Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Dear Friends: Here is some news about my upcoming readings and August poetry workshop, Intensive: The Love (and Sex) Poem. Hope to see you!

Love, Larissa
slidingsca@aol.com

Tuesday, May 29, 6:00 p.m.: HAVE A NYC Launch Party
Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, NYC
The launch of the new Three Rooms Press collection of New York City-noir short stories. Featuring Kat Georges, David Lincoln, Kofi Fosu Forson, Pedro Ponce, Ron Bass, Jame Ormerod, Peter Marra, Puma Perl, Lisa Ferber, Janet Hamill, and host Peter Carlaftes

Sunday, June 10, 3:30 p.m.: Tamarind Magazine
Westbeth Gallery, 55 Bethune Street, NYC
A reading for the noted magazine edited by Tom Savage. Tamarind contributors to read TBA.

Saturday, July 21, 8:00 p.m.: Art and Psyche Conference, New York University
New York University Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South
Sponsored by the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, the International Association for Analytical Psychology, and the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism. With Martine Bellen and Kristen Prevallet (open to conference participants only)

Sunday, July 22, 4:30 p.m. The New York City Poetry Festival Governor’s Island
Representing Madhatters’ Review. With Susan Scutti, Yuriy Tarnowsky, and Marc Vincenz.

SUNDAY AFTERNOONS IN AUGUST, 2-4 p.m.: Intensive Workshop: The Love (and Sex) Poem Sunday afternoons August 5,12, 19, and 26, 2-4 p.m. West 70s location: Call 212-712-9865 or e-mail slidingsca@aol.com for more information or to register.

Thursday, August 9, 7:00 p.m.: Bright Hills Literary Center
94 Church Street, Treadwell, NY
Curated by Bertha Rogers.

September 29, noon-3:30 p.m.: The Feminist Poets in Low-Cut Blouses vs. the Unbearables.
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery between Houston and Bleecker
Every bit as riotous, hilarious, and outrageous as it sounds – cast of thousands. Part of the 100,000 Poets for Change international poetry event, with over 500 readings in over 100 countries scheduled to date— and still growing!

Coming Attraction! The Carol Novack Halloween Tribute Party – stay tuned for details!

oxo,
L

Thursday, May 17, 2012

BIG BRIDGE 15th Anniversary Issue!

