Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, Nick Flynn will be at Suffolk University with two scheduled events. From 3:30-5 p.m. in the Suffolk University Poetry Center (73 Tremont Street, Boston, the Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor, entrance around the corner on Tremont Place), … Read More
When I return to the dog, the first thing I see is the teeth. And then the dog disappears. But the teeth remain. Bared. Bereft of dog. The bared teeth. They open wide as if to seize upon the … Read More
Simon Bettendorf, a motor-mouth grill cook and chronic history major, had no intention of taking up with a Lead Belly’s server or helping her mother to die, but he did both. It started on a Monday night, one of … Read More
Radioland, by Lesley Wheeler, and Stay, by Kathleen McGookey, are new books by two poets who appeared together in the spring 2014 issue of Salamander. Their collections, as in the individual publications, explore the breakdown of one’s parents’ relationship … Read More
Fani Papageorgiou’s newest collection of poems, Not So Ill with You and Me, is composed of four long, fragmentary poems. The book takes its title from the last sentence of George Eliot’s Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, a … Read More
Last October I spent some time on the Greek island of Andros, two hours east by ferry from the mainland. It seemed the right place to re-immerse myself in Cavafy’s poetry, even though Andros, as far as I could … Read More
Ok. I killed Dashwani. There is no argument or mitigation. I took the toss from O’Conn, a perfect little underhand flip, put my foot on second, cut a neat little pivot and fired a shot toward first. But Dashwani, … Read More
1841 It is evening by the time you arrive at Second Eden: the sun has just set, and there is a nip in the air that presages the autumn to come. The journey from Boston was a long one: … Read More
Our new submission period opens October 1st (and goes through April 30th). We’re looking forward to it.
Salamander’s upcoming reading features Derek JG Williams (poetry) and Peter Brown (the poetry of Emmanuel Merle in translation). Derek JG Williams is an MFA candidate at UMass Boston, where he teaches. His poems are published or forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Plume, Prairie … Read More
Salamander #40 is here–in the mail to subscribers and available at selected bookstores. We wish you great summer reading, and feel free to be in touch with us either by email or Facebook and let us know what you’ve read … Read More