This week we welcome Merle Lyn Bachman as our guest blogger. Merle is the author of "Recovering 'Yiddishland: Threshold Moments in American Literature" (Syracuse 2008), a book of literary criticism, translations, and memoir; and Diorama with Fleeing Figures, a book of poems (Shearsman 2009). She is an assistant professor of English at Spalding University (Louisville, KY), where she also directs the BFA program in Creative Writing. Welcome, Merle.
If you happen to be in Louisville on Sunday, April 26, head over to Carmichael's Bookstore to hear Merle read from Diorama. 4:00 p.m. (2720 Frankfort Ave. (502) 896-6950)
In other news . . .
A month of poets' tattoos over at Tattoosday (I'm loving these!)
Denise Duhamel's Ka-Ching! gets an "A" from Ken Tucker. Read about it here.
-- sdh
