Upper Rubber Boot Books http://www.upperrubberboot.com Sun, 19 May 2013 16:00:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 I’ve found that anything and everything–from book reviewing to doing a prison workshop to editing and interviewing–has a positive effect on my own work, gives me new ideas, and makes me feel less isolated as a writer. http://www.upperrubberboot.com/ive-found-that-anything-and-everything-from-book-reviewing-to-doing-a-prison-workshop-to-editing-and-interviewing-has-a-positive-effect-on-my-own-work-gives-me-new-ideas-and/ http://www.upperrubberboot.com/ive-found-that-anything-and-everything-from-book-reviewing-to-doing-a-prison-workshop-to-editing-and-interviewing-has-a-positive-effect-on-my-own-work-gives-me-new-ideas-and/#comments Sun, 19 May 2013 16:00:05 +0000 joannemerriam http://www.upperrubberboot.com/?p=380 Intermittent Visitors: Wendy Vardaman and Christine Klocek-Lim, both interviewed by Joanne Merriam. ]]> http://www.upperrubberboot.com/ive-found-that-anything-and-everything-from-book-reviewing-to-doing-a-prison-workshop-to-editing-and-interviewing-has-a-positive-effect-on-my-own-work-gives-me-new-ideas-and/feed/ 0 In the midst of this hyperbolic fun, Apocalypse Now is a startlingly serious contribution. Six sections encompass 98 stories and poems, which are fairly evenly across the breadth of the book in tone and topic. Lured in by the promise of big names like Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood and Paolo Bacigalupi, I fell in love with the sheer variety in this book. Covering more than traditional apocalypse scenarios, it’s a collection of absolute endings. http://www.upperrubberboot.com/in-the-midst-of-this-hyperbolic-fun-apocalypse-now-is-a-startlingly-serious-contribution-six-sections-encompass-98-stories-and-poems-which-are-fairly-evenly-across-the-breadth-of-the-book-in-tone-a/ http://www.upperrubberboot.com/in-the-midst-of-this-hyperbolic-fun-apocalypse-now-is-a-startlingly-serious-contribution-six-sections-encompass-98-stories-and-poems-which-are-fairly-evenly-across-the-breadth-of-the-book-in-tone-a/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 18:55:49 +0000 joannemerriam http://www.upperrubberboot.com/?p=379 Missed this when it came out: Apocalypse Now: Revisiting the Daydream, a review by Sarah Dunn for the Nelson Mail.

]]> http://www.upperrubberboot.com/in-the-midst-of-this-hyperbolic-fun-apocalypse-now-is-a-startlingly-serious-contribution-six-sections-encompass-98-stories-and-poems-which-are-fairly-evenly-across-the-breadth-of-the-book-in-tone-a/feed/ 0 sound is of critical importance in poetry http://www.upperrubberboot.com/378/ http://www.upperrubberboot.com/378/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 18:41:26 +0000 joannemerriam http://www.upperrubberboot.com/?p=378 Intermittent Visitors: Daniel McGinn interviewed by Joanne Merriam. ]]> http://www.upperrubberboot.com/378/feed/ 0 “Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.” – Marvin Bell http://www.upperrubberboot.com/try-to-write-poems-at-least-one-person-in-the-room-will-hate-marvin-bell/ http://www.upperrubberboot.com/try-to-write-poems-at-least-one-person-in-the-room-will-hate-marvin-bell/#comments Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:08:14 +0000 joannemerriam http://www.upperrubberboot.com/?p=376 Intermittent Visitors: Joshua Robbins; Mary Alexandra Agner; Brynn Saito; Jeannine Hall Gailey all interviewed by Joanne Merriam. ]]> http://www.upperrubberboot.com/try-to-write-poems-at-least-one-person-in-the-room-will-hate-marvin-bell/feed/ 0 Quick, incomplete list of contributor news! http://www.upperrubberboot.com/quickincompletelist/ http://www.upperrubberboot.com/quickincompletelist/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:06:37 +0000 joannemerriam http://www.upperrubberboot.com/?p=375 Hi ducklings. I’ve been pulled six ways from Sunday for the past month or two, so I am way behind on listing contributor news! So let’s just get through what we can over my lunch hour.

