Poetry Boot Camp

Camper News

Boot Camp participants range from real beginner first-time-poem-writers to poets with lots of experience. Many of them are publishing poems and books, and developing their own websites. Here’s a loose idea of what they’ve been up to - a nod to our far-flung community.

If you prefer the anonimity that Boot Camp provides, where you relate to your fellow-participants only through their newborn poems, read no further.

Kelli Russell Agodon's home page is http://www.agodon.com.

Two poems by Deanie Blank, "Remember the Children" and "Olympic Valor," are forthcoming in Poetica in 2008.

Gail Entrekin's latest collection, Change (will do you good), is out from Poetic Matrix Press. http://www.entrekin.net/pages/gail.html.

Pam Hart's chapbook The End of the Body, is out from toadlilly press as part of their Quartet Series, The Fifth Voice http://www.toadlilypress.com.

Alison Luterman's new website is http://www.alisonluterman.com.

Diana Raab has new work in Vernad, Tonopah Review, Litchfield Review, Chest, and Poetica..

Maggie Rowe has a poem forthcoming in the June '07 issue of The Sun.

Prartho Sereno's latest chapbook is Garden Sutra from Finishing Line Press http://www.hometown.aol.com/finishingbooks/myhomepage/

Sherry Smith's poem "Salvage," written in the May, 2008 Boot Camp, has received an honorable mention in the Burning Bush Poetry Prize.

I (Molly Fisk) read a poem ("Kindness") from my manuscript The More Difficult Beauty in the PBS documentary The Loss of Nameless Things, which is available at Netflix. http://www.thelossofnamelessthings.com, http://www.netflix.com