tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84569016823943243522024-02-19T03:52:50.875-08:00Flor del ConcretoA place to find out about writing workshops, publication announcements, submission calls and selected events.ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.comBlogger290125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-89474960586365302742011-11-16T19:21:00.000-08:002011-11-16T19:41:58.552-08:00New from Black Buzzard Press: IN FRAGILITY by Michael Graves<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3whOthJj3IvzZAqWFil5FRWoQUEowDMQ46Oj-vkuXFwzR_loEdcoWyk8c9F5B5tCtoBRGfFH8IRzoKQ5hfk47jdjxUFDq77hjDVhkz8MbkRPUSx7rTlP0kNRkepcMotbC0lQ-DMSLGbg/s1600/In+Fragility+by+Michael+Graves.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="'In Fragility' by Michael Graves" border="1" hda="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3whOthJj3IvzZAqWFil5FRWoQUEowDMQ46Oj-vkuXFwzR_loEdcoWyk8c9F5B5tCtoBRGfFH8IRzoKQ5hfk47jdjxUFDq77hjDVhkz8MbkRPUSx7rTlP0kNRkepcMotbC0lQ-DMSLGbg/s320/In+Fragility+by+Michael+Graves.png" width="208" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">IN FRAGILITY</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">by Michael Graves</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">$15.95</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Black Buzzard Press</div><div style="text-align: center;">ISBN 0-978-938872-47-8</div><div style="text-align: center;">Soft Cover, 86 pp.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong>Praise for <em>In Fragility</em>:</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Emotion recollected in fragility, these poems lucidly etch the power of darkness that endures, that returns. These poems are amazingly lucid, which gives them a paradoxical power." <br />
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--ROBERT VISCUSI, author of the novel <em>Astoria</em> (American Book Award winner) and of the poem "Ellis Island" <br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">"This grave book deals with such volatile elements as alcohol, sexual frustration, and apostasy. The reader will watch fascinated as Mike Graves burns his fuse down to the stick of dynamite he holds in his hand, for these poems approximate a searing self¬murder note addressed to any reader strong enough to peruse it. Only a poet as skilled and knowledgeable as Graves could render raw and repressed emotion with such acute control of form and diction, such range of allusion. But reader beware: you are about to take your own life into your hands." <br />
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--GEORGE HELD<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">"To adapt a phrase from James Joyce, whom Graves is influenced by, <em>In Fragility</em> offers readers the curve of multiple emotions. While traversing sentiments of aloneness and aloofness, and both objective and introspective, these poems are at once bleak, menacing, disturbing and humorous. They bespeak a stark sobriety often in conflict with itself and, through the effective use of metaphor and the recurrent theme of alienation, achieve a narrative coherence."<br />
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--A. NICHOLAS FARGNOLI, Dean of Humanities, Molloy College, Rockville Centre, NY, and President of The James Joyce Society. <br />
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</blockquote><strong>Title Poem:</strong><br />
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<div><blockquote>IN FRAGILITY<br />
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Speak to her <br />
In fervent prayer <br />
And fevered need <br />
With brimming heart, <br />
Shaking like a poisoned cup<br />
And soft, sick gut, <br />
Of where you rose <br />
From nothingness <br />
To nascent consciousness, <br />
Inheritor of world <br />
And family legacy, <br />
Consuming time <br />
And fragile self <br />
That can't connect <br />
Although it grow <br />
In pain, organically, <br />
Enthused by hope <br />
And every false approach <br />
Fear and circumstance allow</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong>About the Author:</strong></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvDzPEJTHB3qhSzna_qt-74EZ27WMM0ln9jQA8f7V1DYjR0KAKlngTeKRl0FrJzchy4LyMFepuS52V-jqs4oeWgL6OjTfSb1R-MYHS76CXhE-ZiD84mwbex4Wr10uj1HZ73ybzoyaUKkee/s1600/Michael+Graves.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Michael Graves" border="0" hda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvDzPEJTHB3qhSzna_qt-74EZ27WMM0ln9jQA8f7V1DYjR0KAKlngTeKRl0FrJzchy4LyMFepuS52V-jqs4oeWgL6OjTfSb1R-MYHS76CXhE-ZiD84mwbex4Wr10uj1HZ73ybzoyaUKkee/s1600/Michael+Graves.jpg" /></a></div>MICHAEL GRAVES is the author of a full-length collection of poems, <i>Adam and Cain</i> (Black Buzzard, 2006) and two chapbooks, <i>Illegal Border Crosser</i> (Cervana Barva, 2008) and <i>Outside St. Jude’s </i>(R. E. M. Press, 1990). <i>In Fragility</i> from Black Buzzard Press is his second full-length collection. <br />
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In two thousand four (2004), he was the recipient of a grant of four thousand five hundred dollars ($4,500.00) from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. He is the publisher of the small magazine PHOENIX. Many years ago, he was a student of James Wright and organized a conference on James Wright at Poets House in 2004. And he became a member of P.E.N. a couple of years ago. <br />
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In addition to leading a James Joyce Ulysses’ Reading Group, he has published thirteen (13) poems in the <i>James Joyce Quarterly</i> and read from them and others of his poems influenced by Joyce to a gathering of the Joyce Society at the Gotham Book Mart.<br />
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<em>Watch <strong>Michael Graves</strong> on YouTube.com at </em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjGZeKfSW8g"><em>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjGZeKfSW8g</em></a><em>, an in depth interview and a reading. (Credit: Poetry Thin Air)</em>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-70581045026440273302011-10-11T20:10:00.000-07:002011-10-27T08:09:52.467-07:00A New Poetry Collection from Michael T. Young Now Available to Pre-Order<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Living in the Counterpoint</strong></span><br />
<strong>by Michael T. Young</strong><br />
<strong>Finishing Line Press</strong><br />
<strong>ISBN 1-59924-870-0</strong><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><strong>Paper, $12 </strong></span><br />
<strong>Release Date: January, 13, 2012</strong><br />
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Author <strong>Michael T. Young</strong> writes about writing<strong> <em>Living in the Counterpoint</em></strong>:<br />
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These poems were written over about an 8-year period. If you’ve ever been astonished that in all the infinite amount of time, and all the endless empty and silent space in the universe, you are now alive and aware of being so, that is what my poems try to approach. All of them surfaced in the course of daily life, while sitting on the subway, sitting in a café, rising in a moment of insomnia, driving home toward the sunrise. In these moments, I find myself confronted by the question of identity in the face of loss and change -- the way the daily details render the face of who we are. <br />
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The most dominant influences while writing these poems were Stephen Dunn and Gerald Stern. I've alway admired their ability to take quite personal moments and find some concern central to simply being alive. <br />
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Praise for <strong><em>Living in the Counterpoint</em></strong>:<br />
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<blockquote>“Michael T. Young has crafted a metaphysics of memory in all its ache and luster. These poems pin down ghosts; finger the stirrings of nostalgia and its seeming perpetuity. Through a yearning to define those feelings most elusive, Young succeeds in unveiling them. <strong><em>Living in the Counterpoint</em></strong> coaxes introspection and haunts like a summer dusk, it is a true achievement.”<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;">-- <strong>Benjamin Evans</strong>,<strong> </strong>Executive Editor, <em>Fogged Clarity</em></div></blockquote><br />
<blockquote>“With the deftness of a magician, Michael T. Young moves us seamlessly between point and counterpoint, so seamlessly that we are almost unaware of the shifts from the living to the dead, from light to dark, near to far, and early to late. In tightly crafted gem-like poems, he contemplates fossils, diamonds, headstones, rivers, bridges, and even a slug, ultimately achieving and imparting ‘a deep knowledge of the earth.’”<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;">-- <strong>Diane Lockward</strong>, Poet Laureate of West Caldwell, NJ <br />
and author of <em>Temptation by Water</em></div></blockquote><br />
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From <em><strong>Living in the Counterpoint</strong></em>: <br />
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<blockquote>THE RISK OF LISTENING TO BRAHMS<br />
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I like action movies for the same reason<br />
I like Brahms, or undiluted scotch<br />
the constant flux of the sea, <br />
or the sun’s light and heat stripped down <br />
to raw fire, to the burning sine qui non,<br />
like the first time I fired a gun and felt<br />
deliriously naked and in that denuded moment,<br />
remembered what I was chasing after when<br />
as a teenager, without telling anyone,<br />
I hopped on a bus for Philadelphia <br />
and checked into the first hotel, <br />
struggling to dodge those who knew me<br />
to find if I wasn’t something more <br />
than they expected, or could become<br />
something other than they could know,<br />
thrilled by the risk and uncertainty, the same<br />
as when I hiked a mountain without water<br />
on a humid summer afternoon,<br />
trudging deeper into heat exhaustion,<br />
the nausea stopping me every twenty feet<br />
to gather strength from the pleasure<br />
of wondering if I would make it home.</blockquote><br />
<strong>About the Author:</strong><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWOcglTjBNugAciQWT0TyINnLsHiVCLO1oLM4A0DV0l455r9LnnEPrtukuM5YtSUSIkQn9p2F7JPh2fMmFyZe3jLVOzVTq_7QrHxuY7eGU3pKJ65GO-Hz1B1F9CnM38h3Tq-ufpuZPTgPU/s1600/Michael+T+Young.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWOcglTjBNugAciQWT0TyINnLsHiVCLO1oLM4A0DV0l455r9LnnEPrtukuM5YtSUSIkQn9p2F7JPh2fMmFyZe3jLVOzVTq_7QrHxuY7eGU3pKJ65GO-Hz1B1F9CnM38h3Tq-ufpuZPTgPU/s320/Michael+T+Young.jpg" width="213" /></a><strong>Michael T. Young</strong> has published two previous collections of poetry: the full-length <em>Transcriptions of Daylight</em> (<a href="http://www.rattapallax.com/">Rattapallax Press</a>, 2000), and the chapbook <em>Because the Wind Has Questions</em> (Somers Rocks Press, 1997). His next full-length collection, <em>The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost</em>, will be published by Black Coffee Press in 2013. He has received both a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a William Stafford Award, and he has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He received the Chaffin Poetry Award from the <em>Chaffin Journal</em>. His work has appeared in numerous journals including <em>The Adirondack Review</em>, <em>Barrow Street</em>, <em>Iodine Poetry Journal,</em> <em>The Potomac Review</em>, <em>The Louisville Review</em>, and <em>The Same</em>. His work is also included in the anthologies <em>Chance of a Ghost</em> (Helicon Nine Editions, 2005) and <em>Phoenix Rising</em> (T&W, 2004). He currently lives with his wife and children in Jersey City, New Jersey.</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<em><strong>Snail Mail Review</strong></em> is a up-and-coming literary journal. The editors are now seeking submissions for the second issue. Submissions are open from now until June 30, 2011. We would love to receive a submission from you. We accept all genre in Poetry and Fiction. Attached is a flier with all the specific submission guidelines. There is <span style="color: red;">No Pay</span> for accepted submissions. Contributors will receive a complimentary copy as payment. <span style="color: red;">No online submissions are accepted</span>. Online submissions are only accepted from overseas. Feel free to redistribute this flier to other writers as you see fit. If you are interested in submitting, please send 3-5 poems of no more than 35 lines and/or 1-7 pages of fiction to: <br />
