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Lady of the Snakes by Rachel Pastan
Best Novel of 2008: Best Reading for Summer
A Review by Grace Cavalieri – May, 2008
Your reading life will be complete this summer with Rachel Pastan’s second novel, Lady of the Snakes. This is an action adventure novel where the action is psychological and the mission is filled with suspense. The book demonstrates integrity and love, with new depths of awareness. Lady of Snakes is a detective story with an emotional life.
When I Said Goodbye
By: Didi Menendez
A Review by Mary Morris – April, 2008
These poems are like being at the kitchen table of your best friend, a great poet, who is telling you everything exactly as it is. Arroz con pollo (chicken and rice) simmering, as you listen to the well crafted worlds unfolding with an intimacy uncensored. You will want to come back. Again and again. One immediately trusts this voice and all its personal and public no-nonsense, sensory-stimulating verbal track. …
Gargoyle 52
Gargoyle Magazine (www.gargolemagazine.com)
Produced by Richard Peabody © 2007 Richard Peabody – March, 2008
Gargoyle 52 is an audio collection of performance poetry and music. It offers a large selection (29) of studio-recorded pieces, in an attractive, professional-looking package complete with hip and funky cover art.…
Susan Kelly-DeWitt's The Fortunate Island and
Bruce MacKinnon's Mystery School
Two Reviews by Ernie Wormwood – February, 2008
Reading the poems in Susan Kelly-DeWitt’s The Fortunate Islands is a trip into the interior child, woman, man, and human for the truth, and reading Mystery Schools by Bruce MacKinnon is the winner of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Poetry Prize and reveals the power of a mighty pen poised to tell it like it is.…
A Memoir by Reed Whittemore,
Against the Grain: The Literary Life of a Poet – February, 2008
Edward Reed Whittemore was born in New Haven Connecticut in 1919 and educated at Phillips Academy, Andover and Yale. During college he and James Angleton founded the literary magazine Furioso — this was to mark the beginning of a life-long interest, if not preoccupation, in America’s small magazines and literary journals. After graduation from Yale, 1941, he served in the armed forces in World War ll. After graduate study in history at Princeton, Reed took a teaching post at Carleton College in Minnesota where he reinstated Furioso, and established The Carleton Miscellany. (1947-66.) His first book of poems was published in 1946, and there have been more than fourteen books since. Most notable among his prose writings is a major biography of William Carlos Williams, Poet from Jersey (1975.) …
A Review by Grace Cavalieri of Argonautika,
written and directed by Mary Zimmerman – January, 2008
Mary Zimmerman is my icon for 21st Century Theater. Let me preface this review by saying that I saw her magnificent Ovid adaptations in “Metamorphoses,” three times in NYC; and then the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s brilliant offering of “Pericles” twice. …
An Interview with Author Karren LaLonde Alenier – January, 2008
We thought those who read this book would like to know more about its author, so here’s an undercover look at the woman behind the book, the woman behind the opera: Poet Karren LaLonde Alenier. …
A Slender Grace – January, 2008
What dominates the poems in Rod Jellema’s A Slender Grace is the regular interplay of dark and light and the way “thinking narrow” intervenes to make the world accessible to imperfect man and allow the reader the glimpses of grace that bless himself and the poet. The stanza that titles the book starts a theme that echoes in many poems about that slender grace. …
OCHO 15—A Composite Review – January, 2008
Eight Poets respond in writing to the magazine OCHO # 15, presenting a rich composite review. Anne Caston, Merrill Leffler, Grace Cavalieri, Mary F. Morris, Ed Zahnizer, Whitney Smith, Laura Orem, Hope Maxwell-Synder. ...
