Several Ragged Sky Poets Selected for publication in D&R Greenway collection
Ragged Sky Poets Maxine Susman, Betty Lies, Elizabeth Socolow, Arlene Weiner, James Richardson, Daniel A. Harris, Ellen Foos, Carlos Hernandez Peña, and Paul Muldoon will be reading their tree poems Friday, March 19th, 6-8pm at the Johnson Education Center at D&R Greenway Land Trust in Princeton, NJ. Their tree poems were selected for publication in a poetry collection which is being published as part of the art exhibit LIVING AMONG GIANTS: Seeing the Forest for the Trees.
The exhibit is open now through March 19th--the poets will close out the show. The reception will also feature flute music by Judith McNally, another poet who will be reading. D&R Greenway asks you to RSVP at 609-924-4646. Details can be found on their Web site, http://drgreenway.org/art_galleries.htm.
ART EXHIBITS
LIVING AMONG GIANTS Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Open through March 19, 2010
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2/22/10
Super poem by Eating Her Wedding Dress poet Amy MacLennan about glaziers pressing hands together on either side of pane. Broadsided! http://bit.ly/be6IYy
Eating Her Wedding Dress poet MARGARET ATWOOD with Leonard Lopate Tues Mar 2, 7pm Queens College (part of an intriguing series) http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/qcer/
2/8/10
FORTHCOMING
Ragged Sky Press is proud to announce the upcoming publication of I SHOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM WATER, a collection of poetry by San Francisco-based poet Eileen Malone. Eileen Malone is a widely published poet and mental health activist, as well as the host of a televised series on the arts in California. She contributed the title poem to EATING HER WEDDING DRESS: A Collection of Clothing Poems.
2/6/10
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poetry Festival
October 7 - 10, 2010
Newark, New Jersey
As many of you know, the 2010 Dodge Poetry Festival had been canceled due to a "a dramatic decline in the Foundation's assets" and the cost of upgrading a resource-less Waterloo Village.
With the support of the the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, The City of Newark and other partners, the Festival will go on.
Learn more about the festival and how you can support it by becoming a "Friends of the Festival" at http://www.dodgepoetry.org .
Be generous and spread the word.
DIANE LOCKWARD & DAVID VINCENTI in Rutherford
Wednesday, February 10, 7 PM
Williams Center for the Arts
1 Williams Plaza
Rutherford, NJ
Free. Open Reading.
Contact: Rutherford Library 201-939-8600
ELLEN AND HARVEY'S READING CANCELLED!
Due to snow, Morrisville Public Library has cancelled today's readings by Ellen Foos and Harvey Steinberg.
EHWD poet Claire Zoghb has a new book of poetry out!
New Haven poet Claire contributed "Living in Bodies" to EATING HER WEDDING DRESS -- an inpatient's view of bodies as sheddable garments. She just sent us a message through Facebook that her new book is out: Small House Breathing -- winner of the 2008 Quercus Review Press Annual Book Award.
Maxine Susman will give a poetry workshop, "Write about Now," at the Highland Park Public Library on Thursday, February 4, 7-8:30 p.m. Go to the library homepage www.hpplnj.org and scroll down to Poetry Writing Workshop for more information and to register, or call the library at 732-572-2750.
2/3/10
NEW RELEASE by Ragged Sky Press: A Hymn of Changes: Contemplations of the I Ching by David LaChapelle. Here's an invitation to a launch event in Princeton Feb. 7th:
A Circle & Gathering, in honor of David, February 7 --and -- Copies of David's "Hymn of Changes"
will be available at our gathering
Dear friends,
We invite you to a special gathering, scheduled now for Sunday, February 7, 2010. We will hold a circle to celebrate David's life and his work, as beautifully expressed in "The Hymn of Changes: Contemplations of the I Ching." Please come whether you plan to make a purchase of David's book or not! It is always good to gather as a community, and each one who participates enriches the whole.
