JANE HIRSHFIELD JUDGES NEXT ANNUAL MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE

Jane Hirshfield judges the next Marsh Hawk Press poetry competition. Go HERE for more information.

And here's an advance look at our ad for AWP:

MARY MACKEY'S AUDIO EDITION OF THE VILLAGE OF BONES

There is now an Audio Book edition of Mary Mackey's novel The Village of Bones available from Audible, iTunes, and Amazon. Listen to this epic Stone Age adventure of magic, prophecy, and passion. More information, including free audio excerpt, over HERE.

STEPHEN PAUL MILLER RECALLS JOHN ASHBERY

in his article at Publisher's Weekly entitled "For Poets, There's No Such Thing as Bad Press."  You can read it HERE.

NEW REVIEWS OF BASIL KING

CLICK HERE for latest information on critical reception to Basil King's HISTORY NOW!

ON BURT KIMMELMAN'S ABANDONED ANGEL

Two young poets and serious readers Leila Rosner and Casssandra Callaghan converse with Burt Kimmelman over his ABANDONED ANGEL over at Thomas Fink's Dichtung Yammer! You can see the conversation HERE but here's an excerpt:

I wonder if the way to most effectively evoke time in a poem is not to try for something that might best be handled by music, for instance, which is unburdened by words, but, rather, to use space to create a there, such as in Blackburn’s work. The time of a life is rescued from the continuum and can be experienced in a way unique to the poem. The Objectivists, more so than the Imagists or Vorticists (emerging out of the Modernist core), were especially sensitive to the writtenness of language, the word objectified, so to speak, on the page—the page a part of the material experience of the poem’s language. This is a tradition in poetry I have increasingly embraced. To get back to what you asked, yes, along with poets like Blackburn, my reading has involved the Objectivists for a long time now.

PAUL PINES PUSHES ARTISTIC BOUNDARIES

Congratulations to Paul Pines for inspiring visual artists and musicians with his poetry, the subject of an article at The Post Star. Here's an excerpt:

GLENS FALLS — A line, a passage, a stanza carefully plucked from a poem as inspiration for another creation in music or art is what set in motion a spiral conversation of artworks speaking to each other. 

And on Saturday, this yearlong exploration will live on in “Last Call: A Collaborative Oratorio,” at the Charles R. Wood Theater with poetry by Paul Pines, set to music by composer Catherine Reid and an exhibition of poetry-inspired artworks by members of North Country Arts. 

“You had to interpret the poetry and get out of your box and think differently,” said artist Judith Tully about creating her piece, “Darkness into Light,” for Saturday’s show and exhibition at the Wood Theater. Tully selected a passage from Pines’ poem, “The Vedas is Now Revealed to Thee.”

You can see entire article HERE.

And don't forget to check out his lovely Marsh Hawk Press book, CHARLOTTE'S SONGS.

MARY MACKEY'S NOVEL FEATURED AS AMAZON KINDLE MONTHLY DEAL FOR SEPTEMBER!

Congratulations to Mary Mackey!

Amazon has chosen Mary Mackey's novel The Village of Bones to be one of their Kindle Monthly Deals for September. This is a very competitive process. If you’d like the Kindle version for the reduced Monthly Deal Price of $1.99, click on this LINK before October 1^st, and it will take you to the Kindle Page for The Village of Bones. 

Here is the link in full:

https://www.amazon.com/Village-Bones-Sabalahs-Tale-Earthsong-ebook/dp/B01ERRO7XW/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1504642426&sr=1-1&keywords=The+village+of+bones

SANDY McINTOSH ON DONALD TRUMP

MHP Managing Editor Sandy McIntosh writes an editorial, "How young Trump was slapped and punched until he made his bed" in the New York Daily News! You can access the article HERE, and here's an excerpt:

My last conversation with Donald Trump was at the New York Military Academy, where we were both cadets. It was 1964, the year he graduated. We were walking together near the baseball field where, he reminded me, he’d played exceptionally well. He demanded that I tell him the story of one of his greatest games. 

