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CRUZIO CAFE! newest animated poetry videos just posted - Beau Blue does an extraordinary job of animating poets and their poetry - thrilled to have a poem appear in this month's issue!
Thank you Beau!! Connie Post, Livermore, CA
Poet's Lane
Rave On
Do you have a new book, published a poem or an article, won a contest; send me your good news!
"To have meaningful work is tremendous happiness."
Rita Mae Brown
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Uphook Press is pleased to announce the publication of
hell strung and crooked
"Poetry taken to the edge and back round again"
Featuring: Lenore Balliro, Samantha Barrow, Paul M. L. Belanger, Alex O.
Bleecker, Meredith Devney, Malaika Favorite, Joseph Fritsch, Christian Georgescu,
Robert Gibbons, Thomas Gibney, Deborah Hauser, Suzanne Heagy, Aimee Herman, R.
Nemo Hill, Vicki Iorio, Kit Kennedy, Stephen Kopel, David Lawton, Richard
Loranger, E. K. Mortenson, Nancy Carol Moody, Puma Perl, John Marcus Powell, Bob
Quatrone, Seraphime Rhyianir, Lynn Samsel, Jackie Sheeler, Mary McLaughlin
Slechta, Elliot D. Smith, Laura L. Snyder, Francesca Sphynx, Gregory Vincent St.
Thomasino, Charles F. Thielman, Andrew Topel, John J. Trause, Geoffrey Kagan
Trenchard, Stephanie Valente, Jacob Victorine, Ocean Vuong, Bruce Weber, and
Laura Madeline Wiseman.
"hell strung and crooked" also includes interviews with Mark Doty and Claus
Ankersen
Available from Amazon, at readings, and at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sept 12
www.uphookpress.com
Connie Post writes
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Winners in the Summer Travel Haiku Contest - ContraCostaTimes.com
Wings tucked, we poultry/shuffle past first-class to squeeze/into nugget shapes. -- Sherry Sheehan, Crockett
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Hi, friends in poetry, I'm Ronna Leon. I have been selected as Benicia, CA's next poet laureate for 2010-2012. The official announcement will be made at a City Council Meeting around July 20th. P.S. I don't want to send out anything to our group without including a poem so here is one from the American Poet STEPHEN CRANE 1871-1900 that I read recently and loved for its directness, brevity and humor. A Man Said To The Universe A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."
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Congrats to Jennifer K. Sweeney, on the birth of
her son Liam, and whose poem in issue seven , "I Am,
Myself, Three Selves at Least" WON a Pushcart Prize!
Issue Nine is at the printers and if all goes well should be ready by the end of
the month.
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Like all true poets, Connie Post sharpens language to pierce and rejuvenate the outer-skin of appearances. Again and again, her teasingly punctuated poems pull us aside. One poem asks an X-ray technician “how can she know the secrets of the body / the broken bits of history – not detectable / by her kind of light.” These feisty poems -- many of them soft-spoken psalms -- stitch and glue the everyday to the eternal, interweaving the worldly with the eternal. Concerns or attractions we first take to be particular or private dissolve into the universal so inevitably that we’re forced to relax and recognize the trickster-spirit of poetry at work. Trip Wires is a treat.
-- Al Young
Start from the end and peel back meaning / word by word, line by line” Connie Post tells us, and in Trip Wire, she demonstrates how to start from the end and peel back meaning to the heart of things, the essential, even as she acknowledges the risks in facing the darkest parts of memory—that we might not “remember / how to wake.” But remember she does, more and more deeply, in poems as fiercely honest as they are tender, in a voice that is always compelling and afraid of nothing.
Lynne Knight: Author of “A Book of Common Betrayals” and Winner of 2009 Rattle Poetry Prize
HOW TO ORDER:
You can either fill out the form below and mail it directly to Finishing Line Press, or you can order online by going to http://www.finishinglinepress.com Once there, click on "New Releases" and then scroll down to my book (books appear in alphabetical order by author's name. ). If you have any trouble ordering online, just let me know and I'll be more than happy to help. Thank you!
here is the direct link: http://www.finishinglinepress.com/NewReleasesandForthcomingTitles.htm
(Please mail all orders to the Finishing Line Press address below or order online at www.finishinglinepress.com click on “2009/2010 New Releases”)
For Mail orders, fill out the form below and send to Finishing Line Press:
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With much appreciation to so many of you who have supported me over the years!
Connie Post
Dear Ms. Fisk, Ted Kooser would like to reprint your poem "Hunter's Moon" in his newspaper and online column "American Life in Poetry." If you are interested, please respond with your mailing address.
Molly Fisk
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Launch/Reading for DrunkYard Dog| Date: |
Friday, June 18, 2010
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6:00pm - 8:00pm
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Cornelia St. Cafe
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Hi Cynthia,
another of my haiku made the West County Times today.
http://sites.google.com/site/sherrysheehanpoems/Home/why-haiku
This "pet peeve" was my 25th to make the printed page. Yay!
Pet-peeve theme 6/7/10
It seems peevish to
have a pet peeve when we are
luckier than most.
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Erica Goss
The
Berkeley Poetry Festival is an annual celebration organized by Louis Cuneo
and his
Mother’s Hen press.
This year’s event is slated for Saturday, June 5, from 1-6 pm, at Telegraph and
Haste near the University of California Berkeley campus, and will honor Bay Area
poet
Jack Foley with its 4th Lifetime Achievement Award.
http://www.examiner.com/x-4545-SF-Poetry-Examiner~y2010m5d20-Berkeley-Poetry-Festival-to-honor-Renaissance-poetcritic-Jack-Foley-June-5
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Claire J. Baker
Pinole, CA
Won Grand Prize performance from Dancing Poetry Festival
at Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
First printed in the program of event.
FANTASY IN NEW GUINEA
When one is about to die
three women of the mountains
strip your body with dignity;
they cover you, chin to knees,
with large butterflies.
Blinking satisfaction, you die
the splendid death of your dreams.
The women carry your weightless
body to the top of a waterfall.
Butterflies blossoming in a tall tree
watch over you as you slide down
liquid air, land perfectly laid out
in a rain-forest clearing where you
enter the far kingdom as a butterfly.
Connie Post
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I held the phone away from my ear while the news registered. Someone from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) in Washington, D.C., was telling me I had just won their national short story contest for "The Invisible Door," a autobiographical story about my relationship with a high school history teacher/mentor.
A few days earlier I received my copy of Dog Blessings: Poems, Prose, and Prayers Celebrating Our Relationship with Dogs, an anthology edited by June Cotner and published by New World Library. My poem, "His Final Season," about my beloved golden retriever, Bentley, was included. Dog Blessings is available in bookstores and makes an excellent holiday gift for the dog lovers in your life.
Arlene L. Mandell
Santa Rosa, CA
