Saturday, August 15, 2020

REVIEW OF GEOFFREY O'BRIEN'S NEW MARSH HAWK PRESS BOOK!


Norman Finkelstein reviews Geoffrey O'Brien's HOW WORDS CAST THEIR SPELL ON A POET -- the first book to come out of Marsh Hawk Press' "Chapter One" series!  You can see the review at Hyperallergic, but here's an excerpt:
A longtime writer for the New York Review of Books, O’Brien is the author of eight volumes of poetry as well as numerous books on film, popular music, and the art of reading. Here, he trains his sensitive, meticulous instruments of attention and his eloquent prose style upon his own poetic origins. This is, as he writes in the introductory poem, “not about wanting to be a poet / or trying to become a poet.” Rather, “The question here was only / where did poetry come from in a single random life / …haunted like a house by what is overheard / a transience perpetually surviving.”



Friday, August 14, 2020

SANDY MCINTOSH RECALLS SCHOOLDAYS WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP

Sandy McIntosh presents the article "The year Trump went astray: A former New York Military Academy classmate on the emergence of a self-promoter" in today's Daily News. The article begins:
For Donald Trump, his senior year at New York Military Academy was transformative...
and schoolmate Sandy was there to witness. Click on above link to read more!



Monday, August 3, 2020

DAVID B. AXELROD, AUGUST "CHAPTER ONE" POET

Photo by Jim Tiller, Daytona News-Journal

David B. Axelrod, our August "Chapter One" poet, writes on "The Value of the Local: Red Met for the Poets on Long Island Sound." You can read his contribution at https://marshhawkpress.org/david-b-axelrod-the-value-of-the-local-red-meat-for-the-poets-on-long-island/

"Chapter One" presents poets talking about their beginnings as writers; its Table of Contents is at https://marshhawkpress.org/chapter-one/