Post by moira on Nov 18, 2008 22:54:32 GMT 2
Week of November 17, 2008
News of Deema K. Shehabi, Susan Rich, Diane Kendig, Charlotte Mandel, Claire Keyes,
Penny Harter, Karren L. Alenier, Lesley Wheeler, Julene Tripp Weaver, Rosemary Winslow,
Barbara Crooker, Ann E. Michael, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafavi,
Barbara A. Taylor, Evelyn Posamentier, Julie R. Enszer, Judy Kronenfeld, Penelope Scambly Schott,
Elizabeth Bodien, Cass Dalglish, DIane Lockward
PUBLICATIONS:
Deema K. Shehabi has a "Ghazal" in the newly released anthology Come Together, Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press, edited by Ann Smith, Larry Smith, and Philip Metres) and another poem "Requiem for Arrival" in the just released anthology Birthed from Scorched Hearts: Women Respond to War (Fulcrum Publishing, edited by Marji Moore). Also, she has written the foreword for a new book of poems entitled Andalusian Songs for the Wounds of Iraq by Iraqi poet Bushra al-Bustani, translated by Wafaa Abdulaali and Sana Dhahir (Mellen Press).
Susan Rich has a poem, "Her Favorite Somali Fable Told to Her by Her Grandmother," in the anthology Come Together: Imagine Peace by Bottom Dog Press.
Her "Doing Time" appears in the inaugural issue of Redheaded Stepchild which only accepts work that has been rejected by other journals.
www.redheadedmag.com/poetry/
(srich18@earthlink.net)
Diane Kendig’s poem, “Spring 1971 in Washington,” appears in the anthology, Come Together: Imagine Peace, poems ed. Smith, Smith & Metres (Huron, OH: Bottom Dog, 2008)
diane@dianekendig.com
Charlotte Mandel's poem, "Protesting the War About to Begin: March 19, 2003," appears in the anthology Birthed from Scorched Hearts: Women Respond to War, edited by Marijo Moore, published by Fulcrum Publishing. The multinational anthology includes poems and prose works in various forms.
Claire Keyes's "A Hymn for the River" appears in an anthology called Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair: Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar.
(cjkeyes@verizon.net )
Penny Harter's poem "Turtle Blessing" appears in the anthology Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press). Also, her poem, "Driving West Texas," appears in the anthology BIG Land, BIG Sky, BIG Hair: Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press).
Karren L. Alenier’s poem “Dialectic of the Census Takers” was published in Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics, edited by Sarah Glaz & JoAnne Growney (MA: AK Peters, Ltd., 2008).
Lesley Wheeler's poem "Prior to Sentencing" appears in the new issue of West Branch.
(wheelerlm@wlu.edu)
Julene Tripp Weaver's poem, "Swing Street Secrets, 1968," has been published in the current issue of Pilgrimage, themed The Sixties.
(newroots@drizzle.com)
Rosemary Winslow has five poems--"Haifa Street, Baghdad"; "Hydrangeas"; "The Visit"; "Just In"; and "She Was Embroidered and Spring Kept Knocking"--in the Washington, D.C. issue of Locus Point:
www.locuspoint.org/volume2/dc/index.html
Barbara Crooker's poems, "Poetry Is For Everybody" and "Jazz" appear in the inaugural issue of Gander Press Review, both print and online: www.ganderpress.com/review/
Her poem, "Patty's Charcoal Drive-In," appears in In the Heyday of His Eyes,
an online teaching guide of writing prompts for high school students:
www.heydays.ws/?where=authors&author=Barbara%20Crooker
(bcrooker@ix.netcom.com)
Ann E. Michael's poem "End Times" (with accompanying audiofile) is online at Qarrtsiluni.com's issue "Journaling the Apocalypse": qarrtsiluni.com/2008/11/14/end-times
The inaugural issue of Redheaded Stepchild, contains two poems by Wendy Taylor Carlisle, "Notes on Forgetting," and "Baby. Cake."
www.redheadedmag.com/poetry/
wcarlisle@vidnet.net
"An Iranian mother writes to An American mother" by Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafavi appears in www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=printpage&pid=2678
(farideh@iransystem.com )
Barbara A. Taylor has a haibun,"New Horizons," published in Frogpond, the official print journal of the Haiku Society of America, Fall 2008 www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond.htm and a triparshva, "Tarried Road Workers", with Moira Richards, South Africa, and Claire Chatelet, UK, in Simply Haiku, Winter 2008 www.simplyhaiku.com/SHv6n4/renku/triparshva_tarried.htm (bats69@bigpond.net.au)
Evelyn Posamentier's poem "Dear Mr Cheney" has been added to the Fiera Lingue Poets Corner's online anthology, While the He/art Pants (Poetic Responses to the 2008 American Elections).
