T.J. Beitelman

T.J. Beitelman's poems, stories, and essays have appeared in literary magazines all across this great land. He has received fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham, and he's been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has published two chapbooks: Pilgrims: A Love Story, which won Black Lawrence's Black River Chapbook Contest, and 13 Curses and Other Love Poems, which won the Dream Horse Press Chapbook Contest. He teaches writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and blogs on arts, culture, and the American way at www.beitelblog.blogspot.com.



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Pilgrims: A Love Story

T.J. Beitelman

Release Date: September 1, 2010

ISBN: 978-0982622865

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Top 5 Facts About Pilgrims: A Love Story:

It won the Spring, 2008 Black River Chapbook Competition

It requires a legal disclaimer: Jude Law is not really Jude Law. Same goes for Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

"It's fakery and magic tricks, yes," says the author. "Misdirection. Diversions. Facades. But, disclaimers aside, these poems happened. To me."

There are signposts to help you guide the way: “You Are Here”.

...but it is the result of a crazy premise, followed poem to poem down a tangled knot of rabbit holes.

 

ADVANCE PRAISE

"Beitelman takes us on a pilgrimage both sensual and metaphysical, both comic and tragic, warning us against "shimmer, shine, and show" while delivering bushels of each." —Joel Brouwer