Friday, January 23, 2009
Books Seattle Poetry Chain 9: Zach Savich
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Last week on the Seattle Poetry Chain, Steve Dold shared a lovely short poem called "Eros."
Steve Dold picked someone who's definitely an up-and-comer. Here's what he has to say:
Here's Zach Savich, an ex-pat Seattleite for whom some roots here still remain—along with a handful of friends and a number of fans. His poems are apt to make one envy how he apprehends the world. Next month his first book, Full Catastrophe Living, is due for release, and in March he'll be reading from it at Open Books. Dean Young once declared him "the future of poultry."
Savich has been published all over the place. There are three poems here. (I'd especially like to draw your attention to "Crave," at the bottom of the page.) There are two very good longer prose poems here. And Savich has done book reviews for the Kenyon Review here (I'm really fond of the sentence "Yakich's work can be as off-putting as fake vomit flecked with real vomit.") We'll be hearing a lot from in the years to come and I'm really pleased to have him here as part of the Poetry Chain.
Here is Zach Savich's poem:
Many thanks to Zach Savich. Tune in next Friday at noon to see which poet he's chosen for the next link in the Poetry Chain.
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Published all over the place = internet vanity sites?
This one will never publish anywhere they, you know, use print and paper. What nonsense.
This one will never publish anywhere they, you know, use print and paper. What nonsense.
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Great poem! Thanks, Paul, for shepherding/instigating this chain (& thanks Steve Dold for good taste in nominees).
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Just a reminder that Floating Bridge Press is accepting submissions to the 2009 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Competition until February 15. Please help us spread the word to all Washington State poets.
The winner receives $500 and 15 copies of the winning book, published in Fall 2009, along with a Seattle reading (last year @RHH). Finalists receive $50 and a reading (last year @RHH). All entrants receive a copy of the winning chapbook.
Individual poems will be considered for inclusion in the next issue of Floating Bridge Review, to be published in Summer 2009. Part 1 of the next FBR will be edited by John Olsen and will contain work by Subtext writers. Part 2, "Pontoon," will contain only poems submitted to the chapbook contest. You'll find no better mix of WA state work in 2009: popular (at least to us), populist, and, hell yeah, at times abstruse.
Find our submission guidelines at http://www.scn.org/floatingbridge/submit…. (Ignore the incorrect competition year in the header.) The entry fee is $12.
Former winners include Nancy Pagh, Holly Hughes, Annette Spaulding-Convy, Timothy Kelly, Michael Bonacci, Kelli Russell Agodon, Joseph Green, Chris Forhan, Molly Tenenbaum, Nance Van Winckel, Bart Baxter, Donna Waidtlow, and Joannie Kervran. Some of these books are still available via our website.
Paul, thanks for the poetry chain.
The winner receives $500 and 15 copies of the winning book, published in Fall 2009, along with a Seattle reading (last year @RHH). Finalists receive $50 and a reading (last year @RHH). All entrants receive a copy of the winning chapbook.
Individual poems will be considered for inclusion in the next issue of Floating Bridge Review, to be published in Summer 2009. Part 1 of the next FBR will be edited by John Olsen and will contain work by Subtext writers. Part 2, "Pontoon," will contain only poems submitted to the chapbook contest. You'll find no better mix of WA state work in 2009: popular (at least to us), populist, and, hell yeah, at times abstruse.
Find our submission guidelines at http://www.scn.org/floatingbridge/submit…. (Ignore the incorrect competition year in the header.) The entry fee is $12.
Former winners include Nancy Pagh, Holly Hughes, Annette Spaulding-Convy, Timothy Kelly, Michael Bonacci, Kelli Russell Agodon, Joseph Green, Chris Forhan, Molly Tenenbaum, Nance Van Winckel, Bart Baxter, Donna Waidtlow, and Joannie Kervran. Some of these books are still available via our website.
Paul, thanks for the poetry chain.
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