“The bases were loaded,” I told him. “We were losing by three. You hit the ball just over the third baseman’s head. Neither the third baseman nor the left fielder could get to the ball in time. All four of our runs came in; we won the game.” 

“No,” he said. “That’s not the way it happened. I want you to remember this: I hit the ball out of the ballpark! Remember that. I hit it out of the ballpark!” 

Ballpark? I thought. We were talking about a high school practice field. There was no park to hit a ball out of. And anyway, his hit was a blooper the fielders misplayed.

PAUL PINES' MEMOIR OF TIN PALACE!

Paul Pines (Paul A. Pines) takes us on a magical tour of the history of the Tin Palace, his 1970s jazz club. He captures a place, an era, and an art.

You are invited to read see his memoir at Numero Cinq.

Tin Palace entry by Ray Ross -- click on image to enlarge.

POET-NOVELIST MARY MACKEY

If you are interested in writing a successful series of novels, read Prize-winning author Charlotte Seaberry' interview of Mary Mackey on the Inspiration and Craft in "The Village of Bones" and its 3 Sequels. Don't miss the part about the Delphic Oracle:

https://how-to-write-a-book.com/writing-a-series-of-novels-an-interview-with-mary-mackey/

TWO READINGS BY PAUL PINES

You are invited to:

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MARY MACKEY'S NOVEL!

Mary Mackey’s novel The Village of Bones is now available for purchase as an e-book or trade paperback. This is a prequel to Mary’s The Year The Horses Came.

Congratulations, Mary!

MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE

Congratulations to the winners of Marsh Hawk Press' Annual Poetry Prize, judged by Meena Alexander!

2017 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
Winners and Finalists

Contest Winner:
Geoffrey O’Brien

Robert Creeley Award:
Vernita Hall

Rochelle Ratner Award:
Joan Baranow

Finalists:
Robert Cooperman, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Aaron Brown, Carrie Green, Diane Martin, Reeves Keyworth, Jennifer Soule, Tricia  McCallum, Cathleen Calbert, Liz Robbins, Ellie White, Anne Champion, Mary Pinard, Susan  Lewis, Gail Hanlon, Jose Flores, Jeffrey Schneider, Stephen Priest, Charles Springer, Judith Nutter

NEW REVIEW FOR ROBERT GIBB!

Robert Gibb's AFTER receives a review from PLUME! You can see entire review HERE, but here's an excerpt:

After endures as a stirring testament, where the erratic tumult of grief slowly dissipates, giving way to renewed purpose and the larger miracle found in turning one’s hands to the earth. In these pages, Robert Gibb’s extraordinary gifts bloom wonder from an impossible ache.

STEPHEN PAUL MILLER READING!

Saturn Series Poetry Reading NYC - May 15 at 8pm -10pm

Features 4 extraordinary Wordsmiths :

Stephen Paul Miller, Anton Yakovlev, Dorothy Friedman, Jennifer Juneau

At Shades of Green Pub and Restaurant, 125 East 15th St between 3rd Ave. and Irving Place, New York.

Bring your work to read in the open!​​

REVIEW FOR BASIL KING

Basil King's latest Marsh Hawk Press book, HISTORY NOW, is reviewed by Eileen Tabios in Galatea Resurrects!  You can see the review HERE, but here's an excerpt:

The blurber Ammiel Alcalay (aptly) says about History Now that the book presents “the perspective of someone who has been trained not just to look but to see, and not to miss anything in his field of vision.” I agree, but I’d expand that to say that King doesn’t just see everything (in his field of vision) but he wants to see everything. Surely what King has accomplished in this book (as well as his other accomplishments as both writer and a visual artist) would not have been possible without such an immense desire.

MARSH HAWK PRESS SPRING 2017 BOOK LAUNCH!

