Jesse Lee Kercheval: Poet, Translator, Cultural Explorer
…magazines in the U.S. and other countries. Her bilingual Spanish/English poetry collection Extranjera/Stranger will be published in Uruguay by Editorial Yaugarú in May, 2015. (Photo: JesseLee: left; Circe Maia: right) http://www.jlkercheval.com/…
Rosary O’Neill at Peaches Records
…copies of her book New Orleans Carnival Krewes: the History Spirit and Secrets of Mardi Gras on Saturday, January 17; 12:00 -2:00 PM at Peaches Records in New Orleans. http://www.rosaryoneill.com/…
Leslie Pietrzyk’s “This Angel On My Chest” Awarded the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
…in the literature of subcultures…and that was my self-assigned task for the day, to write about a subculture. I chose the young widow support group…and so it all began.” http://www.lesliepietrzyk.com/…
Maja Spasova Drawings
…Sweden by Arena. The work, which features text by Elisabet Haglund and Maja Spasova, covers the artist’s drawings of the past 30 years. Translated from Swedish by William Jewson. http://www.majaspasova.com/about.html…
Olive Ayhens at Roswell Art Museum
…and textural paintings, Transformation of Place will be on view January 16 – March 8. Olive will talk about her work on January 16 at 5:30 followed by a reception. www.oliveayhens.com…
Barbara Crooker: Selected Poems is Published
…for the 1997 Grammy Awards for her part in the audio version of the popular anthology, Grow Old Along With Me—The Best is Yet to Be (Papier Mache Press). http://www.barbaracrooker.com/…
Jennifer Karady’s “Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan”
…the Compton Foundation and Getty Images; commissions from the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Institute of Humanities at the University of Michigan, and through an award of the 2013 Witt…
Moss’ “Omeer’s Mangoes” takes top spot at 2015 Saturday Evening Post’s Great American Fiction Contest
…Evening Post kudos, she has also won the Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative Nonfiction — for work appearing in such journals as The Westchester Review, The Blotter, and Hospital Drive. http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/12/29/in-the-magazine/2015-winners.html…
Lori Horvitz’s “The Girls of Usually” to Be Published
…courses in creative writing, literature, and women, gender and sexuality studies, Lori’s work has appeared in Epiphany, South Dakota Review, Southeast Review, Hotel Amerika, and Chattahoochee Review among others. http://www.lorihorvitz.com/home.html…
Adam Grossi’s “Wind Through Quiet Tensions” to Be Published
…of yoga and ayurveda. Part Two: Garden is a collection of musings on “what it meant for me to be sick and how I’ve been able to heal.” Photo by Paul Goyette www.adamgrossi.com…