You worked as web editor and reporter on UK events for The Epoch Times, English edition, and worked with the White Cloud Poetry Society. Please tell readers about your additional background.
Reporting for The Epoch Times was good grounding for writing about news and current events: fact checking, strong sources for quotes and information, a balanced view, simple sentences, transparency. Truth was and is paramount to its work.
For White Cloud Poetry Society, Jennifer Zeng translates poems of Xi Yuan into clear English, keeping close to the original and kindly gives me a character-for-word check. I finish the poems into rhymed and metered English, focusing on the original structure, characters per line, rhyme, and the features that Jennifer brings out. Xi Yuan is outstanding in her evocation of traditional Chinese poetry.…
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The first issue of Voice of Eve (September/October 2018), under the direction of Richard Holleman, is now online. “The mission of Voice of Eve is to provide a place for women to express themselves through poetry and art.”
How did Voice of Eve evolve?
Voice of Eve started from my admiration of contemporary women poets such as Sarah J. Sloat and Jenna Le as well as past poets such as Jane Kenyon and Elizabeth Bishop. I always wanted to work for a literary magazine. About a month ago I was talking to a friend about my aspirations, and that friend challenged me to start a site on wix.com. I thought that night about it, about what really inspired me, and I realized all my life women had inspired me, both in and outside of poetry.…
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Judith Skillman’s poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of the Web, the UK Kit Award, and is included in Best Indie Verse of New England (to mention just a few honors). Her work has appeared in many anthologies and journals, and her work as an artist has also attracted notice. She’s published sixteen poetry collections of acclaim, which you can find at her official website.
How did you decide on the title of your new poetry collection, Come Home to Winter?
A number of the poems deal with “the dark seasons,” at least here in the northwest: autumn and winter: “The Quaking Aspen’s First Autumn,” for instance. Then there more than a few pieces about aging, including “Rheumatism” and “Mobility”. It seems fairly clear, now that I am in my mid-sixties, that winter is more than an apt metaphor for the aging process, and also, ultimately, for mortality.…
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Jacqueline Berger’s first poetry collection, The Mythologies of Danger, selected by Alberto Rios, won the Bluestem Award and was published in 1998. It went on to win the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA) Award the same year. Her second book, Things That Burn, selected by Poet Laureate Mark Strand, was the 2004 winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize and was published through the University of Utah Press. The Gift That Arrives Broken won the Autumn House Poetry Prize was published in 2010, and some poems from the book were featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writers Almanac. She is a professor of English at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California and lives in San Francisco with her husband.
Bruce Snider, author of Paradise, Indiana comments about your latest book: “Everything has a place in Berger’s concise and compelling narratives as she examines intersections of memory and loss, exploring the infinite ways the past shadows the present.…
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Mindy Kronenberg is the publisher and editor of Book/Mark: A Quarterly Small Press Review (located in Miller Place, New York.) It welcomes inquiries and 500-950 word reviews of small press books, which it publishes in hard copy. Mindy’s work appears in many journals and anthologies. Feel free to email her at cyberpoet@optonline.net.
When did Book/Mark: A Quarterly Small Press Review begin? What are some of the places it has archived?
We’ve been around since 1994, and archived with the NY Public Library, Poets House in NYC, William and Mary College (Williamsburg, Virginia). We’re also listed with the Critics Circle Guide, International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses, The Writer’s Handbook (distributed through the Suffolk Cooperative Library System) and the Community of Literary Magazines and Pressed (CLMP).…
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Philip Elliott is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Into the Void, an award-winning international literary magazine founded in 2016. He’s featured in dozens of journals in several countries and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
Please tell readers about Into the Void, located in Toronto, Canada, and shortlisted for Best Magazine in the 2018 Saboteur Awards.
Into the Void is a literary magazine publishing the very best fiction, flash, poetry, CNF, and visual art it comes across, but it is a lot more than that, too. Our mission at Into the Void is to be a publication where diversity is valued and art is treasured. Our editors read only submissions that have identification information removed to further this mission of fairness and equality.…
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A life-long lover of reading and writing, Mary Jo has been a Story Circle Network member for nearly twenty years, serving as an editor, a book reviewer, and a women’s writing circle facilitator. Most recently, she has been a three-time Program Chair for the National Conference, Stories from the Heart, a board member, and facilitates workshops and a women’s life-writing circle. Her stories have appeared in anthologies, and “I Can’t Breathe” is in Inside and Out: Women’s Truths, Women’s Stories. Mary Jo’s degree is in Secondary English Education/Educational Psychology; her work appears in varied blogs and periodicals, on her blog, Facebook, and Twitter.
When and how did you become interested in women’s writing?
In some visceral sense, I always knew I’d write a book one day.…
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