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Members' Readings, Awards, and Books (2008) |
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A poem by ANDREW SOFER, set to music by Kevin Beavers and performed in the Washington Sq. Music Festival in NYC, received an upbeat review in the NYTimes. NEPC poets DAVID FERRY, GEORGE KALOGERIS and MELISSA GREEN will read from their work on Thursday, July 31st at 6:00 pm at Symposium Books in Kenmore Square for the launch of the first issue of Hawk & Whippoorwill. Poems by LLOYD SCHWARTZ have been chosen for musical settings by the Composition Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center this summer. They will be performed there July 29, at 8:00 pm. After the concert, Schwartz,Tanglewood composer-in-residence Shulamit Ran, and John Harbison, director, will discuss musical settings of poetry. Scwartz will be a guest blogger about this experience for bestamericanpoetry.com. Several books by Pulitzer prize winning poet and historian, PETER VIERECK (1916-2006) are being reprinted by Transaction Publishers, www.TransactionPub.com. On Friday June 6th , the 40th anniversary of his Book of Forms, LEWIS TURCO received the Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award from the Westchester U.(PA) Poetry Conference. MEG KEARNERY and CLEOPATRA MATHIS will read at Pine Manor's Summer Solstice June Reading Series at 7 pm at 400 Heath St., Chestnut Hill at the Founder's Room: Cleopatra on June 23rd, Meg on June 24th. Poet and physician ARA SADANIANTZ will be speaking Sept 18 at 7pm at St. Sahag Mesrob Church in Providence (as a cardioligist) in the Question and Answer series. MARY BONINA's new book, Living Proof, is out from Cervena Barva Press. HONOR MOORE's The Bishop's Daughter received an excellent review by Judy Bolton-Fasman in The Boston Globe. JEFFREY HARRISON's book, Incomplete Knowledge, was recently chosen as runner-up for the 2008 Poets Prize. See Jeff's website MARY BONINA's new chapbook, Living Proof, is out from Cervena Parva Press. F.D. REEVE and his Blue Cat jazz and poetry group will appear at the New York 52nd St. Medicine Show in May, before going to San Frenciisco. New books from our Golden Rose Awardees include: DEREK WALCOTT's Selected Poems, now in paperback from Farrar, Strauss, Giroux; ADRIENNE RICH's Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth (Norton); SEAMUS HEANEY's Beowulf in a new, illustrated edition; LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI's A Coney Island of the Mind, issued in a special 50th anniversary edition with a CD of the author reading; ROBERT PINSKY's Gulf Music comes out this month from Farrar, Strauss, Giroux; and F.D. REEVE's Toy Soldier was released earlier. Other notable new books by members: CHARLES SIMIC's new Sixty Poems, published by Harcourt; MARY JO SALTER's Phone Call To the Future, from Random House; Earthly: Poems by ERICA FUNKHOUSER published by Houghton Mifflin; MARK DOTY's Fire to Fire, Harper Collins; Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford edited by FRED MARCHANT is published by Graywolf; JAMES TATE has a new book from Harper Collins, The Ghost Soldiers; TOM LUX's God Particles is published by Houghton Mifflin; Random House is re publishing FRANZ WRIGHT's God's Silence in paperback; A new study of the poetry of DIANA DER HOVANESSIAN by HENRIK BAKHCHINYAN called The Sweetness of Being Armenian has been published in Yerevan; and MARIE HOWE has a new book from Norton, Kingdom of Ordinary Time. VALERIE LAWSON and Michael Brown have moved to Maine and acquired a literary magazine, OFF THE COAST MAGAZINE, which will come out in August. Submissions of photos or 1-3 poems may be sent to Box 14 Robinson ME 04671. CHRISTINE CASSON, author of the new poetry book, After the First World from Star Cloud Press, is the Poet Of The Month for PoetryNet. HARRIS GARDNER and DOUG HOLDER will be reading at 80 Border St., East Boston on August 21. ELIZABETH KIRSCHNER's new book, My Life as a Doll, (her fourth), is just out from Autumn House Press. NEPC