Friday, November 30, 2007
A SPECIAL HOLIDAY OFFER -- 40% OFF!
Give a gift of a standing order for 12 months of new Marsh Hawk Press titles and receive 40% off, a free book, our tote bag, and a tax deduction!
All books personally signed by the author.
We've been earning a reputation for the diversity of our critically acclaimed books, which often highlight the affinity of poetry and the visual arts. Each book is produced with particular care to visual style, often including reproductions of artwork alongside poems.
By entering a standing order, you or anyone you designate (poetry is a wonderful holiday gift!) will receive up to six new titles per year, along with an extra bonus book and our official tote bag, at no charge. Plus: Each copy will feature a bookplate personally autographed by its author.
The yearly subscription fee is $100.00 and includes a 40% discount off each title. At the end of the year we'll provide you with a receipt for a charitable, tax-deductible donation.
Before you place your order please let us know the recipient's name and address, and any special instructions, here. Once you've placed your order we'll send a gift notification to your recipient.
Start Your Subscription With Our Fall 2007 Titles from Norman Finkelstein, Sandy McIntosh and Eileen R. Tabios. These will be followed in March by our spring 2008 Titles from Thomas Fink, Jane Augustine and contest award-winner Karin Randolph.
For more information, go to http://www.marshhawkpress.org/SupportthePress.htm
Give a gift of a standing order for 12 months of new Marsh Hawk Press titles and receive 40% off, a free book, our tote bag, and a tax deduction!
All books personally signed by the author.
We've been earning a reputation for the diversity of our critically acclaimed books, which often highlight the affinity of poetry and the visual arts. Each book is produced with particular care to visual style, often including reproductions of artwork alongside poems.
By entering a standing order, you or anyone you designate (poetry is a wonderful holiday gift!) will receive up to six new titles per year, along with an extra bonus book and our official tote bag, at no charge. Plus: Each copy will feature a bookplate personally autographed by its author.
The yearly subscription fee is $100.00 and includes a 40% discount off each title. At the end of the year we'll provide you with a receipt for a charitable, tax-deductible donation.
Before you place your order please let us know the recipient's name and address, and any special instructions, here. Once you've placed your order we'll send a gift notification to your recipient.
Start Your Subscription With Our Fall 2007 Titles from Norman Finkelstein, Sandy McIntosh and Eileen R. Tabios. These will be followed in March by our spring 2008 Titles from Thomas Fink, Jane Augustine and contest award-winner Karin Randolph.
For more information, go to http://www.marshhawkpress.org/SupportthePress.htm
EILEEN TABIOS POEM NOMINATED FOR THE PUSHCART PRIZE
SENTENCE: A JOURNAL OF PROSE POETICS has nominated "Not Made in the U.S.A." by Eileen Tabios for a Pushcart Prize. This is also one of the poems in Eileen's new book, The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes.
SENTENCE: A JOURNAL OF PROSE POETICS has nominated "Not Made in the U.S.A." by Eileen Tabios for a Pushcart Prize. This is also one of the poems in Eileen's new book, The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes.
Monday, November 26, 2007
EILEEN TABIOS LAUNCHES HER MARSH HAWK PRESS BOOK IN BERKELEY!
Eileen Tabios will be participating in this reading to which you are all invited!
THREE PINAYS POETS LAUNCH BOOKS
IN TIME FOR HOLIDAY GIFT-GIVING!
You are invited to a poetry reading and book launch featuring
Michelle Bautista, author of Kali's Blade
Eileen Tabios, author of The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes
Jean Vengua, author of Prau
Please join us, enjoy good poetry, and do pick up some books for Holiday Gift-Giving this Year at:
3 p.m. on Saturday, December 8, 2007
Eastwind Books of Berkeley
2066 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
books@ewbb.com
http://www.ewbb.com
510-548-2350
BIOS:
Michelle Bautista is a SF Bay Area poet and performer, having worked with Kearney Street Workshop, Bindlestiff Studios, Asian American Theater Company, KaliArts and Teatro ng Tanan. She has been published in Going Home to a Landscape, Babaylan, maganda magazine, Eros Pinoy, Asian Pacific American Journal, TMP Irregular and MiPOesias Magazine. She is also a 4th degree black belt in the Kamatuuran School of Kali under the direction of Tuhan Joseph T. Oliva Arriola. She teaches kali in Oakland, CA.
