Candace R. Curran- Poet Talk with Ellen Miller-Mack 8/22/2025

 

Audio only from the WMUA Podcast (also available on Spotify). Candace R. Curran's newest poetry collection, The Sound of Her Good Name, published by Slate Roof Press, is available here . Captions are available with the video (auto-generated). Photo by Doug Anderson

  >New Book- The Sound of Her Good Name 

Winner of the Elyse Wolf Prize/ Slate Roof Press Chapbook Contest!

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Close Call

How we find each other in a good dinner
down back streets with the music of Fruit Bats
and drive&listen a choreography of liquored
romancing and kitchendancing until enough
is enough of this happyhorseshit and you turn
the switch     the we never know when we’ll wake
dreamscape     the place where snap and dinner’s over
in the streets of Saigon     Paris on motorbikes
the symphony of full bodied reds     Cowboy Junkies
and kitchen dances when I am sent home because
you’ve had enough of this    each in the other’s
arms    where you could lose yourself if not careful

 

New Anthology

  

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NatureCulture is something in which I am proud to be a participant. Thanks to Lis McLoughlin and Paul Richmond of Human Error Publishing for inviting me to be part of this book and associated events.

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Candace Curran's poetry is "beautiful, ....
poised between ache and ecstasy: startling
images, like "she let him pull her / dignity
down / like a shade to the floor"

- Robert Cormier, author of The Chocolate War and I Am the Cheese

She writes, "I pull on your fantasy so hard,
it comes off in my sign language hands,
a snake skin shining like spider silk in the
day bed".  Curran's poems are like that
shining spider silk, unexpected and replete
with multi-layered depth and fine craft.

- Lori Desrosiers, Westfield State College,

Editor of Naugatuck River Review and thepoetrynews.com