Evie Shockley's Blog

• Sonata Mulattica

  June 26, 2009

  • This is a heads-up for poetry lovers who are also classical music lovers.  Would you be interested in a book of poems that features, among other interesting characters, Ludwig van Beethoven?  If so, Rita Dove has written just the thing for you.  : )Her latest collection, Sonata Mulattica, is a group of poems (over 200 pages of them!) that concern -- directly or indirectly -- the life and ...
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• This Is What a Feminist [Poet] Looks Like

  May 24, 2009

  • The Delirious Hem strikes again!  : )  Which is to say, the blog space devoted to experimental / avant-garde / innovative women's poetry (its name comes from a brief phrase in an Emily Dickinson poem) has mounted another fabulous forum that you may want to check out.  I'm still reading around in it myself, but wanted to go ahead and share the link with readers here.  The forum curator, ...
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• Encouraging News re: the Dodge Poetry Festival

  May 21, 2009

  • Greetings!  I was very pleased to see the below in my inbox this morning and thought I would share it with the RR and other readers.  Let's everyone stash away a $20 (or more?) to throw in the direction of the beloved Festival, should things fall into place...Peace.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------To: The Poets, Poetry Teachers, ...
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