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Shit Creek Review
''The Shit Creek Review'' is an online literary and art magazine (webzine or e-zine). Its content is mostly related to poetry, and includes work belonging the differing styles of formalism and free verse by established authors and new writers. It draws on the authors and resources of a number of online poetry forums, such as Eratosphere and The Gazebo. History It was founded by Australian poet Paul Stevens in 2006, who was soon joined by Nigel Holt and Angela France, who also edits the U.K. print magazine iota as its poetry editors, Don Zirilli as its art editor, and Patricia Wallace Jones as artist-in-residence. The journal is archived by the National Library of Australia. The e-zine was originally started by Stevens as a joke based on its name ''Shit Creek Review'', which is a not-so-subtle ironic allusion to the many literary magazines which use the formulaic title "X Creek (or River) Review," as well as incorporating a play on the Australian colloquialism "Up Shit Creek in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E-zine
An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to being online only was the computer magazine ''Datamation''. Some online magazines distributed through the World Wide Web call themselves webzines. An ezine (also spelled e-zine) is a more specialized term appropriately used for small magazines and newsletters distributed by any electronic method, for example, by electronic mail (e-mail/email, see Zine). Some social groups may use the terms cyberzine and hyperzine when referring to electronically distributed resources. Similarly, some online magazines may refer to themselves as "electronic magazines", "digital magazines", or "e-magazines" to reflect their readership demographics or to capture alternative terms and spellings in online searches. An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louie Crew
Erman Louie Clay (né Erman Louie Crew Jr.) (1936–2019) was an American professor emeritus of English language, English at Rutgers University. He was best known for his long and increasingly successful campaign for the acceptance of gay and lesbian people by Christians in general, and the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Episcopal Church in particular. Biography Louie Crew was born December 9, 1936, in Anniston, Alabama. He has written about "Growing Up Gay in Dixie" Crew graduated from The McCallie School (1954), and received a B.A. from Baylor University (1958) a M.A. from Auburn University (1959) and a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama (1971). Crew taught at Auburn University, Darlington School, St. Andrew's School (Delaware), Penge Secondary Modern School, London, University of Alabama, Experiment in International Living, Claflin University, Fort Valley State University, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, Beijing International Studies University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wyton
Peter Wyton is a 'poet of page and performance' who has published a number of books and who has appeared on BBC Radio. He is a widely published and prize-winning poet who has appeared at venues as diverse as Cheltenham Literature Festival, Glastonbury Festival, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Oxford TV, Lewes Prison and arts centres and theatres throughout the United Kingdom. His work has appeared on BBC Radio 4's ''Poetry Please'' and ''Something Understood'', and has been nominated for the Forward Poetry Prize. He also reached the final of Radio 4's first Poetry Slam. Early life At 12, Peter Wyton was financing his collection of Arthur Ransome books on Children's Hour, which paid seven shillings and sixpence in book-tokens per broadcast. Later life He is published by Tempus Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire and has been twice nominated for the Forward Poetry Prize. He was Gloucestershire 1000 Poet Laureate. In 2008 he published ''Not All Men Are From Mars'' (A Poetry Book for Women's A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirby Wright
Kirby Michael Wright is an American writer best known for his 2005 coming-of-age island novel ''Punahou Blues'' and the epic novel ''Moloka'i Nui Ahina'', which is based on the life and times of Wright's paniolo grandmother. Both novels deal with the racial tensions between haoles (whites) and the indigenous Hawaiians, and illustrate the challenge for characters who, as the product of mixed-race marriages, must try to bridge the two cultures and overcome prejudice from both camps. Wright has ventured into the genre of creative nonfiction in 2019 with ''The Queen of Moloka'i'', which explores the teenage years of his part-Hawaiian grandmother and documents the Wright family saga in the islands. Wright's work is primarily concerned with the complexities of multicultural Hawaii, Killahaole Day, prejudices against (and within) island high schools, and the tricky matter of interracial dating. He incorporates the local creole language into his novels and was the first author to document ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wakefield
Richard Wakefield is an American poet, literary critic, and a Professor of Humanities. He is the author of three collections of poetry (see below), as well as hundreds of articles published both in print and online. He has taught at the University of Washington Tacoma, and The Evergreen State College. He currently teaches at Tacoma Community College. Early life Richard Wakefield was born on July 1, 1952, to Edward Henry Wakefield (1917-1994) a sporting goods salesman and Louise Renee Wakefield, née Herzberg, (1918-2000) a homemaker and landscape painter. He is the youngest of three sons. Richard spent the majority of his childhood living in the Pacific Northwest, living in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle, Portland, OR, and five years in southern California. His interest in literature took root at a young age, with a fond childhood memory of working through a bilingual copy of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Poetry also became a part of Richard’s life at a young age, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Videlock
