It’s that time of year! We’ve asked guests and contributors we’ve featured on The Blood-Jet Writing Hour in 2015 to share with us their favorite books, literary magazines, and reading series from the year.
This post features poet Stephanie Hammer. She writes:
Favorite magical realist novel: Ryka Aoki, He Mele A Hilo
Favorite self-destructing poetry collection: Chiwan Choi, GHOSTMAKER
Favorite fictional dog book: Andre Alexis, Fifteen Dogs
Favorite somewhat sexual podcast about fictional crushes: hearteyes
Favorite poetry writing prompts blog: John Brantingham’s 30 Days til Done
Favorite town visited in China with huge Buddha statue: Laitan
Favorite about to be published poetry chapbook by former student: Angela Peñaredondo, Maroon
Favorite new literary journal: mud city
Favorite reading recommendation: Vickie Vertiz recommending Reyna
Grande’s The Distance Between Us
Favorite performance art podcast series about global warming: Heather Woodbury, As The Globe Warms
Favorite local bookstores:
Los Angeles: Chevalier Books
Port Townsend: Writers Workshoppe
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Stephanie Barbé Hammer has published work in Mosaic, The Bellevue Literary Review, Pearl, NYCBigCityLit, Rhapsoidia, CRATE, and the Hayden’s Ferry Review among other places. She has been nominated for a Pushcart prize 4 times in poetry, fiction and nonfiction categories. She published her first novel in 2015, THE PUPPET TURNERS OF NARROW INTERIOR (Urban Farmhouse Press). Her other books include the prose poem chapbook Sex with Buildings (Dancing Girl Press, 2012) and a full length poetry collection HOW FORMAL? (Spout Hill Press, 2014). Stephanie is an award winning teacher and Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside. She now teaches at writers’ associations, conferences, galleries, bookstores and most recently, at two private universities in China.
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