Archive for February, 2009

A Note on Contest Submissions and Subscription Payments from Outside the United States:

February 24, 2009

Checks must be made payable to “Phoebe/George Mason University” in U.S. Dollars. Foreign checks are acceptable only if they are payable through a U.S. bank and are denominated in U.S. dollars. Money orders are also acceptable, provided that they too are denominated in U.S. dollars. (Our apologies to the Canadian who already sent us...
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A Review of Maurya Simon’s Cartographies

February 24, 2009
A Review of Maurya Simon’s Cartographies

by Mike Maggio   Maurya Simon’s resume reads like that of a literary superstar. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 and the Pushcart Prize in 2004, she has held residencies, won awards and has been granted numerous fellowships both domestically and abroad. The author of eight volumes of poetry, she has been published...
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AWP / Spring 2009 Issue of Phoebe

February 4, 2009

The Spring 2009 Issue of Phoebe is in our hands and by golly does it look good.  Chicago-based media artist, Paul Catanese, has created a phenomenal cover and art spread.  Fiction contributors include Dylan Lee, Jenn Scott, Craig Curtis, and Edward Hagelstein.  On the poetry end we have Rusty Morrison, Matthew Hittinger, Paul Fattaruso, Cathy...
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A Thing to Worry Our Way Through: Review of Rusty Morrison’s the true keeps calm biding its story

February 3, 2009
A Thing to Worry Our Way Through: Review of Rusty Morrison’s the true keeps calm biding its story

            by Robb St. Lawrence In 1845, a writer for Littell’s Living Age wrote that an American looking onto the development of telegraph communication lines across the United States “will regard this new and mighty agency in interchanging thoughts, sentiments and feelings, as one of the indissoluble links of...
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