Category Archives: poetry

the end of the storm

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

A week ago, I was so struck, as I came up over a hill, to actually be able to see the end of the storm–see it in the sky. At its source. Rather than notice the rain had stopped or … Continue reading →

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summer reading

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

Summer Contrary is online with new fiction, essays, and poetry, as well as reviews of these books : Poetry: Northerners by Seth Abramson Essays: Otherwise Known as the Human Condition by Geoff Dyer and A Journey with Two Maps by Eaven Boland … Continue reading →

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the writing life

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

For the last couple of months at Hunger Mountain, Claire Guyton, former Art +Life editor, and I have been working together to expand that section of the journal into The Writing Life. Here’s what’s up and coming at THE WRITING LIFE: 1) … Continue reading →

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then, suddenly

Posted on May 30, 2011 by

In 1999, my first writing workshop: Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. Yes, in the Napa Valley. St. Helena. Mark Doty was there. David Lehman. Jane Hirshfield. Richard Bausch. (I always get him and his brother confused, never remembering which one it … Continue reading →

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inch

Posted on May 18, 2011 by

Inch. Do you know this tiny journal? I discovered it at AWP. Small. Gray. Thin. Tiny poems. Tiny fiction. A single issue costs $1. Bull City Press publishes 4 issues a year. Ross White is the Editor, and guess what? Robin Black … Continue reading →

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rock & sling, poetry, arroyo, ecotone

Posted on February 24, 2011 by

One I’d heard of before. Three I hadn’t. Some were free at AWP; some were not. In each one, I found something that made me glad I’d lugged it home–either connecting with the words of writers I didn’t know or … Continue reading →

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contrary blog

Posted on February 18, 2011 by

The Contrary Blog–the blog of unpopular discontent–is up and running. Click over and take a look at this new voice on the internet, the brainchild of Jeff McMahon, Contrary‘s Editor. It’s a multi-author blog, anchored by David Alm. Its focus … Continue reading →

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i’m here to tell you an old story

Posted on January 25, 2011 by

I first heard of the poet Cornelius Eady on Monday, June 18, 2007, at the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown. It was the first day of a fiction workshop with Pam Houston. We were upstairs, sitting around a table, and Pam … Continue reading →

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thanksgiving

Posted on November 25, 2010 by

from the archives: november 27, 2008   Jane Hirshfield writes:   Having eaten the pears. Having eaten the black figs, the white figs.  Eaten the apples. Table be strewn. Table be strewn with stems, table with peelings of grapefruit and … Continue reading →

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out my window: 8/18/10

Posted on August 18, 2010 by

“let me catch sight of you again going over the wall and before the garden is extinct and the woods are figures guttering on a screen let my words find their own places in the silence after the animals” from … Continue reading →

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