I am rereading Juliet Patterson's first book of poetry The Truant Lover. The poems, which clearly reveal the influence of Lorine Niedecker, are both pared down and startling. Through her precise language, Patterson evokes profound ambiguities of the heart and mind. Many of the poems in this thrilling collection have appeared in journals before. One of my favorite ones "A Narrative" was first published online in three candles journal.
[Note 7/2009: the above link to three candles does not work, the journal having gone offline. Links to Patterson's poems, including several audio samples, can be found here at her website.]
Jenny Boully
Kristy Bowen
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Conversational Reading
Joshua Corey
Esther Press
Tayari Jones
Amy King
Language Hat
James Marcus
Maud Newton
The Middle Stage
The Reading Experience
Reginald Shepherd
Silliman's Blog
Swoonrocket
Night-Sea
by Rachel Moritz
"The Last Laugh"
with Alison Light's Mrs. Woolf and the Servants
"Advice for a Cold February"
with Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men
"Sweet, Nice Holiday Reading"
with Inger Frimansson's Good Night, My Darling
"The Style and Skill of the Pilots"
with Robert K. Wallace's Douglass and Melville: Anchored Together in Neighborly Style
"A Scrooge Plan Growing in July"
with Charles Dickens,
Dubravka Ugresic
and Anne Elizabeth Moore
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Kiss Me with the Mouth of Your Country
by Amy King
A Free Life
by Ha Jin
"The Invisible Lesbian"
an article by Sarah Schulman
Shakespeare's Kitchen
by Lore Segal
Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World
by Maureen Webb
Savushun
by Simin Daneshvar
PP/FF: An Anthology
edited by Peter Conners
¡Workers of the Word, Unite and Fight!
by Mark Nowak
The Truant Lover
by Juliet Patterson
Wild Dogs
by Helen Humphreys
Hangings
by Nina Shope
Vale of Tears
by Paulette Poujol Oriol
The Ministry of Pain
by Dubravka Ugresic
Cassandra at the Wedding
by Dorothy Baker
Good Women
by Jane Stevenson
An@rchitexts: Voices from the Global Digital Resistance
edited by Joanne Richardson
Beyond the Pale
by Elana Dykewomon
Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq
by Riverbend
Don't Let Me Be Lonely
by Claudia Rankine
Naphtalene
by Alia Mamdouh
Small g
by Patricia Highsmith
The Braided Tongue
by Roshni Rustomji
The Visitor
by Maeve Brennan
The Blue Books
by Nicole Brossard
Femme Fatales: Women Write Pulp,
a series by the Feminist Press
Nelly Reifler at Parenthetical Note
and Rush Rankin in Chelsea