YOU ARE INVITED:

Spring 2017 Book Launch & Party at Poets House, NYC When: Friday, May 19, 2017 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:

PATRICIA CARLIN: Second Nature

"Visionary, honed, distilled, charged with the immediacy of a dream before you coax it into a story and the challenges of our baffling history, Carlin's poems remind me- entirely on their own terms- of the intimate 'you must change your life' urgency of the Duino Elegies." -D. Nurkse

BASIL KING: History Now

"'Perspective' is what King brings to his vivid, hybrid writing. It is the perspective of someone who has been trained not just to look but to SEE... King's work always yields what his old now departed friend Amiri Baraka called'emotional validity.'" -Ammiel Alcalay

BURT KIMMELMAN: Abandoned Angel

"By way of a precise and pared-down language these poems artfully render a physical world while simultaneously serving as objects to be engaged for the contemplation of such a world... what might at first seem to be simple narrative progressions can often startlingly make manifest deeply heartfelt human illuminations."-Hugh Seidman

EDWARD FOSTER: Sowing the Wind

"As a writer, critic, editor, and teacher, Ed Foster is inveterately Apollonian: lucid, balanced, well organized." -American Book Review

THE MATRISTIC CULTURE OF PRE-HISTORIC EUROPE WITH MARY MACKEY

From now through to May 2, you can listen for free to a New Dimensions Radio interview with Mary Mackey about the Goddess -Worshiping Cultures of Prehistoric Europe. She talks about many things, including her travels to Romania and Bulgaria where she did much of the on-site research for the four novels of her Earthsong Trilogy. You can listen via the following link:

https://newdimensions.org/matristic-culture-pre-historic-europe-mary-mackey/

ROBERT GIBB ON POETRY DAILY!

Robert Gibb's After and "Spring Sequence" is featured on Poetry Daily!  Congratulations Robert!  You can go see the poem HERE!.

THE MARSH HAWK REVIEW, SPRING 2017

Edited by Mary Mackey, The Spring 2017 edition of The Marsh Hawk Review is now out!  Go HERE for the issue and Archive of past issues.  The Spring issue features the following poets:

Corinne Robins

Maxine Hong Kingston
Wil Gibson

Thomas Fink and Maya D. Mason

Susan Terris

Susan Kelly-DeWitt

Steve Fellner

Stephen Paul Miller

Sandy McIntosh

Rusty Morrison

Rochelle Ratner

Robert Gibb

Richard Loranger

Rafael Jesús Gonzalez

Puma Perl

Paul Pines

Patricia Carlin

Michael Rerick

Marge Piercy

Joshua McKinney

Brad Buchanan

Jon Curley

Joan Gelfand

Jane Ormerod

Jane Hirshfield

George Quasha

Daniel Lawless

Eileen Tabios

Dennis Nurkse

Daniel Morris

Basil King

Claudia Carlson

POETRY & MUSIC FOR ED FOSTER'S "SOWING THE WIND"

The public is invited to:

"Sowing the Wind"

Poetry and Music Event for the
 Publication of Ed Foster's New Book

(Marsh Hawk Press)

Hosted by Yunus Tuncel
Piano Performance by Aysegul Durakoglu
Poetry Reading by Ed Foster

About the Poet: Edward Foster

Ed Foster has written, translated, and edited forty books to date. Sowing the Wind is his sixteenth book of poetry, including volumes in Russian, Slovenian, and Romanian, and individual poems in Turkish. He is the founding editor of Talisman House, Publishers, and Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.

A long gnostic poem, Sowing the Wind interrogates modern notions of friendship, which, compromised by possession, need, and performance, becomes in our time simply and essentially another expression of change.  

