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| kelli russell agodon biography: Dialogues with Rising Tides Kelli Russell Agodon, 2021-05-04 In Kelli Russell Agodon’s fourth collection, each poem facilitates a humane and honest conversation with the forces that threaten to take us under. The anxieties and heartbreaks of life—including environmental collapse, cruel politics, and the persistent specter of suicide—are met with emotional vulnerability and darkly sparkling humor. Dialogues with Rising Tides does not answer, This or that? It passionately exclaims, And also! Even in the midst of great difficulty, radiant wonders are illuminated at every turn. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Hourglass Museum Kelli Russell Agodon, 2014 Car rides with Warhol, tattoos of Kahlo, and dinners with Cornell. A paper museum where inspiration intersects with our lives. |
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| kelli russell agodon biography: The Daily Poet Kelli Russell Agodon, Martha Silano, 2013-10-20 The Daily Poet offers a unique writing prompt for every day of the year. Created by poets for poets, this calendar of exercises offers inspiration and a place to begin. Whether a novice or well-established author, The Daily Poet is an essential resource for poets, teachers, professors, or anyone who wants to jumpstart their writing practice.--Cover. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Good Poems for Hard Times , 2006-08-29 The book is full of strong, memorable poems that stick with readers like a friend during a long, hard night. - The Christian Science Monitor Here, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as Such As It Is More or Less and Let It Spill. From William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to R. S. Gwynn and Mary Oliver, the voices gathered in this collection will be more than welcome to those who've been struck by bad news, who are burdened by stress, or who simply appreciate the power of good poetry. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: For Love of Orcas Jill McCabe Johnson, Andrew Shattuck McBride, 2019-02-10 After the Southern Resident orca Tahlequah swam with her newly born dead calf for 17 days, scientists, poets, and writers responded to her grief and the plight of the endangered orcas in this moving anthology. Wandering Aengus Press is donating proceeds to the SeaDoc Society and their efforts to help restore the Southern Resident orca population. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Empire of Surrender Michael Schmeltzer, 2022-02-14 Michael Schmeltzer's Empire of Surrender asks us to look, to feel-deep in the guts-the vibrating aftershocks of war. Each poem powerfully speaks to the ache of what it means to witness war, especially at a young age. Full of visceral lyricism and tender epistolaries, Schmeltzer dives into the intimate depths of war, violence, familial history, empathy, and lineage. This is a book that is not afraid to ask: how and why do we hurt each other? What is lost in such acts of cruelty? And how can we cling to kindness as resistance? In this complexity, Empire of Surrender returns us to the heart: with each clang I hear the heart//quiet a bit more. In the great war I become cake. -Jane Wong, author of How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James Books) We have misplaced our gentleness, writes Michael Schmeltzer in his stunning collection, Empire of Surrender, where he brilliantly weaves tenderness, vulnerability, and love into a realm of war and brutality. Rooted in history and family, these poems do not hold back, fearless and poignant, they ache to be read more than once-We are hostage to sorrow./Lay down. Rest your head./We can be each other's pillow. Schmeltzer is a voice I need and the world needs. I can't remember the last time I have been so taken by a collection; Michael Schmeltzer has written the best poems of his life, make no mistake, this book will open you in the very best ways. -Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press) In these harrowing poems, Michael Schmeltzer meditates on the failures of empire, on war and cruelty, on the fragility of goodness. This book is steeped in brutality and horror, yet the voice that speaks these poems is above all humane, tender, filled with wonder. What weapon, Schmeltzer asks, considering the sharpness of axes, can be made of me? It is a complex question in a world that overwhelms anyone who imagines the end of violence as pushing a pin back into a grenade. At the same time, it elevates the power of our words, rendering them urgent and vital. This