Poetics and Ruminations: Art

Webworks

The Virginia Quarterly Review
"The Mutable Past," a memoir collected in FANTASEERS, A BOOK OF MEMORIES by Lewis Turco of growing up in the 1950s in Meriden, Connecticut, (Scotsdale AZ: Star Cloud Press, 2005).
The Tower Journal
Two short stories, "The Demon in the Tree" and "The Substitute Wife," in the spring 2009 issue of Tower Journal.
The Michigan Quarterly Review
This is the first terzanelle ever published, in "The Michigan Quarterly Review" in 1965. It has been gathered in THE COLLECTED LYRICS OF LEWIS TURCO/WESLI COURT, 1953-2004 (www.StarCloudPress.com).
The Aroostook Review
An interview, some poems, and an Xmas card with the printmaker George O'Connell.
The Tower Journal, Winter 2009-2010
Song of the Mower: The Memoir of a Navy Buddy, a memoir about, and a poem by, Francis T. Rath.
Poetry Porch
Three poems by Wesli Court in Poetry Porch, Spring 2009, "Basso Profundo, A Carol," "A Paternal Curse," and "The Shade."
Poetry from East to West
Two poems, "Columbian Ode" and "Sestina" by Wesli Court
Ploughshares
"The Man in the Booth" (story); "Vigilance," "Joseph Carr," "Brontophobia" (poems).
Per Contra, Spring 2009
Two poems by Wesli Court, one for Yeats' Birthday and the other for Joyce's Bloomsday.
Per Contra, Fall 2008
A short story, "Moving Day."
Per Contra Spring 2009 Light Verse Supplement
Three sonnets and a "Calendar of [37 literary] Epitaphs" by "Wesli Court" in the first Per Contra Light Verse Supplement published on April Fool Day 2009.
Nightsandweekends.com
"The Secret Name," "Erda," "Salt," "The Prison," "The Chair," "Kelly," "One Sunday Morning," "Matinee," "The Bath," "Dinny O'Toole's Fortune," "The Catalog Idea," "An Incident at Callahan's," "The Laugher," "The Great Collapse," "The Impresario" (short-stories); "A Nest of In-Laws" (memoir).
Mipoesias
"Acousticophobia," "Agoraphobia," two poems from "A Book of Fears" (collected in FEARFUL PLEASURES: THE COMPLETE POEMS OF LEWIS TURCO 1959-2007, www.StarCloudPress.com).
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Two sestinas, "The Vision" and "Tsunami."
KUSP Santa Cruz radio interview reprise
Reading and discussion during the reunion -- after forty-six years -- of three poets: Morton Marcus, Vern Rutsala, and Lewis Turco, who were classmates at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1959-60, hosted by Dennis Morton.
Italian American Writers
Six poems from A BOOK OF FEARS, winner of the first annual Bordighera Bi-Lingual Poetry Award, "Erratophobia," "Papyrophobia," "Monophobia," "Amathophobia," "Chronophobia," "Ambiguphobia," (collected in FEARFUL PLEASURES: THE COMPLETE POEMS OF LEWIS TURCO 1959-2007, www.StarCloudPress.com).
Inkpot #63, Classical Music Reviews
"Blues for George Gershwin"
Google Book Search
Excerpts from THE BOOK OF DIALOGUE, HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVE CONVERSATION IN FICTION, SCREENPLAYS, DRAMA, AND POETRY by Lewis Turco (University Press of New England, 2004), A companion volume to The Book of Forms and The Book of Literary Terms.
Google Book Search
Excerpts from VISIONS AND REVISIONS OF AMERICAN POETRY by Lewis Turco, winner of the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America (University of Arkansas Press, 1986).
Google Book Search
Excerpts from THE BOOK OF LITERARY TERMS: THE GENRES OF FICTION, DRAMA, NONFICTION, LITERARY CRITICISM AND SCHOLARSHIP by Lewis Turco, A Choice “Outstanding academic title” for 2000. A companion volume to The Book of Dialogue and The Book of Forms (University Press of New England, 1999).

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Wicked
A review/interview by Deirdre Fleming of "Satan's Scourge" by Lewis Turco on 15 March 2009 in the Portland, Maine, Sunday Telegram.
The Lewis Turco Collection
The Cleveland State University Poetry Center
The Black Death
Bryan Bridges' interesting article on the villanelle and the terzanelle with "The Black Death" by Wesli Court as an example of the latter.
Star Cloud Press - Welcome to our homepage
Books by Lewis Turco
Song for a Granddaughter
Jessima Ranney
Scott Turco's Blog
Nephew Scott and family
Reinventing the Wheel, Modern Poems in Classical Meters
An essay with illustrations of poems written in classical meters together with a "Table of Meters" and "The Rules of Scansion" in the Summer 2009 issue of Trellis Magazine
Poetry from East to West
Contributors' Bookshelves
Per Contra
An interview with Lewis Turco by Miriam N. Kotzin plus a poem by Turco and one by Wesli Court
Papers of Lewis Turco - Special Collections - The University of Iowa Libraries
Lewis Turco archive at the University of Iowa
New York Quarterly
Maine Writers: T through Z
Waterboro Library listing of Maine authors
Maine Poets - Page 2
Lewis Turco's listing
Fenn College - School of Arts & Sciences
Lewis Turco's first creative writing class, with Loring Williams (left) and James L. Weil (right): the beginning of The Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley
Interview with Lewis Turco at West Chester University Poetry Conference on Wednesday, June 1st, 2005.
An Interview With Lewis Turco | Poets & Writers
Daniel Nester Interview