NEW CHAPBOOK:
Talking to the Mirror was released by the Last Automat Press in early December 2010! You can find it here: www.thelastautomat.com
or send me an email to ask about a copy.
SPRING EVENTS:
APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!
Wednesday, April 6, Van Hartmann and I will be reading at Norwalk Community College's annual Academic Festival. Stay tuned for time and more information. Directions to the college at www.ncc.commnet.edu
Monday, April 25, at the Fairfield Arts Council (FAC), I'll be leading a workshop on ekphrasis, the art of writing poetry based on art work. The workshop will run from 12 - 1:30 pm, and is open to everyone--beginner to expert. Come try out a different form, meet some new people, and check out the lovely artwork at the gallery.
Thursday, April 28, also at FAC, Van Hartmann and I will be leading an open mic! There will be a featured reader (more to come on that), and then audience members can read their own work or the work of a favorite poet. 6 - 8 pm.
Further information and directions at http://www.fairfieldartscouncil.org/.
That’s the Way the Music Sounds, a poetry chapbook, is available from Finishing Line Press. It can be ordered through the press's web page, www.finishinglinepress.com, under 2009 New Releases, for $14, plus $1 for shipping. I hope you enjoy the book!
“Laurel Peterson stands at the ‘edge of the world’ not far from a casually harsh God who enjoys ‘golf afternoons’ as all hell is breaking loose around Him. She puts up with it by writing rings around Him, sledgehammer poems wrapped in velvet, poems of confession and affirmation. That's the Way the Music Sounds is an eclectic array of poems that are fashioned from flesh and reach the ear in quite a new voice to contemporary poetry, a voice as true and lasting as bone.”
Dan Masterson, author of All Things, Seen and Unseen and editor of The Enskyment Online Anthology
“Laurel Peterson's poems are about what binds us to each other, the natural world, and the spiritual world, in language that is both forceful in its precision and tender in its rendering: ‘sewn into your heart/is the other end,/knotted just under the fragile/epicardium. We must both move/ so very gently.’ These poems have a wonderfully wide tonal range.”
Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Talking Underwater
The beautiful front cover photograph is by Renae Edge. Check out the links page for a connection to her website!
(Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women’s Experience, has been released by Cambridge Scholar’s Publishing (www.c-s-p.org). Check out the introduction by clicking on the “Scholarly Writing” link. Buy it on Amazon UK, Amazon US or at the publisher's website.
WHAT I'M READING NOW: Stephanie Syman, The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America; John Le Carre, Call for the Dead, Gioia, Mason and Schoerke, Twentieth Century American Poetics; and Peter Robinson, Bad Boy. Fun! My favorite place to buy them is at Northshire Books in Manchester, Vermont: http://www.northshire.com/
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Author Photo by Carol Caulfield