Eileen R. Tabios has released 14 print, four electronic and 1 CD poetry collections, an art essay collection, a poetry essay/interview anthology, and a short story book. Her most recent book, a multi-genre poetry collection, is The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes (Marsh Hawk Press, 2007). In her poetry, she has crafted a body of work that is unique for melding ekphrasis with transcolonialism. She's also edited or co-edited five books of poetry, fiction and essays. Her poems have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Tagalog, Japanese, Portuguese, Paintings, Video, Drawings, Visual Poetry, Mixed Media Collages, Kali Martial Arts, Modern Dance and Sculpture.
Jean Vengua's poetry has been published in many print and online journals and anthologies, including Going Home to a Landscape, Babaylan, Proliferation, Returning a Borrowed Tongue, Fugacity 05, Sidereality, Moria and Otoliths, and in her chapbook, The Aching Vicinities (Otoliths). With Mark Young she is editor of the First Hay(na)ku Anthology. Jean's essays, articles and reviews on literature and music have been published in many journals including Jouvert, Geopolitics of the Visual (Ateneo U. Press), Pinoy Poetics, Our Own Voice, Seattle's International Examiner, and CultureCatch.com. Jean Vengua lives in the Monterey Bay Area, where she works as an editor. She is the first place recipient of the Filamore Tabios Sr. Memorial Prize for her poetry book manuscript entitled Prau. Most of the poetry contained in Prau was written online, afloat on the sea of pixels.
Eileen Tabios will be participating in this reading to which you are all invited!
THREE PINAYS POETS LAUNCH BOOKS
IN TIME FOR HOLIDAY GIFT-GIVING!
You are invited to a poetry reading and book launch featuring
Michelle Bautista, author of Kali's Blade
Eileen Tabios, author of The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes
Jean Vengua, author of Prau
Please join us, enjoy good poetry, and do pick up some books for Holiday Gift-Giving this Year at:
3 p.m. on Saturday, December 8, 2007
Eastwind Books of Berkeley
2066 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
books@ewbb.com
http://www.ewbb.com
510-548-2350
BIOS:
Michelle Bautista is a SF Bay Area poet and performer, having worked with Kearney Street Workshop, Bindlestiff Studios, Asian American Theater Company, KaliArts and Teatro ng Tanan. She has been published in Going Home to a Landscape, Babaylan, maganda magazine, Eros Pinoy, Asian Pacific American Journal, TMP Irregular and MiPOesias Magazine. She is also a 4th degree black belt in the Kamatuuran School of Kali under the direction of Tuhan Joseph T. Oliva Arriola. She teaches kali in Oakland, CA.
Eileen R. Tabios has released 14 print, four electronic and 1 CD poetry collections, an art essay collection, a poetry essay/interview anthology, and a short story book. Her most recent book, a multi-genre poetry collection, is The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes (Marsh Hawk Press, 2007). In her poetry, she has crafted a body of work that is unique for melding ekphrasis with transcolonialism. She's also edited or co-edited five books of poetry, fiction and essays. Her poems have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Tagalog, Japanese, Portuguese, Paintings, Video, Drawings, Visual Poetry, Mixed Media Collages, Kali Martial Arts, Modern Dance and Sculpture.
