January Gill O’Neil and Susan Rich, Underlife and The Alchemist’s Kitchen
11/17/2010 7:00 pm
“The
poems in January Gill O’Neil’s Underlife offer masterfully complex
portraits of childhood--both through the speaker’s memory and
observations of her own children...O’Neil’s collection is substantial,
playful, and compassionate--even when dealing with difficult themes such
as alcoholism and racism. Her narrative threads take surprising and
enigmatic leaps, yet are always clear, accessible, wonderfully real." Denise Duhamel
"...
From The Alchemist's Kitchen spills an abundance of the worlds fruits,
herbs and pastries, gestures of hospitality and regard, for Susan Rich
is a poet who writes in the midst of things, and out of a searing
awareness of loss and what it means to be spiritually awake, to behold
human life in all its possibility, pathos and transience and yet say
yes." Carolyn Forche
January
Gill O’Neil is a senior writer and editor at Babson College. Her poetry
and articles have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Literary Mam, Field,
Callaloo, Seattle Review, Stuff Magazine, Poetry Thursday, and two Cave
Canem anthologies, among others. She is a fellow with Cave Canem poets,
runs a blog called Poet Mom, and is cofounder and cohost of New and
Emerging Writers Series, a blossoming literary series in Arlington.
Susan
Rich is the author of three collections of poetry, The Cartographer’s
Tongue / Poems of the World, Cures Include Travel, and The Alchemist’s
Kitchen. She has received awards from PEN USA, The Times Literary
Supplement, and Peace Corps Writers. Her fellowships include an Artists
Trust Fellowship from Washington State and a Fulbright Fellowship in
South Africa.
