Join us for the NY-NJ debut of Intimate Geography, October 11-13, 2012. Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes will be joined by poet Sam Hamod and musical group Tender Art in three presentations throughout the area. Ish's West-Coast debut was a sensational success. See below for photo from the Upstart Crow Bookstore in Seaport Village.

PRINCETON: Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, 7 pm
Princeton Public Library
65 Witherspoon Street
Princeton, NJ
Free
phone (609) 924-9529
http://princetonlibrary.org/

NEW YORK: Friday, Oct. 12, 2012, 6 pm
Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY
$8 includes free drink
phone (212) 989-9319
http://corneliastreetcafe.com/

REVIEW OF INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY
Read the nice plug for Ishmael Von Heidrick-Barnes' Intimate Geography (after a beautiful rumination about the power of poetry) in the San Diego Free Press. Referenced in the same article as Kunitz, Dillon, Lennon, Rumi, Neruda and other greats!

"[His] rich background synthesizes as he strums his poetry notes..."

SUMMER IN THE CITY: Saturday, August 4, 3 pm, group reading with Vasiliki Katsarou, Dean Kostos, and Lynne Shapiro at the Prince Street Gallery as part of the Trenton Artist Workshop Assoc. showcase. 530 West 25th Street in Chelsea. FREE

INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes is now available. He will be reading solo in California, and on the East Coast with fellow poet Sam Hamod. Joining them is the Berlin-based musical duo, Tender Art. The following dates are scheduled:

Wednesday August 15th, 7 pm,  Upstart Crow, 835 C West Harbor Drive, Seaport Village, San Diego, FREE

Thursday October 11, 7 pm, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ, (609) 924-9529, FREE

Friday October 12, 6 pm, Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, New York, NY, (212) 989-9319, $8 includes free drink

Saturday October 13, 2 pm, Hunterdon County Library 314 State Route 12, Flemington, NJ, 1 (908) 788-1444, FREE

Friday, November 9, 7 pm, Old Town, San Diego, Korky's Ice Cream and Coffee, The Gelato Poetry Series.Old Town, 2375 San Diego Avenue.  FREE, open mic follows.

Sam Hamod is a contemporary poet of Arab American descent. Since the 1960s, he has published poetry about his country of origin, Lebanon, as well as the Middle East in general. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, he has published ten books and has appeared in more than 200 anthologies of literature worldwide (“Window into Palestine”), Unsettling America serving as only one example.

Tender Art is a duo consisting of soprano Andrea Hörkens and her partner Thomas Roderburg who accompanies her on guitar. Tender Art was created out of Andrea and Thomas's desire to make music together. They were inspired by the lyrics of Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes. 

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AN EVENING OF GREEK-AMERICAN POETRY
Vasiliki Katsarou joins Dean Kostos, Angelo Nikolopoulos, Aliki Barnstone, and Matthew Brailas for a poetry reading and Greek appetizers!

Friday, September 28th, 2012, 4:30 pm
Mathey College Common Room
Princeton Univeristy
(on the northeast corner of Nassau and University)
FREE
609.258.5717
http://www.princeton.edu/hellenic/images/ScannedFlyers/MatheyCollegeReading0912.pdf

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VASILIKI KATSAROU'S POEM "Seven Women" from Memento Tsunami WILL BE FEATURED ON POETRY DAILY, Sunday, March 4.

Congratulations on this honor, Vasiliki!

UPDATED SCHEDULE OF READINGS BY VASILIKI KATSAROU

University of Missouri Writing Workshops in Greece
Friday, June 22, 2012, 8:00 PM
Serifos, Greece
Click here for more info.

