Saturday, October 25, 2008
KPFA, BERKELEY REVIEWS EILEEN TABIOS' THE LIGHT SANG AS IT LEFT YOUR EYES!
In Berkeley, CA, sometime on Sunday, Oct. 26, from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., Michelle Bautista will review two of Eileen Tabios' books, including The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes. This will be part of the program "PILIPINO OURSTORY 2008"; here's more info from KPFA:
INTERVIEWS/REVIEWS: Eileen Tabios, Michelle Bautista, Theo Gonzalves, "The Romance of Magno Rubio", "GIMIKERA" (Prostituted Women), ESKAPO
VOICES FROM MINDANAO: PASTOR D, KAPATID T, & DATU MANGANSAKAN
NEW MUSIKA: BAYANG BARRIOS * DJ QBERT * NATIVE ELEMENTS * TRACY CRUZ
Special Guest Hosts: Aivy Cordova & Nicole Cordova
CD & TICKET GIVEAWAYS, and much more!
Live Broadkast: KPFA~FM 94.1 Berkeley
KFCF~FM 88.1 Fresno
Audiostreaming & FREE mp3 Archive: www.kpfa.org
Can't tune in live? KPFA archives our shows as FREE mp3's at www.kpfa.org under the date and time of webkast and the NAME of Program.
In Berkeley, CA, sometime on Sunday, Oct. 26, from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., Michelle Bautista will review two of Eileen Tabios' books, including The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes. This will be part of the program "PILIPINO OURSTORY 2008"; here's more info from KPFA:
INTERVIEWS/REVIEWS: Eileen Tabios, Michelle Bautista, Theo Gonzalves, "The Romance of Magno Rubio", "GIMIKERA" (Prostituted Women), ESKAPO
VOICES FROM MINDANAO: PASTOR D, KAPATID T, & DATU MANGANSAKAN
NEW MUSIKA: BAYANG BARRIOS * DJ QBERT * NATIVE ELEMENTS * TRACY CRUZ
Special Guest Hosts: Aivy Cordova & Nicole Cordova
CD & TICKET GIVEAWAYS, and much more!
Live Broadkast: KPFA~FM 94.1 Berkeley
KFCF~FM 88.1 Fresno
Audiostreaming & FREE mp3 Archive: www.kpfa.org
Can't tune in live? KPFA archives our shows as FREE mp3's at www.kpfa.org under the date and time of webkast and the NAME of Program.
Monday, October 20, 2008
MARTHA KING INVITES YOU TO A READING!
Prose Pros presents
CARMEN FIRAN and MARTHA KING
Thursday, November 13, 2008, 6:30 [fairly promptly] to 8:30 p.m.
at The Telephone Bar & Grill – 149=2 0Second Avenue btw 9th & 10th Streets
All trains to Union Square, 6 to Astor Place, F to Second Avenue
Free Admission
Carmen Firan
Carmen Firan has been living in New York City since 2000, forging artistic links between New York’s literary groups and the poets and writers of her native Romania. Widely celebrated in her home country, she writes fiction, poetry, and essays on a remarkable number of subjects. A special focus in her fiction is the complexities of life for immigrants who are suddenly confronted by irreversible changes when history, politics, and personal life collide. Her essays often deal, fittingly enough, with communication – the loss and possible return of the redemptive power of words. See more at www.carmenfiran.com
Her latest book, Words & Flesh (with a preface by fellow countryman Andrei Codrescu), is just out from Talisman House.
“A crafter of wickedly satirical, sly and subtle20short fictions,” notes Isaiah Sheffer, artistic director of Symphony Space and host of “Selected Shorts” on NPR.
“Her works have deep layers of darkness intermingled with dazzling moments of comic sadness,” writes Kirby Olson.
“It took a survivor of Eastern European tyranny like Carmen Firan to reveal the true absurdity of the American story. What seems normal and mundane to our jaded eyes becomes surreal and even a little bit tragic through the wry lens of her writing.” – Bruce Benderson
Martha King
Co-curator of the Prose Pros series, Martha King writes poetry, essays, fiction, and memoir (and sometimes memoir/fiction). Her most recent fiction collection, North & South, was greeted by Publisher’s Weekly with these comments:
“King attended the fabled Black Mountain College in the mid-1950s: her short stories suggest the spare hardness and amused diffidence of Black Mountain poet Robert Creeley; wrenching plot twists and the instability of narrative itself—King often interrupts to discard or evaluate the proceedings—root her best work in the postmodern contingency....”
She has been writing memoir in the same vein for the past few years. A short section, titled “A map of Charlottesville, 1945” appears in the new anthology Wreckage of Reason which has just been published by Spuyten Duyvil.
