Wednesday, April 30, 2008
MARSH HAWK PRESS WELL-REPRESENTED IN NEW OTOLITHS!
Otoliths' new issue is dedicated to Rochelle Ratner, and includes a review of Sandy McIntosh's Marsh Hawk book Forty-Nine Guaranteed Ways to Escape Death.
From Otoliths' Editor and Publisher Mark Young:
It is with both pleasure & sorrow that I announce the going live of issue nine of Otoliths. The pleasure is because this issue marks the beginning of Otoliths' third year, & once again contains a great variety of text & visual work. The sorrow is because Rochelle Ratner, a frequent contributor to this journal, passed away on March 31st. I'd like to dedicate this issue, in which she has new poems, to her.
In this issue are Rochelle Ratner, harry k stammer, Adam Fieled, Bill Drennan, David-Baptiste Chirot, Joel Chace, Michael Farrell, Reed Altemus, Andrew Lundwall, Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy, William Doreski, Duane Locke, Stu Hatton, Joe Balaz, Jeff Harrison, Raymond Farr, Esa Mäkijärvi, Bobbi Lurie, Julian Jason Haladyn, Simon Perchik, Suzanne Grazyna, Eileen R. Tabios, Diana Magallón & Jeff Crouch, Jeff Crouch & Matina L. Stamatakis, Thomas Lowe Taylor, Glenn R. Frantz, Angela Genusa, Randy Thurman, Philip Byron Oakes, Mark Cunningham, Geof Huth, Andrew Topel & Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Luigino Solamito & Sheila E. Murphy, John M. Bennett & Scott MacLeod, Scott MacLeod, Robert Gauldie, Adam Strauss, Marcia Arrieta, Elizabeth Kate Switaj, William Allegrezza, Ernesto Priego, Ed Schenk, Irving Weiss, Mary Kasimor, Christopher Major, Derek Owens, Paul Siegell, Daniel f Bradley, Daniel Morris, Steve Timm, Mary Ellen Derwis, Thomas Fink, Louise Landes Levi, Toni Simon, Martin Edmond & Kirsten Kaschock.
As always, there's something there for everyone.
Mark Young
Otoliths' new issue is dedicated to Rochelle Ratner, and includes a review of Sandy McIntosh's Marsh Hawk book Forty-Nine Guaranteed Ways to Escape Death.
From Otoliths' Editor and Publisher Mark Young:
It is with both pleasure & sorrow that I announce the going live of issue nine of Otoliths. The pleasure is because this issue marks the beginning of Otoliths' third year, & once again contains a great variety of text & visual work. The sorrow is because Rochelle Ratner, a frequent contributor to this journal, passed away on March 31st. I'd like to dedicate this issue, in which she has new poems, to her.
In this issue are Rochelle Ratner, harry k stammer, Adam Fieled, Bill Drennan, David-Baptiste Chirot, Joel Chace, Michael Farrell, Reed Altemus, Andrew Lundwall, Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy, William Doreski, Duane Locke, Stu Hatton, Joe Balaz, Jeff Harrison, Raymond Farr, Esa Mäkijärvi, Bobbi Lurie, Julian Jason Haladyn, Simon Perchik, Suzanne Grazyna, Eileen R. Tabios, Diana Magallón & Jeff Crouch, Jeff Crouch & Matina L. Stamatakis, Thomas Lowe Taylor, Glenn R. Frantz, Angela Genusa, Randy Thurman, Philip Byron Oakes, Mark Cunningham, Geof Huth, Andrew Topel & Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Luigino Solamito & Sheila E. Murphy, John M. Bennett & Scott MacLeod, Scott MacLeod, Robert Gauldie, Adam Strauss, Marcia Arrieta, Elizabeth Kate Switaj, William Allegrezza, Ernesto Priego, Ed Schenk, Irving Weiss, Mary Kasimor, Christopher Major, Derek Owens, Paul Siegell, Daniel f Bradley, Daniel Morris, Steve Timm, Mary Ellen Derwis, Thomas Fink, Louise Landes Levi, Toni Simon, Martin Edmond & Kirsten Kaschock.
As always, there's something there for everyone.
