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by Jacob Sunderlin, Co-Editor of Poetry Like every beer drinker with a couple folders of poems, I just got back from AWP. Happy to report that I am operational, minus brain cells. Among the learnable things at such a venue as AWP: how many people there are running around writing poetry and fiction. Weston Cutter is one of the ones worth a damn. And it’s a whole barge full of damns. Weston’s a hardworking man—he’s the author of the book of stories You’d Be a Stranger, Too, has had poems published recently in Forklift, OH and the Kenyon Review, and is an assistant professor at the University of St. Francis in Fort Wayne. Also, if you’re not reading his blog you’re missing out. After contributing a poem to the most recent issue of Sycamore, he was kind enough to correspond with me and …MORE
Sycamore Review is proud to announce that award-winning novelist and short-story writer Aimee Bender will be selecting the winner of our 2012 Wabash Prize for Fiction. First prize is $1,000 and publication in the next issue of Sycamore Review. Bender is the author of four books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt(1998) which was a NY Times Notable Book, An Invisible Sign of My Own(2000) which was an L.A. Times pick of the year, Willful Creatures (2005) which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of the year, andThe Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010). Her short fiction has been published in Granta, GQ, Harper’s, Tin House, McSweeney’s, and The Paris …MORE Poetry Co-Editor In celebration of the holiday and the upcoming release of our newest issue, I thought I would share the link to this lovely grouping of queer love poems: http://glittertongue.wordpress.com/ In addition to all the other fine work, you will find poems by issue 23.2 contributors Ari Banias and Alec Hershman. Enjoy! By Elizabeth Petersen
In many cases, when a poet passes a small part of the world mourns. This little world of poets and poetry readers feels a tingeing of their hope, but soon a this too shall pass sigh becomes a sort of resolution, and they (we) try to carry on. Szymborska, though, feels different. After decades of remarkable work that spoke both to the social issues many poems fear to enter and the weird wonderment that many poems fail to achieve, I realize, in a childish way, that I never thought Szymborska would ever leave the world, that she was too good, too smart, for anyone to pull a fast one on her. And part …MORE |
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