Exit Strata's "30/30/30: Inspiration, Community and Tradition"

Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, whom I  had the pleasure of meeting at the Annual Chapbook Festival earlier this month, invited both my co-editor at Poets Wear Prada -- Jack Cooper -- and myself to participate in Exit Strata's "30/30/30: Inspiration, Community and Tradition" celebration of National Poetry Month. Each day a different poet shared their thoughts regarding another with a poem by their poetry muse and one inspired.

Jack's inspiration was Hala Alyan who has been recently making the rounds on New York poetry circuit, reading this April for both David Lawton at his At the Jujo Reading Series and for Puma Perl at her D-Day Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club.  Jack's praises for Hala with his and her poems can be found at: http://www.exitstrata.com/poetry-month-303030-inspiration-community-tradition-jack-cooper-on-hala-alya.  Hala has a book forthcoming from Three Rooms Press later this year.

My inspiration: Nuyorican poet Urayoán Noel, author of three poetry collections – Hi-Density Politics(BlazeVOX, 2010), Boringkén (Ediciones Callejón/La Tertulia, 2008), and Kool Logic/La lógica kool (Bilingual Press, 2005); Assistant Professor of English at SUNY; a Bronx Council on the Arts fellow in poetry, as well as a Ford Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College.  Read my essay, poetic samplings of his and mine, and watch a Youtube clip of his performance at http://www.exitstrata.com/poetry-month-303030-inspiration-community-tradition-day-28-roxanne-hoffman-on-urayoan-noel/

Many thanks to Lynne for organizing this online celebration of National Poetry Month,  with a daily post by a different poet celebrating  our "inspiration, community and tradition."

Mon 3/12: Peter Chelnik's Go-Cat-Go! Poetry Event 6:45pm Gracie's Corner Diner in Yorkville

Good News From Roxanne: A Reading Tonite in NYC & Publication Announcements!

March 12, 2009

Dear Friends,

I am reading tonight at Peter Chelnik's Go-Cat-Go! Poetry Reading & Open Mic tonight, Monday March 12th, in Yorkville. Peter is responsible for getting me to read my work in public. In 2003 I went to hear him read at The Back Fence at Dee Anne Gorman's invitation. I had never met him before. There was this big burly all-American guy at the mic wearing his trademark Pendleton plaid wool shirt, baseball cap, glasses, mustache. reading list poems and what lists he read. It sounded like jazz rants. No music. But he was making music with his words.And his words were filled with American people and American scenes. big and real just like him. He was terrific. Then after the reading broke up Bridgid Murnaham, the host and waitress, dragged Dee and me on to the stage to read from our notebooks while Peter , his brother and nephew cheered us on. So its my greatest pleasure to announce that I will be reading with Peter at his new venue tonight.

My birthday was last Friday March 9th so this also a be-late b-day party for me!

Here are the details regarding tonights reading:

Monday, March 12

6:45 pm

Peter Chelnik's GO-CAT-GO!

w. Roxanne Hoffman

Gracie’s Corner Diner

352 E 86th St

(between 1st Ave & 2nd Ave)

New York, NY 10028

Neighborhoods: Yorkville, Upper East Side

(212) 737-8505

http://graciescornerdinernyc.com

FREE! Open Mic for Poetry

your food/beverage purchase helps support the venue

My work has been accepted for publication in two forthcoming anthologies:

Paws, Claws, Wings and Things: Poetry For and About Pets
(Local Gems Poetry Press, 2012), eds. Jillian Roath, Erica DeAngelo

The Waiting Room Reader: Stories to Keep you Company
(CavanKerry, 2013), ed. Rachel Hadas

Roxy

New from Black Buzzard Press: IN FRAGILITY by Michael Graves

IN FRAGILITY

by Michael Graves

$15.95

Black Buzzard Press

ISBN 0-978-938872-47-8

Soft Cover, 86 pp.

Praise for In Fragility:

"Emotion recollected in fragility, these poems lucidly etch the power of darkness that endures, that returns. These poems are amazingly lucid, which gives them a paradoxical power."

--ROBERT VISCUSI, author of the novel Astoria (American Book Award winner) and of the poem "Ellis Island"

"This grave book deals with such volatile elements as alcohol, sexual frustration, and apostasy. The reader will watch fascinated as Mike Graves burns his fuse down to the stick of dynamite he holds in his hand, for these poems approximate a searing self¬murder note addressed to any reader strong enough to peruse it. Only a poet as skilled and knowledgeable as Graves could render raw and repressed emotion with such acute control of form and diction, such range of allusion. But reader beware: you are about to take your own life into your hands."

