Monthly Archives October 2011

Ode to a Little Less Internet

Okay, I know. It’s like arranging a bouquet of roses while declaiming hothouse flowers. It’s like manning a bulldozer while belting out the Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi.” It’s like…well, it’s like most hypocrisy in the motley and subtle ways we allow into the quotidian by blandly calling it “irony.” But yes, I’m still going to write an ode to less internet by, of all things, blogging.

Works with Soul: Adrianne Smith

Tania Runyan’s Simple Weight

In her debut full-length poetry collection, Simple Weight, a finalist for the 2010 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, Tania Runyan (Ruminate contributor for Issue 16: Mapping This Place and Issue 21: Grief) distills, explores, and expands the weighty promise encapsulated in the Beatitudes and the relevance of that promise in our lives today. Her carefully arranged poems force us to slowly enter the

Why Create Anyway?

It is a simple question, but at any given time all creative persons have struggled with this basic query: Why do I do what I do?

Society might say that what we do as writers, dancers, musicians, and visual artists is frivolous and nonessential. But on a primal, intrinsic level we shapers of the world know that this is not the case.

2011 Janet McCabe Poetry Prize & Poetry Broadside

We are thrilled to announce Ruminate’s first ever poetry broadside:

Poetry Broadside

“In Bridgewater, my room” by Adrianne Smith
Limited edition, 75 copies, handmade letterpress broadside of the winning 2011 McCabe Poetry Prize poem “In Bridgewater, my room” and signed by the poet Adrianne Smith. The broadside is printed on 8 x 10 beautiful white cotton letterpress paper and is ready to be framed. With thanks to the talented design and letterpress work of Hannah Breshears of Red Tandem Studio.

Below are the 2011 Janet McCabe Poetry Prize winners, as selected by finalist judge Naomi Shihab Nye. The poetry contest finalists were selected by the Ruminate staff. Congratulations to the winners and finalists!