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<strong>Deadline: 1/31/11. </strong><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(In case you haven't seen this call posted by Peter Carlaftes/Kat George on Facebook)</span></div><br />
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Poems should be no longer than 20 lines. DO NOT send multi-page long poems as they will not fit our format and will be rejected outright. DO submit shorter pieces—as long as it is full of the intensity and madness that reflects the age we’re living in.. Also–we LOVE Dada-inspired poetic word art, collage and photography. All art must be submitted in jpeg format, high resolution (300 dpi, 4×5 in). Black & White only.<br />
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Send your submissions to <a href="mailto:editor@threeroomspress.com">editor@threeroomspress.com</a> <br />
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The journal will be distributed at the <em>DaDa Poetry Salon</em> on Friday, March 18th, 2010 at Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street, NYC, 6-8 p.m.), via mail to contributors, and to those wise enough to request a copy.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: JANUARY 31, 2011</span><br />
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*<span style="font-size: x-small;">Arthur Cravan is credited with creating the first ‘zine in the world with his publication Maintenant. We’re proud to carry on the tradition.</span><br />
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It's notoriously difficult to write about sex. As even the most inventive writers struggle to capture its utter fabulousness, this most visceral and energized experience keeps looping around to its own staid, repetitive language. There are varying levels of heat (hot, sizzling, torrid); a running X-rated soundtrack (moan, scream, grunt) and the inevitable parade of pounded, perspiring and manipulated body parts (breasts, butts, rods). If you've read one (jerk, cum, rigid), you've pretty much read them all (suck, damp, spurt). The poems range from the dryly clinical (vagina, testicles, areola) to the unintentionally comedic (dripping honey pot, throbbing member).<br />
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So how do we re-energize and reinvent the sex poem? We identify the 100 words that are the most blatant offenders, and we declare them off limits. That forces us to examine the act without the customary escape routes, those words that say "I don't know how to say this, so I'm saying this."<br />
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Here's a chance to muse upon the loss (or rediscovery) of your virginity, the best or worst you've ever had, illicit sex, purchased sex, sex toys, illegal sex, teenage sex, geezer sex, sex in the news, dangerous liaisons and fumbling first attempts. Use your imagination, but don't use THOSE WORDS--and be sure to look for unexpected entry points (oops) into your work. Utilize persona, shifting perspective, nonce forms, etc. No scratch-and-sniff, please.<br />
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For a list of the forbidden words, please email <a href="mailto:100Wrds@gmail.com"><100Wrds(at)gmail.com></a> (replace (at) with @ in sending e-mail). <br />
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Submissions will be accepted at the same address. Please, no more than three poems per submission, and no previously published poems. No publisher has yet been wooed for this project, but the search is on.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><strong>Reprinted from</strong> <em><strong>Creative Writers Opportunities</strong></em>.</span>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-17567105953850733332010-10-21T19:51:00.000-07:002010-10-21T19:52:48.036-07:00Isles Poetry Group Seeking EditorIn 1949, <strong>Jerome Brooke</strong> was born in Evansville, Indiana. He is currently the editor of the <em>Isles of Myst Review</em>. He has also written a varied collection of poetry books such as <em>Dancer of Luzon </em>(January 1999), <em>Dark Sea of Sulu</em> (January 1999), <em>High Priestess</em> (January 1999), <em>Mirage: Dance of the Sun</em> (January 1999), <em>Our Lady of Silk</em> (January 1999), <em>Parade</em> (January 1999), <em>Hunters of Stone</em> (January 2000), <em>Lance of the Sun</em> (January 2000), and <em>Babylon</em> (January 2001). These poetry books, as well as other books by this author, are available for purchase on Amazon.com.<br />
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Currently, he has put out a call for an editor for an eZine produced by The Isles Poetry Group. According to information he has posted about this opportunity, “the position is unpaid, but with income potential.” <br />
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If you are interested in applying for the position, or would like more information about it, send an email to <a href="mailto:jeromevbrooke@yahoo.com">jeromevbrooke@yahoo.com</a> .<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><strong>Thanks to Astarte Immortal for sharing this call. Reprinted from the <em>Examiner.com</em>.</strong></span>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-63980547580517933672010-10-19T10:06:00.000-07:002010-10-21T19:45:05.737-07:00Submit to Nothing No One Nowhere<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div></div><em><strong>Nothing No On Nowhere</strong></em> will be published quarterly in print edition and will be edited by <strong>Amelia Hoff</strong>. <span style="color: red;">Submissions will close on December 1st, 2010 or when the issue is full.</span> These are the general guidelines:<br />
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<div class="text_wrapper" style="display: block;">Virgogray (Est. 2004) is an independent publisher operating out of Texas. We specialize in poetry chapbooks and anthologies. Visit us at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/virgograypress">http://www.facebook.com/virgograypress</a> Please look around, get to know us and if you'd like, submit something for publication.</div></div>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-76245938525221315822010-09-24T21:10:00.000-07:002010-09-24T21:10:13.768-07:00Ashland Poetry Press Releases Jason Schneiderman's Second Collection STRIKING SURFACE<strong>About the Book:</strong><br />
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"Jason Schneiderman has a fabulous, distillate gift for seeing to the heart of inherited paradigms: the Greeks on violence and the gods; the Christian Middle Ages on violence and conquest; the all-too-transhistorical, multicultural Everywhere on violence toward children. Hence the ravishing paradox of Schneiderman's poems, which find their freshest purchase in twice-told tales: the myths of Hyacinth and Echo, the myth of the progressive totalitarian state, the skepticism of the Rabbis, the nostalgia of the skeptical philosophers. STRIKING SURFACE (six of them on the hand alone, says the latest Interrogation Manual) is both beautifully conceived and beautifully written: witty, trenchant, tender, acerbic, and always, immutably, wise"--Linda Gregerson. <br />
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<strong>by Jason Schneiderman</strong><br />
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Ashland Poetry Press (September, 2010) <br />
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</tbody></table> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>About the Author:</strong></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> </div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Jason Schneiderman is the author of STRIKING SURFACE (Ashland Poetry Press, 2010) and Sublimation Point (Four Way Books, 2004), a Stahlecker Selection. His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including <em>American Poetry Review</em>, <em>The Best American Poetry</em>, <em>Poetry London</em>, <em>Grand Street</em>, <em>The Penguin Book of the Sonnet</em>, <em>Story Quarterly</em>, and <em>Tin House.</em> He has received fellowships from Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center, and The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He was the recipient of the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2004. A graduate of the MFA program at NYU, he is currently completing his doctorate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. <a href="http://jasonschneiderman.net/">http://jasonschneiderman.net/</a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong>Jennifer L. Knox</strong> (<em>The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway</em>), <strong>Ada Limón</strong> (<em>Sharks in the Rivers</em>),</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong>Jason Schneiderman</strong> (<em>Striking Surface</em>)</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<em>Schneiderman practices, and sometimes excels at, the kind of art that seems, at first, artless: his sonnets, prose poems, and sparse free verse show a laconic figure whose grave reserve reveals itself in carefully stripped-down language, using only the most common American words. This second collect...</em>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-79007521366730388352010-09-10T14:12:00.000-07:002010-09-10T14:18:04.817-07:00A Midsummer Night's Press: Submission Call for 2 Anthologies Celebrating Queer Jewish Poetry<em><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">please spread the word</span></strong></em><br />
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Friday, September 10, 2010 4:48 PM<br />
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From: Lawrence Schimel <br />
<lawrenceschimel@gmail.com>To: Roxanne Hoffman<br />
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Hola Roxy--<br />
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<div></div>Am doing 2 new anthos via A Midsummer Night's Press.<br />
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<div></div>Thanks for any help in spreading the word.<br />
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<div></div>And shana Tova!<br />
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<div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>A Midsummer Night's Press</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>announces a call for submissions </strong><strong>for 2 anthologies </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>celebrating queer Jewish poetry </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>to be published Spring 2011:</strong></div><br />
<div></div><em><strong><span style="font-size: large;">FLAMBOYANT: A Celebration of Jewish Gay Poetry</span></strong></em> <br />
edited by <strong>Lawrence Schimel</strong><br />
