Ravenous Beauty: A Writer's Workshop

Issue 7 of Colored Chalk is now live at www.coloredchalk.com

Edited and introduced by yours fictionally, this issue, “MacGuffins For Hire,” deals with valuable objects. Authors include:

POETRY
Michael S. Harper has published ten collections of poetry. He was Rhode Island’s first poet laureate (from 1988-1993) and is University Professor at Brown University, where he has taught since 1970. He has earned a slew of fellowships and awards, the most notable of which is the 2008 Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America for a lifetime achievement in poetry.

Meg Kearney has published two collections of poetry and is releasing another, Home By Now, in fall 2009. She has taught poetry at The New School University and is the Director of the Solstice Creative Writing Programs of Pine Manor College in Massachusetts. She was the Associate Director of the National Book Foundation, sponsor of the National Book Awards, for more than 10 years. Her poetry has been featured on Poetry Daily and Garrison Keillor’s “A Writer’s Almanac,” and has been published in numerous publications; notably in Poetry, Agni, and Ploughshares (www.megkearney.com).

(Make no mistake about it; the above two have earned all the praise and success they’ve got. They redeemed poetry for me.)

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of six poetry chapbooks, most recently Tomorrowland. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology (http://apocalypsemambo.blogspot.com).

FICTION
Though the big names were poets this time around, here are some of the names you will know in time:

Mary Jo Campbell (http://writerinspired.wordpress.com)
Michael Paul Gonzalez (www.monkeywright.com)
Nicholas Merlin Karpuk (http://thekarpuk.wordpress.com)
Nik Korpon (www.nikkorpon.com)
M. Kilbain Lazer
Alex J. Martin (http://alxjmartin.wordpress.com)
K. Curran Mayer
Devin Strauch
Axel Taiari (www.axeltaiari.com)
Richard Thomas (recently won ChiZine’s “Enter the World of Filariia” contest / http://whatdoesnotkillme.wordpress.com)

Design by Jason M. Heim.

Also, Melanie Gillman (http://contriveathon.livejournal.com) contributed an unofficial supplement in the form of a web comic (found here: http://coloredchalk.com/modules/smartse ... itemid=133). It’s a somewhat cheeky response to Freud’s often cheeky beliefs. Beware: it focuses on the male anatomy.