Just in time for the high school basketball post-season tournament, Gibson Fay-Leblanc selected “After the Game” for inclusion in Deep Water, a weekly poetry feature in the Maine Sunday Telegram.
New prose poem in Pretty Owl Poetry
“Ruth Moore Dreaming” was recently published in the Winter 2018 issue of Pretty Owl Poetry out of Pittsburgh. The piece was inspired by Ruth Moore’s homestead on Gotts Island.
New flash fiction in Flock
“The Patron Saint of Capowa Island” was recently published in Flock 21: Vanishing Point. The piece was inspired by the 2018 explosions of the Kilauea Volcano on the island of Hawaii.
The Book of Transparencies reviewed in Prism Review
Prism Review, the literary mag of University of La Verne, reviewed The Book of Transparencies - "its unique structure and dream-like mystery make The Book of Transparencies an utterly unique adventure and mystery."
Maine Public Radio's "Poems from Here"
Maine Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum read “The Library of the Forest” on Maine Public Radio’s series “Poems from Here.”
“The Bloody Foot” in University of Louisville's Miracle Monocle
Miracle Monocle, The University of Louisville’s Literary Magazine, published “The Bloody Foot” in the hybrid section of their Issue 11.
The Book of Transparencies reviewed in Heavy Feather Review
Laura Nicoara reviewed The Book of Transparencies in Heavy Feather Review, calling it, "a stream-of-consciousness tour de force, created through free association rather than logic. ... it is not for the story that one reads it, not even for the characters, but for the process of reading itself, and for the insight it gives into the process of writing."
The Paper Coast in Dana Wilde's OFF RADAR column
Many thanks to Dana Wilde for mentioning The Paper Coast in his OFF RADAR book column. Dana writes of the stories in The Paper Coast, "If you read them in bed, beware what happens after you fall asleep."
First review in The Kennebec Journal!
I’m thrilled and grateful that Bill Bushnell, writing in his column “Bushnell On Books,” called the stories in The Paper Coast “fascinating…all written in smart, lyrical prose.” He especially liked the unfortunate Maine Historical Society plumbing disaster scene in “The Owl in the Road,” which Bushnell called “hilarious.”
Pictures from Oxbow Reading
Thanks to Joshua Lebovitz for these photos at Oxbow.
Colin Cheney, Megan Grumbling and Jefferson at Oxbow