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<div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: large;">MILK AND HONEY: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry</span></strong></em> </div><div style="text-align: right;">edited by <strong>Julie R. Enszer</strong></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Deadline: November 30, 2010.</strong></div><br />
<div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We are looking for poems that celebrate and question, meditate and intimate, argue and reconcile contemporary queer Jewish identity. What is queer Jewish experience in the twenty-first century? What poetry expresses queer Jewishness today?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Whether you write about interfaith queer parenting, cruising in shul, how it feels to sign a ketubah in a country that won't recognize our same-sex marriages, fetishizing a sheggitz or being fetishized, we want to read about it and share it with others who want to read it as well.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What are our sacred texts for today? If they don't yet exist, write them. What are our queer Jewish blessings, curses and prayers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While there is a rich tradition of queer Jewish writers who have made an indelible mark on our literature over the years, from Gertrude Stein and Adrienne Rich to Allen Ginsburg and Edward Field, we are looking for work that reflects queer Jewish identity in the new (secular) millennium. As such, we are open either to unpublished work, or work that was published since 2000 (this would include work</div><div style="text-align: justify;">originally published in a magazine or anthology before 2000, which was later collected in a book published after 2000).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We welcome voices from across the spectrum of Jewish identity, from observant to merely cultural, and their intersections with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender identities and experiences.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We are open to all styles of poetry, from formal to free verse.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We welcome queer Jewish voices from outside the US, and are willing to consider translations into English. (It is the translator's responsibility to secure permission to reprint the poem in English.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Both anthologies are open to previously published work, but it is the poet's responsibility to secure permission to reprint the poem.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We welcome work from Jewish trans poets, so long as the content of the work is relevant to either gay or lesbian experience.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is no limit to the number of poems which may be submitted, so long as the Jewish and queer content are both relevant.</div><br />
<div></div>Submission instructions:<br />
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<ol><li><div style="text-align: left;">Title file with the initials of the anthology and author's last name: F-Surname.doc or MH-Surname.doc</div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;">Include your name, your mailing address, your email address, and a bio WITHIN the .doc file with your essay, as submissions will be separated from emails to be read.</div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;">Submit your work by email, as an attachment in .doc or .rtf format, to <a href="mailto:queerjewishpoetry@gmail.com">queerjewishpoetry@gmail.com</a> </div></li>
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<div></div><strong>Deadline: November 30, 2010.</strong><br />
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<div></div>Payment will be three copies of the anthology per contributor.<br />
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<div></div><strong>About the Editors:</strong><br />
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<div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Lawrence Schimel</strong> is the author or anthologist of over 100 books, including FOUND TRIBE: JEWISH COMING OUT STORIES, KOSHER MEAT, BEST GAY POETRY 2008, FIRST PERSON QUEER, PoMoSEXUALS: CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT GENDER AND SEXUALITY, TWO BOYS IN LOVE, THE FUTURE IS QUEER, etc. He has won the Lambda Literary Award (twice), an Independent Publisher Book Award, the Spectrum Award, and other honors. He writes in both English and Spanish, and his work has been translated into 27 languages.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Julie R. Enszer</strong> is the author of the poetry collection HANDMADE LOVE (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2010) and the chapbook SISTERHOOD (Seven Kitchens Press, 2010). Her work has appeared in numerous Jewish, feminist and queer publications, including BRIDGES, JEWISH WOMEN'S LITERARY ANNUAL, SINISTER WISDOM, CALYX, WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS, FEMINIST STUDIES, WASHINGTON BLADE, LAMBDA BOOK REPORT, etc. She is also the founder of the Lesbian Poetry Archive.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>A Midsummer Night's Press</strong> is an independent poetry publisher, publishing primarily in two imprints: 1) Fabula Rasa, dedicated to work inspired by myth and fairy tale, which has published FORTUNE'S LOVER: A BOOK OF TAROT POEMS by Rachel Pollack and FAIRY TALES FOR WRITERS by Lawrence Schimel, and 2) Body Language, devoted to queer poetry, which has published THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN OUR OTHER LIFE by Achy Obejas; BANALITIES by Brane Mozetic, translated by Elizabeti Zargi; HANDMADE LOVE by Julie R. Enszer; and MUTE by Raymond Luczak.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amidsummernightspress.com/">http://www.amidsummernightspress.com/</a></div>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-77508052143837627392010-09-02T08:45:00.000-07:002010-09-02T08:47:22.436-07:00Eighty-eight Stories Campaign Against Domestic Violence And Raise Funds For Abused Mothers And Kids<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=widgetsamazon-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=1453631011&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: center; height: 245px; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe><br />
<em><strong><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Wisdom of Our Mothers</strong></em> (Familia Books, 2010) is an anthology of true stories and poetry based on the theme of lessons learned from the authors’ mothers. It is the brain-child of part-time philanthropist <strong>Eric Bowen</strong>.</div></blockquote></strong></em><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">WISDOM OF OUR MOTHERS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Stories and Poems by Daughters and Sons</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Edited by Eric Bowen</em></div><div style="text-align: center;">Trade Paperback, 296 Pages</div><div style="text-align: center;">ISBN 978-1453631010 </div><div style="text-align: center;">Familia Books, 2010</div><div style="text-align: center;">$14.95</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<em>From the mother who taught her daughter to wire a lamp </em><br />
<em>to the mother who recruited the President to save her daughter's life, </em><br />
<em>the memories of daughters and sons of the remarkable wisdom and dedication of their mothers come to vivid life in this anthology of true stories.</em><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~Contributors~</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aderemi Adegbite</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lily Alex</div><div style="text-align: center;">Liz Allen</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sally Bellerose</div><div style="text-align: center;">B. Lynch Black</div><div style="text-align: center;">L. Michael Black</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sylvia Bright-Green</div><div style="text-align: center;">Rheana Lee Campbell</div><div style="text-align: center;">Iona Carroll</div><div style="text-align: center;">Selene Castrovilla</div><div style="text-align: center;">Vijayalakshmi Chary</div><div style="text-align: center;">Eve Cogdell</div><div style="text-align: center;">JaeLynn Conrad</div><div style="text-align: center;">Flavia Cosma</div><div style="text-align: center;">Althea Gael Coupé</div><div style="text-align: center;">Shirley Anne Cox</div><div style="text-align: center;">Julie Curwin</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lynne Daroff</div><div style="text-align: center;">Carole Davis</div><div style="text-align: center;">Laura Aviella Davis</div><div style="text-align: center;">Mary Dempsey</div><div style="text-align: center;">Liz Dolan</div><div style="text-align: center;">Melissa England</div><div style="text-align: center;">Fred Evans</div><div style="text-align: center;">Deepanjolie Sonya Figg</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sandra Fischer</div><div style="text-align: center;">Virginia Fortner</div><div style="text-align: center;">Michele Graves</div><div style="text-align: center;">Susan Harmon</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jean M. Hendrickson</div><div style="text-align: center;">Roxanne Hoffman</div><div style="text-align: center;">Stephanie Holbrook</div><div style="text-align: center;">Andrea Hernandez Holm</div><div style="text-align: center;">Anne-Marie Hood</div><div style="text-align: center;">Dee Ann E. L. Horvath</div><div style="text-align: center;">Patrick Hurley</div><div style="text-align: center;">Amanda Hyslop</div><div style="text-align: center;">Beverly Jackson</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sally Jadlow</div><div style="text-align: center;">Diane Kolb</div><div style="text-align: center;">Kathy Krisko</div><div style="text-align: center;">Erin Lawlor</div><div style="text-align: center;">Loraine Lawson</div><div style="text-align: center;">James W. Lewis</div><div style="text-align: center;">Christy Lowman</div><div style="text-align: center;">Rose Marks</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tara Masih</div><div style="text-align: center;">Caryl McAdoo</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lyn McConchie</div><div style="text-align: center;">Myrna McKee</div><div style="text-align: center;">Rajendar Menen</div><div style="text-align: center;">Susan E. Méra</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jayne Moraski</div><div style="text-align: center;">Brooke Mullins</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hugh Neeld</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jean Noble</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lucy L. Painter</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sr. Josie Palmeri, MPF</div><div style="text-align: center;">Roberta Filzer Pearl</div><div style="text-align: center;">Perry P. Perkins</div><div style="text-align: center;">Carolyn Piper</div><div style="text-align: center;">Gayle Portnow</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oluwafemi Reis</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pat Richards</div><div style="text-align: center;">Dmae Roberts</div><div style="text-align: center;">Gwen Russell Green</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sheri Ryan</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wanda Ryder</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lynn Veach Sadler</div><div style="text-align: center;">Mark Scheel</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jacqueline Seewald</div><div style="text-align: center;">Virginia Settle</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ryma Shohami</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sheila Sievewright</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sharon Skinner</div><div style="text-align: center;">Serena Spinello</div><div style="text-align: center;">Madeline Steeg</div><div style="text-align: center;">Deborah Straw</div><div style="text-align: center;">Annmarie B. Tait</div><div style="text-align: center;">Laura Tamayo</div><div style="text-align: center;">Nicole A. Tatum</div><div style="text-align: center;">Rita Janice Traub</div><div style="text-align: center;">Dalia van den Boogaard</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sarah Wagner</div><div style="text-align: center;">K. K. Wilder</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lisa K. Winkler</div><br />
