PLR Fall/Winter 2007 Now Online!

The Fall/Winter 2007 issue of Pebble Lake Review is now online!

In this issue: Poetry from Michelle Bitting Abrams, Hanna Andrews, Jean Gallagher, Alex Lemon, Laura McCullough, Simone Muench, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Lia Purpura, Tony Trigilio, David Ray Vance, and others. Fiction by Elisabeth Benjamin, Kim Chinquee, William Conescu, Glen Shaheen and Matt Siegel . Nonfiction from Blake Butler, James Hall, Jessica Handler, and Margaret MacInnis' interview with poet Lia Purpura.

Plus reviews of A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight by Hadara Bar-nadav, Gold Star Road by Richard Hoffman, Lucky Wreck by Ada Limón, and Modern Life by Matthea Harvey.

We are currently reading for our Spring 2008 issue, which will be released in late April. We will start reading for our first-ever theme issue (Illness and Health) beginning Feb.1. See website for details.

The print version of PLR Fall/Winter 2007 will be shipped after AWP.

We would like to thank our contributors and subscribers for making this and every issue possible. We hope you enjoy Pebble Lake Review Vol. 5 No. 1 and welcome all comments.

Journals

Four poems of mine are up at MiPOesias.

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I'm trying to get in the mindset to write a new poem based on a discussion I had at residency w/ Michael Burkard. I haven't written in my journal in over a year because the last entry I wrote, what was happening at the time of the last entry, is something I'm having a hard time revisiting. I can't put physical words next to that last entry and I don't want to discard it [the journal] entirely. M. suggested that I try to revisit those events of the last entry in a poem of the same title, "The Last Entry." Even if I don't get a good poem out of it, he suggested, maybe it will have helped me get to a place where I can begin journaling again. Anyone else ever had problems with journal-keeping?

AWP Excitement

There are so many off-site readings this year! This is where I'll be spending my nights:

Nightboat Books Poetry Reading
Wednesday, January 30th, 7pm
McNally Robinson Bookstore
52 Prince Street in SoHo
Readings by Michael Burkard, Joshua Kryah, Douglas A. Martin, Jonathan Weinert, with an introduction by poetry editor Christina Davis

W.W. Norton and Creative Nonfiction
Thursday, Jan. 31 @ 8PM
Ding Dong Lounge
929 Columbus Ave. (btw 105th & 106th)

Switchback / Sarabande Books / Red Morning Press / Red Hen Press Reading
Friday, Feb. 1 @ 7PM
11th St. Bar (510 E. 11th St. (between Avenues A & B)
Readings by Ivy Alvarez, Thomas Heise, Peggy Munson (via DVD!), Liz Bradfield, Brandi Homan, Sean Norton, Jason Bredle, Charles Hood, Eva Saulitis, Nickole Brown, Cate Marvin, Jen Tynes, Monica de la Torre, Simone Muench, and Caroline Noble Whitbeck

Saturday night I will be celebrating my big 3-1 with friends at a dinner hosted by my Bennington classmate Beka Chace (thanks Beka!) at her apartment.

Be sure to stop by PLR's table and say hello!

(un)timely

PLR Fall/Winter 2007 is still in progress and yes, we, know, is a tad late in coming. In the indie spirit, as our assistant editor Matt likes to say, of DIY journals, this sometimes happens. Rest assured, the issue is forthcoming within the next few weeks, hopefully in time for AWP, but not a guarantee, as our printer, MSR, is also prepping for the onslaught of the 7,000 people that will shortly descend on the Big Apple for the festivities and such.

We're excited to announce that we will be publishing a special theme issue in time for Chicago AWP 2009. The theme is illness, which we leave broadly defined (i.e. everything from mental illness to the flu). Submissions for the theme issue will be read until Dec. 15, 2008. See website for details.

Please look for us @ AWP New York. We'll have lots o' freebies (good stuff like pens and magnets), plus back issues at great rates.

It's a whirlwind around here -- getting the magazine ready, teaching tomorrow for WITS, and I just got back into town from Bennington. I'm studying with Ed Ochester this (my final) term and looking forward to graduating in June. Now, I'm off to copy edit, prep, and eat the yummy tacos my husband's cooking in the kitchen.