Marsh Hawk Press Blog

DENISE DUHAMEL WORKSHOP

Denise Duhamel, a member of the Marsh Hawk Press Artistic Advisory Board, will teach a workshop the day before her feature at louderARTS. Here is info:

Workshop description:

MEMORY AND DESIRE: This generative workshop will focus on writing exercises and prompts that focus on obsessions and the poetic forms they can take.

Bonus prompt: Write a poem in a non-literary form—a recipe, instructions, a drug advertisement's fine print, etc. See Denise's essay on the topic.

Cost: $50

Limit: 20 people

Venue

Venue: Urban Word Offices
Street: 242 West 27th Street, Suite 3A
ZIP: 10001
City: New York
State: NY

ON PAUL PINES

Louis Proyect offers a wonderful read of Paul Pines' Last Call at the Tin Palace as a result of the recent Marsh Hawk Press Fall Books launch reading. Click on excerpt below for whole thing:

At the risk of using a cliché, I would describe Paul Pines as the ultimate writer’s writer. Despite what might be seen as a modest output in terms of quantity, the quality is always superlative.

HARRIET ZINNES READING

Harriet Zinnes will be reading during the Poets Fest of Queens College on Thursday, November l9, 2009. The reading will take place at the college library, 5th Floor, between 3 to 5 p. m.

PATRICIA CARLIN RECEIVES REVIEW

of Quantum Jitters in News Blaze. Click on excerpt below for entire review by Djelloul (Del) Marbrook:

"...as magisterial as Carlin. Her intimacy with 20th Century modernism emerges in her poems the way Robert Motherwell's paintings broke upon the mid-century, fully conceived, sure-handed and profoundly intellectual."

Congratulations, Patricia!

SUBMISSIONS CALL FROM A MARSH HAWK PRESS AUTHOR

Steve Fellner and Phil Young are co-editing an anthology for Benu Press; its working title is Love Rise Up and they are looking for submissions! Here's info from the co-editors:

We both have been invested in the literary world for some time. Steve wrote and published a book of poems entitled Blind Date with Cavafy (Marsh Hawk Press, 2007) and a memoir entitled All Screwed Up (Benu Press, 2009); Phil has published in literary magazines such as Antioch Review.

The editor who commissioned this project asked that we focus on contemporary poets and poems that succeed on the following levels:

1.) The poem deals with social justice, not simply a social issue. In other words there has to be some action or suggestion of resistance or dealing with a social issue, not just having a social issue somewhere in the background.

2.) The poem offers an element of hope. This hope can be somewhat ambiguous, but at least some level of hope has to be detectable to the average reader. Think “Daybreak in Alabama” by Langston Hughes.

3.) The poem is an “accessible narrative or lyric that contains elements of genuine drama or comedy.”

4.) If the poem were a movie, it would have to receive somewhere between a G and PG-13 rating.

If interested, please send us a poem(s) for us to look at as a Word document.

We’d happily look at new work or previously published. My co-editor and I are responsible for paying all fees, so I would appreciate a waiver, if at all possible.

Contributors will include Martin Espada, Denise Duhamel, Rigoberto Gonzalez, David Kirby, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Barbara Hamby, Cheryl Dumesnil, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fady Joudah, Rebecca Livingston, Alison Joseph, Laura Kasischke, Idra Novey, among others.

When the anthology appears (in Fall 2010, tentatively), all contributors will receive one copy. Please call 585-395-5040 or e-mail sfellner@brockport.edu and pyoung@brockport.edu if you have any questions.

If you know that you will be offering us something, we’d be indebted if you let us know by the middle of November.

Feel free to send this to anyone who you think may be interested. In fact, we’d be, once again, indebted if you did.

Thanks,

Steve Fellner and Phil Young

MARSH HAWK PRESS FALL 2009 BOOK LAUNCH

You are invited to the book launch celebrating new work by Corinne Robins, Ed Foster and Paul Pines

WHEN: November 5, 2009 from 7:00 - 9:00 PM

WHERE: Ceres Gallery, 547 W 27th St # 201 http://www.ceresgallery.org/
New York, NY 10001 Phone: 212-947-6100

HOW TO GET THERE

The following titles' releases will be celebrated:

Corinne Robins: Facing It Again: New and Selected Poems

In Facing It Again, Robins does not shrink from naming her personal pains and triumphs, as well as the works of art that in her view reflect them, faced again as they are embodied in these deeply ruminative poems. This book is a testament to a long and committed life told here with painful honesty and marvelous lyric excursions.


Edward Foster: The Beginning of Sorrows

“As a writer, critic, editor, and teacher, Ed Foster is inveterately Apollonian: lucid, balanced, well organized.”— American Book Review


Paul Pines: Last Call At the Tin Palace

“Paul Pines’s poetry precipitates gritty reality with sparing drops of philosophical cyanide. If Robert Creeley had owned a bar, he’d have written not a few Paul Pines works—as it is he’d have approved, heartily.”—Andrei Codrescu

BASIL KING READING

You are invited to:

P R O S E P R O S presents Basil King and Michael Heller at

New venue! SIDEWALK CAFÉ New venue!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
6:30 [boldly prompt!] to 8:30 p.m.
94 Avenue A at 6th Street
212-473-7373
V or F train to Second Avenue stop (get off at the front of the train at 1st Ave)

Basil King – painter, poet. His recent books are 77 Beasts: Basil King’s Beastiary, mirage: a poem in 22 sections, and the chapbooks Twin Towers and In the Fields Where Daffodils Grow (both from his on-going project Learning to Draw/A history). In the tradition of Marsden Hartley, Baz is a painter who writes, and a writer who paints, often about other art and artists.

Michael Heller – poet, essayist, critic. His recent books are Eschaton, a collection of poems and Marble Snows: Two Novellas. His fascinating Beckmann Variations (as in Max Beckmann) is forthcoming in 2010. Look for his books at saltpublishing.com, thing.net/~grist/ld/heller.htm or at good bookstores. Mike has also collaborated with the composer Ellen Fishman Johnson.

The reading takes place in the welcoming backroom of the Sidewalk Café famed for really great hamburgers, plus vegetarian fare (mmm, panini!) and all beverages.