The Steiney Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas
by Karren LaLonde Alenier
Review by Constance MacDonald and William Scott – January, 2008
The newly released book by Karren LaLonde Alenier, The Steiney Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas, is an interesting personal memoir of the author’s experience writing an opera in collaboration with composer William Banfield. The opera, entitled Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On, was performed at the Encompass New Opera Theater in New York City in 2005.…
Gentling the Bones, by Katherine E. Young
A Review by Whitney M. Smith – December, 2007
Skillfully aware of the past and its continual influence upon the present, Katherine E. Young has created a moving series of poems in which she revisits ghosts and old friends alike. In her second book of poetry, Gentling the Bones, Young establishes and analyzes movement through time, recognizing change as more than just "the difference between silver/ and gray" as in "Grandma at Ninety," but also as a personal journey through small towns, private devastation, relationships with family, and drifting lovers. …
Little Boat by Jean Valentine
A Review by Sonja James – December, 2007
Jean Valentine’s Little Boat is her most distinctive collection of poetry to date. Her spare yet innovative language simultaneously hits the reader with the force of a tidal wave while retreating like a murmur too soft to be heard. The poems defy one to assign meaning when meaning enforces and enables each Spartan line. These poems work because they demand work on the part of the reader. …
Legacy by Richard Harteis
The Fifty-Ninth Swan – A Review by Peter Klappert – December, 2007
Legacy is a series of poems for Richard Harteis’s lover of 36 years, the gentle, quietly elegant and rather traditional poet William Meredith. Writing these poems is one of the ways in which Richard struggles to be reconciled to his loss, a series of elegiac lyrics which come together as a non-lineal narrative of their lives together and Richard’s life now, alone, and as a moving and often artless extended elegy. …
Kimnama and More Than Anything
A Review by Ethan Fischer – December, 2007
Good poems love to travel. Kim Roberts conceives a new passage to India, immersion in its tints, sounds, and scents. Sight the Buddha’s very own neighborhood or move in rivers of traffic where time stops. … and Marylander Hiram Lewis evolves a poetry of home. Yet here or there his volume takes wing with a felicity of words for fits of fancy. More than Anything (billed on the cover as “an audacious teenager”) issues too from the splendid new Vrzhu Press, a vehicle for books of verse that travel, revisit, move within. …
A Secret Room in Fall by Maria Terrone
A Review by Andrew Kaufman
– December, 2007
The celebrated 137th psalm--turned into a hit single three decades ago by Bob Marley, among others--asks the haunting question: "They that carried us away captive required of us a song...of mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. [But] how shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?" …
OCHO 12—A Composite Review – November, 2007
Six Poets respond in writing to the magazine OCHO # 12, presenting a rich composite review. Ernie Wormwood, Hope Maxwell-Snyder, Mary F. Morris, Sonja James, Ed Zahnizer and Merrill Leffler give their opinions and evaluations. ...
Of Whiskey and Winter, poems by Peter Conners
A Review by Bernadette Geyer – November, 2007
In reading Peter Conners’ poetry collection, Of Whiskey and Winter, you come to understand the broad potential of the prose poem, both in subject and style. Thematically diverse, these poems cannot be pigeonholed – there are narratives and lyrics, letters and fabulist fables. Interwoven throughout the collection is an extraordinary sense of playfulness that exemplifies Conners’ ability to experiment and succeed in thwarting readers’ expectations of the prose poem genre.
Politics Writ Personal—and So, More Effective
Whiskey in the Garden of Eden by Sarah Browning
A Review by Ed Zahniser – November, 2007
Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal wrote that “the economy of the future will be to make things more beautiful.” Sarah Browning implies that the economy of the future will be to make life more fruitful for mothers and children—and other sentient beings. That would be: without war. Imagine. ...
A Brilliant Effervescent THE TAMING OF THE SHREW – October, 2007
If there is one play of Shakespeare that has received adequate exposure on stage and in film, it 's THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. But for the uninitiated, maybe those high schoolers filling the front rows, we need only look at the program cover with Kate wearing boxing gloves behind her wedding gown, and the tale is told. Runs through November, 18, 2007. ...
Information Graphics by the Joe Miller Company
Featured on Reuters board in Times Square – September 26 to 30, 2007
Information graphics by joe miller's company for Dust Networks were projected on the massive Reuters board in Times Square from September 26 through 30, 2007. Created for multiple applications also designed by joe miller's company including exhibition kiosk, signage, and screen presentations, the diagrams illustrate Dust Networks' wireless sensors for broad industrial applications. Attached is a look at a kiosk, exhibit sign, and Reuters' webcam in Times Square. ...