Wendy Videlock (born 1961) is a poet and artist. She is the author of the chapbook ''What’s That Supposed to Mean'' (2010) and collections ''Wise to the West'' (2022), ''Slingshots and Love Plums'' (2015), ''The Dark Gnu and Other Poems'' (2013), and ''Nevertheless'' (2011). She also published a collection of essays, ''The Poetic Imaginarium: A Worthy Difficulty'', in 2022. Personal life Since 1997, Videlock and her husband have been living on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies, where they raised their two children. Career Videlock is a regular contributor to Poetry, known for engaging with themes of myth, fairy tale, and the natural world and for “deft command of meter.” Under the editorship of Christian Wiman, Poetry Magazine has published dozens of her poems. Her work has appeared twice in Best American Poetry, and she is a regular contributor to The Hudson Review, Hopkins Review, and Rattle Magazine. She has also appeared in Oprah Quarterly and the New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Raine
Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL (born 3 December 1944) is an English contemporary poet. Along with Christopher Reid, he is a notable pioneer of Martian poetry, a movement that expresses alienation with the world, society and objects. He was a fellow of New College, Oxford, from 1991 to 2010 and is now emeritus professor. He has been the editor of ''Areté'' since 1999. In 2020 the magazine closed after 60 issues. Early life Raine was born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, the son of Norman Edward and Olive Marie Raine.'RAINE, Craig Anthony', Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011 ; online edn, Nov 201accessed 20 April 2012/ref> His father was the North of England amateur boxing champion in 1937. He then worked as a bomb armourer for the RAF, until forced to retire due to epilepsy caused by a skull fracture.FATE PLAYS AN ELECTRIFYING HAND, The Northern Echo, 28 October 2002 After the RAF his father worked as a pub landlord. He was raised in a pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Passarella
Lee Passarella is a writer and senior literary editor of the ''Atlanta Review''. His long narrative poem '' Swallowed Up In Victory'' ( Burd Street Press, 2002) is based on the American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th .... Works * ''Swallowed Up in Victory: A Civil War Narrative, Petersburg, 1864-1865''. Burd Street Pr (2002). . * ''The Geometry of Loneliness'', WordTech Communications (2006). .References External links *http://www.leepassarella.net[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Murphy (poet)
Timothy Iver Murphy (January 10, 1951 – June 30, 2018) was an American poet and businessman. Reviewing Timothy Murphy's second collection in ''Contemporary Poetry Review'' in 2002, Paul Lake observed that "What Virgil was to the Italian peninsula and Homer to the Greek Mediterranean, Murphy is to the swatch of plains stretching from the Upper Midwest to the Rockies like a grassy inland sea." Life Murphy was the son of Vincent and Katherine Bye Murphy. He was raised in Moorhead, Minnesota. Murphy was admitted to Yale University as an undergraduate. He was mentored there by Robert Penn Warren, the renowned poet and novelist. In 1972, he graduated with a B.A. degree and was designated Scholar of the House in Poetry. However, Warren declined to recommend Murphy for an academic position. Warren urged him instead to return to the "rich soil" of his rural roots. Murphy returned to Minnesota, where he joined his father in an insurance and estate planning business. He subsequently bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Andrew Murphy
Kevin Andrew Murphy is an American novelist and game writer from Northern California. Education He is a graduate of University of California at Santa Cruz and has a Master of Arts from University of Southern California. Career He has written gamebooks for Steve Jackson Games and White Wolf. He is one of the contributors to the ''Wild Cards'' book series edited by George R. R. Martin. His first solo novel, ''Penny Dreadful'', was released in 2007. He is also the designer of several fonts on the theme of witchcraft for Scriptorium Fonts. He wrote the essay "Unseen Horrors and Shadowy Manipulations" in the compilation ''Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show''. In a review in ''School Library Journal'', Christine C. Menefee says his essay "documents instances of censorship and the attempts of network and advertisers to reshape Buffy to suit their purposes." He completed the novel ''Drum into Silence'' ( 2002) posthumous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kei Miller
Kei Miller (born 24 October 1978) is a Jamaican poet, fiction writer, essayist and blogger. He is also a professor of creative writing."Profile: Dr Kei Miller" Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London. Early life and education Kei Miller was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. He read English at the University of the West Indies, but dropped out short of graduation.Daviot Kelly[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Knott (poet)
William Kilborn Knott (17 February 1940 – 12 March 2014) was an American poet. Life Born in Carson City, Michigan, US, Knott received his MFA from Norwich University and studied with John Logan in Chicago. His first collection of poems, ''The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans'', was published in 1968 under the name Saint Geraud, a fictional persona whose backstory included a suicide two years prior to the publishing. ''The Naomi Poems'' was well received and brought him to the attention of such poets as James Wright, who called him an "unmistakable genius." Knott taught at Emerson College for more than 25 years, published many books of poetry, and was awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize and a Guggenheim fellowship. Work Early in his career, Knott was noted for writing unusually short poems, some as short as one line, and untitled. Later he became interested in metrical verse forms and syllabics. He was not a believer in poetic "branding" and throughout his career refused to rest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |