Potomac Review, the literary magazine of Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, will accept submissions to its biennial poetry contest until Monday, February 1.
| from Hakim Bellamy (new web page, please note) Saturday, January 30th @ 11am: UNM's Black History Month Kick-Off Brunch featuring Anna Deavere Smith
University of New Mexico. Tickets are $25 available at www.unmtickets.com or by calling the UNM Ticket Office at (505) 925-5858 or toll free at 877.664.8661.
Award winning playwright, actress, and MacArthur "Genius" Grant winner, Anna Deavere Smith will discuss equality and race issues in the academic community in a lecture titled: "Forty Years Wandering in the Academic Desert: Does Anyone See the Promised Land?"
Anna Deavere Smith's career covers mainstream culture as well as academia. Her work in the theater explores American character and our multifaceted national identity. Smith's works include Fires in the Mirror, Twilight: Los Angeles, and the current off-Broadway play Let Me Down Easy. She is also known for her film and TV work, including a role on the NBC series The West Wing. |
from Miriam Sagan's blog, Miriam's Well: "New and Noted: Moonbathing: A Journal of Women's Tanka."
Moonbathing sketch, Stephanie Law on Shadowscapes' Midnight Ramblings Physically small and aesthetically large, the premier issue of Moonbathingazelton's tanka: is out. I'm always drawn to the elegiac and here is Marilyn H sending my son's Here is one, all too familiar to New Mexicans as we've experienced drought and forest fire, from Tracy Royce: another hot And one that has poignancy I think many women can relate to, by Terry Ann Carter: another trip Subscriptions: $10 for one year (2 issues) Pamela A. Babusci, 150 Milford St. Apt 13, Rochester, NY 14615
Ed note: Sadly, Moonbathing has NO web presences, so no links to a site despite many references on other sites. Do we approve of this digital deficit? But of course we don't ~ just not enough to prevent us from finding a Moonbathing information link with more details |
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ARTICLES: January 22, 2010 The Poetry of Deep WinterBY ANNIE FINCHA selection of poems to help you get through the rest of the chill, frost, and darkness.  Carl Sandburg Stops Making SenseBY ROSS SIMONINIThe Chicago poet’s overlooked adventures in linguistic anarchy. MORE FEATURES |
The rest of the reviewing: http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/2009/11/review-review.htmlBook reviews. One can do a great service, or disservice, or minimal service in either case, to the work under consideration, not to mention both authors and to some extent perhaps, the “state” of American Poetry. And look around, they’re everywhere.
This potential and saturation inspired the project presented here. It’s what motivated me to seek out responses to the question of book reviews. A question, because when I ask it to myself (and I don’t think I’m alone), the familiar answer contains 500 words of as much objectivity as one can muster. But forgoing the formulaic, what actually is this activity called “reviewing?” What can it be? What should it be? And why? Is it somehow relatable to acts of reading and if so, what could that suggest for the review to be written?
Recently Received
Books (Poetry)
John Ashbery, Planisphere, Ecco, New York 2009
Lucy Harvest Clarke, Silveronda, If P Then Q, Manchester 2009
Cyrus Console, OK Tony, The Song Cave, Northampton, MA 2009
Keith Douglas, Simplify Me When I'm Dead, poems selected by Ted Hughes, Faber & Faber, New York 2010
Sarah Dowling, Security Posture, Snare Books, Montreal 2009
Amatoritsero Ede, Globtrotter & Hitler's Children, Akashic Books, New York 2009
Vernon Frazer, Emblematic Moon, Beneath the Underground, Boynton Beach, FL 2009
Joanna Fuhrman, Pageant, Alice James Books, Farmington, ME 2009
Arlo Haskell, Joker, Sand Paper Press, Key West 2009
Leland Hickman, Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman, edited by Stephen Motika, preface by Dennis Phillips, afterword by Bill Mohr, Nightboat Books / Otis Books / Seismicity Editions, Callicoon, NY & Los Angeles 2009
Kenneth Irby, The Intent On, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley 2009
Stuart Krimko, The Sweetness of Herbert, Sand Paper Press, Key West 2009
Gerrit Lansing, Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley 2009
Tony Trehy, Space the Soldier Who Died for Perspective, Veer Books, London 2009
Books (Poetry Anthologies)
Kevin Killian & David Brazil, The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945 – 1985, Kenning Editions, Chicago, 2010. Includes Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, John Ashbery, V.R. "Bunny" Lang, James Schuyler, Frank O'Hara, Russell Atkins, Gregory Corso, Robert Duncan, Helen Adam, James Broughton, Michael McClure, Madeline Gleason, Diane DiPrima, Kenneth Koch, Jackson Mac Low, Lorenzo Thomas, Anne Waldman, LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka, ruth weiss, Ron Padgett, Hannah Weiner, Lew Welch, Barbara Guest, Sonia Sanchez, James Keilty, Joe Brainard, Bruce Andrews, Keith Wadrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Bob Holman & Bob Rosenthal, Steve Benson, Ted Greenwald, Carla Harryman, Ntozake Shange, Bob Perelman, Kit Robinson, Bertholt Brecht / Robert Grenier, Alan Bernheimer, Charles Bernstein, Fiona Templeton, Stephen Rodefer, Johanna Drucker, Kenward Elmslie, Leslie Scalapino, Nada Gordon & Kathy Acker.
Charles Simic (editor & translator), The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry, Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, 2010. Includes oral poetry, women's songs, Momčilo, Nastasijević, Aleksandar Vučo, Desanka Maksimović, Rade Drainac, Vasko Popa, Miodrag Pavlović, Ivan V. Lalić, Aleksandar Ristović, Jovan Hristić, Branko Milijković, Ljobomir Simović, Ivan Gadjanski, Matija Bećković, Ljiljana Djurdjić, Raša Livada, Duško Novaković, Radmila Lazić, Novica Tadić, Milan Djordjević, Nina Zivančević, Danica Vukićević, dragan Jaovanović Danilov, & Vojislav Karanović
Books (Other)
Norman Finkelstein, On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 2010
Stephen Fredman & Steve McCaffery (editors), Form, Power, and Person in Robert Creeley's Life and Work, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 2010. Includes Marjorie Perloff, Charles Altieri, Alan Golding, Michael Davidson, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Peter Quartermain, Libbie Rifkin, Peter Middleton & Benjamin Friedlander.
Ted Genoways, Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet During the Lost Years of 1860-1862, University of California Press, Berkeley 2009
Lynn Keller, Thinking Poetry: Readings in Contemporary Women's Exploratory Poetics, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 2010
Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums, translated by Michael Hoffman, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL 1998
Orhan Pamuk, The New Life, translated by Güneli Gün, Vintage International, New York, 1998
Stephen Shoemaker (editor), Thinking Poetics: Essays on George Oppen, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Includes Charles Bernstein, Michael Davidson, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Theodore Enslin, Forrest Gander, Lyn Hejinian, Michael Heller, John Lowney, Peter Nicholls, Kristin Prevallet, Shoemaker, Ron Silliman, John Taggart, Susan Thackery & Henry Weinfield
Shawn Vandor, Fire at the End of the Rainbow, San Paper Press, Key West 2009
Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile, edited by Ed Folsom, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 2010
Journals
Otoliths, issue 14, parts 1 & 2, Rockhampton, Australia. (Published in two volumes in hard copy, but all available, albeit in a different order, online). Includes Kirsten Kaschock, Pat Nolan, Márton Koppány, Jim Meirose, Anne Gorrick, Caleb Puckett, Peter Schwartz, Fredrick Zydek, Ed Baker, Ross Brighton, Derek Henderson, John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Sheila E. Murphy, Raymond Farr, Jill Chan, John Martone, Bob Heman, Philip Byron Oakes, Ric Carfagna, Eileen R. Tabios, Justin Mulrooney, Jeff Harrison, Eric Burke, K. R. Copeland & Jeff Crouch, Crane Giamo, Paula Kolek, Daniel f Bradley, Arthur Leung, Joseph Harrington, Iain Britton, Thomas Fink, Tan Lin, Kristine Marie Darling, Joel Chace, Paul Siegell, Mariana Isara, Jay Snodgrass, Bill Drennan, Jill Jones, Stu Hatton, Nicholas Michael Ravnikar, Mara Patricia Hernandez, Felino Soriano, Matt Hetherington, Marcia Arrieta, Charles Freeland, Vernon Frazer, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Julian Jason Haladyn, Martin Edmond, harry k stammer, Reed Altemus, Randall Brock, Anny Ballardini, sean burn, A. Scott Britton, David-Baptiste Chirot, Joan Harvey, Mary Ellen Derwis, Bobbi Lurie, John Moore Williams, Sarah Ahmad, Scott Metz, Theodoros Chiotis, Sheila E. Murphy
Other Media & Formats
Bill Berkson & George Schneeman, Ted Berrigan, Cuneiform Press, Brooklyn 2008. Collaborations between the poet & painter in a 13-by-10 inch volume. This edition printed in Austin, TX, autumn 2009 in an edition of 500. For a history of the printing, go here.