Kiss the Sky – Edited by Richard Peabody
A Review by Ernie Wormwood – September, 2007
In my living room, Jimi Hendrix is always just about ready to break out the guitar and launch into “All Along the Watchtower.” For beauty I display the album cover “The Essential Jimi Hendrix” –two inches of lips, two inches of nose, one of the truly ethereal faces of all time, smoldering with the in-your-face truth of music down to your own personal truth-knowing spot. It’s like The Mona Lisa smile times a gazillion, he’s always watching. And every time I walk past him, well what can you say about someone born a legend, who strung his guitar upside down, died at 27? ...
Broken Hallelujahs – poems by Sean Thomas Dougherty
A Review by Bernadette Geyer – September, 2007
With his collection, Broken Hallelujahs, Sean Thomas Dougherty traverses a broad range of subject matter: family, history, music, the urban landscape, and introspective ruminations. Dougherty is a poet known widely for his performances and this collection is filled with examples of his love of music, as well as the music of the spoken word. ...
Making a Poem: Some Thoughts About Poetry
and the People who Write It by Miller Williams,
A Review by Ernie Wormwood – September, 2007
Your assignment is to read one book about poets and poetry—this one by Miller Williams. You resist. “Why?” you protest. Is it because he’s the father of Lucinda Williams? Is it because he was inaugural poet for President Clinton’s second swearing-in? Or because he’s the author, editor, or translator of thirty-three books? ...
Next Life by Rae Armantrout,
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Review by Amy King – September, 2007
As the editor of MiPOesias, I have had the pleasure of publishing Rae Armantrout’s poetry, and so it is with an eagerness that I now turn to her most recent book, NEXT LIFE. A fast flip through these poems reveals Armantrout’s spare style of short lines and brief stanzas. The longest poem in this book is only 14 stanzas long, comprised primarily of couplets. ...
The Outernationale by Peter Gizzi,
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Review by Barbara Goldbert – September, 2007
These poems are hard – the language is razor-sharp; the syntax, fractured; surfaces collide with great force and speed – in short, the poems are hard to take, much less swallow. And there is no attempt to soften the blow: no story, no plot, and perhaps hardest of all, no character, no “I.” ...
Beyond Literacy, The innovative photography of Noelle Tan
Civilian Art Projects, curated by Jayme McLellan — Opening September 7, 2007
406 7th Street NW • Washington, DC – Phone: 202-607-3804
Review by: Grace Cavalieri
Throughout Europe, altar art displayed in the cathedrals can only be fully seen by depositing a coin. After depositing a coin, it takes a moment before the painting is illuminated; and, because it is timed, luminescent energy suddenly turns off. But there is one moment between the time when reality is rendered in the dark, and in the light where expectation flares. A psychological phenomenon occurs. This is when we realize we do not insist on the object of art to be our only reality. ...
A Snake Charmer by Paulo Henriques Britto, The Clean Shirt of It, Poems,
Translated from the Portuguese by Idra Novey – July, 2007
Britto’s poetry is a window to his unique world, sometimes wide open, sometimes shut, clean or dirty, at night or at dawn. In her introduction, Idra Novey states, “No other contemporary Brazilian poets write like Britto.” His distinctive use of language and the dances he performs, at times with the reader, other times with a lover, and others yet alone, lend a captivating richness, a certain magical element to his work. ...
The Language of Loss by Mariela Griffor, Exiliana Poems
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Review by Hope Maxwell-Snyder – July, 2007
Exile is a form of death. Nowhere is that more clearly stated than in Mariela Griffor’s poetry. Her book, Exiliana, deals with the loss of her native country, language, family, and friends. Departure may save one’s life, but it carries the burden of fear for the lives of those who stay behind and a feeling of guilt about their future. ...
