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L.Shapley Bassen

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What inspired you to write this Chapbook/Book? What else should we know about it? Or just add the Blurb.

It’s my first collection over decades of publication. I hadn’t put anything together before.

What was your journey to publication like?

Like a jellyfish evolving into a dolphin, I hope. An early publication in The American Scholar prompted someone I never met/knew to ask AS to get me to sign the copy he was ordering. I had many poems published over the years, and then people started asking me to review their books, plus editors asked me to write poetry reviews [The Rumpus, for one]. I was honored to be asked to review Tess Gallagher’s “definitive collection” MIDNIGHT LANTERN, for another.

Any upcoming Chapbook/Book releases? Upcoming poems in magazines?

I’ve been sending out AIRBORNE … also have one titled BRONZE.

4 new poems just appeared in albanypoets@gmail.com https://albanypoets.com/2021/02/four-poems-l-shapley-bassen/

Your Website and Social Media Links.

https://www.facebook.com/ShapleyLoisBassen/?modal=admin_todo_tour;

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lois-bassen-11482a5/

https://lsbassen.com/

Any poets or books that inspired your writing?

Ah, where to begin. William Blake, Emily D., Wallace Stevens … too many current ones to start …

Who are you currently reading?

Jodi Picoult:novel THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS … poetry: in translation, Anna Akhmatova 2006 Selected Poems (trans D. M. Thomas) I think D.M. Thomas’s THE WHITE HOTEL is one of the greatest novels of the 20^th c.

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PWS – my niece’s daughter was born w/this genetic syndrome … great research is being done on gene & other therapies … They say Jabba the Hut evidences its symptoms, but all the children I’ve seen are triumphing over its limitations in astonishing, inspiring ways. The 8-year old I know just ran a 5K with her mother!

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