Saturday, November 22, 2014

Saturday odds and ends...


I love Poets & Writers magazine. It not only has great sources for writers, some of those very sites are super for readers as well.
 
There are also some very helpful links referenced(book review outlets) and neat little sidebars with columns like "Page One," which features opening sentences to recent works of poetry and prose. There are lovely openings like this one:
 
When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among pillows. Usually you are nestled under blankets and the house is empty. Sometimes the moon is missing and beyond the window the low, gray ceiling seems approachable.
 --Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine
 
 

























Their ads can also catch your eye. :)

 
And this month's section on independent publishers is loaded with lots of info. Two Dollar Radio is just one of the presses you can find:
 
 
 
Speaking of monsters, this anthology (recently reviewed in Locus) is quite good:
 
 

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