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Friday, May 28, 2004

ED FOSTER AND EILEEN TABIOS AT BAY AREA POETRY MARATHON!

This is is the UPDATED schedule for the
INAUGURAL BAY AREA POETRY MARATHON!


SATURDAY, MAY 29
at The Lab, 2948 16th Street, San Francisco
(16th & Mission BART stop: one block east on 16th)

** AFTERNOON **
12 noon-----------------Opening
12:30 – 2:10-----------Stephen Ajay, Taylor Brady, Brent Cunningham, Maria Damon, Susan Gevirtz
2:10 – 2:20-------------BREAK
2:20 –3:40--------------Kristen Hanlon, John Isles, Wendy Kramer, Camille Roy

** EVENING **
6:30----------------------Opening
7:00-8:20---------------Betsy Davids, Trane DeVore, kari edwards, Barbara Guest
8:20-8:30---------------BREAK
8:30-9:30---------------Kevin Killian, Aaron Shurin, Carol Snow
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SATURDAY, JUNE 26
at 21 Grand, 449 23rd Street, Oakland
(19th Street BART: four blocks up Broadway, then turn left onto 23rd)

** AFTERNOON **
12 noon-----------------Opening
12:30 – 2:20-----------Julie Carr, Rob Halpern, Bill Luoma, James Meetze, Chris Nealon
BREAK-------------------2:10 – 2:20
2:20 –3:40--------------Eleni Stecopoulos, Hugh Steinberg, Eileen Tabios, Stephanie Young

** EVENING **
6:30----------------------Opening
7:00-8:20---------------Rae Armantrout, Maxine Chernoff, Paul Hoover, Laura Moriarity
8:20-8:30---------------BREAK
8:30-9:30---------------Denise Newman, Elizabeth Robinson, Kit Robinson
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SATURDAY, JULY 24
at The Lab, 2948 16th Street, SF
(16th & Mission BART stop: one block east on 16th)

** AFTERNOON **
12 noon---------------Opening
12:30 – 2:10---------Stefani Barber, Laynie Brown, Mary Burger, Del Ray Cross, Steve Dickison
2:10 – 2:20-----------BREAK
2:20 –3:40------------Robert Gluck, Yedda Morrison, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Cynthia Sailers

** EVENING **
6:30--------------------Opening
7:00-8:20-------------Opal Palmer Adisa, Dodie Bellamy, Gillian Conoley, Patricia Dientsfrey
8:20-8:30-------------BREAK
8:30-9:30-------------Edward Foster, Kathleen Fraser, Leslie Scalapino
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 21
at 21 Grand, 449 23rd Street, Oakland
(19th Street BART: four blocks up Broadway, then turn left onto 23rd)

** AFTERNOON **
12 noon---------------Opening
12:30 – 2:10---------Jim Behrle, Sean Finney, Joanna Fuhrman, Roxi Hamilton, Rodney Koeneke
2:10 – 2:20-----------BREAK
2:20 –4:00------------Hazel McClure, Rusty Morrison, Mike Sikkema, Brian Teare, Elizabeth Treadwell

** EVENING **
6:30--------------------Opening
7:00-8:20-------------Norma Cole, Gloria Frym, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian
8:20-8:30-------------BREAK
8:30-9:50-------------Brenda Hillman, Michael Palmer, Bin Ramke


Monday, May 24, 2004

FROM A FORTHCOMING REVIEW OF EILEEN TABIOS'S REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE!!!

“To my mind, the measure of a poetry book’s success would linger over questions of intellectual usefulness--the book’s continuing, viable rhetorical challenges. In that sense alone, then, volumes could be written about how and why Eileen Tabios’s Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole is important both for purposes of study in creative rhetorics or poetics, and as a most satisfying, pleasurable read.”
Chris Murray, University of Texas at Arlington, review for Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics

Since Eileen's book is her "selected prose poem collection, 1996-2002," it's particularly gratifying to see her book receive attention from a journal specializing in prose poems. Sentence is edited by Brian Clements. And it's also nice to see the review written by such a highly-respected poet and educator, Chris Murray.


Saturday, May 22, 2004

THE MARSH HAWK PRESS VIRTUAL ART GALLERY!

Marsh Hawk Press books often share affinities with the visual arts. To celebrate this link, the Marsh Hawk Press web site inaugurates a new section featuring a rotating exhibit of artwork related to our books. Check out this link to go directly to the gallery:

http://marshhawkpress.org/gallery.htm

Inaugural works are paintings by Thomas Fink and Basil King; a quilt by Alice Brody for one of Eileen Tabios's poems that will appear in her 2005 Marsh Hawk Press book I Take Thee, English, For My Beloved; and drawings by Joyce Romano which are featured in Corrine Robins' One Thousand Years.


Thursday, May 20, 2004

EILEEN TABIOS ON KULTUREFLASH: HEADLINES FROM LONDON!

