EILEEN TABIOS CURATES HAY(NA)KU POETRY EXHIBIT

Eileen Tabios has installed the hay(na)ku poetry exhibit today at the Saint Helena Public Library. The exhibit will be up through to the end of the year!

HAY(NA)KU POETRY EXHIBIT

Curator: Eileen R. Tabios

Saint Helena Public Library

December 2018

EXHIBITED POEMS by

William Allegrezza

Gabriela Pascual Bautista

Charles Bernstein

Aileen Ibardaloza Cassinetto

Melinda Luisa de Jesus

Carol Dorf

Peg Duthie

Vince Gotera

Crag Hill

Kathleen Lawrence

Iris Lee (featured with ekphrastic inspiration, the quilt “Resist” by Alice Brody)

Abigail Licad

Lani T. Montreal

Cesar Polvorosa, Jr.

Zvi A. Sesling

Eileen R. Tabios

Glynda “GT” Velasco

Jean Vengua

Mark Young

HAY(NA)KU BOOKS by

William Allegrezza

Aileen Ibardaloza Cassinetto

Alex Gildzen

Sheila H. Murphy

Ernesto Priego

Eileen R. Tabios

HAY(NA)KU BOOKS edited by

Ivy Alvarez 

John Bloomberg-Rissman 

Ernesto Priego 

Eileen R. Tabios 

Jean Vengua 

Mark Young

Presented with an Invitation to the Public to write hay(na)ku poems.

PHOTOS OF EXHIBIT:

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EXHIBITED BOOKS:

CLOSE-UP SHOTS OF EXHIBIT:

MARSH HAWK POETRY PRIZES

December 1 is coming up! Which means the submission period for the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prizes -- judged this year by Marge Piercy -- will soon open. Info at: https://marshhawkpress.org/marsh-hawk-press-poetry-prize-awards/

MARY MACKEY ON CHAPTER ONE

Mary Mackey delivers the third installment in Marsh Hawk Press' Chapter One series which focuses on how writers got their early start. (At prior link, you can see the first two installments by Denise Duhamel and Philip Lopate.) You can see Mary Mackey's essay HERE but here's an excerpt:

I do not have an MFA. I became a poet by running high fevers, tramping through tropical jungles, dodging machine gun fire, and being caught in volcanic eruptions, swarmed by army ants, stalked by vampire bats, threatened by poisonous snakes, and making catastrophic decisions with regard to men. And then there was reading.

PHILLIP LOPATE ON CHAPTER ONE

Marsh Hawk Press' new "Chapter One" feature -- about how poets got their start -- has released its November feature on Phillip Lopate. It's interesting -- here's an excerpt:

"A higher, “purer” standard of what it took to be a poet seemed to reign in that corner of academia, based partly on the possession of an MFA credential, and partly on the networking of the professional poetry world. I got a real taste of the way that poetry guild mentality operated: the mentoring and bestowal of the blessing on a chosen few acolytes, whose books would then be recommended for publication, and the whole priestly sense of the Poet as someone of rare vatic powers. The non-exclusionary ethos of the Sixties and early Seventies had ended, in the face of the writing program-generated mystique of technique. The impression was conveyed that there could only be two dozen poets at most in one era who had received the vision. I knew I’d never gotten a message from on high: I did not fit that bill. My sense of myself as a poet began to shrivel up. 

"But that simple explanation is false. It would be wrong to blame my colleagues for killing the urge, since anyone who can be discouraged so easily from writing poetry is not cut out to be a poet."

You can see the whole article HERE.

BURT KIMMELMAN MEDITATES OVER PRAGUE AND MEMORY

From a recent half-year stay in Prague, Burt Kimmelman shares his 3-part meditation on "Prague and Memory" over at BODY, a lovely English-language journal headquartered in Prague.

MARY MACKEY RECEIVES SPIRITUALITY BOOK AWARD!

Marsh Hawk is delighted to announce that Mary Mackey's The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams: New and Selected Poems 1974 to 2018 has won a  2018 California Institute for Integral Studies Women's Spirituality Book Award. Congratulations, Mary!

A SLOVENIAN TRANSLATION FOR ED FOSTER!

We are pleased to share that Sowing the Wind by Ed Foster (Marsh Hawk, 2016) has been published in a Slovenian translation as Sejanje Vetra by Zalozba SKUC (Ljubljana) in their series Zbirka Lambda. You can check out the original English through our distributor SPD.

MARSH HAWK REVIEW--FALL 2018 ISSUE IS RELEASED!

