Saturday, February 27, 2010
BASIL KING HAS A NEW EXHIBITION!
The Green Man
Exhibition of paintings by Basil King
at Poets House
March 20, – May 29, 2010
Opening reception – Saturday, March 20, 3-5 pm
free
The Green Man Symposium
Carolyn Dinshaw, Michael Hrebeniak, Basil King, Thomas Meyer
at Poets House
Tuesday, March 23, 7 pm
$10, $7 for students and seniors
free to members of Poets House
Part of Ecopoetic Futures, a series of events that examine poetry and the environment.
Programs in this series are funded, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Council for the Humanities
For more information: poetshouse.org
POETS HOUSE
10 River Terrace, between
Warren and Murray Streets
New York City
BUS M22 from East Side, M20 from West Side M22 to Chambers and North End Ave M20 to Battery Park City and North End Ave
SUBWAY, 1, 2, 3, A or C to Chambers Street Walk west on Chambers, turn left at River Terrace
Free shuttle bus The Downtown Connection travels to Murray Street 1 block from River Terrace
www.downtownny.com.
A live link to position of shuttle bus in real time:
http://downtownny.interfleet.com/
212-431-7920 – poetshouse.org
The Green Man
Exhibition of paintings by Basil King
at Poets House
March 20, – May 29, 2010
Opening reception – Saturday, March 20, 3-5 pm
free
The Green Man Symposium
Carolyn Dinshaw, Michael Hrebeniak, Basil King, Thomas Meyer
at Poets House
Tuesday, March 23, 7 pm
$10, $7 for students and seniors
free to members of Poets House
Part of Ecopoetic Futures, a series of events that examine poetry and the environment.
Programs in this series are funded, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Council for the Humanities
For more information: poetshouse.org
POETS HOUSE
10 River Terrace, between
Warren and Murray Streets
New York City
BUS M22 from East Side, M20 from West Side M22 to Chambers and North End Ave M20 to Battery Park City and North End Ave
SUBWAY, 1, 2, 3, A or C to Chambers Street Walk west on Chambers, turn left at River Terrace
Free shuttle bus The Downtown Connection travels to Murray Street 1 block from River Terrace
www.downtownny.com.
A live link to position of shuttle bus in real time:
http://downtownny.interfleet.com/
212-431-7920 – poetshouse.org
Thursday, February 25, 2010
IN THE FAMILY: NEW BOOK BY THOMAS FINK AND HIS DAUGHTER!
Occasionally, members of our collective release books from other publishers. Here is an announcement of Thomas Fink's latest:
Meritage Press Announcement
A Special Release Offer for AUTOPSY TURVY, collaborative poems by Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason
AUTOPSY TURVY
Collaborative Poems by Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason
ISBN-13: 978-0-9794119-4-6
Price: $16.00
Release Date: Spring 2010
Distributors: www.MeritagePress.com and Lulu.com
Meritage Press is delighted to announce the release of AUTOPSY TURVY, a collaborative book of poems by father-daughter Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason. A book of "utterly wishful miraculously wistful costumed poems" (Tan Lin), AUTOPSY TURVY gathers terse, springy, psychologically intense eleven-line lyrics and hay(na)ku-based pieces, a 15-poem series called "Bee" that spells out the tangles of family and finances, a surreal poetic play entitled "Invisible Surgeon," and much else. According to Denise Duhamel, Fink and Mason's "poetry. . . goes to the brink, peering off the cliff, before they pull one another back to safety."
Thomas Fink’s fifth book of poetry, Clarity and Other Poems, was published by Marsh Hawk Press in Spring, 2008. His chapbooks, Generic Whistle-Stop (Portable Press at YoYo Labs) and Yinglish Strophes 1-19 (Truck Books) appeared in 2009. A Different Sense of Power (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001) is his most recent book of criticism, and in 2007, he and Joseph Lease co-edited “Burning Interiors”: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics. His work is included in The Best American Poetry 2007 (Scribner’s). Fink’s paintings hang in various collections.
