Roanoke Review presents
Poet Cathryn Hankla
Reading & Book Talk
Thursday, April 14, 7 PM EST
Join via Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/Hankla
All are welcome!
Cathryn Hankla is a native of southwest Virginia and the author of fifteen books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including Fortune Teller Miracle Fish, Galaxies, Great Bear, and Lost Places: On Losing and Finding Home. Not Xanadu is her tenth poetry collection. Hankla’s work has been awarded a Virginia Commission for the Arts grant, a PEN Syndicated Fiction prize, and the James Boatwright poetry Prize, among other honors, and anthologized widely. Her university career spans four decades, as professor, department chair, creative writing program director, and poetry editor. She is professor emerita of English & Creative Writing, Hollins University.
A Portrait of My Father in Eight Objects
Jonathan Sulinski
Dresser, pine, purchased as part of a set from a Sears catalogue in 1956. Right pull missing on second drawer. Mahogany veneer chipped away and finally removed. Crayon marks still visible on back panel.
Two Poems
Matt Dennison
Unless something is perfect I don't give a damn.
But perfection includes the kitten my daughter
found yesterday morning after a powerful storm,
No Phoenixes allowed in mausoleum
Richard Weaver
from some sound harmony refrains
from some darkness no light escapes
How to Sell Vehicles on a Dead Lot
Addison Griffis
"I’m drawn to forms, constraints, patterning, and rules—including the secret, strange rules I make up, like a pattern of assonance nobody may see but me. I love the way these constraints elicit the most unexpected language and content. I’m also drawn to sound, to music. I’ve always had an affinity for small details, so thinking about minutiae, about language on the micro level, just satisfies me."
