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Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week from Plan B Press, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The Citron Review, A Midsummer Night's Press, East Asian Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh, Finishing Line Press, Tupelo Press (back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1.
Kim Roberts is so pleased to announce that her anthology, Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC (Plan B Press, 2010) continues to get enthusiastic attention from the press.
The Washington Post published a terrific review of the anthology Full Moon on K Street on the front page of the Style Section on February 7, 2010, calling it "the first anthology of modern poetry to be wholly for, about and by current and former Washington residents—[that] teems with poets who've distilled the region's lifeblood into verse over the past 50 years." Of the editor, Kim Roberts they write she "has a reputation for being animated, orderly and exacting, and these traits lurk between the lines in Full Moon on K Street." www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020405151.html?sub=AR
The Current Newspaper's family of neighborhood papers (The Northwest Current, Georgetown Current, and Dupont Current) featured a review of the anthology Full Moon on K Street in the January 13, 2010 issue. Calling the anthology a celebration of "the built environment and how we live in it," they say, "If you love D.C., even if you haven't read a poem since high school, you'll find that the book is full of intriguing perspectives on familiar places and events...And for newcomers--or those who want to send the book to folks back home--the introduction to each poem explains the local references." washingtonart.com/beltway/current.html
2.
The Poetry Foundation selected Beltway Poetry Quarterly as its Featured Site in "Around the Web," announcing the anthology Full Moon on K Street and noting that Beltway Poetry "prides itself on its ability to capture the full scope of life in our nation's capital." www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/aroundtheweb.html
Our February reading from the anthology--alas!--was cancelled due to snow this past weekend. (We had over two feet of snow in the DC region.) But we'll reschedule.
3.
Online Poetry Journal: The Citron Review located at www.thecitronreview.com is looking for poetry. Submissions should be no more than 30 lines. You may submit up to five poetry selections per quarter. Check the web site for complete guidelines. The journal, which was founded by five Antioch MFA graduates in 2009, also accepts micro-fiction and short non-fiction. Poetry Editor: Trish Falin.
4.
Wompo member and publisher Lawrence Schimel and A Midsummer Night's Press are pleased to announce two new titles: Handmade Love by Julie R. Enszer (a wompo member) and Mute by Raymond Luczak. Both books are available now for pre-order at www.amidsummernightspress.com and will ship on or before 1 April 2010.
Handmade Love
In her first collection, Julie R. Enszer offers poems that are as unabashedly erotic as they are unabashedly feminist. Whether responding to queer cultural icons, fantasizing about sex, or mourning illness and loss, these poems are sweet and sultry, fierce and tender.
From demonstrations on the streets to bedroom romps, these smart and sexy poems interweave narrative and lyrical moments with the political and the sensuous.
Handmade Love renders a world that delights in the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and tells queer life stories sublimely and generously.
Julie R. Enszer has published poems in Room of One’s Own, Long Shot, Feminist Studies, Bridges, So to Speak, Suspect Thoughts, Windy City Times, and many other journals. She has a MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and is working on her PhD in Women’s Studies.
HANDMADE LOVE
by Julie R. Enszer
Body Language 05
ISBN-13: 978-0-9794208-5-6
ISBN-10: 0-9794208-5-7
Poetry/Lesbian Studies
64 pages/perfect bound
Pub Date: 1 April 2010
$11.95
FREE SHIPPING ON U.S. ORDERS!
Mute
Silence is always a powerful statement, but even more so in the hands of Raymond Luczak, who demonstrates in his third collection what it’s like to navigate between the warring languages of confusion and clarity.
As a deaf gay man in the hearing world, he lends an unforgettable voice to his reality of ache and loss beyond the inadequate translation of sound.
Raymond Luczak is the author or editor of more than ten books, including Assembly Required: Notes from a Deaf Gay Life (RID Press) and Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader (Handtype Press). His novel Men with Their Hands won first place in the Project: QueerLit 2006 Contest. A playwright and filmmaker, he lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
MUTE
by Raymond Luczak
Body Language 06
ISBN-13: 978-0-9794208-6-3
ISBN-10: 0-9794208-6-5
Poetry/Deaf Studies/Gay Studies
64 pages/perfect bound
Pub Date: 1 April 2010
US: $11.95
FREE SHIPPING ON U.S. ORDERS!
