David Memmott’s long narrative poem, “Where the Yellow Brick Road Turns West,” has been published as an e-chapbook with an introduction by George Venn on Poets and Writers-Chaps, “World Voices,” Web del Sol. The e-chapbook series is edited by Walter Cummins and Thomas E. Kennedy. The poem is included in Memmott’s latest collection of poems, Giving It Away. Link to the e-chapbook is on the Wordcraft of Oregon homepage under Giving It Away.

The co-editor of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield sent the following comment to the author, Linda Lappin:

“It’s not an easy or simple thing to write fiction which keeps faith with the life it is based on, so the reader will say, ‘There is nothing here that falsifies’, as well as ‘This has the imaginative flair of story telling, the freedom of its form.’  Linda Lappin has immersed herself in Mansfield’s life, and emerged from it with a story to narrate on her own terms; a fiction charged with the  enthusiasm of a  good researcher, and carried through with a novelist’s verve.”