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<em>Opposing domestic violence: In honor of those mothers doing their work in the most difficult of circumstances, editor <strong>Eric Bowen</strong> has pledged to donate one-half of his profits from the sale of this book to shelters for women and their children who are escaping abusive relationships.</em> </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong>About the Editor</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Born in Renton, Washington State in 1953, Eric Bowen uses his day job as an accountant to support his family and his various hobbies and social activities, including Toastmasters, the Unitarians, hiking, taekwondo, linguistics, singing, and of course writing. His first book, An American View of Wales, chronicled his decade of volunteering for the Welsh home rule and language restoration movement. <br />
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EIGHTY-EIGHT STORIES CAMPAIGN AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE <br />
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Anthology aims to raise funds for abused mothers and children <br />
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Bellingham, Washington (July 1, 2010) Wisdom of Our Mothers (Familia Books, 2010) is an anthology of true stories and poetry based on the theme of lessons learned from the authors’ mothers. It is the brain-child of part-time philanthropist Eric Bowen. <br />
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Following the publication of Tim Russert’s popular Wisdom of Our Fathers, Bowen saw the need for a companion volume of maternal wisdom. Bowen solicited writers from around the world to contribute their stories of what they had learned from their mothers. Guided by his own mother’s teaching that “one does well by doing good,” Bowen has pledged half his profits from the book to raise funds for shelters for abused mothers and children. <br />
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Everyone has a mother, and readers will doubtlessly find stories in this anthology that relate to their own experiences. Yet Bowen’s presentation isn’t sentimental. The mothers profiled in the stories are human. Their virtues are balanced by their flaws, and in some cases, the lessons learned from those flaws form the basis of the story. <br />
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The anthology explores maternal wisdom in various categories: emotional, relationship, and practical skills; virtues, humor, and heritage. One chapter delves into “the dark side,” profiling some truly dysfunctional mothers. “From other lands” describes motherhood in cultures outside the American mainstream. <br />
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For more information about Wisdom of Our Mothers, please visit <a href="http://www.familiabooks.com/">http://www.familiabooks.com/</a> or contact Eric Bowen at 360-384-1028. <br />
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About Eric Bowen: <br />
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Eric Bowen has worked as an occasional free-lance reporter. Of Welsh descent, he covered the Welsh nationalist movement of the 1990s, summarizing his work in his first book, An American View of Wales. In addition to his writing experience, Bowen brings to his new book a social conscience and multicultural perspective developed in his volunteer work with the United Farm Workers and Amnesty International. These perspectives, coupled with his personal trauma as both an observer and victim of domestic violence in his extended family, are evident in the yeasty, gritty, and multicultural facets of the anthology. <br />
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About Familia Books: <br />
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Familia Books is Eric Bowen’s publishing enterprise. In addition to <em>Wisdom of Our Mothers</em>, Bowen plans further anthologies including <em>Wisdom of Our Children</em> and <em>Surviving Domestic Violence</em>.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;">by Bob Hart</span></strong><br />
<strong>(Bench Press, September 2010)</strong><br />
<em>6x9, perfect bound, 84 pages, $15.00</em></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Publisher/editor <strong>Jee Leong Koh</strong>,<strong> Bench Press</strong> and author/poet <strong>Bob Hart</strong> will launch <em><strong>Lightly in the Good of Day</strong></em>,<em><strong> </strong></em>a new collection of poetry by Bob Hart, this September at the Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village, New York. This will the second title released by Bench Press, after its inaugural <strong><em>Equal to the Earth</em></strong>, a full-length collection by Jee Leong Koh, released last summer. And a second book for Bob Hart who has a previous small book of poems titled <em>Acrobat</em>. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Bob Hart, a beloved and long-time regular at the Friday night open mic at the Cornelia Street Cafe, has been regaling New York audiences with his wistful and lyrical verse for decades. An observant and thoughtful writer, his poetic confessions at the open mic are more revelatory of the world around him than of himself. Hart grew up in Harlem, on 145th Street, 142nd Street and 158th Street. He served in the army from 1952 to 1954, and was stationed in Germany during the Korean War. He now works for a mail sorting company in Midtown West, and lives in Brooklyn, often sporting one of his many colorful trademarks vests. </div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Friday, Sep 17 at 6:00PM</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>SON OF PONY Kat Georges, host </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>The Friday night legendary open mic poetry series</em> </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~features~</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">BOB HART</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>@ </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Cornelia Street Cafe</strong> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>29 Cornelia Street</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>(Between Bleecker & West 4th) </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>New York, NY 10014</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>212.989.9319</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Arrive before 6 pm to sign up. </strong></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Cover $7 (includes one house drink)</strong></em> </div><br />
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For more details about Bench Press and <em>Lightly in the Good of Day</em> by Bob Hart please visit: <a href="http://www.benchpresspoetry.com/">http://www.benchpresspoetry.com/</a> <br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>poetry that exerts pressure at every point, and so achieves a</strong> <strong>momentary rest</strong></span></i>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-66206004406019987942010-08-30T17:42:00.000-07:002010-08-30T18:28:37.352-07:00Valery Oisteanu remembers LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1912-2010)<blockquote><table><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Louise Bourgeois (1912-2010)</strong></span><br />
<strong>by Valery Oisteanu</strong><br />
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Sculptures are almost melting, crying of loneliness <br />
Aggressive ecstasy and malicious joy<br />
Gigantic spiders stand still, in a frozen position<br />
The spider-mother had passed into infinity<br />
Mirrors reflecting other mirrors, as a portal<br />
The old doors that were never opened <br />
Her octagonal room a sequence of doors <br />
Move slowly, almost invisible, closing opening<br />
Two dark limbs are chopped off <br />
And lay there on a slab of dark granite<br />
The grand dame of Confessional art <br />
With the dark latex phallus under her arm<br />
Talks to Freud and Lacan, May 31, 2010<br />
Something dark and uneasy about her <br />
Her head appears like a surreal house <br />
No eyes but windows, no face but steps<br />
A garden of phalluses grows under her<br />
She will harvest them on a full moon<br />
Eccentric, sadistic, abstract-geometric<br />
Totemic, Iconic, Ironic<br />
All of that and much more<br />
The Louise we knew, will not return.<br />
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<em>The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. My family was in the business of tapestry restoration, and my mother was in charge of the workshop. Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.</em></blockquote><blockquote>– Louise Bourgeois<br />
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</blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Louise Joséphine Bourgeois, French-American artist and sculptor, nicknamed the "Spiderwoman" for her spider structures or <i>Maman</i>, died of heart failure on 31 May 2010 at the age of 98. She is credited as the founder of "confessional" art, best known for her disturbing and symbolic sculptures exploring birth, sexuality and death from a woman's point of view.</span></div><br />
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<blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-39777789025288606792010-08-22T13:58:00.000-07:002010-08-22T14:01:04.999-07:00The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow No. 3: Now Available on LULU.com<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8vY0TdpAjLKBeaJDIZFJ-3VcZeCG2xX74XtUxyymm0i44KROWk51er6DIHwWENRSEap-EuVFUd1PDr3M3WMM7Kd9FbnCVpkGzp63Sruad3WdWubiWKHyfTzA41s9KNRc-Fi8_Ocms1loZ/s1600/The+Rutherford+Red+Wheelbarrow+No.+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8vY0TdpAjLKBeaJDIZFJ-3VcZeCG2xX74XtUxyymm0i44KROWk51er6DIHwWENRSEap-EuVFUd1PDr3M3WMM7Kd9FbnCVpkGzp63Sruad3WdWubiWKHyfTzA41s9KNRc-Fi8_Ocms1loZ/s400/The+Rutherford+Red+Wheelbarrow+No.+3.