Tuesday, May 30, 2006
POETRY READINGS
Jane Augustine:
The Cultural Society / Magers and Quinn presents:
A poetry reading with Jane Augustine & Michael Heller
Thursday, June 8, 2006 7:00 PM
Magers and Quinn Bookstore,
3038 Hennepin Avenue S Mpls,
MN 55408 \ 612 822 4611
*****
Burt Kimmelman:
Burt Kimmelman will be reading new work (with perhaps a few oldies thrown
in) on June 12th at 9 PM at The Empty Vessel in Carroll Gardens / Red Hook,
Brooklyn (400 Caroll Street). See:
http://emptyvesselproject.org/.
and
http://log.emptyvesselproject.org/.
All are welcome!
Jane Augustine:
The Cultural Society / Magers and Quinn presents:
A poetry reading with Jane Augustine & Michael Heller
Thursday, June 8, 2006 7:00 PM
Magers and Quinn Bookstore,
3038 Hennepin Avenue S Mpls,
MN 55408 \ 612 822 4611
*****
Burt Kimmelman:
Burt Kimmelman will be reading new work (with perhaps a few oldies thrown
in) on June 12th at 9 PM at The Empty Vessel in Carroll Gardens / Red Hook,
Brooklyn (400 Caroll Street). See:
http://emptyvesselproject.org/.
and
http://log.emptyvesselproject.org/.
All are welcome!
Sunday, May 28, 2006
CONGRATULATIONS TO SUSAN TERRIS
whose poem "Goldfish: A Diptych" in Field Magazine has just been awarded a Pushcart Prize!! It's our pleasure to share Susan's poem:
GOLDFISH: A DIPTYCH
—Science has proven the goldfish
has a memory of a second and a half.
1)
Tale of the Goldfish
Look, there's a castle,
submerged so its world magnifies
in water hazed with algae,
but I see willow, sun, a dragonfly.
Look, a castle—
rays of sunlight through its doorway,
a mermaid on a rock
amid roots and burnished shells.
Look, there's a castle,
and I angle through the door, out the window,
everything static,
yet behind I sense a shadow.
Look—
its distorted world is pooling,
until I see a rock with no mermaid,
sense jaws of darkness.
Look, there's...
2)
A Man Is A Goldfish With Legs
Look, there's a castle,
where Circe turns seamen to swimming pigs
while the universe expands,
so watch out for solar glare.
Look, there's...
and at its hearth, a clockwise flame,
but below continents of ice,
stress lines.
Look, a castle—
and a pearl at my throat to keep me alive,
yet if there's heat lightning,
Venus will wink at daybreak.
Look—
how Circe takes up the pearl,
and Venus, in morning sun, floats fire and ice,
and may her lightning give you pause.
Some days — it's less than a second.
whose poem "Goldfish: A Diptych" in Field Magazine has just been awarded a Pushcart Prize!! It's our pleasure to share Susan's poem:
GOLDFISH: A DIPTYCH
—Science has proven the goldfish
has a memory of a second and a half.
1)
Tale of the Goldfish
Look, there's a castle,
submerged so its world magnifies
in water hazed with algae,
but I see willow, sun, a dragonfly.
Look, a castle—
rays of sunlight through its doorway,
a mermaid on a rock
amid roots and burnished shells.
Look, there's a castle,
and I angle through the door, out the window,
everything static,
yet behind I sense a shadow.
Look—
its distorted world is pooling,
until I see a rock with no mermaid,
sense jaws of darkness.
Look, there's...
2)
A Man Is A Goldfish With Legs
Look, there's a castle,
where Circe turns seamen to swimming pigs
while the universe expands,
so watch out for solar glare.
Look, there's...
and at its hearth, a clockwise flame,
but below continents of ice,
stress lines.
Look, a castle—
and a pearl at my throat to keep me alive,
yet if there's heat lightning,
Venus will wink at daybreak.
Look—
how Circe takes up the pearl,
and Venus, in morning sun, floats fire and ice,
and may her lightning give you pause.
Some days — it's less than a second.
