Deborah Bogen
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WHO YOU ARE READING??


"Noose and Hook", Lynn Emanuel's new book is enthralling. She has a center section called "The Mongrelogues" you will not want to miss. For more poetry try BH Fairchild's "Usher" and Merwin's "The Shadow of Sirius". For Prose - I just discovered Robertson Davies, "The Deptford Trilogy." As of book one this is a keeper - more soon. I also recommend Cathy Day's "Circus in Winter." It's really marvelous -- complicated, fascinating and artful. I recommend it highly. You will be glad to read it, and be loaning it to your friends when you're done. Who should I be reading?

WEIRD REVISION TECHNIQUE


You've been working on a poem. There's something there. You're pretty sure there's something there. I mean, there must be a reason you are coming back to this one. But you're feeling stuck. Try this. Read your poem out loud - work on it for a bit if anything comes to mind. THEN get out a copy of HOWL (you own Howl, right?) and stand up in your living room or office or wherever you are - and read a big part of HOWL outloud. At full voice. I like to use Section II - the Moloch section. I tell you - this will move things around in your head. Then go back to your poem. If you have a good tip on revision send it to me at dbbogen@​aol.com.

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Recent and Forthcoming Work:

Have you seen the Connotations Press site called An Online Artifact? It's a wonderful collection of all things art-oriented. John Hoppenthaler curates a part of called "Hoppenthaler's Congeries" and will feature new poems of mine in May or June. Watch for "Celan Sighting in Ohio" "Celan Sits on a Park Bench', "Charity These Days" and "Detoxing In Five Parts."

Valparaiso Review just included "Dakota Schism" in their latest issue (they are online). And Poemeleon just published "Dakota Migraine" and "Dakota Omphalos."

Crazyhorse is about to come out, and theya re including a poem called "Barbed Wire" in this new issue.

Selected Works

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Winner of the 2009 Antivenom from Elixir Press "What we have in Deborah Bogen's 'Let Me Open You a Swan' is sublime poetry, the rare gift of a terrifying look into the shaping of a warrior poet and her work. Michelle Mitchell-Foust.
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Here are some poems that are not in either book.
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Landscape With Silos was a National Poetry Series Finalist and Winner of the 2005 XJ Kennedy Poetry Prize

"Deb Bogen writes poetry that is naked and necessary, unadorned and political, intelligent and genereous. The book brims with intelligence." ---Carol Frost
Living by the Children's Cemetery was Winner of the 2002 ByLine Press Chapbook Competition

Judge Edward Hirsch commented that the book "provides a profound answer to the poet's own call for 'someting sinister, something/ fragile, something Bessie Smith/ could sing.'"