Announcing our new book review editor, Tom Hunley

Please join me in welcoming the newest member of our editorial staff, book review editor Tom Hunley. If you would like to submit a review copy of your book to Poemeleon please send an e-mail to editor (at) poemeleon (dot) org.  

From Mr. Hunley's bio:

[He is] ...currently an assistant professor in the English department at Western Kentucky University and the director of Steel Toe Books. His poems have appeared in TriQuarterly, New York Quarterly, issues of Rattle, Poetry East, Connecticut Review, and other journals. His latest books are My Life as a Minor Character (Pecan Grove Press, 2005), and Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five Canon Approach  (Multilingual Matters LTD. ). His book of poems about new fatherhood, Octopus, won the Holland prize and will be published by Logan House Press in 2008.

Tom Hunley's work was previously featured in Poemeleon, volume I issue 2 (poetry, the ekphrastic issue), and volume II issue 1 (book review, issue devoted to poems in form).

Reading by Cati Porter, Gayle Brandeis, and others tonight!

Thursday, December 6, 6:30 pm

Inlandia Author Event

Riverside Public Library

3851 Mission Inn Avenue

Riverside, CA 92501

951 826-5201

Women’s Work: Poetry Reading

In partnership with the Inlandia Institute, the library presents reading, discussion and book signing with five nationally recognized and inspired female poets from the Inland Empire. The reading will feature Gayle Brandeis, author of Self Storage, The Book of Dead Birds, and Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write, and winner of the Bellwether Prize for Fiction; Ruth Nolan, author of Wild Wash Road and contributing poet to Inlandia, and associate professor of English at College of the Desert; S. Alaska Whelan, author of Between Worlds and the upcoming Versed, to be published in 2008 by Petroglyph Books; Cati Porter, editor of Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry and author of small fruit songs, to be published spring 2008 by Pudding House Publications, and Where We Dwell, forthcoming summer 2008 from Mayapple Press; and Chrystine Julian, author of Sensual Spirit, a collection of her poems. Each of the poets will read and discuss recent works focusing on empowered femininity, and they will welcome questions and insights from the audience. Nolan and Brandeis are both contributors to the literary anthology, Inlandia. The Inlandia Institute is a literary center at the Riverside Public Library in Partnership with Heyday Books, seeking to bring focus to the richness of the literary enterprise that has existed in this region for ages. The library’s Cultural Arts Program is proud to be a part of this vision, working to bring noted and emerging authors and artists who create the foundation and the future of our regional voice.

The Prose Poem Issue has launched!

Volume II Issue 2 of Poemeleon, the Prose Poem Issue, has launched!

Featuring: Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Cherryl Floyd-Miller, Ron Klassnik, Alexander Long, Sarah Maclay, Cecilia Woloch, and many others, as well as Ann E. Michael's essay "The Eye and the Page", and reviews of several collections of prose poems.

While you're there, visit our bookstore for some tasty holiday treats!

The Editors -- Cati, Maureen, and Ren

Cati Porter & Maureen Alsop to read tomorrow

Hello there.

Maureen and I, along with Poemeleon contributors Lucia Galloway, Lavina Blossom, Ruth Nolan, and Epicenter magazine editor Jeff Green, will be reading tomorrow from 2 until 4 pm. 

The event is hosted by the Small Wonder Foundation, which is located at 7101 Jurupa Avenue, Suite 20, Riverside, CA 92504. Light refreshments will be served.

We'd love to see you, so please stop by if you can!

Poemeleon receives coveted THQ Award!

Hey! Well, I think it's pretty cool.

In the just-released issue of The Hiss Quarterly the editors announce that:

This quarter's THQ AWARD belongs to Cati, Ren & Maureen at  "Poemeleon".
Ms. Porter (Cati) says:

Like it or not, poets everywhere are in conversation with each other.
So, the answer to my own questioning is: If I do nothing else to forward the interest of poetry in this life, I would like to have at least contributed to the conversation.

That's nifty. So is Poemeleon. Go visit them when you've had enough hissing. And tell them we sent you!

So, while you're waiting breathlessly for the next issue of Poemeleon to be released (you are, aren't you?), go check them out!