--GEORGE HELD

"To adapt a phrase from James Joyce, whom Graves is influenced by, In Fragility offers readers the curve of multiple emotions. While traversing sentiments of aloneness and aloofness, and both objective and introspective, these poems are at once bleak, menacing, disturbing and humorous. They bespeak a stark sobriety often in conflict with itself and, through the effective use of metaphor and the recurrent theme of alienation, achieve a narrative coherence."

--A. NICHOLAS FARGNOLI, Dean of Humanities, Molloy College, Rockville Centre, NY, and President of The James Joyce Society.

Title Poem:

IN FRAGILITY

Speak to her
In fervent prayer
And fevered need
With brimming heart,
Shaking like a poisoned cup
And soft, sick gut,
Of where you rose
From nothingness
To nascent consciousness,
Inheritor of world
And family legacy,
Consuming time
And fragile self
That can't connect
Although it grow
In pain, organically,
Enthused by hope
And every false approach
Fear and circumstance allow

About the Author:

MICHAEL GRAVES is the author of a full-length collection of poems, Adam and Cain (Black Buzzard, 2006) and two chapbooks, Illegal Border Crosser (Cervana Barva, 2008) and Outside St. Jude’s (R. E. M. Press, 1990). In Fragility from Black Buzzard Press is his second full-length collection.

In two thousand four (2004), he was the recipient of a grant of four thousand five hundred dollars ($4,500.00) from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. He is the publisher of the small magazine PHOENIX. Many years ago, he was a student of James Wright and organized a conference on James Wright at Poets House in 2004. And he became a member of P.E.N. a couple of years ago.

In addition to leading a James Joyce Ulysses’ Reading Group, he has published thirteen (13) poems in the James Joyce Quarterly and read from them and others of his poems influenced by Joyce to a gathering of the Joyce Society at the Gotham Book Mart.

Watch Michael Graves on YouTube.com at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjGZeKfSW8g, an in depth interview and a reading. (Credit: Poetry Thin Air)

Tonite 11/11/11: Book Party for Chocolate Waters' The Woman Who Wouldn't Shake Hands

come celebrate with us!

the woman who wouldn’t shake hands

 

and here's a cool trailer, w/audio

http://tinyurl.com/3fyxbyx

chocolate will be reading from her new collection

featuring Mark Larsen, Fran Witte and Chavisa Woods

with emcee/publisher Roxanne Hoffman

Manhattan Plaza, 400 W. 43rd St. (SW corner at 9th Ave.)

Ellington Room, 2nd Floor

Nov. 11, Friday @ 7:30 p.m.

(11/11/11)

FREE

Single copies will be on sale: $12.

Signed, numbered collectible edition plus bonus CD: $25.

If you’re unable to attend but would like a copy: A single copy is $12. + $3. postage.

Collectors’ edition is $25. postage free for U.S. orders (foreign add $5.) and includes a CD with six audio tracks plus an extra bonus track of a poem not in the book.

Paypal is the best (cwaters@nyc.rr.com) or snail mail Chocolate Waters 

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A Poem "All Hallows Eve" on The New Verse News.

Trick or Treat? A new poem "All Hallows Eve" appears in the online journal The New Verse News edited by James Penha (posted 10/31/2011). I hope you enjoy another abcedarian and a little bit of silliness to celebrate Halloween, and what would quite accurately describe the view from my window of the activities on Bloomfield Street in Hoboken New Jersey earlier this evening -- we had our annual Ragmuffin parade. Please follow the link, read the little ditty and show some love:
http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2011/10/all-hallows-eve.html

Poems Published in Literary Anthology Celebrating William Carlos Williams

I am pleased to announce that 3 of my poems "Life With Clocks," "The Family Tree," "The Pursuit of Progeny" appear in the 4th edition of the The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow. 


The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, No.4 - 2011 reflects a diversity of voices and styles rarely combined in one book. The fourth annual edition of the literary journal was published last month by the Red Wheelbarrow Poets.  A open call to poets connected with the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative Reading of South Bergen County, past features including guest poets from the Tri-State region and regulars open mic readers, as well as participants of the peer-to-peer poetry workshops at the GainVille Learning Center and Café. Thirty poets are featured: John Barrale, Céline Beaulieu, Sondra Singer Beaulieu, Marian Calabro, the late George de Gregorio, Milton P. Ehrlich, Mark Fogarty, Thomas Fucaloro, Davidson Garrett, Elissa Gordon, Roxanne Hoffman, Jim Klein, Melanie Klein, Janet Kolstein, Kathy Kuenzle, Brant Lyon, Zorida Mohammed, Rick Mullin, Mike O’Brien, Jane Ormerod, George Pereny, S. Gili Post, Tony Puma, Dan Saxon, Claudia Serea, Francesca Sphynx, Madeline Tiger, John J. Trause, Dorinda Wegener and Don Zirilli.


