UMPH! PROSE SEEKS SUBMITS

City narratives (prose poetry, flash fiction, etc.) wanted for first issue of new online journal U.M.Ph.! Prose. Get ‘em in soon. I’m ready to roll!
Check guidelines first, then submit to umphsubmits@yahoo.com.
http://umphprose.com

Interviewed

Photo: Jack Scully
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Interviewed by: Doug Holder
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Mignon Ariel King is a dyed-in-the wool Boston poet. In her introduction to her new collection of poetry “The Woods Have Words,” she invites the reader to:”…stroll along the Charles River… walk through the streets of Boston,…or zip under and over the state of Massachusetts on the country’s oldest subway.” King [...]

THE WOODS HAVE WORDS

Cover painting: Charmed Silent by Hannibal King
THE WOODS HAVE WORDS: poems of tribute, my first collection of poetry, is now available from Ibbetson Street Press. Thank you for supporting small-press poetry.
http://lulu.com/ibbetsonpress
 
Review by Gloria Mindock, Cervena Barva Press

With poetry so honest and images so powerfully quiet, Mignon will be your guide to the many areas of Boston. [...]

September Poems

Chilling with Longfellow
If a body meet a body
in Mount Auburn Cemetery,
that’s probably not a good thing.
But coyotes aren’t a big threat
regardless of the springing dash
of a tan jackrabbit into bushy cover,
making a break right before
Longfellow’s crypt looms up to the left
of the leafy-lined Indian Ridge Path.
Dead men don’t care what I wear
or how much I [...]

Open-mic at Poetry Reading in Newton

Tomorrow, Sept. 9:
Newton Free Library 330 Homer Street, Newton Centre.
 Check MBTA website–never been there via T, but some friends have. 
I’m going mostly to see the phenomenal Michael Mack, but I’ll be reading
from my book-to-be at the open mic.

Poet’s Moon Cafe (East Boston)

Poets’ Moon Cafe hosts a series (with open-mic followed by two features) in the gorgeous Cultural Exchange Center on the East Boston waterfront.   

 

North Shore Writers’ Group

A new North Shore Writers’ Group (The Parlor) has formed, and I heard Hannah Tinti read from her debut novel The Good Thief in her native town Salem.  The setting is a fictional yet familiar-seeming New England town.  The main character reminds one of Johnny Tremain and a few good Dickens protagonists rolled into one. 
The talkshow-style [...]

Play-by-play of Bookmaking

I’ve just received the edited version of Part I of my book.  Man, I love feedback!  Word of advice to aspiring authors:  Never proof and edit your own work then hit Send.  Someone else needs to see it first!   Veeeer-y helpful.
I’m tapped out this week.  Good thing I don’t need too many brain cells for a party [...]

Yayyyyyyy, Celtics!!!!!

Green is my new favorite color!

Poetry Ain’t for Sissies!

Here I am at the library at 9:34 pm, finishing Draft 1 of my first book of poems.  I could be watching the Sox, but noooo.  Celtics?  Unh-unh.  Oh, wait, they’re losing by 18 points?!!  Okay, so I’ll just whine about how hungry I am instead of what I’m missing on TV.  But, seriously, I have [...]