Write up in the Ann Arbor News

Yesterday's edition of the Ann Arbor News ran a little blurb about the Oleander Reading. Check it out at:

http://www.mlive.com/annarbor/stories/index.ssf?/base/features-1/119234222674360.xml&coll=2

Or read it here:

Writers for U-M literary magazine plan reading

The inaugural issue of Oleander Review is out; it's the new University of Michigan literary magazine, edited by U-M undergraduates.

Sarah Sala, U-M senior in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is the editor in chief; she and 2007 U-M graduate Amanda Nichols started pursuing the project more than a year ago.

Among the contributors to the Fall 2007 issue are Peter Ho Davies, Laura Kasischke and Thylias Moss, members of the U-M creative writing faculty; and poets Bob Hicok and Robert Pinsky, a former U.S. poet laureate.

Other contributors, including Sala, 2007 Hopwood award winner Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren, recent U-M graduate Shaun Dolan and Kristin Northenscold, will read on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tearoom, 114 S. Main St.

Oct 17th Work-in-Progress Reading at Crazy Wisdom

As part of Crazy Wisdom Bookstore's "Work-in-Progress Reading Series, recently published writers from the Oleander Review will be reading from their latest creative projects.

The reading takes place October 17, 2007 and begins at 7 p.m. The bookstore is located at 114

S. Main St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104.

[from Crazy Wisdom website]

"While the rest of us were wondering why there was no student-run journal in a University known for its brilliant young writers, Sarah Sala and Amanda Nichols were making it happen. Come hear the inaugural edition of OLEANDER, featuring some of the freshest new voices in town. Sarah is joined by Kirstin Northenscold, Shaun Dolan, and Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren. Copies of Oleander will be available at the event. Yes, you will want one. You will wear it proudly.

Check out the Crazy Wisdom website for more information:


http://wipreadingseries.blogspot.com/2007/09/rachel-morgenstern-clarren-is-recent.html

Marjorie Rappaport Award

Over the summer my poem "Proof by Design: the calculations involved in the dynamic of a natural wind" won the 2007 Marjorie Rappaport Award for poetry (out of the University of Michigan). Sorry if the formatting is a little off, but please enjoy the poem below:

Proof by Design:
The calculations involved in the dynamic of a natural wind

1. From where does wind originate?
> why, the second law of thermodynamics
satiation will forever seek to fill his brother, hunger.

2. Fundamental Theorem of Wind: every part of an idea
can be broken down into separate compartments

Instance “A”
The medium of verse is pure stone.

THEREFORE the following must be true:

> fragments of similes, metaphors and images,
when compacted through the passage of time,
utilize the property of pressure to redistribute meaning.
-verse read in reverse
- transpositions of words
-works read over in an alternative language

> within the framework of wind, through the natural
instances of storm and cloud design, it is possible
for etchings to be made on the surface of rock,
such that if the rivulets of the characters were played
upon by a phonograph, there would be a particular
sound produced.


3. Theorem: The wind is an intangible system of poetics.


4. Proof: If the wind is an intangible system of poetics

THEN:
the large quantities of chance operations
performed upon windswept rock faces
can yield symbolic formations which,
when arranged into lines and read from left
to right, have sustainable meaning

THEN:
smells brought on the back of the wind
can be used as a means to evoke
memories or incite new ones

THEN:
the strategic position of wind-tossed
matter can be interpreted as a work
of art.


CONCLUSION:
to believe in wind is to believe in its effects