Jean Vengua's poetry has been published in many print and online journals and anthologies, including Going Home to a Landscape, Babaylan, Proliferation, Returning a Borrowed Tongue, Fugacity 05, Sidereality, Moria and Otoliths, and in her chapbook, The Aching Vicinities (Otoliths). With Mark Young she is editor of the First Hay(na)ku Anthology. Jean's essays, articles and reviews on literature and music have been published in many journals including Jouvert, Geopolitics of the Visual (Ateneo U. Press), Pinoy Poetics, Our Own Voice, Seattle's International Examiner, and CultureCatch.com. Jean Vengua lives in the Monterey Bay Area, where she works as an editor. She is the first place recipient of the Filamore Tabios Sr. Memorial Prize for her poetry book manuscript entitled Prau. Most of the poetry contained in Prau was written online, afloat on the sea of pixels.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
MARSH HAWK PRESS POETS ARE REVIEWED...AND REVIEW OTHERS!
The just-released Issue No. 8 of Galatea Resurrects (A Poetry Engagements) features reviews of several Marsh Hawk Press books as well as a book edited by a Marsh Hawk Press poet:
The issue also features various Marsh Hawk Press poets -- Thomas Fink, Rochelle Ratner, Burt Kimmelman and Eileen Tabios -- as critics/reviewers. To see the entire issue, go HERE.
The just-released Issue No. 8 of Galatea Resurrects (A Poetry Engagements) features reviews of several Marsh Hawk Press books as well as a book edited by a Marsh Hawk Press poet:
Sam Lohmann reviews "BURNING INTERIORS": DAVID SHAPIRO'S POETRY AND POETICS, Edited by Thomas Fink and Joseph Lease
Burt Kimmelman reviews PASSING OVER, POWERS: TRACKVOLUME 3, COLUMNS: TRACKVOLUME 2, TRACK and RESTLESS MESSENGERS, all by Norman Finkelstein
Burt Kimmelman reviews FORTY-NINE GUARANTEED WAYS TO ESCAPE DEATH by Sandy McIntosh
Laurel Johnson reviews PASSING OVER by Norman Finkelstein
The issue also features various Marsh Hawk Press poets -- Thomas Fink, Rochelle Ratner, Burt Kimmelman and Eileen Tabios -- as critics/reviewers. To see the entire issue, go HERE.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
POEMS FEATURED FROM EILEEN TABIOS' BOOK
The Asia and Pacific Writers Network's Auto/Biography Edition: Part 2 has just been released, and it features reprinted poems from Eileen Tabios' The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes. Eileen's "commodity list" poems are HERE.
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The Asia and Pacific Writers Network's Auto/Biography Edition: Part 2 has just been released, and it features reprinted poems from Eileen Tabios' The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes. Eileen's "commodity list" poems are HERE.
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
UPCOMING SHARON OLINKA READING
Sharon Olinka will be participating in this following event:
Voices of Conscience : Uche Nduka, Dennis Nurkse, and Sharon Olinka
In this jumbled up time of jingoism and never-ending war, we welcome and in fact need voices of conscience, those willing to speak to the Zeitgeist, if not shake a fist at it.
Come to Biscuit and shake your fist at the Zeitgeist!
Voices of Conscience at Biscuit BBQ
Sunday, DEC 2nd
6PM to 8PM
5th Avenue & President, Park Slope, Brooklyn, in the Back Room
Uche Nduka was born and educated in Nigeria. A poet, essayist, university lecturer, songwriter, Uche Nduka presently lives in New York. His books include Flower Child, Second Act, The Bremen Poems, Chiaroscuro (which won the Association Of Nigerian Authors Prize for 1997), If Only The Night, Heart's Field. His first prose book titled Belltime Letters appeared in 2000. Eel on Reef is his latest volume of poems (Akashic books, New York, 2007). Some of his writings have been translated into German, Dutch, French, Serbo-Croat.
Dennis Nurkse, known to some as the "poet laureate" of Brooklyn, is also an activist for Human Rights. His collections include Burnt Island, Voices Over Water, Leaving Xaia, and The Rules of Paradise published by Four Way books, and The Fall, published by Knopf. He received the Whiting Writers Award, two NEA fellowships, two NYFA fellowships, two awards from Poetry (Chicago), and a Tanne Foundation grant. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Times Literary Supplement (London), Ploughshares, The Paris Review, and the Best American Poetry series.