5.
Announcing the publication of the a video funded by the East
Asian Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh,
Oakland, PA.
A video of a journey made by Abutsu, a 13th century Buddhist
nun, can be viewed at www.HelenRuggieri.com (just click on
video). The journey was recorded by Abutsu in one of the
last Japanese court diaries, The Journey of the Waning Moon.
In the style of the time, the events of the day are
recorded and summed up by a waka/tanka (a 31 syllable poem).
The journey of 500 kilometers itself was rare for a woman
unaccompanied, and for a woman nearing 60.
6.
2010 NEW WOMEN’S VOICES
CHAPBOOK COMPETITION
A prize of $1,000 and publication for a chapbook-length poetry collection. Open to women who have never before published a full-length poetry collection. Previous chapbook publication does not disqualify.
International entries are welcome. Multiple submissions are accepted.
Leah Maines will final judge.
All entries will be considered for publication. The top-ten finalists will be offered publication. Submit up to 26 pages of poetry, PLUS bio, acknowledgments, SASE and cover letter with a
$15 entry fee (pay by check, money order or pay online to pay using your credit card at finishinglinepress.com/submissionguidelines.htm)
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEB. 28, 2010 POSTMARK
Leah Maines, Sr. Editor
Finishing Line Press www.finishinglinepress.com
Please help support small press publishing by visiting and purchasing from our partner stores. A portion of all sales from our partner stores listed below will go toward Finishing Line Press. Please click on the logo, or cut and paste the website address. All sites are secure. (http://kmaines.ordermygift.com/ , kmaines.qhealthzone.com/ , kmaines.qbeautyzone.com/ , kmaines.qhealthbeauty.com/ ).
7.
Happy Valentine's Day from Tupelo Press
Greetings!
Send a literary Valentine to someone you love, or treat yourself to a pair of books for half the price!
During the month of February, visit our website and
Buy-One-Get-One-Free on any of these six titles celebrating the beauty of love, ardor, dance, and ecstasy.
You can also forward this special offer to your loved ones.
Think of it as a Valentine from us!
Order today: www.tupelopress.org
and use promo code: VALENTINE
ardor
by Karen An-hwei Lee
A man who desired to make love
Desired to hear the sound of tearing silk
Emerald silk and watered silk, old sienna
Women lined up on the street
No matter the original dye, indigo
Nervous quality of love
Tearing open error
~ from ardor
At the Drive-In Volcano
by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
All the pretty men ask if I have a perm.
No I say, my little grandmother also has
dark corkscrew curls and though
my father is bald now, it passed to me.
... And when I'm reminded
of how you ended it, I say to Henri, Cut it,
cut it all. It's clear no one in the salon knows
how Medusa even became a gorgon.
~ excerpts from At Medusa's Hair Salon
Narcissus
by Cecilia Woloch
What you wanted from salt was salt.
What you wanted from each of the bones of my hand was touch like a river, smoke.
What you wanted from the body was a body that would not die.
And then what you wanted was salt,
a woman weeping at your back,
but you could not turn to look.
~ excerpts from Salt
Invitation to a Secret Feast: Selected Poems
by Joumana Haddad
At the bottom of the ocean
inside bubbles of desire,
I have a body for you, my love,
a tomorrow and an eternity.
Tomorrow from which you'll arrive to me,
and an eternity in which the shell opens
with all the slowness I desire,
all the slowness
you are capable of.
~ from I Have a Body, translated by Khaled Mattawa
Locket
by Catherine Daly
I with you find
an inconsistent constancy, a quality
quite like a certain time,
a particular place.
I relearn: you,
lava, magma, planet, star,
propulsion.
~ from Oscillate
Dancing in Odessa
by Ilya Kaminsky
Once or twice in his life, a man
is peeled like apples.
What's left is a voice
that splits his being
down to the center.
We see: obscenity, fright, mud
but there is joy of shape, there is
always
more than one silence.
~ from Musica Humana
No limit to the number of books ordered with this 2-for-1 special. Offer ends February 28th and may not be combined with any other offer. Discount applies to items of equal or lesser value. Regular shipping charges apply. International shipping may be extra.
