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Kaya was risk averse. While our older dog Sappho bloodied her nails scrambling up scree and once gashed her ears tailing an elk through barbed wire, Kaya stayed at our sides with four paws on the ground. She walked off leash for most of her life, rarely enjoyed running, and endured 4th of July fireworks by standing with her head stretched under a coffee table.
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At the Naples Botanical Garden
Through the bougainvillea and clematis arch, / past the placards for Screw Palm, Gru-Gru, / Powder Puff, blocking the sun from our eyes / to get a better look at a maroon bloom
The Elaine Race Massacre by J. Chester Johnson
This Green Mountains Review special feature by J. Chester Johnson includes an essay and poems that explore the Elaine Race Massacre, an Arkansas riot that occurred in 1919.
Beholding Hope: A review of Jeffrey Levine’s At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered
In At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered, Levine begins his cinematic collection with the lifeblood line of the book in the second poem: “we know there is something more.” As he shifts in and out of the domestic and the divine in his poems, we feel a deep longing for kinship and connect with a speaker who is unabashed in his belief in what isn’t wholly known. Sometimes, we are located within a piece of art, and at other times, we are right in the middle of a myth or standing there, cooking in his kitchen.
Sherman Alexie Selected for Best American Poetry 2012!
Congratulations to Sherman Alexie, whose poem "Terminal Nostalgia" from the Spring 2011 issue was selected by guest editor Mark Doty for inclusion in the 2012 edition of Best American Poetry, edited by David Lehman. ...
New Issue Almost Here!
Our 2011 winter issue ran a little late this year, but the wait's been worth it. Weighing in at nearly 300 pages, Volume 24, no. 2 of GMR features poetry by Todd Boss, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Stephen Dunn, Bob Hicok, Major Jackson, Carl Phillips, Katherine...
GMR Offers Prizes in Poetry and Fiction!
We're very excited to open the New Year by offering prizes in both poetry and fiction: First Prize in Poetry: $500 Final Judge: Todd Boss First Prize in Short Fiction: $500 Final Judge: Noy Holland Deadline: April 15, 2012 Winners will...
Why Write? #3: Ben Aleshire
Our third installment of our Why Write? guest blogger series brings us Ben Aleshire, who typed up the below and mailed it to us from France. One cannot emphasize enough the pleasure of receiving a typed note from France, the letters...
Why Write? #2: Stephen Dunn
Welcome to the second installment in our "Why Write?" guest blogger series, in which GMR contributors very generously attempt to unravel for us why they do what they do. Daryl Scroggins kicked off the series last month, and we're pleased now to present poet Stephen...
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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...