Mark Young
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
CONGRATULATIONS TO STEVE FELLNER!
whose inaugural poetry book, Blind Date with Cavafy, published by winning a Marsh Hawk Press contest has received the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry. Details below:
Winners Announced for 2008 Publishing Triangle Awards
In a ceremony earlier this evening at The New School's Tishman Auditorium in New York, the Publishing Triangle and Ferro-Grumley Literary Awards announced the winners of their fiction, debut fiction, poetry, and nonfiction awards:
The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry: Joan Larkin, My Body (Hanging Loose Press)
The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry: (tie) Steve Fellner, Blind Date with Cavafy (Marsh Hawk Press); Daniel Hall, Under Sleep (The University of Chicago Press)
The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction: Myriam Gurba, Dahlia Season (Manic D Press)
The Ferro Grumley Awards for LGBT Fiction: (tie) Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Ali Liebegott, The IHOP Papers (Carroll & Graf)
The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction: Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (Yale University Press)
The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction: Michael Rowe, Other Men's Sons (Cormorant Books)
Also awarded, and previously announced:
The Publishing Triangle Leadership Award: Richard Labonte and Carol Seajay
The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement: Katherine V. Forrest
To view a complete list of the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry nominees, visit http://www.publishingtriangle.org/2008awards_new.asp.
whose inaugural poetry book, Blind Date with Cavafy, published by winning a Marsh Hawk Press contest has received the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry. Details below:
Winners Announced for 2008 Publishing Triangle Awards
In a ceremony earlier this evening at The New School's Tishman Auditorium in New York, the Publishing Triangle and Ferro-Grumley Literary Awards announced the winners of their fiction, debut fiction, poetry, and nonfiction awards:
The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry: Joan Larkin, My Body (Hanging Loose Press)
The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry: (tie) Steve Fellner, Blind Date with Cavafy (Marsh Hawk Press); Daniel Hall, Under Sleep (The University of Chicago Press)
The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction: Myriam Gurba, Dahlia Season (Manic D Press)
The Ferro Grumley Awards for LGBT Fiction: (tie) Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Ali Liebegott, The IHOP Papers (Carroll & Graf)
The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction: Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (Yale University Press)
The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction: Michael Rowe, Other Men's Sons (Cormorant Books)
Also awarded, and previously announced:
The Publishing Triangle Leadership Award: Richard Labonte and Carol Seajay
The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement: Katherine V. Forrest
To view a complete list of the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry nominees, visit http://www.publishingtriangle.org/2008awards_new.asp.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
LAST CALL FOR MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY CONTEST!
Please note as regards our annual contest, judged this year by Thylias Moss:
April 30th: Official contest closing day.
May 1st - 7th: Grace period for late-arriving entries.
May-June: Judging.
Late June: Contest finalists and winner announced.
The winner of the 2008 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize receives a $1,000.00 cash award and publication of the manuscript in spring 2009. The prize winner is announced nationally and internationally. For more info, go to the Marsh Hawk Press website.
The fastest way to submit, FYI, is electronically; for info, go HERE.
Please note as regards our annual contest, judged this year by Thylias Moss:
April 30th: Official contest closing day.
May 1st - 7th: Grace period for late-arriving entries.
May-June: Judging.
Late June: Contest finalists and winner announced.
The winner of the 2008 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize receives a $1,000.00 cash award and publication of the manuscript in spring 2009. The prize winner is announced nationally and internationally. For more info, go to the Marsh Hawk Press website.
The fastest way to submit, FYI, is electronically; for info, go HERE.
READING FEATURING MARSH HAWK PRESS POETS
You are invited to
POETS FOR CHOICE
A benefit for Planned Parenthood of New York
May 8, 2008
Thursday 7:30 PM
Coordinated by Corinne Robins
DAVID SETH FINK
The Poetry of ROCHELLE RATNER
read by CLAUDIA CARLSON
CORINNE ROBINS
suggested donation $8.00
ceres gallery
547 west 27th street
New York, NY 10001
212 947 6100
You are invited to
POETS FOR CHOICE
A benefit for Planned Parenthood of New York
May 8, 2008
Thursday 7:30 PM
Coordinated by Corinne Robins
DAVID SETH FINK
The Poetry of ROCHELLE RATNER
read by CLAUDIA CARLSON
CORINNE ROBINS
suggested donation $8.00
ceres gallery
547 west 27th street
New York, NY 10001
212 947 6100
Thursday, April 17, 2008
YOU ARE INVITED TO THE MARSH HAWK PRESS SPRING BOOKS LAUNCH!
You are all invited to the Marsh Hawk Press Spring 2008 book launch reading and party on Thursday, April 24th at Ceres Gallery, 547 West 27th St., NYC from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
The books are the 2007 contest winner, Either She Was by Karin Randolph, chosen by judge David Shapiro, Clarity and Other Poems by Thomas Fink and A Woman's Guide to Mountain Climbing by Jane Augustine.
Please mark the date, invite your friends, relatives and students to come too, and encourage them to look at the website www.MarshHawkPress.org for more information on all of our books and on this year's contest to be judged by Thylias Moss.