Sharon Olinka is a poet and literary critic, living in New York City. Her latest collection is The Good City, from Marsh Hawk Press, 2006. Her poems have been published in Colorado Review, Onthebus, Poetry New York, Luna, Poetry Wales, and Long Shot. Her first book of poems, A Face Not My Own, was published by West End Press in 1995. Her writing reflects a belief in the strength of multiculturalism in the United States, and a commitment to a global community of writers. Olinka has traveled extensively in Turkey, Bali and Australia among other places.
Sharon Olinka will be participating in this following event:
Voices of Conscience : Uche Nduka, Dennis Nurkse, and Sharon Olinka
In this jumbled up time of jingoism and never-ending war, we welcome and in fact need voices of conscience, those willing to speak to the Zeitgeist, if not shake a fist at it.
Come to Biscuit and shake your fist at the Zeitgeist!
Voices of Conscience at Biscuit BBQ
Sunday, DEC 2nd
6PM to 8PM
5th Avenue & President, Park Slope, Brooklyn, in the Back Room
Uche Nduka was born and educated in Nigeria. A poet, essayist, university lecturer, songwriter, Uche Nduka presently lives in New York. His books include Flower Child, Second Act, The Bremen Poems, Chiaroscuro (which won the Association Of Nigerian Authors Prize for 1997), If Only The Night, Heart's Field. His first prose book titled Belltime Letters appeared in 2000. Eel on Reef is his latest volume of poems (Akashic books, New York, 2007). Some of his writings have been translated into German, Dutch, French, Serbo-Croat.
Dennis Nurkse, known to some as the "poet laureate" of Brooklyn, is also an activist for Human Rights. His collections include Burnt Island, Voices Over Water, Leaving Xaia, and The Rules of Paradise published by Four Way books, and The Fall, published by Knopf. He received the Whiting Writers Award, two NEA fellowships, two NYFA fellowships, two awards from Poetry (Chicago), and a Tanne Foundation grant. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Times Literary Supplement (London), Ploughshares, The Paris Review, and the Best American Poetry series.
Sharon Olinka is a poet and literary critic, living in New York City. Her latest collection is The Good City, from Marsh Hawk Press, 2006. Her poems have been published in Colorado Review, Onthebus, Poetry New York, Luna, Poetry Wales, and Long Shot. Her first book of poems, A Face Not My Own, was published by West End Press in 1995. Her writing reflects a belief in the strength of multiculturalism in the United States, and a commitment to a global community of writers. Olinka has traveled extensively in Turkey, Bali and Australia among other places.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
EILEEN TABIOS POEMS IN NEW ANTHOLOGIES
Poems from Eileen Tabios' I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED appear in the forthcoming Norton anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, Edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar. The anthology will be released in April (poetry month) 2008.
Other poems from Eileen's THE LIGHT SANG AS IT LEFT YOUR EYESare scheduled to appear in FIELD OF MIRRORS, Edited by Edwin Lozado and scheduled for a January 2008 release. The book is a project of the Philippine American Writers and Artists.
One of Eileen's (to date, uncollected) poems is also in the newly-released THE BEDSIDE GUIDE TO NO TELL MOTEL, SECOND FLOOR, Edited by Molly Arden and Reb Livingston (No Tell Books, 2007).
Poems from Eileen Tabios' I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED appear in the forthcoming Norton anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, Edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar. The anthology will be released in April (poetry month) 2008.
Other poems from Eileen's THE LIGHT SANG AS IT LEFT YOUR EYESare scheduled to appear in FIELD OF MIRRORS, Edited by Edwin Lozado and scheduled for a January 2008 release. The book is a project of the Philippine American Writers and Artists.
One of Eileen's (to date, uncollected) poems is also in the newly-released THE BEDSIDE GUIDE TO NO TELL MOTEL, SECOND FLOOR, Edited by Molly Arden and Reb Livingston (No Tell Books, 2007).
