Frances McCue Reviews Force Field

April 23, 2014

Splabman

Frances McCue is not only reading at the 2nd Cascadia Poetry Festival at the closing reading, but also has turned in a fine review of the Force Field anthology of BC women poets.

Force Field

Excerpt: “Touring the book was a pleasure. The collection of poems is arranged in alphabetical order by the poet’s last names — the fairest way of doing things, I believe—and each of the seventy-seven poets is represented with a photograph, a bio and several pages of verse. Susan Musgrave, the editor, is a poet with a great sense of choosing poems that seem to present the essence of each poet’s work…”

http://ravenchronicles.org/Reviews/20-McCue-ForceField.html

The Cascadia kickoff reading is made up of ALL B.C. women poets Thursday night, May 1, 7:30PM at Spring Street Center. Get your Gold Pass here: http://cascadiapoetryfestival.org/contact

Thanks Frances.

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