Sheila Murphy is Wolf Twin’s AUGUST FEATURED POET

Written By Geoffrey Gatza

August Featured Poet: Sheila Murphy

August has brought with it a spotlight on an intriguing voice in the world of poetry, highlighting the depth and diversity of contemporary verse. The featured poet for this month from Wolf Twin prompts readers to engage with a body of work that challenges conventional boundaries and invites exploration.

What makes Shelia’s selection noteworthy is the poet's unique approach to language and form. Their work often dances between the intricate and the accessible, weaving complex emotions into relatable narratives. This ability to balance sophistication with simplicity is a hallmark of Murphy’s poetry, and it speaks to a larger notions: the desire for authenticity and connection.

Link to Wolf Twin: https://www.wolftwin.com/post/august-featured-poet

Check out Shelia Murphy’s BlazeVOX [books] title, Permission to Relax.

Geoffrey Gatza

Bio Note: Geoffrey Gatza is the author of the poetry collections The House of Forgetting (2012), Apollo: A Conceptual Poem (2014), and A Dog Lost in the Brick City of Outlawed Trees (2018).

 

Divya Victor, in an article for poetryfoundation.org, said of Apollo: A Conceptual Poem “The diversity of these works echoes the complexities of the subject, but together they posit something specific, the heightened relationship between the interior self and the exterior world.”

 

Gatza’s poems have been published in anthologies, as well as magazines and journals including Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, The Pickled Body, Peach Mag, Tupelo Quarterly and various others. His play on Marcel Duchamp was staged in an art installation in Philadelphia and performed in NYC.

 

Gatza is an award-winning editor, publisher and poet. He is the driving force behind BlazeVOX, an independent press located in Buffalo, NY, specializing in innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Geoffrey Gatza is lives in Kenmore, NY.

editor@blazevox.org

http://www.blazevox.org

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