In “Poetry for a Pandemic Spring,” Meg Schoerke reviewed SHADES & GRACES: New Poems (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020) for The Hudson Review
Meg Schoerke’s review appeared in the Spring 2021 issue.
News & Announcements
Feb. 24, 2021: Reading hosted by South Florida Poetry Journal
Coming in February, join me for a virtual joint poetry reading with Cynthia Atkins via Zoom. The event starts at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 and we will each read for 25 to 30 minutes. The reading is sponsored by the South Florida Poetry Journal (SoFloPoJo) and hosted by Judy Ireland. I will…
Inaugural reading for Shades & Graces at The Ivy Book Shop, August 26, 2020
A recording of the reading is available on YouTube.
Review of Shades & Graces in South Florida Poetry Journal by Robert Cooperman, August 2020
An insightful review of Shades & Graces comes from Robert Cooperman in the August2020 issue of the South Florida Poetry Journal (issue no.18, part 2).
Shades & Graces reviewed in The Loch Raven Review, June 2020
Shades & Graces receives an excellent and extensive early review by DavidEberhardt and Dan Cuddy in The Loch Raven Review, volume 16 no.2, 2020(link)
Shades & Graces: New Poems (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020), is the inaugural winner of the Daniel Hoffman Legacy Book Prize
On June 1, 2020, Salcman’s fourth collection is published; Shades &Graces: New Poems (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020), is the inaugural winner of theDaniel Hoffman Legacy Book Prize. Daniel Hoffman was US poet laureate in1973. As a consequence the book is published with an introductory essay byDavid Bergman, emeritus professor of English at Towson University.
Michael Salcman delivers “The Brain As a Metaphor Making Machine” in New York City, January 23, 2020
Watch the recording on YouTube.
A Prague Spring, reviewed by Michael Dennis
“This is history rendered as sorrow and spoken clearly.” Read the full review.
Lecture & Poetry Reading at Newcastle University (UK), May 16-17, 2019
Salcman is invited to lecture on the construction of his anthology, Poetryin Medicine, at the 10th annual meeting of the Hippocrates Society forPoetry and Medicine, held at Newcastle University in the UK on May 16-17,2019; he also gives a joint reading with Carolyn Forché, noted poet andactivist.
Loch Raven Review: A Prague Spring reviewed by Christopher T. George
In short, this is an erudite and highly rewarding collection. For many reasons, it is arguably Michael Salcman’s life work. And bravo for it. You can read the full review on the Loch Raven Review website.