UPDATE: Vasiliki's reading at the Cornelia St. Cafe has been pushed up from April to February. And some new readings have been added. Here is Vasiliki's latest schedule:
Saturday, February 18, 2012, 6:00 pm
Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street (between West 4th and Bleecker)
New York, NY
phone (212) 989-9319    
http://corneliastreetcafe.com/performances.asp

"Girl Talk" Saturday, March 24, 2012, 1:00-4:00 pm
West Caldwell Public Library
30 Clinton Rd.
West Caldwell, NJ
phone (973) 226-5441
westcaldwell.bccls.org

"Capitol Voices" Saturday, March 31, 2012, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM 
Ellarslie (The Trenton City Museum)
Parkside Ave.
Trenton, NJ
with Hayden Saunier, John Timpane, Anne Marie Macari, CK Williams, Gerald Stern & others
phone (609) 989-3632 
http://www.ellarslie.org/

"Ladies' Night" Thursday, April 19, 2012, 7:00 PM
Clinton Book Shop
12 E. Main St.
Clinton NJ 08809
Four Women Poets reading in alternation
(908) 735-8811
http://www.clintonbookshop.com/

With poet MaryAnn L. Miller, Sunday, May 6, 2:00 pm 
Hunterdon County Library Headquarters
314 Route 12, Bldg. #3
Flemington NJ 08822
phone (908) 788-1444
www.hclibrary.us

Thursday, October 27th, 2011, 7:00-8:30 pm
Princeton Public Library
Second Floor Fireplace,
65 Witherspoon Street
Princeton NJ 08542
phone (609) 924-9529
princeton.lib.nj.us

MEMENTO TSUNAMI, Vasiliki Katsarou’s first collection of poetry, will be published by Ragged Sky Press in Fall 2011.  MEMENTO TSUNAMI is a collection marked by startling abstract and lyrical poems that draw from a wide variety of cultural influences.  These include her Greek heritage, background in European filmmaking, as well as a childhood among the ghosts of New England Transcendentalism.  Katsarou’s work reflects a nostalgia for origins as well as a 21st-century visionary impulse to reconcile disparate worlds.

This Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 6pm Vasiliki Katsarou reads at The Cornelia St. Cafe in the West Village with Dean Kostos, Angelo Verga, Sharon Olinka and George Wallace. 

Sunday, March 20, 2011 @ 2pm

SPRING FORWARD POETRY READING

Celebrate spring with poems about the energy of change. 10 poets associated with Ragged Sky Press of Princeton, NJ will read. Included are: Enriqueta Carrington, Mimi Danson, Juditha Dowd, Ellen Foos, Carlos Hernandez Pena, Vasiliki Katsarou, Jane McKinley, Elizabeth Socolow, Arlene Weiner, and Ruth Zamoyta

Hunterdon County Headquarters Library

314 Route 12 (Bldg. 3)

Flemington, NJ 08822

(908) 788-1444

The Greek-American Writers' Association presents Allison Parker, Vasiliki Katsarou, and Basil Rouskas for a special evening of Greece-inspired poetry. If you're in the New York area, please join us in supporting Vasiliki...

Saturday, December 18th, 2010, 6-8 pm
Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street (between West 4th and Bleecker)
New York, NY
phone (212) 989-9319    
corneliastreetcafe.com

A $7 entry fee includes one drink.

FANTASTIC REVIEW FOR EATING HER WEDDING DRESS
Over a year since publication, and the critics are still raving!

Peg Duthie, reviewer for the poetry-review blog galatearesurrection15, claims that Ragged Sky's anthology Eating Her Wedding Dress was "easily my favorite" of all the books she read to review this past year. She singles out many contributors for a special mention, so be sure to read the review through to the end. 

A POET LAUREATE AMONG US!
Lorraine Henrie Lins appointed Bucks County Poet Laureate. 

We are so honored that one of our Eating Her Wedding Dress contributors, Lorraine Henrie Lins, was tapped 2010 Bucks County, PA Poet Laureate. Please read all about Lorraine, her achievements, and this special honor in the Bucks County Local.

DIANE LOCKWARD
Reads from her new collection, Temptation by Water

Diane Lockward

Saturday, November 13th, 2010, 6-8 pm
Panoply Books
46 North Union Street 
Lambertville NJ 08530
phone (609) 397-1145    
panoplybooks.com

EILEEN MALONE: i should have given them water
New York & New Jersey Readings, September 2010

PRINCETON SERIES OF CONTEMPORARY POETS

Paul Muldoon, the New Yorker poetry editor, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Eating Her Wedding Dress contributor, has relaunched the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. This series of publications produced by Princeton University Press was started in 1975 and has included works by Susan Stewart, Robert Pinsky, Ann Lauterbach, Jorie Graham (another EHWD poet) and Jay Wright.

