READ LOCAL WRITERS' BOOKS
Nancy Botkin PAN-O-PLY June poet. Parts That Were Once Whole. Botkin examines questions of mortality, consciousness, and the concept of self. Although sometimes metaphysical, this subject matter doesn't alienate the reader because Botkin's clear, focused craft shapes her subject matter into a very natural-feeling art. Memories start as solid events and become fragmented over time; Botkin takes those fragments and creates a luminous image of what was once whole.
Pyrrhonic by Stephanie Erdman. Erdman appeared in PAN-O-PLY in October 2019, and contributed to Project Poetry Month in 2020. “Pyrrhonic,” the term, comes from skeptical philosophy, and as a unifying title for this collection, it sets a welcome and helpful frame. The poems in Stephanie Erdman’s Pyrrhonic range from bourbon and barbeque grills to the expectations and failures of modernity with a clear imagistic focus on the tangible, setting up oppositions that, rather than argue, deepen both.
Anne Born contributed to Project PAN-O-PLY in 2020. Anne Born lives in Niles, Michigan. 2019 INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD Distinguished Favorite: it's poetry, essays, and short narratives - New York has a local color. It's people and diners, subways and buses, libraries and streets. From the psychics who advertise on the trains, to the tourists who selfie their way around the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, everyone contributes to the local color. Born examines the canvas that the City presents every day. Free street theater, something to think about, something to savor. Pick up a Greek diner coffee and sit for a read.
