Contributor News: Alan Morrison
FM contributor Alan Morrison has a new book out from Smoke Stack Books, “Keir Hardie Street.” From the publisher:
“Allan Jackdaw, an unremembered early twentieth-century poet, undertakes a fantastical journey on the hidden Sea-Green Line of the London Underground. Along the way he meets the ghosts of William Blake, Robert Tressell and John Davidson before disembarking in a secret, parallel city, a living, bustling socialist London.
Alan Morrison’s previous collections include ‘The Mansion Gardens’ (2006) and ‘A Tapestry of Absent Sitters’ (2009). He is the founding editor of the radical literary webzine, the Recusant.”
Visit Smoke Stack Books
Read Morrison’s poetry on FM: “Ganymede”
FM Nominees for Best of the Web
Fickle Muses nominated three outstanding contributors for the the Best of the Web Anthology:
Sean C. Hayden for “The Cobbler of Buttercup”
Israel Wasserstein for “Stepping into the Woods”
and Kean Kaufmann for “Reverse Persephone”
Contributor News: Stephen Mead
Stephen Mead’s new book of art and poetry, “Our Book of Common Faith,” is now available from Amazon.com.
Mead says, “The book is an exploration of world cultures/religions (including atheism as a form of belief) as an impetus for union as opposed to violence. (That is, if human beings would just stop to think and reflect a bit.)”
See Mead’s art on Fickle Muses:
“Circus Cave Drawing”
“Tree Dream Encaustic”
“Ode to Vulcan”
Contributor News: Howard Camner
Howard Camner’s autobiography “Turbulence at 67 Inches” is now available from Xlibris.
To order call 888-795-4274 ext. 7876. Available in hardcover ($34.99) and softcover ($23.99).
Read Camner’s poetry on Fickle Muses.
Originally posted May 18, 2009
A couple weeks back Kenneth P. Gurney released his 2nd book: Writers’ Block.
The book is available at Bookworks on Rio Grande in Albuquerque and through Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Writers-Block-Kenneth-P-Gurney/dp/1441437142/
$10 price, 140 pages, firm bound. Writers’ Block contains poems written between 2001 and 2006.
Read Kenneth P. Gurney’s poetry on Fickle Muses:
http://www.ficklemuses.com/poetry/2008-11-30.html
http://www.ficklemuses.com/poetry/2008-03-16.html
http://www.ficklemuses.com/poetry/2007-09-30.html
http://www.ficklemuses.com/poetry/2007-06-24.html
Originally posted March 1, 2009
Annie Dawid’s new book, “And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories of a Family,” is available on Amazon.com
Originally posted February 1, 2009
Listen to a podcast interview with Miriam Sagan, in which she talks about literature as defiance, community, and her experience of writing in close relationship to nature, among other topics: http://www.futureprimitive.org/interviews/120
Read two short stories by Sagan on Fickle Muses: http://www.ficklemuses.com/fiction/2008-02-10.html
Originally posted January 4, 2009
Doug Ramspeck’s new poetry collection, “Black Tupelo Country,” winner of the 2007 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, was recently published by BkMk Press (University of Missouri-Kansas City). It’s available on Amazon. Also, Ramspeck’s new chapbook, “Where We Come From,” is due out within the next couple of months from March Street Press.
Read Ramspeck’s poetry on Fickle Muses at:
http://www.ficklemuses.com/poetry/2008-08-17.html
http://www.ficklemuses.com/poetry/2007-07-01.html
Originally posted December 28, 2008
S.V.Wolfland’s first novel, “Porlock the Warlock and the Indigo Swan,” a historical time travel all-ages adventure, is out now in paperback at £5.99 plus £1 p+p by cheque or via PayPal for £8.50
and also a new poetry chapbook, “The Book of Contentions” at £4 plus £1 p+p by cheque, or via PayPal for £6. Both are available from http://www.cartwheels-collective.co.uk/Web_Shop.html.
Read a short story by Wolfland on Fickle Muses at: http://www.ficklemuses.com/fiction/2008-04-20.html
Originally posted December 14, 2008
Stephen Bunch won the Langston Hughes Award for Poetry, sponsored by the Lawrence (Kansas) Arts Center.