Maya Diablo Mason was published in The First Hay(na)ku Anthology (Meritage, 2006) and her collaborative work has appeared in Otoliths, 21 Stars Review, BlazeVox, Of(f) Course, Long Island Sounds Anthology 2008 and 2009, Marsh Hawk Review, Pinstripe Fedora and EOAGH. A high school student in Long Island, New York, she plans to pursue a career in drama, visual art, or writing.
*****
To celebrate the release of AUTOPSY TURVY, Meritage Press is pleased to announce a SPECIAL RELEASE OFFER good through March 31, 2010. Through this offer, you may order the book for $12.50 (a 22% discount from the regular retail price of $16.00) per book. Those who live in the U.S. also will receive free shipping/handling (usually a $5.00 charge). Please make checks out to "Meritage Press" and send to
E. Tabios
Meritage Press
256 No. Fork Crystal Springs Rd.
St. Helena, CA 94574
Some ADVANCE WORDS for AUTOPSY TURVY:
In AUTOPSY TURVY, Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason (a father and daughter collaborative team) give us poetry that goes to the brink, peering off the cliff, before they pull one another back to safety. These poems—about death and dying, inheritance (monetarily and otherwise), and family—put the “Pan” in deadpan. AUTOPSY TURVY is as magical and mysterious as the Greek god of nature or the moon of Saturn. This poetry pair is funny, smart, and profound.
--Denise Duhamel
These utterly wishful miraculously wistful costumed poems are made up--of messages, notes, offhand remarks, smiles, half anecdotes, beautiful smirks, let-downs, put-downs, winks, disgust, jokes and riddles—that pass between child and parent, father and daughter, and everything said between a laugh a yawn a cry. “Forgot my ocean.” I cried. I laughed. I read “I have something sleepy to tell you.” And then I read “Some of those flowers could crack abstruse dance codes.” And then: “Girls get their food from tulips.”
--Tan Lin
AUTOPSY TURVY is the record of a series of remarkable poetic jam sessions between (father) Thomas Fink and (daughter) Maya Diablo Mason. Tom and Maya work together in the way that family members do: finishing one another's sentences. And they finish them to a high sheen.
--Tom Beckett
*****
AUTOPSY TURVY is also available directly from Meritage Press' Lulu Account
For more information, including international orders or requests for review copies, please email MeritagePress@aol.com
Occasionally, members of our collective release books from other publishers. Here is an announcement of Thomas Fink's latest:
Meritage Press Announcement
A Special Release Offer for AUTOPSY TURVY, collaborative poems by Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason
AUTOPSY TURVY
Collaborative Poems by Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason
ISBN-13: 978-0-9794119-4-6
Price: $16.00
Release Date: Spring 2010
Distributors: www.MeritagePress.com and Lulu.com
Meritage Press is delighted to announce the release of AUTOPSY TURVY, a collaborative book of poems by father-daughter Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason. A book of "utterly wishful miraculously wistful costumed poems" (Tan Lin), AUTOPSY TURVY gathers terse, springy, psychologically intense eleven-line lyrics and hay(na)ku-based pieces, a 15-poem series called "Bee" that spells out the tangles of family and finances, a surreal poetic play entitled "Invisible Surgeon," and much else. According to Denise Duhamel, Fink and Mason's "poetry. . . goes to the brink, peering off the cliff, before they pull one another back to safety."
Thomas Fink’s fifth book of poetry, Clarity and Other Poems, was published by Marsh Hawk Press in Spring, 2008. His chapbooks, Generic Whistle-Stop (Portable Press at YoYo Labs) and Yinglish Strophes 1-19 (Truck Books) appeared in 2009. A Different Sense of Power (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001) is his most recent book of criticism, and in 2007, he and Joseph Lease co-edited “Burning Interiors”: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics. His work is included in The Best American Poetry 2007 (Scribner’s). Fink’s paintings hang in various collections.
