For the past year, I have had the privilege of writing for Touch: The Journal of Healing as its Poet in Residence. I wrote a series of three essays focusing on the journals concept of Evolution into Insight: Experience. Intent. Craft.
It has been my pleasure to work with the editors, O.P.W. Fredericks and Daniel Milbo. Their friendship and editorial insight elevated my prose in a way I couldn’t have managed on my own.
If you’d like to read the essays, here are links to all three.
No, no, not the candy! And not actual stars, either, although that’s the original inspiration for my poem, now appearing in Fox Chase Review, Summer 2012: “Starburst in a dwarf irregular galaxy.“
In this issue you can find work by: A.D. Winans, Anthony Buccino, Elijah Pringle, Frank Wilson, James Arthur, James Quinton, Jane Lewty, Jim Mancinelli, John Dorsey, Le Hinton, Melanie Huber, Mel Brake, Nicholas Balsirow, Russell Reece, Stephen Page, and Stevie Edwards.
Fox Chase Review also did an interview with me recently: Ten Questions for Christine Klocek-Lim. In the interview I mention how much I hate doing readings. This is terribly ironic because I will also be doing a reading for Fox Chase Review next year. (Thank goodness it’s next year! Procrastination is your friend! Yeah!)
A few months ago I received a call from the editor of Touch: The Journal of Healing. We’ve had a long and fruitful professional and personal friendship so I wasn’t particularly surprised to be hearing from him. However, when he asked me if I would consider being the first Poet in Residence for his journal, I couldn’t help but feel completely flabbergasted.
Me? I thought. What do I know? Yeah, sure I’ve written a lot over the years, but quantity doesn’t always equal quality as so many of us know (have you seen the typos cropping up all over the web lately at large news/magazine sites?). Nevertheless, O.P.W. Fredericks persuaded me. He asked me to write a series of essays exploring one of the major themes of the journal: Evolution into Insight. How could I resist?
If you click through you will find my essay as well as three poems I wrote over twelve years. The poems all deal with one thing: my second son’s congenital heart defect. As I said in the essay: “Never be satisfied with the first attempt.” It took twelve years and many more poems than the three published in Touch to really become satisfied with my attempt at recording the trauma and subsequent emotional revolution that was born of my child’s brush with death.
There are a lot of other great poems and artwork in Issue 10 of Touch: The Journal of Healing. Check out the Editor’s Choice: Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas. There is also work by: Ed Bennett, Jackie Fox, John Davis Jr., Richard King Perkins II, Danny P. Barbare, Pat St. Pierre, Tammy Daniel, Emily Lasinsky, Murray Alfredson, Stephen Gilchrist, Krisztina Fehervari, and Susan Kelley.
I am so happy to have a poem in the latest issue of Astropoetica along with some other fantastic writers:
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I’m thrilled to announce that Whale Sound has published my collection of sonnets, Cloud Studies, as its third audio chapbook.
Working with Nic Sebastian was incredibly rewarding. She is an excellent editor and a sublime reader.
read Nic’s Process Notes here
read Christine’s Process Notes here
You can enjoy Cloud Studies in a number of different ways, thanks to Nic’s dedication to providing poetry in as many forms as there are readers. Here’s what she had to say about it:
Go check it out! I answer questions about poetry, inspiration, and how difficult it is for me to read a badly-written novel:
Interview with Christine Klocek-Lim with Brigita Pavshich
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I’m doing a reading with a slew of fantastic poets: Dilruba Ahmed, Rae Armantrout, Victoria Chang, Erica Dawson, Oliver de la Paz, RHW Dillard, Matt Donovan, Claudia Emerson, Beckian Fritz-Goldberg, Bob Hicok, TR Hummer, Brian Teare, GC Waldrep.
It’s being held at The Avalon Theatre in Washington, DC on Thursday, February 3rd at 8 pm.
Here are Autumn Sky Poetry’s three nominations for the Best of the Web 2011, sponsored by Dzanc Books:
Monet to His Wife, While Winding the Sheets by Kristin Roedell from #19
Sharing Christina’s World by Don Thackrey from #19
Surgeon Finds Tree Growing in Man’s Lung by Laura Sobbott Ross from #18
Congratulations!!
Greetings!
The nineteenth issue of Autumn Sky Poetry is now online.
Read poems and enjoy art by Lia Brooks, Stephen Bunch & Dianne Wilson, Theresa Senato Edwards & Lori Schreiner, Heather Kamins, Jean L. Kreiling, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, David W. Landrum, Rick Mullin, Sandra Riley, Julia Klatt Singer, Kristin Roedell, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, Janice D. Soderling, Paul Stevens, and Don Thackrey.
—It’s all about the poetry.
Sincerely,
Christine Klocek-Lim, Editor
Christine Klocek-Lim 