Liz Swados and Robert Hershon on the Radio
The program will be live on WBAI 99.5 FM on 6/22/09, streaming live at www.wbai.org, archived for 90 days at www.wbai.org and archived forever at www.catradiocafe.com.
News from Arnold Mesches
Arnold Mesches, FBI Files, has been awarded an HONORARY DOCTORATE by the University of Florida.
Jack Anderson Readings
Jack Anderson, Getting Lost in a City Like This, will be reading in
a poetry/music cabaret, Friday June 12, 7-9 p.m.,The Living Room Gallery, St. Peter's Lutheran Church, 54th Street and Lexington Avenue
On Monday, July 13, at 7 p.m., Jack Anderson, Joan Cergo, Ellen Schaffer, John P. Loonam, and Clive Young will read as part of the Summer Gazebo Readings on Schoolhouse Green, Foxhurst Road, Oceanside, L.I.
Free Workshops for Seniors with Hettie Jones and Joanna Fuhrman
Two of our fabulous poets Hettie Jones and Joanna Fuhrman are teaching these free poetry workshops for the over 60. See below.
Poets House Presents Poetry Writing Workshops for Seniors
Poets House invites adults age 60 and over to participate in free writing workshops with experienced poet-teachers in May, June and July. These workshops will be held at four different locations around New York City and each culminates with a group reading and the publication of an anthology of poetry by workshop participants.
Admission is free but pre-registration is required. To register, call the phone numbers listed below. Space is limited, so call today!
Poetry Writing Workshop for Seniors with Hettie Jones
Classes: May 6, 13, 20 & 27 at 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Group reading and publication party: June 17 at 1:30 - 3:00pm
To register, call Caroline Grable at (212) 267-0499.
@ Caring Community at Independence Plaza
310 Greenwich Street
New York, NY
Poetry Writing Workshop for Seniors with Steven Sher
Classes: June 11, 18, 25 & July 2 at 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Group reading and publication party: July 23, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
To register, call Julia Schwartz-Leeper at (718) 884-5900.
@ Riverdale Senior Services, Inc.
2600 Netherland Avenue
Bronx, NY
Poetry Writing Workshop for Seniors with Hettie Jones
Classes: May 7, 14, 21 & 28 at 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Group reading and publication party: June 18 at 2:00pm - 3:30pm
To register, call Leidy at (212) 927-5600, ext. 19.
@ Riverstone Senior Life Services
99 Fort Washington Avenue
New York, NY
Poetry Writing Workshop for Seniors with Steven Sher
Classes: June 11, 18, 25 & July 2 at 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Group reading and publication party: July 23, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
To register, call Julia Schwartz-Leeper at (718) 884-5900.
@ Riverdale Senior Services, Inc.
2600 Netherland Avenue
Bronx, NY
Poetry Writing Workshop for Seniors with Joanna Fuhrman
Classes: June 2, 9, 16 & 23 at 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Group reading and publication party: Date to Be Announced
To register, call Mira Myteberi at (212) 569-6200, ext. 231.
@ YM-YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood
54 Nagle Avenue
New York, NY
These workshops are made possible by Poets House—a place for poetry—through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Also of Interest:
Cabinet Magazine Presents
Poetry Lab: “Walt Whitman: A Democratic Experiment”
Thursday, April 30, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
This is the first in a series of poetry events at Cabinet dedicated to reviving dead poets by unorthodox means. The inaugural event will feature readings of Leaves of Grass by Wayne Koestenbaum, Susan Wheeler, and C. K. Williams, alongside a series of smaller-scale improvisatory encounters with Whitman's poems: antiphonal recitation, spontaneous translation, freehand sketching, flag-waving, and so on.
@ Cabinet
300 Nevins Street
Brooklyn, NY
For more information, call (718) 222-8434 or visit www.cabinetmagazine.org.
Buy Julia Cohen's New Chapbook
Former HL intern and author, Julia Cohen has a new chapbook out, The History of a Lake Never Drowns.
Available for the affordable price of $7.00.
http://www.dancinggirlpress.com/history.html
Congratulations to Jen Hadfield
Scottish poet Jen Hadfield, who was published in Hanging Loose 79 & 82 and in the anthology Word Jig: New Fiction from Scotland, has won the most prestigious British poetry prize, the T. S. Eliot Award. Congratulations Jen.
