Sandy Longhorn Features The Little Office on her Blog Today

I was so tickled to wake up this morning and see that blogger poet Sandy Longhorn has posted a review of my new book, The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, on her wonderful blog, Myself the Only Kangaroo among the Beauty. Thanks, Sandy!

I know just about anyone who blogs knows this already, but Eduardo C. Corral (Lorcaloca) has just won the Yale Younger Series of Poets Prize. Hooty-hoot and a woot, woot, woot!

If you live in the Seattle area and want to go out and hear some poetry tomorrow night, why don't you come on over to Redmond's Soul Food books and have a listen to me and my buddy Tom Hunley, along with some open mic poets? Here's the goods:

SoulFood Poetry Night

Thursday, February 17, 2011, 7:00 p.m.

SoulFood Books, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond, Washington

(for directions, visit http://soulfoodbooks.com or http://sites.google.com/site/soulfoodpoetrynight/Home)

Tom C. Hunley is an associate professor of English at Western Kentucky University and the director of Steel Toe Books (http://www.steeltoebooks.com/). His poems are included in current issues of National Poetry Review, Louisville Review, and Verse Wisconsin. His newest books are Octopus (Logan House, 2008, winner of the Holland Prize) and Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2010). Tom divides his time between Kansas and Oz.

Martha Silano's books are The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, chosen by Campbell McGrath as the winner of the 2010 Saturnalia Prize, Blue Positive (Steel Toe Books, 2006), and What the Truth Tastes (Nightshade Press, 1999). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Paris Review, TriQuarterly, AGNI, The Best American Poetry 2009, and elsewhere. Martha has won grants and fellowships from Washington State Artist Trust, 4Culture, the Arizona Poetry Center, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She teaches at Bellevue College, near her home in Seattle.

Reading series curated and hosted by Michael Dylan Welch and Lana Hechtman Ayers.

For information, please phone SoulFood Books at 425-881-5309.