Thursday, September 22, 2005
POETRY READING & LAUNCH FOR MARSH HAWK PRESS FALL TITLES!
Reminder: You are invited to:
The Marsh Hawk Press Launch for Fall Authors and Titles:
THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER by Sandy McIntosh
I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED by Eileen Tabios
WHITHER NONSTOPPING by Harriet Zinnes
7-9 p.m.
Friday, September 23, 2005
Poets' House
72 Spring Street
New York City
FREE ADMISSION
Wine & cheese and other refreshments will be served.
(Thanks to Poets House for the use of the space as part of a special rental agreement)
Reminder: You are invited to:
The Marsh Hawk Press Launch for Fall Authors and Titles:
THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER by Sandy McIntosh
I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED by Eileen Tabios
WHITHER NONSTOPPING by Harriet Zinnes
7-9 p.m.
Friday, September 23, 2005
Poets' House
72 Spring Street
New York City
FREE ADMISSION
Wine & cheese and other refreshments will be served.
(Thanks to Poets House for the use of the space as part of a special rental agreement)
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
GERALD STERN RECEIVES WALLACE STEVENS AWARD!
Congratulations to Gerald Stern, the judge for last year's Marsh Hawk Press Annual Poetry Prize, for his latest award -- see press release below from the Academy of American Poets:
Academy of American Poets Announces $130,000 in Prizes to Poets
September 19, 2005 — The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce the recipients of three major awards for poetry, with a total of $130,000 bestowed upon the poets.
The winners are Gerald Stern (Wallace Stevens Award for proven mastery in the art of poetry, $100,000), Claudia Rankine (Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement at mid-career, $25,000), and Barbara Jane Reyes (James Laughlin Award for a second book, $5,000).
These three awards are among the Academy of American Poets’ seven major annual book awards. The recipients will be honored at the Academy’s awards ceremony on Thursday, November 3, 2005, at Lang Auditorium, New School, 55 West 13th Street, New York City, at 7:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Gerald Stern has been selected as the recipient of the 2005 Wallace Stevens Award. The Wallace Stevens Award is given annually to recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry. Established in 1994, the award carries a stipend of $100,000. The jurors for 2005 were: Academy Chancellor Frank Bidart, Academy Chancellor Lucille Clifton, and the poets Toi Derricotte, Sharon Olds, and Kevin Young.
Mr. Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1925. His books of poetry include Last Blue: Poems (W.W. Norton &Company, 2000); This Time: New and Selected Poems (1998), which won the National Book Award; Odd Mercy (1995); Bread Without Sugar (1992), winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize; Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems (1990); Two Long Poems (1990); Lovesick (1987); Paradise Poems (1984); The Red Coal (1981), which received the Melville Caine Award; Lucky Life, the 1977 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; and Rejoicings (1973).
His honors include the Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Award, the Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, the Ruth Lilly Prize, four National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize, the Academy Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. For many years a teacher at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Mr. Stern lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, and New York City.
From the judge's citation for the Wallace Stevens Award:
"Gerald Stern has made an immense contribution to American poetry. His poems are not only great poems, memorable ones, but ones that get into your heart and stay there. Their lyrical ecstasies take you up for that moment so that your vision is changed, you are changed. The voice is intimate, someone unafraid to be imperfect. Gerald Stern’s poems sing in praise of the natural world, and in outrage of whatever is antihuman." —Toi Derricotte
Congratulations to Gerald Stern, the judge for last year's Marsh Hawk Press Annual Poetry Prize, for his latest award -- see press release below from the Academy of American Poets:
Academy of American Poets Announces $130,000 in Prizes to Poets
September 19, 2005 — The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce the recipients of three major awards for poetry, with a total of $130,000 bestowed upon the poets.
The winners are Gerald Stern (Wallace Stevens Award for proven mastery in the art of poetry, $100,000), Claudia Rankine (Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement at mid-career, $25,000), and Barbara Jane Reyes (James Laughlin Award for a second book, $5,000).
These three awards are among the Academy of American Poets’ seven major annual book awards. The recipients will be honored at the Academy’s awards ceremony on Thursday, November 3, 2005, at Lang Auditorium, New School, 55 West 13th Street, New York City, at 7:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Gerald Stern has been selected as the recipient of the 2005 Wallace Stevens Award. The Wallace Stevens Award is given annually to recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry. Established in 1994, the award carries a stipend of $100,000. The jurors for 2005 were: Academy Chancellor Frank Bidart, Academy Chancellor Lucille Clifton, and the poets Toi Derricotte, Sharon Olds, and Kevin Young.
Mr. Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1925. His books of poetry include Last Blue: Poems (W.W. Norton &Company, 2000); This Time: New and Selected Poems (1998), which won the National Book Award; Odd Mercy (1995); Bread Without Sugar (1992), winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize; Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems (1990); Two Long Poems (1990); Lovesick (1987); Paradise Poems (1984); The Red Coal (1981), which received the Melville Caine Award; Lucky Life, the 1977 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; and Rejoicings (1973).
His honors include the Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Award, the Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, the Ruth Lilly Prize, four National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize, the Academy Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. For many years a teacher at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Mr. Stern lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, and New York City.
From the judge's citation for the Wallace Stevens Award:
"Gerald Stern has made an immense contribution to American poetry. His poems are not only great poems, memorable ones, but ones that get into your heart and stay there. Their lyrical ecstasies take you up for that moment so that your vision is changed, you are changed. The voice is intimate, someone unafraid to be imperfect. Gerald Stern’s poems sing in praise of the natural world, and in outrage of whatever is antihuman." —Toi Derricotte
Friday, September 16, 2005
POETRY READING & LAUNCH FOR MARSH HAWK PRESS FALL TITLES!
Feel free to spread the word! You are invited to:
The Marsh Hawk Press Launch for Fall Authors and Titles:
THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER by Sandy McIntosh
I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED by Eileen Tabios
WHITHER NONSTOPPING by Harriet Zinnes
7-9 p.m.
Friday, September 23, 2005
Poets' House
72 Spring Street
New York City
FREE ADMISSION
Wine & cheese and other refreshments will be served.
(Thanks to Poets House for the use of the space as part of a special rental agreement)
Feel free to spread the word! You are invited to:
The Marsh Hawk Press Launch for Fall Authors and Titles:
THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER by Sandy McIntosh
I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED by Eileen Tabios
WHITHER NONSTOPPING by Harriet Zinnes
7-9 p.m.
Friday, September 23, 2005
Poets' House
72 Spring Street
New York City
FREE ADMISSION
Wine & cheese and other refreshments will be served.
(Thanks to Poets House for the use of the space as part of a special rental agreement)
Thursday, September 15, 2005
SANDY MCINTOSH & EILEEN TABIOS AT WESTCONN
Poetry for Lunch!
Thursday, September 22nd
The WestConn MFA in Professional Writing Presents
Poets
Eileen Tabios and Sandy McIntosh
A Q&A Session with Students and Faculty
at 11:00 am in Student Center Room 226
A Reading of their Work at 1:00 pm in Hass Library Room 508
Western Connecticut State University
181 White St.
Danbury, CT 06810
Poetry for Lunch!
Thursday, September 22nd
The WestConn MFA in Professional Writing Presents
Poets
Eileen Tabios and Sandy McIntosh
A Q&A Session with Students and Faculty
at 11:00 am in Student Center Room 226
A Reading of their Work at 1:00 pm in Hass Library Room 508
Western Connecticut State University
181 White St.
Danbury, CT 06810
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
CONGRATULATIONS TO SANDY MCINTOSH
whose new Marsh Hawk Press book is an SPD New Title Recommendation:
SPD RECOMMENDS: NEW TITLES for August 19-September 9, 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
THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER
by McIntosh, Sandy
$15.00 / PA / pp.88
Marsh Hawk Press, 2005
ISBN: 0-9759197-4-1
Poetry. The poems in THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER involve the work of mourning. They come to terms with mortality and reparation for acute loss in surreal, dream-like encounters between the living and the departed. McIntosh confronts the constraints imposed by history on the present and loosens those strictures through the charms of his imagination. An elegantly crafted long poem, "Obsessional" records intriguing detective work on Tudor English literary history and assesses the nature of how art is created, by whom, and under what circumstances.
http://www.spdbooks.org/details.asp?bookid=0975919741
*****
Sandy will be launching his book, with Eileen Tabios and Harriet Zinnes in New York on Sept. 23 -- see prior post.
whose new Marsh Hawk Press book is an SPD New Title Recommendation:
SPD RECOMMENDS: NEW TITLES for August 19-September 9, 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
THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER
by McIntosh, Sandy
$15.00 / PA / pp.88
Marsh Hawk Press, 2005
ISBN: 0-9759197-4-1
Poetry. The poems in THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER involve the work of mourning. They come to terms with mortality and reparation for acute loss in surreal, dream-like encounters between the living and the departed. McIntosh confronts the constraints imposed by history on the present and loosens those strictures through the charms of his imagination. An elegantly crafted long poem, "Obsessional" records intriguing detective work on Tudor English literary history and assesses the nature of how art is created, by whom, and under what circumstances.
http://www.spdbooks.org/details.asp?bookid=0975919741
*****
Sandy will be launching his book, with Eileen Tabios and Harriet Zinnes in New York on Sept. 23 -- see prior post.
Sunday, September 04, 2005
POETRY READING & LAUNCH FOR MARSH HAWK PRESS FALL TITLES!
You are invited to:
The Marsh Hawk Press Launch for Fall Authors and Titles:
THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER by Sandy McIntosh
I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED by Eileen Tabios
WHITHER NONSTOPPING by Harriet Zinnes
7-9 p.m.
Friday, September 23, 2005
Poets' House
72 Spring Street
New York City
FREE ADMISSION
Wine & cheese and other refreshments will be served.
(Thanks to Poets House for the use of the space as part of a special rental agreement)
You are invited to:
The Marsh Hawk Press Launch for Fall Authors and Titles:
THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER by Sandy McIntosh
I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED by Eileen Tabios
WHITHER NONSTOPPING by Harriet Zinnes
7-9 p.m.
Friday, September 23, 2005
Poets' House
72 Spring Street
New York City
FREE ADMISSION
Wine & cheese and other refreshments will be served.
(Thanks to Poets House for the use of the space as part of a special rental agreement)