From the Independent
Rising Star: Jen Hadfield, poet
By Katy Guest
Friday, 16 January 2009
As the youngest winner of the T S Eliot Prize, at 30, Jen Hadfield is also a relative newcomer. The £15,000 cheque that she collected on Monday has previously been awarded to Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy and Ted Hughes – though never to Andrew Motion, the chair of this year's judges.
Announcing her win, Motion described Hadfield's poetry collection, 'Nigh-No-Place', as "a revelation; jaunty, energetic, iconoclastic – even devil-may-care". Born in Cheshire, with an English father and a Canadian mother, Hadfield studied English at Edinburgh University, where she worked with the novelist and poet Robert Allan Jamieson.
In 2002 she received a Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary, and in 2003 she won an Eric Gregory Award which she used to fund a year in Canada. Four years ago she moved to Shetland, a place and dialect which informs much of her poetry. A stint in a fish-packing factory to makes ends meet resulted in a poem about haddock and their "gut worms".
Sherman Alexie Is Small Press Month Posterboy
We're very proud to announce Sherman Alexie is the posterboy for Small Press Month. As some of you may already know, Hanging Loose was the first to publish Alexie in our magazine and published his first book, The Business of Fancydancing. Since then he has gone on to publish many books, has made two movies and won numerous awards for his work, including the National Book Award which he won last year. He has remained loyal to Hanging Loose Press and continued to publish all his books of poetry with us, including Face which will be out in April of this year (2009). His other books The Business of Fancydancing, First Indian on the Moon, Summer of Black Widows, One Stick Song and The Business of Fancydancing: The Screenplay are all available from Hanging Loose Press. His website is www.shermanalexie.com.
Michael Cirelli Is One of the Debut Poets in Poets & Writers This Month
Please check out POETS & WRITERS this month. Michael Cirelli (LOBSTER WITH OL' DIRTY BASTARD is one of the twelve debut poets.
Dick Lourie and Mark Pawlak Contribute to Jacket Magazine
Hanging Loose editors Dick Lourie and Mark Pawlak are contributors to the Denise Levertov festschrift that appears in the current issue of the Australian literary magazine "Jacket."
HL Authors Receive NEA
We're proud to announce Hayan Charara (ALCHEMIST'S DIARY) and Doug Goetsch (NOBODY'S HELL) are both recipients of an NEA this year.
Review of Hanging Loose 92 in HOME PLANET NEWS
"Hanging Loose has been around since 1966, a long time for a small press, and it's still feisty. This 92nd issue contains 8 pages of full color art by Brenda Goodman, and its poetry covers the gamut from free verse to hip hop to haiku. Marya Rosenberg, a 2nd Liutenant in the U.S. Army, has a knockout haiku/senryu sequence. Here's one: "In his pocket/ when I press against him--the hard/ iron key to the church." Michael Cirelli deploys a souped up language out on the verbal dance floor, catching the beat on the fly, for those who like to get high and jam to a blast of mouth music. There's no dictionary yet for some of these dictions. For those interested in the Sixties--it's been 40 years since '68 folks--there's an eyewitness account, "Columbia Revolt," by Hilton Obenzinger, a participant who puts together a time capsule in prose. The Writers of High School Age section is always a feature of special interest. Look at the poems by these young women: Mariah Coley, Thea Goodrich, Emily Nagin, Bridget Hansen, Elizabeth Rosen, Hannah Zeavin. If there were a Jack Alchemy Prize for verbal skills it would go to all of the above. Educators take note. Hanging Loose Press has published three collections of High School poets. For content, format, and production values, Hanging Loose earns a shower of Brooklyn stars."
Announcing Spring 2009 Titles!
POETRY
Face, Sherman Alexie. Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-931236-71-3, $28. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-931236-70-6, $18. April 15, 2009. First poetry collection in nine years by the recent National Book Award winner.
The One and Only Human Galaxy, Elizabeth Swados. Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-934909-08-9, $28. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-934909-07-2, $18. April 15, 2009. The first book of poetry by the celebrated composer, novelist and children’s book author.
On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems, Jayne Cortez. Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-931236-99-7, $28. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-931236-90-4, $18. April 29, 2009. Hard-hitting new work and previously hard-to-find early poems.
Getting Lost in a City Like This, Jack Anderson. Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-931236-98-0, $28. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-931236-97-3, $18. April 29, 2008. First new book in ten years by the well-known New York poet and dance critic.
If the Delta Was the Sea, Dick Lourie. Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-934909-02-7, $28. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-934909-01-0, $18. May 5, 2009. Poems of the Mississippi Delta by the author of Ghost Radio who is also a busy musician.
