The Kenyon Review recently published an interview with ASP’s own Rose Solari concerning several different operational and philosophical aspects of the modern independent press. One of the questions that the interviewer, Kristina Marie Darling, posed to Rose inquired about the notion of “literary citizenship,” and, specifically, how it “shapes [the] editorial decisions” of a small press.
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Rose Solari Talks with Acclaimed Poet David Gewanter
“I am not seeking to articulate a political position. To make poems I seek paradox and contradiction: the opposite of an ideology.” — David Gewanter This Sunday, October 21, at 8 p.m., ASP’s Rose Solari is reading with acclaimed poet, essayist, editor, and professor David Gewanter in a new poetry reading series at Second Story Books, 2000 P Street NW, Washington…
Why I Didn’t Report.
Last week, in response to current events too complex and heartbreaking to recount here, I added to the chain of grief and sisterhood flooding social media with stories of why we did not report our rapes to the police. Mine was four simple sentences: “Because my rapist was famous, well-respected, well-connected. Because I didn’t realize…
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Book Distribution and Ordering: Rose’sReprint Permissions & Bookings: [email protected] (301) 530–2896 (phone) To respond to any of the poetry or prose on this site, make a comment, or suggest a topic for the Letter from Rose page, write to [email protected] Below you’ll find links to some favorite sites: Travis Hall Studios – Travis’s painting, “Mystic…
Guenevere
Looking for Guenevere is a one–act play in three scenes that retells Arthurian legend from a woman’s perspective. The characters are two contemporary women who, over the course of an evening, embark on an imaginative search for the “real” Queen of Camelot. Beginning with reminiscences of their first encounters with Arthurian myth, they begin to…
Reviews
On the poetry collection, Orpheus in the Park: Current News (updated 1/28/08): A new review of Orpheus in the Park by poet Alex McRae has just appeared on Eyewear, a London–based review of literature, film, and music. McRae writes, “The poems in this collection . . . find ordinary human motivations within ancient myths, and…