is an important book for our age of war and empire, one that discovers in the individual consciousness both truth and the potential for good. -Kevin Prufer, author of The Art of Fiction (Four Way Books) |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Elemental Haiku Mary Soon Lee, 2019-10-01 A fascinating little illustrated series of 118 haiku about the Periodic Table of Elements, one for each element, plus a closing haiku for element 119 (not yet synthesized). Originally appearing in Science magazine, this gifty collection of haiku inspired by the periodic table of elements features all-new poems paired with original and imaginative line illustrations drawn from the natural world. Packed with wit, whimsy, and real science cred, each haiku celebrates the cosmic poetry behind each element, while accompanying notes reveal the fascinating facts that inform it. Award-winning poet Mary Soon Lee's haiku encompass astronomy, biology, chemistry, history, and physics, such as Nickel, Ni: Forged in fusion's fire,/flung out from supernovae./Demoted to coins. Line by line, Elemental Haiku makes the mysteries of the universe's elements accessible to all. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Poets Against the War Sam Hamill, 2003-05-01 Led by poet Sam Hamill, February 12, 2003 became a day of Poetry Against the War conducted as a reading at the White House gates in addition to over 160 public readings in many different countries and almost all of the 50 states. Since then, over 9,000 poets have joined this grassroots peace movement by submitting poems and statements to www.poetsagainstthewar.org, registering their opposition to the Bush administration's headlong plunge toward war in Iraq. Poets Against the War features a selection of the best poems that were submitted to the website. Contributors include: Adrienne Rich, W.S. Merwin, Galway Kinnell, Robert Bly, Marilyn Hacker, Grace Schulman, Shirley Kaufman, Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Hayden Carruth, Jane Hirshfield, Tess Gallagher, Sandra Cisneros, former Poet Laureate Rita Dove, and many others. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Fanny Says Nickole Brown, 2015 A raucous, bawdy, and hilarious investigation of the South through the unforgettable voice of Fanny, Nickole Brown's fierce, tough-as-new-rope grandmother. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Mozart's Starling Lyanda Lynn Haupt, 2014-07-15 On May 27th, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling in a Viennese shop who sang an improvised version of the theme from his Piano Concerto no. 17 in G major. Sensing a kindred spirit in the plucky young bird, Mozart bought him and took him home to be a family pet. For three years, the starling lived with Mozart, influencing his work and serving as his companion, distraction, consolation, and muse. Two centuries later, starlings are reviled by even the most compassionate conservationists. A nonnative, invasive species, they invade sensitive habitats, outcompete local birds for nest sites and food, and decimate crops. A seasoned birder and naturalist, Lyanda Lynn Haupt is well versed in the difficult and often strained relationships these birds have with other species and the environment. But after rescuing a baby starling of her own, Haupt found herself enchanted by the same intelligence and playful spirit that had so charmed her favorite composer. In Mozart's Starling, Haupt explores the unlikely and remarkable bond between one of history's most cherished composers and one of earth's most common birds. The intertwined stories of Mozart's beloved pet and Haupt's own starling provide an unexpected window into human-animal friendships, music, the secret world of starlings, and the nature of creative inspiration. A blend of natural history, biography, and memoir, Mozart's Starling is a tour de force that awakens a surprising new awareness of our place in the world. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Old Flame Deborah Ager, Bill Beverly, John Poch, 2013 Poetry. In this anthology, editors Deborah Ager, Bill Beverly and John Poch showcase 64 of the best poems to appear in 32 Poems Magazine during its first 10 years of publication. Each poet also offers brief commentary on his or her selected poem. Featuring a wide variety of forms, topics and styles from 64 contemporary poets, OLD FLAME will be a welcome companion in your classroom or on the bookshelves near your favorite reading spot. What an astounding delight: the best work from one of our best journals... Come, reader, come warm your hands, come be licked by these flames, says Beth Ann Fennelly. Fulfilling Yeats's admonition that 'our fire must burn slowly,' this OLD FLAME burns slowly, indeed: its light and heat last, says H. L. Hix. Contributors are Kelli Russell Agodon, Melanie Almeder, Amanda Auchter, Curtis Bauer, Evan Beaty, Erin Belieu, Paula Bohince, Bruce Bond, Kim Bridgford, Geoffrey Brock, Stephen Burt, Amy M. Clark, Esvie Coemish, Billy Collins, Ken Cormier, Chad Davidson, Lydia Davis, Carolina Edeid, Gregory Fraser, Bernadette Geyer, Lohren Green, Austin Hummell, John Jenkinson, Carrie Jerrell, Marci Rae Johnson, Holly Karapetkova, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, David Kirby, Jacqueline Kolosov, William Logan, Amit Majmudar, Randall Mann, Kevin McFadden, Erika Meitner, Jennifer Militello, Daniel Nester, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Kate Northrop, Dan O'Brien, Eric Pankey, Anne Panning, Jeffrey Pethybridge, Dan Pinkerton, Kevin Prufer, Matthew Roth, Natalie Shapero, Eric Smith, Hope Maxwell Snyder, Lisa Russ Spaar, A. E. Stallings, Maura Stanton, Melissa Stein, Alexandra Teague, Jeffrey Thomson, Eric Torgersen, D. H. Tracy, Laura van Prooyen, Adam Vines, William Wenthe, Greg Williamson, Catherine Wing, Terri Witek, George Witte and Josephine Yu. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: How to Read a Poem Terry Eagleton, 2024-01-05 Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present day and submits them to brilliantly illuminating closes analysis. Discusses the work of major poets, including John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, W.H.Auden, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and many more. Includes a helpful glossary of poetic terms. |
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| kelli russell agodon biography: The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception Martha Silano, 2011 Martha Silano is a diction-vixen, spinning ordinary language into celestial orbit |
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| kelli russell agodon biography: A Novel Obsession Caitlin Barasch, 2022-03-15 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick, and a BuzzFeed and New York Post Best Book of 2022 If you’ve ever felt tempted to ‘keep tabs on’ a partner’s ex on Instagram and then found yourself down a rabbit hole of their vacation posts from three years ago, this debut novel—which follows a 24-year-old New Yorker named Naomi who becomes obsessed with her boyfriend’s former girlfriend—is for you.—Vogue, “Best New Beach Reads” Twenty-four-year-old New York bookseller Naomi Ackerman is desperate to write a novel, but struggles to find a story to tell. When, after countless disastrous dates, she meets Caleb—a perfectly nice guy with a Welsh accent and a unique patience for all her quirks—she thinks she's finally stumbled onto a time-honored subject: love. Then Caleb's ex-girlfriend, Rosemary, enters the scene. Upon learning that Rosemary is not safely tucked away in Caleb’s homeland overseas, but in fact lives in New York and also works in the literary world, Naomi is threatened and intrigued in equal measure. If they both fell for the same man, what else might they have in common? The more Naomi learns about Rosemary, the more her curiosity consumes her. Before she knows it, her casual Instagram stalking morphs into a friendship under false pretenses—and becomes the subject of her nascent novel. As her lies and half-truths spiral out of control, and fact and fiction become increasingly difficult to untangle, Naomi must decide what—and who—she’s willing to sacrifice to write the perfect ending. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Some Flawed Magic Patricia Caspers, 2021-09-11 In this beautiful new book, Some Flawed Magic, poet Patricia Caspers draws detailed portraits of relationships that span both time and place. Each poem brims with sensory detail, including a dying cow who knelt prayer-like on front legs; and a family sewing machine that hides in its scratched cabinet like an ivory treasure. Against a backdrop of pastures, trees, rain-gullied snails, distant pickups, and the mildew scent of geraniums, Caspers crafts a world where, All of my childhood/ was this: gorging on neglect, praying/ for my eyes to glow golden. By the end of the collection, the poet has studiously examined not only her own life, but the lives of her children. The book closes with infinite wisdom: This is not grief, / but its sister perhaps, / the goodbye of growing up. Some Flawed Magic paints three generations of care, kindness, and intimacy with craftful strokes and colors. -Patricia Colleen