Maya Diablo Mason was published in The First Hay(na)ku Anthology (Meritage, 2006) and her collaborative work has appeared in Otoliths, 21 Stars Review, BlazeVox, Of(f) Course, Long Island Sounds Anthology 2008 and 2009, Marsh Hawk Review, Pinstripe Fedora and EOAGH. A high school student in Long Island, New York, she plans to pursue a career in drama, visual art, or writing.
*****
To celebrate the release of AUTOPSY TURVY, Meritage Press is pleased to announce a SPECIAL RELEASE OFFER good through March 31, 2010. Through this offer, you may order the book for $12.50 (a 22% discount from the regular retail price of $16.00) per book. Those who live in the U.S. also will receive free shipping/handling (usually a $5.00 charge). Please make checks out to "Meritage Press" and send to
E. Tabios
Meritage Press
256 No. Fork Crystal Springs Rd.
St. Helena, CA 94574
Some ADVANCE WORDS for AUTOPSY TURVY:
In AUTOPSY TURVY, Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason (a father and daughter collaborative team) give us poetry that goes to the brink, peering off the cliff, before they pull one another back to safety. These poems—about death and dying, inheritance (monetarily and otherwise), and family—put the “Pan” in deadpan. AUTOPSY TURVY is as magical and mysterious as the Greek god of nature or the moon of Saturn. This poetry pair is funny, smart, and profound.
--Denise Duhamel
These utterly wishful miraculously wistful costumed poems are made up--of messages, notes, offhand remarks, smiles, half anecdotes, beautiful smirks, let-downs, put-downs, winks, disgust, jokes and riddles—that pass between child and parent, father and daughter, and everything said between a laugh a yawn a cry. “Forgot my ocean.” I cried. I laughed. I read “I have something sleepy to tell you.” And then I read “Some of those flowers could crack abstruse dance codes.” And then: “Girls get their food from tulips.”
--Tan Lin
AUTOPSY TURVY is the record of a series of remarkable poetic jam sessions between (father) Thomas Fink and (daughter) Maya Diablo Mason. Tom and Maya work together in the way that family members do: finishing one another's sentences. And they finish them to a high sheen.
--Tom Beckett
*****
AUTOPSY TURVY is also available directly from Meritage Press' Lulu Account
For more information, including international orders or requests for review copies, please email MeritagePress@aol.com
Saturday, February 20, 2010
EILEEN TABIOS FEATURED ON "POEMFLESH2"
Eileen Tabios, with a focus on her book I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED, is featured on POEMFLESH2's Dialogue Series with an interview and two sample poems. Here's an interview excerpt:
Click HERE FOR ENTIRE FEATURE.
Eileen Tabios, with a focus on her book I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED, is featured on POEMFLESH2's Dialogue Series with an interview and two sample poems. Here's an interview excerpt:
...share a recollection of a couplet from a poem series entitled -
"Conjurations".
To bring a poem into the world
is to bring the world into a poem.
As a poet, I try to understand and honor that to live Poetry
and to write poems are both verb-acts.
Click HERE FOR ENTIRE FEATURE.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
FLAMENCO POETRY READING and BESTSELLER!
Congratulations to Sandy McIntosh whose latest, ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF THE FLAMENCO, appears in Small Press Distribution's January Poetry Bestseller List!
Sandy will be reading from his book, with Eileen Tabios, at the event in this invitation:
You are invited to the
PAWA Arkipelago Literary Series
Sunday, February 21, 2010
2:00 PM
Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission Street, San Francisco
A free event.
Duende Within: Flamenco Inspired Poetry
Featuring
Sandy Mcintosh
Sandy McIntosh is the managing editor of the New York City poetry press, Marsh Hawk Press. His poetry collections include the just-released ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF THE FLAMENCO.