News this week from Plan B Press, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The Citron Review, A Midsummer Night's Press, East Asian Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh, Finishing Line Press, Tupelo Press (back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1.
Kim Roberts is so pleased to announce that her anthology, Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC (Plan B Press, 2010) continues to get enthusiastic attention from the press.
The Washington Post published a terrific review of the anthology Full Moon on K Street on the front page of the Style Section on February 7, 2010, calling it "the first anthology of modern poetry to be wholly for, about and by current and former Washington residents—[that] teems with poets who've distilled the region's lifeblood into verse over the past 50 years." Of the editor, Kim Roberts they write she "has a reputation for being animated, orderly and exacting, and these traits lurk between the lines in Full Moon on K Street." www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020405151.html?sub=AR
The Current Newspaper's family of neighborhood papers (The Northwest Current, Georgetown Current, and Dupont Current) featured a review of the anthology Full Moon on K Street in the January 13, 2010 issue. Calling the anthology a celebration of "the built environment and how we live in it," they say, "If you love D.C., even if you haven't read a poem since high school, you'll find that the book is full of intriguing perspectives on familiar places and events...And for newcomers--or those who want to send the book to folks back home--the introduction to each poem explains the local references." washingtonart.com/beltway/current.html
2.
The Poetry Foundation selected Beltway Poetry Quarterly as its Featured Site in "Around the Web," announcing the anthology Full Moon on K Street and noting that Beltway Poetry "prides itself on its ability to capture the full scope of life in our nation's capital." www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/aroundtheweb.html
Our February reading from the anthology--alas!--was cancelled due to snow this past weekend. (We had over two feet of snow in the DC region.) But we'll reschedule.
3.
Online Poetry Journal: The Citron Review located at www.thecitronreview.com is looking for poetry. Submissions should be no more than 30 lines. You may submit up to five poetry selections per quarter. Check the web site for complete guidelines. The journal, which was founded by five Antioch MFA graduates in 2009, also accepts micro-fiction and short non-fiction. Poetry Editor: Trish Falin.
4.
Wompo member and publisher Lawrence Schimel and A Midsummer Night's Press are pleased to announce two new titles: Handmade Love by Julie R. Enszer (a wompo member) and Mute by Raymond Luczak. Both books are available now for pre-order at www.amidsummernightspress.com and will ship on or before 1 April 2010.
Handmade Love
In her first collection, Julie R. Enszer offers poems that are as unabashedly erotic as they are unabashedly feminist. Whether responding to queer cultural icons, fantasizing about sex, or mourning illness and loss, these poems are sweet and sultry, fierce and tender.
From demonstrations on the streets to bedroom romps, these smart and sexy poems interweave narrative and lyrical moments with the political and the sensuous.
Handmade Love renders a world that delights in the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and tells queer life stories sublimely and generously.
Julie R. Enszer has published poems in Room of One’s Own, Long Shot, Feminist Studies, Bridges, So to Speak, Suspect Thoughts, Windy City Times, and many other journals. She has a MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and is working on her PhD in Women’s Studies.
HANDMADE LOVE
by Julie R. Enszer
Body Language 05
ISBN-13: 978-0-9794208-5-6
ISBN-10: 0-9794208-5-7
Poetry/Lesbian Studies
64 pages/perfect bound
Pub Date: 1 April 2010
$11.95
FREE SHIPPING ON U.S. ORDERS!
Mute
Silence is always a powerful statement, but even more so in the hands of Raymond Luczak, who demonstrates in his third collection what it’s like to navigate between the warring languages of confusion and clarity.
As a deaf gay man in the hearing world, he lends an unforgettable voice to his reality of ache and loss beyond the inadequate translation of sound.
Raymond Luczak is the author or editor of more than ten books, including Assembly Required: Notes from a Deaf Gay Life (RID Press) and Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader (Handtype Press). His novel Men with Their Hands won first place in the Project: QueerLit 2006 Contest. A playwright and filmmaker, he lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
MUTE
by Raymond Luczak
Body Language 06
ISBN-13: 978-0-9794208-6-3
ISBN-10: 0-9794208-6-5
Poetry/Deaf Studies/Gay Studies
64 pages/perfect bound
Pub Date: 1 April 2010
US: $11.95
FREE SHIPPING ON U.S. ORDERS!