Read his poetry and fiction on Fickle Muses:
http://www.ficklemuses.com/poetry/2007-12-02.html
http://www.ficklemuses.com/fiction/2007-06-10.html
http://www.ficklemuses.com/poetry/02-11-2007.html
Get Kenneth P. Gurney’s “Greeting Card and other poems”
Read his poetry on Fickle Muses:
http://www.ficklemuses.com/poetry/2008-11-30.html
http://www.ficklemuses.com/poetry/2008-03-16.html
http://www.ficklemuses.com/poetry/2007-09-30.html
Get Robert Arthur Reeves’ “The Closed Shrine: Poems 2000-2002″
and “If I Could Be The Stone: Poems 2002-2005″
Read his poetry on Fickle Muses:
http://www.ficklemuses.com/poetry/01-14-2007.html
Originally posted November 30, 2008
Alan Morrison’s new volume, A Tapestry of Absent Sitters, is now available for pre-order by sending a check for £10 (incl. p&p) payable to Waterloo Press, to the following address:
Waterloo Press
c/o Simon Jenner
Flat 95
Wick Hall
Furze Hill
Hove
BN3 1NG
http://www.waterloopress.co.uk
Read Morrison’s poetry on Fickle Muses, http://www.ficklemuses.com/poetry/2007-11-11.html
Originally posted October 26 , 2008
Robert Arthur Reeves’ first book of poems, “Too Little To Kill,” is available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/TOO-LITTLE-KILL-POEMS-1972-1999/dp/144041131X/
Read and listen to Reeves poetry on FM: http://www.ficklemuses.com/poetry/01-14-2007.html
Originally posted September 28, 2008
Howard Camner’s poetry book “Cheating the Sphinx” is now available for mobile phones. Readers may purchase it at: http://www.books4mobiles.com and have it sent directly to their mobile phones for viewing.
Read Camner’s poetry on FM: http://www.ficklemuses.com/poetry/2008-05-25.html
For those of you in Albuquerque, Maureen Seaton is having a reading and party for her new memoir today, 4-6 p.m. at the SCA Contemporary Art Gallery, 524 Haines Ave. NW.
Read Seaton’s poetry on FM: http://www.ficklemuses.com/poetry/2007-05-20.html
and fiction: http://www.ficklemuses.com/fiction/2007-05-20.html
Originally posted April 13, 2008
On June 29, FM contributor Margarita Engle will receive the Pura Belpre Medal for “The Poet Slave of Cuba” at the American Library Association conference in Anaheim. On June 30, she will be one of the poets at that conference in the Poetry Blast, reading from both “The Poet Slave of Cuba” and “The Surrender Tree,” both published by Henry Holt & Co
Originally published March 8, 2008
Check out At-Large Magazine, a new literary journal produced by graduate students at Sarah Lawrence, including FM contributor Angela Williams (4.22.2007).
From the Web site:
“At-Large Magazine is about collecting the reams of brilliance that tend to go unnoticed by the myriad of Harper’s Bazaar knock-offs out there. We’re looking for people who love being frivolous, crass, write their lines with razor-sharp wit and aren’t afraid to explore the ugly, awkward and tawdry parts of human nature. Writers we’re keen of include Banana Yoshimoto, Aimee Bender, George Saunders, Chuck Palahniuk, Junot D’az, Bret Easton Ellis, Kim Addonizio, David Sedaris and Louise Glück. Some of us are also fond of Lypsinka.”
—Sari
Editor
Sari Krosinsky lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her partner and two cats.
She received a B.A. in religious studies and a M.A. in creative writing from the University of New Mexico. Her poems have appeared in Poesia, Pebble Lake Review, The American Poetry Journal, Arsenic Lobster, Verse Daily, and others. Fiction Editor
Leslie Fox lived in Central America during her formative years and in New Mexico since the mid-70s – before it was cool.
She writes novels, short stories, plays, screenplays and creative nonfiction. Some of her short fiction has appeared in The Medical Muse, red. a journal of arts, Earth’s Daughters and Earthships: A New Mecca Poetry Collection. She has a M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of New Mexico.Art Editor
Dianne Schlies is a practicing artist and has taught studio art since 1986. She received her M.F.A. from SMU at Dallas, Texas in 1990. She has studied or worked with David Bates, Mel Bochner, Squeak Carnwath, Harmony Hammond, Ed Harris, Joyce Kozloff, Mary Ellen Mark, Duane Michals and Robert Rauschenberg. Schlies presently teaches Drawing and 2-D Design in Albuquerque, New Mexico.