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11/19/10
It is my pleasure to announce the Barefoot Muse's poetry nominations for the Pushcart Prize XXXVI.
These are, from Issue 10, Spring 2010:
And from the current issue:
Congratulations to all the poets, and good luck in the selection process!
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.