As editor of the series, Muldoon has chosen to relaunch with The Eternal City: Poems by Kathleen Graber.

THE BUZZ ABOUT EILEEN MALONE'S NEW COLLECTION OF POEMS, I SHOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM WATER:

Bay Area Book Launch:

Sunday, July 18, 2-4 pm
Florey's Book Co.
2120 Palmetto Ave.
Pacifica, CA
(650) 355-8811
http://www.floreysbooks.blogspot.com

YouTube:

Eileen reads with musical accompaniment by Riki Chen (from the Café Greco in North Beach): http://youtube.com/watch?v=vO_jZli9SRY

Poetry Magazine Featured Poet:

Eileen is a featured poet in the Summer 2010 edition of Poetry Magazine, an online magazine chock full of poems, Grace Cavalieri interviews, poetry films, and tributes to profound and inspirational artists. The editor, Andrena Zawinski, contributed the poem "Dreamboat" to Ragged Sky's anthology, Eating Her Wedding Dress. 

http://www.poetrymagazine.com/andrena_zawinski/index.html

IT'S OUT! EILEEN MALONE'S I SHOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM WATER, the latest poetry from RAGGED SKY...

I Should Have Given Them Water is a lush, challenging new collection of poetry by San Francisco poet Eileen Malone. Malone navigates the abstract, messy, expressionistic, and humanistic with tough, straight-forward intensity. Both feminist and feminine, the poems risk, love, and suspect the world.

Click here to discover more...

AN INTERVIEW WITH MAXINE KUMIN / READING WITH GERALD STERN

Friday, June 25 @ 3:30 PM interview
Mead Hall

7:30 PM w/Stern
Th Chapel, Seminary Hall

Drew University
36 Madison Avenue
Madison, NJ 07940

Free 

Contact: 973-408-3110

gradm@drew.edu
http://www.drew.edu/grad-content.aspx?id=53510

GUERRILA PUBLISHING PANEL featuring RUTH ZAMOYTA 

Learn how to take control of the publishing and marketing your own work. Come to the NYPL, Fort Washington branch, for a panel discussion on Guerrilla Publishing moderated by Amy Holman, with Nancy Stohlman, Ruth Zamoyta O’Toole, Mary Elizabeth Peña-Gratereaux, and Jacqueline Donado. This program is presented as part of Uptown Arts Stroll 2010 - Northern Manhattan’s Annual Visual and Performing Arts Festival. This event is co-sponsered by Casa Duarte and Sunday Best Reading Series.

Saturday, June 19, 2 pm

Fort Washington Library
535 W. 179th Street (between Audubon & St. Nicholas), Manhattan
212-927-3533

MARIA TERRONE READINGS

Saturday, April 24, 5 pm
Maria Terrone (mariaterrone.com) and Nicole Cooley
Small's Jazz Club
183 W. 10th Street (corner of 7th Ave.), Manhattan
212-252-5091

Thursday, June 10, 6 pm
Maria Terrone, featured reader
Italian American Museum
155 Mulberry Street, corner of Grand St., Manhattan
212-965-9000
www.italianamericanmuseum.org

POEMS BY 15 EATING HER WEDDING DRESS POETS CHOSEN FOR PUBLICATION IN U.S.1 WORKSHEETS

Poems by Enriqueta Carrington, Elizabeth Danson, Juditha Dowd, Ellen Foos, Carlos Hernández Peña, Jean Hollander, Vasiliki Katsarou, Howard Lieberman, Betty Lies, Wanda Praisner, Penelope Scambly Schott, Elizabeth Anne Socolow, Jill Stein, Maxine Susman, and Arlene Weiner were selected for publication in U.S.1 Worksheets, Volume 55.

Join them at the publication party, Sunday, March 28, 2010, at 2 p.m. on the first floor of the Community Room of the Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, New Jersey. Free.

Contributors will read their poems in the new issue. There will be refreshments and an opportunity to pick up preordered copies and stock up on more.


