R.I.P. PAUL PINES

Marsh Hawk Press is devastated to share the passing of Paul Pines, brilliant poet and light-filled human being. Paul published four books with Marsh Hawk Press and was a great promoter of the press. We shall miss him.  R.I.P., Paul.

MICHAEL HELLER ENGAGES PAUL PINES' GATHERING SPARKS

Galatea Resurrects publishes Michael Heller's engagement with Paul Pines' GATHERING SPARKS! You can see the entire essay, which was presented at the Marsh Hawk Press book launch, HERE, but here's an excerpt:

As with all his works—sometimes sharp to the point of poignancy in Gathering Sparks—Paul’s poetry is a quest, spiritual, linguistic, psychological, a constant effort of human repair and recovery.  His way, as he proclaims in Gathering Sparks, is to find something which “allows him to feel/the world as proximate/unbounded.”   That unboundedness, which one finds in the amplitude of Paul’s poetry, its range of reference, its  epical breadth of open sea, foreign lands, international capitols, all coexisting with an equally powerful grainy particularity of immediate presence and human contact, is, in my reading, also an ethical quest for openness to experience and vulnerability.

MARSH HAWK ANNOUNCES 2018 CONTEST WINNERS!

2018 Contest Winners

Chosen by Jane Hirshfield

The MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE

($1,000.00 Cash Prize and Publication of the Book)

Lynne Thompson

The ROBERT CREELEY MEMORIAL AWARD

($250.00 Cash Prize)

Laura McKee

The ROCHELLE RATNER MEMORIAL AWARD

($250.00 Cash Prize)

Andrea Carter Brown

Finalists

Amanda Auerbach, Arthur Brown, Aruni Kashyap, Caryn Davidson, Charles Kell,Christopher Brunt, Elizabeth Aoki, George Kalamaras, Jacob Oet, Jacqueline Jules, James Grinwis, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Karen Donovan, Kathleen McCann, Ken Haas, Lila Dlaboha, Lynne Thompson, Mel Elberger,Michelle Lewis, Miho Nonaka, Nancy Keating,Nicole Melanson, Rachael Peckham, Reed Wilson, Shaun Griffin, Steven Haven

Thanks to Everyone Who Submitted

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  ‌  ‌  ‌