E. Rowan Mena

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My Week In Books

March 13, 2015 by E. Rowan

Featherbone. from Featherbone: Searshut your throat & open soundless: again—it pierces your back— spins—you lurch and plummet— light is:      to blame you:      unother. The light is already bleaching your veins metasomatized —blooming in the cracks the fissures. This is my book, Featherbone. It’s a cyborg feminist retelling of Icarus, driven by compound neologisms. The cover art is by Wangechi Mutu, titled “Love’s a Witch, Orfeo’s Underworld Coronation for Euridice,” 2006. Mutu is a Kenyan-born artist and sculptor who resides in […]

Categories: Publishing, Uncategorized • Tags: Anomalous Press, arrowsmith press, askold melnyczuk, cole swenson, collier nogues, drown/sever/sing, drunken boat, erica mena, featherbone, frank andre jamme, ian hatcher, jorie graham, la presse, lina maria ferriera cabeza-vanegas, melissa green, poetry, the all-new, the ground i stand on is not my ground, to the secret

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Remembering Adrienne Rich

March 29, 2012 by E. Rowan

Some years ago when I was an undergraduate just beginning to think seriously about poetry, I met Adrienne Rich. In fact, I picked her up from her hotel and drove her through downtown Boston to the UMass Boston campus for her lecture. It was my mentor and friend Askold Melnyczuk who was coordinating the reading series, and though I’d just met him that semester in his introduction to fiction writing class, he saw in me enough poetic promise to send […]

Categories: Poetry • Tags: adrienne rich, askold melnyczuk, Diving Into The Wreck, essays, feminist, Fox, Martín Espada, poet, poetry, UMass Boston

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