Eileen Tabios is the featured poet this week, with her poem "A Coagulation of Pixels," at kultureflash!


Monday, May 17, 2004

CONGRATULATIONS TO ROCHELLE RATNER

whose book, House and Home, is reviewed in the current issue of Library Journal:

"In writing as in life, this poet seems to have no use for undue exuberance but is plainly too strong to let herself get bogged down in the maudlin.... The result is honest and unaffected writing refreshingly free of the self-conscious angst that mars the writing of some of her colleagues." --Library Journal


Sunday, May 16, 2004

AN INTERESTING, ELUCIDATING REVIEW OF AN INTERESTING, ELUCIDATING BOOK!

Here's an advance look at Madeline Tiger's upcoming review of Stephen Paul Miller's The Bee Flies in May (to be featured in Sidereality later this year):

"Soon after entering The Bee Flies in May one recognizes both childlike playfulness and worldly philosophy. Daring whimsy inhabits every segment of the work; but everywhere, too, we are made aware of our “real” world, in which anything (terrible) can happen. There’s a new air in the fast-talking quality of these poems, which go beyond “New York School” casualness and beyond O’Hara’s stylized “Personism”. They break even recent protocols of diction and form. Miller’s work is a compendium, a collage, conversation, telegrammed, all-inclusive. The reader rushes on—quickened, a participant— into the “silly”games, into history, into illuminations.

[...]

"The reader sees and feels everything through the adult’s accumulated knowledge, through a familiar Zeitgeist—of post-Holocaust reflections, American presidential bungling, academic dialogue, the poet wandering through his own chaos of experience. In detailed observations—of global economics, of family events, of artists and musicians, of teaching and of raising a child— every section is enlightened either as if with a child’s imagination or by twists of the adult’s wry humor. Pop culture elaborates both playful and serious qualities: Dylan, Jerry Garcia, John Cage,as well as Nazis and economists, people these poems. Their scope is international, but the flavor is very New York: by honoring the death of Eli Wilentz, Miller highlights the downtown culture of the (bygone) Village and its Eighth Street Bookstore.

[...]

"Some of the pieces are comparable to Roethke’s tilting nursery-rhyme-based verses, oddly mesmerizing. They seem “free,”delight-full, and sometimes scary (like the child’s world, like this man’s world). They seem to come from the preserved child inside the man, which surely Noah, or the father’s consciousness of Noah, has helped to call forth and serve. But this is not to say that the poems merely spill out: although on the surface they seem un-self-consciously wrought they are arranged with wit and purposefulness. Miller retrieves history from unspeakable despair, as he perceives it, in disorder. Without rhetoric, he honors survival and illuminates his sense of humanity. Humor is humane."

*****

Madeline's review is very interesting reading; when it's fully available online, we will alert the readers of this blog.


Thursday, May 13, 2004

Congratulations to Basil King

for receiving an enthusiastic review of MIRAGE in the May/June American Book Review (May/June 2004). Here's an excerpt from M. L. Weber's review:

"As a long poem, Basil King’s Mirage never flags -- he creates an extremely diversified structure that draws from imagination, history, and his fascinating life. . . .[He] recounts amazing stories contained in prose passages that break into the poetry like bedrock beneath a mountain stream. The title, Mirage, perhaps refers to the elusiveness of truth as time overwhelms our personal and public histories. Any reader with an interest in recent American literature and painting will be especially enamored with this work."

Also of note as regards Basil King's work: Issue #2 of Square One" -- published by the Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder -- has a substantial excerpt of Basil King's work-in-progress, "Learning to Draw", with reproductions of five of his ink drawings.

It's a fine issue overall, with a center section of Stan Brackhage's last drawings. Square One is edited by Jennifer Dunbar (Dorn) and includes translations (this issue has Duhamel, Appollinaire), fiction, essays, poetry. Copies available for $10 to Campus Box 226, University of Colorado, Boulder Co 80309.


Saturday, May 08, 2004

SHARON DOLIN'S SERIOUS PINK IS REVIEWED IN RAIN TAXI

From the Spring 2004 issue of RAIN TAXI, here's an excerpt of Nathan Greenwood Thompson's review of Sharon Dolin's Serious Pink:

"These poems are not ... simply philosophical mediations. People and their stories populate th poems, if only in patches. The narrators of these poems struggle with identity, to describe a self that is always in relationship to others. In addition, there is a relationship that flickers on and off throughout the book, its very presence suggesting that much is necessarily absent from thenarrative. As Dolin writes in 'Mistake': "The point of interest in any story / is where it goes off the tracks.' Serious Pink rarely goes off the track, hwoever. In her devotion to making us see through pictures, Sharon Dolin takes the abstract appearance of life and draws in its intimacy."