Eileen Tabios
Eileen Tabios' publications includes 18 poetry collections, including a flamenco-poetry collection in NOTA BENE EISWEIN. She just released THE THORN ROSARY: SELECTED PROSE POEMS 1998-2010, with essays by scholars Thomas Fink and Joi Barrios. She once took a flamenco class in New York City, and failed it with much enthusiasm.
Edwin Agustín Lozada
Edwin Agustín Lozada is the author of Sueños anónimos/Anonymous Dreams and Bosquejos/Sketches. He produced Field of Mirrors, PAWA’s 2008 anthology. He was a member of Rosa Montoya Bailes Flamencos from 1998-2003.
With special guest performers
Roberto Campos
flamenco guitar
Alicia
flamenco dance
Michelle Bautista
Michelle is a poet and kali martial artist. She has released a poetry collection entitled KALI'S BLADE (Meritage Press).
Congratulations to Sandy McIntosh whose latest, ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF THE FLAMENCO, appears in Small Press Distribution's January Poetry Bestseller List!
Sandy will be reading from his book, with Eileen Tabios, at the event in this invitation:
You are invited to the
PAWA Arkipelago Literary Series
Sunday, February 21, 2010
2:00 PM
Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission Street, San Francisco
A free event.
Duende Within: Flamenco Inspired Poetry
Featuring
Sandy Mcintosh
Sandy McIntosh is the managing editor of the New York City poetry press, Marsh Hawk Press. His poetry collections include the just-released ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF THE FLAMENCO.
Eileen Tabios
Eileen Tabios' publications includes 18 poetry collections, including a flamenco-poetry collection in NOTA BENE EISWEIN. She just released THE THORN ROSARY: SELECTED PROSE POEMS 1998-2010, with essays by scholars Thomas Fink and Joi Barrios. She once took a flamenco class in New York City, and failed it with much enthusiasm.
Edwin Agustín Lozada
Edwin Agustín Lozada is the author of Sueños anónimos/Anonymous Dreams and Bosquejos/Sketches. He produced Field of Mirrors, PAWA’s 2008 anthology. He was a member of Rosa Montoya Bailes Flamencos from 1998-2003.
With special guest performers
Roberto Campos
flamenco guitar
Alicia
flamenco dance
Michelle Bautista
Michelle is a poet and kali martial artist. She has released a poetry collection entitled KALI'S BLADE (Meritage Press).
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
GREEK AMERICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATION READING
You are invited to
Reading for
The Greek American Writers Association
Readers:
MARY GOLIAS
JULIE FOSTER
CORINNE ROBINS
MICHAEL T.YOUNG
CORNELIA STREET CAFE
6-8 p.m.
$7 Entrance fee which fee includes wine
29 Cornelia Street
New York City
You are invited to
Reading for
The Greek American Writers Association
Readers:
MARY GOLIAS
JULIE FOSTER
CORINNE ROBINS
MICHAEL T.YOUNG
CORNELIA STREET CAFE
6-8 p.m.
$7 Entrance fee which fee includes wine
29 Cornelia Street
New York City
Saturday, February 06, 2010
REMINDER: 2010 MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE
Anne Waldman will judge Marsh Hawk Press' 7th annual poetry contest. Deadline is April 30, 2010.
More information is available at http://www.marshhawkpress.org/Contests_and_submissions.htm
Anne Waldman will judge Marsh Hawk Press' 7th annual poetry contest. Deadline is April 30, 2010.
More information is available at http://www.marshhawkpress.org/Contests_and_submissions.htm
YOU ARE INVITED
Eileen Tabios and Sandy McIntosh will be at:
Flamenco Poetry (Pawainc Reading Series)
with Sandy McIntosh, Ed Lozada, Michelle Bautista and a flamenco guest artist
Sunday, 2:15 p.m., Feb. 21, 2010
AT: Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission St.
