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New Poets
Edited by Carol Malone
Reviewed by Jill Hill
| I look forward to our open issue and being free. In the spirit of freedom and indulgence, I am reviewing my friend Carol Malone's new undertaking New Poets. I think I like poets better than I like poetry. However, my obsession with poets has led to a deeper appreciation of poetry. Granted I came to my appreciation through a list of poets that includes a cross-dresser, at least two poets with borderline personality disorder, several depressives, and one compulsive liar. (None of the previous statements apply to Ms. Malone.) Nonetheless, this does not diminish my joy in poetry. And I thought it would be fun to visit a brand spankin' new site, keep tabs, and make a return visit in three to six months and find out what the highs and lows are of e-zine publishing. (I suspect time and money.) |
New PoetsEdited by Carol Malone Email: info@newpoets.net |
New Poets’ homepage states that the site is to be a creative vortex for new poets and a resource for writers. The requirements for submissions: high quality and originality.
It is a tidy site with minimal visual and graphic elements, and I admire that. Too much type in different fonts and colors and pictures and downloads and whatever give me eyeburn, a condition not dissimilar to heartburn. The site is broken down into five sections: poetry (by new poets of course), essays about poetry, interviews with poets, information for poets, and an online workshop. The structure seems intact for a serious but innovative site.
Two new poets are on board, Pat Andreen and Dominic Slyfield. Pat e-publishes the poem "After Love Last Night. . ." It is a little love poem – note the fancy literary term – with several potent images. Five untitled poems by Dominic Slyfield are also presented. I was drawn to the first one about a school science fair and the judge and the two earnest nine-and-a-half-year olds looking to make a good impression. Slyfield also contributes an essay, "Heart Shaped Poetry Box," with the grand opening lines,
"Poems may be dumb things. But when they are not dumb, I enjoy them."Yet, I am sorry he does not expand on the idea of poems as dumb things. He does answer why they are enjoyable as fragile reminders of moments captured and held within the poets words.
Carol Malone, the editor, also supplies an essay on Sylvia Plath's poetry and Plath's use of a vulnerable self in her poem "Sheep In Fog." Malone gives a scholarly interpretation of Plath and asserts her knowledge of the poet in an intelligent and arresting tone. Now I must slide into self-indulgent self-promotion. New Poets includes a press release from the Bennington Writing Seminars Alumni Chapbook Series, which I am included for the publication of my chapbook Poem Story Poem. Please take note of the highly imaginative title.
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Jill Hill is a regular contributor to Pif Magazine.