Post by moira on Mar 3, 2011 10:49:17 GMT 2
Wompo Publishers Newspaper
News this week from Verse Wisconsin, Junction Press, Medusa Coils, Monday Morning Book Blog,Fiddler Crab Review (back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Lots going on at Verse Wisconsin.
www.versewisconsin.org/
1) VWOnline Call For Work, Deadline: May 1
Our theme for the November 2011 issue of VWOnline is “Earthworks.” Think tunnels, mounds, berms and pits. Think soil, rock, silt and sand. Think geography, history, map and metaphor. Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary defines “earthwork” as “an embankment or other construction made of earth; especially one used as a field fortification; the operations connected with excavations and embankments of earth; or a work of art consisting of a portion of land modified by an artist.”
So dig in. Defend. Modify. We’re looking for poems that move the earth, and move us as readers. Spread the word and send submissions with subject heading "EARTHWORKS SUBMISSION [LAST NAME]" to editors (at) versewisconsin (dot) org. Poems will be considered March 1-May 1.
2) Special Call for Poems About Wisconsin Protests
If you've been following the news at all these days, you know Verse Wisconsin's hometown of Madison has been at the center of political activity. We're proud that poetry publications such as Verse Wisconsin offer another kind of forum for people to meet, outside of, though not disconnected from, daily political life. Whatever our different stripes publicly or privately, we all sit down to the blank page or screen, and try to catch a little reality on the page, somehow, someway. Visit the website for more details about the Call for Work and to read, see, and watch the poems, versewisconsin.org. Poems and the Call are also posted as notes on our Facebook page. A number of Wom-Pos are represented in these poems.
3) A piece from Verse Wisconsin, co-editor Wendy Vardaman's interview with John Koethe, is on Poetry Daily as the prose feature of the the week (March 1-7). That's two prose features of the week in one year for Verse Wisconsin.
2. New from Junction Press
junctionpress.com/
Rochelle Owens, Solitary Workwoman. Retail $21, but discounted to list members for $17. Or pay full price and get two other books by Rochelle free: New and Selected Poems 1961-1996 and Lica: Discourse on Life and Death. Special prices available only b/c to junction@earthlink.net, along with other sales. Note: I'm clearing out my warehouse. This sale won't happen again.
"Rochelle Owens' writing...is sui generis. She is, in many ways, a proto-language poet, her marked ellipses, syntactic oddities, and dense and clashing verbal surfaces recalling the long poems of Bruce Andrews and Ron Silliman. But Owens is angrier, more energetic, and more assertive than most of her Language counterparts, male and female, and she presents herself as curiously non-introspective. Hers is a universe of stark gesture, lightning flash, and uncompromising judgment: it is imperative, in her poetic world, to face up to the horror, even as the point of view is flexible enough to avoid all dogmatism."
- Marjorie Perloff
“Sharp & visual, Owens combines a landscape with a poetics, the domestic with the mythic, machines with the organic living world--from which arises a construct & a fused vision: poetry & life."
- Jerome Rothenberg
“Owens goes cold turkey on the agony and delight of living in this century. She is the Shaman-genius exploring deeper realities in the psychic realm. She reaches down into the living, breathing mystical core and pulls up the forces of chaos spitting and kicking: she gives us back the hungry power of our own imaginations."
- Maureen Owen
A central figure in the international avant-garde for fifty years, Rochelle Owens has published 16 previous volumes of poetry, including New and Selected Poems: 1961-1996 and Luca: Discourse on Life and Death (both Junction Press, 1997 and 2001). She has been the recipient of five Village Voice Obie awards and Honors from the New York Drama Critics' Circle for her plays. Her work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Ukranian and Japanese.
3. Recent posts by Judith Laura, blogging as Medusa on Medusa Coils,
medusacoils.blogspot.com (in reverse chronological order)
"In Memoriam: Merlin Stone 1931-2011"
"Buzz Coil: February '11" (summaries of posts from similar blogs)
"Trailer for Dcumentary About Aphrodite" (filming of "Kypris-The Aphrodite of Cyprus Revealed"
4. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog,
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Storm Glass, by Jane Urquhart.
5. Dear Friends of Fiddler Crab Review,
Start the weekend a bit earlier than usual and take a Friday break with the Fiddler Crabs. There is a NEW & LIVE review of poet Ann Fisher-Wirth's chapbook Slide Shows, published by Finishing Line Press. Visit us at www.fiddlercrabreview.com We think you'll be glad you did.
Every once in awhile we ask a favor of our readers - if you know a poet, creative writing teacher, poetry bookstore or store that sells poetry books, or a writing program that you think would be interested in what we do at Fiddler Crab Review: the Home of the Poetry Chapbook Review please pass the word along via email, facebook, or just forward this email on to them. Thank you in advance for your help in spreading the word about Fiddler and chapbooks.
Chapbooks are grassroots. Chapbooks are the real deal. Chapbooks are creative. Chapbooks are affordable. Chapbooks are made in kitchens, on old presses, using Macs and PCs, are stapled and sewn by hand. Chapbooks embrace a wide range of poetic talent and at Fiddler Crab we believe that that 25 poems collected together can be stupendous!
Enjoy the day, and spread the word about Fiddler Crab Review. We really do appreciate it!
The Reviewers
Fiddler Crab Review: the Home of the Poetry Chapbook Review
News this week from Verse Wisconsin, Junction Press, Medusa Coils, Monday Morning Book Blog,Fiddler Crab Review (back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here:
wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. Lots going on at Verse Wisconsin.
www.versewisconsin.org/
1) VWOnline Call For Work, Deadline: May 1
Our theme for the November 2011 issue of VWOnline is “Earthworks.” Think tunnels, mounds, berms and pits. Think soil, rock, silt and sand. Think geography, history, map and metaphor. Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary defines “earthwork” as “an embankment or other construction made of earth; especially one used as a field fortification; the operations connected with excavations and embankments of earth; or a work of art consisting of a portion of land modified by an artist.”
So dig in. Defend. Modify. We’re looking for poems that move the earth, and move us as readers. Spread the word and send submissions with subject heading "EARTHWORKS SUBMISSION [LAST NAME]" to editors (at) versewisconsin (dot) org. Poems will be considered March 1-May 1.
2) Special Call for Poems About Wisconsin Protests
If you've been following the news at all these days, you know Verse Wisconsin's hometown of Madison has been at the center of political activity. We're proud that poetry publications such as Verse Wisconsin offer another kind of forum for people to meet, outside of, though not disconnected from, daily political life. Whatever our different stripes publicly or privately, we all sit down to the blank page or screen, and try to catch a little reality on the page, somehow, someway. Visit the website for more details about the Call for Work and to read, see, and watch the poems, versewisconsin.org. Poems and the Call are also posted as notes on our Facebook page. A number of Wom-Pos are represented in these poems.
3) A piece from Verse Wisconsin, co-editor Wendy Vardaman's interview with John Koethe, is on Poetry Daily as the prose feature of the the week (March 1-7). That's two prose features of the week in one year for Verse Wisconsin.
2. New from Junction Press
junctionpress.com/
Rochelle Owens, Solitary Workwoman. Retail $21, but discounted to list members for $17. Or pay full price and get two other books by Rochelle free: New and Selected Poems 1961-1996 and Lica: Discourse on Life and Death. Special prices available only b/c to junction@earthlink.net, along with other sales. Note: I'm clearing out my warehouse. This sale won't happen again.
"Rochelle Owens' writing...is sui generis. She is, in many ways, a proto-language poet, her marked ellipses, syntactic oddities, and dense and clashing verbal surfaces recalling the long poems of Bruce Andrews and Ron Silliman. But Owens is angrier, more energetic, and more assertive than most of her Language counterparts, male and female, and she presents herself as curiously non-introspective. Hers is a universe of stark gesture, lightning flash, and uncompromising judgment: it is imperative, in her poetic world, to face up to the horror, even as the point of view is flexible enough to avoid all dogmatism."
- Marjorie Perloff
“Sharp & visual, Owens combines a landscape with a poetics, the domestic with the mythic, machines with the organic living world--from which arises a construct & a fused vision: poetry & life."
- Jerome Rothenberg
“Owens goes cold turkey on the agony and delight of living in this century. She is the Shaman-genius exploring deeper realities in the psychic realm. She reaches down into the living, breathing mystical core and pulls up the forces of chaos spitting and kicking: she gives us back the hungry power of our own imaginations."
- Maureen Owen
A central figure in the international avant-garde for fifty years, Rochelle Owens has published 16 previous volumes of poetry, including New and Selected Poems: 1961-1996 and Luca: Discourse on Life and Death (both Junction Press, 1997 and 2001). She has been the recipient of five Village Voice Obie awards and Honors from the New York Drama Critics' Circle for her plays. Her work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Ukranian and Japanese.
3. Recent posts by Judith Laura, blogging as Medusa on Medusa Coils,
medusacoils.blogspot.com (in reverse chronological order)
"In Memoriam: Merlin Stone 1931-2011"
"Buzz Coil: February '11" (summaries of posts from similar blogs)
"Trailer for Dcumentary About Aphrodite" (filming of "Kypris-The Aphrodite of Cyprus Revealed"
4. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog,
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Storm Glass, by Jane Urquhart.
5. Dear Friends of Fiddler Crab Review,
Start the weekend a bit earlier than usual and take a Friday break with the Fiddler Crabs. There is a NEW & LIVE review of poet Ann Fisher-Wirth's chapbook Slide Shows, published by Finishing Line Press. Visit us at www.fiddlercrabreview.com We think you'll be glad you did.
Every once in awhile we ask a favor of our readers - if you know a poet, creative writing teacher, poetry bookstore or store that sells poetry books, or a writing program that you think would be interested in what we do at Fiddler Crab Review: the Home of the Poetry Chapbook Review please pass the word along via email, facebook, or just forward this email on to them. Thank you in advance for your help in spreading the word about Fiddler and chapbooks.
Chapbooks are grassroots. Chapbooks are the real deal. Chapbooks are creative. Chapbooks are affordable. Chapbooks are made in kitchens, on old presses, using Macs and PCs, are stapled and sewn by hand. Chapbooks embrace a wide range of poetic talent and at Fiddler Crab we believe that that 25 poems collected together can be stupendous!
Enjoy the day, and spread the word about Fiddler Crab Review. We really do appreciate it!
The Reviewers
Fiddler Crab Review: the Home of the Poetry Chapbook Review