Happy New Year

Rhyme Driven

Thanks for this, Alicia! 

The Pleasure of Poetic Pattern

An interesting YouTube video HERE

Slow Burn

One of my poems from the series "Madison Street" -- Slow Burn -- has been published in the latest issue of The Lyric.

Thank you, Jean!

Slow Burn

The children miss their favorite swimming hole

up at the creek, now autumn’s settled in.

This afternoon, one of Glen Alden’s trucks

has brought a mix of pea and chestnut coal.

They’ll chute it down into our cellar bin—

four tons, just over eighty-seven bucks.

We all watch as the monster dump-box lifts

and tilts. The blue-black slow-burn payload shifts

then rumbles to the dank, dark space below.

Our radiators, working full-time till

next March, will clank and gurgle, dry the snow

from woolen mittens, intercept the chill

creeping into the house as blizzards blow

pale spoondrift down our street from Beaumont hill.

Votive

 

My poem, "Votive" is now online, and will be in the November issue of First Things.

HERE is a link.

Three Poems Accepted for Publication

Three poems accepted for publication! "On a Line from Frost" for Marilyn Taylor's upcoming villanelle anthology, "Votive" (a long poem in octets) for First Things, and "Slow Burn" (a sonnet) for The Lyric. 

Thank you, Marilyn, Joseph, and Jean!

 

Two Poems in Measure

Two of my poems appear in the current issue (Volume XII, Issue 1) of Measure (University of Evansville, Department of Creative Writing): 

"We"-- a sonnenizio based on the first line of Timothy Murphy's Nemerov Award-winning sonnet, "The Track of the Storm" (the word "we" is repeated in every line, often hidden within other words); and "Family at Sunset Beach, California," finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award.

Thank you, Rob Griffith and Paul Bone.

My poem "Pentimento" in Antiphon

High Noon, by Edward Hopper (1949)

Thanks to editor, Rosemary Badcoe, for publishing my ekphrastic poem on Edwward Hopper's "High Noon" (1949) -- "Pentimento" -- in the current issue of Antiphon.

HERE is the issue. My poem is on page 21.

HERE is my audio recording of the poem (along with other poems.)

Powwow River Poets Reading Series

Summerfest Reading

HERE is a summary of a recent reading at the Argo Bookstore in Montreal. Thanks to Ilona Martonfi for organizing the event.

Three New SoundCloud Recordings

https://soundcloud.com/catherine-chandler-3/reunion-muzak


REUNION MUZAK
[first published in Frostwriting, Issue 12, 2014]

 https://soundcloud.com/catherine-chandler-3/scintillae


SCINTILLAE
[first published in Quadrant, Vol. 61, No. 10, 2017]

https://soundcloud.com/catherine-chandler-3/plain-beauty


PLAIN BEAUTY
[first published in The Rotary Dial, May 2017]

It was my pleasure!

A lovely thank you letter from the Newburyport Literary Festival organizers.


And I thank the poetry coordinator, Alfred Nicol, once again for the invitation.

Newburyport Literary Festival - Save the Date!

I hope some of you can make it to the Newburyport Literary Festival. HERE is a list of the poetry participants.

I'm in the 10 a.m. slot with John Foy.

DATE:
Saturday, April 28,2018

TIME:
Beginning at 8:30 a.m.

PLACE: 
Central Congregational Church Social Hall

14 Titcomb Street, Newburyport, MA 01950

 

 Hope to see you there!

Alabama Literary Review

Three of my poems ("Ending", "My Father's Shirts", and "Nines") are now available in the online version of Alabama Literary Review, Volume 26 (2017).

As well, a review by Rhina P. Espaillat of my Richard Wilbur Award-winning collection, The Frangible Hour.

Thank you, Bill Thompson!

Midge Goldberg reviews The Frangible Hour

I woke up this morning and, as usual, logged in to Facebook.What a wonderful surprise to read that Midge Goldberg had written a review of The Frangible Hour, "Tar & Tallow, Turpentine & Twine" and that it has been published in The Claremont Review of Books, digital edition, February 12, 2018.

You can read the review HERE & HERE.

The review is also announced by Micah Mattix in today's Prufrock HERE.

Thank you so much, Midge!

Good News!

New Year's celebration, Punta del Este, Uruguay

I've just heard from William Baer that my sonnet, "Celebration," which portrays my feeling of alienation at the New Year's  celebrations in Punta del Este, has been chosen as one of twelve finalists for this year's Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award.

It will be published in an upcoming issue of Measure.

Thank you, Bill, Rob and Paul!