balanced on the edge

Below is a flier announcing riverbabble 15. I have a short fiction piece included. It’s a few days after the solstice, but the evening light is still with us, a nice time to read. Here’s a direct link to my piece, ‘Dusk.’
Celebrate the summer solstice
and start your summer reading with

riverbabble15
Bloomsday issue
is now [...]

Karen Head just sent word that her new book, Sassing, has just been released by Wordtech Press. This is Karen Head’s second collection this year, coming after My Paris Year (All Nations Press, 2009). She very generously shared three poems from My Paris Year in the first issue of ouroboros review.
One aspect of Karen Head’s [...]

Breathing in Colour by Clare Jay

My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
Clare Jay’s Breathing in Colour ( Piatkus, Little, Brown Book Group, March 2009) weaves together threads from many disparate areas of life – dreams, travels, the creative mind, family dynamics, memory, and relationships between men and women. The story, which takes place in [...]

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Jo and I are beginning a new reading period for the third issue of ouroboros review, ending Sunday, May 3, and due to be released in July. We’ll take a break for the summer, and then resume reading in the fall for a winter issue.

It’s a happy day – Deb Scott and I have a [...]

The second issue is now online and in our bookstore, ready for your reading pleasure.
Here’s a brief sample of what’s inside:

Michelle McGrane, featured poet interview and three poems.
Collin Kelley interviews Vanessa Daou.
Music, art, and poems from Amy Pence and Hunter Ewen.
Deb Scott, Carolee Sherwood, Jill Crammond Wickhams’s poems (grouped here because of our [...]

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Something borrowed for day three of the Freedom to Marry Week blog carnival hosted at The OTHER mother.
My news is borrowed from Jessica Fox Wilson, editor of Asphalt Sky, poet, and the author of 9 t0 5 Poet. Jo Hemmant is also editor of Asphalt Sky. She has written a wonderful essay on the workings [...]

Jo Hemmant and I are pleased to announce our new independent poetry press, Pindrop. We will be producing chapbooks (pamphlets) and full-length collections, working with new, emerging and established poets.
As many of you know, this is not our first foray into publishing: we are the editors of ouroboros review, a magazine for contemporary poetry and [...]