Marsh Hawk Press Blog

2007 MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE

We are delighted to announce the Winner of the 2007 Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize, judged by David Shapiro, to be

Blitz by Karin Randolph

Blitz will be published in Spring 2008. Karin Randolph also will receive a cash prize of $1,000.00.

About Blitz, David Shapiro writes:

I love this book of poems, because it reminds me of the early perfections of an artist of pastels. The softest music was loved by John Cage, and this book could be one of the late homages to that genius of toy music. Like a wind chime, something that seems Romantic and kitsch becomes the language, though it seems random. It is always present tense as an empiricist casting a shadow and casting for shadows. We need politics and wildness today, and here we find a quiet resistance and no shame.

In addition to the winning mansucript, David Shapiro chose two others as runners-up. They are: Musing Miss Kim & Other Hopeful Monsters by Robert Perchan, and My Tranquil War and Other Poems by Anis Shivani.

Here is the complete list of the Finalists (author followed by manuscript title):

Lisa Furmanski, Famish
Derek Pollard, Bedding Down With It All
Susan Browne, Dear Ephemera
Lucille Lang Day, The Curvature of Blue
Douglas Woodsum, Remembering Luck
Malinda Markham, Who Came Running
Karin Randolph, Blitz
Ellen Wehle, Sun Resurrect Me
Marc Rahe, The Smaller Half
Yvonne C Murphy, Aviares
B.V. Olguin, Red Leather Gloves
Julianna McCarthy, All Us Girls Is Gone, Too
Jim Tolan, Fresh Fruit and Gravity
Nadia Herman Colburn, The Natural World
John Colasacco, The Seven Horse
Barbara Louise Ungar, The Origin of the Milky Way
Djelloul Marbrook, Far From Algiers
Nicholas Regiacorte, Voice Human
Kim-An Lieberman, Breaking the Map
Kathy Nilsson, Black Lemons
Amy Benson Brown, The Book of Sarah
Hugo Rodriguez, The Time of Injured Hours
Janet Kaplan, Dreamlife of a Philanthropist
Robert Perchan, Musing Miss Kim & Other Hopeful Monsters
Anis Shivani, My Tranquil War and Other Poems
Bob Hackney, Framing the Image
Amy Pence, Ablaze
A.J. Rathbun, 32 Ways to Die
Brandi Homan, Hard Reds
Leonard Kress, Living in the Candy Store
Eliot Khalil Wilson, The Weatherman's Daughter
Gary Hotham, Our Waves Meet the Ocean Waves
Peter Nickowitz, Cinema Vernacular
Joan Hutton Landis, That Blue Repair

BRAVE(O) ROCHELLE RATNER!

Rochelle Ratner has a poem up on Brave Little Poem. Her poem "Cool Reception for Bible Park in Bible Belt" will be up through this coming Tuesday, and then archived.

CONGRATULATIONS TO SHARON DOLIN

who's won the 2007 AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry for her poetry book manuscript Burn and Dodge, which will be published by University of Pittsburgh Press in 2008. Sharon also receives a $4,000 prize!

EILEEN TABIOS IN POEMELEON: A JOURNAL OF POETRY

Eileen Tabios has four poems, with Spanish and Italian translations by Rebeka Lembo, in the just-released issue of Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry. These are some of the poems to be featured in Eileen's forthcoming Fall book with Marsh Hawk Press, The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes.

CONGRATULATIONS TO STEVE FELLNER

whose Blind Date With Cavafy was recently reviewed in the Salt Lake City Weekly! The reviewer Lynn Kilpatrick says:

Summer is a time to catch up with friends, to hang out over a cold drink, to unburden yourself of secrets old and new. Reading Blind Date With Cavafy, poems by Steve Fellner (Marsh Hawk Press, $12.50), is like dishing with a new best friend. Some poems, like “Upon Discussing Whether We Should Condescend to Science-Fiction Writers,” are laugh-out-loud hilarious while others, like “Self-Portrait,” are breathtaking in their emotional breadth. And the best thing about poetry collections is that you can read them cover-to-cover in one sitting, or dip into them indulgently from time to time.
Best Read: While sipping a Big Blue Drink on the patio at Green Street

CONGRATULATIONS TO ROCHELLE RATNER

whose BALANCING ACTS was a finalist for the Binghamton University Milt Kessler Book Awards. Rochelle is in great company, as displayed by the Awards Information site.

SPD RECOMMENDS BASIL KING!

Basil King's 77 BEASTS has just joined Small Press Distribution's "Recommended" List. His SPD write-up also is available HERE.

EILEEN TABIOS IN NEW ISSUE OF OUROWNVOICE

The just-released issue of OurOwnVoice features "List(ing) Poem," a presentation of a poem, poetics prose, and illustrations of visual poetry by Eileen Tabios. These are part of what will comprise her forthcoming Marsh Hawk Press book, The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes (Fall, 2007).

CORINNE ROBINS READING

Corinne Robins and Nick Piombino will read at the Ceres Gallery on Thursday, June 7 at 7:30 p.m. The requested $8 donation goes to Planned Parenthood.

Ceres Gallery is at 547 West 27th Street, NY, NY 10001 (212)947-6100.