Wednesday, March 29, 2006
MARSH HAWK PRESS LAUNCHES SPRING 2006 TITLES!
You are invited to:
Book launch for Marsh Hawk Press' three spring titles:
Under the Wanderer's Star by Sigman Byrd
What He Ought to Know by Edward Foster
The Good City by Sharon Olinka
Friday, April 21
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Poets House
72 Spring St.
The event occurs during National Poetry Month, with Poets House hosting its annual poetry book showcase, with just about every poetry book published in 2005 on display.
Wine and savory tidbits, too!
You are invited to:
Book launch for Marsh Hawk Press' three spring titles:
Under the Wanderer's Star by Sigman Byrd
What He Ought to Know by Edward Foster
The Good City by Sharon Olinka
Friday, April 21
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Poets House
72 Spring St.
The event occurs during National Poetry Month, with Poets House hosting its annual poetry book showcase, with just about every poetry book published in 2005 on display.
Wine and savory tidbits, too!
Monday, March 20, 2006
THIRD ANNUAL MARSH HAWK POETRY CONTEST
The April 30, 2006 deadline approaches for our annual poetry contest, judged this year by Denise Duhamel. And we've also made available a description of our process for running the contest here.
The April 30, 2006 deadline approaches for our annual poetry contest, judged this year by Denise Duhamel. And we've also made available a description of our process for running the contest here.
MARSH HAWK REPRESENTED IN NEW POETRY JOURNAL!
Eileen Tabios has inaugurated and is currently the editor of a new publication focused primarily on poetry reviews:
GALATEA RESURRECTS (A Poetry Review)
Several members of our collective display their insights as critics: Thomas Fink, Corinne Robins, and Eileen as well.
Fortunately, two of the Marsh Hawk Press books are also reviewed: First, poet-critic-editor William Allegrezza writes on Stephen Paul Miller's SKINNY EIGHTH AVENUE; here's an excerpt:
Stephen Paul Miller’s Skinny Eighth Avenue is a mix of the intellectual and the mundane. In his poetry, Miller reacts to his time and raises many questions for the reader—questions we often do not want to confront about religion, politics, and art. In this collection, he rants against George Bush, discusses the problems of tenure in academia, explores the idea of the Jewish imagination, and laments the U.S. lead war in Iraq. He does all of this within open forms that explore the page.
The playful movement of the poems over the page mirrors following the discussion within the text itself. Reading his work is like trying to walk beside him and follow his conversation as he moves, for in these pieces he shifts from topic to topic. At times, he shows us clear logical patterns, but at others he shows us connections that might usually be at play below our visual or perceptual range. The tone of these pieces is casual, such as in Frank O’Hara’s work, and that helps with his range of topics.
Poet Barry Dordick also reviews Thomas Fink's AFTER TAXES. Here's an excerpt:
Thomas Fink’s audacious new collection of verse, AFTER TAXES, bristles with startling wit and shoots its barbs into the side of a society gone awry with recklessness, greed, and mismanagement. Tax is toxic, and its effects are everywhere. In life, the popular saying goes, we are left with two certainties: death and taxes. After death, we’re not sure what will happen; but after taxes, we can be sure of one thing: more taxes.
Building on the success achieved by his first two books, SURPRISE VISIT (1993) and GOSSIP (2001), Fink presents us with a language and landscape of imagery which is clearly original. His poems are infused with startling twists and turns as he works to create different levels of meaning both broadly humorous and curiously profound. “We are all like stairs. We just line up differently” (25). His poetry, which is elusive, allusive, and deftly enigmatic, does not yield to easy explanations as it radiates out and across a canvass of linguistic and imagistic complexity, and yet it always seems to yield a pleasurable result.
Eileen Tabios has inaugurated and is currently the editor of a new publication focused primarily on poetry reviews:
GALATEA RESURRECTS (A Poetry Review)
Several members of our collective display their insights as critics: Thomas Fink, Corinne Robins, and Eileen as well.
Fortunately, two of the Marsh Hawk Press books are also reviewed: First, poet-critic-editor William Allegrezza writes on Stephen Paul Miller's SKINNY EIGHTH AVENUE; here's an excerpt:
Stephen Paul Miller’s Skinny Eighth Avenue is a mix of the intellectual and the mundane. In his poetry, Miller reacts to his time and raises many questions for the reader—questions we often do not want to confront about religion, politics, and art. In this collection, he rants against George Bush, discusses the problems of tenure in academia, explores the idea of the Jewish imagination, and laments the U.S. lead war in Iraq. He does all of this within open forms that explore the page.
The playful movement of the poems over the page mirrors following the discussion within the text itself. Reading his work is like trying to walk beside him and follow his conversation as he moves, for in these pieces he shifts from topic to topic. At times, he shows us clear logical patterns, but at others he shows us connections that might usually be at play below our visual or perceptual range. The tone of these pieces is casual, such as in Frank O’Hara’s work, and that helps with his range of topics.
Poet Barry Dordick also reviews Thomas Fink's AFTER TAXES. Here's an excerpt:
Thomas Fink’s audacious new collection of verse, AFTER TAXES, bristles with startling wit and shoots its barbs into the side of a society gone awry with recklessness, greed, and mismanagement. Tax is toxic, and its effects are everywhere. In life, the popular saying goes, we are left with two certainties: death and taxes. After death, we’re not sure what will happen; but after taxes, we can be sure of one thing: more taxes.
Building on the success achieved by his first two books, SURPRISE VISIT (1993) and GOSSIP (2001), Fink presents us with a language and landscape of imagery which is clearly original. His poems are infused with startling twists and turns as he works to create different levels of meaning both broadly humorous and curiously profound. “We are all like stairs. We just line up differently” (25). His poetry, which is elusive, allusive, and deftly enigmatic, does not yield to easy explanations as it radiates out and across a canvass of linguistic and imagistic complexity, and yet it always seems to yield a pleasurable result.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
MARSH HAWK PRESS INVITES YOU ... AT AWP!
Come and visit with Marsh Hawk Press editors at this year's annual AWP conference in Austin. Our new books and contest information will be available. We'll also be hosting a press reading on Saturday, March 11th at 10:00-10:45AM in the Bookfair Amphitheater
Come and visit with Marsh Hawk Press editors at this year's annual AWP conference in Austin. Our new books and contest information will be available. We'll also be hosting a press reading on Saturday, March 11th at 10:00-10:45AM in the Bookfair Amphitheater
AT THE WILL TO EXCHANGE BLOG,
Thomas Fink interviews Sandy McIntosh! Here's an excerpt from this deep interview that also quickens a deepening in the receptive reader:
In order to attract my attention, a dream or waking-life happening has to perplex me, has to be filled with tension. In both situations I'm interested in getting the relationships right: that is, the associations between people, things, colors, light and darkness. I mean this literally. I'm not so interested in understanding what these arrangements imply psychologically, ethically or morally.
Thomas Fink interviews Sandy McIntosh! Here's an excerpt from this deep interview that also quickens a deepening in the receptive reader:
In order to attract my attention, a dream or waking-life happening has to perplex me, has to be filled with tension. In both situations I'm interested in getting the relationships right: that is, the associations between people, things, colors, light and darkness. I mean this literally. I'm not so interested in understanding what these arrangements imply psychologically, ethically or morally.
