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On Her Relationship with Music, Three Poems by Rose Solari Read all three poems by Rose Solari: Another Country, Myself When I was There, and That Day  on the Redux Literary Journal site "These three poems are all rooted in my relationship with music. After my brother died, I was going through some old photos when I ran across one of us as young adults in our parents’ living room. Mom was at the piano singing and playing, and he and I were laughing, trying to sing along while he balanced me on his shoulders. This became the basis for 'Another Country.' Our mother was a tremendously gifted … [Read more...]

Henry Miller and NEXUS, the American Author Reconsidered By James J. Patterson Henry Miller is the missing link to a holistic understanding of the American literary tradition, argues Dr. James M. Decker, author of Henry Miller: New Perspectives and mastermind behind Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal.  “Once you have given up the ghost, everything falls into place with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos,” opens Henry Miller’s third book, The Tropic of Capricorn (1939). Anyone who has ever really hit bottom, and survived, knows the truth and wisdom packed … [Read more...]

Rose Solari is judging this year's Charlene Kushner Wicked Woman Poetry Prize Brickhouse Books has announced the Charlene Kushner Wicked Woman Poetry Prize. The winning manuscript will be published by Brickhouse books and the author receive $250. The Manuscript must be about a woman (or women) who challenged expectations or broke the mold. Our very Own Rose Solari, author of A Secret Woman and The Last Girl, will be judging the competition. Entries are accepted Sept. 1, 2018, to January 4, 2019, via Submittable. Accommodations available for members of the disability community. … [Read more...]

5 Plays from the Contemporary American Theater Festival Reviewed by Grace Cavalieri The inimitable Grace Cavalieri, a dramatist herself, returned from the 28th season of the Contemporary American Theater Festival with a lot to chew on. The plays this year moved through an astounding breadth of topics from race, gender, and water politics in a post-apocalyptic world (Thirst), to ruminations on history featuring a soviet spy with an eidetic memory (Memoirs of a Forgotten Man). For the very fact that the plays were so strong this year and varied so much, The Contemporary American Theater … [Read more...]

Grace Cavalieri, her great interview with the late Donald Hall, CATF criticism and more Grace’s longtime talk series, The Poet and The Poem, broadcast from The Library of Congress, is being gradually released for free to iTunes. There are currently over a dozen interviews available on iTunes, including poets Tracy K. Smith and Rita Dove. More are being added each month; but, the whole series is available in unabridged form from within the sublimely gargantuan archive of Library of Congress. Her interview with Donald Hall is available here. Eva Brann is here, Louise Gluck here. If you love … [Read more...]