time out!
Time Out New York likes D. A. Powell’s new book a lot (they should; it really might be the year’s best); in saying so, TONY’s reviewer, Michael Miller, has very kind words for the now-forthcoming Close Calls.
I will be on a panel next week at AWP in Chicago, talking about contemporary poetry and superheroes, along with (among others) Tony Barnstone, Chad Parmenter, and Bryan Dietrich, whose Superman book is the gold standard in these matters. If you know of contemporary poems with comic book superheroes in them, please alert me to those poems post haste: there’s a short essay about them in the works too.
Also upcoming: I’m reading at Trinity University in San Antonio at the end of this month, on Feb. 26. And I’m in the new Believer, on Robyn Schiff, though the full text of that one isn’t on line. (Why not buy the issue?)
Want to see what images I’ve been showing my Major British Authors class (actually part two of a yearlong survey, beginning at the Restoration, though many students take part two before part one)? You may, if you so choose, check out the course blog. No lectures, but some images, and the syllabus itself, if you’re curious there.
Posting here should increase in frequency (and I hope in interest) as the pub date for Close Calls approaches!
Jeannine Hall Gailey wrote:
Dear Stephen,
I wrote a book of poetry called “Becoming the Villainess” (Steel Toe Books, 2006) that features superheroines and villainesses you might be interested in.
And Dorianne Laux recently published a chapbook called “Superman” with a poem that features an aging Superman reflecting on his life.
Good luck! Wish I could be there for that panel!
Take care,
Jeannine Hall Gailey
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