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K. Nicole Wilson’s This Temple from Finishing Line Press

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This Temple by K Nicole Wilson (Finishing Line Press)K. Nicole Wilson has been published in & Grace, Circe’s Lament, This Wretched Vessel, and Her Limestone Bones. Wilson’s newest chapbook, This Temple, is, according to her, “a book of poems about the body and the heart, and contemplations on both the metaphorical and physical deaths of each.”

Accents Founder, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, says:

In “This Temple” K Nicole Wilson masterfully marries the rhythm and music of language with the memorable images of pain. These kinetic poems are alive with truth and emotion. The readers feel the energy of each knot in both flesh and psyche, the buildup of tension between fear of death and the welcoming of death’s seeming relief. Relationships and expectations are explored and broken open to heal in the air of the words. The collection begins and ends with the heart – a place where beginnings and endings live together in beauty and poetry. Congratulations to K Nicole for a wonderful debut collection!

This Temple is released on September 9th, 2016, but advanced sales run until the end of the day July 15th.

Update: The original post incorrectly listed the pre-order deadline as July 14th.

Communicating with a Fat Crayon: Nettie Farris on Lexington Poetry Month, Miscommunication, and Contemporary Poetry

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Let’s talk about Fat Crayons!

Fat Crayons by Nettie FarrisYou’re a jewel!

The manuscript was produced largely during Lexington Poetry month. (I’ve produced 2 chapbooks and 1 full-length manuscript over the course of 3 Lexington Poetry Months!)

I began writing the Fat Crayon poems after I’d been writing sonnets, so they have the sonnet form embedded in them, even though they are prose. I consider them prose sonnets. I’m still using this form now, after several years, after several other series of poems have spun off. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever use a line break again, but of course the line breaks came back for The Wendy Bird Poems, so I’m not sure what I’m worried about. Maybe it’s because I feel that prose is underrated in the same way that chapbooks are underrated.   Continue reading →