The Pennsylvania Review

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T.S. Kerrigan recently retired from the law after a convincing victory in the United States Supreme Court and serving as the President of the Irish-American Bar Association. He is an accomplished poet and playwright and is a former theater critic and longtime member of The Los Angeles Drama Critic's Circle. His plays “Branches Among the Stars” (concerning the youth of James Joyce) was presented at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and “A Thorn in the Heart,” a treatment of incest in Ireland was presented successfully at the Globe Playhouse. His poetry has been in too many journals in England, Ireland and America to list here. Former Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur described his poetry as “full of life, authority, playfulness, and good rhythms. Renowned poet X.J. Kennedy, former Poetry Editor of Paris Review, has hailed his work as a “rich and vivid collection admirable for the verve of its language-handling.” His poetry is included in many anthologies including Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems (Viking-Penguin 2002), Off the Record (U. of West Virginia 2004), In the West of Ireland (Lisselton, County Kerry 1992), and several others. His latest book, My Dark People was published in April 2008.

Jared Carter’s New Book

Cross this Bridge at a Walk, is now avail­able from Wind Pub­li­ca­tions in Kentucky.

Cross this Bridge at a Walk

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.”

Alfred Dorn’s Lat­est Book

Alfred Dorn

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!