Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 00:00
We're a little late announcing it here, but Mary O'Donnell's poem "Sea Life in St. Mark's Square" was just yesterday the featured poem on Poetry Daily. You can still find the piece, which is from our current issue, of course, at this link.
It is a great poem from a deserving poet, and one we're proud to have it recognized like this.
Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 00:00
[Dear Readers, this is the first installment of an ongoing series written for the blog by Peter Rorvik. Further dispatches will soon include the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam and the Dubai International Film Festival. Peter is the Director of the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, as well as Director of the Durban International Film Festival.]
Dispatch 1: Doha Tribeca Film Festival (Oct 25-29, 2011)
Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 00:00
"Swan's Home" originally appeared in the Fall 2008 issue of Prairie Schooner.
Swan's Home For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. -Psalm 88
The call comes at high noon, with the sun bright on the rocks and sage, not in the dark midnight hours like Ferrell Swan always expected. On her cell from his old Ohio home, his ex-wife Rilla asks if he's sitting down.
"You bet," Ferrell says, standing at the porch rail. He looks across the high desert country, knowing the news is about Levon, Rilla's child from her first marriage. Ferrell helped raise the boy preschool to high school, the most strife and turmoil ever seen. Though Levon's now thirty-one, not a whole lot has changed.
"What this time?" he says when she doesn't volunteer the words.
Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Wed, 12/28/2011 - 00:00
in which Prairie Schooner contributors give us a glimpse into their writing spaces and sensibilities.
Micheal O’Siadhail's thirteen collections of poetry include Tongues, Globe, Love Life, The Gossamer Wall: Poems in Witness to the Holocaust, and Poems 1975-1995. He has been awarded an Irish American Cultural Institute Prize and a Toonder Prize, and he was shortlisted for the Wingate Jewish Quarterly Prize. He has been a lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin, and a professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. His poem "Conversation with Goethe" appears in our current issue.
Name three things of particular significance on your writing desk at the moment.
I have on my desk a book which traces the origin of Japanese characters and how pictographs combine in various ways to form complex ideographs. These signs fascinate me and in my latest book Tongues I devoted a whole section to meditating on them.
Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 00:00
Nuala Ní Chonchúir, as interviewed by Theodore Wheeler.
Born in Dublin in 1970, Nuala Ní Chonchúir lives in Galway county. Her début novel You (New Island, 2010) was called ‘a heart-warmer’ by The Irish Times and ‘a gem’ by The Irish Examiner. Her third short story collection Nude(Salt, 2009)) was shortlisted for the UK’s Edge Hill Prize. Her second short story collection To The World of Men, Welcome has just been re-issued by Arlen House in an expanded paperback edition.
Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 00:00
The printed issue has arrived in the Prairie Schooner office this week and should be out to subscribers, if not now then soon. (If you'd like to subscribe, the Ireland issue could be yours soon too!) The issue is an exciting one for us. Stephen C. Behrendt (Interim Senior Editor) explains it well in his introductory note.
Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Sun, 12/11/2011 - 00:00
in which Prairie Schooner contributors give us a glimpse into their writing spaces and sensibilities.
Mary O’Donnell has published six collections of poetry, most recently The Ark Builders(Arc Publications). She has also written three novels and two short-story collections, has won prizes in the V.S. Pritchett Competition and was the overall winner of the 2010 Fish International Short Story Competition. She is guest poet in the National University of Ireland-Maynooth in the creative writing program. Her poems "Sea Life in St. Mark's Square" and "Baby Boy, Quaryat al Beri" appear in the forthcoming Winter 2011 issue of Prairie Schooner, aka the Ireland Issue. (Subscribers should see the issue in their mailboxes soon!)
Name three things on your writing desk at the moment.
Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 00:00
Our Winter 2011 issue will be shipping in the next few weeks. The issue is a particularly strong one and we're eager to share it with everyone. Here is a preview of its beautiful cover art.
Award-winning writer Jaylan Salah is a poet, translator, content expert, and film critic.Workstation Bluesis a collection from the cubicle for white-collar workers worldwide passing the ti