Our gathering will be held from 2:30-5:30 pm at Yvonna's house. We'll start with a circle for meditation, reflection, and a reading from a passage from David's book, as well as a brief tutorial on using the I Ching for divination. Once we break for tea, there will be additional time to explore the I Ching, for those who would like to learn more.
Yvonna's address: 87 Brookstone Drive, Princeton. Please feel free to invite friends! If possible (but not required if you need to decide at the last minute) please RSVP with the number of people to:
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, by February 6. Thank you!
Additional copies of "The Hymn of Changes" will be available at the party, as well as some CD's and other books left from our fundraiser events. All proceeds help provide some cash for Ananda, in this time of great transition in her life. ******* SOME DETAILS:
We will collect checks at the party for books acquired then. Books are $36.
Other options:
If you cannot make it to the circle, Ananda will mail you your book, with an additional $4 shipping charge. You can mail her the check or use a PayPal button on umya.com (be sure to add the shipping, if it does not appear). Her email is
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. ******* Remember: tutorials on how to use the I Ching for divination will be available at the party!
In celebration, and in love,
Cynthia
Ph. 609-799-6071
Stellar review of Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems in today's Cutbank Poetry Review blog: http://cutbankpoetry.blogspot.com /
The reviewer, Jane Dobija of Corridors Magazine (www.corridorsmagazine.org), gives careful treatment of many of our poets' works--make sure you look for yourselves inside! Here are the opening lines of the review:
"Clothes are the poems that we wear.The billowing skirts, sculpted suits, and scruffy t-shirts in which we parade around tell even the slightly attentive observer about our histories, our hang-ups, and our lies.The subject of costume’s power, universal and unchecked, struck the mother lode with Maxine Kumin, Paul Muldoon, Margaret Atwood, Billy Collins, and nearly one hundred more accomplished poets, who contributed to a new anthology from Raggedy Sky Press called Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems. In their allotted pages, these writers explore the meaning of dress as symbol, history, and personal fate.They do so with a wit and wisdom that makes usually bitter truth telling palatable."
12/17/09
Thanks to everyone who braved the arctic chill to hear Ragged Sky poets Ellen Foos, Arlene Weiner, Elizabeth Anne Socolow, Elizabeth Danson, and Carlos Hernandez Pena read from their work last night at the Princeton Public Library.
Ellen's back there again at the podium this Sunday at 2:00, alongside Pulitzer-Prize-winning Yusef Komunyakaa. More info.
If you're stuck at the other end of New Jersey Transit, go hear Eating Her Wedding Dress poet Elaine Equi read with DOUG HOLDER, AMY KING, and BOB VISCUSI with music by Brant Lyon, Sunday at 6:00 at the Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia St. (between Bleecker & West 4th Sts.), NYC. $7 (includes one house drink) Contact: 212-989-9319www.corneliastreetcafe.com
12/14/09
Trenton Reiew Reading featuring our founder, ELLEN FOOS, alongside the widely (and deservedly) acclaimed poet YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/22) & more.
Sunday, Dec. 20, 2 p.m. Princeton Public Library
Community Room
65 Witherspoon St., Princeton NJ
Clothing: rich in literary tradition & poetic possibilities. Read the latest review of Eating Her Wedding Dress where Sharon Bray of Off-the-Coast Review weaves our anthology into the historical play of words and garments.
11/28/09
Diane Lockward, Teresa Leo, Lynn Levin, and Bill Wunder will be reading Sunday, Dec. 6th, 3-5 at the Manayuk Art Center, 419 Green Ln., Philladephia.
11/27/09
Join Ragged Sky Poets (and contributors to EHWD) Elizabeth Danson, Ellen Foos, Carlos Hernandez Pena, Elizabeth Anne Socolow, and Arlene Weiner for a reading at the Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, New Jersey, on Wednesday, December 16, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. Free. The poets will read new and selected work.
11/9/09
"I can unfasten each word, open it wide..." EHWD poet Leslie Wheeler's Heterotopia won the Barrow Street Poetry Prize
"There are worse places to live with your secrets..." EHWD poet Maria Terrone had a poem accepted by the Hudson Review
11/5/09
"Something about the rain, the way it clucks its testy tongue against the glass..."
