Second on the back cover of my poetry collection The Minuses, where she offered the following words of support: First in VOLT, where she gave early homes to poems when I was just starting to send my writing out for consideration. She liked the introduction I gave before her TPF reading enough to ask me for a copy. During the 2003 Festival’s long weekend, Gillian and I hit it off she’s warm, fun, and bold.
Vallum poetry series#
I was then the Executive Director of TPF, and XXI was the second in a five-festival series I conceived and directed that celebrated poetry’s relationships and connections to other artforms. I had the chance to meet and spend time with Gillian in 2003 when she was one of the guest poets at Tucson Poetry Festival (TPF) XXI, which celebrated the connections between poetry and film. Loving and mutually good friendships in poetry, and really all other realms, take time and trust. That’s because VOLT was brought into being by terrific poet and person Gillian Conoley! Gillian and I go back a ways and in time. VOLT takes seriously being a poetry magazine. I love that! Because the issues do not contain editorial introductions or author biographies, they signal a primary focus on the poems. Hurrah! Plus, poems appear alphabetically, according to the poet’s surname that organizing principle makes each issue an abecedarian.
Vallum poetry full#
Then, within: Because poems appear in the issue as they do on 8.5 x 11 paper, they are given their full visual and spatial expression. There was a felt sense of the substantial even before opening the volume.
The dimensions-9 x 12-embodying a material substance. The revving V-V-V of the magazine’s name, intuitively and instinctually connecting me to the seed sound or bija mantra of the sacral chakra, the energy center of creativity. What year was that-1992? That makes sense because according to VOLT‘s history, the magazine “was created on an unusually sunny afternoon in San Francisco in 1991.” The issue that Jane shared with me would have been VOLT Volume 1 I remember Jo Whaley’s Atomic Tea Party on the cover and inside, along with Jane’s writing, the poetry of Ralph Angel, Jane Hirshfield, Claudia Keelan, Yusef Komunyakaa, Donald Revell, and C. Jane Miller, one of my graduate school poetry teachers at the University of Arizona, first introduced me to VOLT. VOLT Literary Magazine Volumes 26, 15 & 12
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