San Francisco
Here are other forthcoming readings/conference participations by Eileen Tabios:
Boog City Bay Area Reading
with David Kirschenbaum and editors of publishers featured through his Boog City's "levy lives: celebrating the renegade press" Reading Series in NYC including Jill Stengel of a+bend, Albert Flynn Desilver of Owl Press and David Buuck of Tripwire.
AT: Books and Bookshelves
99 Sanchez St., San Francisco
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., March 17, 2010
Literature Panel @ Babaylan Conference
with Evelina Galang, Marie Therese Sulit, Aimee Suzara
AT: Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park
Saturday, 1:45-3:15, April 17, 2010
Book Launch for Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous at Babaylan Conference
with anthology contributors and editors including Leny Strobel
AT: Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park
Sunday, 1:00-2:00, April 18, 2010
"On Empire(s)" (Small Press Traffic Reading Series)
with Susan Gevirtz
AT: CCAC
1111 -- 8th Street, San Francisco
Friday, 7 p.m., May 7, 2010
Eileen Tabios and Sandy McIntosh will be at:
Flamenco Poetry (Pawainc Reading Series)
with Sandy McIntosh, Ed Lozada, Michelle Bautista and a flamenco guest artist
Sunday, 2:15 p.m., Feb. 21, 2010
AT: Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission St.
San Francisco
Here are other forthcoming readings/conference participations by Eileen Tabios:
Boog City Bay Area Reading
with David Kirschenbaum and editors of publishers featured through his Boog City's "levy lives: celebrating the renegade press" Reading Series in NYC including Jill Stengel of a+bend, Albert Flynn Desilver of Owl Press and David Buuck of Tripwire.
AT: Books and Bookshelves
99 Sanchez St., San Francisco
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., March 17, 2010
Literature Panel @ Babaylan Conference
with Evelina Galang, Marie Therese Sulit, Aimee Suzara
AT: Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park
Saturday, 1:45-3:15, April 17, 2010
Book Launch for Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous at Babaylan Conference
with anthology contributors and editors including Leny Strobel
AT: Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park
Sunday, 1:00-2:00, April 18, 2010
"On Empire(s)" (Small Press Traffic Reading Series)
with Susan Gevirtz
AT: CCAC
1111 -- 8th Street, San Francisco
Friday, 7 p.m., May 7, 2010
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
ON YOUTUBE!
Sandy McIntosh and Denise Duhamel read lines from their book 237 More Reasons to Have Sex on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al3di-Yyk7Q
Sandy McIntosh and Denise Duhamel read lines from their book 237 More Reasons to Have Sex on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al3di-Yyk7Q
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
BASIL KING EXHIBITION AT POETS HOUSE
Basil King will open an exhibition at Poets House on March 20 (details below). Also, on March 23 (the following Tuesday) there will be a program discussing The Green Man, with Baz, Thomas Meyer, Michael Hrebeniak and Carolyn Dinshaw.
The Green Man: An Exhibition
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 20, 3:00–5:00pm
On View through Saturday, May 29
This series of paintings by British-born poet and painter Basil King depicts the Green Man, the pre- Christian archetypal figure of creation and the earth, emerging in the guise of British historical figures, such as Guy Fawkes and Walter Raleigh.
Part of Ecopoetic Futures, a series of events that examine poetry and the environment. Programs in this series are funded, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Council for the Humanities.
Admission Free
Basil King will open an exhibition at Poets House on March 20 (details below). Also, on March 23 (the following Tuesday) there will be a program discussing The Green Man, with Baz, Thomas Meyer, Michael Hrebeniak and Carolyn Dinshaw.
The Green Man: An Exhibition
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 20, 3:00–5:00pm
On View through Saturday, May 29
This series of paintings by British-born poet and painter Basil King depicts the Green Man, the pre- Christian archetypal figure of creation and the earth, emerging in the guise of British historical figures, such as Guy Fawkes and Walter Raleigh.
Part of Ecopoetic Futures, a series of events that examine poetry and the environment. Programs in this series are funded, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Council for the Humanities.
Admission Free
