Spring Mills - Schneider, Mike

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Résumé :
Spring Mills, a small town in rural, central Pennsylvania, becomes in these poems by Mike Schneider a gathering place for four generations of a family over a century of time. Schneider takes readers to where a grandfather recalls using a hand-crank to start his Model T-shining image of youth & freedom-and Guernseys in a pasture bellow to be fed. Readers learn how father and son form links in a chain of manual transmission, / hands-on sequenced pattern of the letter H, and the poet's sonic facility opens our ears to the metallic / industrial click / of shifting gears. With these poems, we also go to where physicists search among what's fizzy out there in the universe-not only for elusive cosmological dark matter but also to hear our inner voices, human dark matter. In Once Upon a Time, a remarkable marriage of poetry with skilled science writing, the Big Bang is an unfolding like a rose in bloom and Love is evolution of the cosmos. What else can we do?-a thought the poem answers with longing for, perhaps, a simpler time, a Spring Mills of Summer evening quietness. A breeze. / The big tree across the street. / Everything made sense. ...

Biographie:
Mike Schneider began writing during the Vietnam War when, while serving at an air force base in Ohio, he published an anti-war underground newspaper. He has practiced law, worked as a science writer, won awards for magazine writing, and written book reviews and essays on culture for several publications. Three times nominated for the Pushcart Prize, his poems appear in many literary journals, several anthologies and three chapbooks. He received the 2012 Editors' Award from The Florida Review and the 2016 Robert Phillips Prize from Texas Review Press. With a colleague in 2010, he founded East End Poets, a group of Pittsburgh-based writers who meet to share their work. In 2017, for the Lifelong Learning program at Carnegie Mellon University, he taught the first course on Bob Dylan in Pittsburgh. Recently, the Hungry Hill Writing Group in West Cork, Ireland, awarded Schneider's work second prize in its Poets Meet Politics 2022 International Open. He lives in Pittsburgh's historic South Side neighborhood.

Sommaire:
Mike Schneider began writing during the Vietnam War when, while serving in the US Air Force, he published an anti-war underground newspaper. He has practiced law, worked as a science writer, won awards for magazine writing, and written book reviews and essays on culture for several publications. For essays in the Thomas Merton Center's New People, he received a 2003-04 Creative Artists Stipend in Arts Commentary from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Three times nominated for the Pushcart Prize, his poems appear in many literary journals, anthologies and three chapbooks. He received the 2012 Editors Award from The Florida Review and the 2016 Robert Phillips Prize from Texas Review Press. With a colleague in 2010, he founded East End Poets, a group of Pittsburgh-based writers. In September 2022, the Hungry Hill Writing Group in West Cork, Ireland awarded Schneider's work second prize in its Poets Meet Politics 2022 International Open. His full-length collection Spring Mills (Ragged Sky) came out in 2023....