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Our friend and frequent contributor, Greg Clary, recently published a book of photography & poetry - The Vandalia In Me. You can order it here: Local bookstores in western PA and Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Target.
Greg is professor emeritus of rehabilitation and human Services at Clarion University. He was born and raised in Turkey Creek, West Virginia, and now resides in the northwestern Pennsylvania Wilds.
And The Poet Said..., Hole In The Head Review's Associate Editor, Michael Hettich, interviews 14 contemporary poets. Hettich, himself a poet and teacher, speaks with poets about their writing and process, about their favorite poets, forms of poetry, "schools" of poetry, and about themselves and their lives.From the Foreword by Bill Burtis, "We think it's a little bit like being invited to be at home with the poets, listening from the kitchen, as they chat in the dining room about the inner workings of their poetry lives. Isn't that what we'd all, secretly, like to do?"The poets interviewed are:
Mildred Barya
Cyrus Cassells
Jim Crenner
Jeff Davis
Denise Duhamel
Merrill Gilfillan
Marie Harris
Elizabeth Jacobson
Peter Johnson
Stephen Kuusisto
Sebastian Matthews
Eric Nelson
Joe Paddock
J.D. Whitney
We support independent bookstores. So if you're favorite bookstore doesn't already carry it, they can contact editor@holeintheheadreview.com
Updated: Nov 1
Anxiety Dream: And/Or
. . . in which I’m in a cargo van
careering with its wind-
shield cracked and crazed,
fueled by volatile vapors
that some memory or yearning
has sparked into motion
toward a destination already
lost sight of or as yet unknown,
or back to a mythic place
where forebears still shoulder
the weighty luggage of foreign
tongues in shame or pride,
the heft of their words, like Putsch
and Shtetl or Tonton Macoute,
stuffed among yellowed linens,
which they discard, littering
every roadway traveled, or hang
to bleach on clotheslines
in towns that offer refuge
or disdain, and so they resign
themselves to the fires of their fury,
or again to prayer, and crowd inside
this van I’m in with all they own.
Oh America, where must we go?
Richard Foerster’s most recent book, With Little Light and Sometimes None at All (Littoral Books, 2023), was named a Finalist for this year’s Maine Literary Award for Poetry.
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