The Knock-Knock Bardo & The Beyond
While I travel the world’s / geography, history, / and virtual present, / in mind and poetry—
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June Pruning
My husband stands under the lilac, clippers in hand, / squints up at bare twigs / among the heavy, spent blossoms.
Lake Monsters
We make the best of what we’ve got. Two tents, a flat piece of land, a nylon hammock that packs down to nearly nothing. We stuff the cooler with ice, but the week-long heat wave stretching across Vermont means we’re careful about opening it too often. One too many times, you say, and everything will go bad. The eggs will hard-boil in their carton, the fat on the bacon will start to crisp.
Poetic Magic: A Modern Metaphysical
By the time I finished Dan Lewis’s collection Intimations of the Focal Plane many sections of my journal were scribbled over with citations of snippets from the tome. His words, blazed and blazoned on my pages, had magically transformed each into a focal plane of its own.
Why Write? #1: Daryl Scroggins
Welcome to our new guest blogger series "Why Write?," in which we harry some of GMR's contributors with that old question -- damnably obtuse, damnably pointed -- Why do you write? Future guest bloggers will include Stephen Dunn, Norman Lock, Tony Magistrale, Laird...
David Huddle on Becoming a Writer
David Huddle, a frequent contributor to GMR, has a lovely essay up at 1rst Books: Stories of How Writers Get Started in which he reflects on his beginnings as poet: Poetry is so intimidating that I spent years sidling up to it. . . . Poetry was a big rich family at...
Kaitlyn Greenidge on Autobiographical Fiction and Her New Novel
Contributor Kaitlyn Greenidge's absorbing essay, "Something Prickly and Strange," appears in a recent issue of Talking and Writing: A Magazine for Writers. In the essay, Kaitlyn discusses the provocative novel-in-progress excerpted in our spring issue ("Exception to...
Our New Issue Is Here!
The 2011 Spring/Summer issue is here, and it's big -- bursting with an eclectic mash-up of poetry, translation, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, and art. Contributors include Sherman Alexie, Anselm Berrigan, Marge Piercy, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ilya Kaminsky, Josip...
GMR Contributor Selected for Best American Poetry 2011!
Congratulations to Olena Kalytiak Davis, whose three sonnets "Sonnet (division)," "Sonnet (motion)," and "Sonnet (silenced)" (from GMR 23.2) have been selected by Kevin Young for inclusion in the 2011 edition of Best American Poetry. Also, check out Olena's new...
GMR Contributor Nancy Mitchell Awarded Pushcart Prize! http://bit.ly/jRtyFS
GMR Contributor Nancy Mitchell Awarded Pushcart Prize! http://bit.ly/jRtyFS
Pushcart Prize Awarded to GMR Contributor Nancy Mitchell!
Congratulations to poet Nancy Mitchell, who was awarded a Pushcart Prize for her poem "Grace Notes," appearing in Green Mountains Review Vol. XXIII, no. 2. Mitchell’s poem will be included in The Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses (2012). Mitchell teaches...
New journal site is almost ready for official launch – stay tuned!
New journal site is almost ready for official launch - stay tuned!