R.I.P. PAUL PINES

Marsh Hawk Press is devastated to share the passing of Paul Pines, brilliant poet and light-filled human being. Paul published four books with Marsh Hawk Press and was a great promoter of the press. We shall miss him.  R.I.P., Paul.

MICHAEL HELLER ENGAGES PAUL PINES' GATHERING SPARKS

Galatea Resurrects publishes Michael Heller's engagement with Paul Pines' GATHERING SPARKS! You can see the entire essay, which was presented at the Marsh Hawk Press book launch, HERE, but here's an excerpt:

As with all his works—sometimes sharp to the point of poignancy in Gathering Sparks—Paul’s poetry is a quest, spiritual, linguistic, psychological, a constant effort of human repair and recovery.  His way, as he proclaims in Gathering Sparks, is to find something which “allows him to feel/the world as proximate/unbounded.”   That unboundedness, which one finds in the amplitude of Paul’s poetry, its range of reference, its  epical breadth of open sea, foreign lands, international capitols, all coexisting with an equally powerful grainy particularity of immediate presence and human contact, is, in my reading, also an ethical quest for openness to experience and vulnerability.

MARSH HAWK ANNOUNCES 2018 CONTEST WINNERS!

2018 Contest Winners

Chosen by Jane Hirshfield

The MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE

($1,000.00 Cash Prize and Publication of the Book)

Lynne Thompson

The ROBERT CREELEY MEMORIAL AWARD

($250.00 Cash Prize)

Laura McKee

The ROCHELLE RATNER MEMORIAL AWARD

($250.00 Cash Prize)

Andrea Carter Brown

Finalists

Amanda Auerbach, Arthur Brown, Aruni Kashyap, Caryn Davidson, Charles Kell,Christopher Brunt, Elizabeth Aoki, George Kalamaras, Jacob Oet, Jacqueline Jules, James Grinwis, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Karen Donovan, Kathleen McCann, Ken Haas, Lila Dlaboha, Lynne Thompson, Mel Elberger,Michelle Lewis, Miho Nonaka, Nancy Keating,Nicole Melanson, Rachael Peckham, Reed Wilson, Shaun Griffin, Steven Haven

Thanks to Everyone Who Submitted