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Featuring on May 14, 2008:
Kate Buckley

Kate Buckley's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in a variety of journals including: The Heartland Review, New Southerner, The North American Review, Slipstream, and Spillway, and in the book, Tide Pools, an Anthology of Orange County Poetry. Her first book A Wild Region: Poems & Paintings was recently released by Moon Tide Press, and a second book, Follow Me Down, is forthcoming from Tebot Bach. Prizes and awards include: 2007 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize (finalist), 2007 Gabehart Prize for Imaginative Writing for poetry, 2008 Oregon State Poetry Association Contest (3rd place), 2008 Green River Writers Contest for poetry (3rd place), and the 2008 North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Prize, selected by Molly Peacock.


"Kate Buckley's poems are dark prayers and lyrical ballads, infused with mystery and awe... And the stories these poems tell — finely crafted as the poems are — are stories that speak to all of us, accessible and clear for all their complicated depth, 'universal' precisely because they're so deeply personal, and so deeply felt. There is so much stunning language in this collection, so much accuracy and grace, and there are so many images that take my breath away... Kate Buckley shows us how the beautiful and the brutal can not only coexist alongside one another, but exist within one another. Hers is a necessary and welcome new voice."

— Cecilia Woloch
 

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