Tuesday, March 29, 2005
MARSH HAWK PRESS AT AWP!
Sandy McIntosh and Eileen Tabios will represent Marsh Hawk Press at AWP this year. Visit them at Table #101 where all Marsh Hawk Press titles will be on sale at a 30% discount.
In addition, Eileen will be part of these two events, the first onsite at AWP and the second offsite:
The Unknown Pagoda: Southeast Asian American Writing
Saturday, April 2
3:00-4:15pm
S907H
Hyatt Regency, Plaza C, 2nd floor.
and
Ricepaper Magazine, the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop and the Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance Presents:
"(NA)AWP: North Asian Americans Write Poetry, or Thank You, Canada, For Letting Us Land Our Planes"
Featuring KAZIM ALI, NICK CARBO, TINA CHANG, PAOLO JAVIER, TIMOTHY LIU, AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL, OSCAR PENARANDA, RAVI SHANKAR, PRAGEETA SHARMA, and EILEEN TABIOS
WHEN: Friday, 7:00pm, April 1st 2005
WHERE: Our Town Café
96 Kingsway ( Corner of Kingsway and Broadway)
Sandy McIntosh and Eileen Tabios will represent Marsh Hawk Press at AWP this year. Visit them at Table #101 where all Marsh Hawk Press titles will be on sale at a 30% discount.
In addition, Eileen will be part of these two events, the first onsite at AWP and the second offsite:
The Unknown Pagoda: Southeast Asian American Writing
Saturday, April 2
3:00-4:15pm
S907H
Hyatt Regency, Plaza C, 2nd floor.
and
Ricepaper Magazine, the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop and the Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance Presents:
"(NA)AWP: North Asian Americans Write Poetry, or Thank You, Canada, For Letting Us Land Our Planes"
Featuring KAZIM ALI, NICK CARBO, TINA CHANG, PAOLO JAVIER, TIMOTHY LIU, AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL, OSCAR PENARANDA, RAVI SHANKAR, PRAGEETA SHARMA, and EILEEN TABIOS
WHEN: Friday, 7:00pm, April 1st 2005
WHERE: Our Town Café
96 Kingsway ( Corner of Kingsway and Broadway)
Friday, March 18, 2005
SPD RECOMMENDS OUR FIRST WINNER OF MARSH HAWK PRESS' POETRY CONTEST!
Congratulations to Jacquelyn Pope whose WATERMARK is cited by Small Press Distribution. See prior post for Submission Details to this year's contest! Meanwhile, here's SPD's notice:
SPD RECOMMENDS: NEW TITLES for March 4-March 18, 2005
ORDERS: 1-800-869-7553
ORDERS@SPDBOOKS.ORG
FAX: 1-510-524-0852
WWW.SPDBOOKS.ORG
Try Electronic Ordering! SPD is on PUBNET (SAN #106-6617)
Questions? Contact Brent Cunningham at brent@spdbooks.org
WATERMARK
by Pope, Jacquelyn
$12.95 / PA / pp.80
Marsh Hawk Press, 2005
ISBN: 0-9759197-2-5
Poetry. The debut offering from Jose Marti prizewinning poet Jacquelyn Pope has been honored with the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize 2004. "Pope has remarkable ease and power, especially in using tone and diction to establish an imagined world, eloquent and various" - Marie Ponsot. "A welcome ruckus of rich imaginings and sounds" - Gregory Orr.
http://www.spdbooks.org/details.asp?bookid=0975919725
Congratulations to Jacquelyn Pope whose WATERMARK is cited by Small Press Distribution. See prior post for Submission Details to this year's contest! Meanwhile, here's SPD's notice:
SPD RECOMMENDS: NEW TITLES for March 4-March 18, 2005
ORDERS: 1-800-869-7553
ORDERS@SPDBOOKS.ORG
FAX: 1-510-524-0852
WWW.SPDBOOKS.ORG
Try Electronic Ordering! SPD is on PUBNET (SAN #106-6617)
Questions? Contact Brent Cunningham at brent@spdbooks.org
WATERMARK
by Pope, Jacquelyn
$12.95 / PA / pp.80
Marsh Hawk Press, 2005
ISBN: 0-9759197-2-5
Poetry. The debut offering from Jose Marti prizewinning poet Jacquelyn Pope has been honored with the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize 2004. "Pope has remarkable ease and power, especially in using tone and diction to establish an imagined world, eloquent and various" - Marie Ponsot. "A welcome ruckus of rich imaginings and sounds" - Gregory Orr.
http://www.spdbooks.org/details.asp?bookid=0975919725
Sunday, March 13, 2005
ON THE MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE
Here's another reason to participate in our second annual poetry contest, judged this year by Gerald Stern (click here for contest details). Managing editor Sandy McIntosh recently received a letter from the 2004 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize winner, Jacquelyn Pope, as regards her experience with us. Cheers all around for:
Dear Sandy,
I just got my books, and they look great. Thank you again for all your work on this. I really appreciate the efforts of everyone at Marsh Hawk in getting the book out. Because I know a number of people who have had frustrating and disappointing experiences with publishers, I realize that my very positive experience is not something to be taken for granted. I'm very pleased to be published by Marsh Hawk Press--thanks again!