EATING HER WEDDING DRESS POETS JOIN PULITZER PRIZE WINNER YOUSEF KOMUNYAKAA AND THE VIBRANT, CHARISMATIC DOC LONG AT THE STATELY ELLARSLIE MANSION IN TRENTON

Elizabeth Danson, Jean Hollander, Vasiliki Katsarou, Shelley Kiernan, Betty Bonham Lies, Carlos Hernández Peña, Elizabeth Anne Socolow, and Arlene Weiner read alongside Yousef Komunyakaa and Doc Long at the Ellarslie Mansion in Trenton on March 27, 2010, at noon. The gathering is part of Spring Forward Weekend of Art hosted by the Trenton Artistis Workshop Association, featuring discussions with playwrights and visual artists. More details may be found on the TAWA Web site.


WORKSHOP WITH DIANE LOCKWARD

Spring Poetry Awakening, to be held Sunday, April 18, will feature a workshop with the witty Eating Her Wedding Dress poet, Diane Lockward, at 12:30 p.m.  The one-and-a-half-hour workshop, open to anyone with a pen and a notebook, will be followed by a reading at 3 p.m. by Ms. Lockward and Jake Willard-Crist, current Poet-in-Residence at the Presbyterian Church  of Lawrenceville.  As usual, there will be an open mike for poets eager to share their work.

The workshop will be held at Grover’s Mill Coffee, 295 Princeton-Hightstown Road (McCaffrey’s Shopping Center), West Windsor, and the reading will be held at the West Windsor Branch of the Mercer County Library, 333 North Post Road, West Windsor. The cost to attend the workshop is $20, $15 WWAC members. The poetry reading is free. Because spaces will be limited, those planning to attend are encouraged to pre-register at the West Windsor Arts Web site or contact them at (609) 919-1982.

PASSAGER CONTEST FOR POETS OVER 50
 
Deadline April 1, 2010! Eating Her Wedding Dress poet Juditha Dowd took honorable mention in this contest last year. Details on the Passager Web site.

 
TREE POEMS BY SEVERAL EATING HER WEDDING DRESS POETS SELECTED FOR D&R GREENWAY LAND TRUST ART SHOW
 
Poems by Ellen Foos, Daniel A. Harris, Betty Lies, Paul Muldoon, Carlos Hernández Peña, James Richardson, Elizabeth Socolow, Maxine Susman, and Arlene Weiner have been chosen for a collection of poems about trees. The collection will be published in conjunction with the art exhibit LIVING AMONG GIANTS: Seeing the Forest for the Trees, on now through March 19, 2010 at the Johnson Education Center at D&R Greenway Land Trust in Princeton, New Jersey. There will be a poets' reception and reading to close out the show on the 19th. For details, or visit the D&R Web site. 

EATING HER WEDDING DRESS POET AMY MACLENNAN BROADSIDED
 
You've got to read this magnificent poem by Amy MacLennan, with its striking image of glaziers pressing hands together on either side of the pane. Broadsided in the blog Mountainair Online.
 
 
FORTHCOMING: I SHOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM WATER BY EILEEN MALONE

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. Malone, a widely published poet, is a mental health activist and the host of a television series on the arts in California.  She contributed the title poem to Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems.

 
GERALDINE R. DODGE FOUNDATION POETRY FESTIVAL

It's back! October 7–10, 2010, in 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 resourceless 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.

Visit the Dodge Web site to learn more about the festival and how you can support it by becoming a "Friends of the Festival."

Be generous and spread the word.
 

EATING HER WEDDING DRESS POET CLAIRE ZOGHB HAS A NEW BOOK OF POETRY OUT!

New Haven poet Claire Zoghb 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.

Read more of Claire's work on Locuspoint.
 

NEW RELEASE BY RAGGED SKY PRESS: A HYMN OF CHANGES: CONTEMPLATIONS OF THE I CHING BY DAVID LACHAPELLE

David LaChapelle's moving and insightful contemplations of the I Ching explain the wisdom and language of this ancient divination tool, and how it can help you find direction, clarity...Tao. A widely revered wisdom teacher, LaChapelle developed a unique and penetrating understanding of the I Ching which resonated throughout the hearts of his followers, and is now recorded in his book, A Hymn of Changes.
 

