Feaured Poets for ISSUE-XVIII April 2013
The Enchanting Poet -B. R. Dionysius
B. R. Dionysius was founding Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival. His poetry has been widely published in literary journals, anthologies, newspapers and online. He is the author of one artist’s book, The Barflies’ Chorus (1995, Lyrebird Press), two poetry collections, Fatherlands (2000, Five Islands Press), Bacchanalia (2002, Interactive Press), a verse novel, Universal Andalusia (2006, SOI 3) and two chapbooks, The Negativity Bin (2010, PressPress) and The Curious Noise of History (2011, Picaro Press). He won the 2009 Max Harris Poetry Award and was joint winner of the 2011 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize. His seventh poetry collection, Bowra was released in April 2013. He lives in Ipswich, Queensland where he watches birds, teaches English and writes sonnets.
His new collection of poetry is avaialble soon. "Bowra" is a collection of contemporary free verse sonnets and sonnet sequences about birdwatching in western Queensland, the tragic lives of some Ipswich citizens, the historical and enviromental story of the Bremer river, floods, mine disasters, a US kidnapping, shooting crows and dead poets. Available from Whitmore Press -www.whitmorepress.com
His new collection of poetry is avaialble soon. "Bowra" is a collection of contemporary free verse sonnets and sonnet sequences about birdwatching in western Queensland, the tragic lives of some Ipswich citizens, the historical and enviromental story of the Bremer river, floods, mine disasters, a US kidnapping, shooting crows and dead poets. Available from Whitmore Press -www.whitmorepress.com
Editor's Choice -Vladimir Martinovski
Vladimir Martinovski (1974) is an Associate professor, teaching the subject of Comparative Poetics at the Department of General and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Philology “Blazhe Koneski”, Sts Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje. He was the president of the Association of Comparative Literature of Macedonia (2009-2012). He is member of the Executive Board of the International Association for Semiotic Studies. Furthermore, he is a member of the International Comparative Literature Association and the European Network for Comparative Literary Studies. He is member of Macedonian Writers Association and Macedonian PEN Centre.
He has been an editor of the following books: Ut pictura poesis – Poetry in Dialogue with the Fine Arts, Thematic Selection of Macedonian Poetry (together with Nuhi Vinca 2006); Metamorphoses and Metatexts (together with Vesna Tomovska 2008); When the Butterfly Becomes a Poem (together with Lidija Kapushevska – Drakulevska, 2010), Odysseys about the Odyssey (together with Vesna Tomovska, 2010), New Macedonian Haiku Wavе (2011), Lyrical Dodecameron (2012) and Literary Dislocations (together with Sonja Stojmenska-Elzeser, 2012).
Vladimir Martinovski is recipient of the following awards: First Prize at the Short Story Competition of “Nova Makedonija” (2009) and the Brother’s Miladinovci Award (awarded by the International Festival Struga Poetry Evenings, 2010).
He has been an editor of the following books: Ut pictura poesis – Poetry in Dialogue with the Fine Arts, Thematic Selection of Macedonian Poetry (together with Nuhi Vinca 2006); Metamorphoses and Metatexts (together with Vesna Tomovska 2008); When the Butterfly Becomes a Poem (together with Lidija Kapushevska – Drakulevska, 2010), Odysseys about the Odyssey (together with Vesna Tomovska, 2010), New Macedonian Haiku Wavе (2011), Lyrical Dodecameron (2012) and Literary Dislocations (together with Sonja Stojmenska-Elzeser, 2012).
Vladimir Martinovski is recipient of the following awards: First Prize at the Short Story Competition of “Nova Makedonija” (2009) and the Brother’s Miladinovci Award (awarded by the International Festival Struga Poetry Evenings, 2010).
Feaured Poets for ISSUE-XIX November 2013
The Enchanting Poet -Amy King
Of Amy King’s most recent book from Litmus Press, I Want to Make You Safe, John Ashbery described her poems as bringing “abstractions to brilliant, jagged life, emerging into rather than out of the busyness of living.” Safe was one of the Boston Globe’s Best Poetry Books of 2011, and it was reviewed, among others, by the Poetry Foundation and the Colorado Review. King was also honored by The Feminist Press as one of the “40 Under 40: The Future of Feminism” awardees, and she received the 2012 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.
I Want to Make You Safe was published by Litmus Press, 2011. Amy King is also the author of Slaves to do These Things, I’m the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi, all from Blazevox Books, as well as The People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press), Kiss Me With the Mouth of Your Country (Dusie Press).
King works on “The Count,” conducts interviews for and is a board member for VIDA: Woman in Literary Arts. She also edits the Poetics List, sponsored by The Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY-Buffalo/University of Pennsylvania), moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv (WOMPO) and the Goodreads Poetry! Group, and teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. Her poems have been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and she has been the recipient of a MacArthur Scholarship for Poetry. She was also the 2007 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere.
Of Amy King’s most recent book from Litmus Press, I Want to Make You Safe, John Ashbery described her poems as bringing “abstractions to brilliant, jagged life, emerging into rather than out of the busyness of living.” Safe was one of the Boston Globe’s Best Poetry Books of 2011, and it was reviewed, among others, by the Poetry Foundation and the Colorado Review. King was also honored by The Feminist Press as one of the “40 Under 40: The Future of Feminism” awardees, and she received the 2012 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.
I Want to Make You Safe was published by Litmus Press, 2011. Amy King is also the author of Slaves to do These Things, I’m the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi, all from Blazevox Books, as well as The People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press), Kiss Me With the Mouth of Your Country (Dusie Press).
King works on “The Count,” conducts interviews for and is a board member for VIDA: Woman in Literary Arts. She also edits the Poetics List, sponsored by The Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY-Buffalo/University of Pennsylvania), moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv (WOMPO) and the Goodreads Poetry! Group, and teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. Her poems have been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and she has been the recipient of a MacArthur Scholarship for Poetry. She was also the 2007 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere.
Editor's Choice -Aliki Barnstone
Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, and editor. She is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently, Bright Body (White Pine, 2011) and Dear God Dear, Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow, 2009), and the translator of The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation (W.W. Norton, 2006). In 2014, Carnegie Mellon University Press will reissue her book, Madly in Love, as a Carnegie-Mellon Classic Contemporary. Among her awards are a Senior Fulbright Fellowship in Greece and a residency at the Anderson Center at Tower View. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she serves as Series Editor of the Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation.
Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, and editor. She is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently, Bright Body (White Pine, 2011) and Dear God Dear, Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow, 2009), and the translator of The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation (W.W. Norton, 2006). In 2014, Carnegie Mellon University Press will reissue her book, Madly in Love, as a Carnegie-Mellon Classic Contemporary. Among her awards are a Senior Fulbright Fellowship in Greece and a residency at the Anderson Center at Tower View. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she serves as Series Editor of the Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation.