"As a writer, critic, editor, and teacher, Ed Foster is inveterately Apollonian: lucid, balanced, well organized." —American Book Review

"[Foster's poetry] reads in its entirety like a hymn to intellectual beauty. Its mood is almost always one of deep contemplation, a search for harmony among tangled relations. Each poem is an attempt to bring an inner light to the surface of the paper…Each word has a feeling of critical distinction, as if distilled out of some more turbulent compound of longing and agitation."—Jacket2

"Edward Foster's poetry, always exacting and infinitely sweeping, comes to us like a whisper from behind our own ears... His poems suspend themselves just above language, connotative of some understanding—perhaps common to all of us—that recedes at the brink of words…"—Brooklyn Rail

About the Pianist: Aysegul Durakoglu 

Since her highly acclaimed New York Debut, Aysegul Durakoglu has been concertizing nationally and internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. She received her Masters from Juilliard School and a PhD from NYU and has been serving on the Music and Technology Program at the Stevens Institute of Technology.  A pioneer of Debussy’s piano music, she has recorded all his Etudes, and recently released a solo album, Dances through the Keyboard, recorded at the Jazz at Lincoln Center.

About the Host: Yunus Tuncel

Yunus Tuncel, Ph.D. (New School for Social Research), is a teacher of philosophy. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Nietzsche Circle and the Editorial Board of its electronic journal, The Agonist. His book Towards a Genealogy of Spectacle (Eye Corner Press, 2011) addresses issues in theories of art and spectacle. His most recent book, Agon in Nietzsche, came out in 2013 (Marquette University Press). He works on intersections between various cultural expressions such as music and philosophy, philosophy and poetry/literature or philosophy and arts in general. He also organizes, within the framework of Philomobile, cultural tours to explore creations of culture on location.

Date: April 9, Sunday

Time: 6-7:15 PM

PAUL PINES REVIEWED IN JEWISH QUARTERLY

David M. Katz offers a lovely review of Paul Pines' CHARLOTTE SONGS and Michael Heller's DIANOIA in Jewish Quarterly. You can see entire review HERE, but here's an excerpt of what was said about Paul's poetry:

as deceptively simple in their clear images and common speech as they are, these poems are songs sung from the heart of this poet: they transcend as well as embody the occasion. The light touch of Pines’s handling of the poetic line lends a subtle melody to the sparest of metaphors. In “We Walk” he describes his emotion on a September morning as he and Charlotte are about to part on her first day of school:

my heart a leaf

about to

fall

So much is captured; even more is suggested. 

MARSH HAWK IN POETS & WRITERS

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ANNUAL MARSH HAWK PRESS BOOK LAUNCH

The public is invited to the annual Marsh Hawk Press book launch which will be held at Poets House, New York City. It will be Friday, May 19th at 6-8 pm. Join us in celebrating the publication of our fall 2016 and spring 2017 titles:

A REVIEW FOR TANA JEAN WELCH!

Tana Jean Welch's award-winning Latest Volcano receives a review from Tampa Review online! You can see entire review HERE, but here's an excerpt:

Perhaps the best part of Welch’s collection is the continuous presence of two emotions—happiness and sorrow—that occur simultaneously within each poem. These polar opposite feelings are why Welch’s writing oozes intensity and suspense

PAOLO JAVIER HAS NEW BOOK!

Paolo Javier has a new project out, a work from Texte Und Tone, Ur'lyeh/Aklopolis, a collaboration with Listening Center (David Mason) & Fel Santos. Its edition is published in limited quantities, but the book and cassette comes with a mind blowing poster courtesy of SEEN Studios. 

You can listen to a live performance from the work here. Here's a project description:

cosmos breach. elder gods open yaw way south. planet swallowed doe-like, achilles star seashell leash heel to the thought. swells, dementia, hunger, urgency, seratonin blow bent tap dance little alsatian nonsense, clause thrum for bias

Poet Paolo Javier and Ghost Box recording artist Listening Center collaborate on an exploratory assemblage of clangorous sounds and mysterious fragments of speech. Field recordings of a shadowy Filipino poet are the starting point for a darkened journey through an underworld of language and postcolonial haunting.

