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  • 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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October 20, 2008

Image of the Day #1

Economyglobe


"...to worship the moon rising
like a yellow filling-station sign....


by Tony Hoagland, as posted on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac on 20 October 2008.

Terrific! Magnificent! Have you ever read a better image in your life? Wow. Can't believe it.
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Comments:

Why, it made that ole moon seem pretty as a 
picture, didn't it?

Alice (Georgia)

Shore did, honey chile! (Sorry). 

Lew 


I was pronouncing "pretty" "purty" mahself.
Alice

Sho' 'nuff? 

Lew
 

Very nice, Lew, but the real sensation is 
your Phoebe, who is not only beautiful but 
smart and upbeat about school and her 
social life! 
 

Rhina

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