Sunday, February 29, 2004
CONGRATULATIONS TO MADELINE TIGER!
Madeline Tiger's Birds of Sorrow and Joy, receives an enthusiastic review in the Jan/Feb 2004 issue of Small Press Review. Here's an excerpt:
"A fierce courage informs the work of Madeline Tiger, a poet whose name surely befits her persona. The material of her life, painful and joyous at the same time. The reader too must be courageous in following the poetry through a difficult marriage, the experience of motherhood, divorce, and the loss of a child....
"No doubt Tiger in the coming years will have more to say about the pleasures she extracts from life as she meets the inevitable new challenges. I will be first in line to buy that book."
Madeline Tiger's Birds of Sorrow and Joy, receives an enthusiastic review in the Jan/Feb 2004 issue of Small Press Review. Here's an excerpt:
"A fierce courage informs the work of Madeline Tiger, a poet whose name surely befits her persona. The material of her life, painful and joyous at the same time. The reader too must be courageous in following the poetry through a difficult marriage, the experience of motherhood, divorce, and the loss of a child....
"No doubt Tiger in the coming years will have more to say about the pleasures she extracts from life as she meets the inevitable new challenges. I will be first in line to buy that book."
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE -- SECOND PRINTING!
Marsh Hawk Press has reached a milestone: the SECOND PRINTING of one of our books is just going to press. The book is Eileen R. Tabios’ Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole, which Arthur Sze praised as “full of lovely, surprising conjunctions.” Forrest Gander suggested that“[her] poems allow our minds to be excited twice, by the psychological and artistic reference points from which the words zoom-out like handpicked bees from a hive, and by the vivid hum of the poems themselves demonstrating a captivating, utterly original imagination.”
Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole has received a host of glowing reviews since it was first published in fall 2002, and it is currently being used as a text in several college courses.
Eileen R. Tabios is the winner of the Philippines National Book Award, among other distinguished prizes.
Marsh Hawk Press has reached a milestone: the SECOND PRINTING of one of our books is just going to press. The book is Eileen R. Tabios’ Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole, which Arthur Sze praised as “full of lovely, surprising conjunctions.” Forrest Gander suggested that“[her] poems allow our minds to be excited twice, by the psychological and artistic reference points from which the words zoom-out like handpicked bees from a hive, and by the vivid hum of the poems themselves demonstrating a captivating, utterly original imagination.”
Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole has received a host of glowing reviews since it was first published in fall 2002, and it is currently being used as a text in several college courses.
Eileen R. Tabios is the winner of the Philippines National Book Award, among other distinguished prizes.
Monday, February 23, 2004
BURT KIMMELMAN FEATURED AT BACKWOODS BROADSIDES!
Marsh Hawk editor and author Burt Kimmelman has a new series of poems out in chaplet format from Backwoods Broadsides. These poems, one for each month of the year, contain the wonderful elements that Burt's readers expect: careful observation of nature, concise presentation, and the serenity that comes when we are alone in the solitudinous world.
You can get Burt's chaplet by sending $1.00 to Backwoods Broadsides, c/o Sylvester Pollet, 963 Winkumpaugh Rd., Ellsworth ME 04605-9529
You can also subscribe for 8 issues at $10.00 for the year.
Marsh Hawk editor and author Burt Kimmelman has a new series of poems out in chaplet format from Backwoods Broadsides. These poems, one for each month of the year, contain the wonderful elements that Burt's readers expect: careful observation of nature, concise presentation, and the serenity that comes when we are alone in the solitudinous world.
You can get Burt's chaplet by sending $1.00 to Backwoods Broadsides, c/o Sylvester Pollet, 963 Winkumpaugh Rd., Ellsworth ME 04605-9529
You can also subscribe for 8 issues at $10.00 for the year.
Sunday, February 22, 2004
ED FOSTER IN OYSTER BOY REVIEW
Congratulations to Ed Foster whose Mahrem--Things Men Should Do for Men: A Suite for O just received a lovely review by Reginald Harris in Oyster Boy Review. Here's an excerpt:
The poems in Edward Foster's Mahrem are spare, elegant and elliptical. Coupled with photographs of scenes and young men from Turkey interspersed throughout the book, they combine to form a landscape of loss, broken or fleeting incomplete relationships, and ultimate aloneness and "strangeness"...
