“Losing Season” in the classroom
Poet Chris Dombrowski is teaching Jack Ridl’s “Losing Season” at the Montano Poets House.
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Book Press Release: Love’s Labors
LOVE’S LABORS Poems by Brent Newsom  Like interconnecting stories that form a novel, the poems in Brent Newsom’s debut collection, LOVE’S LABORS, coalesce into a narrative of an indelible place and its... Read More
Dawn Potter on Judging the NJ Poetry Out Loud State Finals
On March 13, 2015, I had the honor and the pleasure of serving as a judge at the state finals of the New Jersey Poetry Out Loud competition, held at Princeton University.... Read More
Hitting the Road by Brent Newsom
Special delivery from the book ninja When my author copies of Love’s Labors were delivered to our house, I was still at work. So my wife packed up the box of books... Read More
CavanKerry writers reading at Girl Talk
Four CKP poets (Teresa Carson, Wanda Praisner, Sondra Gash, and Carole Stone) are reading at Diane Lockwood’s Girl Talk Poetry Reading on March 28th.  Don’t miss it!
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Cooking Fried Rice by Brent Newsom
My wife’s white-socked feetpolish the gray vinyl tile of our kitchen.She spins from fridge to stovewhile I stand at the cutting board,cilantro on the altar, a sacrificeto the tiny tongue-throned... Read More
Surprise, Surprise by Brent Newsom
by Flickr user Benson Kua I am home with my two kids when the call comes. It’s early August, midafternoon. Snack time. Water and ants on a log. No—be honest, Brent—probably... Read More
Nin Andrews Interviews Loren Graham
NIN ANDREWSPlaces I Was Dreaming is your third book of poetry, but this is your first autobiographical book? LOREN GRAHAMIt’s the kind of question that people often ask, but I’m hesitant... Read More
Return by Loren Graham
Return Suddenly I craved recess from that noisyhouse, from that pack, from much older cousinsand all those aunts and uncles, half a dozenat a time who laughed at my teasing... Read More