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When It Rains
Howie Good a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Dark Specks in a Blue Sky from Another New Calligraphy (#ANC030 Summer/Fall 2015).
He is also the author of numerous chapbooks, including Dreaming in Red, from Right Hand Pointing, The Devil’s Fuzzy Slippers from Flutter Press and Personal Myths from Writing Knights Press. He has two other chapbooks available: Fog Area from Dog on a Chain Press and The Death of Me from Pig Ear Press.
"How to be happy" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by the Origami Poems Project, December 2013
He is also the author of numerous chapbooks, including Dreaming in Red, from Right Hand Pointing, The Devil’s Fuzzy Slippers from Flutter Press and Personal Myths from Writing Knights Press. He has two other chapbooks available: Fog Area from Dog on a Chain Press and The Death of Me from Pig Ear Press.
"How to be happy" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by the Origami Poems Project, December 2013
6 pages, ebook
Published January 1, 2015
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December 27, 2022
“A sound no letters can spell…”
I found my way to this promising collection of Origami chapbooks through greatly enjoying two other volumes Good had released as free eBooks through Red Ceilings Press, "Inspired Remnants" and "Pink Fire”, both of which I appreciated immensely, hence was thrilled to discover this poet had some microchaps available through this consistently excellent poetry project.
If you are unfamiliar with Origami, they release six-piece one page collections of micro poems which can be folded into a distinctive shape in the beloved Eastern tradition. Ayaz Daryl Nielsen, Martin Burke and many other talented voices have ambitiously explored this deceptively challenging medium, found great success in the brevity and focus it affords poets, leaving no room for superfluity and requiring selections and the grouping as a whole be boiled down to the barest minimalist essentials.
‘When it Rains’ is Good’s fifth and latest Origami micro chapbook he eventually released, beginning after he’d delivered the second Red Ceilings collection Pink Fire and extending over the next five years. A piece from the third one “Obscure Signs of Progress” appropriately received a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2013 excitingly, so if you enjoy Howie’s writing here you will want to be sure to snag that too!
Good is a journalism prof at SUNY university, and like many other of the best writers of very short, economical poetry with a formal reporting background (Ernest Hemingway, Charlotte Digregorio) his intuitive grasp of eliminating all excess and gristle to craft the most punchy, hard-boiled prose is as striking and appreciable here as in earlier collections.
“When it rains” showcases Good at his most concise and concrete in terms of focus and content, even in its highly sophisticated and elegant language. Which is interesting to consider, as formally it includes some of his more experimental and abstract flights as well. The collection also finds him overtly exploring deeply personal subject matter in exceedingly poignant ways, with deft rawness and courage. You can really observe Howie’s growth and finely honed aptitudes as an artist and thinker on clear display here, including a few of his strongest and most memorable lines and ideas to date. Extraordinary, significant poetry highly worth investigating! Always sad when a person run out of Origamis by an author, here’s hoping he releases another collection here in the future… <3
“As all of deaths as a spaghetti Western…”
I found my way to this promising collection of Origami chapbooks through greatly enjoying two other volumes Good had released as free eBooks through Red Ceilings Press, "Inspired Remnants" and "Pink Fire”, both of which I appreciated immensely, hence was thrilled to discover this poet had some microchaps available through this consistently excellent poetry project.
If you are unfamiliar with Origami, they release six-piece one page collections of micro poems which can be folded into a distinctive shape in the beloved Eastern tradition. Ayaz Daryl Nielsen, Martin Burke and many other talented voices have ambitiously explored this deceptively challenging medium, found great success in the brevity and focus it affords poets, leaving no room for superfluity and requiring selections and the grouping as a whole be boiled down to the barest minimalist essentials.
‘When it Rains’ is Good’s fifth and latest Origami micro chapbook he eventually released, beginning after he’d delivered the second Red Ceilings collection Pink Fire and extending over the next five years. A piece from the third one “Obscure Signs of Progress” appropriately received a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2013 excitingly, so if you enjoy Howie’s writing here you will want to be sure to snag that too!
Good is a journalism prof at SUNY university, and like many other of the best writers of very short, economical poetry with a formal reporting background (Ernest Hemingway, Charlotte Digregorio) his intuitive grasp of eliminating all excess and gristle to craft the most punchy, hard-boiled prose is as striking and appreciable here as in earlier collections.
“When it rains” showcases Good at his most concise and concrete in terms of focus and content, even in its highly sophisticated and elegant language. Which is interesting to consider, as formally it includes some of his more experimental and abstract flights as well. The collection also finds him overtly exploring deeply personal subject matter in exceedingly poignant ways, with deft rawness and courage. You can really observe Howie’s growth and finely honed aptitudes as an artist and thinker on clear display here, including a few of his strongest and most memorable lines and ideas to date. Extraordinary, significant poetry highly worth investigating! Always sad when a person run out of Origamis by an author, here’s hoping he releases another collection here in the future… <3
“As all of deaths as a spaghetti Western…”
March 23, 2024
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