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Catharine Savage Brosman, who now lives in Houston, is Professor Emerita of French at Tulane University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sheffield (England). She currently serves as poetry editor for Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Her most recent collection of verse is Range of Light (LSU Press, 2007). Her new collection, Breakwater, will appear in 2009 at Mercer University Press, and another new volume, Under the Pergola, will be published by LSU Press in 2011. Her poems have appeared in the Sewanee Review, the Southern Review, Critical Quarterly, the South Carolina Review, the Southwest Review, Louisiana Literature, New England Review, and many other magazines. French translations of her poems have been published in the Nouvelle Revue Française, Europe, and other French magazines.
Cross
this Bridge at a Walk, is now available from
Wind Publications in Kentucky.
Its sixteen narrative poems recount
incidents in America’s history from the
Revolution to the present, with cameo
appearances by Mother Ann Lee, Emily Dickinson,
Scott Joplin, and Bix Beiderbecke.
To read sample poems from the book, go to
“Coxey’s Army,”
“Spirea,” or “Jesus
Walking on the Water.”
We offer to anyone who contributes $20
or more to The New Formalist a free hard
copy of Alfred Dorn’s latest book, Visits and
Vistas, signed by the author. This book is a limited
edition of 50 signed and numbered copies, and only 20 of
them remain available. They will be given to
contributors on a first-come, first-served basis.
Copies of Alfred Dorn’s earlier books are offered by
on-line booksellers for prices as high as $175, and signed
copies of his books are very scarce. Don’t delay!