eposamentier@yahoo.com
REVIEWS:
Julie R. Enszer has a review of three books, Toast Soldiers & Other Poems, Balancing Acts, and Beggars at the Wall by the late Rochelle Ratner in the current issue of Bridges. (JulieREnszer@gmail.com)
Judy Kronenfeld's collection of poems, Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, is reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft in The Pedestal www.thepedestalmagazine.com/gallery.php?item=3242
and is also reviewed by Ricky Rapoport Friesem in Poetica
www.freewebs.com/poeticamagazine/bookreview.htm
(judy.kronenfeld@ucr.edu )
Karren L. Alenier reviewed Washington National Opera’s new production of Lucretia Borgia at
www.scene4.com/karrenlalondealenier/. This review includes a poem by Gray Jacobik.
AWARDS:
Penelope Scambly Schott has been awarded the 2008 Oregon Book Award in Poetry for her verse biography of Puritan dissident Anne Hutchinson, A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth (Turning Point, 2007).
READINGS:
Monday, November 17
Karren L. Alenier & Kevin Prufer
Café Muse Literary Series
Friendship Heights Village Center
4433 South Park Avenue
Chevy Chase, MD
7:00 pm free
301 656-2797
www.wordworksdc.com/
Thursday, November 20
Elizabeth Bodien and other Berks Bards poets
Delaware County Institute of Science
11 Veterans Square
Media, PA (near Philadelphia)
610-566-5126
7pm Free open mike
Wednesday, November 20
Cass Dalglish, reading from Humming the Blues
with Tim Nolan & Todd Boss
Third Thursday Publication Reading
Loft Literary Center
1011 Washington Ave. S.
Minneapolis, Minn.
7:00 pm Free
Contact: The Loft -- 612-215-2575
(dalglish@mac.com)
Sunday, November 23
2009 Alhambra Poetry Calendar Launch
DIane Lockward, D. Nurske, Susan Kinsolving, Cate Marvin, Rosanna Warren, Joshua Mehigan,
Patrick Rosal, John Hennessy, Vijay Seshadri, and Deborah Landau
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
NYC
6:00 PM
www.alhambrapublishing.com/htm/EPC09.html
REMINDER: Send news of your book publications, poem publications (online and print),
reviews, interviews, contests and awards, events, readings.
Send to Diane Lockward: dslockward@gmail.com--by 7:00 PM Sunday evening.
Please visit my website:
www.dianelockward.com
News of Deema K. Shehabi, Susan Rich, Diane Kendig, Charlotte Mandel, Claire Keyes,
Penny Harter, Karren L. Alenier, Lesley Wheeler, Julene Tripp Weaver, Rosemary Winslow,
Barbara Crooker, Ann E. Michael, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafavi,
Barbara A. Taylor, Evelyn Posamentier, Julie R. Enszer, Judy Kronenfeld, Penelope Scambly Schott,
Elizabeth Bodien, Cass Dalglish, DIane Lockward
PUBLICATIONS:
Deema K. Shehabi has a "Ghazal" in the newly released anthology Come Together, Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press, edited by Ann Smith, Larry Smith, and Philip Metres) and another poem "Requiem for Arrival" in the just released anthology Birthed from Scorched Hearts: Women Respond to War (Fulcrum Publishing, edited by Marji Moore). Also, she has written the foreword for a new book of poems entitled Andalusian Songs for the Wounds of Iraq by Iraqi poet Bushra al-Bustani, translated by Wafaa Abdulaali and Sana Dhahir (Mellen Press).
Susan Rich has a poem, "Her Favorite Somali Fable Told to Her by Her Grandmother," in the anthology Come Together: Imagine Peace by Bottom Dog Press.
Her "Doing Time" appears in the inaugural issue of Redheaded Stepchild which only accepts work that has been rejected by other journals.
www.redheadedmag.com/poetry/
(srich18@earthlink.net)
Diane Kendig’s poem, “Spring 1971 in Washington,” appears in the anthology, Come Together: Imagine Peace, poems ed. Smith, Smith & Metres (Huron, OH: Bottom Dog, 2008)
diane@dianekendig.com
Charlotte Mandel's poem, "Protesting the War About to Begin: March 19, 2003," appears in the anthology Birthed from Scorched Hearts: Women Respond to War, edited by Marijo Moore, published by Fulcrum Publishing. The multinational anthology includes poems and prose works in various forms.
Claire Keyes's "A Hymn for the River" appears in an anthology called Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair: Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar.
(cjkeyes@verizon.net )
Penny Harter's poem "Turtle Blessing" appears in the anthology Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press). Also, her poem, "Driving West Texas," appears in the anthology BIG Land, BIG Sky, BIG Hair: Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press).