Jackye
You're welcome Jackye!
Here's another reason to participate in our second annual poetry contest, judged this year by Gerald Stern (click here for contest details). Managing editor Sandy McIntosh recently received a letter from the 2004 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize winner, Jacquelyn Pope, as regards her experience with us. Cheers all around for:
Dear Sandy,
I just got my books, and they look great. Thank you again for all your work on this. I really appreciate the efforts of everyone at Marsh Hawk in getting the book out. Because I know a number of people who have had frustrating and disappointing experiences with publishers, I realize that my very positive experience is not something to be taken for granted. I'm very pleased to be published by Marsh Hawk Press--thanks again!
Jackye
You're welcome Jackye!
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
THOMAS FINK FEATURED AT MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY'S THE SNAPPER!
Dr. Thomas Fink speaks at Ford Atrium
By Lynda Berner
Published: Thursday, March 3, 2005
Ford Atrium in McComsey Hall was alive when City University of New York Professor Dr. Thomas Fink graced students and faculty with his poetic presence Tuesday night. Fink read some of his rare style poetics and answered questions about his work.
Fink's poetry is definitely something new and exciting in the world of literature. Perhaps other artists are doing some of the same things, but Fink's work represents the budding genre that might be called "experimental writing" or "non-traditional."
This kind of writing has only one true rule: break all the rules and see what happens. That is not to suggest in any way there is an absence of pattern or form. Quite to the contrary, many of Fink's poems are shaped mathematically and visually on the page.
Another thing that makes his work so acclaimed is the fact that he tackles subjects he may not know about and researches them thoroughly in order to write a poem. He actually spent years jotting down the baby speak of his daughters in order to examine the language patterns of a child and produce a poem from it.
When he was captivated by conversations about the world of business and economics, he read up further and produced the amazing four page poem "Trillion Urges: Manufacturers." In this poem Fink captures a full embodiment of his perception and understanding of our capitalist world. A great line from the poem, he writes: "economics scenario. Dream-dialed streams: / future renunciations cancelled. / Surplus forever. / Our / emissions spiral out jobs to / sustain queasy families; your consumer / wisdom / supports. Copious. Today, an immense / pledge: international containment / of absolute / risk."
As seen in this quotation from his 2004 book After Taxes, the breaks of his lines and stanzas are different from a traditional poetry form. But the entire four pages of this specific work actually have a specific thought out mathematical pattern. That is quite the accomplishment.
In a recent interview posted on E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S (willtoexchange.blogspot.com) which is an acclaimed internet literary cite, literature and art journalist Tom Beckett asked Fink about his writing process. Though he has many methods of synthesizing his thought and producing a poem, he explained to Beckett one of them in which he uses several drafts, condensing, molding and perfecting with each draft.
"First, I accumulate one to five pages of lines in a notebook," he said. "Finally, before moving to the 'shaping' phase on the computer, or, in some cases, creation of stanzas, I re-test the order of sentences/fragments and keep moving them around until I'm happy with the sequence as a poem."
Bringing the lines together in such a way, using all of the knowledge he has on a subject from reading, talking with people, or experience, expresses the unique element of collage in experimental writing. Fink is also an artist of the visual realm and does sometimes blend his paintings with his poetry.
Fink will be reading again in front of the University Store today from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. so be sure to check it out. You are guaranteed a pleasant surprise by the uniqueness of his work.
Dr. Thomas Fink speaks at Ford Atrium
By Lynda Berner
Published: Thursday, March 3, 2005
Ford Atrium in McComsey Hall was alive when City University of New York Professor Dr. Thomas Fink graced students and faculty with his poetic presence Tuesday night. Fink read some of his rare style poetics and answered questions about his work.
Fink's poetry is definitely something new and exciting in the world of literature. Perhaps other artists are doing some of the same things, but Fink's work represents the budding genre that might be called "experimental writing" or "non-traditional."
This kind of writing has only one true rule: break all the rules and see what happens. That is not to suggest in any way there is an absence of pattern or form. Quite to the contrary, many of Fink's poems are shaped mathematically and visually on the page.