Congratulations to Ed Foster whose Mahrem--Things Men Should Do for Men: A Suite for O just received a lovely review by Reginald Harris in Oyster Boy Review. Here's an excerpt:
The poems in Edward Foster's Mahrem are spare, elegant and elliptical. Coupled with photographs of scenes and young men from Turkey interspersed throughout the book, they combine to form a landscape of loss, broken or fleeting incomplete relationships, and ultimate aloneness and "strangeness"...
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Monday, February 16, 2004
An Anti-war, Peace Reading for Women's History Month
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
March 13th Saturday Afternoon 1PM
@ THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB
308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012 foot of First Street, between Houston & Bleecker
Tel. 1-212.614.0505 F train to Second Ave, or 6 train to Bleecker
Featuring Daniela Gioseffi
hosting and celebrating
the 1st year anniversary of
WOMEN ON WAR: International Writings
bestseller of the Non-profit Feminst Press, NY: March 2003
Featured Readers:
Meena Alexander, Nina Cassian, Fran Castan, Pat Falk, Brenda Gannam, Marilyn Hacker, Nathalie Handal, Pwu Jean Lee, Gabrielle Le May, Donna Masini, D.H. Melhem, Marie Ponsot, Sapphire, Grace Schulman, Jackie Sheeler, Karen Swenson, Rochelle Ratner, Harriet Zinnes
$5 to the Bowery Poetry Club for the venue expenses
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
March 13th Saturday Afternoon 1PM
@ THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB
308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012 foot of First Street, between Houston & Bleecker
Tel. 1-212.614.0505 F train to Second Ave, or 6 train to Bleecker
Featuring Daniela Gioseffi
hosting and celebrating
the 1st year anniversary of
WOMEN ON WAR: International Writings
bestseller of the Non-profit Feminst Press, NY: March 2003
Featured Readers:
Meena Alexander, Nina Cassian, Fran Castan, Pat Falk, Brenda Gannam, Marilyn Hacker, Nathalie Handal, Pwu Jean Lee, Gabrielle Le May, Donna Masini, D.H. Melhem, Marie Ponsot, Sapphire, Grace Schulman, Jackie Sheeler, Karen Swenson, Rochelle Ratner, Harriet Zinnes
$5 to the Bowery Poetry Club for the venue expenses
OUR NEW ADVISORY BOARD!
Marsh Hawk Press is delighted to welcome these illustrious poets to our brand new Artists' Advisory Board Members:
Robert Creeley
Toi Derricotte
Denise Duhamel
Marilyn Hacker
Allan Kornblum
Maria Mazzioti Gillan
Alicia Ostriker
David Shapiro
Nathaniel Tarn
Ann Waldman
John Yau
To join our family, one way is through the
FIRST ANNUAL MARSH HAWK POETRY PRIZE
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2004
JUDGED BY MARIE PONSOT.
The Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize offers a cash award of $1,000.00 plus publication of the winning book.
NOTA BENE: Though only one contest entry will win the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize, our current publishing schedule calls for six new titles per year. Thus, the editors will be looking for publishable manuscripts among the contest entries.
For more information, go to this link:
http://www.marshhawkpress.org/Contests%20and%20Submissions.htm
Marsh Hawk Press is delighted to welcome these illustrious poets to our brand new Artists' Advisory Board Members:
Robert Creeley
Toi Derricotte
Denise Duhamel
Marilyn Hacker
Allan Kornblum
Maria Mazzioti Gillan
Alicia Ostriker
David Shapiro
Nathaniel Tarn
Ann Waldman
John Yau
To join our family, one way is through the
FIRST ANNUAL MARSH HAWK POETRY PRIZE
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2004
JUDGED BY MARIE PONSOT.
The Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize offers a cash award of $1,000.00 plus publication of the winning book.