Risograph publication. Fifth title in Flugschriften series. 100 copies only. All copies come with cassette and poster. A handful of posters are also available separately for purchase. (Please inquire.) Designed by Rob Carmichael, SEEN, and printed by Keegan Cooke at Circadian Press.

5" x 8"; 30 pages. 

A REVIEW FOR ROBERT GIBB!

Robert Gibb's AFTER, chosen by Mark Doty for Marsh Hawk Press' Poetry Prize, receives a review in the Pittsburgh City Paper! You can see review HERE, but here's an excerpt:

When Robert Gibb quotes modernist master Ezra Pound saying, “The natural object / is always the adequate symbol,” in his Poundian poem “Cathay,” it’s a sign that what follows leans heavily on imagery and precise language. Gibb doesn’t disappoint as the poem unwinds in a series of painterly images (“The pleached frazzled asphalt / still splotchy with rain … / The guardrail, the river / still blue through the trees”) that add up to something emotionally evocative in his well-crafted lines.

MEENA ALEXANDER TO JUDGE MARSH HAWK PRESS ANNUAL POETRY PRIZES

THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE
Including:
The Marsh Hawk Press Robert Creeley Memorial Award
Named for the late Poet and Member of the Marsh Hawk Press Advisory Board
&
The Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award
Named for the late Poet and Marsh Hawk Press Editor

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2017

CONTEST JUDGE:

Meena Alexander

Meena Alexander Meena Alexander is an award winning author and scholar. Her new book of poetry, Atmospheric Embroidery, was published in 2015 by Hachette India. Her volumes of poetry include Birthplace with Buried Stones, Illiterate Heart (winner of the PEN Open Book Award), Raw Silk and Quickly Changing River. Her poetry has been translated into several languages and set to music. She has written the acclaimed autobiography, Fault Lines as well as two novels. She is author of the academic study Women in Romanticism and the book of essays Poetics of Dislocation. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York and  teaches at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Click here to read poems from Meena Alexander’s newest collection of poetry, Atmospheric Embroidery (2015)

NEWS: Exhibition of Basil King - February 25 to March 31, 2017

"Basil King: Bird Scripts," Opening February 25, 2017 - 5 to 7pm.

John Molloy Gallery, 49 East 78^th Street, 2^nd floor, New York City

Regular gallery hours: Tuesday through Friday, 11 am to 6 pm and Saturday 11 am to 5 pm. 

There will be a screening of "Basil King:MIRAGE," a 22-minute film by Nicole Peyrafitte  and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte,

 followed by a poetry reading by Basil King at the gallery on March 18, 3pm - 5pm. 

King has been working with bird images since 197l. The works on exhibit were all made between 2013 and 2017. The world-wide city pigeon is a central inspiration for King works that range through many emotions. Below, Perch, mixed media on canvas, 34" x 48" - 2016.

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For more information visit info@johnmolloygallery.com or phone (212) 249-3020; cell (917) 854-6543. 

This show follows two  museum shows in North Carolina this past fall.

"Basil King: Between Painting and Writing" --September 2 to December 24, 2016

Curated by Vincent Katz and Brian Butler at the Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, Asheville, NC.   

This mini-retrospective included King’s cover art for some 60 poetry books and journals, along with 18 paintings  and 138 small works on paper. Also featured was  a screening of the Nicole Peyrafitte-Miles Joris-Peyrafitte film, "Basil King: MIRAGE" and a reading by Basil King of his poetry. Below, the opening with King's book-cover art in vitrines, and a painting from The Cards.

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"Basil King’s Birds" -- October 28 to November 19, 2016

Curated by Tom Patterson and art department staff at St. Andrews University, Laurinburg, NC.  

This show, focused on King’s bird images, was part of a semester-long Black Mountain College Festival, with many exciting artists, dancers, poets and Black Mountain historians in residence for short visits. Below, partial view of installation at St. Andrew's University Museum.

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