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TOM SLEIGH and MELISSA GREEN read at 7pm Feb 2nd at Suffolk University, Suffolk University Poetry Center, 3rd floor, Sawyer Library, 73 Tremont Street, Boston. ALFRED NICOL will be reading with Andrew Periale on February 11th at 3pm at the Jabberwocky Book Store in Newburyport. Free for Powow River Poets. Poet Daniel Hoffman reviews F.D. REEVE's novella NATHANIEL PURPLE from St. Johnsbury: Voyage Books. 2012. 128 pp. $13.95 (A poetic story of adultery, murder, and arson in a contemporary Vermont village narrated by the village librarian ): "Where [else] could you find, in a short novel, a book one wants to read twice over, a bucolic Vermont village with adultery brought to life, a crazed husband fonder of his cows than of people, a murder, a barn-burning, told us by a librarian who is equally at home with, and has the language to evoke, the pastoral beauty of the place, drinking with rowdies in the village tavern, and bringing to life the sins and sinners whose "ambition, envy, fear, hatred" vivify the tale?" SUSAN DONNELLY's poem The Bloody Mary is in the Jan 15th Writer's Almanac. F.D. REEVE has a new book, Nathaniel Purple, a novella accepted by Voyage Books that will be released January 2012. (Franklin and Laura's house and garden in Vermont escaped the nationally televised floods that drowned most of neighboring Wilmington last fall). Seastiano Edson Macedo, of the University of California at Berkeley, has translated another group of poems by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN into Portuguese. Artsvi Bachchinyan of the University of Michigan has published his interview with Diana about her new book of translations in several more American-Armenian newspapers and it also will appear in Russian and Armenian in Russia and Armenia. DANIEL TOBIN read from his Mass. Book Award winning book on Jan 17th at the Somerville Center for the Arts, 191 Highland Avenue Somerville. Also reading: Daniel Bosch and Robin Linn. An anthology of translated Armenian Poetry has just been published by the Press at California State University, Fresno. The translations by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN will be reviewed in the London Times Literary Supplement. A recent interview with her appears in the Armenian Weekly. CATHERINE STAPLES' first full length collection, The Rattling Window, was nominated by Eamon Grennan for the Robert McGovern Series and is forthcoming from the Ashland Poetry Press in spring of 2013. She has a new poem in Commonweal, and her poem "Red Rover" was selected by Carl Dennis for the Southern Poetry Review's 2011 Guy Owen Prize. Her first chapbook Never a Note Forfeit (Seven Kitchens Press) came out this past July. A new book of poems by ALFRED NICOL with photographs by his sister Elise Nicol has just been published. |
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