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><div align="center"><em><span style="font-size: large;">The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow No. 3</span></em> </div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">ISBN 978-0-557-58376-8 </div><div style="text-align: center;">Paperback: 232, Price: $15</div><div style="text-align: center;">Red Wheelbarrow Poets, August 2010</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-rutherford-red-wheelbarrow-no-3/12206587">http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-rutherford-red-wheelbarrow-no-3/12206587</a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Masthead:</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Editor: Jim Klein</div><div style="text-align: center;">Managing Editor: Mark Fogarty</div><div style="text-align: center;">Managing Editor: Sondra Singer Beaulieu</div><div style="text-align: center;">Designer: Claudia Serea</div><div style="text-align: center;">Editor Advisor: John Barrale</div><div style="text-align: center;">Editor Advisor: Céline Beaulieu</div><div style="text-align: center;">Editor Advisor: George DeGregorio</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Contributors (in alphabetical order):</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">John Barrale</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Céline Beaulieu</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sondra Singer Beaulieu</div><div style="text-align: center;">Marian Calabro</div><div style="text-align: center;">Teresa Carson</div><div style="text-align: center;">George DeGregorio</div><div style="text-align: center;">Gil Fagiani</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jane Fisher</div><div style="text-align: center;">Mark Fogarty</div><div style="text-align: center;">Elissa Gordon</div><div style="text-align: center;">Max Greenberg</div><div style="text-align: center;">Roxanne Hoffman</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pamela Hughes</div><div style="text-align: center;">Josh Humphrey</div><div style="text-align: center;">Gail King</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jim Klein</div><div style="text-align: center;">Melanie Klein</div><div style="text-align: center;">Janet Kolstein</div><div style="text-align: center;">Joel Lewis</div><div style="text-align: center;">Maria Lisella</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pete Loria</div><div style="text-align: center;">Zorida Mohammed</div><div style="text-align: center;">Michael O'Brien</div><div style="text-align: center;">Moira O'Brien</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tony Puma</div><div style="text-align: center;">Gabriella Radujko</div><div style="text-align: center;">Susan Rappaport</div><div style="text-align: center;">Susanna Rich</div><div style="text-align: center;">Dan Saxon</div><div style="text-align: center;">Claudia Serea</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ed Smith</div><div style="text-align: center;">Rosemarie S. Sprouls</div><div style="text-align: center;">Anna Toher</div><div style="text-align: center;">John J. Trause</div><div style="text-align: center;">Miyuki Tsurumaki</div><div style="text-align: center;">David Vincenti</div><div style="text-align: center;">B.J. Ward</div><div style="text-align: center;">Dorinda Wegener</div><div style="text-align: center;">Don Zirilli</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sander Zulauf</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~BOOK LAUNCH~</strong> </div> <br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative of Southern Bergen County</strong> </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Presents</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Poetry in Rutherford</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Wednesday, September 1, 2010 </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>7:00 PM</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>~Featuring~</em> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>THE RED WHEELBARROW POETS</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Celebrating the Release of the Third Edition of</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>THE RUTHERFORD RED WHEELBARROW</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Plus the work of</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>presented by</em> <strong>JOEL LEWIS</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Open Readings from the floor</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<em>This program is held at:</em> <br />
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<strong>Williams Center for the Performing Arts</strong><br />
One Williams Plaza<br />
Rutherford, NJ 07070<br />
Tel: (201) 939-6969 <br />
Fax: (201) 939-0843 <br />
<a href="http://www.williamscenter.org/">http://www.williamscenter.org/</a> <br />
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<em>Call the Rutherford Public Library at 201.939.8600 for more information.</em>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-64350095872725035532010-08-20T20:07:00.001-07:002010-08-20T20:07:25.167-07:00THE RUTHERFORD RED WHEELBARROW 3<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoTitle><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><FONT size=5><FONT face=Times>THE <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on">RUTHERFORD</st1:place> RED WHEELBARROW<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></I></B></DIV> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoTitle><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><FONT size=5><FONT face=Times>3RD COLLECTION CELEBRATES THE AMERICAN POETIC VOICE<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE">RUTHERFORD, August 20, 2010 — A remarkable collection of 42 poets connected with the <st1:place w:st="on">Rutherford</st1:place>, NJ poetry revival gives voice to memorable poetry and essays in the third edition of <I>The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow</I>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 align=left><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE"><FONT face=Times>Published by the Red Wheelbarrow Poets, this third annual edition of the literary journal celebrates the epic in the local and poetic voices in the American grain that so inspired William Carlos Williams, Rutherford's hometown doctor and poet, whose liberation of the voice of the common man (and woman) in poetry was a true revolution in words during the last century.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">"Dr. Williams was a one-man vortex who continues to inspire the many fine poets who live in <st1:place w:st="on">Rutherford</st1:place> or come here to take part in its many poetry readings, workshops, symposia, and literary journal," said Jim Klein, editor of the book and leader of the Red Wheelbarrow Poets.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">"All of the poets in <I>The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow</I> have a deep connection with the town," said Klein. "Either they have participated in the Red Wheelbarrow Poets' weekly poetry workshop, now in its fourth year, or the monthly readings at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Williams</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, sponsored by the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative, or the monthly readings at GainVille Café hosted by the Red Wheelbarrow Poets."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">"We have scored another coup by publishing two rare and perhaps previously unpublished works by Williams," said managing editor Mark Fogarty. "Jane Fisher, director of the Rutherford Public Library, graciously allowed me to look through the library's Williams Collection, and we came up with a short typed memoir of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:City> by the doctor and a handwritten letter and introductory fragment of a poem Williams worked on in the first decade of the 1900s."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">"Our featured poet this year, Kathy Kuenzle, is a Rutherford native now living in Providence, RI who has made a "return of the native" to Rutherford in the past couple of years," said managing editor Sondra Singer Beaulieu. "Her exciting work comes both from her Rutherford period and her later years in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Providence</st1:place></st1:City>." Kuenzle's poetry has just been issued by the Rutherford-based White Chickens Press in the volume <I>A Dress Full of Holes</I>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Keeping up the Williams theme, the book also features four essays on the poet, adapted from presentations made at the monthly <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Williams</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> readings, as well as a review of a new book of Williams' correspondence with his brother. There is also a memoir of the North Jersey poetry scene by <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hoboken</st1:place></st1:City> poet and critic Joel Lewis.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The journal will be launched on Sept. 1 at 7 PM at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Williams</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, at the Williams Poetry Cooperative reading run by poet John J. Trause and Fisher. Copies of it will be available for sale that night, and many of the poets in the journal will read from it during the evening. <I>The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow</I> is also available online at Lulu.com and will be available through Amazon.com before the end of the year.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV> <P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 19pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"># # #<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV><BR><BR> <DIV>POETS WEAR PRADA <BR>C/O Roxanne Hoffman <BR>533 Bloomfield Street - 2nd Floor <BR>Hoboken, NJ 07030 <BR><A href="http://pwpbooks.blogspot.com/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://pwpbooks.blogspot.com</A></DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Poets-Wear-Prada/41483895438" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.facebook.com/pages/Poets-Wear-Prada/41483895438</A></DIV> <DIV><A href="http://twitter.com/pradapoet" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://twitter.com/pradapoet</A><BR><BR>POETS WEAR PRADA is a small press based in Hoboken, New Jersey devoted to introducing new authors through limited edition, high- quality chaplets, primarily of poetry. <BR><BR><EM>New press, great authors, a publisher who is one miracle short of sainthood.</EM>-Angelo Verga, Poetry Curator of The Cornelia Street Cafe <BR><BR><EM>Poets Wear Prada is a poetry publishing house with excellent poets and affordable books with beautiful covers. Have you had your poetry today?</EM>-Meredith Sue Willis, Books for Readers <BR><BR><EM>Stylistically, these beautifully designed and produced chaplets bear their own distinctive signature.</EM>-Linda Lerner, Small Press Review <BR><BR>Proud Member of CLMP <BR><A href="http://flordelconcreto.blogspot.com/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://flordelconcreto.blogspot.com</A></DIV> <DIV><A href="http://twitter.com/flordelconcreto" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://twitter.com/flordelconcreto</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></td></tr></table>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-52312420692364064532010-08-11T06:40:00.000-07:002010-08-11T07:25:34.064-07:00Hint Fiction Writing Contest - Great Prizes - No Entry FeeGotham Writer's Workshop Announces<br />
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HINT FICTION WRITING CONTEST <br />
<span style="color: red;">DEADLINE: October 11, 2010</span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Great Prizes - No Entry Fee</div>Gotham Writers' Workshop invites you to enter our Hint Fiction 25-Word Story Writing Contest. Entry is free and easy.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4VqgWu8l9SMniqeELXD9666CKu5Z-XxkAE3y8AlTcT1P_8RE7sGqZp_-nIaQNXT11W92l1ELT21QgML5pQCRuIMt2L-NaQLFlUmkqjXjiaoCFYRS94WyGuIFVqRAs-Z4bCUrg5ZyWKIWL/s1600/Swartwood-HintFiction-130PX.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4VqgWu8l9SMniqeELXD9666CKu5Z-XxkAE3y8AlTcT1P_8RE7sGqZp_-nIaQNXT11W92l1ELT21QgML5pQCRuIMt2L-NaQLFlUmkqjXjiaoCFYRS94WyGuIFVqRAs-Z4bCUrg5ZyWKIWL/s320/Swartwood-HintFiction-130PX.jpg" /></a>For this competition, Gotham welcomes the expertise of Robert Swartwood, editor of <em>Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories of 25 Words or Fewer</em> (to be published in November by W.W. Norton). Mr. Swartwood will select the winner from the finalists in this competition. </div><br />
