This year marks the 30th Anniversary of the Painted Bride Quarterly and its stepsister the Painted Bride Art Center (as some of you may know, we share a name but we are separate non-profit entities). To celebrate, the Quarterly thought it would be a good idea to take a closer look at the fine work […]
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Maggie Anderson: Windfall: New and Selected Poems
Pitt Poetry Series, $12.95 paperback ISBN 0-8229-5719-1 Maggie Anderson’s new collection, Windfall, brings together a selection of polished fruits from her three previous books with a group of less ripened poems of more recent harvest. The danger in any volume of “new and selected poems” is that weak poems stand out. In her most successful […]
Nikki MacDonald: Sharing the Muse: A Collaborative Voice Emerges
In 1997, when I first caught up with Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton to discuss their then-newly released collaborative manuscript, Exquisite Politics, Maureen was living in Chicago and teaching poetry there, and Denise was living and writing in New York City. Then Maureen went to Ragdale and Denise went to Spain, and neither one had […]