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February 2010
Dzanc books selected "Trouble" by James Scannell McCormick for their Best of the Web Print Anthology! Well done, James!
11/24/09
Pushcart Nominations!
Nicholas and I chose the following six poems from the current issue to be nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize:
- "Hypochondriacal" by Paul Hostovsky
- "Trouble" by James Scannell McCormick
- "What to Do With Your Limbs" by Amber Norwood
- "Pleistocene Relic" by Tiel Aisha Ansari
- "The Happy Heart" by Lois Harrod
- "A Glimpse" by Peter Swanson
Good luck in the selection process everyone, and thanks for your excellent work!
9/15/09
Review Copies Received
Although we will not be able to review all books sent to us here at the Muse, I have decided to offer a logging service so readers can see the titles of everything that comes our way. You can find it on the new page "Review Copies Received," which is here. I will also say a few words here about books we are not planning to review in a main article, wherever possible. NOTE: Reviews may appear in either TBM or The Raintown Review.
Garden Haiku by Lily Wang is a charming book suitable for the amateur haiku enthusiast who is also a parent, and if this seems like an audience too small to support a book, then be thankful you live in America where no niche goes un-marketed! Haiku purists might find the poems a little lax--many are complete thoughts rather than juxtaposed images, and there is often a clear first person narrator--but there are nevertheless a few gems to be mined.
A child is a lighthouse, full of love--
To get to it,
Paddle with patience.
