[Susan McLean]

It's always exciting to see a formalist make the cut for a Guggenheim.

Susan

[Rick Mullin]

Cate Marvin also got a Fellowship. I'm in the middle of her collection, Oracle, and it is an inspiration to ... branch out!

I am also anxious to read Rowan R. Phillips' work--another winner. He seems to cut it down the middle.

[Maryann Corbett]

Loud cheers for Joshua Mehigan. And I'm definitely going to read more Philips, and I'm interested to hear Rick's assessment of Cate Marvin.

[Rick Mullin]

Have you read any of Marvin's work, Maryann? I had read the odd thing here and there and thought it typical edgy, kick-ass free verse, but I am in the middle of her new collection, Oracle, and I'm really getting into it. I plan to write an Amazon review, more or less as a means of figuring out why I like something so fundamentally different from what I have been so focused on for so long. I'm reading a lot of things lately that I think I may have been avoiding up until now. Contemporary stuff.

And, yes! I have said it elsewhere (two minutes before this thread~,:^), congrats to Josh, whose work I admire the hell out of!

[Catherine Chandler]

Wonderful news! I'm looking forward to Joshua's workshop at Poetry by the Sea.

[Charlotte Innes]

Fabulous news!

Charlotte

PS: Don't know Cate Marvin at all. I'll have to check her out.

PS: There appear to be two threads on this topic, by the way.

[Rick Mullin]

Having spent more time reading Cate Marvin's collection, I should say that my enthusiasm is waning somewhat. It's brutally confessional and relentlessly kickass, which is appealing. Its bitterness weighs it down, however.

I must say I've put other recently published volumes of formal verse down and gone back to "Oracle" in the past few days. It is a compelling read.

RM