EILEEN R. TABIOS' NEW BOOK A BESTSELLER

Eileen R. Tabios' new book BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, I BECOME WAR, has become an SPD Bestseller within a week of its official release date. See more information at

https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780998658261/because-i-love-you-i-become-war-poems--uncollected-poetics-prose.aspx

and

https://eileenrtabios.com/poetry/because-i-love-you-i-become-war/

2023 MARSH HAWK POETRY PRIZE WINNERS!

 CONGRATULATIONS!

2023 Marsh Hawk Press Prize Winners

The MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE
($1,000.00 Cash Prize and Publication of the Book)

Chosen by Mary Jo Bang

Liane Strauss: “The Flaws of the Story”

Mary Jo Bang writes: Like Penelope’s daily weaving, ripped out each night in order to keep in play the possibility of a happy ending (Odysseus’s return, Laertes death forestalled), each of these fascinating poems is part of a larger story, each an exquisitely observed vignette that pinpoints a moment of conversation, or observation, or travel, that reveals, much like a chapter in a novel might, a set of characters with moods and conundrums. As the scenes accrue, the individual points in time become an inner life made visible, a brilliant enactment of a mind talking back to the world: “I know as soon as I wake up it’s time to start rethinking everything again.” Unputadownable, as in “so gripping as to be read right through at one sitting.”

 

The ROBERT CREELEY MEMORIAL AWARD
($250.00 Cash Prize)

Chosen by Mary Jo Bang

James Zukin: “Mr. Hand & Ms. Viz”

 

The ROCHELLE RATNER MEMORIAL AWARD
($250.00 Cash Prize)

Chosen by the Marsh Hawk Press Editorial Board

George Looney: “Music Inherent in the Extremities”

 

FINALISTS

Allison Blevins, Elizabeth Coleman, Christian Gullette, Sarah Carey, Brandi George, Michael Weinstein, Patty Seyburn,

N. Minnick, Derek Mattern, Lea Graham, Kathleen Winter, Elizabeth Rees, Connor Fisher, Ellen Malphrus, Cory McClellan

AL FILREIS ON "CHAPTER ONE"!

You're invited to read Al Filreis' contribution to Marsh Hawk's "Chapter One" project, "Notes toward a pedagogy of ModPo." You can see it HERE, but here's an excerpt:

Whenever I write these days about poetry I express an intense interest in the poem, poem by poem and poetic project by poetic project. Yet what comes through is an even keener concern about collaborative interpretation generally, about our uses and misuses of—and recently our panics over—the technologies that make such collaboration possible at a large scale. Pondering the origins of the interests that have made ModPo—a free, non-credit, open online course—possible, I realize that I am seeking to connect such a social or civic mode of reception with the supposedly difficult, putatively opaque poets and poems I admire and as an educator feel a strong instinct to share (and which I have presented in college classes and open public forums for forty years by now).

MARSH HAWK REVIEW, SPRING 2023

 You are invited to read/view the offerings in the new Marsh Hawk Review!

MARY MACKEY IN "CHAPTER ONE" SERIES

 You are invited to read Mary Mackey's contribution to our "Chapter One" series! You can visit HERE!

EILEEN R. TABIOS IN "CHAPTER ONE" SERIES

You are invited to read Eileen Tabios' essay on titling poems, the latest installment in our "Chapter One" series! Available HERE. Here's an excerpt:

"... much of my job as a poet takes place before I begin any poem. My job is to educate myself on as many topics as possible, engage in a wide variety of experiences, hone my skills at observation, and meditate over the significance of a variety of events—not for writing a poem but by being better in the world through a basking in experience. All this knowledge and experience are filed in my brain as raw material for when I finally write the poem, e.g., the information on Negros Occidental which had marinated in my mind for three decades. In the actual creation of the poem, I trust in having filed enough mental material for the poem to access as it chooses.

Obviously, the more content there is in that mental file, the better the poem is served. I recently noted in an interview that as a poet I believe in education for education’s sake for avoiding cliches and sourcing new metaphors. As an example, for no particular reason besides education, I learned about black holes, specifically that if one is able to witness the phenomenon, one would see objects falling into those holes in falls that seem never to end. The idea of a permanent falling resonated with me and came to be included in several poems."

STEPHEN PAUL MILLER in "CHAPTER ONE" SERIES

You are invited to read Stephen Paul Miller's astounding and moving remembrance of poetry days revolving around a single-sheet poetry journal that he used to mail out to readers and which ended up attracting some of the leading artists and poets of the later latter half of the 20th century. You can see the article at

https://marshhawkpress.org/stephen-paul-miller-the-poetry-mailing-list-poetry-beyond-borders/