Vernon Frazer, Random Axis, Beneath the Underground, Boynton Beach, Fl 2010. Limited edition (66 copies), printed & bound with no two copies in the same order, 8.5x11" bound with long metal binding clips. (Click the link for a sample.)
Stephen Vincent, The First 100 Days of Obama, Stephen Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 2009. 100 of Vincent's haptics with notes in a limited edition volume (website says 75 copies, numbering in my copy suggests 100). A complete catalog of the one-day exhibition at the gallery.
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The current issue, Sentence 7, includes an interview with Gary Young by plog contributor Tony Leuzzi. Subscribe, purchase a single issue, or order back issues at http://firewheel-editions.org/sentence/subscriptions.htm Ed Note: I invite past and present Picnic readers, Sunflower Writing Workshop participants and plog contributors/followers to send me their poetry news and announcements |
| Frederick Douglass on Haiti: "...though we are large and Haiti is small; though we are strong and Haiti is weak; though we are a continent and Haiti is bounded on all sides by the sea, there may come a time when even in the weakness of Haiti there may be strength to the United States." Lecture on Haiti by the HON. FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Ex-Minister to Haiti, at The Haitian Pavilion on the occasion of the Dedication Ceremonies, World's Fair, Jackson Park,Chicago, Jan. 2d, 1893 TWO HAITIAN POETS, Léon Laleau and Jacques Roumain, from the Oregon Literary Review: Betrayal (by Léon Laleau) This unrelenting heart, whose rhythm suits Neither my language nor my clothing And into which bite, like jaws of a trap, Borrowed sentiments and European Customs—Do you feel this suffering This despair unlike any other Of domesticating, with words from France, This heart that came to me from Senegal? Introducing Open Gate: An anthology of Haitian creole poetry by Paul Laraque, Haiti Progres "his Week in Haiti," Vol. 19 no. 42, 2–8 January 2002 A version of the following text was read by the author Paul Laraque at the Poetry Project in Manhattan on Dec. 19, 2001. The event—which featured readings by other Haitian poets including Max Manigat, Pierre-Richard Narcisse, Cauvin Paul, and Denizi Lauture, as well as North American poet Jack Hirschman—spotlighted Open Gate, the first bilingual collection of modern Haitian Creole poetry available to English readers. The piece concludes with the following Creole verses by Laraque translated into English by Jack Hirschman, who was also an internationalist who forged great friendships with important personalities like Langston Hughes, Nicolas Guillen, R L C James etc… legzil san ou ta lanfh More Haitian poetsou rache-m lan bouch dezespwa lan fredi ou pote chalh ou se limyh lan fhnwa. exile without you would be hell you pulled me from the mouth of despair in the cold you bring fire you're the light in the darkness Categorized links to documents about the political, economic, social and cultural history of Haiti. Includes history of language and literature and additional resources. |
Voilà -- Voltaire! Philip Larkin explains the 'The Process of Poetry' in three simple steps.
Oy vey, the chutzpah! Daily Writing Tips has The 40 Yiddish Words You Should Know.
Plot to Punctuation echoes what I've been telling my probation officer for years:Villains are heroes too.
You tell me. Is CopyBlooger's 'The Eminem Guide to Becoming a Writing and Marketing Machine' the best titled tip of the day or what?