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Upcoming Poetry Readings by Burt Kimmelman
Symposia Bookstore, June 9th, 8 PM
Symposia Bookstore
510 Washington Street (near Fifth Street)
Hoboken, NJ 07030
201- 963-0909
info@symposia.us
See: http://www.symposia.us/
And see: http://symposia.us/article.php?id=35
*****
Morningside Books, June 15th, 7 PM
Morningside Books
2915 Broadway (at 114th Street)
New York City, New York 10025 (Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps)
Phone: (212) 222-3350
Peter@MorningsideBookshop.com
See: http://www.pbase.com/czsz/image/34291293
Symposia Bookstore, June 9th, 8 PM
Symposia Bookstore
510 Washington Street (near Fifth Street)
Hoboken, NJ 07030
201- 963-0909
info@symposia.us
See: http://www.symposia.us/
And see: http://symposia.us/article.php?id=35
*****
Morningside Books, June 15th, 7 PM
Morningside Books
2915 Broadway (at 114th Street)
New York City, New York 10025 (Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps)
Phone: (212) 222-3350
Peter@MorningsideBookshop.com
See: http://www.pbase.com/czsz/image/34291293
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
MARSH HAWKERS IN POETRY REVIEW JOURNAL!
Marsh Hawk is represented as reviewed poets as well as reviewers in the new issue of GALATEA RESURRECTS (A Poetry Engagement)! Here are relevant sections:
Laurel Johnson reviews ONE THOUSAND YEARS by Corinne Robins; click here for review.
William Allegrezza reviews SOMEHOW by Burt Kimmelman; click here for review.
In a SPECIAL FEATURE, Sandy's Mom reviews Sandy McIntosh's THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER; click here for review.
In addition, Thomas Fink and Eileen Tabios display their chops as critics, reviewing several poetry books.
Marsh Hawk is represented as reviewed poets as well as reviewers in the new issue of GALATEA RESURRECTS (A Poetry Engagement)! Here are relevant sections:
Laurel Johnson reviews ONE THOUSAND YEARS by Corinne Robins; click here for review.
William Allegrezza reviews SOMEHOW by Burt Kimmelman; click here for review.
In a SPECIAL FEATURE, Sandy's Mom reviews Sandy McIntosh's THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER; click here for review.
In addition, Thomas Fink and Eileen Tabios display their chops as critics, reviewing several poetry books.
Saturday, May 13, 2006
HEAR THOMAS FINK!
Thomas Fink is reading/singing 4 poems from today (May 13) to May 20 on Poetry Vlog! Click on http://www.poetryvlog.com to enjoy!
Thomas Fink is reading/singing 4 poems from today (May 13) to May 20 on Poetry Vlog! Click on http://www.poetryvlog.com to enjoy!
Friday, May 12, 2006
PATRICIA CARLIN READING
You are invited to:
THE CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS CENTER BROADSIDES READING SERIES
Features PATRICIA CARLIN and JAN HELLER LEVI
A poetry reading with Patricia Carlin and Jan Heller Levi, on Friday, May 19th at 6:30 pm. Series co-curator Sharon Dolin will introduce the readers.
28 West 27th Street (bet. B'way and 6th Ave.), 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
tel (212) 481-0295
$5 suggested donation for CBA members and $10 for non-members.
The first forty atendees receive one free letterpress printed broadside.
Reception
ABOUT THE POETS
Patricia Carlin's recent poetry collection is Original Green (2003). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, lately in Pleiades, Pool, American Letters & Commentary, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Recent awards include fellowships at The MacDowell Colony and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She co-edits the poetry journal Barrow Street, and is a co-founder of Barrow Street Books. She teaches at The New School, and has also taught at Princeton and Vassar.
Jan Heller Levi, born in New York City and raised in Baltimore, was the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets for her first collection of poems, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder. She has also been awarded the George Bogin Memorial Prize as well as the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America. Skyspeak, her second collection of poems, has just been published by Louisiana State University Press. Levi teaches at Hunter College.
You are invited to:
THE CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS CENTER BROADSIDES READING SERIES
Features PATRICIA CARLIN and JAN HELLER LEVI
A poetry reading with Patricia Carlin and Jan Heller Levi, on Friday, May 19th at 6:30 pm. Series co-curator Sharon Dolin will introduce the readers.
28 West 27th Street (bet. B'way and 6th Ave.), 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
tel (212) 481-0295
$5 suggested donation for CBA members and $10 for non-members.
The first forty atendees receive one free letterpress printed broadside.
Reception
ABOUT THE POETS
Patricia Carlin's recent poetry collection is Original Green (2003). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, lately in Pleiades, Pool, American Letters & Commentary, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Recent awards include fellowships at The MacDowell Colony and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She co-edits the poetry journal Barrow Street, and is a co-founder of Barrow Street Books. She teaches at The New School, and has also taught at Princeton and Vassar.
Jan Heller Levi, born in New York City and raised in Baltimore, was the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets for her first collection of poems, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder. She has also been awarded the George Bogin Memorial Prize as well as the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America. Skyspeak, her second collection of poems, has just been published by Louisiana State University Press. Levi teaches at Hunter College.