Tuesday, May 04, 2004

EILEEN TABIOS CELEBRATES MOTHER'S DAY WITH TWO READINGS

Eileen Tabios also writes fiction and in the first referenced reading below, she launches her first short story collection. From that launch, she then goes to Berkeley to read poems at the launch of Maganda's latest issue:


The Filipino American Center of the San Francisco Public Library presents:

Transcending Nostalgia: Filipino Writings in Diaspora

Please join us for the Bay Area launch of three Filipino-authored books:

BEHIND THE BLUE CANVAS, Stories by Eileen Tabios
NOT HOME BUT HERE, Edited by Luisa Igloria
OUR OWN VOICE, Edited by Reme Grefalda

Featuring Reme Grefalda, Luisa Igloria, Barbara Jane Reyes, Leny Mendoza Strobel, Eileen Tabios, and Jean Vengua

Sunday May 9, 2004 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

As this event takes place on Mother's Day and all panelists are daughters and/or mothers, please consider including this event in your celebration of mothers. Note that the time (1-4 p.m.) means you can fit this in after brunch or before dinner!~

Latino/Hispanic Community Room Main Library Lower Level

100 Larkin Street (at Grove) 415.557.4277
http://www.sfpl.org

Copies of these authors' publications will be available for sale and signing.

All programs at the Library are free.


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THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO THE LAUNCH OF U.C. BERKELEY'S MAGANDA (BEAUTY) LITERARY JOURNAL!

MAGANDA
THE reception!!
La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley CA 94705
Sunday, May 9th, Mother's Day, 2004
5-7pm, doors open @ 4:30pm
donations @ door always welcome
magazine sales:::::::$5 w/student ID;
$7-$10 sliding scale for non-student
artists of Issue 17 as always, receive one copy of m #17
beverages (all non-alcoholic) will be sold by the café @ La Peña

Monday, May 03, 2004

THOMAS FINK TURNS HIS CRITIC'S EYES ON JANE AUGUSTINE

On Jane Augustine's ARBOR VITAE (Marsh Hawk Press, 2002)

by Thomas Fink

The accentual music and honed clarity of Jane Augustine's poems in ARBOR VITAE remind us that, in the contest between nature and mutability, the "I," though present, need not intrude. I thank her for helping us see anew what's right here, right there: "wine-brown trillium,/ triple sepalled, sprung/ from its three-leaf stalk// sends a long filament/ curving into the depth/ of a glass vase" (13).

"After Ponge" first informs us, "The abyss between word and thing is total. Human desire makes it bridgeable. But it must be the right bridge, delicate and strong, a pont neuf," and later: "The abyss between word and thing isn't total, or there would be no need to search for le mot juste, would there? Is this right word closer to 'the thing'? But what 'thing'? A word is also a thing" (71).

Awareness of the impossibility of perfect representation makes every apt, new bridge a reckoning of desire; calibration and celebration of the pleasures of approximation--the practical justice, rather than elusive perfection, of the word-- can render the abyssal negation less of a nagging presence, even if the so-called "right word" is, theoretically, no closer to the thing than a seemingly inferior bridge. And the word may assume its position as "thing" on a page holding "a machine made of" such things (W.C. Williams) while it functions as a pointer to a desired bridge.


Saturday, May 01, 2004

MAY AND JUNE READINGS

New York

Thursday, May 6th at 7:30 PM

Ceres Gallery
547 West 27th Street
NYC
212 947-6100

Susan Terris, Corinne Robins and Daniel Morris will read in this book party and benefit for Planned Parenthood of NY. Suggested donation $8

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Friday May 7th at 7:30 PM

A Reading for: RUNES, A REVIEW OF POETRY
The Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor (between 6th Avenue & Broadway)
New York, New York 10001
Phone (212) 481-0295

Runes is an annual anthology edited by CB Follett and Susan Terris.

The new issue's theme is "Memory," and it contains 100 poems by poets known and unknown. RUNES contributors reading at The Center for Book Arts will include the following poets:

Bill Bly, Sharon Dolin, Corie Feiner, Tsitsi Jaji, John O’Connor, Alan Semerdjian, Matthrew J. Spireng, Karen Swenson, Elizabeth Swados, Susan Terris, Joel Whitney, and Wendy Wisner.

Sharon Dolin & Susan Terris will host.

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San Francisco Bay Area

Wednesday, May 19th: at 7:00 PM:

San Francisco Center for the Book
300 DeHaro St. at 16th
San Francisco
Susan Terris reads with Duff Axsom, CB Follett, Ilya Kaminsky, Kit Kennedy, & Polina Barskova


Sunday, June 5th:

TEBOT BACH California Anthology
Cody’s
Telegraph Avenue
Berkeley
Sunday, June 5th


Tuesday, June 15th

Susan Terris reads with CB Follett & A.F. Thomas

Marin Poetry Center
Bel-Tib Library
Belvedere,


Friday, June 18th

Tea Party Reading
Tea Party Magazine
Oakland, CA


Wednesday June 30th:

Susan Terris reads with Jennifer Bosveld & others

Pudding House Greatest Hits Series

Book Passage
Corte Madera


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