Marsh Hawk Press Blog

The submissions deadline for the Marsh Hawk Press Annual Poetry Prize has been extended to May 10, 2012. 

We'll accept mailed manuscript entries postmarked by May 10th.  Electronic entries will be accepted until midnight May 10th.

More information HERE.

Susan Schultz writes a wonderful engagement with Eileen R. Tabios' and j/j hastain's collaboration, the relational elations of ORPHANED ALGEBRA  for Jacket2; here's an excerpt:

Tabios and hastain are most engaged in what happens when relation between persons occurs, or between genders within persons, namely in the TRANS of their "relational elations." They are fascinated by displacements, yes, but also in "active placements," whether those are adoptive relationships within families or within individuals whose gender-identities are not normative. These placements require new words, new pronouns, new definitions of family. They require new stories.

... It's that "listening differently" that is the real TRANS in Tabios's and hastain's book; it's a trans that risks appropriation. hastain is not, nor ever has been a "real" orphan, although xe has experienced gender (and generic) displacements. When a body rises into metaphor, it can easily be "assumed" to be something it is not. But better to take that risk than to leave these trans-travelers solely to their solitudes. It is the place "of someone finally watching" (66). This watching is not espionage but witness, not "at" but "with," insofar as "withness" is possible.

The entire review is available at https://jacket2.org/commentary/new-thresholds-new-anatomies

Paolo Javier will participate in the following:


Saturday, April 21, 2012

Stanzas in Meditation: A Gertrude Stein Celebration

Panel Discussion 1:00pm

Reading 3:00pm


Four emerging textual scholars - Logan Esdale, Susannah Hollister, Liesl Olson and Emily Setina - share their recent work in the Gertrude Stein archives at Yale University, moderated by the collection’s curator Nancy Kuhl. A reading of Stein’s poetic work follows, with Paolo Javier, Rachel Levitsky, Ariana Reines, Joan Retallack, Christopher Schmidt, Laura Sims and Stacy Szymaszek.

$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members

Poets House is located at 10 River Terrace at the corner of Murray Street in Lower Manhattan's Battery Park City.

Directions: Take the 1, 2, 3, A or C subway to Chambers Street. Walk west on Chambers Street (past West Street) all the way to its end at River Terrace. Turn left and walk two blocks south to 10 River Terrace (at the corner of River Terrace and Murray Street). The M22 bus runs along Chambers between North End Ave and the Lower East Side. The M20 bus travels from the Upper West Side and the southern tip of Battery Park City to North End Ave. The Downtown Connection, a free Lower Manhattan shuttle bus, travels to North End Ave from South Street Seaport and from Broadway along Murray Street

Eileen R. Tabios' and j/j hastain's collaborative book, the relational elations of ORPHANED ALGEBRA, has received its first review.  Amazon.com "Hall of Fame" reviewer Grady Harp (per Amazon's format, the review is within the comment section for the book on Amazon.com's site) cites two poems.  Here's a short but sweet excerpt from the review:


"unquestionably rewarding"

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REMINDER: MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE


Submission Deadline: April 30, 2012

CONTEST JUDGE: Cornelius Eady

The Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize offers a cash award of $1,000.00 plus publication of the winning manuscript. It is judged by a poet of national stature. The winner's name and title of the winning book are announced and advertised nationally.

Electronic submissions allowed!
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