In addition to the poetry, four essays give insight into the life and work of the Rutherford doctor/poet: "William Carlos Williams and the Baroness" by John J. Trause; "The Poetry Reading" by Madeline Tiger; "Friendship and ‘The Figure 5’" by Marian Calabro and "Medicine, Languages, a River and the American Muses in the Work of William Carlos Williams" by Céline Beaulieu. Noted poet Jim Klein, who leads the Gainville poetry workshop, shares his thoughts on creating a painting in "Don’t Talk Unless You Can Improve the Silence," and Mark Fogarty gives a preview of his novel in excerpts from "It’s So Easy to Fall in Love."


The journal was launched on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 7PM at the Williams Center in Rutherford, New Jersey.  Copies are available online at Lulu.com (http://www.lulu.com/content/10922431) and will be available through Amazon.com by the end of the year. For more information and mailorders contact the Editors.

Remembering Jack LaLanne (September 26, 1914 – January 23, 2011

“I can’t die. It would ruin my image.”

Jack LaLanne, noted American fitness, exercise and nutrition expert, motivational speaker, TV personality, and father of the modern physical fitness movement, died Sunday afternoon, January 23rd at his home in Morro Bay, Calif. He was 96.

"Enjoy Yourself!"

My mother idolized Jack so I've always had a soft spot for him.  While other moms were packing twinkies and peanut butter sandwiches in their kid's lunch boxes, my mom was packing carrot and celery sticks, a little can of V-8, along with the veggie and sprout sandwiches in mine. Atopped with little notes quoting Jack: "Make it happen!," "Have a positivie attitude!," "Enjoy yourself!."

James Penha, Editor of  The New Verse News was kind enough to post my poem for Jack, "The Battlle of the Bulge," on his blog today, Tuesday January 24th along with a video clip of Jack courtesy of YouTube.  Follow the link to read the poem.

http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2011/01/battle-of-bulge.html

Happy MLK! The New Verse News: I HAD A DREAM

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

January 16, 2011


Dear Friends & Fellow Poets;



Check out Roxy's poem "I HAD A DREAM" on The New Verse News:

http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-had-dream.html  




Barack Obama
as a boy
on his tricycle

 

 Have a great weekend!



Roxy & Herb



p.s. To read & remember the entire text of Dr. King's "I Hav A Dream" speech go to : http://www.usconstitution.net/dream.html
 e



President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States of America







Our President
Still Riding Strong!





Roxanne & Friends in MOBIUS, The Poetry Magazine, 28th Anniversary Issue

MÖBIUS,The Poetry Magazine
28th Anniversary Issue



 I've just received my beautiful azure blue copy of MÖBIUS,The Poetry Magazine, 28th Anniversary Issue and delighted to be included with several friends: Austin Alexis, John J. Trause, Gil Fagiani, Margery Hauser, Erica Mapp, Jim Pignetti, Thad Rutkowski, Mary Orovan, Laura Boss, Patricia Carragon and of course editors Juanita Torrence-Thompson, Dominick Arbolay, and Diana Festa,  amoung the luminaries: Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Lyn Lifshin, Daniella Gioseffi and Hal Sirowitz.


By coincidence this fall I've been rereading several collections by Nikki Giovanni & Rita Dove but only recently discovered the work of Ms. Sanchez.   I was totally charmed by Ms. Giovanni's Bicycles: Love Poems and intrigued with Ms. Dove's contemporary application of Persephone myth in Mother Love.  I highly recommend you get your hands on copies of each title to keep you company this winter.


Copies of MÖBIUS are available from the publisher at $15 a copy which includes $3 for shipping and handling within the USA.  (Outside the USA, please pay S&H using International Reply Coupons. Order forms are available at http://www.mobiuspoetry.com/. ) Please send your checks to:

MÖBIUS,The Poetry Magazine

P.O. BOX  671058

Flushing NY 11367-1058, USA

For a sneak peak, here is my contribution:

WIND CHIMES

5-7-7 Katuata in Sedoka Pairs

in the summer breeze
what song do the wind chimes sing
with their jingle jangling song?

wind chimes play your song
the one muddy rivers sing
as you skip across their stones

in the summer breeze
what song do the wind chimes sing
with their jingle jangling song?

wind chimes play your song
darning needles hum along
the sun dances on your back

in the summer breeze
what song do the wind chimes sing
with their jingle jangling song?

wind chimes play your song
goldfinch twitter rambles on
su-weet, su-weet, so sweetly!

in the summer breeze
what song do the wind chimes sing
with their jingle jangling song?

wind chimes play your song
ring ring Canterbury bells!
harken bumble bees to dine!

in the summer breeze
what song do the wind chimes sing
with their jingle jangling song?

wind chimes play your song
trumpet flowers regale us
the sparrow from his perch chirps

in the summer breeze
what song do the wind chimes sing
with their jingle jangling song?

wind chimes play your song
sunlight shimmies on water
the tall grass becomes a harp

Copyright 2010 Roxanne Hoffman

All the Best Wishes for a Very Happy & Healthy New Year to You and Yours! 

