TONY TRIGILIO AS LATEST "CHAPTER ONE" CONTRIBUTOR

 

You are invited to read Tony Trigilio on Obstinacy Poetics HERE.

MARY MACKEY'S LATEST HONORS

Congratulations to Mary Mackey whose film script "Time Piece," co-written with Renee De Palma, has won the City of Angels Women's Film Festival Award for Best Short Film Script! More information is available HERE.

Mary's latest Marsh Hawk book, CREATIVITY: WHERE POEMS BEGIN, also was recently lauded by Small Press Distribution to be on its Recommended List!

MARY MACKEY ON CREATIVITY

You are invited to read the latest installment to Marsh Hawk Press' "Chapter One Project," an essay on creativity by Mary Mackey. It begins with

My memories go back a long way, too long to be true, people tell me. And yet they are there, stored in a wordless space in my mind, because they came before words, existing in a place that someday I will come to understand is the source of my poetry, perhaps the source of all poetry. It is a country without borders, a place without language, a universe that has not yet been talked into being.

A younger Mary Mackey in Costa Rica

We're delighted to share some words from the Sept/Oct Poets & Writers Magazine featuring On Becoming a Poet:

“The reflections of writers such as Jane Hirshfield, David Lehman, Phillip Lopate, and Arthur Sze offer inspiration, companionship, and good advice for any poet seeking permission to embark on their work.” --The Writer’s Bookshelf: A Year of Craft Reading and Advice, Poets & Writers Magazine

ON MARY MACKEY'S ON CREATIVITY

You're invited to read this wonderful engagement/review of Mary Mackey's book, ON CREATIVITY: WHERE POEMS BEGIN by the Steiny Road Poet! Here's an excerpt:

Mackey says she experienced an altered state of mind since childhood because of abnormally high (and life threatening) fevers. However, Mackey was curious about the culture Schultes studied in the Amazon and traveled and lived there to experience that environment firsthand. Uninterested in the surrealism (being in touch with the unconscious mind) of contemporaries like André Breton,  Stein relied on a disciplined schedule of writing which she did late at night when everyone else slept. Mackey describes how she developed her process of "extreme focus" to move from an ordinary object like an ashtray to her creative landscape. This method of concentration is what she says taught her to re-learn metaphor, something she could do at eleven years old. The point is that children have a natural ability to see things creatively until they lose touch with their inner child by what adults teach them.

2022 RECIPIENTS OF MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE!!

 Congratulations to the poets featured below!!!!

2022 MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE AWARDS
CONTEST JUDGE: John Yau

($1,000.00 Cash Prize and Publication of the Book)
“Translation Zone” by Brian Cochran
($1,000.00 Cash Prize and Publication of the Book)

The ROCHELLE RATNER MEMORIAL AWARD
“The War in the War” by Dennis Etzel, Jr.
($250.00 Cash Prize)

The ROBERT CREELEY MEMORIAL AWARD
“Bamboo On the Tracks” by Tony Wallin-Sato
($250.00 Cash Prize)

FINALISTS
Jeremy Schmidt
Brian Strang
Adam Scheffler
Nancy Davis
Daniel Meltz
Danielle Hanson
Sawnie Morris
Michael Opperman
Freke Räihä
Melissa Tuckey
Adam Day

More info at https://marshhawkpress.org/2022-marsh-hawk-press-poetry-prize-awards/

MCINTOSH AND CERVANTES ON LATEST SPD BESTSELLER LISTS

We're delighted to share that two of our books made it to SPD's latest Bestseller Lists:

PLAN B: A POET'S SURVIVORS MANUAL by Sandy McIntosh

and

APRIL ON OLYMPIA by Lorna Dee Cervantes