PETRARCHAN by Kristina Marie Darling reviewed on Poet Hound

Petrarchan by Kristina Marie Darling

National Poetry Month Limerick Contest!

BlazeVOX's National Poetry Month Limerick Contest! -Win a free book with your limerick     Holy cats, it's true. We are inaugurating a National Poetry Month email contest for limericks. We provide the first two lines and you write out the rest and send to us by email. The top three entries of the month will win a BlazeVOX book from our extensive catalog of fine books! So get writing anddo stop by our shop to see which title you'll choose when you win! So hurray!   According to Wikipedia, a limerick is a kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense poem, especially one in five-line anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA), which is sometimes obscene with humorous intent.   Please send your limerick to Clarice Waldman, care of limerick@blazevox.org     Informal rules:   - There is no fee to enter. - Please send up to three limericks per person, per monthly contest. - We will not use any of your information to track you, send you unwanted emails or sell  your information for any reason what so ever. - This is only for fun, so yes, obscene poems are considered just fine. - Prizes will be sent to 3 people for their winning poems, which will be posted in our blog. - Winners will be informed by email and they can pick one [1] BlazeVOX book, which is currently in production and available in our store. http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/ - Please send your limerick to Clarice Waldman, care of limerick@blazevox.org     Sincerely, Geoffrey Gatza BlazeVOX [books] BlazeVOX Limerick Contest Choose any of these first two lines from these limericks to work on your own limerick:  1 -   To his friend, Ned said, rather blue, "My wife Jenny just told me we're through,     2 -   A monkey who live in the zoo Got terribly bored with the view     3 -          A worthy writer, history relates Was scuffling with some of his mates   4 -   A very rude boy from down the Hall Wrote these very funny words on a wall   5 -   There once was a poet from Peru Who had a lot of growing up to do,   6 -   A bather whose clothing was strewed By winds that left her quite nude     7-   There was an old goat with a beard Who said, "it's just how I feared!   8 -   There once was a poet from the south; Who rarely opened her mouth.   9 -   A new farmer's hand named Mull Accidentally began milking a bull     10 -   Once a young poet of literature Whose reader completely forsook her. About Us BlazeVOX is a haven for undervalued writers to convene with readers worldwide, delivering the contemporary through books-in-hand and ebooks-in-a-minute.

Buffalo Small Press Book Fair iPad Poetry Reading - 2013

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The Buffalo Small Press Book fair is happening soon! BlazeVOX is going to have a big table and, good news; I'll be cooking for the Friday night event. So I hope you are prepared. And after the wonderful success of the AWP iPad Poetry Reading, we are having another YouTube reading again. Set right here in Buffalo we are bringing you some of our favorite authors who are in town for the Book Fair. Hurray! 


Buffalo Small Press Book Fair 
April 6th 12pm-6pm and 7th 11am-5pm

The Buffalo Small Press Book Fair is a regional two-day event that brings booksellers, authors, bookmakers, zinesters, small presses, artists, poets, and other cultural workers (and enthusiasts) together in a venue where they can share ideas, showcase their art, and peddle their wares.

The 2013 event will take place on Saturday, April 6th from noon to 6pm AND April 7th from 11am-5pm at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Porter Hall, 453 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, NY. Remember this event is FREE and open to the public

some deer left the yard moving day by Andrew K. Peterson Now Available!

 To: “quincify.” To: “decolonize.” Andy's Peterson's some deer is dedicated to “Naropa,” the university he attended for two years. There, he drew rancid, ebullient comics and amazed us all – his “blood company” – with stand-up, improvised accounts and physical examples of a contemporary hybrid poetics. As Oscar Wilde said, “There is no such thing as spontaneity.” I always understood this to mean that the person who improvises the best [Andy Peterson] is also the person who has enough time inside them that, when prompted, it [time] can come out. By “time,” I mean that unique combination of dream-soaked inner life and scholarship that – in Peterson's work – is the capacity to move between a “lit dusk,” “its rituals,” and the “cheerful madness” that a life in community brings. The experiment is to stay alive. In the words of the author himself via Creeley [quoted] [voltage]: “Poets don’t invent the world (they live it).” They: “Forget to ask but remember to release via kisses.” And so on. I can't decide. Is this book a “waterfall” or is it a “volcano”? Or is it, as the Buddhist saying goes: “Both-both.” Both things at once.

– Bhanu Kapil

some deer left the yard moving day is a book of many different kinds of love. It is an engendering room wherein we can ask (and are asked) what it means to be human (“stripped bare, griev[ing] for the weakened white cells”). The thing that I find especially miraculous is that this book lives on in the body like herbs do after intake. I ate some stolen, large-leafed basil today and even when I am not looking directly at it anymore, even when I am not pondering it, it continues nourishing from within. This book feels very much like Naropa to me: the incense wafts forging their way up the figures sitting zazen, the chipping bricks and ivy, the turning of envy into compassionate states.

– jj hastain

Once in a while, some poems come along that exude American enthusiasm and disaster: “oi hawk-swirl, / oi pale blue / beast devour.” In these poems, Peterson rides onward, outward into horizon and hope and wreckage. Moving Day is made up of structurally juxtaposing serial movements that simultaneously project and deconstruct a poetics of American hospitality, possibility and variation. Conceptualism and sincerity, joy and grief, superimpositions of frames of architectures of sound of collage of derivation radiate imagination over repression. Some Deer is a practice of transforming calamity into a path, echoing, going, fathoming geography of unyielding historical relationship. Read these poems and make marvelous the new-old, “sunflower / your power animal.” Be complicit and harbor intricate lyric conspiracy. Follow these symbolic deer into freedom, risk, danger and dream. Watch the bright heart sparks rise. And together, with Peterson, break out into an OUT THERE, becoming, here, a place, when, now, we’re leaving again, to get to, now, here, again.

– Jared Hayes

Andrew K. Peterson’s poetry publications include karaoke lipsync opera (White Sky Press, 2012), Museum of Thrown Objects (BlazeVOX, 2010), bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps (Equinox Chapbook Contest runner up, Fact-Simile Press 2011), and two collaborative chapbooks with the word ‘here’ in the titles: Here Come the Groovies (with Joseph Cooper), and Between Here and the Telescopes (with Elizabeth Guthrie). He edits the online journal summer stock, and lives in Massachusetts.

Book Information:

· Paperback: 100 pages


· Binding: Perfect-Bound


· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 


· ISBN: 978-1-60964-130-6

$16

Some Deer Left the Yard Moving Day by Andrew K. Peterson Book Preview 

April 20th: Krystal Languell at O, Miami

O, Miami, a biannual month-long poetry festival that takes place all over Miami, FL this April. This year's festival has an event on April 20th with Krystal Languell. Here are the details: