Linked: Some lovely writing on the web

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It’s National Poetry Month, and there’s plenty of poetry to celebrate:

  • Ploughshares has just released its spring issue, edited by Nick Flynn, which features so many wonderful poems, essays, and stories by fantastic writers. Their online selections rotate each day (when Glenn’s poem returns, it will be here), but you can also support Ploughshares and buy the issue.
  • A couple of  friends have recently released their first book of poems–Adam Peterson (The Flasher) and Jazzy Danziger (Darkroom)–and a couple, Samuel Amadon and Traci Brimhall, have just released their second books: The Hartford Book and Our Lady of the Ruins, respectively. UH classmate Eric Higgins has a poem up at Guernica, and WMU classmate Brandon Krieg has one up at Web Conjunctions.

Okay, enough about poetry. (I tried, didn’t I?)

Fiction Editor Aja Gabel interviewed past contributor Megan Mayhew Bergman on her debut story collection, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, over at the Gulf Coast blog. My classmate Elissa Cahn just had her first publication up on Midwestern Gothic. And my friend Eric Sasson’s first collection, The Margins of Tolerance, is available for pre-order. I was lucky enough to read a draft of the title story in a workshop at Sewanee a couple of years ago.

And the semester’s almost over, which means soon I can return to shapeless days reading shapely fiction. So far so good, April.

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Laurie Ann Cedilnik is a writer living in Houston by way of Queens. She has an MFA from The University of Houston, where she was an Inprint C. Glen Cambor Fellow and Editor of Gulf Coast. Her stories can be found in the Colorado Review, Epoch, West Branch, The Antioch Review, Pleiades, Cimarron Review, The Rumpus, Brevity, Hobart, and Fifth Wednesday, and her story collection Queens’ Finest was one of two runners-up for the Flannery O’Connor Prize. Laurie’s writing has received awards including a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a Bobet Fellowship, and Gwen Frostic Prizes in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Laurie is a graduate of Wellesley College and Hunter College High School, and has taught creative writing at Loyola University (New Orleans), Grand Valley State, and Western Michigan University, where she earned a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing.

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