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October 2012

Meet Your Senior Reader: Fiction

This series introduces you to the people who are reading your stuff

Daniel Nyikos was born in Germany to Hungarian parents and raised in America. He has an MA from Utah State University in English with a Creative Writing emphasis, and is pursuing a PhD in the same at UNL. He has been published in American Life in Poetry. When he was young he wanted to be a fighter pilot, a dinosaur or a writer and is still holding out hope for the first two.

 

How would you describe yourself, as a reader and writer?

The Set-Aside: A Poem with PhoToems

A Multimedia Supplement to Nance Van Winckel's Fall Issue poem!

PS Fall 2012 contributor Nance Van Winckel calls her original photo/poem/video collages "pho-toems." Watch the one she made for her poem "The Set-Aside that Becomes the Swept-Aside," which is featured in the Fall 2012 Issue of Prairie Schooner.

See more of Nance's photo-collage work here.

Briefly Noted

A monthly book review in brief from PS staff and associates

Volume 1, Issue 5. October 2012.

Redd on Michael Kardos' The Three Day Affair
Leibman on Frankie Condon's I Hope I Join the Band
Dawes on Victor LaValle's Big Machine
Jones on Joy Castro's Hell or High Water
Orsi on Evan Connell's Mrs. Bridge

Aimee Bender--Full Interview!

For Air Schooner 16, hosts Scott Winter and Stacey Waite talked to two great contemporary experimental writers, Lynn Emanuel and Aimee Bender. Hear the full interview with Bender here!

Lynn Emanuel--Full Interview!

For Air Schooner 16, hosts Scott Winter and Stacey Waite talked to two great contemporary experimental writers, Lynn Emanuel and Aimee Bender. Hear the full interview with Emanuel here!

Poetry that Travels through Place and Time

An Interview with Poet Catherine Pierce
Catherine Pierce (photo credit Megan Bean)

This interview is the third in the Crooked Letter Interview Series hosted by Prairie Schooner’s Southern Correspondent, James Madison Redd. On October 2nd, 2012, he met with poet Catherine Pierce at Mississippi State University. The following is an excerpt from their meeting.

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Catherine Pierce is the author of two books of poetry, The Girls of Peculiar and Famous Last Words and a chapbook, Animals of Habit (Kent State 2004).

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Meet Your Senior Reader: Poetry

This new series introduces you to the people who are reading your stuff

Jeff Alessandrelli is the author of the little book Erik Satie Watusies His Way Into Sound (Ravenna Press, 2011) and the chapbook Don’t Let Me Forget To Feed the Sharks (Poor Claudia, 2012). He currently lives in Lincoln, NE, where he co-curates The Clean Part Reading Series with Trey Moody. Recent poetry by him appears or will appear in Gulf CoastSalt HillRedivider and Boston Review.

 

How would you describe yourself as a reader and writer?

"If you're meant to write, you can't escape it."

A Visit from TJ Dema

TJ Dema, a Botswana-based poet and current University of Iowa International Writing Program fellow, came to UNL last week to give a spoken word performance and Q&A (during which she made the titular pronouncement). Dema runs Sauti Arts and Performance Management managing contemporary and traditional poets, vocalists, and instrumentalists. She has performed for a number of African heads of state, been commissioned to write for Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee, and shared poetry in France, Denmark, India, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Malawi as well as her home country. 

You can also check out Dema's essay on the state of the womb for the recent issue of FUSION!

The Hidden Choices of Silent Hill 2

A Special Halloween Edition!

This is the eighth in a series of guest posts by Hali Sofala and Eric Jones on the connections between gaming (video and otherwise) and the literary.

Haggis, Whiskey and Prose

Notes on the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship

This is the eighth in a series of blog posts by guest contributor Nabina Das, who writes about Indian books and authors.

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