Steve Luttrell is named Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine
The Café Review is pleased to announce that Publishing Editor Steve Luttrell was recently named Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine, for a two-year term. The inaugural celebration and reading was held at Portland’s St. Lawrence Arts and Community Center on June 9.
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The Cafe Review in Poets and Writers
The Cafe Review was recently featured in the May/June issue of Poets and Writers with a wonderful article by Joshua Bodwell.
Sadly, the actual article is only available in printed form (back issues can be ordered here), but there is a great multimedia presentation and photo slide show that can be viewed here and we got a fabulous mention in the editors letter which can be seen here .
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Café Review Spring 2009 Editor’s Issue
You will notice that this Editor’s Issue is different. We have asked 14 editors of poetry journals from across the United States two complex question: Why do some poems stand out from others? And what is he state of poetry in America today?
Their answers will surprise you.
We hope this issue will give poets a better sense of what editors look for in poems. You will get the inside scoop about why different journals accept different types of poems.
For teachers, this issue will answer questions students have about the dos and don’ts in submitting poems as well as the perennial question of why poetry matter.
The Café Review has just released a special Editors’ Issue offering insights on what makes a poem publishable and examining the general health of American poetry today. The issue is part of a series of events in celebration of our 20th anniversary in 2009. The Editors’ Issue features essays from the editors of at least a dozen, well-respected poetry journals from across the country in which they tell readers what strikes them about a poem and of both the formal and informal criteria they use to judge submissions. In addition, the Editors’ Issue will discuss the state of American poetry. Is it still useful? Does it still have the power to move a person or change the course of public affairs? In short: Does poetry matter in the world right now? It’s an issue you definitely do not want to miss, so get your issue today!
Suzanne Stryk
Suzanne Stryk: was born in Chicago, and currently lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia. She has shown her conceptual nature paintings in solo exhibits throughout the United States, including the National Academy of Sciences (DC), the Morris Museum of Art (GA), and the Eleanor B. Wilson Museum (VA). In 2005, a mid-career survey of the artist’s work, “Second Nature: The Art of Suzanne Stryk” was organized by an affiliate of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. In addition to creating cover art for the books of her husband Dan and other contemporary American poets, her images have appeared in numerous publications, among them Shenandoah, Ecotone and Orion. Collections including her paintings are the Smithsonian (DC), Tennessee State Museum, and the Taubman Museum of Art (Roanoke, VA). Her series of drawings Genomes and Daily Observations appears in the Viewing Program at The Drawing Center (NY, NY). And in 2007 she received a George Sugarman Foundation grant. To learn more about the artist, please visit www.suzannestryk.com.