IN THE (NEW VERSE) NEWS: SALVATION RINGS ON FIFTH

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

James Penha, Editor THE NEW VERSE NEWS (who by the way is the author of SNAKES and ANGELS: Adaptations of Indonesian Folk Tales, Winner of the 2009 Cervena Barva Press Fiction Contest) has posted a jpg of  my poem "SALVATION RINGS ON FIFTH" this morning.  Check it out: http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnewversenews.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Fsalvation-rings-on-fifth.html

Here's the original, written 11/24, in anticipation of tonights (11/30) Tree Lighting at Rockefeller Center, NYC:

SALVATION RINGS ON FIFTH

( *

avenue

bellringers

chiming

A

ZZZZ

V

dollars

emerge$

$faith

gleams

==

Heaven’s

intermittent

jovial kaddish

looms majestically!

Newsrooms observe:

+ + + + + + + + + + + + +

+ + pilgrims + + + + + + + + +

+ + + + + + + + + queuing + + + +

>|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|<

Rockefeller’s *S*P*R*U*C*E* twinkling

>|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|<

>>>>>>>> underneath? voices <<<<<<<<<

: )       

!WOW!       

X-MAS-SIVE!        

YULE-TIME-ATE!        

ZONIC!       

~ rmh 11/24/2010

Happy Holidays!

SKIVE Nov 2010 Americana Now Available on LULU!

I just got the good word from SKIVE Magazine Editor Matthew Ward that the November 2010 "Americana" issue is in print and now available on LULU (please see my note about November LULU coupon codes at the end of this post):

Hi

The printed November 2010, "Americana" issue of Skive is now for sale

260 pages, perfect bound.

Only $14.95*

Secure site where you can use your credit / debit card or PayPal

http://budurl.com/SkiveAmericana

cheers

Matt


Also, you can join up to the free Skive Facebook group to get the latest in Skive news. See link below

~~~

Matthew Ward
Editor,
Skive Magazine

http://www.skivemagazine.com/
Facebook Group: http://tinyurl.com/SkiveFBGroup

* Enter these verified coupon codes at the checkout on your LULU book purchases this month:

Save 20% on book orders (Save up to $10) with NOVEMBOOK (Expires: 11/30/2010)

Save 10% with TURKEY through November 30, 2010 and help your favorite author win this month's sales contest.

Each coupon can only be used once and cannot not be used in combination with any other coupon. LULU may pull the plug on these at anytime.

Hey, you can use these on all LULU books except your own titles!
Read my poem "Once Was A Banker" in the November 2010 "Americana" issue of SKIVE MAGAZINE!

House of Horror Anthology Raises Money for Children's Charity

HOUSE OF HORROR Announces £1 from Every Book Sale Goes to Children's Charity Fund.

The House of Horror Best of 2010 Anthology is now available for pre-order!! Woohoo. It is  £11.99 with free shipping from http://www.houseofhorror.org.uk/ -- just go to the Book Shop.  £1 from every book sale goes to the HOH Children's Charity Fund. Please remember to type the name of your favorite contributor (hopefully that's me!) into the BUYERS INSTRUCTIONS section on the order and that writer, artist or interviewee will receive a small royalty as well. The book will be ready in 2 weeks time and sent straight out to those who have ordered them.

The lyrics to my popular Halloween song "Rattle Them Bones" are included in the Poetry section!

Here's a complete listing of the Table of Contents -- 257 pages chock full of some of the finest contemporary horror writing availabe today!:

Contents

Introduction

Fiction
The Rock Garden, Stacey Boli
Blind Date, John F. Taylor
My Sweet Prince, Nandy Ekle
Rope, Gayle Arrowood
Lunch Date, R. A. Hunter
Dark Water, George Wise
Route Cobra, Jason Duke
Leech, Travis Gate
The Victim, Jason D. Brawn
Mike Patterson, Murderer, Jokeen Krupyer
Cactus Face, Joseph Hill
A Little Bit of Heaven, Aaron J. French
Presence, Charlotte E. Gledson
Death Comes in Pieces, Shells Walter
There's a Light, A. E. Churchyard
Family Legacy, John Arthur Miller
A New Day,Alva J. Roberts
Pocket Giant, Gary McKenzie
Grandpa Jack O' Lantern, Ken L. Jones
Price to Sell, Kevin L. Jones
Phases, J. Derris Ward
Incarnation, E. W. Bonadio
The Disappearers,  Jeffrey B. Burton
Bad Teeth, Marc Lyth
Mayonnaise, The Real Story, Neil E. Leckman
Darkness Within, Ash Krafton
Getting Home, David Bernstein
Dinner is on the Table, Chris Dean
Theatre of Pain, Lee Pletzers
Suffering Begins in the Mouth and Ends in the Belly, Alan Spencer

Poetry
Bloody Cup, Kim Talafuse
Elsie's Friend, Sharon M. White
Dies Irae, Sharla Anderson
Fur to Suit, Rhonda Parrish
My Final Masterpiece, Richard H. Fay
Serial, Stephen D. Nadaud II
Raggedy Hag, William Andre
The First Cut, Doree Weller
Blood Bound, Graylin Fox
Rattle Them Bones, Roxanne Hoffman
Night of the Demons, Stephanie Smith


Artwork
Darren James
Nick Rose
Sandy Swagger
Bret Jordan
A.W. Gifford
Gary Mclusky

Articles
Writing for Yourself, Shells Walter
Learning from the Best, A.E. Churchyard
Imagination, Simon Marshall-Jones


Interviews
Alan Spencer
Shane McKenzie
Lori Titus
David Dunwoody
Eric S. Brown
Jerrod Brown
Kevin Wallis
Suza Kates
Tonia Brown

Book Reviews
Inside the Perimeter
Unbound and Other Tales
Ruthless
Whispers of a Witch
Lucky Stiff
Desiree
The Occult Files of Albert Taylor

Sam Cox, Editor in Chief
Charlotte Gledson, Poetry Submissions Editor
Nandy Ekle, Copy Editor
AJ Brown, Proof Editor
House of Horror
http://www.houseofhorror.org.uk/

November Edition of SKIVE Magazine celebrates Americana

SKIVE MAGAZINE
Nov. 2010
"Americana"
$14.95
On Sale (at LULU.com)
1 Nov. 2010

And if you are wondering why I am mentioning this ...

I just received word from Editor Matthew Ward that my poem "Once Was A Banker" will appear in the November 2010 "Americana" issue.  Skive Magazine has published 506 Authors published since 2003! Check out the roster of past contributors at http://www.skivemagazine.com/  and those knock-'em-dead covers.

And if you are wondering what that magazine name is all about I found this information on contributor Scott Taylor's All Night Diner blogspot:

skive: verb, infinitive to skive, third person singular skives, simple past skived


To avoid one's assigned work or duty. To slack off.

Scott's story "Club for Exceptional Gentlemen"  appeared the August 2010 "Vampire$, we're all cashing in on Twilight" issue. Friend, Daniel de Culla, has poetry in the same issue.   Here are the comments posted on LULU for this past issue:

"Amazing. The stories are chilling, beautiful, haunting and vivid. The poetry is stellar. And the issue itself is aesthetically appealing with a great montage on the back cover. I've been very pleased with my copy and look forward to the next." -- KAKEITH