The reading takes place in the comfortable backroom Lounge of the Telephone Bar, famed for fine vegetarian and carnivore fare, cooked with an English flair.
Prose Pros presents
CARMEN FIRAN and MARTHA KING
Thursday, November 13, 2008, 6:30 [fairly promptly] to 8:30 p.m.
at The Telephone Bar & Grill – 149=2 0Second Avenue btw 9th & 10th Streets
All trains to Union Square, 6 to Astor Place, F to Second Avenue
Free Admission
Carmen Firan
Carmen Firan has been living in New York City since 2000, forging artistic links between New York’s literary groups and the poets and writers of her native Romania. Widely celebrated in her home country, she writes fiction, poetry, and essays on a remarkable number of subjects. A special focus in her fiction is the complexities of life for immigrants who are suddenly confronted by irreversible changes when history, politics, and personal life collide. Her essays often deal, fittingly enough, with communication – the loss and possible return of the redemptive power of words. See more at www.carmenfiran.com
Her latest book, Words & Flesh (with a preface by fellow countryman Andrei Codrescu), is just out from Talisman House.
“A crafter of wickedly satirical, sly and subtle20short fictions,” notes Isaiah Sheffer, artistic director of Symphony Space and host of “Selected Shorts” on NPR.
“Her works have deep layers of darkness intermingled with dazzling moments of comic sadness,” writes Kirby Olson.
“It took a survivor of Eastern European tyranny like Carmen Firan to reveal the true absurdity of the American story. What seems normal and mundane to our jaded eyes becomes surreal and even a little bit tragic through the wry lens of her writing.” – Bruce Benderson
Martha King
Co-curator of the Prose Pros series, Martha King writes poetry, essays, fiction, and memoir (and sometimes memoir/fiction). Her most recent fiction collection, North & South, was greeted by Publisher’s Weekly with these comments:
“King attended the fabled Black Mountain College in the mid-1950s: her short stories suggest the spare hardness and amused diffidence of Black Mountain poet Robert Creeley; wrenching plot twists and the instability of narrative itself—King often interrupts to discard or evaluate the proceedings—root her best work in the postmodern contingency....”
She has been writing memoir in the same vein for the past few years. A short section, titled “A map of Charlottesville, 1945” appears in the new anthology Wreckage of Reason which has just been published by Spuyten Duyvil.
The reading takes place in the comfortable backroom Lounge of the Telephone Bar, famed for fine vegetarian and carnivore fare, cooked with an English flair.
Monday, October 13, 2008
CONGRATULATIONS TO STEVE FELLNER!
Marsh Hawk Prize Awardee Steve Fellner has received the Benu Press Award for Creative Non-Fiction. (http://www.benupress.com/)
Steve's book is titled All Screwed Up, and happily, they've asked Claudia Clarlson to design the cover because they were so impressed by the work she does for Marsh Hawk Press! So congrats to Claudia as well!
Marsh Hawk Prize Awardee Steve Fellner has received the Benu Press Award for Creative Non-Fiction. (http://www.benupress.com/)
Steve's book is titled All Screwed Up, and happily, they've asked Claudia Clarlson to design the cover because they were so impressed by the work she does for Marsh Hawk Press! So congrats to Claudia as well!
Saturday, October 11, 2008
THE BRAND NEW MARSH HAWK REVIEW!
Marsh Hawk Press is delighted to announce the release of a new poetry journal, Marsh Hawk Review!
The inaugural issue is edited by Norman Finkelstein . Editorships are on a revolving basis among the MHP Collective members, though featured poets are not limited to the MHP Collective.
You are invited HERE to see poems by the following poets:
Enjoy!
Marsh Hawk Press is delighted to announce the release of a new poetry journal, Marsh Hawk Review!
The inaugural issue is edited by Norman Finkelstein . Editorships are on a revolving basis among the MHP Collective members, though featured poets are not limited to the MHP Collective.
You are invited HERE to see poems by the following poets:
Jane Augustine
Claudia Carlson
Joseph Donahue
Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason
Norman Finkelstein
Edward Foster
Michael Heller
Burt Kimmelman
Nathaniel Mackey
Robert Murphy
Amanda Nadelberg
Peter O'Leary
Kristin Prevallet
Donald Revell
Mark Scroggins
Jakob Stein
Nathan Swartzendruber
Henry Weinfield
Tyrone Williams
Enjoy!
Monday, October 06, 2008
FELLNER AND TABIOS RECEIVE ATTENTION
Steve Fellner is spotlighted in Democrat and Chronicle!
And Eileen Tabios' The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes is reviewed by Fred Muratori in AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW #29!
Steve Fellner is spotlighted in Democrat and Chronicle!
And Eileen Tabios' The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes is reviewed by Fred Muratori in AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW #29!
