Is there a moment when birdsong is particularly strong in your memory–where, why, what bird?Ī: A murder of crows roosts in the eucalyptus trees directly behind my house. Q: The pelicans of “Meditation on My Late-Deafened Mother” are silent, their presence entirely a visual feast. Weirdly, it is this juxtaposition of the posh residencies against the mostly native flora and fauna that gives “The Back Bay” an inexplicable aura. It is a coastal wetland surrounded by high-class homes, making the bay a surreal sanctuary for scores of wildlife. As a fitness enthusiast, I often run “The Back Bay Loop” with friends. In the suburbs of southern California, “The Back Bay” (as the locals call it) is place of refuge a body of water I’ve known since childhood. Discuss your favorite body of water.Ī: I live about ten miles from the Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve and Ecological Reserve, an estuary where up to 35,000 birds migrate during the winter months.
Q: Waterbirds, and the waters great or small that they inhabit, are important in both these poems. The Flemish painter’s depiction of the myth reminds me of the kind of tragedy that happens within our peripheral vision the tragedies we are likely to ignore because we haven’t entirely noticed what’s happening right next door to us. Auden and Williams both note Icarus’ splash in their poems, although in Bruegel’s composition, the eye is not drawn immediately toward the drowning about to happen. Auden, who wrote poems about Icarus inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting, “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” I’ve always appreciated how, in Bruegel’s painting, the fall of Icarus is not the dominating image. Is there a painting or poem on this topic that is your favorite, and why?Ī: Similar to well-known poets, William Carlos Williams and W.H. Q: Your poem “Another Icarus” re-imagines that timeless myth in a barren landscape. Delany-Ullman teaches composition at the University of California, Irvine. She works in collaboration with artist, Jody Servon, on Saved, an ongoing photographic and poetic exploration of the human experience of life, death, and memory. She recently published her poetry and creative nonfiction in Stymie, Lunch Ticket, AGNI 74, Cimarron Review and Zócalo Public Square. Lorene Delany-Ullman’s book of prose poems, Camouflage for the Neighborhood, was the winner of the 2011 Sentence Award, and published by Firewheel Editions (December 2012). Lastly, we'll be at the AWP Conference in Seattle. Please support independent presses and bookstores. One more thing: Prime Number Magazine is published by Press 53, a terrific small press helping to keep literature alive. We’re especially interested in reviewing new, recent, or overlooked books from small presses. Similarly, if you are a publisher and would like to send us ARCs for us to consider for reviews, please contact us at the above email address. In the meantime if you are moved to comment I would encourage you to send us an email ( and we’ll pass your thoughts along to the contributors. We’ll look into adding that feature in the future. If we’ve had to decline your submission, please forgive us and try again!Ī number of readers have asked how they might comment on the work they read in the magazine. We’re looking for flash fiction and nonfiction up to 750 words, stories and essays up to 5,000 words, poems, book reviews, craft essays, short drama, ideas for interviews, and cover art that reflects the number of a particular issue. Please visit our Submit page and send us your distinctive poetry and prose. We are currently reading submissions for Issue 47 updates, Issue 53, and beyond. In Issue 47, we continue to bring you distinctive poetry and prose: short stories about love in Antarctica and poetry on Mars poems about war and birdsong essays about basketball and cellphones an interview with Joseph Daniel Haske, author of North Dixie Highway and reviews of two novels. Our cover photo is by Ray Scanlon. Plus, Volume 3 has an interview with Pam Houston that you won't find anywhere else. These three volumes are beautiful books and contain some excellent poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. To see work from previous issues, check out the Archives, or order Editors' Selections Volumes 1, 2 and 3, shipping now from Press 53. For complete guidelines and information about our fabulous judges, go here.
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