What is Hint Fiction? Here's Swartwood's definition:<br />
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Hint Fiction (n): a story of 25 words or fewer that suggests a larger, more complex story. <br />
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GREAT PRIZES<br />
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Submit your unpublished 25-word story to our competition and you could win:<br />
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•10-week writing workshop ($420 value)<br />
•$100 USD<br />
•One-year subscription to <em>The Writer</em><br />
•Publication of your winning entry in Gotham's Winter 2011 course catalog<br />
•Bragging rights<br />
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ENTRY IS FREE & EASY<br />
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To enter, just complete <a href="http://www.writingclasses.com/ContestPages/hintfiction.php">the online entry form</a>. Limit one entry per person. <br />
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What are you waiting for? Enter today!<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><strong>Reprinted from Gotham Writers' Workshop's 08/10/2010 GothamGRAM.</strong></span><br />
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<em>Just in case you have difficulty opening the link for the online entry form here it is to cut and past:</em><br />
<a href="http://www.writingclasses.com/ContestPages/hintfiction.php"><em>http://www.writingclasses.com/ContestPages/hintfiction.php</em></a>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-19295981026850568682010-08-06T11:07:00.000-07:002010-08-06T11:07:51.033-07:00Call For Submissions: Thanksgiving Mystery Anthology<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" bx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSWhcx_UWjGmdc_FOfa1pqZxpfywwMhLRgEzzJX0F45PW9kIGl_nfnydVVq8niG8-IVtjMI0qjbVRRv7sqRXypQ-MvUWwNAIJDuOY5bzauaOkwcVAI65aQp0sR0AOHJRnnFsZXCZc_Z2IJ/s320/1250281_wild_turkey.jpg" /></div><br />
<strong>Deadline: September 30 </strong><br />
<strong>Call For Submissions: Thanksgiving Mystery Anthology</strong><br />
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We are in the process of creating an anthology of short stories to be released on November 1st as a Thanksgiving release.<br />
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This anthology is designed to be a humorous mystery anthology. Only mysteries with a definite humor angle to them will be accepted or considered. What we’re looking for are stories geared around the most popular Thanksgiving dishes: turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, pumpkin pie, etc.. As long as it’s a regularly-featured food at Thanksgiving, we’re open to how you work it in. Please note that it is unlikely we will publish multiple stories of the same food (i.e.: no two stories where pumpkin pie is featured).<br />
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As this is a short story anthology, submissions need to be between 3500-5000 words in length. We may be willing to accept longer works depending on the content. Previously published material is ok for submission providing that all electronic rights have reverted to the author. Stories that have been published previously need to be notated as such, along with the information as to where it first appeared.<br />
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The intention is to release each short story as its own release under our existing Fingerprints short story line, but there will also be an all-in-one edition at a lower price than purchasing the stories individually to encourage readers to pick up the entire anthology.<br />
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Editor-In-Chief <strong>Jay Hartman</strong> will serve as Editor for this anthology.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>Deadline for submissions is September 30th, 2010.</strong></span> Email submissions ONLY, and they MUST be in DOC format, Times New Roman, 12pt. <em>Submissions received that are not in this format will be deleted.</em> Please include the word “Thanksgiving” in your subject line. All stories should be sent to <a href="mailto:submissions@untreedreads.com">submissions at untreedreads dot com</a>. <em>Submissions sent to other email addresses will not be recognized.</em> <br />
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If an insufficient amount of usable entries are received, this anthology may be withdrawn, and such withdrawal will be announced no later than September 15th. <br />
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<em>Please repost/cross-promote this Call with fellow authors/blogs/lists, etc..</em><br />
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Questions regarding this Call should be directed to Editor-In-Chief <strong>Jay Hartman</strong> at <a href="mailto:jhartman@untreedreads.com">jhartman at untreedreads dot com</a>.ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-44756527020324733032010-08-06T10:51:00.000-07:002010-08-06T11:10:44.595-07:00Submission Guidelines for the Pain/Pleasure Anthology<strong>Deadline: October 1, 2010</strong><br />
<strong>Theme: Pain/Pleasure</strong><br />
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Editor <strong>Jane Callan</strong> is looking for stories of 5,000 word length (you can go slightly over but you won’t be paid more) about the concept of the twin emotions of pain and pleasure. The submissions must be full (the story complete) and emailed to <a href="mailto:jane@gmail.com">jane at gmail dot com</a> by October 1, 2010 as an MS Word Attachment with the subject line: "Pain/Pleasure Anthology Submission."<br />
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The submission can be, generally, anything with a strong erotic content. There is no limitation on genre. I definitely want a lot of variety such as m/m, femdom, diversity in characters. The work can have been published on your website but it cannot have been sold in publication. <br />
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Payment is $500 for each contracted submission with .25% royalty in exchange for world digital, audio and print rights. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Jane Callan</strong> is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. She's currently loving contemporary authors like Sarah Mayberry and Kristan Higgins but her first love will always be the historical. Some of her old time favorites are Amanda Quick and Johanna Lindsey and some of the new favorites are Sherry Thomas, Joanna Bourne and Claudia Dain. You can reach Jane by emailing her: </span><a href="mailto:jane@dearauthor.com"><span style="font-size: x-small;">jane at dearauthor dot com</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">. You can follow Jane on twitter: @jane_l.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><strong>Reposted from </strong></span><a href="http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2010/06/26/submission-guidelines-for-the-painpleasure-anthology/"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><strong>http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2010/06/26/submission-guidelines-for-the-painpleasure-anthology/</strong></span></a>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-1007904933179790242010-08-06T10:00:00.000-07:002010-08-06T10:52:34.634-07:00Diva Anthology: Seeking Poetry about Female Icons by Gay Men<iframe align="left" bgcolor="black" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="5" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=widgetsamazon-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B003VYBPII&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: center; bgcolor: black; height: 245px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe><strong>Deadline October 1, 2010.</strong> For the follow-up to <em>My Diva</em>, the Lambda-nominated essay anthology. Looking for poems (1-2 pages in length) that explore the relationship between strong female icons and gay men. Looking for all kinds of DIVAS: singers, actresses, comics, chefs, politicians, writers, visual artists, athletes, scientists, fashion models … Broadway, Opera, Country, fictional, religious, and mythic figures … Already have many standards but would love to see women like Bea Arthur, Frida Kahlo, Gertrude Stein, Oprah, Hillary Clinton, Jackie O., Dolly Parton, even characters like Miss Piggy. But open to ideas. Please send poem and a 2-3 sentence bio by October 1, 2010 to <strong>Michael Montlack </strong>at <a href="mailto:mikemont17@hotmail.com">mikemont17 at hotmail dot com</a> with “DIVA POETRY ANTHOLOGY” in subject line.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Reposted from </span></strong><a href="http://www.lambdaliterary.org/category/writers/subs/"><strong><span style="font-size: xx-small;">http://www.lambdaliterary.org/category/writers/subs/</span></strong></a>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-2629708462560781502010-07-29T10:25:00.000-07:002010-07-29T10:26:55.704-07:00Anthology Call: A PINT OF BLOODY FICTION<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizSEogJw9Pv_t9RqDQWhz44-yka2-mWRYPo8hC800tHWDDVps7sNcvZYAtEjSPoznDhGm0S4HMNnBYZeJslBsUZxfRK3zQ1V_U1cquykRJc8CXLO_zqAc-0sppAB8vUMxBQTU90laUyfY2/s1600/APintofBloodyFiction.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" bx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizSEogJw9Pv_t9RqDQWhz44-yka2-mWRYPo8hC800tHWDDVps7sNcvZYAtEjSPoznDhGm0S4HMNnBYZeJslBsUZxfRK3zQ1V_U1cquykRJc8CXLO_zqAc-0sppAB8vUMxBQTU90laUyfY2/s320/APintofBloodyFiction.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<em>A Pint of Bloody Fiction</em> Submission Guidelines<br />
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<em>What do we want?</em><br />
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200 word stories exactly – excluding the title and byline, filled with suspense. These 200 words must be able to tell a story from beginning to end, they should not be snippets from anything or quotes/passages. They must have at least one character and at least one form of action should play out.<br />
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Please paste your story into the body of an email. No indents. Single spaced and a hard return after paragraphs. You can send up to three stories in one email accompanied by a bio of around 100-200 words. We do accept simultaneous submissions but if your story is accepted elsewhere whilst sitting in our slushpile, then please inform the editor. We also accept reprints, but please make sure that you have the rights to sell your work onto us. Please send all submissions to Sam at <a href="mailto:horrorhouse.editor@yahoo.com">horrorhouse.editor@yahoo.com</a><br />
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We offer $3 for both stories and poetry and a copy of the book at a discounted rate with free shipping.<br />
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<em>Deadline</em><br />
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Open until filled. We will announce when we are almost there.<br />
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~S.E.COX – Editor in Chief, House of HorrorROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-6578461138288772112010-07-29T10:18:00.000-07:002010-07-29T10:18:24.451-07:00Anthology Call: TALES OF A WOMAN SCORNED<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<strong>Anthology Call: TALES OF A WOMAN SCORNED</strong><br />
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This anthology will be a collection of all those stories of what women will do to get what they want. From bunny boilers, to black widows, we want to read your darkest stories about these psychotic women.<br />
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<em>Story Guidelines</em><br />
