David Colodney is the author of the chapbook Mimeograph (Finishing Line Press, 2019). A two-time Pushcart nominee, his poems have appeared in South Carolina Review, Panoply, Gyroscope Review, and The Chaffin Journal. David holds an MFA from Converse College, and lives in Boynton Beach, Florida, where he serves as Associate Editor of South Florida Poetry Journal.
In this episode of Cover to Cover with . . ., Editor-in-Chief Jordan Blum speaks with Colodney about Mimeograph, how father/son relationships impact us in general, his upcoming poem (“Turnstiles”), music, and much more!
Cal LaFountain has published work with Submittable, Information Today, Exterminating Angel Press, and the Electronic Literature Organization. His audiobook, Puddle Is an Ocean to an Ant, was released by Xocord in 2020. He currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. To connect with Cal, visit callafountain.com
In this episode of Cover to Cover with . . ., Editor-in-Chief Jordan Blum chats with LaFountain about the process of recording an audiobook, getting Bam Margera to participate in his book trailer, remixing chapters with producers, the joys of prank calls (and childhood activities in general), and more!
Award winning Jaylan Salah is a writer, poet, translator, content expert, and film critic. Workstation Blues is a collection from the cubicle that resonates with white-collar workers worldwide passing the time between meetings and computer screens. The poems blur: monsters are replaced by monitors, flame-throwers by LED lights and swords by client comments. Cristina Deptula, executive editor of Synchronized Chaos Magazine, comments: “With energy and spunk, Jaylan Salah celebrates imagination, beauty, and most of all, freedom through her poetry and prose.”
What is your educational and literary backgrounds, and when did you begin to write prose and poetry?
I graduated in the faculty of Pharmacy at a prestigious private university in my hometown Alexandria, Egypt. You see, being a pharmacist and learning all the drugs in the pharmacopeia have nothing to do with literature or poetry, but it all started with school years at Sacred Heart Catholic School when the Sister senior encouraged me to be the next William Wordsworth and my mother told me to write the book I wanted to read.…
Against Forgetting: War, Love, and After War – Denise David
The year 2020 marks seventy-five years since the end of World War II; Denise David’s Against Forgetting: War, Love, and After Waris a poetry collection about people living the war—a legacy of first-hand memories preserved by a researcher scholar, the daughter of a war bride.
What is your literary background and education?
I am a teacher and a writer. I taught writing and literature for over twenty-five years at a community college in upstate New York. As meaning-making creatures, our stories help us understand who we are and allow us to make sense of the world. My formal education includes earning a Ph.D., but I have never stopped learning from my students and from my own writing.…
Alle C. Hall’s work appears most recently in Dale Peck’s Evergreen Review, as well as in Tupelo Quarterly, Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Brevity (blog), and Literary Orphans. She is Associate Editor at Vestal Review and former Senior Nonfiction Editor for JMWW Journal. “Wins” include: a Best of the Net nomination; First Place in The Richard Hugo House New Works Competition; and finalist or semi-finalist in the contests of Boulevard Magazine, Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Hippocampus, and Memoir Magazine.
In this episode of Cover to Cover with . . ., Editor-in-Chief Jordan Blum speaks with Hall about her experiences as a journal editor, her experiences shopping around her book, whether or not the current pandemic will help or hurt the eradication of hatred, toxic masculinity, and much more!…
Julia Rowland is a multifaceted creator and an award-winning writer, producer, director, and recent graduate of the Canadian Film Centre. She developed two feature films, one of which, Parentals, is inspired by her life story with her parents. After she graduated, she was asked to produce the CFC’s (Canadian Film Centre) TV Teasers for the TV Writers program—six shoots in less than ten days which wrapped about a year ago. She’s also part of a script incubator called From Our Dark Side.
In this episode of Cover to Cover with . . ., founder and Editor-in-Chief Jordan Blum speaks with Rowland about her previously published piece, “Weight,” the creation of Parentals, her time at the CFC, and much more!
Carole Mertz is an author, poet, and editor who’s had works published in literary journals in America, Canada, Great Britain, and Africa. An Oberlin College graduate, she’s Book Review Editor for Dreamers Creative Writing; reader of prose and poetry for Mom Egg Review; member of the Prize Nomination Committee for Ekphrastic Review; and an advance reader for the WNBA 2018 Poetry Contest. Kendra Boileau of Penn State University Press notes: “Mertz is a master of poetic form, imagery, sonority, and wit.”
Your poems show a knowing of the darkness but also of the sunrises while “…searching for a distant view of everything.” The poems encompass childhood, courtship, marriage, maturity, and the reader is advised to “hang on to your memories.” How did you decide the chapbook’s title?…