Complete Lineups, Charles North. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-934909-03-4, $18. May 5, 2009. The legendary baseball lineup poems together for the first time, with art by Paula North.
Circa, Hannah Zeavin. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-934909-09-6, $16. May 12, 2009. A high-energy debut by an 18-year-old Brooklyn poet. Co-published with Scholastic.
Face, Sherman Alexie. Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-931236-71-3, $28. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-931236-70-6, $18. April 15, 2009. First poetry collection in nine years by the recent National Book Award winner.
The One and Only Human Galaxy, Elizabeth Swados. Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-934909-08-9, $28. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-934909-07-2, $18. April 15, 2009. The first book of poetry by the celebrated composer, novelist and children’s book author.
On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems, Jayne Cortez. Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-931236-99-7, $28. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-931236-90-4, $18. April 29, 2009. Hard-hitting new work and previously hard-to-find early poems.
Getting Lost in a City Like This, Jack Anderson. Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-931236-98-0, $28. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-931236-97-3, $18. April 29, 2008. First new book in ten years by the well-known New York poet and dance critic.
If the Delta Was the Sea, Dick Lourie. Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-934909-02-7, $28. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-934909-01-0, $18. May 5, 2009. Poems of the Mississippi Delta by the author of Ghost Radio who is also a busy musician.
Complete Lineups, Charles North. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-934909-03-4, $18. May 5, 2009. The legendary baseball lineup poems together for the first time, with art by Paula North.
Circa, Hannah Zeavin. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-934909-09-6, $16. May 12, 2009. A high-energy debut by an 18-year-old Brooklyn poet. Co-published with Scholastic.
Hanging Loose 92 Review in NewPages!
Here is a look at NewPage's review of Hanging Loose 92:
On Sherman Alexie's two opening poems
"Quoting a section [from Alexie] won't give him justice. Read these poems, cry (from sadness and laughter), and know that Alexie still recognizes, despite his fame, that good poetry demands attention and vulnerability to the world."
On the featured prose
"I thought Helen Elaine Lee's prose poem, 'Life Without,' extremely compelling, for she makes the reader pity prisoners without relying on false sentimentality."
On the magazine's featured high-school-age writers
"This section, along with the entire magazine, demonstrate's Hanging Loose's sincere interest in new and emerging writers."
To see the review in its entirety, please visit http://www.newpages.com/magazinestand/litmags/default.htm
On Sherman Alexie's two opening poems
"Quoting a section [from Alexie] won't give him justice. Read these poems, cry (from sadness and laughter), and know that Alexie still recognizes, despite his fame, that good poetry demands attention and vulnerability to the world."
On the featured prose
"I thought Helen Elaine Lee's prose poem, 'Life Without,' extremely compelling, for she makes the reader pity prisoners without relying on false sentimentality."
On the magazine's featured high-school-age writers
"This section, along with the entire magazine, demonstrate's Hanging Loose's sincere interest in new and emerging writers."
To see the review in its entirety, please visit http://www.newpages.com/magazinestand/litmags/default.htm
Recent Publicity for New Titles
WINTER JOURNEY by Tony Towle
"His style bears the hallmark of total engagement. The exciting pacing builds on unexpected projections that are sly, wry and winsome. And comely."—Brooklyn Rail
For full review:
http://brooklynrail.org/2008/02/books/poetry-roundup-2
Tony Towle in poetrydaily.com
http://poetrydaily.org/poem.php?date=13929
In Bloomsbury Review written by Regan Upshaw:
"...striking...poignant...His [Towle's] feelings are amplified in this book by the underlying awareness that his own journey is now entering winter. Through it all, Towle maintains a jaunty bleakness, as befits the recipient of 'an enriching barrage of astonishing perceptions/with which to illuminate the abyss'."
THE SPLINTERED FACE: TSUNAMI POEMS by Indran Amirtanayagam
"...Amirthanayagam's poems achieve a devastating intimacy that necessarily dissolves the separation between countries and peoples."
For full review go to: http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2008_02_012487.php
"In more ways than one...'The Splintered Face' is revelatory."—Island Newspaper, Sri Lanka
"The sheer enormity of the destruction and misery wrought by an event such as the 2004 tsunami has the potential to overwhelm art created about it. A writer could flounder in emotionalism and generalizations, ironically blunting the emotional impact of the work. But Amirthanayagam avoids these pitfalls, largely by adopting a reportorial approach, and his poems are all the more poignant for their specificity."