 

For Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:

 

For 140 And Counting contributors:

]]> http://www.upperrubberboot.com/quickincompletelist/feed/ 0 I don’t truly understand anything until I’ve written about it. http://www.upperrubberboot.com/i-dont-truly-understand-anything-until-ive-written-about-it/ http://www.upperrubberboot.com/i-dont-truly-understand-anything-until-ive-written-about-it/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:50:27 +0000 joannemerriam http://www.upperrubberboot.com/?p=374 Intermittent Visitors: Iris Jamahl Dunkle interviewed by Joanne Merriam. ]]> http://www.upperrubberboot.com/i-dont-truly-understand-anything-until-ive-written-about-it/feed/ 0 Perhaps it’s an exercise in empathy, an attempt to characterize especially the missing or dead in whole, actual, honest terms. http://www.upperrubberboot.com/perhaps-its-an-exercise-in-empathy-an-attempt-to-characterize-especially-the-missing-or-dead-in-whole-actual-honest-terms/ http://www.upperrubberboot.com/perhaps-its-an-exercise-in-empathy-an-attempt-to-characterize-especially-the-missing-or-dead-in-whole-actual-honest-terms/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:27:09 +0000 joannemerriam http://www.upperrubberboot.com/?p=372 Intermittent Visitors: David J. Daniels interviewed by Joanne Merriam. ]]> http://www.upperrubberboot.com/perhaps-its-an-exercise-in-empathy-an-attempt-to-characterize-especially-the-missing-or-dead-in-whole-actual-honest-terms/feed/ 0 I believe at this point in my life it is about communicating things I already know or am learning on a deeper level. http://www.upperrubberboot.com/i-believe-at-this-point-in-my-life-it-is-about-communicating-things-i-already-know-or-am-learning-on-a-deeper-level/ http://www.upperrubberboot.com/i-believe-at-this-point-in-my-life-it-is-about-communicating-things-i-already-know-or-am-learning-on-a-deeper-level/#comments Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:30:14 +0000 joannemerriam http://www.upperrubberboot.com/?p=371 Intermittent Visitors: Roberta Beary interviewed by Joanne Merriam. ]]> http://www.upperrubberboot.com/i-believe-at-this-point-in-my-life-it-is-about-communicating-things-i-already-know-or-am-learning-on-a-deeper-level/feed/ 0 poems are wonderful containers for the communication of complex ideas or for truths that are larger than we are http://www.upperrubberboot.com/poems-are-wonderful-containers-for-the-communication-of-complex-ideas-or-for-truths-that-are-larger-than-we-are/ http://www.upperrubberboot.com/poems-are-wonderful-containers-for-the-communication-of-complex-ideas-or-for-truths-that-are-larger-than-we-are/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:31:33 +0000 joannemerriam http://www.upperrubberboot.com/?p=370 Intermittent Visitors: Kevin Prufer interviewed by Joanne Merriam. ]]> http://www.upperrubberboot.com/poems-are-wonderful-containers-for-the-communication-of-complex-ideas-or-for-truths-that-are-larger-than-we-are/feed/ 0 a little shine left http://www.upperrubberboot.com/a-little-shine-left/ http://www.upperrubberboot.com/a-little-shine-left/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:54:36 +0000 joannemerriam http://www.upperrubberboot.com/?p=363 Okay, ducklings. Save the date! We’ve set up two Apocalypse Now readings for Saturday the 1st of June—one at 11 am at the Main Branch of the Nashville Public Library (which, if you’ve never been, is a gorgeous modern classical building that’s all limestone and marble with loads of light inside) and the other in the early afternoon at East Side Story (a great bookstore in East Nashville).

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Other news! For Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors: Margaret Atwood will be on the Giller Prize jury and was recently on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor; and Joyce Carol Oates will headline the 15th Annual Get Lit! Festival in Spokane, WA.

And for 140 And Counting contributors: Jim Kacian won second runner-up for the 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards for The Heron’s Nest; Ken Liu‘s “The Message” is at StarShipSofa; and Peter Newton‘s haiku is at Issa’s Untidy Hut.

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