Murphy, Author of Bully Love Patricia Casper's second collection seeks to reconcile grief with growing up. Some Flawed Magic is an equation, and Caspers solves for all the theorems scratched...in childhood notebooks as she maps familial stories both past and present. Caspers asks the tough questions that make us redefine who we are in relation to the people who made us and the people we shape in turn. Poets are the orators of truth and time, and Caspers asks, Isn't the past always for sale? Some Flawed Magi c is a record of ancestry that examines how to break a family / to hold it together. These fervent narratives ground readers in a rich description of place where pine-lined roads reveal and divulge secrets / from [their] depths. Some Flawed Magic is a wondrous coupling of memory with reality. Readers will be left tender and moved. -John McCarthy, Scared Violent Like Horses |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Sons of Avalon Dee Marie, 2008-01-18 Chaos ensues as Rome abandons Britain, leaving native Britons alone to defend their shores from the growing Saxon invasion. Set in 5th Century Britain, this retelling of the traditional legends of Merlin, King Arthur, and Avalon, blends a mixture of historical fact with Arthurian fantasy. Refreshingly innovative, the tale spans the mysterious birth of Merlin, climaxing with the conception of Arthur, the legendary future king of Britain. A young Merlin advises three High Kings: to fight through the bedlam, fight for the right to rule, fight to save the future treasure of Britain! Interlacing love, revenge, mystery and murder, with a dash of humor, this coming of age adventure is a guide through the shrouded tales that embrace the Sons of Avalon. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Ghost Face Greg Santos, 2020-09-08 In his third DC Books title, Ghost Face, Greg Santos explores what it means to have been a Cambodian infant adopted at birth by a Canadian family. Through a uniquely playful and self-reflective series of poems that pay moving homage to his adoptive parents, and explore the fantasies of a lost family and life in Cambodia, Santos leads the reader through his visceral process of unlearning and relearning who he is and who he might become. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Rewilding January Gill O'Neil, 2018 From the external worlds of race and gender to the internal world of family life, taps into what is wild and good in all of us |
| kelli russell agodon biography: River Hymns Tyree Daye, 2017 River Hymns is the lyrical journey of a young black man's spiritual reckoning with his family history. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Becoming the Villainess Jeannine Hall Gailey, 2006 In this splendidly entertaining debut, Jeannine Hall Gailey offers us a world both familiar and magical-filled with fairytale and mythology characters that are our own bedfellows-we wake up with Philomel and argue with Ophelia while half-listening to a Snow Queen, amidst Spy Girls, Amazons and Mongolian Cows. The wild and seductive energy in this collection never lets one put the book down. (In fact, any one who opens the collection in the bookstore and reads such poems as The Conversation and Job Requirements: A Supervillain's Advice will want to buy the book ) For her delivery is heart-breaking and refreshing, so the poems seduce us with the sadness, glory and entertainment of our very own days. Propelled by Jeannine Hall Gailey's alert, sensuous, and musical gifts, the mythology becomes all our own. -Ilya Kaminsky, author of the award-winning Dancing in Odessa |
| kelli russell agodon biography: A Crooked Door Cut Into the Sky Melissa Fite Johnson, 2018-01-25 A chapbook-length collection of poetry |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Reckless Lovely Martha Silano, 2014 Martha Silano's newest collection of cosmic lingo tango |
| kelli russell agodon biography: The Second O of Sorrow Sean Thomas Dougherty, 2018 A lyric narrative that celebrates the struggles, the joys, and the dignity of working-class life in the Rust Belt cities. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Bk of (h)rs Pattie McCarthy, 2002 Poetry. This is the first full-length collection by Pattie McCarthy who co-founded and edits BeautifulSwimmer Press. Playing inventive variations on the medieval book of hours, this marvelous collection swarms with vividly open language that suddenly gathers to moments of startling clarity. This is simply a gorgeous book --Cole Swensen. Pattie McCarthy commands attention for her elegant sensibility, her intellectual acuity, and her discerning creation of a poetic language adequate to the complex pressures and insights she meticulously illuminates --Rachel Blau DuPlessis. McCarthy's chapbook CHORAGUS is also available from SPD. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Shade of Blue Trees Kelly Cressio-Moeller, 2021-05-25 Finalist for the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Poetry Book Prize.The poems of Kelly Cressio-Moeller's Shade of Blue Trees offer up an intimate surrealism, earth-born, deeply shaded, and tinted the deep blue of solitude, memory, and myth, turning yearning's blue fire/into a dreamscape fugue. Nowhere is Cressio-Moeller's virtuosity more apparent than in the sequence of panels. These pieces function as lyric poems, language-paintings, fairy tales, and compressed novels, somehow removed from time, with a lushness that reminds me of Flaubert-without the meanness. For instance: A wall-eyed jay cracks a cherry's/skull against the cheekbone of dusk, and Cornflower satin, heels on parquetry-she orders/nests for her hair to keep skylarking near, wears the/clouds on her finger to be swallowed in vapor. There are poems that walk the territory of the actual, from mother-loss, which winters the tips of the speaker's hair, to embodiment: without my cervix I am no less queen/open me, see there's nothing left to give. Indeed this collection is evidence of a queendom that has been cultivated via solitude, loss, and time. For years, she writes, her poemwork involved dipping arrows/into tinctures of monkshood. Beneath her shawl of/suffering, she yearned only for two gifts: to be seen, to be understood. With the unveiling of Shade of Blue Trees, those gifts have been delivered. Diane Seuss |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Her Read Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, 2021 Her Read: A Graphic Poem is an artifact of erasure, at once poetry and visual art. From the voice of the male art critic surveying male bodies of work, Steinorth excavates a first-person lyric, a reclamation of maternal bodies framed in gilt and an homage to women whose arts remain unsung. |
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| kelli russell agodon biography: Landscape/Heartbreak Michelle Penaloza, 2015-01-14 landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias Press, 2015) is poet Michelle Penaloza's first book. Praise For landscape/heartbreak: Peñaloza's poignantly beautiful landscape/heartbreak is more than a suite of breakup poems, its own veritable tradition in American poetry. Hers is a sequence that plumbs the meaning of what it means to love, sacrificing to secret away bits and pieces of one's self whose other parts remain scattered on corners, in parks, and bridges. This collection is about the business of reconciling memories and ghosts, the toughness in learning how to breathe again. -Major Jackson I've been in love with landscape/heartbreak since before it was written, from the moment I first learned of Michelle Peñaloza's wild idea: to map heartbreak. What if strangers told their stories while wandering the avenues and backstreets of a city? What if trauma could be healed one footfall at a time? Peñaloza enacts an urban alchemy, transforming the walkers' personal struggles into art and thereby coming closer to her own persistent ghosts. A collection for anyone who has ever had her (or his) heart stomped on. This means most of us. A powerful and exciting debut. -Susan Rich The question-What hurt you into poetry?-lies at the center of Michelle Peñaloza's landscape/heartbreak. And her poems urge us to seek the answer, following Peñaloza's speaker on her sojourn where walking and breathing create the meditative cadence to lull the body into the ecstatic state necessary for conjuration. From the beauty of these poems emerge the ghosts of those loves that have splintered us into jagged pieces. As we traverse Peñaloza's lyrical landscape, the sueded/beads of unopened wild poppies and renegade ferns/growing upon the stumps of old docks smooth over the serrated edges of what cuts us deep. This is a marvelous and haunting collection. -Oliver de la Paz As you read this remarkable collection, you might think that each poem begins with two people walking through a city. But then, dear reader, you realize that it's no longer two people in the distance, for you've been invited on the journey as well. These poems will transport you like that, and then they'll walk beside you through a landscape of heartache and longing. While there, You can look back, Peñaloza writes, remember the stories beneath all this shine. And these stories do shine. And you will remember them. -Matthew Olzmann |