Another thing that makes his work so acclaimed is the fact that he tackles subjects he may not know about and researches them thoroughly in order to write a poem. He actually spent years jotting down the baby speak of his daughters in order to examine the language patterns of a child and produce a poem from it.
When he was captivated by conversations about the world of business and economics, he read up further and produced the amazing four page poem "Trillion Urges: Manufacturers." In this poem Fink captures a full embodiment of his perception and understanding of our capitalist world. A great line from the poem, he writes: "economics scenario. Dream-dialed streams: / future renunciations cancelled. / Surplus forever. / Our / emissions spiral out jobs to / sustain queasy families; your consumer / wisdom / supports. Copious. Today, an immense / pledge: international containment / of absolute / risk."
As seen in this quotation from his 2004 book After Taxes, the breaks of his lines and stanzas are different from a traditional poetry form. But the entire four pages of this specific work actually have a specific thought out mathematical pattern. That is quite the accomplishment.
In a recent interview posted on E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S (willtoexchange.blogspot.com) which is an acclaimed internet literary cite, literature and art journalist Tom Beckett asked Fink about his writing process. Though he has many methods of synthesizing his thought and producing a poem, he explained to Beckett one of them in which he uses several drafts, condensing, molding and perfecting with each draft.
"First, I accumulate one to five pages of lines in a notebook," he said. "Finally, before moving to the 'shaping' phase on the computer, or, in some cases, creation of stanzas, I re-test the order of sentences/fragments and keep moving them around until I'm happy with the sequence as a poem."
Bringing the lines together in such a way, using all of the knowledge he has on a subject from reading, talking with people, or experience, expresses the unique element of collage in experimental writing. Fink is also an artist of the visual realm and does sometimes blend his paintings with his poetry.
Fink will be reading again in front of the University Store today from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. so be sure to check it out. You are guaranteed a pleasant surprise by the uniqueness of his work.
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
ROCHELLE RATNER'S LATEST ONLINE PROJECT
Announcing a New Photo/Memoir
journey into Christo & Jean Claude's
The Gates
ORANGE
by Rochelle Ratner
Read the Memoir
View the Photos
Due to it's newsworthy, journalistic stance
this project will remain up for a limited time
Announcing a New Photo/Memoir
journey into Christo & Jean Claude's
The Gates
ORANGE
by Rochelle Ratner
Read the Memoir
View the Photos
Due to it's newsworthy, journalistic stance
this project will remain up for a limited time
THANK YOU TO TEXAS
from Eileen Tabios and Sandy McIntosh who did readings this weekend in Arlington, Austin and Dallas. Thanks to those who helped put together this tour: Chris Murray, James Ola, Shin Yu Pai, Dale Smith, Hoa Nguyen, the Skanky Possum family, Luke Bilberry and 12th Street Books in Austin, as well as Karen X and Marquette Herring of the Dallas Writer's Garret. Reports on our trips are blogged over at Chris Murray's Texfiles and Shin Yu Pai's Makura No Soshi, as well as Eileen's Chatelaine Poetics.
from Eileen Tabios and Sandy McIntosh who did readings this weekend in Arlington, Austin and Dallas. Thanks to those who helped put together this tour: Chris Murray, James Ola, Shin Yu Pai, Dale Smith, Hoa Nguyen, the Skanky Possum family, Luke Bilberry and 12th Street Books in Austin, as well as Karen X and Marquette Herring of the Dallas Writer's Garret. Reports on our trips are blogged over at Chris Murray's Texfiles and Shin Yu Pai's Makura No Soshi, as well as Eileen's Chatelaine Poetics.
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
EXCERPTS AVAILABLE FROM TABIOS AND MCINTOSH!
Chris Murray posts excerpts from our Fall 2005 books: Eileen Tabios' I Take Thee, English, For My Beloved and Sandy McIntosh's The After-Death History of My Mother. Thanks Chris!
Chris Murray posts excerpts from our Fall 2005 books: Eileen Tabios' I Take Thee, English, For My Beloved and Sandy McIntosh's The After-Death History of My Mother. Thanks Chris!
Poetry Reading Madeline Tiger
at
The Barron Arts Center
582 Rahway Avenue
Woodbridge, NJ
Wednesday March 8th, 2005 at 8:00 PM
at
The Barron Arts Center
582 Rahway Avenue
Woodbridge, NJ
Wednesday March 8th, 2005 at 8:00 PM
CHARD DENIORD ON POETRY DAILY!
Congratulations to Chard deNiord whose book Sharp Golden Thorn and poem "Dream of a New World Order" will be featured on Poetry Daily on Saturday, March 5, 2005.
Congratulations to Chard deNiord whose book Sharp Golden Thorn and poem "Dream of a New World Order" will be featured on Poetry Daily on Saturday, March 5, 2005.
