Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Tag, I'm it: TNBT

Okay, I admit it, I'll seldom blog.  Except when I have a good reason to.  And I do:




My dear friend, Ellaraine Lockie, whose next book coming out is Coffee House Confessions, tagged me to take part in this exercise begun by Poet Elizabeth Scanlon, and I've just tagged her back.  The Next Big Thing exercise is part of a network of self-interviews (see TNBT Blog-Hop Database for a near-complete list:  Nate Tower) in which each writer tagged with a book coming out tags another set of writers, with the idea being that we all get to know what our writer pals are currently up to.


The Next Big Thing Interview for Eve Hanninen, Editor of The Centrifugal Eye:

What is the working title of the new book?
The Centrifugal Eye’s 5th-Anniversary Anthology. 

Where did the idea come from for the book?
Sometime during the 4th year after TCE’s inception, I kept getting asked if there would ever be an anthology of works that first appeared in TCE.  You know I had to do it after the 10th inquiry. 

What genre does your book fall under?
Contemporary Poetry

Which actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
All the poets included would have walk-on cameos — Ellaraine Lockie sighted in a Starbucks, Karla Linn Merrifield riding a dolphin, Clint Frakes caught snipping the head off a Bird of Paradise — but yes, there’d have to be a few celebrities representing TCE’s shining round-up:   James Franco, Liam Neeson, Meryl Streep, Lucy Liu, Lauren Graham, Denzel Washington, Emma Stone, et al…. Oh, can’t forget Morgan Freeman, of course.    

What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
The most Ka-Pow poems published in TCE from 2005-2010 that can reasonably fit in 200+ pages.

How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?
Essentially 5.5 years for the poets to write it, and another 2.5 for staff and me to nominate, select, and format.

Who or what inspired you to write this book?
Oh, my adorable poets!  Their moving words, their stirring images!

What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
While the anthology doesn’t talk about which themes the poems originally were published under, the sections are arranged yearly and secretly subdivided by issue.  This creates a slinky flow of subjects and tones that readers might delight in.

Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
The book is represented by and published under an imprint of The Centrifugal Eye poetry journal, called Centrifugal Works.  It’s just now available through TCE’s Spotlight Store on Lulu.com:




Here’s who I’ve tagged for The Next Big Thing and who's posted about their project:

Karla Linn MerrifieldLithic Scatter  (Mercury Heartlink)
Laury Egan:   Jenny Kidd  (Vagabondage Press)

2 comments:

Karla said...

Brava, Eve. This is wonderful! Thanks for the tag, too!

E.A.Hanninen said...

Thanks, Karla, looking forward to yours, too. :)