We are pleased to release the Fall 2018 issue of The Marsh Hawk Review. Thank you to the poets for sharing their works. Here are the participants to this issue of the Review:

Mark Young
Irene Willis
Peter Vanderberg
Lynne Thompson
Susan Terris
Eileen R. Tabios
John Simonds
Mara Adamitz Scrupe
Barry Schwabsky
Susan M. Schultz
Janice Lobo Sapigao
E. San Juan, Jr.
Barbara Jane Reyes
Randy Prunty
Paul Pines
Naomi Buck Palagi
Gwynn O’Gara
David O’Connell
Geoffrey O’Brien
Rich Murphy
Michelle Murphy
Daniel Morris
Sandy McIntosh
Tricia McCallum
Agnes Marton
Mary Mackey
Hank Lazer
Amy Grace Lam
Basil King
Burt Kimmelman
Sherry Kearns
George Kalamaras
Jacqueline Jules
Paul Ilechko
Michael Hardin
Grace Grafton
Anne Gorrick
Kirk Glaser
Robert Gibb
Danny Gallardo
Thomas Fink
Thomas Fink and Maya D. Mason
Carol Dorf
Shira Dentz
Aileen I. Cassinetto
Tom Beckett
Ryan Bayless
Ivy Alvarez

CHAPTER ONE: DENISE DUHAMEL

One of Marsh Hawk Press' newest initiatives is the Chapter One Project which shares writers' early beginnings. Watch and listen to Denise Duhamel reading from her Chapter One memoir--click HERE to see the video.

SANDY McINTOSH ON FRENCH PUBLIC TELEVISION

Last night, October 8, 2019, a new documentary, Le parrain de Manhattan,  (Trump: The Godfather of Manhattan) premiered on FRANCE 3, French Public Television. It featured an interview with Sandy McIntosh on his recollections of Donald Trump as a fellow military school cadet and opinions of his present occupation. The documentary will repeat often and is available on demand on cable. It's in French, of course. 

INTERVIEW OF THOMAS FINK

Thomas Fink is interviewed about his Selected Poems & Poetic Series by  Shivaji Sengupta and Natsuko Hirata.  You can see this interesting conversation at Dichtung Yammer, but here's an excerpt:

I think that, in much visual poetry, spatial arrangement that departs from the accustomed linearity of free verse influences the reader’s process of meaning-making. In my shaped poems, I solicit the mutual pressure of words’ and clauses’ signifying possibilities and shapes’ constraining and exfoliating tendencies. This also happens in the enjambments and end-stops of free verse, accentual verse, and texts that involve a counting of words per line (something I do), but curves and angles of shaped poems may slow down or speed up a reading process in a different way than these other modes. Except in the “Goad” series, I haven’t intended shapes for series or individual poems to offer referential or emblematic “hooks.” One example would be the smaller quasi-sphere on top of a larger quasi-sphere in the “Jigsaw Hubbub” series which probably encourages a slowing down in the second, longer part. 

When I develop a shape or ensemble of shapes for a poem or painting, I tend to read each abstractly. I prefer somewhat arbitrary collisions between the visual and verbal elements. I’m not George Herbert nor was meant to be, and not only from a religious perspective. Of course, when Willem de Kooning was asked whether it was possible at a certain point in art history to paint a face, he retorted that it was impossible not to; any intended abstraction can be contextualized as a figurative construct.

OCTOBER NEWSLETTER!

OCTOBER 2018 NEWS FROM THE PRESS

The Chapter One Project Is Live The Chapter One Project: On Becoming a Poetfeatures original memoirs of outstanding poets from diverse backgrounds, published monthly. They'll recall the ways by which these writers got their starts.  This month we are featuring Denise Duhamel's "Mr. Rogers and Me." In November Phillip Lopate writes about his beginnings in "The Poetry Years." Mary Mackey completes the year in December with her memoir, "Fever and Jungles: On Becoming a Poet" In 2019 we will publish 12 original memoirs by poets such as Jane Hirshfield, Burt Kimmelman, Barbara Novack, Geoffrey O’Brien, Dan Morris, and Sandy McIntosh. Read more about The Chapter One Project here.

The MARSH HAWK REVIEW Fall 2018 Issue will be available in October. Thanks to all those who submitted.

Coming in January 2019 Winner of the 2018 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize LYNNE THOMPSON Fretwork “The bright magnesium of discovery enacts itself on every page of Fretwork’s telescopic and unified narrative. With calligraphic precision and a dazzling originality of word and perception, Lynne Thompson investigates the genealogies of her birth, her adoption-family, and her—and our—shared history at larger levels. These poems render life as mystery, labyrinth, longitude, sorrow, exuberance, chosen and unchosen risk, and above all, story. Schoenberg’s twelve-tone music, a Schwinn bicycle, a circus, a suitcase—all carry a time and a world’s scents and colors into these pages. Fretwork’s story is personal, particular, Thompson’s own. It is also metonymic. Necessary and informing, this book shows how poetry can weave of fragment, multiplicity, imagination and empathy, a self whose resilience and wholeness do not blur the griefs of its sources.” —Jane Hirshfield

Reading Will Begin for the 2019 Marsh Hawk Press Prizes on December 1, 2018. Contest Judge: Marge Piercy

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