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We are looking for stories of between 2000-5000 words. Reprints are welcome as long as you have permission to sell your story again.<br />
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<em>Submission Guidelines</em><br />
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All submissions should be pasted into the body of an email. We do this simply to keep out any computer viruses as the editor’s laptops and computers are most precious to us, and also it makes for an easy transfer from editor to editor without constantly having to download an attachment. Anyone who sends us an attachment will not be read and their submission will automatically be deleted without notification. <br />
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Please only send one submission at a time. This means no multiple submissions. By all means, if we reject a story, then send us another – this goes for the poets too –one submission only! Simultaneous submissions are OK as long as you let us know if it has been accepted elsewhere whilst sat in our queue. <br />
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Put “Tales of a woman scorned/title/wordcount” in the subject line and send all submissions to <a href="mailto:horrorhouse.editor@yahoo.com">horrorhouse.editor@yahoo.com</a> and please be aware that your submissions may be shipped around for second or third opinions.<br />
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Please note that anyone who is a friend of the editor or from another publication/eZine etc, their work will be stripped of identity and sent to another editor for reading. I do not want to be biased when reading for this anthology. Theoretically as Editor in Chief, I will have the final say, but I will take into consideration the comments and notes from the other editors before making my decision. <br />
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12pt Times New Roman – no other font please. Single spaced with a 2cm paragraph indentation. No returns after paragraphs. Mark scene breaks with three stars with two spaces between each one e.g.<br />
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All em dashes – must be true hyphens – with no spaces between words. Sentences in Italics should be in italics, not underlined.<br />
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In the body of an email before your submission, please introduce yourself, maybe tell us a little about the story – we like to hear about writers that submit to us, not a lot of publications do, but we want to get to know our writers and also include an interesting bio of 100-200 words. Please make your bio’s interesting. We do not want a reel off of publications and websites, pick your favourite three and keep it at that.<br />
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Open to submissions now and closed when full. We’re looking for about 30 stories for this fun anthology so get yours in as soon as you can. Expect to be put on a short-list or a rejection. Acceptances will be given out when we have all chosen stories.<br />
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<em>Expected Publication date:</em> <br />
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Mid to late September 2010<br />
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<em>Payment:</em><br />
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We offer $5 per story and $3 per poem, Also we have a contributor's royalty scheme. Upon publication, each contributor will choose their own reference number. Any books bought quoting their unique reference number, said contributor will recieve a further $5 or $3 via paypal depending on whether they had a story or poem published. There is no limit to how many books you can sell quoting your reference number, the more books that you sell, the more money you make.<br />
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Have fun writing and I look forward to reading all of your stories!<br />
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~ S.E.COX – Editor in Chief, House of HorrorROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-62298962240747228812010-07-29T10:01:00.000-07:002010-07-29T10:05:09.850-07:00PULSE Is Accepting Poetry Submissions! Deadline: 9/15/2010<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div></div>Dear <strong><em>Pulse</em> </strong>Readers,<br />
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<div> </div>We are delighted to let you know that we are ready to accept poetry submissions for the coming year! We invite you to submit your poems from now until September 15, at which time we will review every submission and select those that will appear in<em> <strong>Pulse</strong></em> between November 2010 and October 2011.<br />
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<div> </div>Here are some guidelines: <br />
<div></div><div>You may submit up to three poems for consideration;</div><ul><li>Each poem may be up to two pages in length (but shorter is perfectly fine!);</li>
<li>The subject matter should be related to illness experiences and/or healthcare;</li>
<li>We welcome submissions from patients, family members, students and health professionals;</li>
<li>We prefer poems depicting personal events; and</li>
<li>Most of all, we want good poems that help us understand illness, health and everything in between.</li>
</ul>We invite you to visit our <a href="http://www.pulsemagazine.org/Archive_List.cfm">Archives </a>so that you can leaf through poetry that has appeared in past issues of Pulse.<br />
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<div></div>When you're ready to submit a poem, please review and follow our <a href="http://www.pulsemagazine.org/Submissions.cfm">Submission Guidelines</a> carefully. This will allow us to consider your submission blindly--that is, without the reviewer knowing who the poet is--something we insist upon.<br />
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<div>We look forward to receiving and reading your submissions!</div><br />
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<div>With warm regards,</div><br />
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<div><strong>Judy Schaefer</strong> RNC, MA and <strong>Johanna Shapiro</strong> PhD</div><br />
<div><strong>Poetry Editors</strong></div><div><strong><em>PULSE: Voices from the Heart of Medicine</em></strong></div><div><a href="http://www.pulsemagazine.org/">http://www.pulsemagazine.org/</a></div><br />
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<div></div>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-22569408461344181892010-06-11T13:05:00.000-07:002010-06-11T13:05:03.437-07:00Sun June 13 PHANFest: NJ Publishers & Poet Support NJ Food Banks 12-5pm Secuacus Library<strong>PHANfest</strong>, <strong>Publishers Helping America’s Needy</strong> <strong>NJ Poetry Festival</strong> is sponsored by David Messineo of the Six Centuries Club, in support of N. J. food pantries. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>Artists are often known to “sing for their supper” – but next weekend, dozens of poets will read to help pay for someone else’s. </em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">writes <strong>E. Assata Wright</strong>, <em>Hudson</em> <em>Reporter</em> staff writer. To read her entire article "Words Against Hunger: Area Poets to Raise Money for Needy" which appeared Sunday June 6th, click here: <a href="http://hudsonreporter.com/bookmark/7809040">http://hudsonreporter.com/bookmark/7809040</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><em>It’s an opportunity to…hear some fine poets from various regions of the state.</em> </span><span style="font-size: small;">– <strong>David Messineo</strong>, PHANfest organizer and Editor of <em>Sensations Magazine</em>.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">The event takes place </div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2010, 12 noon – 5 p. m. </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">at the <strong>Secaucus Public Library and Business Resource Center</strong>, </div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>1379 Paterson Plank Road, Secaucus, NJ</strong>.</div><br />
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Readings will be held in the Panasonic Room. There is a suggested donation of $10 to benefit NJ Food Banks.<br />
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<u>Confirmed Participants will each have display tables and two readers.</u><br />
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* Anhinga Books - Jack Kreuter<br />
* Cherry Blossom Press - Anthony Buccino<br />
* Cup & Chaucer Bookstore - Marina Kramer (used books related to poetry)<br />
* The Idiom Magazine - Mark Baird<br />
* Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - Gordon VanGelder<br />
* Marymark Press - Mark Sonnenfeld<br />
* North Jersey Literary Series (Beyond The Rift Anthology) - Paul Nash & Denise la Neve<br />
* North River Review ("Presses of the Past") -Melanie Pimont<br />
* <strong>Poets Wear Prada Press (poetry chapbooks) - Roxanne Hoffman</strong><br />
* Sensations Magazine - David Messineo<br />
* Snake Hill Press - David Messineo<br />
* Thunderclap! Magazine and Thunderclap Press - Amanda Deo<br />
* Watchung Booksellers - Marina Cramer (new poetry books)<br />
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<strong>For more details:</strong> <a href="http://centclub.webs.com/phanfest1.htm">http://centclub.webs.com/phanfest1.htm</a>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-87767852481892487592010-06-09T07:51:00.000-07:002010-06-09T08:43:21.315-07:00New from Fierce Grace: URBAN HAIKU by Patricia Carragon<blockquote>feathered troubadours<br /><blockquote>outside my window<br /><blockquote>sunrise serenade</blockquote></blockquote><p align="center">–<strong>Patricia Carragon</strong></p></blockquote><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6d0u-gilr9tBhsNnGSMXZ-og8CG2acsHvVBpTiT8NeZaU0RwDasYzG-p9zue2l2a5EBq96Qyolc36tTkZziAuYAK1tQzNkbh9jboxWQaT7fsQWC7zn3vxkmxR-AmT-k54f3ObfrW1QSWn/s1600/Urban+Haiku.