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“More Than the Weight of its Laden Branches” by Sarah Sousa

“More Than the Weight of its Laden Branches” by Sarah Sousa

This poem is part of CavanKerry’s series for National Poetry Month.  Every day in April, we post a poem from our community of writers.   More Than the Weight of its Laden... Read More
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Book Press Release: Orphans

Book Press Release: Orphans

Orphansby Joan Cusack Handler ORPHANS (CavanKerry Press; March 2016; $18.00) is an indelible memoir in verse from award-winning poet and psychologist Joan Cusack Handler that explores the intertwined lives of a... Read More
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Loren Graham and Brent Newsom: 2016 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists

Loren Graham and Brent Newsom: 2016 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists

Congrats to Loren Graham (Places I Was Dreaming) and Brent Newsom (Love’s Labors) on being named 2016 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists in poetry! Finalists will be announced at the 27th Annual Oklahoma Book Awards on Saturday, April 9th. Read More
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Adriana Páramo’s “My Mother’s Funeral” awarded 2015 Whirling Prize

Adriana Páramo’s “My Mother’s Funeral” awarded 2015 Whirling Prize

“The memoir My Mother’s Funeral by Adriana Páramo and the poetry collection Sad Math by Sarah Freligh are winners of the latest contest, which invited writers across the nation to submit examples of the Bildungsroman, or coming-of-age, literary genre.”... Read More
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Women’s Review of Books reviews “Esther”

Women’s Review of Books reviews “Esther”

“The twelve verse-chapters function seamlessly to move readers in literal and emotional time, just as chapters in a prose novel do. Visually appealing, two, three, four, and five-line stanzas give the page... Read More
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Going Places #5 by Randy Smit

Going Places #5 by Randy Smit

About Going Places:Welcome to an experiment in documentary writing.  Randy Smit is director of Compassionate Connection, an organization offering pathways of practice to greater empathy and creativity for all people.  This travelogue... Read More
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Paola Corso in The Christian Science Monitor

Paola Corso in The Christian Science Monitor

"My mother in the kitchen a generation later: On Christmas Eve, she removes plastic-wrapped shrimp cocktail and clams garnished with packets of lemon juice. She takes a slab of baked... Read More
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Nin Andrews interviews Robert Cording

Nin Andrews interviews Robert Cording

Robert Cording NIN ANDREWSThese are such profound and meditative poems (Only So Far), I wondered as I was reading them if you had a spiritual practice? Or if writing might... Read More
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Julianna Baggott interviews Robin Silbergleid about "The Baby Book"

Julianna Baggott interviews Robin Silbergleid about "The Baby Book"

“I will confess that this process was much harder with The Baby Book than with other projects, mostly because of its emotional and autobiographical content.  That was a useful reminder for me... Read More
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