Thrush Sighting

Chester A. Reed, The Bird Book, 1915.

Check out the May 2014 Issue of Thrush Poetry Journal, featuring work by Anne Barngrover, Michael Bazzett, Jamez Chang, Rae Joyce, Adam Chiles, Lawrence Eby, Christine Gosnay, Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick, Rustin Larson, Thom Norgang, Nina Puro, Nicole Rollender, Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Robert Schultz, Ciara Shuttleworth, Jay Donald Smith, Carleen Tibbetts, and me.

Also, you can now get the anthology of the first two years of work published in Thrush Poetry Journal. This is one of my favorite online journals, and so worth it!!!!!

Go Figure!

Bored of my own last few self-indulgent posts, I am today happy to recommend to you, via Maria Popova's Brain Pickings, literary action figures, including Edgar Allan Poe (whose birthday was last week):

Other figures include: Austen, Dickens, Wilde, and Shakespeare.

Popova also showcases a line of non-pose-able collectibles in three categories: artists (Dali, Picasso, van Gogh, and Warhol), scientists (Newton, Darwin, Einstein, and Tesla), and writers (Twain, Joyce, Shakespeare, and again the inimitable Poe). Check out this link to see them all.