Resurrection of the Dust, Selected Poems
by John McKernan — A Review by Sonja James – July, 2007
Resurrection of the Dust, John McKernan’s first full-length collection of poetry, is not only the wise work of an accomplished poet chronicling life’s tempests and tediums but also that of a tender-hearted magician normalizing life’s coarser realities, namely death. These are poems to be enjoyed as well as analyzed, and reading these poems is to become invigorated by the consistent presence (and pressure) of mortality as the shaping influence upon the quest to address humanity. ...
Contemporary American Theater Festival Launches its 17th Season of New American Plays at Shepherd University in Sherpherdstown, WV - July, 2007
Ed Herendeen founded CATF in 1991. As Producing Director, Herendeen shoulders the vision, management, maintenance, fundraising and energy hydraulics for one of this country's most significant enterprises. He has not yet buckled under as we can see by this year's offerings.
The 2007 Robinson Jefferson Tor House Prize for Poetry
We are pleased to announce that the 2007 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, an honorarium of $1,000, is awarded to Parthenia M. Hicks... Read more...
Three Reviews by Mary Morris - July, 2007
Children Having Trouble with Meat - by: Christine Hamm
OCHO #9, From MIPOesias Magazine
Best of Café’ Café’, Summer 2007, MIPesias Print Publication
A master of metaphor, unsentimental in troubling circumstance, Christine Hamm takes charge in this book with a risky subject: children’s eating disorders. She works deftly, with precision, skill and sensuality. Think of the mouth, texture of food, the sound of eating, weight...
The Blue Train to America by: Barbara F. Lefcowitz - June, 2007
A Review by Ed Zahniser
Three main modes of travel are: in fact, in memory, and in imagination. Barbara F. Lefcowitz whisks you ‘round the world via all three in her insightful ninth book of poetry The Blue Train to America. The book is nicely produced by Dancing Moon Press in Newport, Oregon, with front cover illustration from an original etching by Lefcowitz, who is also a visual artist....
An Intoxicating Operatic Composition, a review by Kirsten C. Kunkle
of "Gabriela's Voice" by Michael J. Vaughn - June, 2007
Ever since I was a young child, I have had two passions - books and music, specifically fiction and opera. I have pursued the latter interest as my career, as I am currently finishing my doctorate in vocal performance. Even with my overwhelmingly busy schedule that accompanies higher education, and especially a performance degree, I still find myself devouring novels late at night and any other time I can catch a free moment. Equally enjoyable for me is scouring any bookseller's stock that I can find and trying to discover something new or different that will give me a chance to live vicariously through a few exciting characters. ...
Review by Grace Cavalieri - May, 2007
All That Lies Between Us by Maria Mazziotti
Maria Mazziotti Gillan has written eight books previous to this. With each word emerges a vivid account of a life that could have been scarred by environment were it not exposed to so much family good. 18th century Mary Wollstonecraft was the first author to use the word "Nurture" in her treatise, perhaps that's why we associate the word with women writers. ...
A Review by Grace Cavalieri - May, 2007
"Reunion" by Fleda Brown
As spiritual leaders tell us, life is a horizontal plane. A flat line from birth to death with a bit of excitement in between. Then there is the vertical plane where artists live, so much light coming through them, it spills over and they make pictures and poems and things. If we are lucky. ...
A Review by Grace Cavalieri - May, 2007
"The Matter of the Casket" by Thom Ward
When I asked Thom Ward about this book, he said he might be called a misanthrope, but that there was much to be misanthropic about. The truth in any sentence is always after the "but," and it is all in how the poet manages that, whether it matters or not. ...
A Review of Circling Out by Mary F. Morris - May, 2007
In the beautifully wrought book, Circling Out, we find Martin Galvin’s poems immediately steeped in his Irish Catholic heritage. One is reminded of that country and its legacy as in the work of Seamus Heaney or Eavan Boland. We enter. ...
MetLife Foundation Presents "theatre Bay Area" - May, 2007
Join Bay Area arts, business and civic leaders for an afternoon of knowledge-sharing, discussion and idea development on the subject of arts and workforce development. Learn best practices and innovative ways to encourage the evolution and implementation of arts-based learning both in the schools and the corporate community. ...
A Review by Ernie Wormwood - April, 2007
When one begins reading Mary Kaiser’s chapbook Falling Into Velasquez, the clock strikes art and elegance enters the room in a velvet cloak. So pervasive is the elegance that one thinks of the artists who ride in these fourteen poems, Velasquez, Eakins, Kahlo, Cezanne, among them, as delicate china that can speak an exquisite language from an exquisite cloth on an exquisite table in a supremely seductive candlelight. ...
A Review by Ed Zahniser - April, 2007
If You’re Not Averse to Comic Verse . . .
by X. J. Kennedy
I’m all but certain that X. J. Kennedy read at the First National Poetry Festival at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., October 22–24, 1962. He began being published in 1956. My father extricated me from suburban Maryland high school classes all three days to attend the readings. I don’t recall anyone reading limericks at that august gathering. Robert Frost did not read but sat in front of us one day—you could hear the readers through his hearing-assist device. ...
Review by Daniela Gioseffi - April, 2007
75 Poems on Retirement
Edited by Robin Chapman & Judith Strasser
Here and there throughout this anthology of 75 poems on retirement, quotable phrases pop out at us to crystallize the theme of the collection that includes such recognizable names in contemporary American poetry as Grace Paley, Naomi Shihab Nye, Robert Pinsky, Ismael Reed, Ted Kooser, Stephen Dunn, Hayden Caruth, Maxine Kumin, and Sam Hamill, along with several lesser-known poets. The finite nature of our vulnerable human lives, the inevitability of aging and death, the poignancy in the loss of youth, but often the joy in life continuing in a less stressful state into new horizons is explored with humor, irony and sadness...
Review by Ernie Wormwood - March, 2007
Temporary Apprehensions by Patric Pepper
Washington Writers Publishing House
Reading Patric Pepper’s book of poems does make us apprehensive, alerting us to a journey that is sometimes urgent and always necessary. Soon enough we see there is nothing temporary about the impact of this seemingly effortless voice and magnified view....
Join Rafael Jesús González in honoring Dr. John Haddox - February, 2007
You are invited to join Rafael Jesús González reading his poetry Thursday evening, March 1, 2007.
Son invitados a acompañar a Rafael Jesús González en una lectura de su poesía el jueves, 1º de marzo 2007.
Check out Michael J. Vaughn's online journal, Caprice. - February, 2007
Go to www.geocities.com/capricejournal and find the poetry of Jean Emerson, Grace Cavalieri, Ray Succre, Cheryl Snell, and Anne Gelhaus, fiction from Carly Svamvour and myself, an interview with world poetry slam champ Mike McGee, and the astounding works of photographer/digital artist Paula Grenside.
Review by Daniela Gioseffi - February, 2007
Their Other Side: Six American Women & the Lure of Italy,
Essays by Helen Barolini
As a student, Helen Barolini, an Italian American whose forte is writing fine essays, spent years as a student in Italy after World War II, married an Italian, and lived a good deal of her life there. These Italian years of her life have given us her best book of essays, yet. Well conceived and artfully written and researched, Barolini explores the wanderings of six American women who found their heart’s desire for emotional freedom and expressive in the land of sunlight and art. ...
An Interview with Grace Cavalieri - January, 2007
by Kathi Wolfe
When award-winning poet and playwright Grace Cavalieri was in college, few women poets were published. Her professors told her that the work of Edna St. Vincent Milay was like "little pools of green vomit."
A Review by Maria Enrico: Talismans/Talismani - January, 2007
Talismans are objects marked with magical signs that confer protection. I could not think of a better title for this wonderful bilingual English/Italian collection of 27 poems. Marino’s insightful preface alerts the reader to, “…the constant presence of circular images tightly connected with female figures.”
Books for the Turn of the Year: December, 2006 - January, 2007
The Washington Writers' Publishing House
Reviewed by Grace Cavalieri
Nora's Army by Dennis Collins. Washington Writers' Publishing House.
© 2006. pgs. 298. ISBN: 0-931846-83-8The Medusa's Smile by Laura Brylawski-Miller. WWPH.
© 2006. Pgs.206ISBN: 0-931846-84-6The Steam Sequence by Carly Sachs. WWPH.
© 2006. Pgs. 60.ISBN: 0-931846-81-1
A Review by Grace Cavalieri
Blood Autumn (Autunno di Sangue)
by Daniela Gioseffi - December, 2006
Joseph Brodsky learned English while reading the poems of TS Eliot in a Russian labor camp. I feel that I’d like to learn Italian by matching the translations to the poems in this blood red book. 34 poems are presented with their counterparts in Italian, and this book, (new and selected poems) is testimony for the years Daniela Gioseffi has lived in the court of the muse. She is a political activist, a feminist, a naturalist, a mother, wife, former singer and dancer, actor.
A Review by Merrill Lefler
Water on the Sun - December, 2006
This is just a note to thank you for Water on the Sun. I’ve been reading the poems in different places — at the post office a couple of days ago, on line, the 40-ish woman behind me said she “really” liked you...
A Review by Avideh Shashaani
So What - December, 2006
It is not everyday that one confronts “wisdom”. Writing a review on So What is reviewing a life lived to its fullest under the most constraining of circumstances. ...
A Review by Judith McCombs
Tin Mines & Concubines: Malaysian Fictions - December, 2006
Set in Malaysia, mostly in the 1960s, the wise, compassionate, surprising stories of Tin Mines portray the author’s multicultural, multiracial society of Chinese and Indian immigrants and Malays. Hilary Tham, born 1946, was raised in an impoverished Chinese Malaysian family with a strong mother and feckless father; in 1971 she married a Peace Corps volunteer and immigrated to America....
A Review by Norman Lang Siegel
Everything Else in the World - December 2006
Once again in his fourteenth book of poetry, his third since winning a Pulitzer for Different Hours, Stephen Dunn presents us with poems that can be enjoyed effortlessly, but which also offer “privileged glimpses” of the sublime upon deserved close re-readings...
Review by Grace Cavalieri
Why Speak by Nathaniel Bellows - December 2006
Nathaniel Bellows has no other voice but his, I thought, as I read this new book. It is existential thought where all consciousness is connected, and language makes the relationship with the world...
Review by Grace Cavalieri
Innocence by Jean Nordhaus - December 2006
Jean Nordhaus writes poems in an arrangement of stillness. She finds favor with serenity. Maybe this is because Nordhaus knows what to leave out of a poem. Only the seasoned writer trusts the reader, believes in invisible bridges, and knows the reader of poetry is as smart as the writer...
Enhanced Gravity – Press Release: November, 2006
More Fiction By Washington Area Women, 500pp., $18.95
Edited by Richard Peabody
The 18th publication by Paycock Press (begun in 1976 and named for Irish playwright Sean O’Casey’s play Juno and the Paycock) is Enhanced Gravity, the second volume in a trilogy of anthologies that in the end will gather works by 115+ women from the area and total a massive 1000+ pages.
Review by Grace Cavalieri
The Beaux Strategem - November 2006
This is one of the best nights you'll spend in theater. " The Beaux' Stratagem" was written by George Farquhar in 1707, adapted by Thornton Wilder in 1938, and picked up by Ken Ludwig in 2004, finished in 2005. The story is of two penniless English scoundrels who visit the English countryside. Their stratagem is to find and marry a wealthy lady and share the dowry.
Little Magazine Movement in AMERICA
From print to electronics to print — An essay by Grace Cavalieri — November, 2006
Americans generally consider POETRY Magazine (1912) the first poetry periodical of note. It may be the one we know the most about but that it was first is not true on several counts. Washington DC's POET LORE preceded by several years. In fact Walt Whitman took out an ad for his work in its pages, near the close of the 19th century...
A New Review by James R. Sims - September 2004
A Review of Michael S. Glaser's Being a Father by James R. Sims.
Arts Council Awards Fellowships to Seven Local Artists - May, 2004
Arts Council Silicon Valley announced the recipients of seven Artist Fellowship Grants for their contributions to the field of Visual Arts (photography) and Literary Arts (poetry). The Arts Council annually awards Artist Fellowships in rotating categories to recognize professional working artists and to enable them to continue to pursue their creative work...
