Mary Kay Rummel

Comments about What?s Left Is The Singing by John Reimringer

I’ve been reading your book and much enjoying it. I like the organization–the convent material, then the move to family, the exploration of Ireland and ancestry, and the return to some of the earlier subjects at the end. And I like your ability to take observations of the personal and the natural world and connect them to larger issues and things outside yourself or the immediate thing being observed. I like your clear, strong, descriptive language.

See John?s wonderful new novel, Vestments, just published by Milkweed Editions.

My new book of poetry, What’s Left Is The Singing,
has just been published by
Blue Light Press of San Francisco.
What’s Left is the Singing is 105 pages. ($15.95)
It can be ordered from:
1st worldpublishing.com or phone (641-209-5000)
Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.com
Powell’s Books
or it can be ordered at your favorite book store
using the ISBN: 9781421891507/LCCN: 2010930193
or send an email to me and I will send you a book.

“When one reads the poems of Mary Kay Rummel, one expects a certain precision of language, a vigilant detail, a concentrated lyric whisper that elevates the ordinary life’s ordinary aspirations. On these counts, What’s Left Is The Singing does not disappoint. But these poems are also transformative. Here we find beauty that resists adoration, caution that armors raised fists, and belief that survives religion. Here we find metaphors for life’s passion in the scapes of sand and tides and endless stars that shine through us.” – David Oliveira

My poem, “Names For Green,” was selected by Andrea Hollander Budy as one of ten winners in Persimmon Tree contest for women from the north central states. Go to http://www.persimmontree.com to see the winning poems.

Some of my new poems are featured on the online journal
ArLiJo.com for the month of October and maybe a little bit of November. It stands for Arlington Literary Journal.
Check them out and let me know what you think.
Mary Kay

ASKEW Poetry Journal has a new web page that is one of the best literary sites that I have seen. Look it up at http://www.askewpoetry.org

For St. Paul lovers past and present the new Saint Paul Almanac 2010 has arrived. (Once a St. Paulite, always a St. Paulite)
It has a cover featuring Irv Williams and images from the city that we love.
It also has articles, poems, stories, photography, etc by many St. Paul writers, past and present, including me. For more information and a list of readings

see saintpaulalmanac.com

I have a story appearing in the just published Double Lives, Reinvention and Those We Leave Behind?A Wising Up Anthology edited by Heather Tosteson and Charles Brockett. For more information on that book and their other wonderful publications ?both online and in traditional book form see

universaltable.org/library

If you are in the L.A. area come to my reading on Monday Sept. 14 at 7:30 at Village Books
1049 Swarthmore
Pacific Palisades
310-454-4063
I am reading with Charlotte Innes

Two poems about one of my richest memories of growing up in St. Paul,
the state fair, will appear in the next issue of St. Paul Almanac.
They are titled, “Memento” and “Fair.”