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!
PoetsLane@everestkc.net
"To have meaningful work is tremendous happiness."
Rita Mae Brown
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Sherry Sheehan
Our local paper
presents a haiku challenge just about every month. My travel-themed response was
in today's paper newspaper. (Hey! I typed my haiku, added the link, and all of
it appeared below--tech keeps making old habits redundant.)
Winners in the Summer Travel Haiku Contest - ContraCostaTimes.com
www.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
California
poet laureate emeritus
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:
Please send
me ______ copy(ies) of Trip Wires by Connie Post, at $12.00 per copy.
Please add $1.00 for shipping
Enclosed is
my check (payable to Finishing Line Press) for $__________
Name
Address
City/State/Zip
Please send
check or money order to: Finishing Line Press
Post Office Box 1626
Georgetown,
KY 40324
With
much appreciation to so many of you who have supported me over
the years!
Connie Post
connie@poetrypost.com
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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Peter Carlaftes NYC Book
Launch/Reading for DrunkYard Dog
SON OF A PONY POETRY SERIES
Book Launch for
DRUNKYARD DOG
by Poet PETER CARLAFTES
PLUS
NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike
Hosted by Kat Georges
Power poet Peter Carlaftes will launch his first full-length poetry collection, DrunkYard Dog (156 pages, Three Rooms Press, 2010) at the venerable Son of a Pony Poetry Reading Series on Friday, June 18, 6 p.m. at Cornelia St. Cafe.
Carlaftes work has been described as "a beautiful poetic voice, filled with drop-dead humor, searing insight and resilient originality, even while resonating with overtones of Bukowski, Baudelarie and Bogart." He discovered his poetic voice on the playgrounds of the Bronx, and, after seeing the world, branched out to the bars of Manhattan. According to Carlaftes, DrunkYard Dog offers poems from "both sides of the bar," and marks his third Three Rooms Press release in 2010, following A Year on Facebook (humor) and Triumph for Rent (three plays).
The featured reading follows the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet/convivial mistress of ceremonies Kat Georges hosts. Doors open at 5:45 p.m.; the open reading begins at 6 p.m. Admission is $7, which includes a free drink.
Cornelia Street Cafe is at 29 Cornelia Street, between W. 4th Street & Bleecker, just around the corner from the W. 4th Street subway station. Phone: 212-989-9319.
www.corneliastreetcafe.com
Details/info at
info@threeroomspress.com
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.
Sherry Sheehan
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www.lauradavis.net
Deborah Fruchey
attended the Memory
to Memoir retreat
and recently
completed the first
year-long memoir
intensive. She
brought this
introduction to her
memoir to our last
class, her final
piece to
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Rachel Dacus
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was interviewed on Merry Gangemi's
"Woman-Stirred Radio" show on WGDR,
Goddard College.
www.wgdr.org
with Merry Gangemi
Thursdays 4pm-6pm
Woman Stirred Radio
is funded in part
with a grant from
the Samara
Foundation of
Vermont
Woman-Stirred Blog
Woman-Stirred Music
Playlists
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Check out Blood Lotus - my poem,
"The Messenger," appears in this
issue.
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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Kore Press plans
to travel the
Tucson roads
this fall with
Coming in Hot:
The Civil
Discourse Tour.
In order to make
this and a
series of
regional tours
happen, Kore
friends are
hosting house
parties & salon
performances
around town in
an effort to
raise funds.
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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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April
2010 Issue of Crab Creek Review just
released! Very pleased to be
included as one of the poets in this
issue!
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Lorna Dee Cervantes I've been
forgetting to post this link to Al
Young's site where he posted my
earthquake poems. Very cool. I just
ran into him on the BART last night.
He was on the way to the airport to
present an award. We talked about
screenwriting. He liked my advice,
get the movie in your head first. My
stop was up before I got a chance to
ask him if he can get me an email
for Oprah. (haha, Luis Urrea says,
"Oh yeah! Oprah! She was just over
for carne asada last night.")
http://alyoung.org/index.php/2010/04/16/lorna-dee-cervantes-three-poems-for-el-terremoto/
alyoung.org
AlYoung.org is
the website of
California's Poet
Laureate Emeritus.
This eclectic site
features audio
podcasts, poetry,
literature and arts
related links.
Moreover, under the
categories Poetry
Treasury and Sites
to Behold, the site
features links the
Poet Laureate thinks
to be immediately or
tangenti...
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dacusrocket.blogspot.com
Rachel Dacus's poem
"Ghost Hours"
appears in the new
issue of The Atlanta
Review. Thanks to
Dan Veach for
selecting the poem!
It's an interesting
issue, with a
section on poets
from Iran, edited by
Sholeh Wolpé, and
five new
translations of Rumi
by Coleman Barks.I'm
having a good week!
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www.cortlandreview.com
Poetry of Rachel
Dacus in real audio
- Issue 47 (May
2010) - The Cortland
Review
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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
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