"An excellent read! Skive just seems to get better. " -- ANDREW SCOBIE

SKIVE MAGAZINE
Aug. 2010
'Vampire$'
$9.95
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/skive-magazine---vampires-august-2010/12046931

And you know how much I love vampires so I've just ordered my copy and am very much looking forward to receiving both issues.

Another work accepted by HOUSE OF HORROR!

THE VAMPIRE POET
[Photo Credit: Madeline Artenberg]

I just got the good news from Sam Cox, Editor of HOUSE OF HORROR, that the lyrics to my popular Halloween song "Rattle Them Bones!" will be published in the magazine's special Halloween edition due out October 31, 2010.

In the meantime, please visit their website at http://www.houseofhorror.org.uk/  and check out Issue #16 featuring reviews of Desiree by Ken Goldman, The Horror Zine Volume Two: Twice the Terror and The Occult Files of Albert Taylor by Derek Muk also an Interview with author of Lucky Stiff, Tonia Brown.

If you can spare a few pounds/dollars, I urge you to grab one of their anthologies to help raise money for their childrens charity. They are all inclusive of shipping and if you mention a contributor's name for Frightening Fables, Stitched Up or A Pint of Bloody Fiction, on your paypal order then they will receive a royalty payment.


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88 Stories Campaign Against Domestic Violence To Raise Funds For Abused Moms & Kids

I am very honored to have my story "Yom Kippur, circa 1962" included in this new anthology from Familia Books which includes the work of 86 daughters and sons. Each of  us has shared a very personal story about their mother or grandmother and in doing so hopefully some insight into "motherhood" and what makes a mother a mother.  Editor/Publisher Eric Bowen has pledged a percentage of the proceeds from sales of this book to aid shelters for women and their children who are escaping abusive relationships.   Please support this effort by buying copies for yourself and your friends and letting your friends and family know about this publication.  The Facebook page for Familia Books is http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bellingham-WA/Familia-Books/119264101459401. Please join the  WISDOM OF OUR MOTHERS Group Page at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=151600108186145.

 

WISDOM OF OUR MOTHERS

Stories and Poems by Daughters and Sons

Edited by Eric Bowen

Trade Paperback, 296 Pages

ISBN 978-1453631010

Familia Books, 2010

$14.95
Now Available at CreateSpace.com
https://www.createspace.com/3461303
&
from Amazon.com
http://amzn.com/1453631011

From the mother who taught her daughter to wire a lamp
to the mother who recruited the President to save her daughter's life,
the memories of daughters and sons of the remarkable wisdom and dedication
of their mothers come to vivid life in this anthology of true stories.

~Contributors~

Aderemi Adegbite

Lily Alex

Liz Allen

Sally Bellerose

B. Lynch Black

L. Michael Black

Sylvia Bright-Green

Rheana Lee Campbell

Iona Carroll

Selene Castrovilla

Vijayalakshmi Chary

Eve Cogdell

JaeLynn Conrad

Flavia Cosma

Althea Gael Coupé

Shirley Anne Cox

Julie Curwin

Lynne Daroff

Carole Davis

Laura Aviella Davis

Mary Dempsey

Liz Dolan

Melissa England

Fred Evans

Deepanjolie Sonya Figg

Sandra Fischer

Virginia Fortner

Michele Graves

Susan Harmon

Jean M. Hendrickson

Roxanne Hoffman

Stephanie Holbrook

Andrea Hernandez Holm

Anne-Marie Hood

Dee Ann E. L. Horvath

Patrick Hurley

Amanda Hyslop

Beverly Jackson

Sally Jadlow

Diane Kolb

Kathy Krisko

Erin Lawlor

Loraine Lawson

James W. Lewis

Christy Lowman

Rose Marks

Tara Masih

Caryl McAdoo

Lyn McConchie

Myrna McKee

Rajendar Menen

Susan E. Méra

Jayne Moraski

Brooke Mullins

Hugh Neeld

Jean Noble

Lucy L. Painter

Sr. Josie Palmeri, MPF

Roberta Filzer Pearl

Perry P. Perkins

Carolyn Piper

Gayle Portnow

Oluwafemi Reis

Pat Richards

Dmae Roberts

Gwen Russell Green

Sheri Ryan

Wanda Ryder

Lynn Veach Sadler

Mark Scheel

Jacqueline Seewald

Virginia Settle

Ryma Shohami

Sheila Sievewright

Sharon Skinner

Serena Spinello

Madeline Steeg

Deborah Straw

Annmarie B. Tait

Laura Tamayo

Nicole A. Tatum

Rita Janice Traub

Dalia van den Boogaard

Sarah Wagner

K. K. Wilder

Lisa K. Winkler

Opposing domestic violence: In honor of those mothers doing their work in the most difficult of circumstances, editor Eric Bowen has pledged to donate one-half of his profits from the sale of this book to shelters for women and their children who are escaping abusive relationships.

About the Editor

Born in Renton, Washington State in 1953, Eric Bowen uses his day job as an accountant to support his family and his various hobbies and social activities, including Toastmasters, the Unitarians, hiking, taekwondo, linguistics, singing, and of course writing. His first book, An American View of Wales, chronicled his decade of volunteering for the Welsh home rule and language restoration movement.

* * * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * * *

Aug 25, 2010

Contact:

