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Monday, May 28, 2007

NEW BASIL KING PUBLICATION!

Basil King is one of the authors featured in Peter Ganick's Small Chapbook Project. Here's Peter's announcement of the just-released titles:

david giannini, others' lines
karen randall, extruded gilgamest & inanna
basil king, learning to draw/ a history: solo

Chapbooks will be sent in one package. For information, please contact

peter ganick
small chapbook project
45 ravenwood road
west hartford CT 06107-1539
U S A
pganick@comcast.net

Saturday, May 26, 2007

CLAUDIA CARLSON IS ON LIVE AND ONLINE!

Claudia Carlson is online and reading at the following:

Big City Lit at http://www.bigcitylit.com/bigcitylit.php?inc=spring07/poetry/carlson

Claudia will be doing a reading with other poets in the Big City Lit issue:

Thursday, June 28th, 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Big City Lit Poets
The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street (b/t Bleecker &West 4th)
Cover $6 (includes one house drink)
Contributors read from the Spring 2007 Poetry Feature

Claudia's other poems are also online at

Verse Daily at http://www.versedaily.org/2007/mudroad.shtml

and

Tupelo Press at https://www.tupelopress.org/project1.shtml (click to 2nd page of poetry project)

Monday, May 21, 2007

MARSH HAWK PRESS POETS ON GALATEA RESURRECTS!

Galatea Resurrects (A Poetry Engagement), edited by Eileen Tabios, has just released its sixth issue with 56 new reviews! Among those reviewed are:

Thomas Fink reviews THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER by Sandy McIntosh. Click HERE for review.


Laurel Johnson reviews WHITHER NONSTOPPING by Harriet Zinnes. Click HERE for review.


William A. Sylvester reviews SOMEHOW by Burt Kimmelman. Click HERE for review.


Celia Homesley reviews ORIGINAL GREEN by Patricia Carlin. Click HERE for review.

Marsh Hawk Press authors -- Eileen Tabios, Sandy McIntosh and Thomas Fink -- also show their reviewing chops by reviewing others' works.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

EILEEN TABIOS ON THE GROUND-BREAKING THE CONTINENTAL REVIEW

Eileen Tabios is featured in the inaugural issue of THE CONTINENTAL REVIEW; here are details from the editor/publisher Nicholas Manning:

Dear Poets, Friends, Colleagues,

I am writing to tell you about the launch of the first exclusively video-only forum for contemporary poetry and poetics on the web, The Continental Review. The site, which has just gone live over at www.thecontinentalreview.com, is a continuously updated collection of video readings, video reviews and video interviews of and about contemporary poetry and poetics. For the launch, we are lucky enough to be
featuring videos by such extraordinary poets as:

Linh Dinh
Noah Eli Gordon
Eileen Tabios
Tom Beckett
Chris Vitiello
Jonathan Leon
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Allyssa Wolf

It is our hope that The Continental Review, with its videos available simultaneously on the website and via YouTube, signals a new approach in the communication and reception of contemporary poetry and poetics by means of new media.

I hope you’ll find the site interesting, and I look forward to your feedback, as well as your participation.

Sincerely,

Nicholas Manning
nicholas.manning@ens.fr
Editor, The Continental Review
27 rue Morand 75011 Paris France

Sunday, May 06, 2007

BASIL KING'S 77 BEASTS RECEIVE ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION!

We've been hearing some enthusiastic ressponses to Basil King's 77 BEASTS, which we are happy to share:

Your
art
works

Your summa
is rara avis

Dare I say
profound
& playful
& deeply serious"
-- David Meltzer

+++++

yr 77 Beasts make
Noah's Ark
jealous!
--Bob Holman

+++++

Many thanks for your seventy-seven beasts
O what a multitude of feasts
When I read the words you give Kurt Schwitters
I enjoy them more than I do Tex Ritters
Thank god those artistes air nae quitters
They are sweet milk-giving breests *
--Jack Foley

(* slight alternation in sound for rhyme)

+++++

"...a remarkable book. So full of vivid thought-provoking insights. It's so light, and so heavy. I'm really stunned. "
-- Raymond Foye

+++++

"just to thank (and think) you for the delicious BEASTS. Hope you're working on the sequel."
-- Larry Fagin

+++++

"Massive and wonderful...protean and ethereal all at the same time. Our chestnuts are aflame."
-- Ed Mycue and Richard Stegner

+++++

"Joy to have received your wild BEASTS. Your finest work yet. Fierce, tender & fedund."
--Michael Hrebeniak

+++++

"Thanks.... Your beastiary. Your painters. Your self. The animals we are."
-- Barbara Henning

Friday, May 04, 2007

SMALL PRESS REVIEW ON MARY MACKEY'S BOOK

The March-April issue of the Small Press Review contains a very positive review of Mary Mackey's Breaking the Fever" (though there's a typo that calls the title Breaking the Fire). Some highlights of the review include:

"Mary Mackey's stunning collection opens with the fierce, hallucinatory music of her 'fever children'"

and

"Poem after poem extends and develops the themes of surreal delerium and psychic transcendence, Mackey's hallucinatory troping continually deconstructing rational consciousness."

with the article ending to note: "not only passionately transcendent but dangerously corrosive."