ANNOUNCING THE BIG BRIDGE 15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY ISSUE www.bigbridge.org * * * CONTENTS Our Feature Chapbook is Andrei Codrescu’s “bridge work” with illustrations by Nancy Victoria Davis * Guest editor, Bonny Finberg presents 30 POETS, a poetry anthology dedicated to Akilah Oliver, includes poems by Jim Harrison, Alice Notley, Patricia Spears Jones, Lynn Crawford, Ron Kolm, Louise Landes Levi, Jennifer K. Dick, Steve Dalachinsky, Karen Margolis, Yuko Otomo and others. Thomas Devaney's Big Tree Poems: An exploratory anthology of contemporary tree poems featuring George Evans, Allison Cobb, Bob Arnold, Joan Larkin, Jonathan Skinner, Paul Kane, Hoa Nguyen, Katy Lederer, Peter Larkin, Bob Holman, Elaine Terranova, Kevin Varrone, Iain Haley Pollock, Sparrow, Nathaniel Otting and others. Jonathan Penton manifests Cuyahoga Burning, a feature on current Ohio literature, dedicated to Nobius Black, with fiction, poetry, and criticism by folks like Marie Kazalia, Cheryl A. Townsend, John Dorsey and others. More poems from j/j hastain, Dale Smith, Michael Basinski, Arpine Grenier, Lakey Comess, Nicolas Ekerson, Martin Willits, Lee Herrick, Larissa Shmailo, Nicholas Karavatos, Larry Sawyer, John Roche, Jerry McGuire, Joel Chace, Jeff Side, Peter Ramon, Christine Hamm, and Yahia Lababidi * Fiction selection! Guest editor Ellen Geist is offering a 15th Anniversary Fiction Feature, multifaceted stories orchestrated around four themes by authors such as Ishmael Reed, Carole Maso, Faye Moskowitz, Jeff Friedman, Brinda Charry, Howard Schwartz, and others. And more Fiction from Camille Meyer, Jessica Chace, HC Hsu, Tina Cabrera, Kate Axelrod, Ryan Jones. John Hennessy and Ron Singer. * Translations abound! Poetry from Japan, A Contemporary Anthology of Japanese Poetry is special guest edit by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa with poems from Tanaka Atsusuke, Yoko Danno, Sekiguchi Ryoko, Torii Shozo, Goro Takano and others. Voices for Change: A Contemporary Anthology of Moroccan Poets, edited by El Habib Louai with poems by Boujema El Aoufi, Abdellatif Al Ouarari, Idriss Allouch, Mubarak Ouassat, Najat Zoubair, Ikram Abdi and others. More Translations include Selections from Stet, poems by Cuban poet Jose Kozer translated by Mark Weiss. Dreams–The–Underlinears, poems by Ilya Kutik translated by Lyn Hejinian and Jean Day. A Tribute to Andrey Voznesensky (1933-2010) translation by Alex Cigale and Dana Golin. Still Life with Snow, Dato Barbakadze selected translations by Lyn Coffin and Nato Alhazishvili with Introduction by Sam Hamill. Elvana Zaimi translations of Agron Tufa. Seven poems by Georgi Ivanov translated by Yelena Dubrovin. Tiziana Colusso translated from the Italian by Brenda Porster. Poems of Iranian poet Rira Abassi translated by Maryam Ala Amjadi and M. Alexandrian. Poetry Slam Guatemala. Golden Edition edited by Walter Gonzalez, celebrates poetry from Guatemala and around the world, * Features continue with Brian Unger, who offers another insightful installation of excerpts from the incredible Philip Whalen’s personal journals Guest editor Adam Cornford presents “Neo-Surrealism and the Politics of The Marvelous” with contributions by Sandra Simonds, Michael Leong, Ivan Argüelles, Will Alexander, Eric Baus, Charles Borkhuis, Rebecca Hazelton, Andrew Joron, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, John Yau, and others. Poems, Songs and Children’s books: A Robert Priest Retrospective: "Robert Priest: Poet/Minstrel in Utter Space" by Sheree Fitch, Daryl Jung reviews Feeling the Pinch, "Robert Priest, Dr. Poetry, and the Viral Verbal Vortex" by Lance Strate, and Jordan Zinovich scrutinizes Robert Priest's Blue Pyramids and Reading the Bible Backwards Photos and excerpts from Tom Hibbard’s 2011 Wisconsin Protest Journals. Desmond Peeples essay on maritime subcultures, "In Good Use and Good Vengeance", Akhilesh Kumar Dwivedi’s, “Multiple Responses to Nationalism: Individuals in The Shadow Lines”. Neeli Cherkovski interviews Patrick James Dunagan and Lucille Lang Day writes on Jack Foley. * Exceptional ART from around the world! Jonathan Kane returns to Big Bridge with a selection of sensual photographic collage works. Jim Spitzer’s epic artistic venture: “THE BOOK: 47 canvases of poetry and text”. Julius Keleras’ photographic study, “The Pavements of Vilnius”. An exhibition of mixed media by Shawne Major. 10 photos from the UK’s Eleanor Leonne Bennett and Henrik Aeshna’s SCHIZOPoP MANIFESTO, a gallery of visual anomalies & photopoems from Paris. * And stay on top of what’s happening with important Reviews! Goodbye Gothic Rose: David Madgalene’s “Epic Search For Love and Answers in South Beach”, a review by Christopher Luna. Harris Schiff’s One More Beat (Accent Editions) reviewed by Larry Sawyer. Neeli Cherkovski’s review of Translations from the Latin of Luxorius by Art Beck. Reflections in a Smoking Mirror: Poems of Mexico & Belize by Paul Pines (Dos Madres Press) reviewed by Eric Hoffman, Tom Hibbard reviews Ungulations: Ten Waves (Under the Hoof) by A. Di Michele and Amy Trussell, Joe Safdie’s review of Lewis MacAdams’ Dear Oxygen: New & Selected Poems, 1966–2011 (University of New Orleans Press), Michael Sonsken reviews Micah Ballard’s Waifs & Strays, David Meltzer’s When I Was a Poet (City Lights Books) and F. A. Nettlebeck’s Happy Hour, Bill DeNoyelles reviews Bernadette Mayer’s, Studying Hunger Journals (Station Hill Press), W.F. Lantry reviews Lisa Vihos' The Accidental Present, Lynn Alexander reviews Somewhere Over the Pachyderm Rainbow by Jennifer C. Wolfe, Kirpal Gordon reviews Michael Hogan’s Winter Solstice: Selected Poems, 1975-2012, Bruce Ross-Smith reviews The American Eye by Eric Hoffman (Dos Madres Press), and Cheryl Townsend reviews Kirpal Gordon’s Round Earth, Open Sky (Giant Steps Press) * Our LITTLE MAGS section features Sensitive Skin, Harbinger Asylum, Tidal Bsin Review, Yellow Edenwald Field, Lummox Journal, Meat for Tea, The International Times, Home Planet News, Iodine Poetry Journal, Stoneboat and others. * Happy 15 Year Anniversary from Big Bridge! Enjoy! PLEASE POST, SHARE, TWEET EVERYWHERE AND ANYWHERE! Donations: http://www.bigbridge.org/BB16/donations.htm

