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New Review for "The Swing Girl" from The Advocate

In The Swing Girl, the provocative Katherine Soniat, Iowa Poetry Prize winner, fixes us in ancient Greece and in less obvious, equally solemn places fit for the imagination.
Her opening poem, “Thoughts at Paliani,” is a haunting rumination from a convent on the island of Crete; “Hummingbird of Ur” traces a frail creature along its path in Iraq: 
“Any which garden should be fine for a bird with less than
an ounce of meaning....”
The poet’s combinations are striking and evocative. In “Self-Portrait with Amnesia,” she has a Zen-like encounter with a woman who is depicted on an un- finished canvas:
"Call her tabula tacit, say she’s the primary silence.
Those who stare long enough find darkness expansive."
Soniat goes for the stark as well as the shadowy. “An Aerial Meander” swoops down from a snowy sky and looks in on an Old World townscape:
"Enough softness here for a small village to bury its old in.
Body-wrap of quilts and sheets,
years of flesh packed up like the good bone china."
Yet the same poet is capable of the most sportive wordplay. In the staccato poem “Day Spool":  “windchime” yields “windtime,” and “wood deck   wood peck   hood red ruby head” gives way to “noon-high sunsquash” 
And–oh, you just must read it for yourself!
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from The Advocate, Andrew Burstein is Charles P. Manship Professor of History at LSU and author of books on American political culture. His website is: http://www.andburstein.com/.
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Featured Article

North Carolina Writers Network
Katherine is featured in the NC writers network in an article titled "Katherine Soniat: Poet, Teacher, Traveler"
 
 

Workshop

Katherine will be offering a workshop titled: "Archetypal Imagery in Your Writing" at the 2011 North Carolina Writers Conference held in Asheville NC. 
 

Flyer for The Swing Girl

 Check out the latest flyer for The Swing Girl here! - http://www.katherinesoniat.com/flyers/swinggirl.pdf
 

New! Readings by Katherine

The schedule of Katherine's live readings is now available below!

1. Hollins University, October 20. Roanoke, Va.

2. Virginia Tech, October 28. Blacksburg, Va.

3. Malaprops Bookstore, Nov. 6.Asheville, NC

4. City Lights Books, Nov. 17. Sylva, NC 

5. North Carolina Writers Network Conference. Nov. 19. Asheville, NC

6.  Xavier University, Nov. 30. New Orleans, La.

7. Garden District Books, Dec. 1. New Orleans, La.

8. McGehee School Book Fair, Dec. 3. New Orleans, La.

9. The Maple Leaf Bar Reading Series, New Orleans, La.

10. Fly Leaf Bookstore, March 8. Chapel Hill, NC

11. North Carolina Poetry Society Annual Meeting, March 24-25.  Southern Pines, NC

12. Quail Ridge Books, 3:00, April 1, Raleigh, NC

13. Oscar Arnold Young Award Ceremony. The Swing Girl selected as best collection of 2011 by Poetry Council of NC. April 14, Catawba College, Hickory NC

14. North Carolina Poetry Society, April  15th.Charlotte, NC

15. Flood Reading Series, 7:30, April 16, Posana’s, Asheville NC

16. Black Mountain College  Museum & Arts Center,  June

17. McIntyres Bookstore, Sept. 23, 2012 Pittsboro, NC

18. Quail Ridge Books, fall, 2012. Raleigh, NC

 

Listen to Katherine on Wordplay's "Laureate Hour" with NC Poet Laureate, Cathy Smith-Bowers

From AsheviileFM every Sunday afternoon at 5:00pm
**Please note: Be aware of lead-in music at beginning of the interview for three minutes and again between sections 1-2 and 2-3.