For full review go to: http://www.iexaminer.org/archives/?p=962
TRAPEZE DIARIES by Marie Carter
“Marie Carter…has real talent…I think we all need to keep our eyes on this imaginative, bold woman’s writing. I predict she may well have a bright literary future.”
www.curledup.com
For the full review go to:
http://curledup.com/trapezed.htm
“A young woman, quiet and overly cautious, with a literary bent, who finds herself newly transplanted from Scotland to the Naked City of New York, comes to terms with herself and the recent death of her father….Her fears and doubts have been and are very much my own, and may I dare say, perhaps yours?…A wonderful read. Highly recommended.”
—Doug Holder
For full review go to:
http://dougholder.blogspot.com/search/label/Holder%20on%20Trapeze
"The Trapeze Diaries...is filled with honesty on every page...."
SPECTACLE, Winter 2008
Selected for the Foreword Magazine Book Club in April. Go to forewordmagazine.com to make a comment.
THE VIRGIN FORMICA by Sharon Memser
"During a recent visit to New York City a kind friend asked me if I had read any exciting works of poetry lately. Oh yes, I enthused, naming quite a few written by the West Coast-based poets I know best. She was astounded to hear that Sharon Mesmer's THE VIRGIN FORMICA had not made its way into my hands yet, and she rose from the Bowery bench on which we were eating lunch, to find a bookstore and to buy me a copy of the Mesmer book.
Together we found the book and on my way home I had myself a quick lesson in "Mesmerism." Part of her appeal is her wry, suggestive tone, an extraordinarily intimate instrument she handles with the precision of a surgeon.
A surrealist or at any rate fantastic element imbues the whole...her enthusiasm and her skeptic eye just sweep you off your feet. Anyway all in all, it was a highly profitable trip to New York."
Kevin Killian, excerpted review on amazon.com
Andrei Codrescu in EXQUISITE CORPSE
Sharon Mesmer, The Virgin Formica, New York: Hanging Loose Press. Allen Ginsberg called Mesmer "vivaciously modern," which we misread as "viciously modern." She is, totally. For instance: "Okay, I was loose/foundering even,/a drifting archipelago of estrogen and cigarettes/in the glow of the southern eroticc gardens." If we had only known her then!
P.J. Gallo on coldfrontmag.com
"...Mesmer's voice plainly offers a raw and often refreshing sense of uncompromised subversion along with moments of sweet nostalgia."
Full review: http://reviews.coldfrontmag.com/the-virgin-formica.html
"Prolific, Veteran, and multi-lingual poet Sharon Mesmer returns with another fine anthology of poetry with "The Virgin Formica," a collection of surreal and vividly composed poetry. Both personal and witty, her poetry is gripping and will keep you asking for more."--The Midwest Book Review
THE EVOLUTION OF A SIGH by R. Zamora Linmark
See http://www.bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/ for an interview with R. Zamora Linmark
LOBSTER WITH OL' DIRTY BASTARD by Michael Cirelli
"The poems in Lobster with Ol' Dirty Bastard stand powerfully on their own as precise and complete pieces of writing. As a collection, they weave a complex and fascinating story that is equal parts witty and poignant, and at every moment compelling."—Erica Miriam Fabri in Coldfrontmag
For full review go to: http://reviews.coldfrontmag.com/emlobster-with-ol-dirty-b.html
"Cirelli is on a gangsta lean in a baby Benz blasting old school, riding the seemingly safe daytime streets of craft-poetry, then turning down those dark alleys where the tension and bravado are thick like '...machetes in the air waves.' Cirelli definitely makes it with the Hip-hop heads with his rap culture overtones.... Lobster is an all-night convenience store of lyrical goodies with no fluff in sight. Lobster is also a consignment shop of Hip-hop history."—Mike Amado
For full review go to: http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2008/05/lobster-with-ol-dirty-bastard-by_21.html
"...the use of modern street language, often edgy, always colorful, will appeal to the reader that most poetry never reaches...these pieces are built on strong images...the backbones of poetic language."--Kliatt
"His style bears the hallmark of total engagement. The exciting pacing builds on unexpected projections that are sly, wry and winsome. And comely."—Brooklyn Rail
For full review:
http://brooklynrail.org/2008/02/books/poetry-roundup-2
Tony Towle in poetrydaily.com
http://poetrydaily.org/poem.php?date=13929
In Bloomsbury Review written by Regan Upshaw:
"...striking...poignant...His [Towle's] feelings are amplified in this book by the underlying awareness that his own journey is now entering winter. Through it all, Towle maintains a jaunty bleakness, as befits the recipient of 'an enriching barrage of astonishing perceptions/with which to illuminate the abyss'."