You are all invited to the Marsh Hawk Press Spring 2008 book launch reading and party on Thursday, April 24th at Ceres Gallery, 547 West 27th St., NYC from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
The books are the 2007 contest winner, Either She Was by Karin Randolph, chosen by judge David Shapiro, Clarity and Other Poems by Thomas Fink and A Woman's Guide to Mountain Climbing by Jane Augustine.
Please mark the date, invite your friends, relatives and students to come too, and encourage them to look at the website www.MarshHawkPress.org for more information on all of our books and on this year's contest to be judged by Thylias Moss.
VISUAL GALLERY UPDATED!
Marsh Hawk Press has updated its visual gallery on its website -- you are invited to peruse visual poetry and poetry-related visuals HERE!
Marsh Hawk Press has updated its visual gallery on its website -- you are invited to peruse visual poetry and poetry-related visuals HERE!
Monday, April 07, 2008
CLAUDIA CARLSON PART OF A READING AT PARK SLOPE’S 440 GALLERY!
WHEN: Sunday, April 13th from 4:40-6:00 pm
WHERE: 440 Gallery, 440 Sixth Avenue (at 9th St., F to 7th Ave.)
CONTACT: Brooke Shaffner at brshaffner@hotmail.com
Admission Free
DAN MAGERS HOSTS:
BRUCE MACKINNON
Bruce MacKinnon’s collection of poems, Mystery Schools, won The Washington Writers’ Publishing House Prize in Poetry for 2007. He has also been awarded the Richard Soref Scholarship in Poetry for the 2005 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, an Individual Artist Award in Poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council, The Academy of American Poets Prize, and the Richard Hugo Prize from Poetry Northwest. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines and journals, including Salmagundi, Boulevard, and The Sewanee Review. He has been a finalist for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award, The National Poetry Series Competition, and the Agnes Lynch Starrett Award. He teaches creative writing at the George Washington University in Washington D.C.
CLAUDIA CARLSON
Claudia Carlson was born in Bloomington, Indiana. She double-majored in English and Art History at Stony Brook University. Her first book of poetry, The Elephant House, was published in 2007 by Marsh Hawk Press. She is the co-editor of the anthology, The Poet's Grimm: Twentieth Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales, 2003. Divide, The Cream City Review, and Gargoyle Magazine have published her photographs. On Sundays, she paints watercolors (see her work at www.claudiagraphics.com). She is an art director at Adventure House and lives in New York City with her family.
CINDY SAVETT
Cindy Savett teaches poetry workshops at psychiatric institutions in the Philadelphia area to both acute short-term and residential patients. Her first book, Child in the Road, was released in October, 2007. Cindy is published in numerous print and on-line journals, including Margie, Heliotrope, LIT, The Marlboro Review, 26 Magazine, Cutbank, and Free Verse. She is also at work on a memoir on the death of her daughter. Additionally, Cindy has served on several school boards and other non-profit agencies. She spent fifteen years in the retail business, traveling extensively overseas. Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, she currently lives in Merion, Pennsylvania with her husband and children.
About 440 Gallery: Park Slope’s only artist-run gallery, a jewel box space offering an alternative venue for Brooklyn artists. 440 Gallery seeks to present surprising, unexpected art to the community through exhibitions, talks, readings and events centered around direct contact with the artist. Open Thursdays and Fridays from 4-7 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays from 12-6 pm, or by appointment.
WHEN: Sunday, April 13th from 4:40-6:00 pm
WHERE: 440 Gallery, 440 Sixth Avenue (at 9th St., F to 7th Ave.)
CONTACT: Brooke Shaffner at brshaffner@hotmail.com
Admission Free
DAN MAGERS HOSTS:
BRUCE MACKINNON
Bruce MacKinnon’s collection of poems, Mystery Schools, won The Washington Writers’ Publishing House Prize in Poetry for 2007. He has also been awarded the Richard Soref Scholarship in Poetry for the 2005 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, an Individual Artist Award in Poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council, The Academy of American Poets Prize, and the Richard Hugo Prize from Poetry Northwest. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines and journals, including Salmagundi, Boulevard, and The Sewanee Review. He has been a finalist for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award, The National Poetry Series Competition, and the Agnes Lynch Starrett Award. He teaches creative writing at the George Washington University in Washington D.C.
CLAUDIA CARLSON
Claudia Carlson was born in Bloomington, Indiana. She double-majored in English and Art History at Stony Brook University. Her first book of poetry, The Elephant House, was published in 2007 by Marsh Hawk Press. She is the co-editor of the anthology, The Poet's Grimm: Twentieth Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales, 2003. Divide, The Cream City Review, and Gargoyle Magazine have published her photographs. On Sundays, she paints watercolors (see her work at www.claudiagraphics.com). She is an art director at Adventure House and lives in New York City with her family.
