Poets & Writers – July-August 2019

Literary MagNet The first essay Allen placed in a journal was “Father Can You Hear Me,” a meditation on absent fathers and diffe ...

TRENDS Alhough Lethem’s wish list of po- tential reissues could easily fill Hen- derson’s tiny bookstore, the two are proceeding ...

Alice Quinn Bids Farewell to PSA tony gale 21 POETS & WRITERS TRENDS Q &^ A^ This summer Alice Quinn will step down as t ...

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A WRITER’S library is more than just a collection of books. It is also a piecemeal biography of that writer’s life, and measurab ...

its cover partly eaten by battery acid. I was monumentally happy to find it. The book is inscribed to “Jim Blaylock, a hell of a ...

the literary life MY LIFE IN BOOKS that I’d be able to own only 50 percent as many books as I might own other- wise, and so my p ...

the literary life MY LIFE IN BOOKS JULY AUGUST 2019 28 The top 50 entrants are invited to the workshop, the faculty for which is ...

the literary life MY LIFE IN BOOKS away, and I was on a sentimental journey, looking for the ghosts of Doc and Ed Ricketts. They ...

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JULY AUGUST 2019 32 profile OCEAN VUONG RIGOBERTO GONZÁLEZ is a contributing editor of Poets & Writers Magazine. B ORN in Sa ...

33 POETS & WRITERS^ profile OCEAN VUONG the magnetic pull to poetry—Rimbaud, Lorca, Vallejo, Neruda—copying poems from libra ...

But on that fateful first day of class, he received a call from Michael Wiegers at Copper Canyon Press, let- ting him know the p ...

profile OCEAN VUONG 35 POETS & WRITERS^ with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center to launch the Center for Refugee ...

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