Three different approaches to dealing with writer's block, all from the same source. Swati Nitin Gupta'sHow to Avoid, How to Cure, and How to Take Advantage of Writer's Block. (Homegirl seems a li'l | from past (& hopefully future) Picnic Poet, Hakim Bellamy Detroit Hip-Hop Saturday, January 9, 8pm through Jan 10, 1:30am @ The Launchpad, 618 Central Ave SW. Albuquerque  $10 at door. Advance tix $8 available at Guerrilla Graphix - 2205 Silver SE @ Yale Blvd, ph 505-508-5202. On the occasion of the Albuquerque meeting of the National Planning Committee for the United States Social Forum in Detroit, June 22-26, 2010. Another World is Possible! Another U.S. is Necessary! Another Detroit is Happening! Sponsored by the SouthWest Organizing Project. This event is a fundraiser for the US Social Forum. Workshop With Detroit Hip Hop Artist Invincible Join us this Friday the 8th at 6:00pm in the SWOP youth office (211 10th Street, youth office is located in the back) for a workshop with Invincible around Hip Hop and Media Organizing. Come meet and talk with some of the youth working to build and create a youth presence at the 2010 US Social Forum and find out how you can get involved. Dinner will be provided. For more info please contact Emma Sandoval: (505)353-2941 |
| VERSAL 8 is an Internationally acclaimed literary annual published in Amsterdam, bringing together the world's urgent, involved, and unexpected. Versal's submission window closes on January 15. We want your poetry, prose, and art for the eighth issue due out in May 2010. See website for guidelines and to submit: http://versal.wordsinhere.com Inquiries (only) can be directed to: versaljournal AT wordsinhere DOT com. Please feel free to forward this into your networks! |
The sixth year of the Duende Poetry Series of Placitas will begin with a reading on Sunday, January10, at the Anasazi Fields Winery (3PM), the third year the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry of Santa Fe has supported this reading series. Featured readers for this event include Santa Fe poet Donald Levering and upstate New York poet Janine Pommy Vega, who will be accompanied by the Albuquerque jazz band J'Zamm, an accomplished musical group that includes Judy Green (keyboards), Phil Green (bass), Bonnie Schmador (flute) and Bill Pommy (drums), the poet's brother. Pommy Vega published her first book of poetry in 1968 and has issued fourteen more since then, plus four prose works and a few CDs. One of her prose works, Island of the Sun (1991) conveys her experiences of living for a year on an island in Lake Titicaca (Bolivia) with Aymara Indians. Her latest book of poetry, The Green Piano (Black Sparrow/Godine, 2005), is a major work following on her extensive Mad Dogs of Trieste: New and Selected Poems (2000). Since 1987, she has been involved with prison poetry workshops with the Bard College Prison Initiative and founded the Harvest Moon Collective for poetry at a Connecticut state prison, where she teaches. A world traveler, Pommy has given readings in both English and Spanish and translated poetry from Italian. Donald Levering, currently a Human Services administrator, also has a varied background: groundskeeper, computer operator, free lance journalist, teacher on the Navajo Reservation. The recipient of a fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, he has published widely in literary journals. His books include: The Jack of Spring, Carpool, Mister Ubiquity, The Fast of Thoth, the Kingdom of Ignorance, Outcroppings from Navajoland, Horsetail and Whose Body, his latest. He earned an MFA degree from Bowling Green State University where he studied with well known poet Howard McCord. For all Duende Poetry Series readings, wine, free snacks, and non-alcoholic drinks are available to the audiences. Although the event is free, we encourage donations for the poets. For more information about the event, contact Jim Fish at the winery (867-3062) or online at anasazifieldswinery@att.net. The next reading will be on Sunday, March 14 (3PM), program to be announced. More about the Duende series, "In idyllic Placitas, the poetry flows freely: Purveyors and lovers of verse to gather at winery for readings," article by Aurelio Sanchez Albuquerque Journal, Sept 13, 2009 To get to the winery, turn onto Camino de los Pueblitos from Highway 165, across from the Presbyterian Church, go two stop signs and then turn left into the parking lot for the winery. From outside Placitas, take I-25 to exit 242, drive six miles to the Old Village, turn left just before the Presbyterian Church and follow Camino de los Pueblitos through two stop signs to the winery. |
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This as Including That This rock and the dry birds Fluttering in blue leaves, This rock and the priest, The priest of nothingness who intones-- It is true that you live on this rock And in it. It is wholly you. It is true that there are thoughts That move in the air as large as air, That are almost not our own, but thoughts To which we are related, In an association like yours With the rock and mine with you. The iron settee is cold. A fly crawls on the balustrades. --Wallace Stevens "More than any other modern poet, Stevens was concerned with the transformative power of the imagination. Composing poems on his way to and from the office and in the evenings, Stevens continued to spend his days behind a desk at the office, and led a quiet, uneventful life." |
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