Spain’s King Juan Carlos gave Gelman a medal symbolizing the Cervantes Prize at a ceremony in Alcala De Henares, the birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the author of “Don Quixote.”
To read Gelman’s work in translation find out more “Unthinkable Tenderness: Selected Poems”—edited and translated into English by Joan Lindgren, with a foreword by Eduardo Galeano–click here.
Anne Schroeder is a fifth generation Californian, whose love of writing was fueled by stories of immigrant ancestors. Anne evokes the drama of growing up in a close-knit Southern California farm community in her first memoir, “Branches on the Conejo: Leaving the Soil after Five Generations.” Anne and I are linked by our love of…
What are actors thinking in a scene and how do they prepare? More often than we know, the answer is poetry. That’s what we learn in Jason Shinder’s newest newest anthology and its accompanying CD: “The Poem I Turn to: Actors & Directors Present Poetry that Inspires Them” (Sourcebooks Media Fusion, 2008) with a preface…
A friend put Places of the Heart: Poets on Place into my hands as I worked on preparing a talk on the influence of place in my own poetry. I found Poets on Place so invaluable that I typed many pages of detailed notes to ruminate on. It’s an attractive work replete with complementary elements…
There’s a new review of my father Erwin A. Thompson’s “Cattle Country and Back Trail: Two Tales from the Thompson Western Series” on Book Pleasures Among other comments, the reviewer Ernest Dempsey says: “Cattle Country and Back Trail is an exciting reading of the values that characterized the heroes of the not-so-remote past. Foremost, these…
The poetry collection “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” by Janet Riehl is a soaring, poignant homage to family, sorrow, and the rebirth that comes with pain and loss. Written after the death of her sister in a tragic automobile accident, Riehl cobbled together her father’s mournful poems as well as her own and set out to…
You can read our interview “Eleven things about Janet Riehl and Erwin A. Thompson” by clicking here. What I liked about how the interview came out was the comparison and contrast for my father and me, our books, and how we write. Here are the eleven questions you can read our answers for. 1. Tell…