EATING HER WEDDING DRESS POET IRENE WILLIS GETS PRESS

Eating Her Wedding Dress poet Irene Willis ("The Yellow Shirt") was showcased in the online journal, International Psychoanalysis, where she is poetry editor.


CARLOS READING

Wednesday, February 24, 7:30 PM
Carlos Hernández Peña and Catherine KHN Maggia
U.S.1 Poets Invite Series
Princeton Public Library
65 Witherspoon St., Princeton, NJ
Free
Followed by open reading
Contact Jamie Quirk 609-924-9529 x225


DIANE LOCKWARD READING

Wednesday, February 10, 2:30
Diane Lockward and 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
 

WORKSHOP OFFERED BY MAXINE SUSMAN

Thursday, February 4, 7 PM
Eating Her Wedding Dress poet 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 and scroll down to Poetry Writing Workshop for more information and to register, or call the library at 732-572-2750


REVIEW OF EATING HER WEDDING DRESS

Stellar review of Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems in today's Cutbank Poetry Review blog.

The reviewer, Jane Dobija of Corridors Magazine 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."

VASILIKI KATSAROU
Reads at the Cornelia Street Café Sunday night, December 18th

The Greek-American Writers' Association presents Allison Parker, Vasiliki Katsarou, and Basil Rouskas for a special evening of Greece-inspired poetry. If you're in the New York area, please join us in supporting Vasiliki...

Saturday, December 18th, 2010, 6-8 pm
Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street (between West 4th and Bleecker)
New York, NY
phone (212) 989-9319    
corneliastreetcafe.com

A $7 entry fee includes one drink.

FANTASTIC REVIEW FOR EATING HER WEDDING DRESS
Over a year since publication, and the critics are still raving!

Peg Duthie, reviewer for the poetry-review blog galatearesurrection15, claims that Ragged Sky's anthology Eating Her Wedding Dress was "easily my favorite" of all the books she read to review this past year. She singles out many contributors for a special mention, so be sure to read the review through to the end. 

A POET LAUREATE AMONG US!
Lorraine Henrie Lins appointed Bucks County Poet Laureate. 

We are so honored that one of our Eating Her Wedding Dress contributors, Lorraine Henrie Lins, was tapped 2010 Bucks County, PA Poet Laureate. Please read all about Lorraine, her achievements, and this special honor in the Bucks County Local.

DIANE LOCKWARD
Reads from her new collection, Temptation by Water

Diane Lockward

Saturday, November 13th, 2010, 6-8 pm
Panoply Books
46 North Union Street 
Lambertville NJ 08530
phone (609) 397-1145    
panoplybooks.com

EILEEN MALONE: i should have given them water
New York & New Jersey Readings, September 2010

PRINCETON SERIES OF CONTEMPORARY POETS

Paul Muldoon, the New Yorker poetry editor, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Eating Her Wedding Dress contributor, has relaunched the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. This series of publications produced by Princeton University Press was started in 1975 and has included works by Susan Stewart, Robert Pinsky, Ann Lauterbach, Jorie Graham (another EHWD poet) and Jay Wright.

As editor of the series, Muldoon has chosen to relaunch with The Eternal City: Poems by Kathleen Graber.

THE BUZZ ABOUT EILEEN MALONE'S NEW COLLECTION OF POEMS, I SHOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM WATER:

Bay Area Book Launch:

Sunday, July 18, 2-4 pm
Florey's Book Co.
2120 Palmetto Ave.
Pacifica, CA
(650) 355-8811
http://www.floreysbooks.blogspot.com

YouTube:

Eileen reads with musical accompaniment by Riki Chen (from the Café Greco in North Beach): http://youtube.com/watch?v=vO_jZli9SRY

Poetry Magazine Featured Poet:

Eileen is a featured poet in the Summer 2010 edition of Poetry Magazine, an online magazine chock full of poems, Grace Cavalieri interviews, poetry films, and tributes to profound and inspirational artists. The editor, Andrena Zawinski, contributed the poem "Dreamboat" to Ragged Sky's anthology, Eating Her Wedding Dress. 

http://www.poetrymagazine.com/andrena_zawinski/index.html

IT'S OUT! EILEEN MALONE'S I SHOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM WATER, the latest poetry from RAGGED SKY...