5.
Announcing the publication of the a video funded by the East
Asian Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh,
Oakland, PA.
A video of a journey made by Abutsu, a 13th century Buddhist
nun, can be viewed at www.HelenRuggieri.com (just click on
video). The journey was recorded by Abutsu in one of the
last Japanese court diaries, The Journey of the Waning Moon.
In the style of the time, the events of the day are
recorded and summed up by a waka/tanka (a 31 syllable poem).
The journey of 500 kilometers itself was rare for a woman
unaccompanied, and for a woman nearing 60.
6.
2010 NEW WOMEN’S VOICES
CHAPBOOK COMPETITION
A prize of $1,000 and publication for a chapbook-length poetry collection. Open to women who have never before published a full-length poetry collection. Previous chapbook publication does not disqualify.
International entries are welcome. Multiple submissions are accepted.
Leah Maines will final judge.
All entries will be considered for publication. The top-ten finalists will be offered publication. Submit up to 26 pages of poetry, PLUS bio, acknowledgments, SASE and cover letter with a
$15 entry fee (pay by check, money order or pay online to pay using your credit card at finishinglinepress.com/submissionguidelines.htm)
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEB. 28, 2010 POSTMARK
Leah Maines, Sr. Editor
Finishing Line Press www.finishinglinepress.com
Please help support small press publishing by visiting and purchasing from our partner stores. A portion of all sales from our partner stores listed below will go toward Finishing Line Press. Please click on the logo, or cut and paste the website address. All sites are secure. (http://kmaines.ordermygift.com/ , kmaines.qhealthzone.com/ , kmaines.qbeautyzone.com/ , kmaines.qhealthbeauty.com/ ).
7.
Happy Valentine's Day from Tupelo Press
Greetings!
Send a literary Valentine to someone you love, or treat yourself to a pair of books for half the price!
During the month of February, visit our website and
Buy-One-Get-One-Free on any of these six titles celebrating the beauty of love, ardor, dance, and ecstasy.
You can also forward this special offer to your loved ones.
Think of it as a Valentine from us!
Order today: www.tupelopress.org
and use promo code: VALENTINE
ardor
by Karen An-hwei Lee
A man who desired to make love
Desired to hear the sound of tearing silk
Emerald silk and watered silk, old sienna
Women lined up on the street
No matter the original dye, indigo
Nervous quality of love
Tearing open error
~ from ardor
At the Drive-In Volcano
by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
All the pretty men ask if I have a perm.
No I say, my little grandmother also has
dark corkscrew curls and though
my father is bald now, it passed to me.
... And when I'm reminded
of how you ended it, I say to Henri, Cut it,
cut it all. It's clear no one in the salon knows
how Medusa even became a gorgon.
~ excerpts from At Medusa's Hair Salon
Narcissus
by Cecilia Woloch
What you wanted from salt was salt.
What you wanted from each of the bones of my hand was touch like a river, smoke.
What you wanted from the body was a body that would not die.
And then what you wanted was salt,
a woman weeping at your back,
but you could not turn to look.
~ excerpts from Salt
Invitation to a Secret Feast: Selected Poems
by Joumana Haddad
At the bottom of the ocean
inside bubbles of desire,
I have a body for you, my love,
a tomorrow and an eternity.
Tomorrow from which you'll arrive to me,
and an eternity in which the shell opens
with all the slowness I desire,
all the slowness
you are capable of.
~ from I Have a Body, translated by Khaled Mattawa
Locket
by Catherine Daly
I with you find
an inconsistent constancy, a quality
quite like a certain time,
a particular place.
I relearn: you,
lava, magma, planet, star,
propulsion.
~ from Oscillate
Dancing in Odessa
by Ilya Kaminsky
Once or twice in his life, a man
is peeled like apples.
What's left is a voice
that splits his being
down to the center.
We see: obscenity, fright, mud
but there is joy of shape, there is
always
more than one silence.
~ from Musica Humana
No limit to the number of books ordered with this 2-for-1 special. Offer ends February 28th and may not be combined with any other offer. Discount applies to items of equal or lesser value. Regular shipping charges apply. International shipping may be extra.