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 257px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480790318623409378" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6d0u-gilr9tBhsNnGSMXZ-og8CG2acsHvVBpTiT8NeZaU0RwDasYzG-p9zue2l2a5EBq96Qyolc36tTkZziAuYAK1tQzNkbh9jboxWQaT7fsQWC7zn3vxkmxR-AmT-k54f3ObfrW1QSWn/s400/Urban+Haiku.jpg" /></a> <em>URBAN HAIKU</em><br /><em>and More</em><br />by Patricia Carragon<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Illustrated by William L. Hays<br /><em>saddle-stitched chapbook, 52pp</em><br />Fierce Grace Press, Pooler, GA<br />$7</span></div><br /><br /><blockquote>"For anyone who knows Patricia Carragon, this newest collection of short, mixed media poems will surely delight–if not surprise. From the riotously humorous to the deeply poignant, Patricia covers the emotional terrain with her witty personality unfurled and a display of craft that, like a dancer, seems so effortless. If you love contemporary short verse, you'll certainly savor these confections by a poet who is a spirited observer of the world around her and within her." <p align="right">–<strong>Brenda J. Gannam</strong>, Member, Haiku Society of America</p></blockquote><br /><br /><blockquote>tealeaves tumble down<br /><blockquote>the gypsy's porcelain cup<br /><blockquote>Dow Jones takes a fall</blockquote></blockquote><p align="center">–<strong>Patricia Carragon</strong></p></blockquote><br /><br /><br /><p></p><blockquote>"Patricia Carragon hits the haiku right on the head–making it as much her form as the masters’ – Funny and deadly accurate–they stop you in your tracks. It’s no accident that she starts off with a Kerouac and Bashô haiku. She frees up the territory–Bashô’s frogs are replaced by bedbugs–Kerouac’s drugs are replaced by Viagra–very feminine with no holds barred–very astute and timely–a great read–guaranteed to free up your notions of what a haiku can’t or can do." <p align="right">–<strong>Hal Sirowitz</strong>, author of <em>Father Said</em></p></blockquote><br /><br /><blockquote>rude people<br /><blockquote>unlike fine Bordeaux<br /><blockquote>get worse with age</blockquote></blockquote><p align="center">–<strong>Patricia Carragon</strong></p></blockquote><br /><br /><div align="center"><em><strong>URBAN HAIKU</strong></em></div><div align="center"><em><strong>and More</strong></em><br /></div><div align="center"><strong>Now Available at:</strong></div><div align="center"><br /><strong>BookCourt</strong><br />163 Court Street<br />Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, NY 11201<br />Phone # (718) 875-3677<br /><a href="http://www.bookcourt.org/">http://www.bookcourt.org/</a><br /><em>Take F or G to Bergen St., N or R to Court St.,<br />or 4 or 5 to Borough Hall<br /></div></em><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>About the Author:</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Patricia Carragon</strong> is a New York City writer and poet. Her publications include <em>Poetz.com</em>, <em>Rogue Scholars</em>, <em>Poets Wear Prada</em>, <em>Best Poem</em>, <em>BigCityLit</em>, <em>CLWN WR</em>, <em>Chanterelle's Notebook</em>, <em>Clockwise Cat</em>, <em>Ditch</em>, <em>Poetry Magazine</em>, <em>MOBIUS: The Poetry Magazine</em>, <em>The Toronto Quarterly</em>, <em>Marymark Press</em>, and more. She is the author of <em>Journey to the Center of My Mind</em> (Rogue Scholars Press). She is a member of Brevitas, a group dedicated to short poems. She hosts and curates the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor of the annual anthology. For more information, please check out her websites: </span><a href="http://brownstone.poets.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://brownstone.poets.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> and </span><a href="http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">.</span> </p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong></strong></span> </p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>About the Illustrator:</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>William L. Hayes</strong> (Bill to his friends) is a native Texan of six generations, living in exile in Savannah, GA. Born under Aries, with Pisces rising. in 1949, he has always been compelled to walk his own creative path. He has worked in hair design and color, floral design, jewelry design, sculpture and weaving, in addition to painting. His passion is Oriental art, especially all things Japanese. Although he honors all the prophets of the world, as a devout hedonist, his special teacher remains the poet Omar Khayyam. "Come, <em>fill the cup</em>..."</span> </p><p> </p></blockquote>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-71506500632449026422010-06-08T08:10:00.000-07:002010-06-08T08:36:44.066-07:00Valery Oisteanu: Peter Orlovsky (July 8, 1933 – May 30, 2010)<strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Peter Orlovsky (July 8, 1933 – May 30, 2010)</span><br />Remembrance by Valery Oisteanu</strong><br /><br />That was your face laughing wild<br />As if it could trick madness<br />At the entrance to the St. Marks Church<br />Peter is confessing about pills<br />Talking to Ira Cohen and me<br />Lithium and anti-depressant are mentioned<br />Andy Warhol & Peter’s “The Couch”<br />Allen Ginsberg’s trashed kitchen, cops called in<br />The existential gray ponytail is revealed<br />While the wind blows his hat off in the East Yard<br />Deep voice, drinking with your eyes shut<br />Lamenting his brother, his lover, his own mind<br />Insanity fallows him to Creedmoor mental ward<br />But at that fragile morning of last day of May<br />A sunflower blossomed and starts bleeding petals<br />Alone in death, alone and still, alone and naked<br />Folded arms, closed lips, heart full of unwritten poems<br />Swimming up the stream of eternity<br />Shivering up the glittering dream.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">©2010 Valery Oisteanu<br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Peter Orlovsky</strong> was best known as Allen Ginsberg's lover and companion of almost three decades, from about the fifties to the seventies. What is less well known is that he was a wonderful poet in his own right. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and antholologies. Peter died May 30, 2010 at the age of 76. To read 4 of Orlovsky's poems from <em>Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs</em>, Pocket Poets Series #37, City Lights Books ©1978 by Peter Orlovsky online visit Brian Nation's blogspot <em>Beat the Devil</em>: </span><a href="http://boppin.com/orlovsky.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://boppin.com/orlovsky.html</span></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Valery Oisteanu</strong> is the author of 11 books of poetry; his latest is <em>Perks in Purgatory</em> (Fly By Night Press, 2009). He is a columnist at <em>New York Arts Magazine, </em>and art critic for <em>Brooklyn Rail</em> and <em>ArtNet.com</em>. His website is <a href="http://zendadanyc.vpweb.com/">http://zendadanyc.vpweb.com/</a> </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456901682394324352.post-66139089476397815152010-05-31T19:32:00.000-07:002010-05-31T19:44:05.052-07:00MEDITATIONS ON A PHOTOGRAPH by Erik La PradeMEDITATIONS ON A PHOTOGRAPH<br />by Erik La Prade<br /><br />Soon after we moved into the building and the first floor was operational, Andreas Brown began to decorate the place with photographs and Gorey prints. He wanted to create an aesthetic as he would say. So, the familiar faces of famous or once famous and now unread writers were hung on the walls of the new Gotham Book Mart. On the first floor, by the pillar next to the cash register, above Michelle’s desk was a large, high school photograph of John Updike and below him was a large photograph of Gertrude Stein by Carl Van Vechten. The photographs would go up as they were found, taken out of the boxes and chosen to be displayed in a prominent place.<br /><br />The large poster-sized photographs have been hung on the wall above the stairway. As customers ascended to the second floor, they would find themselves standing next to a wall of large, wooden framed images. But in order to see them properly, they would have to step away from the wall about ten feet, and then they could get a clear view of who was hanging there.<br /><br />The largest photo is the famous group shot taken in the back room of the old Gotham Book store in November 9, 1948. It was a party for Dame Edith and Sir Osbert Sitwell. The story according to Ms. Steloff’s version is “one day during the summer of 1948, Charles (Henri Ford), came in and announced that Edith Sitwell and her brother Osbert were coming to America for a series of readings. In the same breath he asked, “Why don’t you have a tea for her?”<br /><br />“Oh,” I said, “she would have far more important engagements than coming here for tea.”<br /><br />But Charles insisted. “She’d love it, and why don’t you invite her?” So, Ms. Steloff sent her a letter and the rest is history. Amusingly, Life magazine sent a photographer and “picked the people who were to be in its photographs, and some of those who were left out.” The ones left out were William Carlos Williams, William Saroyan and Alfred Kreymborg. I’ve also heard the story that John Berryman wasn’t speaking to Randall Jarrell at the time and ended up going to a bar instead of getting into the picture. Why isn’t Ms. Steloff in this photograph? Is it because she didn’t write poetry and didn’t feel she belonged in the picture? It was her bookstore. She should have been included in this group picture.<br /><br />Andreas Brown liked to tell the story of how Ford tried to get Gore Vidal thrown out of the photograph by claiming Vidal wasn’t a poet. But Brown defends Vidal and says he had written poetry when he was about nineteen years old. I’ve never read any of Vidal poetry if it has ever been published but by the time this photograph was taken, Vidal would have written three published novels, and this achievement alone, by someone younger than Ford would have been enough to make Ford extremely envious.<br /><br />In fact, I once showed a copy of this photograph to Ford and asked him about it. He immediately related the story of how he tried to get Vidal thrown out of the shot by saying to him, “You can’t be a poet, you have beautiful legs!”<br /><br />Apparently, Vidal was insulted by this remark and wanted to punch Ford, but whether he did or not, I’ve never been able to find out. Obliviously, Ford’s comment didn’t work since Vidal is in the shot. But Ford’s comment to Vidal has a curious origin. It was originally said to Djuna Barnes by Gertrude Stein. In Phillip Herring biography of Barnes, the incident occurred in the early 1930s. Herring relates how when Barnes was visiting Stein, during the course of the visit, Stein said to her, “You can’t be a writer, you have beautiful legs.” Insulted, Barnes left and went home to her apartment she shared with Ford at the time and she related what Stein had said to her. Since Ford had the memory of elephant, it’s the kind of comment he would have cherished and used again and again. Certainly, the kind of thing he would have said to Vidal in an attempt to piss him off. So, here’s a footnote of how gossip becomes literary history; from Stein to Barnes to Ford to Vidal in the Gotham Book Mart in New York.<br /><br />Customers enjoyed looking at and commenting upon this photograph. Generally, they would stand in front of it and try to identify who the writers were. Of course, I’d stand nearby, watching them. Sometimes I’d tell them how only one writer was still alive and if they could guess who it was, they’d get a free drink.<br /><br />Surprisingly, some people would guess it was Vidal, while at other times they would pick Delmore Schwartz. Originally, when we moved into the new building, there were two writers in the photograph who were still living: Richard Eberhart and Vidal. But Eberhart died about a year after we moved in, so that leaves Vidal as the lone survivor.<br /><br />After studying the group photograph, customers would then peruse the other large pictures showing scenes from famous GBM book signings. Strangely, these other photographs included Ms. Steloff standing with the writer, whether it’s Cocteau, 1948, or Anais Nin, 1968, or Dylan Thomas, 1952. In another version of the Thomas photograph, there is a glass of beer on the table and sitting next to Thomas is John Malcolm Brinnin. In the large poster photograph, Brinnin has been cropped out.<br /><br />When business was slow, I would sometimes study the group photograph. I found it curious that Elizabeth Bishop has one glove on (her left hand) and one glove off, (her right hand), whereas, Marianne Moore is holding both of her gloves in her lap. Bishop looks away from the camera as does Marya Zaturenska, who sits on the opposite side of the room. What are they looking at? A book or a customer, or were they wishing it was over? Of course, Ford is smiling, happy as a pig in shit because he’s the center of attention, sitting at the feet of the Sitwells, whose poetry he didn’t much care for then. Who reads them now?<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>"MEDITATIONS ON A PHOTOGRAPH" is an excerpt from Erik La Prade's forthcoming memoir on working at Andreas Brown's Gotham Book Mart, published here by permission of the author.</strong></span>ROXANNE HOFFMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01692002974827319982noreply@blogger.com1