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LA ALAMEDA PRESS AUTHOR NEW
JOHN BRANDI White Pine Press recently published In What Disappears.
ALVARO CARDONA-HINE You can find information about the paintings of Alvaro and Barbara McCauley at Cardona-Hine Gallery. You can also drive up to Truchas and visit them in person.
THOMAS FITZSIMMONS Tom & Karen Hargreaves-Fitzsimmons have a website for their respective arts and Katydid Books. Also a transcript of Tom's lecture at St. John's College Poetry as a Survival Technique.
LISA GILL Steven Robert Allen of the Alibi writes a fine review of Red as a Lotus.
GARY MEX GLAZNER Hoard Magazine interviews Gary. His latest project is a collaboration with master printer and papermaker Tom Leech of the Print Shop & Bindery at the Palace of the Governors: Word Art, a series of poetry broadsides. The series was launched last Friday, June 6, with a poetry reading at the Palace & the release of the first broadside, “His Life” by Naomi Shihab Nye. " A broadside is the perfect vehicle for printed poetry. The single, unfolded sheet with printing on only one side originated in 16th century England as a means for distributing political and religious announcements. Broadsides also became a means for publishing English ballads, and in the later part of the 17th century, important poems by Dryden, Butler, and others originally appeared printed on broadsides. The series will explore the aesthetics of type, paper, and ink, as well as the fine points of letterpress printing and how they interact with the poem to create singular works of art. The goal of "Word Art" is to match the finest contemporary poetry with the best printing knowledge of the past and present to produce broadsides that are beautifully designed and printed. 'We will use the exacting standards and skilled craftsmanship of fine letterpress printing tradition to create this broadside series,' said Leech. 'These broadsides will reveal the unique splendor of the poems?which only letterpress printing can achieve?of the physical impression of words pressed into the paper surface.'"
LARRY GOODELL
PENNY HARTER Penny just had a poem in the revised, second edition of
“Sisters of the Earth,” edited by Lorraine Anderson.
MARY RISING HIGGINS Rain Taxi had a well-thought review by Patrick Durgin of Mary's recent book o'clock from Potes & Poets. The work of Mary Rising Higgins — in the eariler red table(S and now in this wonderful volume — is a recent and thrilling discovery for me. It is a work of precise inventions, work of imaginings that are carefully fantastical, compassionately observed. It is work of unfoldings. In oclock, Higgins's book of minutes, the unfoldings occur as turning spaces of time, as thought figures, as illuminations. But, as in the medieval books of hours to which I'm comparing oclock, one discovers here not only the beauty of the work but also the suffering and fear that exist in the times of which it speaks. oclock is an exquisite realization. — Lyn Hejinian
JUDYTH HILL Judyth has become famous, if not infamous, for her poem "Wage Peace" and you can find the official version here. There is also a beautiful calligraphic poster available from Mary Teichman.
ANSELM HOLLO Anselm continues! There's a brief, pithy interview with Ed Foster at Duration Press and a e-chapbook Ancient Land Animal at Big Bridge.
KATE HORSLEY Kate just had Careless Love published by University of New Mexico Press. Shambhala has recently released Confessions of a Pagan Nun in paperback and her new novel (incredible!) The Changeling of Finnistuath will be released in December.
JIM KACIAN There is a very good haiku links and resources list at Richard Gilbert's website Iyume. He has also written an essay Global Haiku and the Work of Jim Kacian and included a number of essays by Jim on the world haiku phenomenon.
JOANNE KYGER Joanne has Ten New Lovely Unpublished Poems at the Michael McClure / Ray Manzarek site.
ELIZABETH SEARLE LAMB Here is an articulate comaparison between Elizabeth Searle Lamb and Yosa Buson. Also a good profile of Elizabeth and haiku resources.
JOAN LOGGHE Joan has been writing some articles for Su Casa Magazine—"Born to Be Tiled" and opening herself up to paint— "Home Work".
CAROL MOLDAW Carol recently was the Winner of the 2002 FIELD Poetry Prize for The Lightning Field. Read about it at The Drunken Boat where she has been a contributing editor since 2001.
SHIN YU PAI Shin Yu will be reading March 7, at the Forest Hills Trust,
Jamaica Plain, MA and April 3 for National Poetry Month at Inkberry
in North Adams, MA. 63 Main Street — North Adams, MA
01247 voice (413) 664-0775 — fax (413) 664-2069 "Those professional mourners busy lamenting the current state of the poetry union—too many MFAs, too many first book prizes, too many first books, too many books—will be delighted (or perhaps vexed) to discover poet Shin Yu Pai. Though Equivalence was published by the perspicacious La Alameda Press without the occasion of a prize, Pai attended an MFA program and the book was nourished by a state grant and a visit to the MacDowell colony. And guess what? It's a terrific, original, clean-lined book, which delivers quite a lot of substance with its polished style more proof that the institutional support system helping young writers can be good, as opposed to deadly, for poetry." — Joyelle McSweeney The Constant Critic / Fence Magazine
STEVE PETERS Steve has been offered a job he can't refuse with non-profit, audio arts center Jack Straw Productions, unfortunately he has to leave beautiful dry Rio Grande Valley for beautiful wet Seattle. "We are thrilled to welcome Steve Peters to Jack Straw Productions. Steve will be our new Arts Manager starting in January 2004. He hails from the sunny south (New Mexico, be to exact) and brings with him a wealth of knowledge about and experience with sound and the arts. Steve is a composer/sound artist known for his work for dance, theater, radio, galleries, public spaces, and concert settings. Using an array of acoustic instruments, electronics, environmental sound, and amplified natural/found objects, he strives to integrate improvisation and open formal approaches to achieve an organic blend of intuition, emotion and intellect."
MICHAEL ROTHENBERG Michael interviewed by Andrew Lundwall in Poetic Inhalation. Also an excellent / review at www.poeticvoices.com of Overtime: Selected Poems of Philip Whalen which Michael edited. Also check out recent review by Ric Carfagna of Unhurried Vision at Poetic Inhalation— "Unhurried Vision puts down deep roots of personal
introspection. One is struck by a calmness of human compassion pulsing
on its pages. It unfolds as a journalistic trek from the inner workings
of one soul outward to meet another’s ‘otherness’, and
there to realize we all share a part of one life, one existence.
MIRIAM SAGAN Miriam just had Searching for a Mustard Seed published.
NANAO SAKAKI
found the website for studio reaf and this was translated
via EXCITE
STEVE SANFIELD Here's a lucky guy— a new book done by Tangram Press, masterfully done letterpress. Sierra Song, by Steve Sanfield, (Berkeley, Calif.: Tangram Press, 2003). 16 unnumbered pages, 6" x 10H", stringbound. No ISBN. $15.00 postpaid from the publisher at 1639 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94703. A sequence of 32 gentle lyrics by the internationally renowned storyteller and poet shares the “sounds and silences of one place” in his Sierra Nevada mountains. Like the bird of his epigraph, Sanfield doesn’t sing because he has an answer, but because he has a song. a cool breeze
ANDREW SCHELLING Andrew has an excellent interview in Rain Taxi with Shin Yu Pai.
JOSEPH SOMOZA Joe also has an excellent interview at Alleybeat.com (also see essay & poem by Bobby Byrd).
PORTER SWENTZELL Guess what — Porter is the webmeister for his mother Roxanne Swentzell at the site for her marvelous sculpture. (Oh and by the way he's a new dad!)
PHIL WOODS Phil has a new book A Small Grace from Baculite / Mad Blood Editions.
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