Hi Roundtablers! Welcome back for another fun filled poetry get together! We have much to be thankful for this month; the Racine Public Library just bought the entire backlist of Fence Books, one of the most excellent publishing houses of experimental poetry in America. You can visit their site and there’s even a small blog about yours truly and the Racine Public Library here: http://www.fenceportal.org/fanmail/
So how do we celebrate such a momentous occasion? The Poetry Roundtable this month will be checking out the work of a Fence author, Prageeta Sharma, thus marking our introduction to the press (though we actually did a Roundtable on the Founding Editor of Fence, Rebecca Wolff, but that was probably before any of the current Roundtable members were here).
So let’s get started. Here’s a few links to Prageeta’s work:
http://bostonreview.net/BR24.5/sharma.html
http://www.lapetitezine.org/PrageetaSharma.htm
reviews:
http://versemag.blogspot.com/2004/10/new-review-of-prageeta-sharma.html
Audio:
http://twc.podbean.com/2008/01/10/prageeta-sharma-51007/
and that, I’m sure, will keep ya’ll busy for now. This month’s Roundtable date is Saturday, March 21st. If you come, you will be brilliant, beautiful and rich. If you don’t come, you will be smelly, stinky and rank. Yes. And other synonyms meaning bad smelling.
Can’t wait to hang out and chat it up over some poetry.
Love,
Nicki-poo