NOTA BENE: Though only one contest entry will win the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize, our current publishing schedule calls for six new titles per year. Thus, the editors will be looking for publishable manuscripts among the contest entries.
For more information, go to this link:
http://www.marshhawkpress.org/Contests%20and%20Submissions.htm
Sunday, February 15, 2004
EILEEN TABIOS ON SECOND AVENUE
ANNOUNCING A NEW ONLINE POETRY JOURNAL
2nd AVENUE POETRY, volume I
http://www.2ndavenuepoetry.com/
featuring:
kazim ALI
christine BALANCE
anselm BERRIGAN
nick CARBO
del ray CROSS
oliver DE LA PAZ
luis h. FRANCIA
rigoberto GONZALEZ
paolo JAVIER
kevin KILLIAN
joseph LEGASPI
sanjana NAIR
salvador NOVO
aaron PECK
jon PINEDA
meredith QUARTERMAIN
peter QUARTERMAIN
bino REALUYO
barbara jane REYES
patrick ROSAL
thaddeus RUTKOWSKI
ravi SHANKAR
eileen TABIOS
&
two downloadable e-chapbooks by:
bruce ANDREWS
sarah GAMBITO
ANNOUNCING A NEW ONLINE POETRY JOURNAL
2nd AVENUE POETRY, volume I
http://www.2ndavenuepoetry.com/
featuring:
kazim ALI
christine BALANCE
anselm BERRIGAN
nick CARBO
del ray CROSS
oliver DE LA PAZ
luis h. FRANCIA
rigoberto GONZALEZ
paolo JAVIER
kevin KILLIAN
joseph LEGASPI
sanjana NAIR
salvador NOVO
aaron PECK
jon PINEDA
meredith QUARTERMAIN
peter QUARTERMAIN
bino REALUYO
barbara jane REYES
patrick ROSAL
thaddeus RUTKOWSKI
ravi SHANKAR
eileen TABIOS
&
two downloadable e-chapbooks by:
bruce ANDREWS
sarah GAMBITO
Saturday, February 14, 2004
JANE AUGUSTINE AND ROCHELLE RATNER IN HAMILTON STONE REVIEW!
Hamilton Stone Editions announces the latest issue of the Hamilton Stone Review
Poems by Jane Augustine, Michael Heller, Sybil Kollar, Larry Goodell, Rebecca Kavaler, Lewis LaCook, Roger Mitchell, Rochelle Ratner, Tom Raworth, and Joseph Somoza.
Stories by Jane Lazarre, Richard Perry, and Susan Robbins.
http://www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr.html
Poetry editor: Halvard Johnson
Fiction editor: Carole Rosenthal
Hamilton Stone Editions announces the latest issue of the Hamilton Stone Review
Poems by Jane Augustine, Michael Heller, Sybil Kollar, Larry Goodell, Rebecca Kavaler, Lewis LaCook, Roger Mitchell, Rochelle Ratner, Tom Raworth, and Joseph Somoza.
Stories by Jane Lazarre, Richard Perry, and Susan Robbins.
http://www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr.html
Poetry editor: Halvard Johnson
Fiction editor: Carole Rosenthal
Friday, February 13, 2004
EILEEN TABIOS'S REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE
has hit No. 12 on SPD's Poetry Bestseller List for Winter 2004. The following new reviews may help explain why Eileen's book continues to generate attention:
Noah Eli Gordon for the St. Marks Poetry Project Newsletter:
Eileen R. Tabios's Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole (Marsh Hawk Press, 2002, $12.95) is able to narrate the political implications of place and identity without giving up the desirous, inquisitive or uncertain nature of human interactions. From Greece to Nepal, New York to the Mindanao Sea, the multiple paragraphs of these poems consistently demonstrate a devotion to the life of the pronouns which people them.
Nick Carbo for 2ndAvenuePoetry.com:
Eileen Tabios’ first book of poetry to be published in the United States and this volume of art-inspired prose poems should bring to an American audience what the Philippine and Southeast Asian publishing world has already known for several years: Eileen Tabios is a world class poet with serious talent. She has had three previous books of poetry published in the Philippines since 1989. They are Beyond Life Sentences (1989) which won the Manila Book Critics’ Circle National Book Award, Ecstatic Mutations (2000), and My Romance (2001).
Reproductions begins with the poem “Eclipse” which asserts the poet’s intimate connection to the world of art, “To escape chaos, the Greeks created art with abstractions. It is a familiar approach, having long used geometry to deny myself caresses.” Many of the poems in the book are inspired by works of art like “The Kritios Boy,” “Jade,” “Adultery,” “The Color of a Scratch in Metal,” “The Wire Sculpture,” “The Fairy Child’s Prayer,” “The Destiny of Rain,” “My Saison Between Baudelair and Morrison,” “Muse Poem,” “Franz Kline Kindly Says About Three Gersture-Laden Brushstrokes,” “Insomnia’s Lullaby,” and the whole last section of the book entitled “Triptych for Anne Truit.” Tabios's approach to these poems is pure ekphrasis. In ancient Greece, philosophers defined ekphrasis as a vivid description intended to bring the subject before the mind’s eye of the listener.
The author of this book is ultimately successful in this artistic enterprise of bringing the subject before the mind’s eye of the readers and these readers will not only be enlightened but informed.
has hit No. 12 on SPD's Poetry Bestseller List for Winter 2004. The following new reviews may help explain why Eileen's book continues to generate attention:
Noah Eli Gordon for the St. Marks Poetry Project Newsletter:
Eileen R. Tabios's Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole (Marsh Hawk Press, 2002, $12.95) is able to narrate the political implications of place and identity without giving up the desirous, inquisitive or uncertain nature of human interactions. From Greece to Nepal, New York to the Mindanao Sea, the multiple paragraphs of these poems consistently demonstrate a devotion to the life of the pronouns which people them.
Nick Carbo for 2ndAvenuePoetry.com:
Eileen Tabios’ first book of poetry to be published in the United States and this volume of art-inspired prose poems should bring to an American audience what the Philippine and Southeast Asian publishing world has already known for several years: Eileen Tabios is a world class poet with serious talent. She has had three previous books of poetry published in the Philippines since 1989. They are Beyond Life Sentences (1989) which won the Manila Book Critics’ Circle National Book Award, Ecstatic Mutations (2000), and My Romance (2001).
Reproductions begins with the poem “Eclipse” which asserts the poet’s intimate connection to the world of art, “To escape chaos, the Greeks created art with abstractions. It is a familiar approach, having long used geometry to deny myself caresses.” Many of the poems in the book are inspired by works of art like “The Kritios Boy,” “Jade,” “Adultery,” “The Color of a Scratch in Metal,” “The Wire Sculpture,” “The Fairy Child’s Prayer,” “The Destiny of Rain,” “My Saison Between Baudelair and Morrison,” “Muse Poem,” “Franz Kline Kindly Says About Three Gersture-Laden Brushstrokes,” “Insomnia’s Lullaby,” and the whole last section of the book entitled “Triptych for Anne Truit.” Tabios's approach to these poems is pure ekphrasis. In ancient Greece, philosophers defined ekphrasis as a vivid description intended to bring the subject before the mind’s eye of the listener.
The author of this book is ultimately successful in this artistic enterprise of bringing the subject before the mind’s eye of the readers and these readers will not only be enlightened but informed.
Monday, February 09, 2004
BOOK PARTY: CORINNE ROBINS
Corinne Robins will have a book party for her new collection ONE THOUSAND YEARS
on March 6, 2005
5 - 7:30 p.m.
85 Wooster Street, 3rd Floor
New York City
Do check out the lovely poem "A Thousand Years" in Corinne's book by clicking on the referenced link.
Corinne Robins will have a book party for her new collection ONE THOUSAND YEARS
on March 6, 2005
5 - 7:30 p.m.
85 Wooster Street, 3rd Floor
New York City
Do check out the lovely poem "A Thousand Years" in Corinne's book by clicking on the referenced link.
