Lantern Review #1
Lantern Review has finally published their first issue! Check it! It’s a beautiful website, and I hope the editors remain enthusiastic about their project, as I would love see how the Asian American poetry movement gets documented by them over time.
They’ve chosen to publish “Sunken Garden Exit Ghazal”, which was written by 5 of us Kundiman fellows while on retreat at Soul Mountain in 2008. I’m honored, of course. Also intrigued that LR intends to feature at least one new collaborative piece in each issue. I’d be interested to see what else others are writing and what their processes are.
The poem is co-authored by: Matthew Olzmann, Tamiko Beyer, Bushra Rehman, and Soham Patel.
I am a fan of writing collaboratively. Two pieces that I wrote with Rolf Parker-Houghton were previously published online at Poet’s Ink (October 2008), which I’ll post here later (they are no longer available at the PI site).
Tags: Bushra Rehman, collaborative poem, Kundiman, Lantern Review, Matthew Olzmann, Poet's Ink, publication, Rolf Parker-Houghton, Soham Patel, Soul Mountain, Sunken Garden Exit Ghazal, Tamiko Beyer