Patricia Carragon
917 679 5002
pcarragon@gmail.com



EIGHTY-EIGHT STORIES CAMPAIGN AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Anthology aims to raise funds for abused mothers and children

Bellingham, Washington (July 1, 2010) Wisdom of Our Mothers (Familia Books, 2010) is an anthology of true stories and poetry based on the theme of lessons learned from the authors’ mothers. It is the brain-child of part-time philanthropist Eric Bowen.

Following the publication of Tim Russert’s popular Wisdom of Our Fathers, Bowen saw the need for a companion volume of maternal wisdom. Bowen solicited writers from around the world to contribute their stories of what they had learned from their mothers. Guided by his own mother’s teaching that “one does well by doing good,” Bowen has pledged half his profits from the book to raise funds for shelters for abused mothers and children.

Everyone has a mother, and readers will doubtlessly find stories in this anthology that relate to their own experiences. Yet Bowen’s presentation isn’t sentimental. The mothers profiled in the stories are human. Their virtues are balanced by their flaws, and in some cases, the lessons learned from those flaws form the basis of the story.

The anthology explores maternal wisdom in various categories: emotional, relationship, and practical skills; virtues, humor, and heritage. One chapter delves into “the dark side,” profiling some truly dysfunctional mothers. “From other lands” describes motherhood in cultures outside the American mainstream.

For more information about Wisdom of Our Mothers, please visit http://www.familiabooks.com/ or contact Eric Bowen at 360-384-1028.


About Eric Bowen:

Eric Bowen has worked as an occasional free-lance reporter. Of Welsh descent, he covered the Welsh nationalist movement of the 1990s, summarizing his work in his first book, An American View of Wales. In addition to his writing experience, Bowen brings to his new book a social conscience and multicultural perspective developed in his volunteer work with the United Farm Workers and Amnesty International. These perspectives, coupled with his personal trauma as both an observer and victim of domestic violence in his extended family, are evident in the yeasty, gritty, and multicultural facets of the anthology.

About Familia Books:

Familia Books is Eric Bowen’s publishing enterprise. In addition to Wisdom of Our Mothers, Bowen plans further anthologies including Wisdom of Our Children and Surviving Domestic Violence.

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The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow No. 3: Now Available from LULU.com

The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow No. 3

ISBN 978-0-557-58376-8

Paperback: 232, Price: $15

Red Wheelbarrow Poets,  August 2010

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-rutherford-red-wheelbarrow-no-3/12206587  

Masthead:

Editor: Jim Klein

Managing Editor: Mark Fogarty

Managing Editor: Sondra Singer Beaulieu

Designer: Claudia Serea

Editor Advisor: John Barrale

Editor Advisor: Céline Beaulieu

Editor Advisor: George DeGregorio

Contributors (in alphabetical order):

John Barrale

Céline Beaulieu

Sondra Singer Beaulieu

Marian Calabro

Teresa Carson

George DeGregorio

Gil Fagiani

Jane Fisher

Mark Fogarty

Elissa Gordon

Max Greenberg

Roxanne Hoffman

Pamela Hughes

Josh Humphrey

Gail King

Jim Klein

Melanie Klein

Janet Kolstein

Joel Lewis

Maria Lisella

Pete Loria

Zorida Mohammed

Michael O'Brien

Moira O'Brien

Tony Puma

Gabriella Radujko

Susan Rappaport

Susanna Rich

Dan Saxon

Claudia Serea

Ed Smith

Rosemarie S. Sprouls

Anna Toher

John J. Trause

Miyuki Tsurumaki

David Vincenti

B.J. Ward

Dorinda Wegener

Don Zirilli

Sander Zulauf

~BOOK LAUNCH~

 

William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative of Southern Bergen County

Presents

Poetry in Rutherford

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

7:00 PM

~Featuring~

THE RED WHEELBARROW POETS

&

Celebrating the Release of the Third Edition of

THE RUTHERFORD RED WHEELBARROW

Plus the work of

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

presented by JOEL LEWIS

&

Open Readings from the floor

This program is held at:

Williams Center for the Performing Arts
One Williams Plaza
Rutherford, NJ 07070
Tel: (201) 939-6969
Fax: (201) 939-0843
http://www.williamscenter.org/ 


Call the Rutherford Public Library at 201.939.8600 for more information.

Virgogray Press on YouTube.com

VIRGOGRAY PRESS Publisher/Editor Michael Aaron Casares is providing updates on his press on YouTube.com at http://www.youtube.com/user/VGPMEDIA.  The July 21 installment of his video blog includes announcements for a new chapbook NEW POETRY GARAGE SALE by Peter Maggliocco,  the re-release of  LIMBO by Michael Aaron Casares, and the new chapbook anthology AMERICA REMEMBERED.  A sound clip of my reading of "The Wright Brothers" from the new VGP chapbook anthology is included on the broadcast.
 