THE SPLINTERED FACE: TSUNAMI POEMS by Indran Amirtanayagam
"...Amirthanayagam's poems achieve a devastating intimacy that necessarily dissolves the separation between countries and peoples."
For full review go to: http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2008_02_012487.php
"In more ways than one...'The Splintered Face' is revelatory."—Island Newspaper, Sri Lanka
"The sheer enormity of the destruction and misery wrought by an event such as the 2004 tsunami has the potential to overwhelm art created about it. A writer could flounder in emotionalism and generalizations, ironically blunting the emotional impact of the work. But Amirthanayagam avoids these pitfalls, largely by adopting a reportorial approach, and his poems are all the more poignant for their specificity."
For full review go to: http://www.iexaminer.org/archives/?p=962
TRAPEZE DIARIES by Marie Carter
“Marie Carter…has real talent…I think we all need to keep our eyes on this imaginative, bold woman’s writing. I predict she may well have a bright literary future.”
www.curledup.com
For the full review go to:
http://curledup.com/trapezed.htm
“A young woman, quiet and overly cautious, with a literary bent, who finds herself newly transplanted from Scotland to the Naked City of New York, comes to terms with herself and the recent death of her father….Her fears and doubts have been and are very much my own, and may I dare say, perhaps yours?…A wonderful read. Highly recommended.”
—Doug Holder
For full review go to:
http://dougholder.blogspot.com/search/label/Holder%20on%20Trapeze
"The Trapeze Diaries...is filled with honesty on every page...."
SPECTACLE, Winter 2008
Selected for the Foreword Magazine Book Club in April. Go to forewordmagazine.com to make a comment.
THE VIRGIN FORMICA by Sharon Memser
"During a recent visit to New York City a kind friend asked me if I had read any exciting works of poetry lately. Oh yes, I enthused, naming quite a few written by the West Coast-based poets I know best. She was astounded to hear that Sharon Mesmer's THE VIRGIN FORMICA had not made its way into my hands yet, and she rose from the Bowery bench on which we were eating lunch, to find a bookstore and to buy me a copy of the Mesmer book.
Together we found the book and on my way home I had myself a quick lesson in "Mesmerism." Part of her appeal is her wry, suggestive tone, an extraordinarily intimate instrument she handles with the precision of a surgeon.
A surrealist or at any rate fantastic element imbues the whole...her enthusiasm and her skeptic eye just sweep you off your feet. Anyway all in all, it was a highly profitable trip to New York."
Kevin Killian, excerpted review on amazon.com
Andrei Codrescu in EXQUISITE CORPSE
Sharon Mesmer, The Virgin Formica, New York: Hanging Loose Press. Allen Ginsberg called Mesmer "vivaciously modern," which we misread as "viciously modern." She is, totally. For instance: "Okay, I was loose/foundering even,/a drifting archipelago of estrogen and cigarettes/in the glow of the southern eroticc gardens." If we had only known her then!
P.J. Gallo on coldfrontmag.com
"...Mesmer's voice plainly offers a raw and often refreshing sense of uncompromised subversion along with moments of sweet nostalgia."
Full review: http://reviews.coldfrontmag.com/the-virgin-formica.html
"Prolific, Veteran, and multi-lingual poet Sharon Mesmer returns with another fine anthology of poetry with "The Virgin Formica," a collection of surreal and vividly composed poetry. Both personal and witty, her poetry is gripping and will keep you asking for more."--The Midwest Book Review
THE EVOLUTION OF A SIGH by R. Zamora Linmark
See http://www.bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/ for an interview with R. Zamora Linmark
LOBSTER WITH OL' DIRTY BASTARD by Michael Cirelli
"The poems in Lobster with Ol' Dirty Bastard stand powerfully on their own as precise and complete pieces of writing. As a collection, they weave a complex and fascinating story that is equal parts witty and poignant, and at every moment compelling."—Erica Miriam Fabri in Coldfrontmag
For full review go to: http://reviews.coldfrontmag.com/emlobster-with-ol-dirty-b.html
"Cirelli is on a gangsta lean in a baby Benz blasting old school, riding the seemingly safe daytime streets of craft-poetry, then turning down those dark alleys where the tension and bravado are thick like '...machetes in the air waves.' Cirelli definitely makes it with the Hip-hop heads with his rap culture overtones.... Lobster is an all-night convenience store of lyrical goodies with no fluff in sight. Lobster is also a consignment shop of Hip-hop history."—Mike Amado
For full review go to: http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2008/05/lobster-with-ol-dirty-bastard-by_21.html
"...the use of modern street language, often edgy, always colorful, will appeal to the reader that most poetry never reaches...these pieces are built on strong images...the backbones of poetic language."--Kliatt
Yes! Sharon Nails the Fulbright Vault!