CINDY SAVETT
Cindy Savett teaches poetry workshops at psychiatric institutions in the Philadelphia area to both acute short-term and residential patients. Her first book, Child in the Road, was released in October, 2007. Cindy is published in numerous print and on-line journals, including Margie, Heliotrope, LIT, The Marlboro Review, 26 Magazine, Cutbank, and Free Verse. She is also at work on a memoir on the death of her daughter. Additionally, Cindy has served on several school boards and other non-profit agencies. She spent fifteen years in the retail business, traveling extensively overseas. Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, she currently lives in Merion, Pennsylvania with her husband and children.
About 440 Gallery: Park Slope’s only artist-run gallery, a jewel box space offering an alternative venue for Brooklyn artists. 440 Gallery seeks to present surprising, unexpected art to the community through exhibitions, talks, readings and events centered around direct contact with the artist. Open Thursdays and Fridays from 4-7 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays from 12-6 pm, or by appointment.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
ROCHELLE RATNER, MARSH HAWK PRESS POET AND EDITOR AND AUTHOR OF TWENTY-THREE BOOKS HAS PASSED AWAY
ROCHELLE RATNER, 59, of New York City passed away Monday, March 31, 2008. She was born and raised in Atlantic City, but came to live in New York City as an aspiring writer in her early twenties. She published more than twenty-three books of poetry and fiction and was afforded many honors. Her most recent book, Balancing Acts, was selected as a Favorite New Title for National Poetry Month. The honor was announced on the day of her death.
Her childhood experiences in Atlantic City, N.J. played a large role in much of her writing. The landscape and tenor of the deteriorating resort in the 1950s and 1960s, before gambling was legalized, form the backdrop for her first novel, Bobby’s Girl, as well as the poems in Sea Air In A Grave Ground Hog Turns Toward. The sea and beach have served as inspiration for other books of poetry, including Pirate’s Song, and Combing the Waves.
Over the years her writing expanded to include short stories, memoirs, articles, criticism, visual work, and editing, with poetry remaining a firm, and continual, base. [For detailed information on her life and writings click here.]
She is survived by her husband, Kenneth Thorp, and by her father Herman Ratner. Her internment will be Thursday, April 3, 2008 in Westerley, Rhode Island.
*****
Dress Rehearsal
I love you like wood and you laugh
with high birds I can't see.
White flat ducks wake the morning to leaves
that have slanted from night.
Talk . . . talk . . . I hear noises--
It's only the fish that are flying now,
bodies and words.
Borrowed sunlight is crossing our sleep
like a child in the woods.
It's cold and then warm in the haloes,
the dark strung together like travel.
Time was geology then.
It was summer. We always had friends.
--Rochelle Ratner (1948-2008)
fr. A Birthday of Waters
[New York: New Rivers Press, 1971]
ROCHELLE RATNER, 59, of New York City passed away Monday, March 31, 2008. She was born and raised in Atlantic City, but came to live in New York City as an aspiring writer in her early twenties. She published more than twenty-three books of poetry and fiction and was afforded many honors. Her most recent book, Balancing Acts, was selected as a Favorite New Title for National Poetry Month. The honor was announced on the day of her death.
Her childhood experiences in Atlantic City, N.J. played a large role in much of her writing. The landscape and tenor of the deteriorating resort in the 1950s and 1960s, before gambling was legalized, form the backdrop for her first novel, Bobby’s Girl, as well as the poems in Sea Air In A Grave Ground Hog Turns Toward. The sea and beach have served as inspiration for other books of poetry, including Pirate’s Song, and Combing the Waves.
Over the years her writing expanded to include short stories, memoirs, articles, criticism, visual work, and editing, with poetry remaining a firm, and continual, base. [For detailed information on her life and writings click here.]
She is survived by her husband, Kenneth Thorp, and by her father Herman Ratner. Her internment will be Thursday, April 3, 2008 in Westerley, Rhode Island.
*****
Dress Rehearsal
I love you like wood and you laugh
with high birds I can't see.
White flat ducks wake the morning to leaves
that have slanted from night.
Talk . . . talk . . . I hear noises--
It's only the fish that are flying now,
bodies and words.
Borrowed sunlight is crossing our sleep
like a child in the woods.
It's cold and then warm in the haloes,
the dark strung together like travel.
Time was geology then.
It was summer. We always had friends.
--Rochelle Ratner (1948-2008)
fr. A Birthday of Waters
[New York: New Rivers Press, 1971]