Michael also mentions his inverview on SIX QUESTIONS FOR ... , a new blog maintained by Jim Harrington "where editors, publishers, agents, educators, and writers discuss writing."  For more information about this blog and to read the inverview visit http://sixquestionsfor.blogspot.com/. The interview was posted on Monday, July 19, 2010 and is catalogued under Virgogray Press.

And some press on Dennis Cooper's blog, DC's, for another title from VGP, MOSTLY SPINACH by Joseph Goosey.  http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2010/07/please-welcome-joseph-gooseys-mostly.html.

I hope you will take a few moments an tune in to Michael VGPMEDIA channel on YouTube.com, watch his video blog, listen to my reading and subscribe to his channel.    Also, please check out Jim Harrington's SIX QUESTIONS FOR ... , and Dennis Cooper's DC's.

Poem Accepted for LIPS Poetry Magazine

I've just learned from LIPS Poetry Magazine editor Laura Boss that my poem "The Burden of the Body" has been accepted for the next issue due out Spring 2011. I'm honored to be included in this fine magazine of poetry founded in 1981 by Laura Boss that has included poems by Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg, Ruth Stone, David Ignatow, Marge Piercy, Michael Benedikt, Nicholas Christopher, Anne Waldman, Ishmael Reed, Gregory Corso, Lyn Lifshin, Ted Berrigan, Paul Hoover, Jana Harris, Toi Derricotte, Joseph Bruchac, Alice Notley, Warren Woessner, Robert Phillips, Hal Sirowitz, Theodore Weiss, Alicia Ostriker, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Stanley H. Barkan, Michael Weaver, Molly Peacock & Richard Kostelanetz.

Laura Boss is a poet that I've admired for years and an important influence on my own work. I first heard her read at Symposia Bookstore in Hoboken, New Jersey when she read for the Debaun Spoken Word Series, and always enjoy the humor, insight and compassion she shares in her work. She is a great observer of human nature and a gifted story-teller.

To find out more about LIPS and Ms. Boss please visit the LIPS website at http://home.earthlink.net/~poetry_magazine/Lips.html.

SLIVER OF STONE: Inaugural Issue is Now Online!

 

 

August 1, 2010

 

Sliver of Stone just announced that its inaugural issue is now available online.  The issue features the poetry of Denise Duhamel, non-fiction by Kim Barnes and fiction by John Dufrense. The other contributers to this issue are Alan Britt, Alex Alderete, Andrea Askowitz, Andrew Abbott, Changming Yuan, Chloe Nimue Clark, Ernest Williamson III, Gabriela Suarez, Jennifer Hearn, Jessica Barrog, Joe Clifford, John Riley, John Solensten, Jon Page, Jonathan P. Escoffery, Julia Meylor Simpson, Laura Merleau, Mary Christine Delea, Nicholas Garnett, Pete Borrebach, Rae Spencer, Robert E. Wood, Roxanne Hoffman, Russ Hicks, Russell Reece, Samantha Knapp, Sherry O’Keefe, T.J. Beitelman, Terry Sanville, Tim Curtis, Whitney Scott, and Yia Lee.

My poem "Choosing" is included in the magazine and can be read at: http://site.sliverofstone.com/Roxanne_Hoffman.html

The editors are looking for submissions for their second issue! DEADLINE: October 31st.

 

Sliver of Stone is a bi-annual, online literary magazine dedicated to the publication of work from both emerging and established poets, writers, and visual artists from all parts of the globe. We publish work that is surprising and inventive.

 

The editors are interested in the following:

• Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Essays (3,500 words or less).
• Poetry, any form or genre (No more than 5 poems)
• Visual art

Note the following restrictions:

• Multi-authored works are not eligible.
• No previously published works.
• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable but we must be notified immediately should your work be accepted elsewhere for publication.

 

For complete submission guidelines, please visit http://www.sliverofstone.com/

 

2 Poems Forthcoming in THE RUTHERFORD RED WHEELBARROW 3!

Just sharing some good news!  Two of my sonnets, "My Love for Will" and "Track Marks," have been chosen for publication in the forthcoming The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow 3, which will be launched on Wednesday, Sept. 1 at the Williams Center for the Arts in Rutherford, New Jersey.

Here is "Track Marks" with a self-portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci -- his words inspired the poem:

Leonardo DaVinci, Self-portrait in red chalk,
circa 1512 to 1515.
Royal Library of Turin

TRACK MARKS
For Leonardo Da Vinci, who said "After forty years, a man is responsible for his face."

...a man is responsible for his face.
And way beyond the razor nicks—
Each laugh and worry leave their trace,

Brow, raised-and-furrowed till inscribed.
The broken nose you would not fix.
The shots of alcohol imbibed.

A life’s indulgence, doubling chin,
Rounds out the once slim oval bisque.
Sun’s worship flecks translucent skin.

And pleasure’s crows? Their footprints race.
Life’s little torments, we self-inflict,
Write lines, time nor artist can erase,

Tattle tales of just where and how we’ve been—
Track marks of escapades expose each sin.