Saturday, May 05, 2012

MAD HATTERS' REVIEW 13, THE CAROL NOVACK TRIBUTE ISSUE, IS OUT!

MAD HATTERS' REVIEW 13, THE CAROL NOVACK TRIBUTE ISSUE, IS OUT! IN THIS EXPLOSIVE ISSUE: Carol Novack ~ Wilton Azevedo ~ BacBacLove ~ CamillE Bacos ~ Manoj Baviskar ~ James Belflower ~ Stefanie Bennett ~ Ann Bogle ~ Doug Bond ~ Tom Bradley ~ Lee Ann Brown ~ Amy Marie Bucciferro ~ Orin Buck ~ Andrei Codrescu ~ CAConrad ~ Robert Calabrese ~ Robin Carstensen ~ David Chirot ~ Walter Cummins ~ Greg Dember ~ Jean Detheux ~ Dewanatron ~ Kim Farleigh ~ Raymond Farr ~ Nancy Flynn ~ Hugh Fox ~ Vernon Frazer ~ Kirk Glaser ~ Daniel Grandbois ~ Ken Grunke ~ Rich Haber ~ Ernst Halter ~ Jefferson Hansen ~ Daniel Harris ~ Shirley Harshenin ~ j/j hastain ~ Martin Heavisides ~ Leigh Herrick ~ Laura Hinton ~ Webber Holley ~ Lori Horvitz ~ Jason Irwin ~ Rich Ives ~ Kirsten Kaschock ~ Mary Kasimor ~ Jukka-Pekka Kervinen ~ Hansoo Kim ~ Zachary Kluckman ~ Annette Labedzki ~ Dolly Lemke ~ Gregory Lenczycki ~ Bobbi Lurie ~ Michael Main ~ Steve Maas ~ Laura McCullough ~ Scott McFarland ~ Ben Rush Miller ~ M V Montgomery ~ Raphael Moser ~ Robert Mueller ~ Sierra Nelson ~ Cedar Lorca Nordbye ~ Traci O'Connor ~ Abel Ortiz-Acosta ~ Luca Penne ~ Austin Publicover ~ Dan Raphael ~ Lori Romero ~ Alison Ross ~ Hilary Schaper ~ Susan Scutti ~ Larissa Shmailo ~ Jeffrey Side ~ Lysette Simmons ~ Jürgen Smit ~ Katherine Soniat ~ Marcus Speh ~ Melissa Stern ~ Terese Svoboda ~ George Szirtes ~ Gene Tanta ~ Lynne Thompson ~ Paul Toth ~ Hugh Tribbey ~ Steve Tune ~ Robin Vaughn-Williams ~ Marc Vincenz ~ Allegra Wakest ~ Margaret Walther ~ Sarah Walker ~ Christine Wilks ~ John Moore Williams ~ Renee Witherwax ~ Michael Wolman ~ Bill Yarrow ~ Paul Yates ~ Changming Yuan http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue13/index.shtml

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