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.