Congratulations, Mary!

Thursday, May 03, 2007

CELEBRATING DIVERSITY!

Marsh Hawk Press is pleased to announce the donation of copies of Eileen Tabios' two Marsh Hawk Press books

I Take Thee, English, For My Beloved
and
Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole

to the Filipino American Students at Sonoma State University (FAASSU). Eileen's books will help celebrate its graduating seniors. FAASSU is a small but powerful group at Sonoma State University. In fact, it is now the only multi-ethnic, multi-racial group among the "cultural groups" on campus. Some of the members are Asian Americans, Hispanic, and European-American. It is also the only group on campus that has a student-initiated course (AMCS 399- Filipino American Experience) in SSU's Ethnic Studies Department.

CONGRATULATIONS TO SHARON OLINKA

whose Marsh Hawk Press book The Good City has received a rave review in the current issue of The Cafe Review.

The Cafe Review is both a print and onoine journal. Its website is www.thecafereview.com. To access Sharon's review, click on "Current Issue," then "Reviews". The front cover of her book is
also displayed. Here's an excerpt from the review:

"Sharon Olinka has reminded us here to listen to all ghosts who dwell in our world. They are all trying to teach us who we are. Like Izmir, we are each built upon a cache of bone and soul. The voices live as long as we listen. Use these poems well and learn the value of memory."
- Michael Macklin

THREE MAY EVENTS INVOLVING MARSH HAWK AUTHORS

ED FOSTER
will be part of

A Panel of Experts: "Turkish Literature & Culture in Translation, Remembering Rumi”

Tuesday, May 8, 2007
7:00 pm
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery Avenue
(Between Bleecker and Houston)
New York, NY 10012

Bringing together leading experts on Turkish literature, which reflects a rich tradition of 1,500 years ranging from oral epics in Central Asia, such as the Dede Korkut of the Oghuz Turks, and the Manas epic of the Kyrgyz people, to the Divan and Folk literatures of the Ottoman Empire, the panel will focus on a series of topics that have dominated the academic discourse in Turkish literature. These topics are namely the 13th-century Sufi literature and mystical poems of Mevlana Jelalludin Rumi in recognition of the 2007 International Year of Rumi as designated by UNESCO; the themes of East and West in Turkish literature ranging from the Orhon inscriptions to Orhan Pamuk, the winner of the Nobel Literature Prize for 2006; the repercussions of political and social aspects of modernism in Ottoman and Republican Turkish literature; reflections of literature and society; comparative aspects of Turkish and Arabic literature; and contemporary Turkish literature.

Other panelists will be Prof. David C. Cuthell, Prof. Sibel Erol (Moderator), Prof. Edward Foster, Frances Kazan and Murat Nemet-Nejat.

*****

EILEEN TABIOS will be part of the

INAUGURAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BOOK FESTIVAL
Free to the public
Saturday, May 12, 2007
11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Japanese American National Museum
369 East First St
Los Angeles, CA 90012
http://www.apalc.org/ bookfestival.htm

*****

SUSAN TERRIS

will be reading at the Bowery Poetry Club on Thursday, May 17th at 6:30. She will read with Dmitris Lyacos (from Greece) and Gary Lawless (fron Maine). The evening will be hosted by George Wallace.

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

THREE MARSH HAWK PRESS POETS IN NEW ANTHOLOGY!

Thomas Fink, Stephen Paul Miller and Eileen Tabios are part of a new anthology; here's the publisher's official announcement!

FROM OTOLITHS BOOKS (Rockhampton, Australia):

E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S
The First XI Interviews

Tom Beckett (Curator)
ISBN: 978-0-9775604-9-3
Otoliths, 2007
$16.95 + p&h
URL: http://www.lulu.com/content/778361

In response to popular demand, Otoliths is releasing one of the books from its next round of offerings early, E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The First XI Interviews.

Tom Beckett's E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S website has become, since its inception in 2005, an important source of information on contemporary poetry and poetics. This book brings together the first eleven interviews from the on-going series, augmented by bionotes and almost one hundred pages of self-selected examples of the interviewees' work.

The interviewees (some of whom later reappear as interviewers) are Crag Hill, Thomas Fink, Nick Piombino, Sheila E. Murphy, Eileen Tabios, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, K. Silem Mohammad, Geof Huth, Barbara Jane Reyes, Paolo Javier, Stephen Paul Miller and Jean Vengua.The other interviewers are Tom Beckett, Ron Silliman and Mark Young.

Mark Young
Otoliths Books

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