ED FOSTER'S BOOK RECOMMENDED BY SPD
Small Press Distribution includes Ed Foster's WHAT HE OUGHT TO KNOW among their recommended new titles! Here's SPD's notice:
SPD RECOMMENDS: NEW TITLES for April 26-May 08, 2006
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
WHAT HE OUGHT TO KNOW
by Foster, Edward
$15.00 / PA / pp.124
Marsh Hawk Press, 2005
ISBN: 0-9759197-7-6
Poetry. WHAT HE OUGHT TO KNOW collects nearly forty poems from Foster's earlier books with thirty new works, including "Dear Image Maker," "The Physicist Who Wants to Act, But Needs To Sleep," "Itinerary, 2004," "Living Almost Without Cause," "The Fractal Lie," and, in particular, the long poem "The Way We Live Now." The poems draw on the poet's life in the Middle East and in New England, a troubled marriage, friendships with fellow artists, and homosexual desire. Elegant and rigorously constructed, the poems are grounded in the gnostic poetics Foster discussed in Answerable To None; although most of the poems reflect deep suffering and loss, many also embody a charming and cathartic humor. As one reviewer wrote of the poems in Foster's first book, The Space Between Her Bed and Clock, "This is negative capability taken to a new level & it feels good--the flight-simulating G-forces in a jet built for oblivion."
http://www.spdbooks.org/Details.asp?BookID=0975919776
Small Press Distribution includes Ed Foster's WHAT HE OUGHT TO KNOW among their recommended new titles! Here's SPD's notice:
SPD RECOMMENDS: NEW TITLES for April 26-May 08, 2006
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
WHAT HE OUGHT TO KNOW
by Foster, Edward
$15.00 / PA / pp.124
Marsh Hawk Press, 2005
ISBN: 0-9759197-7-6
Poetry. WHAT HE OUGHT TO KNOW collects nearly forty poems from Foster's earlier books with thirty new works, including "Dear Image Maker," "The Physicist Who Wants to Act, But Needs To Sleep," "Itinerary, 2004," "Living Almost Without Cause," "The Fractal Lie," and, in particular, the long poem "The Way We Live Now." The poems draw on the poet's life in the Middle East and in New England, a troubled marriage, friendships with fellow artists, and homosexual desire. Elegant and rigorously constructed, the poems are grounded in the gnostic poetics Foster discussed in Answerable To None; although most of the poems reflect deep suffering and loss, many also embody a charming and cathartic humor. As one reviewer wrote of the poems in Foster's first book, The Space Between Her Bed and Clock, "This is negative capability taken to a new level & it feels good--the flight-simulating G-forces in a jet built for oblivion."
http://www.spdbooks.org/Details.asp?BookID=0975919776
Thursday, May 11, 2006
SIGMAN BYRD'S PRIZE-WINNING BOOK REVIEWED BY MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
Sygman Byrd's Under The Wanderer's Star, winner of last year's Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, has been reviewed by the Midwest Book Review, as follows:
Under The Wanderer's Star is an eclectic collection of intimate and rhythmically inclined poetry drawn from the writings of Sigman Byrd. Giving an open pallet and persuasive variety of Byrd's most prized poems, Under The Wanderer's Star manipulates the English tongue with a sensual and entrancing style. House Of Fetishes, Totems, And Cures: I, too, when arrived/still had a journey/to take. Like/all living things/murmuring/outside the village,/I needed a charm,/a spell, a God,/a you to help me--/a little voice/in the machine,/push the button./I speak into it/as you do./I listen for the answer,/just like you, my friend,/like you wherever I go.
Sygman Byrd's Under The Wanderer's Star, winner of last year's Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, has been reviewed by the Midwest Book Review, as follows:
Under The Wanderer's Star is an eclectic collection of intimate and rhythmically inclined poetry drawn from the writings of Sigman Byrd. Giving an open pallet and persuasive variety of Byrd's most prized poems, Under The Wanderer's Star manipulates the English tongue with a sensual and entrancing style. House Of Fetishes, Totems, And Cures: I, too, when arrived/still had a journey/to take. Like/all living things/murmuring/outside the village,/I needed a charm,/a spell, a God,/a you to help me--/a little voice/in the machine,/push the button./I speak into it/as you do./I listen for the answer,/just like you, my friend,/like you wherever I go.
SHARON OLINKA'S BOOK PRAISED!
The March-April Small Press Review cites Sharon Olinka's The Good City among it's March-April Picks. Congratulations, Sharon!
The March-April Small Press Review cites Sharon Olinka's The Good City among it's March-April Picks. Congratulations, Sharon!
