Kathryn Rantala

I was very pleased with this new number by Ravenna Press. Quality throughout. I am certainly always toughest on myself, but it was surprising to me how well my twenty-nine poems hold up through this included period from 1996 to 2011. In addition, Harold Bowes and Kathryn Rantala have both provided their own poems of the first rank and I am thrilled to share this space with both of them. I wrote a rather lengthy introduction to the section NO ENTRY where my poems may be found, and the longish prose piece serves as a biographical statement about those writers, editors, teachers, lovers, and friends who have helped me along the way in my personal quest to make literary history. And that is not a pretentious statement on my part at all, but rather a position that is necessary to any writer worth his or her salt. It is my hope that the readers here will support the northwestern publishing house that makes these books possible.

I wrote more, and in greater detail, about this experience here:
http://mewlhouse.hubpages.com/hub/In-the-Making-of-Our-Plans… (más)