Eating Her Wedding Dress poet Andrena Zawinski has a new collection out: Something About published by Blue Light Press.
11/4/09
"...a vegetable striptease..." The First Artichoke by EHWD poet Diane Lockward is published in Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac http://bit.ly/2WLtQ6
EHWD poet MAXINE SUSMAN reading with Nancy Scott, Tuesday, November 10, 7-10 pm at the Bridgewater Public Library 1 Vogt Drive, Community Room C, Bridgewater, NJ. Free. Open Reading to follow. Contact: 908-526-4016
OK. It's about time we posted some of the gorgeous photos that Paul Oratofsky took at our launch party at the National Arts Club in June. EHWD poet Maria Terrone, Barbie Image Wedding Dress Cake, the crowd, the editors (Ellen Foos, Vasiliki Katsarou, Ruth Zamoyta O'Toole ) and Ruth in upscale talismanic attire...
EATING HER WEDDING DRESS poet Maxine Susman reads from her collection "Wartime Address," a poem sequenced based on the real experience of a woman's flight from Nazi-occupied Paris. Caldwell College, Wed. 11/4/09 -http://bit.ly/bE2Bg
Daniel Harris, author of Loose Parlance, will be reading poems from that book as well as new poems, at the Hopewell, New Jersey, Public Library, 13 East Broad Street, on Septemeber 24, 2009 at 7 p.m.
Ragged Sky Press will be at the Princeton Shopping Center Book Fair
Saturday September 19, 2009, from 10am-4pm
Please stop by to say hello.
http://www.authorauthorbookfestival.com/authors
The EHWD event in Portland on May 15 was great fun. Laura, Amy, Jane, and Penelope read their poems and Roberta's, Ann's, and Carl's. Many in the audience came in fancy dress.
First reviewcalls Eating Her Wedding Dress "fabulous "!
The Eating Her Wedding Dress World Tour continues. Come if you can--wear iconic dress if you wish:
Madison, Wisconsin, May 4, atRoom of One's OwnBookstore, featuring Shoshauna Shy, Andrea Potos, Katrin Talbot, Angela Rydell, and Eve Robillard. 6:30 p.m.
Portland, Oregon, May 15,at Looking Glass Books, 7983 SE 13th St. (Sellwood),featuring Laura LeHew, Amy MacLellan, Jane Knechtel, Carl Palmer, Roberta Feins, Ann Walters, and Penelope Schambly Schott. 7 p.m.
Two exciting events took place in April, with
fantastic dress and wedding-dress-shaped cakes by Ruth O'Toole.
EATING HER WEDDING DRESS:
A Collection of Clothing Poems
During National Poetry Month we invite you
to two special events:
Reading & Reception:
Friday April 3, 2009, 7:30-9:30 pm
Arts Council of Princeton
Paul Robeson Center for the Arts,
102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton NJ 08542
phone (609) 924-8777 www.artscouncilofprinceton.org
Reading, Reception &
Juried All-Media Gallery Exhibition
Threads:
Friday April 10, 2009, 7-9 pm
Gallery 125
125 S. Warren St. , Trenton NJ
phone (609) 989-9119 www.gallery125.com
100 contemporary poets—local stars and literary luminaries such as Kim Addonizio, Margaret Atwood, Billy Collins, Elaine Equi, Jorie Graham, Maxine Kumin, Paul Muldoon, Charles Simic—join together in this collection to celebrate clothing in its many forms and functions: as desire, as ghost, as body, as poetry, as talisman, as transformer of the soul.
At both events, copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Contributors to Eating Her Wedding Dress will present poetry in Portland, Oregon, at Looking Glass Books. Roberta Feins, Laura LeHew, Jane Knechtel, Amy MacLellan, Carl Palmer, Penelope Schambly Schott, and Ann Walters will read at this charming bookstore in the Sellwood neighborhood of southeast Portland.Enter through the red caboose!
