MHP POETS REVIEWED IN NEW GALATEA RESURRECTS!

Eileen Tabios engages the following books in Galatea Resurrects No. 27!

Sowing the Wind: A Requiem in the Modern World by Ed Foster

Abandoned Angel: New Poems by Burt Kimmelman

PAUL PINES ON EPIC MELANCHOLY

Paul Pines, author most recently at Marsh Hawk with CHARLOTTE SONGS, presents a good read with his essay, "Epic Melancholy," which he describes as a reflection on friendship and art centered on the Jewish abstract expressionist Philip Guston and those around him. The essay appears in the online journal dispatches, and can be read/downloaded at the following link:

http://dispatchespoetry.com/articles/commentary/2016/12/878

NEW REVIEW FOR SANDY MCINTOSH

Sandy McIntosh receives a lovely review of his memoir A Hole in the Ocean in Dan's Papers. You can see entire review HERE, but here's an excerpt:

A Hole in the Ocean is a beautiful written recollection of a simpler time on the East End when main streets were quiet even during the summer and one could hear “the crashing of the ocean waves a half-mile away.” e.e. cummings said “A hole in the ocean will never be missed.” Neither should this book.

NORMAN FINKELSTEIN READINGS

Norman Finkelstein will have two readings this weekend, Nov. 12 and 13, 2016:

“From their earliest setting out, the poems of Norman Finkelstein have fetched a new Vision, not only mapping but marking the Vision with supernal inscription, the signature of Heaven as it were. And theirs is not a cold heaven. Nothing in these poems is imposed or rehearsed. What is permanently remarkable here is that the work goes forward to imagine what no American poetry has imagined before: a society of Vision.” — Donald Revell

On Saturday

"Total Midrash"/A Talk and Reading

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Society for the Advancement of Judaism (SAJ)

15 W 86th St (Just off Central Park West)

New York, New York

Norman writes: "In my poetry and criticism, I have used to the term "midrash" (however cautiously) to help me to better understand how my (Jewish) imagination works, and more specifically, to conceptualize what I’m up to in a given poem. In this talk, I will discuss these concepts and read some of my poetry, considering how my work, somewhere on the borderline of the sacred and the profane, may be considered an instance of contemporary midrashic writing."

On Sunday

Book Launch Reading and Celebration

3 PM - 5 PM

Suite Bar

992 Amsterdam Avenue @ 109th Street

NYC

Red Harlem Readers invites you to a gala reading and celebration of the publication of The Ratio of Reason to Magic by Norman Finkelstein. The festivities will begin with a brief introduction and reminiscence by David M. Katz and will end with a reading by Norman. In between five brother-poets of Norman's will read a poem of Norman's plus a poem of their own in response. Besides Norman, the readers will be Michael Heller, David M. Katz, Burt Kimmelman, and Hugh Seidman.

EILEEN TABIOS AT THE SITTING ROOM, OCT. 29

Eileen Tabios will present THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS along with her other 2016 books during this event celebrating Filipino American History Month. You're invited:

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MARY MACKEY ON USING "CREATIVE TRANCE"

Mary Mackey's essay, "Using Creative Trance To Write Visionary Fiction" is now up at the Visionary Fiction Alliance Website. Enjoy reading HERE!

RECOMMENDATION FOR EILEEN TABIOS POEM

Eileen R. Tabios' poem "It's Curtains" is recommended by Melissa Studdard in VIDA's series, "Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015." The poem is one of the poems in Eileen's latest Marsh Hawk Press book, THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS.