Poetry & Sculpture
Molecule – A Tiny Lit Mag, Issue 6 drops today! Thank you, Kevin Carey and M.P. Carver, for featuring my “Girl Swimming” on the cover. The tiny (4″) sculpture is made from assembled hyssop stalks. The limbs are chiseled and her hair was made using a wood burner. https://moleculetinylitmag.art.blog/
Here’s a recording of my reading from Changeable Gods at the Grolier Poetry Bookshop.
Changeable Gods is out! Thank you, Slate Roof Press, for making such a beautiful book. Winner of the Elyse Wolf Chapbook Prize, CG is in art-quality limited edition with a letter press cover, hand-sewn binding, original artwork by yours truly, and an introduction by Alfred Nicol. Dedicated to poet Sarah Hannah (1967-2007), who was the best pal anyone could have and whose spirit guides this sequence of love poems.
To order, please visit Slate Roof Press: https://www.slateroofpress.com/books/changeable-gods.html
Please join me and my colleagues at Slate Roof Press for a hybrid reading at the Grolier on March 9 @ 7 pm! There will be a limited number of seats for those who want to join us in person. Here are the links to register:
In-person sign up: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event…
Virtual sign up: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event…
Page Proofs! Changeable Gods is a sequence of poems dedicated to my dear friend, poet Sarah Hannah, who we all lost in 2007. You’ll find her in several of these pages. Slate Roof Press publishes limited edition, art-quality chapbooks designed by the poets and printed by member and master printer Ed Rayher. Thank you to the extraordinary members of SRP Press for selecting CG for the Elyse Wolf Prize and helping to bring it into the world. A link for pre-ordering coming soon….
I completed this one just in time to use it as the title page for my new poetry collection–Changeable Gods–which will be out from Slate Roof Press in a couple of weeks. Link for ordering coming soon….
Forsythia spills over fences
in Connecticut:
the rest remains bare.
Survivors light candles, sulphur
from the match curling
around their heads.
A cantor sings Kaddish as much for the living
as the dead.
We have put on our good clothes.
We have driven through the pleasant country
to take our seats on a stage.
I listen to the audience: am I someone
singing to himself
to make silence less?
Or rouse a voice where there is none,
and, nothing myself, resurrect
the living from the dead.
(originally published in Notre Dame Review and included in my collection, Evidence of Things Seen)
A new book, The Wild Language of Deer, by my friend and colleague Susan Glass is now available to order at Slate Roof Press. The press produces art-quality books with letterpress covers crafted by member and award-winning printer, Ed Rayher. Susan’s collection also features a braille pull-out of one of the poems.
“Winner of the Slate Roof Press Chapbook Award, The Wild Language of Deer reveals an impassioned sense of belonging, both to the world of here and now, but also to a fluid, echoing, mythical world out of time. Out of these pages come the stamping deer, the singing birds, the fingertips running over Braille and flute keys.”
My long poem, “The Apotheosis of Martín Ramírez,” may be found in the new volume of The American Journal of Poetry (Vol. 12, Jan. 2022). Ramírez was an outsider artist who made his beautiful art while while confined in a mental hospital in California.
http://www.theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/v12-wollman.html
from WWW.THEAMERICANJOURNALOFPOETRY.COM:
VOLUME XII lurks, our most monstrous issue yet but don’t take my word for it. We’ll put up or shut up New Years Day. Just added: KIP KNOTT, KENNETH POBO, SHAMON WILLIAMS, RICHARD WOLLMAN, GUNILLA KESTER, CLAIRE SCOTT, HAYDEN SAUNIER, LUKAS WOOD with his first-ever publication of poetry and poets still to come.
Richard Wollman 