SANDY MCINTOSH REVIEWED IN AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW
Laurel Bloom writes a highly entertaining review of Sandy McIntosh's THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER in the American Book Review. Here are the first two paragraphs, and last paragraph -- attesting to a fun read:
Sandy Mcintosh's entertaining new volume might be mistaken, at first, for a merry romp through personal and literary history conducted by a slightly confused, well-meaning people-pleaser. His confusion begins with his bemused revelation that he has (maybe) two mothers, and continues through various other doublings (dream transformations, reincarnations, literary "forgeries," literary mothers both male and female, poems masquerading as prose and vice versa) to a final doubling (double-crossing) that brings with it a "broade [sic] awaking" to reality.
Not that these poems are necessarily funny, or that all of them stand up completely on their own poetic or prosaic feet. But Mcintosh's imagination is so vivid that the primary response to them is delight. A section dealing with his literary mentors (David Ignatow, Allen Ginsberg, H. R. Hays) tells some bitchy stories about their jealousies and amour pro pre: Ignatow telling his tearful wife that he deserves as many girlfriends as he wants because he's worked so hard; or Hays halting over the reading of his poems in German, complaining that Brecht's translations had turned them into Brecht poems with "not much of Hays" in them. An extended prose poem, or short story, "Bride of the Mall," tells the tale of a couple switched (maybe) at the altar. The satirical "Prof. Ferguson's Weekend," another extended prose piece, plays on the farcical lengths to which "techniques of observation, valuation and thought" can go in the service of serious (maybe) social and literary imagination.
The review ends with this paragraph:
This is a book of elegies--eulogies, really--to all the literal and literary bastards who have made Mcintosh an artist and (maybe) a con. The one ghost who comes through pure, nurturing, and untarnished is Rose Graubart Ignatow, artist, writer, and the poet David's wife, who has (silently, posthumously) sup-plied witty pen and ink drawings of Mcintosh, Ignatow, Ginsberg, Hays, and herself, scattered through this "after-death history" of Mcintosh's mothers. She may well be the mother of them all.
Laurel Bloom writes a highly entertaining review of Sandy McIntosh's THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER in the American Book Review. Here are the first two paragraphs, and last paragraph -- attesting to a fun read:
Sandy Mcintosh's entertaining new volume might be mistaken, at first, for a merry romp through personal and literary history conducted by a slightly confused, well-meaning people-pleaser. His confusion begins with his bemused revelation that he has (maybe) two mothers, and continues through various other doublings (dream transformations, reincarnations, literary "forgeries," literary mothers both male and female, poems masquerading as prose and vice versa) to a final doubling (double-crossing) that brings with it a "broade [sic] awaking" to reality.
Not that these poems are necessarily funny, or that all of them stand up completely on their own poetic or prosaic feet. But Mcintosh's imagination is so vivid that the primary response to them is delight. A section dealing with his literary mentors (David Ignatow, Allen Ginsberg, H. R. Hays) tells some bitchy stories about their jealousies and amour pro pre: Ignatow telling his tearful wife that he deserves as many girlfriends as he wants because he's worked so hard; or Hays halting over the reading of his poems in German, complaining that Brecht's translations had turned them into Brecht poems with "not much of Hays" in them. An extended prose poem, or short story, "Bride of the Mall," tells the tale of a couple switched (maybe) at the altar. The satirical "Prof. Ferguson's Weekend," another extended prose piece, plays on the farcical lengths to which "techniques of observation, valuation and thought" can go in the service of serious (maybe) social and literary imagination.
The review ends with this paragraph:
This is a book of elegies--eulogies, really--to all the literal and literary bastards who have made Mcintosh an artist and (maybe) a con. The one ghost who comes through pure, nurturing, and untarnished is Rose Graubart Ignatow, artist, writer, and the poet David's wife, who has (silently, posthumously) sup-plied witty pen and ink drawings of Mcintosh, Ignatow, Ginsberg, Hays, and herself, scattered through this "after-death history" of Mcintosh's mothers. She may well be the mother of them all.
Sunday, May 07, 2006
ED FOSTER READING
YOU ARE INVITED TO
A Poetry Reading!
Open Mic preceded by
Ed Foster reading from
What He Ought to Know
Friday, May 12th
8 PM
in the New Jersey Poets Reading Series
Symposia Bookstore
Washington and Fifth Streets
Hoboken
Suggested donation $3
All are welcome!
YOU ARE INVITED TO
A Poetry Reading!
Open Mic preceded by
Ed Foster reading from
What He Ought to Know
Friday, May 12th
8 PM
in the New Jersey Poets Reading Series
Symposia Bookstore
Washington and Fifth Streets
Hoboken
Suggested donation $3
All are welcome!