Contemporary American Theater Festival's 14th year:
“Casting the Future, Launching New Theater”
Four new plays are in continuous repertory: “Homeland Security” by Stuart Flack, “Rounding Third” by Richard Dresser, “Flag Day by Lee Blessing; and a world premiere of Keith Glover’s musical, “The Rose of Corozon: A Texas Songplay.”
A New Interview with Ellen Bass
Read it here, an interview with Ellen Bass by Parthenia M. Hicks
A New interview with Dorianne Laux
Read it here, an interview with Dorianne Laux by Michael J. Vaughn!
News (Halfdan Hussey, TMR Contributor, Inks Major Film Deal)
September 26, 2003
SEIZING ME INKS INTERNATIONAL DEAL WITH ECHELON ENTERTAINMENT
San Jose Motion Pictures (SJMP), created by the same team that founded and built the Cinequest Film Festival, announces the international sales acquisition of its feature film, SEIZING ME by Echelon Entertainment. SEIZING ME is a provocative psycho-erotic thriller about a troubled yet gifted woman, Rose, who captures three unique people, wanting to seize the pieces necessary to complete herself. ( More in link )
On Radio
Sundays from 4 to 5 pm, WPFW-FM 89.3FM Washington DC. Grace Cavalieri hosts a Silver Jubilee of Poetry. Poets from the past 25 years brought back on "The Poet and the Poem" on WPFW-FM, Pacifica Radio to celebrate the station's quarter of a century on air.
TMR Contributor Milestones
Patrice Vecchione—The Body Eclectic named One of Year's Best for Teens
Ms. Vecchione's latest book, The Body Eclectic, was just named one of the year's best books for teens by Booklist, a trade review publication. It was also chosen by another review magazine, Children's Literature, as one of their favorites, one of 150 out of 4,000. Moreover, the New York Public Library has included it on their list of best books for teens.
Allan Petersen Wins Defined Providence Press Book Competition for "Anonymous Or"
The book should be out in a couple of months. Read the judge's commentary that will appear on the cover here.
Dragonfly Press publishes Robert S. Pesich's BURNED KILIM
"BURNED KILIM tears the corner off a life... without any of the pretentious self-consciousness that pervades most of our post-modern poetry. Reading it from cover to cover releases a freshness to one's spirit that rarely shines through the constant degradation to which every citizen in our society succumbs."—Paul B. Roth
Grace Cavalieri's CUFFED FRAYS wins First Place for Long Poem
Grace Cavalieri's CUFFED FRAYS, a forthcoming chapbook from Argonne House Press, has just won first place, for Long Poem, in The West Virginia Writers, Inc., Annual Competition, 2001, and a dramatized version of CUFFED FRAYS has just won the Charleston Stage Company New Plays Contest, 2001
Flatiron Films Options Joe Cadora's "The Devil's Music"
Flatiron Films has recently optioned author, Joe Cadora's unpublished manuscript entitled, "The Devil's Music", a beautifully written Southern blues saga set against the Depression era South.
Poet's love of language proves rewarding
Parthenia Hicks wins the Villa Montalvo's 1999 Biennial Poetry Competition.
Maurya Simon named Poet of the Month
Maurya Simon, the author of four volumes of poetry has been named Poet of the Month by The Academy of American Poets
Congratulations to 2000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry
Award Winner Robert Wrigley
Read the details: Tufts Awards Announces Winners
National Book Awards 2000
Take a look at who received nominations and who were the winners in four major categories: Young People's Literature, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Fiction. Kim Addonizio captured a nomination for Tell Me published by BOA Editions, Ltd.
James Dickey Prize for Poetry
Kim Addonizio of San Francisco won the 2000 James Dickey Prize for Poetry. She received $1,000, and her poems were published in the Spring/Summer 2001 issue of Five Points, a literary journal published by Georgia State University's Department of English. The annual prize is given for up to three poems. For information on the Five Points, James Dickey Prize for Poetry, contact Five Points, Georgia State University, Department of English, University Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30303-3083. Megan Sexton, Managing Editor.
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