I Should Have Given Them Water is a lush, challenging new collection of poetry by San Francisco poet Eileen Malone. Malone navigates the abstract, messy, expressionistic, and humanistic with tough, straight-forward intensity. Both feminist and feminine, the poems risk, love, and suspect the world.

Click here to discover more...

AN INTERVIEW WITH MAXINE KUMIN / READING WITH GERALD STERN

Friday, June 25 @ 3:30 PM interview
Mead Hall

7:30 PM w/Stern
Th Chapel, Seminary Hall

Drew University
36 Madison Avenue
Madison, NJ 07940

Free 

Contact: 973-408-3110

gradm@drew.edu
http://www.drew.edu/grad-content.aspx?id=53510

GUERRILA PUBLISHING PANEL featuring RUTH ZAMOYTA 

Learn how to take control of the publishing and marketing your own work. Come to the NYPL, Fort Washington branch, for a panel discussion on Guerrilla Publishing moderated by Amy Holman, with Nancy Stohlman, Ruth Zamoyta O’Toole, Mary Elizabeth Peña-Gratereaux, and Jacqueline Donado. This program is presented as part of Uptown Arts Stroll 2010 - Northern Manhattan’s Annual Visual and Performing Arts Festival. This event is co-sponsered by Casa Duarte and Sunday Best Reading Series.

Saturday, June 19, 2 pm

Fort Washington Library
535 W. 179th Street (between Audubon & St. Nicholas), Manhattan
212-927-3533

MARIA TERRONE READINGS

Saturday, April 24, 5 pm
Maria Terrone (mariaterrone.com) and Nicole Cooley
Small's Jazz Club
183 W. 10th Street (corner of 7th Ave.), Manhattan
212-252-5091

Thursday, June 10, 6 pm
Maria Terrone, featured reader
Italian American Museum
155 Mulberry Street, corner of Grand St., Manhattan
212-965-9000
www.italianamericanmuseum.org

POEMS BY 15 EATING HER WEDDING DRESS POETS CHOSEN FOR PUBLICATION IN U.S.1 WORKSHEETS

Poems by Enriqueta Carrington, Elizabeth Danson, Juditha Dowd, Ellen Foos, Carlos Hernández Peña, Jean Hollander, Vasiliki Katsarou, Howard Lieberman, Betty Lies, Wanda Praisner, Penelope Scambly Schott, Elizabeth Anne Socolow, Jill Stein, Maxine Susman, and Arlene Weiner were selected for publication in U.S.1 Worksheets, Volume 55.

Join them at the publication party, Sunday, March 28, 2010, at 2 p.m. on the first floor of the Community Room of the Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, New Jersey. Free.

Contributors will read their poems in the new issue. There will be refreshments and an opportunity to pick up preordered copies and stock up on more.


EATING HER WEDDING DRESS POETS JOIN PULITZER PRIZE WINNER YOUSEF KOMUNYAKAA AND THE VIBRANT, CHARISMATIC DOC LONG AT THE STATELY ELLARSLIE MANSION IN TRENTON

Elizabeth Danson, Jean Hollander, Vasiliki Katsarou, Shelley Kiernan, Betty Bonham Lies, Carlos Hernández Peña, Elizabeth Anne Socolow, and Arlene Weiner read alongside Yousef Komunyakaa and Doc Long at the Ellarslie Mansion in Trenton on March 27, 2010, at noon. The gathering is part of Spring Forward Weekend of Art hosted by the Trenton Artistis Workshop Association, featuring discussions with playwrights and visual artists. More details may be found on the TAWA Web site.


WORKSHOP WITH DIANE LOCKWARD

Spring Poetry Awakening, to be held Sunday, April 18, will feature a workshop with the witty Eating Her Wedding Dress poet, Diane Lockward, at 12:30 p.m.  The one-and-a-half-hour workshop, open to anyone with a pen and a notebook, will be followed by a reading at 3 p.m. by Ms. Lockward and Jake Willard-Crist, current Poet-in-Residence at the Presbyterian Church  of Lawrenceville.  As usual, there will be an open mike for poets eager to share their work.

