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Conundrum Poet Wins Award

May 5th, 2016  |  by  |  published in Blog, Bruce Berger | Leave A Comment »

Bruce Berger, whose book of poetry Facing the Music Conundrum published in 2014, has been honored with the Karen Chamberlain Lifetime Achievement Award for Poetry. Bruce received this award at the 2016 Headwaters Poetry Festival held April 15-17 in Gunnison, Colorado. According to Dr. David J. Rothman, director of the graduate program in creative writing […]

Lyricless: In Honor of National Poetry Month

April 28th, 2016  |  by  |  published in Blog, Chris Ransick | Leave A Comment »

For National Poetry Month, Conundrum Press has asked our poets, writers, and contributors to offer their thoughts on poetry. We will be publishing reflections throughout the month. Chris Ransick: Imagine a world without poetry. Go ahead, try it. It’s difficult to do. Begin at the beginning, then. A small band of early human beings huddle […]

A Night at Stonehenge: In Honor of National Poetry Month

April 26th, 2016  |  by  |  published in Blog, Juliana Aragón Fatula | Leave A Comment »

For National Poetry Month, Conundrum Press has asked our poets, writers, and contributors to offer their thoughts on poetry. We will be publishing reflections throughout the month. Juliana Aragón Fatula: I’m an artist. I need music, drums, dancing, shouting. I treat writing like a sport. When I teach writing workshops, we chant and cheer motivational […]

Bly Vs. Fulton: Tranströmer’s Poem “Allegro,” In Honor of National Poetry Month

April 23rd, 2016  |  by  |  published in Blog, Rebecca Snow | Leave A Comment »

For National Poetry Month, Conundrum Press has asked our poets, writers, and contributors to offer their thoughts on poetry. We will be publishing reflections throughout the month. Rebecca Snow Last year, after hearing the news of Tomas Tranströmer’s death, I renewed my effort to sneak poetry into my English composition classes. When the Swedish poet […]

Reading Walt Whitman: In Honor of National Poetry Month

April 21st, 2016  |  by  |  published in Blog, Sigman Byrd | Leave A Comment »

For National Poetry Month, Conundrum Press has asked our poets and writers to offer their thoughts on poetry. We will be publishing reflections throughout the month. Sigman Byrd: This spring I have been re-reading Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. The sweeping catalogs of nineteenth-century American life and New World audacity and mysticism have hooked me. […]

A Dog, A Beer, A Poem: In Honor of National Poetry Month

April 20th, 2016  |  by  |  published in Blog, Bruce Berger | Leave A Comment »

For National Poetry Month, Conundrum Press has asked our poets and writers to offer their thoughts on poetry. We will be publishing reflections throughout the month. Bruce Berger: I write poems the way my dog drinks beer. My mind tenders a thought. I sniff and turn up my nose. Then under the insistence of a […]

Collected Poems: In Honor of National Poetry Month

April 19th, 2016  |  by  |  published in Blog, Teow Lim Goh | Leave A Comment »

For National Poetry Month, Conundrum Press has asked our poets and writers to offer their thoughts on poetry. We will be publishing reflections throughout the month. Teow Lim Goh:  Lately I have been reading volumes of collected poems, in particular, those of Jack Gilbert, Louise Glück, and Muriel Rukeyser. For a poet to have a […]

Islanders by Teow Lim Goh

March 25th, 2016  |  by  |  published in Blog, New Releases, Poetry, Teow Lim Goh | 2 Comments »

Between 1910 and 1940, Chinese immigrants to America were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay. As they waited for weeks and months to know if they could land, some of them wrote poems on the walls. All the poems we have on record were found in the men’s barracks: […]

Wake Up, Sleepwalker

February 15th, 2016  |  by  |  published in Poetry, Rocky Mountain Poetry Series, Sigman Byrd | Leave A Comment »

“This is a brilliant, wonderful book with provocative insights on every page and new language for the heady, raw experience of being alive. Sigman Byrd is more than accomplished. He is simply splendid, and these poems are nourishment for the ‘smoky crevices of the heart.” —Joe David Bellamy, author of Green Freedom “Buddhist though he […]

Letters From a Stranger

February 2nd, 2016  |  by  |  published in Conundrum Classics, James Tipton, Poetry | Leave A Comment »

James Tipton is the world’s preeminent surrealist beekeeper. At his home on a high mesa near Grand Junction, Colorado, he bottles 10,000 pounds of honey each year, and writes poetry in the tradition of Neruda, Vallejo, Breton, Blake, and Robert Bly, extending the vision of a world that is simultaneously real and magical. In Letters from […]

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