CAROLYN HEMBREE'S FORTHCOMING BOOK!

Congratulations to Carolyn Hembree whose manuscript Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, won the 2015 Trio Award, selected by Neil Shepard, and the 2015 Marsh Hawk Press Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award, selected by Stephanie Strickland. The book will come out from Trio House Press in the spring of 2016.

Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague is a sequence of poems arranged like a truck owner’s manual. Set in rural Appalachia, “a truck up on concrete blocks” functions as time machine for V. Cleb, an accursed wanderer trapped and liberated by the limits of his world. When spiritual and material realms commingle, visions of cosmic significance are revealed. Biblical cadences, elliptical phrasing, and a deep-rooted vernacular distinguish the voice of these poems. “Through wormhole after wormhole,” the book inscribes a landscape visceral, haunted, afflicted, afflicting.

EILEEN TABIOS IN THE ST. HELENA STAR

with notice of her new Marsh Hawk Press book, The Connoisseur of Alleys!

PAUL PINES' LATEST IN NOTRE DAME REVIEW

Notre Dame Review #41, "Passages," has just come out and contains, among other notable pieces, Paul Pines' essay "What The Shadow Knows." Paul says that the essay is "masquerading as a review of Morris Dickstein's moving memoir, Why Not Say What Happened. I think perhaps it may in fact be a mini-memoir masquerading as a review masquerading as an essay. If anyone would like to figure it out, here it is."

You can see Paul's essay HERE.

AWP SPOTLIGHTS MARSH HAWK PRESS!

AWP Bookfair spotlighted Marsh Hawk Press on its Facebook account--go HERE to see. For those not on Facebook, this is what they said:

Spotlight on Marsh Hawk Press! 

Since its founding in 2001, Marsh Hawk Press has focused on the relationship between poetry and the visual arts, publishing the ekphrastic poetry of Sharon Dolin, the sculptural poetry of Eileen R. Tabios and Thomas Fink, the abstract-expressionist poetic memoires of Basil King, as well as the award-winning works of Phillip Lopate, Mary Mackey, Steve Fellner, George Quasha and others. The press sponsors annual awards: the Marsh Hawk Press book publication prize, the Robert Creeley Memorial Award, and the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Prize. 

Website:  www.marshhawkpress.orgBookfair table: #1301

POEMS IN RESPONSE TO THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS

We're delighted to see the husband-wife poet team Michael and Joyce Gullickson write poems in response to Eileen R. Tabios' latest Marsh Hawk collection, THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS.  Joyce's poem is available HERE and Mike's poem is available HERE.

Thanks poets!!

JANE AUGUSTINE APPEARANCES WITH MICHAEL HELLER, NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, JON CURLEY & BURT KIMMELMAN

FROM MICHAEL HELLER:

Dear friends and colleagues (apologies for longish message): 

I’ll be appearing with Jane Augustine in the Cincinnati-Louisville area, reading and attending the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture. For those in the area and/or attending the conference, we hope to see you. Here are our events: 

On Wednesday, February 17th, at 7:30 PM, Jane and I will be reading at Xavier University at Alter Hall Room 001. Jane will be performing work from her new book of visual poetry, Krazy, and I'll read new work from my forthcoming book, Dianoia.

On Friday, February 19th, at the Louisville Conference, in connection with a new book on my work, The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015), there is a panel on my poetry. I’ll be in attendance, listening: 

Rites of Naming: The Poetic Practice of Michael Heller (E-5 on the program)
Friday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities
Chair: Burt Kimmelman, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Norman Finkelstein, Xavier University“ Rethinking the Sacred with Michael Heller”
• Jon Curley, New Jersey Institute of Technology “'Until Another Word': Tradition and Revision in Michael Heller's Poetry”
• Tyrone Williams, Xavier University “The After-Birth of Before-Death: Two Poems about Lawrence Joseph's and Michael Heller's Fathers”
• Burt Kimmelman, New Jersey Institute of Technology “Respondent”

Immediately after that panel, at 3:15, Jane will be moderating a panel on H.D: H.D.’s Technologies of Time, Sense, Conflict (F-6 on the program)

On Monday February 22, Jane and I will be reading at The Bonboniere, 2030 Madison Road, Cincinnati.

THE CONNOISSEUR IS FEATURED & AVAILABLE!

One of the poems in THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS, is featured in John Bloomberg-Rissman's opus, THE HANGMAN--you can see it at Zeitgeist Spam. He conflated Eileen Tabios' poem "Menage a Trois with the 21st Century" with an artist statement by Jigger Cruz!

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Also, even as the book is still in process of being stocked at Amazon.com, apparently it already received a review by one of its Hall of Fame reviewers. Thanks to Grady Harp for:

Anyone familiar with the rather enormous output of poetry and experimentation written communication and style will have an idea of what to expect in this newest publication THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS (the title alone invites creativity). But then again, not necessarily, because every time Tabios sets her mind to a new project, something unique happens. This collection of works is a collection of interconnected poems, each time a poem begins a reference shines, a moment of recognition and yet that moment so embellished with fresh perspective that the result is as mesmerizing as it is exquisite poetry. Each poem begins with ‘I forgot…’ and then meanders through the maze of memory and reconstruction of the past and references to the art of word craftsmanship in a manner that immediately becomes awe-inspiring.

And you can order it now, despite the site saying it's temporarily out of stock (that's not true; it's in process of being stocked).