Thursday, August 26, 2004
FIERA LINGUE'S POETS CORNER
curated by Anny Ballardini, adds Eileen Tabios to its roster of featured poets! The seven prose poem now on Eileen's Poets Corner link are part of the poems to appear in her 2005 Marsh Hawk Press book entitled I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED.
Another Marsh Hawk author on Fiera Lingue's Poets Corner is Harriett Zinnes. Check out Poets Corner's Archives for wonderful poetry offerings!
curated by Anny Ballardini, adds Eileen Tabios to its roster of featured poets! The seven prose poem now on Eileen's Poets Corner link are part of the poems to appear in her 2005 Marsh Hawk Press book entitled I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED.
Another Marsh Hawk author on Fiera Lingue's Poets Corner is Harriett Zinnes. Check out Poets Corner's Archives for wonderful poetry offerings!
Monday, August 23, 2004
TOM BECKETT ON THOMAS FINK
Marsh Hawk Press thanks poet, critic and editor Tom Beckett for his blog-mention of Thomas Fink's new book, AFTER TAXES. Tom Beckett says:
I love the wonder-driven, edgy, tuneful turns of this book of poems by poet-painter, Thomas Fink. Take this piece, for example:
ALL TRIP YOU SING
the same ditty.
A bashed thermostat.
The kiss was black.
High-tension wires cling to.
Meanwhile, the Midas clutch
has gone randy. Misfortune
500, never random, is bent
on privatizing atmosphere,
hourglass. Do we honor
skyscraper garages to fulfill
a cyclops' commercial landscape
penetrations? I
may become a cesspool
concierge stuck
with stragglers' swirling
wish lists.
Lottery wins?
Page the comet. Give us
tranquillity to part,
depart the rot.
This is a fun book. I hope it finds a wide audience.
Marsh Hawk Press thanks poet, critic and editor Tom Beckett for his blog-mention of Thomas Fink's new book, AFTER TAXES. Tom Beckett says:
I love the wonder-driven, edgy, tuneful turns of this book of poems by poet-painter, Thomas Fink. Take this piece, for example:
ALL TRIP YOU SING
the same ditty.
A bashed thermostat.
The kiss was black.
High-tension wires cling to.
Meanwhile, the Midas clutch
has gone randy. Misfortune
500, never random, is bent
on privatizing atmosphere,
hourglass. Do we honor
skyscraper garages to fulfill
a cyclops' commercial landscape
penetrations? I
may become a cesspool
concierge stuck
with stragglers' swirling
wish lists.
Lottery wins?
Page the comet. Give us
tranquillity to part,
depart the rot.
This is a fun book. I hope it finds a wide audience.
Thursday, August 19, 2004
CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN TO JACQUELYN POPE WHOSE AWARD JUST RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING MEDIA COVERAGE FROM THE DAILY NEWS TRANSCIPT:
Dedham poet wins poetry prize
By Kit Kadlec / News Staff Writer
Friday, August 13, 2004
DEDHAM -- A poetry publishing collective recently awarded Village Avenue resident Jacquelyn Pope first prize for her manuscript, "Watermark."
The poetry prize from New York-based Marsh Hawk Press includes a $1,000 award, and "Watermark" will be published in the spring of 2005. Pope, 44, was competing against 400 other applicants.
She has been writing poetry since she was a child, but Pope said this will be her first published book of poetry.
It is not the first time she has been recognized for her writing skills, though.
Pope's poems, essays and translations have appeared in journals and newspapers in both the U.S. and Europe. She has been awarded the Jose Marti Prize from the Netherlands, been recognized by the Academy of American Poets and the Massachusetts Cultural Council and was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Emily Dickinson award.
Marie Ponsot, a contest judge for the Marsh Hawk Press contest, praised the "energized" poems in "Watermark."
"Jacquelyn Pope has remarkable ease and power, especially in using tone and diction to establish an imagined world, eloquent and various," Ponsot said.
Pope, who has lived in Dedham for six years with her husband and 2-year-old daughter, said her previous home in the Netherlands played a major influence in her latest work.
"I was very interested in the architecture of Amsterdam, and I tried to find a way to mirror that in the style that I was writing," she said.
But Pope said her time spent in Dedham may also prove to be an influence for new book of poems she is working on. She has also starting to write a novel.
"The landscape is so beautiful here," she said of Dedham. "I love the old houses, the graveyard, and that it's a town you can walk around in."
After "Watermark" is published, Pope said she plans to do some poetry readings in the area, possibly in April.
She said her favorite poets include Emily Dickinson, Lorine Niedecker and T.S. Eliot.
More information and samples of Pope's work can be found at www.marshhawkpress.org.
Dedham poet wins poetry prize
By Kit Kadlec / News Staff Writer
Friday, August 13, 2004
DEDHAM -- A poetry publishing collective recently awarded Village Avenue resident Jacquelyn Pope first prize for her manuscript, "Watermark."
The poetry prize from New York-based Marsh Hawk Press includes a $1,000 award, and "Watermark" will be published in the spring of 2005. Pope, 44, was competing against 400 other applicants.
She has been writing poetry since she was a child, but Pope said this will be her first published book of poetry.
It is not the first time she has been recognized for her writing skills, though.
Pope's poems, essays and translations have appeared in journals and newspapers in both the U.S. and Europe. She has been awarded the Jose Marti Prize from the Netherlands, been recognized by the Academy of American Poets and the Massachusetts Cultural Council and was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Emily Dickinson award.
Marie Ponsot, a contest judge for the Marsh Hawk Press contest, praised the "energized" poems in "Watermark."
"Jacquelyn Pope has remarkable ease and power, especially in using tone and diction to establish an imagined world, eloquent and various," Ponsot said.
Pope, who has lived in Dedham for six years with her husband and 2-year-old daughter, said her previous home in the Netherlands played a major influence in her latest work.
"I was very interested in the architecture of Amsterdam, and I tried to find a way to mirror that in the style that I was writing," she said.
But Pope said her time spent in Dedham may also prove to be an influence for new book of poems she is working on. She has also starting to write a novel.
"The landscape is so beautiful here," she said of Dedham. "I love the old houses, the graveyard, and that it's a town you can walk around in."
After "Watermark" is published, Pope said she plans to do some poetry readings in the area, possibly in April.
She said her favorite poets include Emily Dickinson, Lorine Niedecker and T.S. Eliot.
More information and samples of Pope's work can be found at www.marshhawkpress.org.