member MICHAEL ZACK MD is serving as poetry editor of CHEST and invites members to submit verse (up to 3) with medical relevance to him at poetrychest@aol.com. Among our members teaching at the Fine Arts Center workshops this summer in Provincetown are HENRI COLE, AFAA WEAVER, MARTHA COLLINS, MARTHA RHODES, JEAN VALENTINE, MAXINE KUMIN and CLEOPATRA MATHIS . EDWARD LOCKE's new Selected Poems is just published. And EDWARD CATES' chapbook, The Never-Ending Sorrow, is due later this year. VICTOR HOWES will be the featured poet in the forthcoming issue of LIGHT. The latest issue of Button, New England's tiniest magazine, is just out, edited by our SALLY CRAGIN and has work by ROBIN BECKER, CHRIS MULHOLLAND, MIKE PAYACK. A new book, FOR NEW ORLEANS, from Bayeux Press has an introduction by F.D. REEVE and poems by many members, including JOAN ALESHIRE, DICK ALLEN, DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN, MICHAEL HARPER, MAXINE KUMIN, DAVID LEHMAN, CLEOPATRA MATHIS, WILLIAM MEREDITH, DAVID RAY, VIVIAN SHIPLEY, and RICHARD WILBUR. DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN has a new poem on AGNI on line. Also see Diana's website. TOM SLEIGH has won the 2008 Kingsley Tufts book award. KEVIN GALLAGHER has published two chapbooks, Isolate Flecks (Cervena Barva) and Looking for Lake Texcoco (Cy Gist) in 2008. JEFFREY HARRISON, RICHARD HOFFMAN, GARY DUEHER, JOYCE PESEROFF, and AFAA WEAVER were among recent members reading at the Hotel Marlow series of PEN-New England. PATRICIA FARGNOLI has had poems published recently in Massachusetts Review, Margie, Passager, American Poetry Journal and Rattle. The Massachussetts Review nominated her poem "Prepositions Toward a Definition of God" for a Pushcart Prize. DAVID RAY, a member from Tucson, has two new books forthcoming, WHEN, from Howling Dog Press, and AFTER TAGORE: Poems inspired by RABINDRANATH TAGORE. His MUSIC OF TIME: New and Selected came out last year from Backwaters Press, Nebraska. NANCY KRICORIAN has an essay in the new Minnesota Review. She was at the Writers Conference in Yerevan this past fall where she and DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN presented papers. Members DOUGLAS BASFORD and ALEXANDER LEVITAN were among the readers in the Times Square translation program at the AWP convention. New books by members out from Cervena Barva Press by HARRIS GARDNER, DOUG HOLDER, PHILIP BURNHAM and FLVIA COSMA. The chapbooks are edited by GLORIA MINDOCK. The current issue of the New York Review has poems by MICHAEL CASEY and F.D. REEVE. There is also a craft interview with F.D. Reeve in the same issue. He was in Moscow this past winter giving a talk at a literary conference. Other traveling members: X.J. KENNEDY representing U.S writers at the Children’s Book Fair and DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN in Armenia and China. At the Taipei Poetry Festival Diana’s poems were translated into Mandarin and both published and projected on walls during her talks. She read and spoke both on Armenian Poetry and influences on it and her own poetry. In Armenia she received a gold medal from the Minister of Culture for her translations. The ceremony was broadcast several times on all the television channels. Johns Hopkins Press will publish X.J. Kennedy's NEW AND SELECTED POEMS this year. FRANZ WRIGHT will read with LI-YOUNG LEE for the Academy of American Poets. MARTHA COLLINS' book-length poem BLUE FRONT, which focuses on a lynching her father witnessed when he was a child, won an Anisfield- Wolf Award, and was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of 25 Books to Remember from 2006. A new chapbook of Collins' poems, SHEER, was just published by Barnwood Press. |
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| In Memoriam (2008) |
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Vincent Ferrini, Alexander Taylor Alberto de Lacerda Elizabeth Hardwick Robert Fagles Jason Shinder Miriam Goodman George Garrett Jean Burden |
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