The workshop will be held at Grover’s Mill Coffee, 295 Princeton-Hightstown Road (McCaffrey’s Shopping Center), West Windsor, and the reading will be held at the West Windsor Branch of the Mercer County Library, 333 North Post Road, West Windsor. The cost to attend the workshop is $20, $15 WWAC members. The poetry reading is free. Because spaces will be limited, those planning to attend are encouraged to pre-register at the West Windsor Arts Web site or contact them at (609) 919-1982.

PASSAGER CONTEST FOR POETS OVER 50
 
Deadline April 1, 2010! Eating Her Wedding Dress poet Juditha Dowd took honorable mention in this contest last year. Details on the Passager Web site.

 
TREE POEMS BY SEVERAL EATING HER WEDDING DRESS POETS SELECTED FOR D&R GREENWAY LAND TRUST ART SHOW
 
Poems by Ellen Foos, Daniel A. Harris, Betty Lies, Paul Muldoon, Carlos Hernández Peña, James Richardson, Elizabeth Socolow, Maxine Susman, and Arlene Weiner have been chosen for a collection of poems about trees. The collection will be published in conjunction with the art exhibit LIVING AMONG GIANTS: Seeing the Forest for the Trees, on now through March 19, 2010 at the Johnson Education Center at D&R Greenway Land Trust in Princeton, New Jersey. There will be a poets' reception and reading to close out the show on the 19th. For details, or visit the D&R Web site. 

EATING HER WEDDING DRESS POET AMY MACLENNAN BROADSIDED
 
You've got to read this magnificent poem by Amy MacLennan, with its striking image of glaziers pressing hands together on either side of the pane. Broadsided in the blog Mountainair Online.
 
 
FORTHCOMING: I SHOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM WATER BY EILEEN MALONE

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. Malone, a widely published poet, is a mental health activist and the host of a television series on the arts in California.  She contributed the title poem to Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems.

 
GERALDINE R. DODGE FOUNDATION POETRY FESTIVAL

It's back! October 7–10, 2010, in 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 resourceless 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.

Visit the Dodge Web site to learn more about the festival and how you can support it by becoming a "Friends of the Festival."

Be generous and spread the word.
 

EATING HER WEDDING DRESS POET CLAIRE ZOGHB HAS A NEW BOOK OF POETRY OUT!

New Haven poet Claire Zoghb 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.

Read more of Claire's work on Locuspoint.
 

NEW RELEASE BY RAGGED SKY PRESS: A HYMN OF CHANGES: CONTEMPLATIONS OF THE I CHING BY DAVID LACHAPELLE

David LaChapelle's moving and insightful contemplations of the I Ching explain the wisdom and language of this ancient divination tool, and how it can help you find direction, clarity...Tao. A widely revered wisdom teacher, LaChapelle developed a unique and penetrating understanding of the I Ching which resonated throughout the hearts of his followers, and is now recorded in his book, A Hymn of Changes.
 

EATING HER WEDDING DRESS POET IRENE WILLIS GETS PRESS

Eating Her Wedding Dress poet Irene Willis ("The Yellow Shirt") was showcased in the online journal, International Psychoanalysis, where she is poetry editor.


CARLOS READING

Wednesday, February 24, 7:30 PM
Carlos Hernández Peña and Catherine KHN Maggia
U.S.1 Poets Invite Series
Princeton Public Library
65 Witherspoon St., Princeton, NJ
Free
Followed by open reading
Contact Jamie Quirk 609-924-9529 x225


DIANE LOCKWARD READING

Wednesday, February 10, 2:30
Diane Lockward and 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
 

WORKSHOP OFFERED BY MAXINE SUSMAN

Thursday, February 4, 7 PM
Eating Her Wedding Dress poet 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 and scroll down to Poetry Writing Workshop for more information and to register, or call the library at 732-572-2750


REVIEW OF EATING HER WEDDING DRESS

Stellar review of Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems in today's Cutbank Poetry Review blog.

The reviewer, Jane Dobija of Corridors Magazine 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."