![]() ![]() I’ve given myself a budget to submit refrain to poetry contests. The typical path for first book poetry publication is to win a publication prize established by small presses or literary magazines. Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency? Helen of Troy abdicates role as poster girl for destruction in the name of beauty. MISSAL SISTERS THE NEXT BIG THING MOVIEWhich actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition? They’re written in conversation with poets who have immortalized Helen, as formal poetry and also as fragment poetry collaged with art reviews, museum catalogs, grocery lists, quotes from other poets, philosophers, scientists, and titles taken from drawings by A-bomb survivors. Refrain’s poems are framed as if they blew out of the great lyric book by accident. Helen of Troy’s myth offers love, adultery and war, a far more interesting story than a girl and her grandfather singing “Give My Regards to Broadway.” ![]() Would it even be intact?Īs a woman I wanted to poetically play with that lost note idea. As a girl I wondered who might find “Que Sera Sera” on their porch and what meaning they would derive from the discovery. Inevitably when my grandfather played, a few pages fell and slid under the couch or blew out the open front door on a gust of wind. ![]() Over the years, the book’s binding loosened. This colossal book image came from visiting my grandfather who kept a yellowed collection of sheet music open on his piano. In that lyric, Helen of Troy, is a recurring undersong. I’ve always imagined all of poetry as one long interconnected verse, printed in a colossal book floating in the ether, bound together loosely with something like strips of dried moose hide. Refrain: lost notes from helen’s songbook So here’s the project that keeps Catherine Keefe up at night… If you want to learn more about Sandy’s Next Big Thing, you can read her post here. Sandy Marchetti, poetry editor of Minerva Rising asked me to participate. This is a chainlinking of writers who are asked to divulge details of “the next big thing” they’re working on. MISSAL SISTERS THE NEXT BIG THING SERIESAccording to her website, in her spare time she likes “to photograph garbage.” She also has great ideas like starting an author interview series called The Next Big Thing. She’s the author of several poetry books, including Prairie Fever and editor of Barn Owl Review. Poet Mary Biddinger has one of those voices that feels like a long lost friend. ![]()
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