SANDY MCINTOSH UP AT LIU HEADLINES!

Sandy McIntosh's memoir books from Marsh Hawk -- LESSER LIGHTS and A HOLE IN THE OCEAN: A HAMPTONS APPRENTICESHIP -- are presented in a feature on him at LIU Headlines. You can see it HERE.

Eileen Tabios / j j hastain's collaboration in POST-CRISIS POETICS

Eileen R. Tabios' and j/j hastain's collaborative book the relational elations of ORPHANED ALGEBRA is addressed in T.C. Marshall's essay, “A Secret Agent, a Spaceman, & a Talking Bear: ATheory of Doubling the Stakes in Poetry” for POST-CRISIS POETICS edited by Brian Ang. Here's an excerpt:

Eileen Tabios and j/j hastain have carried doubling into a collaborative text that combines her “sense of physicality” with hastain’s trans identity and “the idea of the poem as also a body,” all while working with her adopted son’s school life and the condition of orphaned bodies (v. my review in GR #20). This seemingly labyrinthine combination was for her “a useful scaffolding for managing personal biases and emotion so that they did not get in the way of creating the poem.” She ends this book with “A Poetics Fragment” that expresses the belief that a poem is “completed elsewhere” by others, beyond the poet’s realm of control, and that “one poem can have many different completions.” This is the essence of the noetic, where questionings and contradictions put off conclusions.

SPRING BOOK LAUNCH AT POETS HOUSE!

Marsh Hawk Press Quick Links Get Directions to Poets House Marsh Hawk Press Winner of the 2017 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize Geoffrey O'Brien: The Blue Hill "Sometimes time is the subject, sometimes materiality as these poems point us toward the strangeness at the heart of being. We are swept away, almost in spite of ourselves, by the hypnotic precision of language. The long opening sequence 'The Blue Hill' stuns and delights. It veers through twists and turns of utterly simple phrases into its own incandescent music." -Meena Alexander, 2017 Marsh Hawk Press Prize Contest Judge Spring 2018 Book Launch & Party at Poets House, NYC When: Friday, May 25, 2018 Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Where: Poets House 10 River Terrace New York City Free and Open to the Public Celebrating the publication of: PAUL PINES: Gathering Sparks "In this profound, powerful, beautifully illustrated collection, poet Paul Pines masterfully explores correlations and juxtapositions to reveal new connections in a poetic language.... What he gives us in Gathering Sparks is something so unusual that it hovers almost beyond words: a  museum of the Infinite...." -Mary Mackey SANDY McINTOSH: Obsessional: Poems for Performance "Ernesta," the drama of a 19th century Spanish pianist and murderer, "bursts with brilliance and sizzles with sass. An audacious, ravishing, syntactic marvel." -Denise Duhamel "Obsessional" is remarkable for yoking an engaging Elizabethan literary detective story to a personal narrative about life as a grad school poet. Even more impressive than this set-up actually succeeding is the way McIntosh is able to tie compassion to daggerthrust humor.  -Brian Clements, Boog City JON CURLEY: Scorch Marks "The pace too quickened to be a flaneur's, the passion too corporeal to seem the eye of a camera. Jon Curley's latest book of poems, Scorch Marks, is a visceral shout-out, a call-as much prayer as dare-to those who would acquiesce by keeping virtual or literal pen in pocket, in the face of injustice and lies....Scorch Mark's poems cut, jab, and yearn. It is a yearning that refuses to give in or give way."  -Elena Alexander Our Mission For Seventeen Years: Highlighting the Breadth of Affinities Between Poetry and the Visual Arts Marsh Hawk Press is an imprint of Marsh Hawk Press, Inc., a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit corporation under United States Internal Revenue Code.

UPDATE ON MARSH HAWK PRESS PRIZE RESULTS

The 2018 Marsh Hawk Press Prizes Winners Will Be Announced in Early July 2018 Thanks to Everyone Who Submitted Prizes Include: The MARSH HAWK PRESS PRIZE ($1,000 and Publication of the Book)  The ROBERT CREELEY & ROCHELLE RATNER MEMORIAL AWARDS ($250 each. Winners Chosen from Contest Finalists) Contest Judge: Jane Hirshfield About the Contest Judgeeature Heading Jane Hirshfield is an American poet, essayist, and translator. She received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University in the school's first graduating class to include women. Hirshfield's seven books of poetry have each received numerous awards. Her fifth book, Given Sugar, Given Salt, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and her sixth collection, After, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize (UK) and named a 'best book of 2006' by The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the Financial Times. www.marshhawkpress.org  ‌  ‌  ‌

CONGRATULATIONS TO PAUL PINES

whose poems are featured in WIDE OPEN WORKS!

EILEEN TABIOS READS WITH OTHER FILIPINX POETS

PAWA PRESENTS FILIPINX POETS

Eileen Tabios, Chris Santiago and Barbara Jane Reyes

sponsored by Philippine American Writers & Artists (PAWA)

6-8:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco

447 Sutter Street, 6th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94108

The event is free, open to the public, and include refreshments.

AN APPRECIATION OF ROBERT GIBB!

Michael Simms provides a long-overdue appreciation of Robert Gibb.  You can see it HERE, but here's an excerpt:

Robert Gibb is a poet’s poet. By that phrase I mean that he’s widely admired among poets across the country, but virtually unknown to the public. He’s published a dozen full-length collections and won many awards, including the National Poetry Series, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, and a few Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships. His collection After won the 2016 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize chosen by the acclaimed memoirist and poet Mark Doty, and his latest book Among Ruins won the Ernest Sandeen Award from the University of Notre Dame Press. Yet, despite being regarded by many as one of the most important poets in the country, few people outside the poetry field, even in Pittsburgh, know that he exists.

You might say that in the national poetry community Gibb is famous for being unknown. The paradox can be explained perhaps by his unfashionable shyness, his passion for privacy, and his utter lack of narcissism. Gibb is an anomaly in contemporary America, a person who dislikes the limelight and despises self-promotion. He rarely gives readings. He doesn’t attend conferences. Flattery is a foreign tongue to him, and he’s completely at a loss when schmoozing is called for. If you want to talk to him, you’ll have to go to his neighborhood bar where he nurses a beer every Friday evening while talking to his neighbors who have no idea that he’s a major American poet because he’s never mentioned it. And his art is not the only subject he doesn’t discuss with his neighbors. In the poem “On Not Telling Anyone At The Bar,” Gibb explains why he didn’t tell them about the death of his wife:

Because I could not find a place for her death there

In the auspices of gossip and small talk and jokes…