Congratulations to Sharon Mesmer (author of THE VIRGIN FORMICA) who just won a Fulbright and to her husband, David Borchart for publishing yet another hilarious cartoon in THE NEW YORKER!
In the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/books/review/InsideList-t.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bu&oref=slogin
BIG LITTLE BOOKS: America’s best-selling indie poetry book, according to Small Press Distribution, a nonprofit distributor that represents books by some 450 small publishers, is Aram Saroyan’s crafty “Complete Minimal Poems.” The list below, from the S.P.D. Web site (www.spdbooks.org), reflects sales in March and April.
1) “Complete Minimal Poems,” by Aram Saroyan (Ugly Duckling).
2) “Poeta en San Francisco,” by Barbara Jane Reyes (Tinfish).
3) “All That’s Left,” by Jack Hirschman (City Lights).
4) “You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am,” by Tao Lin (Action).
5) “The True Keeps Calm Biding Its Story,” by Rusty Morrison (Ahsahta).
6) “Lobster With Ol’ Dirty Bastard,” by Michael Cirelli (Hanging Loose).
7) “The Evolution of a Sigh,” by R. Zamora Linmark (Hanging Loose).
8) “Lyric Postmodernisms,” edited by Reginald Shepherd (Counterpath).
9) “Incubation: A Space for Monsters,” by Bhanu Kapil (Leon Works).
10) “Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath,” by Benjamin S. Grossman (Ashland Poetry).
BIG LITTLE BOOKS: America’s best-selling indie poetry book, according to Small Press Distribution, a nonprofit distributor that represents books by some 450 small publishers, is Aram Saroyan’s crafty “Complete Minimal Poems.” The list below, from the S.P.D. Web site (www.spdbooks.org), reflects sales in March and April.
1) “Complete Minimal Poems,” by Aram Saroyan (Ugly Duckling).
2) “Poeta en San Francisco,” by Barbara Jane Reyes (Tinfish).
3) “All That’s Left,” by Jack Hirschman (City Lights).
4) “You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am,” by Tao Lin (Action).
5) “The True Keeps Calm Biding Its Story,” by Rusty Morrison (Ahsahta).
6) “Lobster With Ol’ Dirty Bastard,” by Michael Cirelli (Hanging Loose).
7) “The Evolution of a Sigh,” by R. Zamora Linmark (Hanging Loose).
8) “Lyric Postmodernisms,” edited by Reginald Shepherd (Counterpath).
9) “Incubation: A Space for Monsters,” by Bhanu Kapil (Leon Works).
10) “Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath,” by Benjamin S. Grossman (Ashland Poetry).
Mark Pawlak's Tribute to Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
Hanging Loose editor, Mark Pawlak's tribute to HL author Wilma McDaniel can
be read in the latest issue of The Dos Passos Review.
"Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, 1918-2007: An Editors Appreciation" appears in
The Dos Passos Review
Volume 5, Number 1
$8.00 including shipping and handling from
The Dos Passos Review
Longwood University
Dept. of English
201 High Street
Farmville, VA 23909
be read in the latest issue of The Dos Passos Review.
"Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, 1918-2007: An Editors Appreciation" appears in
The Dos Passos Review
Volume 5, Number 1
$8.00 including shipping and handling from
The Dos Passos Review
Longwood University
Dept. of English
201 High Street
Farmville, VA 23909
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Awards Grant to Charles North
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts is pleased to announce its 2008 Grants to Individuals. Twelve unrestricted grants of $25,000 each, a total of $300,000, are to be awarded to artists in the United States and abroad.
Poetry winner: Charles North
Poetry winner: Charles North
Joan Larkin Wins Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
We're delighted to announce that Joan Larkin (author of My Body: New and Selected Poems, published by Hanging Loose Press) won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry at the 2008 Triangle Awards on April 28.
Congratulations, Joan!
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