Ellen Foos is pleased to publish Dog Watch, by Valerie Lawson, and Penguins in a Warming World, by Anca Vlasopolos.
Lawson lives Down East in Robbinston, ME. A long-time co-host of the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, Mass, she has connected with the Maine poetry scene at Ofelia in Bangor. Lawon's work has been published in literary journals, anthologies, and e-zines. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has won awards for Spoken Word and Best Narrative Poem at the Cambridge Poetry Awards.
Early praise for Dog Watch comes from Doug Holder at the Ibbetson Street Press and Melanie Lauwers at the Cape Cod Times.
Anca Vlasopolos, a woman of many talents and dramatic experience, is a professor of English and comparative literature at Wayne State University.
Five Ragged Sky Poets to read at Trenton art festival
Elizabeth Danson, Ellen Foos, Carlos Hernandez Pena, Elizabeth Anne Socolow, and Arlene Weiner, Ragged Sky Poetry Series authors, will read new work and selections from their books on March 24th, 2007, at 1 pm at the Trenton City Museum/Ellarsie Mansion in Cadwalader Park, Trenton, NJ. US 1 Poets Cooperative poets will also read. Books and the US 1 annual, US 1 Worksheets, will be available for purchase.
The reading is part of "Spring Forward," a two-day event presented by the Trenton Artists Workshop Association, beginning with a public reception at 12:30 PM. Internationally recognized poet Paul Muldoon will read at 2:00 PM. Orrin Evans, internationally known jazz musician, and the Orrin Evans trio will present new works in a salute to Evans' father, playwright Don Evans, at 3:30 pm.
Other arts events will take place on March 25, including an exhibit and gallery tour by Mel Leipzig, a workshop on arts funding, and a play reading.
Spring Forward was developed by area artists and arts coordinators in cooperation with Co/Works.
Ragged Sky publishes three new books
Ragged Sky Press has published three new books of poety: Anca Vlasopoulos' Penguins in a Warming World, Michael Brown's The Confidence Man, and Valerie Lawson's Dog Watch. Details available shortly on the authors' pages.
Ellen Foos awarded fellowship for MacDowell colony
July 10, 2006. Ragged Sky poet Ellen Foos has been awarded a fellowship for the MacDowell Colony for fall 2006. The MacDowell Colony's stated mission is "to nurture the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which to produce enduring works of the imagination." They're in their hundredth year of doing so. Hooray for them for recognizing Ellen's talent!
Garrison Keillor reads poem from Ragged Sky series
Garrison Keillor, author/host of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac, a daily radio show, Internet site, and e-mail newsletter, read "1959," a poem from Arlene Weiner's Escape Velocity, on Saturday, July 8, 2006. To hear the brief program, go to the Writer's Almanac archive for the week of July 3, 2006 and scroll down.
Arlene read in Pittsburgh's Choice Cuts Series on June 16, 2006, at the Slaughterhouse Gallery.
Elizabeth Anne Socolow: prizes and anthology publication
Poems by Liz Socolow will appear in the fall in the anthology Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality, from Bottom Dog Press.
Liz has won Isotope's Editors' Prize in poetry for 2006! Isotope is "A Journal of Literary, Nature, and Science Writing." Liz' prize-winning poem, which will appear in the journal, is called "Asymptotes."
The next issue of CV2, the Canadian journal of contemporary verse, will announce the 2005 winners of the 2-Day Poem Contest. Liz shared first prize for her poem "July 1969." Liz rose magnificently to the challenge of producing a poem that used 10 specific words (gossip, emanate, trellis, marble, street, orbit, bodega, chesterfield, figure, vent)--in only two days.
Delaware Valley Poets will host Ragged Sky Poets reading in October
October 9, 2006, Monday, 8:00pm -- Ragged Sky Poets: Elizabeth Danson, Ellen
Foos, Carlos Hernandez Pena, Elizabeth Socolow, and Arlene Weiner
Princeton, N.J. Barnes & Noble store at Market Fair on US 1.
An open-mic session follows the presentation. Delaware Valley Poets.
EATING HER WEDDING DRESS: