Tuesday, May 31, 2016

AN INTERVIEW WITH MARY MACKEY


Agent Andy Ross interviews Mary Mackey about her latest novel, The Village of Bones: Sabalah's Tale, over at Ask the Agent. You can see the entire interview HERE, but here's an excerpt:
Andy: You’ve said this novel explores the “original inspiration for the stories of fairies, gnomes, elves, and other magical creatures which appear so often in European folk tales.” Can you explain what you mean by this? 
Mary: In the Village of Bones, I choose to imagine that other human-like creatures survived in small numbers in the forests of northern Europe. At present, we know about a number of ancient species that were human-like but not strictly human. The best known are the Neanderthals, who play a central role in The Clan of the Cave Bear. The Neanderthals actually interbred with humans, so we’re all a part Neanderthal. The lesser known Denisovans also seem to have interbred with human beings. Other human-like ancient beings we know about include Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, and Homo habilis. 
 As I began to write The Village of Bones, I came to wonder if perhaps small bands of these human-like beings survived long enough to be the original inspiration for the stories of fairies, gnomes, elves, and other magical creatures which appear so often in European folk tales. 
Imagine for a moment that you are living 6,000 years ago, walking through the forest, minding your own business, when you stumble across a little man who is only three feet tall, covered with hair, and not quite human-looking. You might well think he is a magical creature, an elf, a fairy, a Hobbit.

Thursday, May 26, 2016

EILEEN TABIOS BOOKS AT FUNDRAISING AUCTION

You are invited to a unique dinner fundraising for the Center for Babaylan Studies' Third Annual Conference in Vancouver this September; the event will take place June 18, 2016 in Santa Rosa, CA. For more information, see the flyer below (CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE):

Among the silent auction items will be Eileen Tabios' two most recent poetry books, accompanied by two bottles of Rhone wine): The Connoisseur of Alleys and SUN STIGMATA: Sculpture Poems.





Sunday, May 15, 2016

CORRINE ROBINS MEMORIAL READING

You are invited to:


   MEMORIAL POETRY READING FOR 
CORINNE ROBINS

Benefitting Planned Parenthood of New York


   Readings from poets of Marsh Hawk Press celebrating
   the life and poetry of  Corinne Robins

Jane Augustine
Patricia Carlin
Ed Foster
Burt Kimmelman
Stephen Paul Miller

Wednesday, May 25th at Ceres Gallery
547 West 27 St.  Suite 201
6:30PM
suggested donation for Planned Parenthood

Thursday, May 12, 2016

MARY MACKEY'S LATEST RELEASE!


Just Released! The Village of Bones, the long-awaited Prequel to Mary Mackey's best-selling Earthsong Series. An epic adventure of magic, prophecy, and passion set in Neolithic Europe where a dangerous love develops that could destroy all humankind.​ Available from amazon.com in trade paperback and Kindle e-book editions. 

"Mary Mackey’s The Village of Bones, gives us the vivid adventures of The Clan of the Cave Bear, the magic of The Mists of Avalon and Lord of the Rings, and the beauty of Avatar. Filled with the belief that love drives out fear, it contains stunning twists that will leave you wanting more."
                          ----Dorothy Hearst, author of The Wolf Chronicles


Wednesday, May 11, 2016

THE PHILIPPINES' MARTIAL ART LITERATURE

Eileen R. Tabios has four poems--including three from her Marsh Hawk Press books--represented in an important document:


The link is a Facebook link. Eileen's poems are:

“List(ing) Poem: Towards the New Filipino Society”  (1)

“My City of Baguio”  (2 and 3)

“The Rebel’s Son” (4)

“What Can A Daughter Say?” (2 and 3)


Saturday, May 7, 2016

HIGHLIGHTS FROM MARSH HAWK PRESS'S SPRING 2016 BOOK LAUNCH

The launch was a festive success!  Thanks to everyone for coming. Here are some photographed highlights (click on images to enlarge):

(Book Table at Poets House)

(Burt Kimmelman introduced the readers)

(As the audience started to arrive...)

(Tana Jean Welch, most recent recipient of Marsh Hawk Press Annual Poetry Prize, 
reads from LATEST VOLCANO)

(Paul Pines videoed by George Quasha as he reads from CHARLOTTE SONGS)

(Sandy McIntosh reads from A HOLE IN THE OCEAN: A HAMPTONS' APPRENTICESHIP)

(George Quasha reads from THINGS DONE FOR THEMSELVES)

(Stephen Paul Miller reads from ANY LIE YOU TELL WILL BE THE TRUTH)

(Thomas Fink reads from SELECTED POEMS & POETIC SERIES)

(Eileen Tabios also read from her book THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS; 
no photograph of her as she served as photographer)

(After the readings, Jane Augustine offered an introduction to the press since it began 17 years ago!)

(In the audience, Paul Pines with artist Marc Shanker and Edwina)

(Must be a successful launch when even the press' lawyer, Roy Carlin, shows up!)

(Jane Augustine, MHP accountant and office manager Barbara McIntosh & Thomas Fink)










PAUL PINES' MEMOIR REISSUED ON KINDLE


Paul Pines' memoir, MY BROTHER'S MADNESS, is available online as an E-book via Google-play or on Amazon's kindle. It is Paul's hope that this will give the book a second life, and make it available to those programs and people who might find it useful. You can find information and ordering information HERE.





Monday, May 2, 2016

SPRING 2016 BOOK LAUNCH--EIGHT BOOKS!

THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO 

MARSH HAWK PRESS' SPRING BOOK LAUNCH AT POETS' HOUSE!


Marsh Hawk Press


Winner of the 2015 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
TANA JEAN WELCH:
lATEST VOLCANO
A book of ruthless poise, Latest Volcanomasters form and forms-pantoum, sestina, terza rima, narrative, elegy-well-suited to its wily protagonist, Eros. A canny figure, unabashed by war or fidelity, in league with cruelty and memory, Eros, somewhat at the expense of the poet, evolves a wild, patient, don't-mess-with-me self-knowledge. "Stay still and love/fades..." she says; but you, are you to move on? Loop back? Dance for your life? Well, all of those.-Stephanie Strickland


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Spring 2016 Book Launch
& Party at Poets House, NYC
When: Thursday, May 5, 2016
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:

Thomas Fink: Selected Poems & Poetic Series
Fresh marvelously exuberant lyric wildness. -Charles Bernstein

Sandy McIntosh: A Hole In the Ocean: A Hamptons' Apprenticeship
Irresistibly amusing and engaging recollections, always with retrospective self-awareness, insight and bittersweet gratitude.-Phillip Lopate

Stephen Paul Miller: Any Lie You Tell Will Be the Truth
Stephen Paul Miller spins the coin so we can see, dialectically, both sides simultaneously. -Craig Dworkin

George Quasha: Things Done For Themselves
An infinitely textatic reverberance of aphoristic euphoria.- Adeena Karasick

Paul Pines: Charlotte Songs                           
The full paradox of living with his child as she grows from toddler to young woman. Inventive, humorous, baffling and poignant. -Dalt Wonk

Claudia Carlson: My Chocolate Sarcophagus
In these poems, Carlson brings us an important message from the edge of life. -Mary Mackey

Eileen R. Tabios: The Connoisseur of Alleys
Eileen R. Tabios is arguably the most prolific and inventive experimental writer in the U.S. -Vince Gotera

Daniel Morris: Hit Play
"Love Never Fails" is about as complete a hagiography of the Disco Queen as can be. - Andrei Codrescu
Our Mission
For Sixteen Years: Highlighting the Breadth of Affinities Between Poetry and the Visual Arts
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