Sunday, January 30, 2011
MARSH HAWK PRESS WOULD LIKE TO MEET YOU AT AWP!
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference takes place in Washington, DC, February 2-5, 2011, Marriott Wardman Park & Omni Shoreham Hotels. We'd love to meet you!
Find Us Here:
February 2 - February 05, 2011
The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Table E 10
In 2011 we celebrate our 10th year of publishing, as well as our Eighth Annual Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. This year's judge: Alicia Ostriker.
Come and Meet 2010 Marsh Hawk Press Prize Winner
Justin Petropoulos
Signing his new book, Eminent Domain
Where & When
Marsh Hawk Press Table E 10
Saturday at 11:30AM
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference takes place in Washington, DC, February 2-5, 2011, Marriott Wardman Park & Omni Shoreham Hotels. We'd love to meet you!
Find Us Here:
February 2 - February 05, 2011
The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Table E 10
In 2011 we celebrate our 10th year of publishing, as well as our Eighth Annual Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. This year's judge: Alicia Ostriker.
Come and Meet 2010 Marsh Hawk Press Prize Winner
Justin Petropoulos
Signing his new book, Eminent Domain
"The brilliant serial prose poems of Eminent Domain frame a troubled scintillating world between animate/inanimate realities, bleak and transcendent at the same time.... This is a new Wasteland. Welcome an original consciousness from the belly of the beast."-Contest Judge Anne Waldman
Where & When
Marsh Hawk Press Table E 10
Saturday at 11:30AM
Saturday, January 29, 2011
REVIEW OF ANTHOLOGY CO-EDITED BY MARSH HAWK PRESS POETS!
Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller co-edited the anthology Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture, which just received a review by David Kaufman in Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life. Here's an excerpt below, which also hails a "notable" poem from Morris' Marsh Hawk Press second book:
Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller co-edited the anthology Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture, which just received a review by David Kaufman in Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life. Here's an excerpt below, which also hails a "notable" poem from Morris' Marsh Hawk Press second book:
The future ages quickly, so it’s hardly news that every generation produces its own avant-gardes and its own ways of rethinking religion. Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller, who together edited the 2009 anthology Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture, are interesting experimental poets for any number of reasons, but they are most striking for the sheer Jewishness of their secularism and therefore for the sheer secularity of their Yiddishkeit.
In the most notable of the poems in his new book, If Not For the Courage, Morris imagines himself watching an old video of what he thinks is the band Blondie. But the lead singer is somehow wrong:
NOT
Debbie Harry, but my aunt, Diane
Simon, 78, currently of Pembroke
Pines, Florida, formerly Plainview,
Long Island.
Monday, January 24, 2011
EIGHTH ANNUAL MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE
All poets are invited to our annual poetry contest/prize; more information is at http://marshhawkpress.org/Contests_and_submissions.htm Judge this year is Alicia Ostriker. For those located outside the U.S., do note that this contest is open to electronic submissions. Deadline is April, 30 2011.
The judge Alicia Ostriker has published 12 volumes of poetry, most recently The Book of Seventy, for which she received the Jewish National Book Award for 2009. Her most recent book of criticism is Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic. She has received awards and fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Poetry Society of America, and the San Francisco State Poetry Center, among others. Ostriker lives in Princeton, NJ, is Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University, and teaches in the low-residency Poetry MFA program of Drew University.
All poets are invited to our annual poetry contest/prize; more information is at http://marshhawkpress.org/Contests_and_submissions.htm Judge this year is Alicia Ostriker. For those located outside the U.S., do note that this contest is open to electronic submissions. Deadline is April, 30 2011.
The judge Alicia Ostriker has published 12 volumes of poetry, most recently The Book of Seventy, for which she received the Jewish National Book Award for 2009. Her most recent book of criticism is Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic. She has received awards and fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Poetry Society of America, and the San Francisco State Poetry Center, among others. Ostriker lives in Princeton, NJ, is Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University, and teaches in the low-residency Poetry MFA program of Drew University.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
AN ENGAGEMENT WITH EILEEN R. TABIOS' THE THORN ROSARY!
Arpine Konyalian Grenier with THE THORN ROSARY:
When I first received Eileen R. Tabios' The Thorn Rosary: Selected Prose Poems (1998-2010), I did a quick glance for a later better read but was already in awe of it -- I felt reverence both towards the overall book and while reading paragraphs here and there, not to mention for the setup and the compiling of it.
Later, I would spend an afternoon reading it. It reads like an encyclopedia or a reference book for living and loving, but always with poetry in mind. I did not know the author was Filipino and was impressed by the way that was woven into the sensibilities of this volume. I also appreciated how elegantly and unassumingly the book is laid out and how well the author's work interacts with that of other authors addressed in the book. Tabios is prolific and honest with sentiment and its expression.
In particular, I liked the following sections: Life Sentences, Homunculus, Conjurations and Clifford Still (who happens to be one my favorite artists). But I liked the contents of these sections, the approaches utilized, the opportunities they present, and the language. For example, the excluded word ... stuffed animals looking wise ... black flies out of the book of a poet.
Truly the thorn in the rosary is as much rosary as the rosary is thorn. We are grateful for that.
*****
Arpine Konyalian Grenier's latest volume, The Concession Stand: Exaptation at the Margins, is forthcoming from Otoliths Books.
Arpine Konyalian Grenier with THE THORN ROSARY:
When I first received Eileen R. Tabios' The Thorn Rosary: Selected Prose Poems (1998-2010), I did a quick glance for a later better read but was already in awe of it -- I felt reverence both towards the overall book and while reading paragraphs here and there, not to mention for the setup and the compiling of it.
Later, I would spend an afternoon reading it. It reads like an encyclopedia or a reference book for living and loving, but always with poetry in mind. I did not know the author was Filipino and was impressed by the way that was woven into the sensibilities of this volume. I also appreciated how elegantly and unassumingly the book is laid out and how well the author's work interacts with that of other authors addressed in the book. Tabios is prolific and honest with sentiment and its expression.
In particular, I liked the following sections: Life Sentences, Homunculus, Conjurations and Clifford Still (who happens to be one my favorite artists). But I liked the contents of these sections, the approaches utilized, the opportunities they present, and the language. For example, the excluded word ... stuffed animals looking wise ... black flies out of the book of a poet.
Truly the thorn in the rosary is as much rosary as the rosary is thorn. We are grateful for that.
*****
Arpine Konyalian Grenier's latest volume, The Concession Stand: Exaptation at the Margins, is forthcoming from Otoliths Books.
Saturday, January 08, 2011
EIGHTH ANNUAL MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE
Marsh Hawk Press is delighted to announce its EIGHTH ANNUAL MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE contest, which will be judged by Alicia Ostriker. Deadline is April 30, 2011 and more information may be found HERE.
Marsh Hawk Press is delighted to announce its EIGHTH ANNUAL MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE contest, which will be judged by Alicia Ostriker. Deadline is April 30, 2011 and more information may be found HERE.
