December 31, 2021
New Year’s Eve Gift from Italy
Interlitq (International Literary Quarterly) is very pleased to announce the publication of the fourth and final installment of their California Poets Anthology. Here is the link to the publication announcement that contains the links to the contributor’s work. David Garyan, the co-editor of this project, also recently sent out the link to the official home page of the anthology project itself.
LINK TO PART FOUR:
http://interlitq.org/blog/2021/12/29/interlitqs-californian-poets-part-4-published/
Californian Poets Feature Home Page:
http://www.interlitq.org/californiafeature4/index.php
This project is indeed an international effort, with its Founder, President, and Co-Editor of this Feature, Peter Robertson, from Argentina; Emily Starks, the web editor from Colorado, and David Garyan, residing in Italy.
PART FOUR — California Poets Anthology
Part 4
Alicia Elkort
Boris Dralyuk
Brenda Hillman
Cathie Sandstrom
Christopher Buckley
Clive Matson
Dana Gioia
devorah major
Donna Hilbert
Ellen Bass
Frank X. Gaspar
Gary Young
Glenna Luschei
Harry Northup
Holly Prado (In Memoriam)
K. Silem Mohammad
Kate Gale
Mariano Zaro
Mary Fitzpatrick
Michael C. Ford
Mike Sonksen
Neeli Cherkovski
Pam Ward
Phoebe MacAdams
Rusty Morrison
S.A. Griffin
Shelley Scott (In Memoriam)
Sholeh Wolpé
Shotsie Gorman
Tony Barnstone
Willis Barnstone
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In a “nation”-equivalent of almost 40,000,000 people, California has several thousand poets hard at work every day. The following list is an outstanding example of the kind of list that almost every one of these poets could draw up, and such a list would have many other names interspersed and other names dropped. I would urge every reader of this blog to make such a list for themselves in order to become more acutely aware of the possibilities of language.
Here is an alphabetized list of 70 poets whose work appeared in one of four installments of this project:
Rae Armantrout
Tony Barnstone
Willis Barnstone
Ellen Bass
Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Michelle Bitting
Laurel Ann Bogen
Elena Karine Byrne
Christopher Buckley
Neeli Cherkovski
Lucille Lang Day
Boris Dralyuk
Bart Edelman
Alicia Elkort
Alexis Rhone Fancher
Mary Fitzpatrick
Michael C. Ford
Kate Gale
David Garyan
Frank X. Gaspar
Dana Gioia
liz gonzalez
Shotsie Gorman
S.A. Griffin
Corrine Hales
Eloise Klein Healy
Grant Hier
Donna Hilbert
Brenda Hillman
Charles Jensen
Lois P. Jones
Ron Koertge
Suzanne Lummis
Glenna Luschei
Phoebe MacAdams
devorah major
Clint Margrave
Clive Matson
Rooja Mohassessy
K. Silem Mohammad
Bill Mohr
Rusty Morrison
Henry Morro
Harry E. Northup
Marsha de la O
D.A. Powell
Holly Prado (In Memoriam)
Susan Rogers
Cathie Sandstrom
Shelley Scott (In Memoriam)
Patty Seyburn
Kim Shuck
Mike Sonksen
Phil Taggart
Lynne Thompson
Carin Topal
David Ulin
Amy Uyematsu
Paul Vangelisti
Charles Harper Webb
Cecilia Woloch
Bruce Willard
Pam Ward
Maw Shein Win
Sholeh Wolpé
Gail Wronsky
Gary Young
Jonathan Yungkans
Mariano Zaro
Lorene Zarou-Zouzounis
If you believe you are truly familiar with West Coast poetry, it should take you no longer than a half-hour to expand this list to a hundred poets of equivalent stature and accomplishment. In fact, I would challenge anyone who is reading in tomorrow’s iteration of the St. Mark’s Poetry Project annual New Year’s Day marathon to send me what they come up with after a half-hour: William.BillMohr@gmail.com. Special recognition would go to anyone on the East Coast who could then select thirty of those names as their favorites and include at least one poem that serves as each of those poet’s “signature poems.” My guess is that Ron Silliman would be finished before anyone else got halfway done.
Happy New Year, Ron, and congratulations on being pick-of-the-week on BEST AMERICAN POETRY.
https://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2021/12/ron-silliman-pick-of-the-week-ed-terence-winch.html
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