| kelli russell agodon biography: The Strangest of Theatres Jared Hawkley, Susan Rich, Brian Turner, Catherine Barnett, 2013 Original and reprinted essays by contemporary poets who have spent time abroad address questions of estrangement, identity and home. These reflections represent a diverse atlas of experience and include work by Kazim Ali, Elizabeth Bishop, Naomi Shihab Nye, Nick Flynn, Charles Simic, Alissa Valles and others. Original. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: A House, Undone T. Clear, 2022 Well-crafted, engaging, and constructed with meticulous care, A House, Undone becomes the beautiful architecture for poetry, where we live in a house of words...-Kelli Russell Agodon |
| kelli russell agodon biography: The League of World Poets La Différence, World Poetry Foundation, 2015-10-20 Anthology of the world poets contains 95 popular characters. In the name of peace. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: The Path to Kindness James Crews, 2022-04-12 This deeply felt and relatable poetry anthology features a range of diverse, celebrated voices. The Path to Kindness includes poems from well-known writers Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black poets include January Gill O’Neil, Tracy K. Smith, and Cornelius Eady. Native American poets include Kimberly Blaeser, Joy Harjo (current U.S. Poet Laureate), and Linda Hogan. The collection also features international voices, including Canadian poets Lorna Crozier and Susan Musgrave. Presented in the same perfect-in-the-hand format as How to Love the World, the collection includes: *Prompts for journaling and exploration of selected poems *A book group guide *Bios of all the contributing poets *Stunning cover art by award-winning artist Dinara Mirtalipova A foreword by Danusha Laméris, along with her popular poem Small Kindnesses, is also included. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Expressive Networks Matthew Kilbane, 2025-06-10 Expressive Networks convenes an urgent conversation on digital media and the social life of contemporary poetry. Tracing how poems circulate through online spaces and how capitalized platforms have come to pattern the reading and writing of poetry, contributors emphasize both the expressivist cast of digital literary culture and the deep-running ambivalence that characterizes aesthetic and critical responses to platformed cultural production. The volume features chapters on Pan- African spoken word programs, Singaporean Facebook groups, decolonial hemispheric networks, and Japanese media-critical poetries as well as platforms such as Twitter/X, Instagram, and Amazon. Though contributors write from a variety of methodological positions and address themselves to a range of archives, they share the primary conviction that the impact of Web 2.0 on literary practice is far-reaching, far from self-evident, and far more variegated and unpredictable than easy summations of social media's influence suggest. Expressive Networks asks after poetry's present and future by examining what poems themselves express about the social make-up of networked platforms. Edited by Matthew Kilbane with contributions from Cameron Awkward-Rich, Micah Bateman, Andrew Campana, Sumita Chakraborty, Scott Challener, C.R. Grimmer, Tess McNulty, Michael Nardone, Seth Perlow, Anna Preus, Susanna Sacks, Carly Schnitzler, Melanie Walsh, and Samuel Caleb Wee. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Brute Emily Skaja, 2019-04-02 Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emily Skaja’s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious, from the dissolution of a relationship, showing how such endings necessitate self-discovery and reinvention. The speaker of these poems is a sorceress, a bride, a warrior, a lover, both object and agent, ricocheting among ways of knowing and being known. Each incarnation squares itself up against ideas of feminine virtue and sin, strength and vulnerability, love and rage, as it closes in on a hard-won freedom. Brute is absolutely sure of its capacity to insist not only on the truth of what it says but on the truth of its right to say it. “What am I supposed to say: I’m free?” the first poem asks. The rest of the poems emphatically discover new ways to answer. This is a timely winner of the Walt Whitman Award, and an introduction to an unforgettable voice. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer Kevin Larimer, Mary Gannon, 2020-04-07 The definitive source of information, insight, and advice for creative writers, from the nation’s largest and most trusted organization for writers, Poets & Writers. For half a century, writers at every stage of their careers have turned to the literary nonprofit organization Poets & Writers and its award-winning magazine for resources to foster their professional development, from writing prompts and tips on technique to informative interviews with published authors, literary agents, and editors. But never before has Poets & Writers marshaled its fifty years’ worth of knowledge to create an authoritative guide for writers that answers every imaginable question about craft and career—until now. Here is the writing bible for authors of all genres and forms, covering topics such as how to: -Harness your imagination and jump-start your creativity -Develop your work from initial idea to final draft -Find a supportive and inspiring writing community to sustain your career -Find the best MFA program for you -Publish your work in literary magazines and develop a platform -Research writing contests and other opportunities to support your writing life -Decide between traditional publishing and self-publishing -Find the right literary agent -Anticipate what agents look for in queries and proposals -Work successfully with an editor and your publishing team -Market yourself and your work in a digital world -Approach financial planning and taxes as a writer -And much more Written by Kevin Larimer and Mary Gannon, the two most recent editors of Poets & Writers Magazine, this book brings an unrivaled understanding of the areas in which writers seek guidance and support. Filled with insider information like sample query letters, pitch letters, lists of resources, and worksheets for calculating freelance rates, tracking submissions, and managing your taxes, the guide does more than demystify the writing life—it also provides an array of powerful tools for building a sustainable career as a writer. In addition to the wealth of insights into creativity, publishing, and promotion are first-person essays from bestselling authors, including George Saunders, Christina Baker Kline, and Ocean Vuong, as well as reading lists from award-winning writers such as Anthony Doerr, Cheryl Strayed, and Natalie Diaz. Here, at last, is the ultimate comprehensive resource that belongs on every writer’s desk. |
| kelli russell agodon biography: Red, White, and Blues Virgil Suárez, Ryan G. Van Cleave, 2004 Red, White, and Blues, a new anthology from the award-winning editors of Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America and Vespers: Contemporary American Poems of Religion and Spirituality, offers a chorus of contemporary American poets on the idea of liberty, democracy, patriotism, and the American Dream - a twenty-first-century Song of Myself for the entire country. The poems in Red, White, and Blues reflect our collective memory - from icons of pop culture to national disasters and times of unrest. Yet they are not simply reflections of the headline news or political diatribes of the day; instead, they provide roadmaps of American history - roadmaps of where we've been, who we are, and where we're going as a nation. Poets as diverse as Martin Espada and Paisley Rekdal, J. P. Dancing Bear and Vivian Shipley seek to answer questions that resonate within the heart of our national identity - what does it mean to be an American? What is the American Dream? How does one define patriotism? Regardless of ethnicity, gender, or class, each poet's answer to such questions proves that our experiences unite us more than they divide us. Red, White, and Blues is an ambitious collection |
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Kelli Giddish (born April 13, 1980) [1] is an American television, stage, and film actress. She is best known for her portrayal of NYPD Detective/Sergeant Amanda Rollins in the NBC crime-drama television series Law & …
Kelli Williams - IMDb
Actress: Lie to Me. Kelli Williams was born in California on June 8, 1970. Though she had appeared in commercials since she was a baby, she was discovered by her agent at her high school play ("Romeo and Juliet"), in …
Kelli - Name Meaning, Origin, Popularity, and Related Names
This name derives from the Irish Gaelic “ceallach > ceallaigh,” meaning “one who suffers strife during a battle, war, strife, bright-headed, from a brilliant mind.” The element “ceall” probably comes from the …
Kelli: Name Meaning, Popularity and Info on BabyNames.com
5 days ago · The name Kelli is primarily a female name of American origin that means Bright-headed. Click through to find out more information about the name Kelli on BabyNames.com.
