Loafing Around

I got a letter today informing me that I am the recipient of a tuition scholarship to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in August! I will also be giving a reading of my poems at the Conference.

My friend Matt Siegel also received a work-study scholarship (waiter) to attend in nonfiction. I plan to fly into NYC and drive up to VT with him.

The poetry faculty for the 2007 Conference include Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Eavan Boland, Michael Collier, James Longenbach, Steve Orlen, Arthur Sze, and Natasha Trethewey.

Needless to say, I'm very excited! Anyone been to BL?

PLR Spring 2007 Now Online!

The Spring 2007 issue of Pebble Lake Review is now online!

In this issue: Kim Addonizio, Paul Guest, Matt Hart, Bob Hicok, Melanie Jordan, Laurie Clements Lambeth, Clay Matthews, Lydia Melvin, Eric Shade, Alison Stine, Betsy Wheeler, Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, and many more.

Plus reviews of the fever almanac by Kristy Bowen, Other Fugitives and Other Strangers by Rigoberto González, The Mending Worm by Joan Houlihan, Intaglio by Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis, and Mosquito by Alex Lemon.

We are currently reading for our Summer 2007 issue, which will be released in late August.

The print version of PLR Spring 2007 will be available and shipped shortly.We would like to thank our contributors and subscribers for making this and every issue possible. We hope you enjoy Pebble Lake Review Vol. 4 No. 2 and welcome all comments.

Poems

32 Poems has just accepted "Amenorrhea at Thirty" and "St. Catherine of Siena Speaks of Stigmata" for publication in a forthcoming issue! Be sure to support them with a subscription.

Hunger

The new issue of Hunger Mountain is available:
The Spring 2007 issue features the winning poem from the 2007 Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry, "What Does Lorca Own?" by Katie Kingston, and honorable mentions Amanda Auchter and Robert C. Jones. New poems by Patrick Carrington, Blas Falconer, Tony Hoagland, Elizabeth Macklin, Judith McCombs, Andrew Miller, Doug Ramspeck, Maxine Scates, Abraham Smith, Jennifer K. Sweeney, Brent Terry, Sandy Tseng, Peter Vanderberg, Connie Voisine and Barbara Yien. To order, click here.

New Tongue

Thanks for all the votes (& for Sarah for apparently stuffing the ballot box!) I'm leaning toward Glossolalia because I (and several other people) feel that's most fitting for my manuscript. Glossolalia, which means "speaking in tongues") is what I am doing: speaking in other people's tongues, whether it is the tongues of the female saints, my sister, my birthmother, or a lover. Glossolalia also has the religious connotation (& many of these poems use religion as a vehicle to talk about other things) as well as a more sensuous interpretation (I have many desirous poems and reference mouth & tongue a bit). Besides, it's such a great word!

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What Title For A Manuscript Do You Like Best?
	Paper Halo
	Past Immaculate
	The Venerable Body
	Glossolalia
	Reviviscence
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Some terms defined:

Venerable: a title for someone proclaimed by the Roman Catholic Church to have attained the first degree of sanctity

Glossolalia: speaking in tongues

Reviviscence: the act or state of being revived; revival; reanimation