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Tree Riesener’s full-length ekphrastic poetry collection, EK, is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press.  She is the author of three chapbooks: Liminalog (ghazals and sijo), Angel Poison and Inscapes (poems of interior landscape).  Her work often appears in literary magazines, including Wigleaf, Flashquake, Anemone Sideccar, Recursive Angel, Blood Lotus,The Evergreen Review, Ginosko, the Schuylkill Valley Journal, Loch Raven Review, Pindeldyboz, Identity Theory, The Belletrist Review, and The Source   She has won the William Van Wert Fiction Award, the Semi-Finals of the Pablo Neruda Competition, the Writing Aloud Series of InterAct Theatre,  a Hawthornden Fellowship, the Best of Wigleaf 2009 and  three first prizes for the Short-Short Story and the Literary Short Story at the Philadelphia Writers Conference.  She has been a finalist for Black Lawrence Press's Hudson Prize, a finalist in PANK magazine's Fiction Chapbook Contest, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Web.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Link To One Of My Prose Pieces About Ghazals

The basic unit of writing in a ghazal is a couplet called a sher.  Here's a link to an essay I wrote on that subject for The Ghazal Page (subsequently re-published in Boxcar Poetry Review):  Satisfying The Ghazal Mind