Karren L. Alenier’s poem “Dialectic of the Census Takers” was published in Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics, edited by Sarah Glaz & JoAnne Growney (MA: AK Peters, Ltd., 2008).
Lesley Wheeler's poem "Prior to Sentencing" appears in the new issue of West Branch.
(wheelerlm@wlu.edu)
Julene Tripp Weaver's poem, "Swing Street Secrets, 1968," has been published in the current issue of Pilgrimage, themed The Sixties.
(newroots@drizzle.com)
Rosemary Winslow has five poems--"Haifa Street, Baghdad"; "Hydrangeas"; "The Visit"; "Just In"; and "She Was Embroidered and Spring Kept Knocking"--in the Washington, D.C. issue of Locus Point:
www.locuspoint.org/volume2/dc/index.html
Barbara Crooker's poems, "Poetry Is For Everybody" and "Jazz" appear in the inaugural issue of Gander Press Review, both print and online: www.ganderpress.com/review/
Her poem, "Patty's Charcoal Drive-In," appears in In the Heyday of His Eyes,
an online teaching guide of writing prompts for high school students:
www.heydays.ws/?where=authors&author=Barbara%20Crooker
(bcrooker@ix.netcom.com)
Ann E. Michael's poem "End Times" (with accompanying audiofile) is online at Qarrtsiluni.com's issue "Journaling the Apocalypse": qarrtsiluni.com/2008/11/14/end-times
The inaugural issue of Redheaded Stepchild, contains two poems by Wendy Taylor Carlisle, "Notes on Forgetting," and "Baby. Cake."
www.redheadedmag.com/poetry/
wcarlisle@vidnet.net
"An Iranian mother writes to An American mother" by Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafavi appears in www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=printpage&pid=2678
(farideh@iransystem.com )
Barbara A. Taylor has a haibun,"New Horizons," published in Frogpond, the official print journal of the Haiku Society of America, Fall 2008 www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond.htm and a triparshva, "Tarried Road Workers", with Moira Richards, South Africa, and Claire Chatelet, UK, in Simply Haiku, Winter 2008 www.simplyhaiku.com/SHv6n4/renku/triparshva_tarried.htm (bats69@bigpond.net.au)
Evelyn Posamentier's poem "Dear Mr Cheney" has been added to the Fiera Lingue Poets Corner's online anthology, While the He/art Pants (Poetic Responses to the 2008 American Elections).
eposamentier@yahoo.com
REVIEWS:
Julie R. Enszer has a review of three books, Toast Soldiers & Other Poems, Balancing Acts, and Beggars at the Wall by the late Rochelle Ratner in the current issue of Bridges. (JulieREnszer@gmail.com)
Judy Kronenfeld's collection of poems, Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, is reviewed by JoSelle Vanderhooft in The Pedestal www.thepedestalmagazine.com/gallery.php?item=3242
and is also reviewed by Ricky Rapoport Friesem in Poetica
www.freewebs.com/poeticamagazine/bookreview.htm
(judy.kronenfeld@ucr.edu )
Karren L. Alenier reviewed Washington National Opera’s new production of Lucretia Borgia at
www.scene4.com/karrenlalondealenier/. This review includes a poem by Gray Jacobik.
AWARDS:
Penelope Scambly Schott has been awarded the 2008 Oregon Book Award in Poetry for her verse biography of Puritan dissident Anne Hutchinson, A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth (Turning Point, 2007).
READINGS:
Monday, November 17
Karren L. Alenier & Kevin Prufer
Café Muse Literary Series
Friendship Heights Village Center
4433 South Park Avenue
Chevy Chase, MD
7:00 pm free
301 656-2797
www.wordworksdc.com/
Thursday, November 20
Elizabeth Bodien and other Berks Bards poets
Delaware County Institute of Science
11 Veterans Square
Media, PA (near Philadelphia)
610-566-5126
7pm Free open mike
Wednesday, November 20
Cass Dalglish, reading from Humming the Blues
with Tim Nolan & Todd Boss
Third Thursday Publication Reading
Loft Literary Center
1011 Washington Ave. S.
Minneapolis, Minn.
7:00 pm Free
Contact: The Loft -- 612-215-2575
(dalglish@mac.com)
Sunday, November 23
2009 Alhambra Poetry Calendar Launch
DIane Lockward, D. Nurske, Susan Kinsolving, Cate Marvin, Rosanna Warren, Joshua Mehigan,
Patrick Rosal, John Hennessy, Vijay Seshadri, and Deborah Landau
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
NYC
6:00 PM
www.alhambrapublishing.com/htm/EPC09.html
REMINDER: Send news of your book publications, poem publications (online and print),
reviews, interviews, contests and awards, events, readings.
Send to Diane Lockward: dslockward@gmail.com--by 7:00 PM Sunday evening.
Please visit my website:
www.dianelockward.com