Publications & Awards Received by ARDOR Contributors:
We're proud of our contributors and our enthusiasm for their work doesn't cease after we publish them. On this page we share the recent success of our current and past contributors.
Dog with Elizabethan Collar with work by Issue Two Contributor Ken Taylor
Issue Two contributor Ken Taylor's poetry appears in the chapbook Dog With Elizabethan Collar, available for purchase from Hey Clown Ventures.
About Dog With Elizabethan Collar:
A collaboration of poems and art by Ken Taylor, Leigh Suggs, Karen Kaapcke, Leslie Blackmon, Jeff Filipski, Patricia Thornley, Ginnetta Correli, Dale Gottlieb, Hall Jameson, Victoria Selbach, Kate Louise Taylor, Matt Calcavecchia and Don Lyle.
The book includes the poem on the trail of the dinosaur and photograph Sagebrush which originally appeared in the second issue of ARDOR Literary Magazine in May of 2013.
Dog With Elizabethan Collar is available for purchase online from Hey Clown Ventures for $15 - shipping is free. Use coupon code ARDOR (all caps) to receive a 10% discount!
About Dog With Elizabethan Collar:
A collaboration of poems and art by Ken Taylor, Leigh Suggs, Karen Kaapcke, Leslie Blackmon, Jeff Filipski, Patricia Thornley, Ginnetta Correli, Dale Gottlieb, Hall Jameson, Victoria Selbach, Kate Louise Taylor, Matt Calcavecchia and Don Lyle.
The book includes the poem on the trail of the dinosaur and photograph Sagebrush which originally appeared in the second issue of ARDOR Literary Magazine in May of 2013.
Dog With Elizabethan Collar is available for purchase online from Hey Clown Ventures for $15 - shipping is free. Use coupon code ARDOR (all caps) to receive a 10% discount!
River Bound by Issue Four Contributor Brian Simoneau
Issue Four contributor Brian Simoneau's first collection of poetry, River Bound, is now available from C&R Press. Simoneau's debut collection won last year's De Novo Prize. Simoneau's poem, Children Writing Poetry, can be found online on page 44 of ARDOR's fourth issue.
“No detail is too small for Simoneau’s gaze, which takes each nail and board and beam surrounding it into account with a carpenter’s knack for shape, structure, precision." -Dorianne Laux
“Brian Simoneau is a rarity in his generation for the way he combines precision of feeling with an idiom that is taut, musical, & full of linguistic subtlety." -Tom Sleigh
“These powerful, diary-like meditations are a sort of psychic conditioning for the speaker—and there is a lot of conditioning to do: death of the father, death of the New England mill town—the only certainty, uncertainty." -Arthur Smith
“No detail is too small for Simoneau’s gaze, which takes each nail and board and beam surrounding it into account with a carpenter’s knack for shape, structure, precision." -Dorianne Laux
“Brian Simoneau is a rarity in his generation for the way he combines precision of feeling with an idiom that is taut, musical, & full of linguistic subtlety." -Tom Sleigh
“These powerful, diary-like meditations are a sort of psychic conditioning for the speaker—and there is a lot of conditioning to do: death of the father, death of the New England mill town—the only certainty, uncertainty." -Arthur Smith
We: A Novel by Issue Two Contributor Michael Landweber
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Michael Landweber's debut novel, We, was published by Coffeetown Press on September 1, 2013. Michael's short story, Touch, was included in Issue Two as featured prose in May, 2013. Touch was published alongside a short interview with the author.
"…thought-provoking, touching, imaginative and a promising debut…" -Read the full review here.
“[Landweber] aimed high and hit the mark, pulling off a fusion of literary novel and psychological drama.” -Read the full review here. "We is a captivating, genre-bending psychological mystery that's equal parts It's a Wonderful Life and The Twilight Zone." -Dave Housley, author of Ryan Seacrest is Famous |
The Saints of Streets: A Book of Poetry by Contributor Luisa A. Igloria
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Luisa A. Igloria's latest book of poetry, The Saints of Streets, was published in July 2013 by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House. Four of Luisa's poems were featured in Issue Two in May, 2013 alongside a short interview with the poet.
"In poem after poem, Luisa Igloria deftly reminds us of the relevance of an art form at the shore of irrelevance, where the “water writes what it erases, then writes again.” The erased—hungry ghosts, Pigafetta, the Saints, Yamashita, and Filipino public figures long-forgotten—find their memories re-lived in Igloria’s poetic timeline. Here is a full display of Igloria’s extraordinary ability to become a vessel for muted and fading voices returned to the shores of our historic imagination with an 'overflowing urgency of words.' " -Bino A. Realuyo, author of "The Gods We Worship Live Next Door" and "The Umbrella Country"
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Orbits' Crossing: A Chapbook by Issue One Contributor Peter McNamara
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Peter McNamara's chapbook, Orbits' Crossing, was published by St. Andrews College Press in June of 2013. Four of Peter's poems (two of which were included in Orbits' Crossing) were featured in our inaugural issue in January 2013. These poems were published alongside a short interview with the author.
"...Orbits’ Crossing explores the complicated tangencies of contemporary metropolitan life, of educated, aesthetically attuned individuals alone in the crowd, aware both of beauty in the world and of their complicity in constructing the perpetual mediation in which we are all enmeshed, divorcing us from direct contact with the sublime." -John F. Buckley, Arcadia Magazine | Read the full review here.
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Tether: A Book of Poetry by Issue One Contributor Laurelyn Whitt
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Laurelyn Whitt's book of poetry, Tether, was published by Seraphim Editions in April of 2013. Laurelyn's poem, A Listening, appeared in our first issue and appears again in Tether.
"Work that is delicate yet strong and carries on haunting after the poems' endings." -Patricia McCarthy, Editor, Agenda
"These lyrical, compassionate poems are in love with the world. Everything in them, from birds, to the sea, to rocks and mountains, to those who have died, is alive in spirit. In their wonder and respect for the dead and the living, they feel like messages from another world." -Kelle Groom, Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Sierra Nevada College |