neil Silberblatt, along with Lee Desrosiers, Howie Faerstein, and Adam Grabowski. Then on November 12 at 7:00 pm Eastern, she will read at the Newton Free Library, 330 Homer Street, Newton, MA, with Alexander Levering Kern, Jayla Tillison, and Lymyn O'Sing. This reading series is facilitated by Doug Holder from Ibbetson Street Press.
Congratulations to Ginny Lowe Connors. Her poetry collection White Sail at Midnight will be published in November by The Poetry Box. Read the title poem and reviews on their website.
Congratulations to Gary Beck. His poetry collection Molecular Distortion was published in September by Winter Goose Publishing. His thriller Call to Valor was published by Paper Angel Press.
Recent Publications
Yvonne's poems about Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Paul Robeson were included in A Black Philadelphia Reader, edited by Louis J. Parascandola (Penn State University Press, 2024).
Gloria Mindock's poetry collection about the war in Ukraine, Grief Touched the Sky at Night (Glass Lyre Press), was favorably reviewed by David E. Poston in The Pedestal Magazine: "What Gloria Mindock does in this collection is to put readers into the unfathomable, to present the incomprehensible in unadorned, yet immensely powerful language." Gloria was also interviewed by Becky Parker for her Briar Haus Writes series on YouTube (25 minutes).
William Huhn was interviewed on Lisa Hazelton's book review blog about his new poetry collection, Bachelor Holiday (BlazeVOX Books, 2024). William says, "I disagree with Valery's idea that 'Poems are never finished—just abandoned.' I'd never abandon my children. I don't need to. They eventually become their own person and go off on their own."
Samantha Terrell will be reading her poetry with Pedro Ponce and Suzanne Richardson in the inaugural Triple-A Reading Series on Saturday, October 19, from 2:00-4:00 pm, at the Broome County Artisan Gallery, 223 State Street, Binghamton, NY. Watch the launch video (15 minutes) for her newest chapbook, Delta Function (Alien Buddha Press, 2024), which came out this month.
R.T. Castleberry's poem "Though the Earth Be Moved" was published in Beatnik Cowboy.
Duane L. Herrmann has several publications to report for September. Spillwords, Bookends Review, and Poetry Festival each posted one poem of his, Kingfisher Poetry Forum 2 posted three, and Literary Yard posted five. The anthologies Speak Easy Poets printed three poems, Minute Musings published two, and Gathering Poetry 2024 published one. The Adirondack Center for Writing posted his response to a weekly prompt. FundsforWriters posted an account of the life of his story, "Missing Mother", which has been nominated for Best of the Net. The summer issue of The Harnisch Acre published his short-short story "Secret in Time". Canvas Rebel posted an interview with him.
James K. Zimmerman will be reading from his new collection, The Further Adventures of Zen Patriarch Dōgen (The Poetry Box, 2024), on Saturday, October 26, at 1:00 pm Eastern in the Briarcliff Manor Public Library's monthly "Poetry Cafe" series, 1 Library Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY.
Published: October 7, 2024
