Announcements
If you have a literary announcement to make, please contact the CPC at rwendellking@comcast.net (Bob King, Colorado Poets Center)
Green Fuse/North Columbine
Green Fuse/N. Columbine 2nd Saturday Poetry Group meets in the DazBog conference room in downtown Loveland across Lincoln from the Loveland Museum. The group meets from 11-1pm the second Saturday of every month. Bring copies of poems you would like to workshop. Open to GF/Columbine members and anyone with an interest in poetry. The next meeting is Sept. 11
For details email: greenfusepress@yahoo.com
Writers & The Market: Sept. 25
The Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association presents a day-long event, “Writers and the Independent Marketplace,” at the Marriot Denver Tech Center on Saturday, Sept. 25. Panels of experts in printing, publishing, bookselling, and marketing will share their industry knowledge, unique perspectives, and practical advice. Registration fee includes a luncheon and a banquet with notable authors including Nevada Barr, Ian Frazier, and Connie Willis. For complete information and registration, click here http://www.mountainsplains.org/independent-marketplace.aspx
Smith Poem on Film
Jared Smith’s poem "Grassroots," the title poem of his recent book from Wind Publications, was selected by the Boulder International Fringe Festival to be one of six poems made into Independent films for showing at the festival.
Poetry Show on Radio
Just a reminder: "The Poetry Show" with Dona Stein is now an hour long and airs every first and third Sunday from 6-7 p.m. at 88.9fm or http://www.krfcfm.org. See "Readings" for specific shows.
Poets' Co-Op TV Archived
Past appearances of Colorado and national poets on the Poets’ Co-Op TV show are archived at http://www.videopoetry.org. Readers include Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, SETH, Katherine West and Jeff Finer, Jared Smith, Evan Oakley, Lynn Emanuel, M. D. Friedman, and Sandy Tseng. See “Readings” for this fall’s show lineup.
New U. S. Laureate
W. S. Merwin was been named the 17th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry of the United States on July 1, 2010. Merwin succeeds Kay Ryan as Poet Laureate. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for The Carrier of Ladders.
Pikes Peak Laureate Blog
Jim Ciletti, the newly selected Pikes Peak Poet Laureate, has a recently developed blog. Visit him at:
http://www.poetrycelebrateslife.blogspot.com
Ramke Wins Colorado Book Award
Bin Ramke of Denver has won the 2010 Colorado Book Award in Poetry for his volume Theory of Mind: New and Selected Poems published by Omnidawn Publishing. The 19th annual book awards ceremony was held in Aspen on June 25.
David Mason: New Colorado Poet Laureate
David Mason of Colorado Springs is the state's new poet laureate, replacing long-time laureate Mary Crow. Mason's biography is available under his name on this site. For further information, go to: http://www.cpr.org/article/Colorados_New_Poet_Laureate
New Bombay Gin
The summer, 2010, issue of Bombay Gin, the literary journal of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, is now available. It features a portfolio of “20 Years of Eco-Lit.” (http://www.naropa.edu/bombaygin/)
MMM Book Contest Deadline Aug. 14
The deadline for submission for the 2010 Many Mountains Moving Poetry Book Contest contest is August 14th. For information: http://www.mmminc.org) Renato Rosaldo of New York City won the 2009 prize for Luna’s Insider Tips.
23 Colorado Poets in American West Anthology
Twenty-three Colorado poets are represented in the anthology New Poets of the American West, edited by Lowell Jaeger and published in July by Many Voices Press at Flathead Valley Community College in Montana.
The Colorado poets are: Peter Anderson, Aaron Anstett, Dan Beachy-Quick, James Bishop, Kathy Conde, Mary Crow, Jane Hilberry, Joseph Hutchison, Mark Irwin, Art Goodtimes, Noah Eli Gordon, Robert King, Marilyn Krysl, Sheryl Luna, David Mason, Maria Melendez, Randy Phillis, Pattian Rogers, William Pitt Root, Reg Saner, Rawdon Tomlinson, Bill Tremblay, and Pamela Uschuk.
New Poets of the American West is available for purchase at amazon.com or by contacting: fvccbookstore.com or calling 406-756-3814 (9:00 - 5:00 M-F)
For more information, please contact Lowell Jaeger at 406-756-3907 or ljaeger@fvcc.edu
Creativity in Motion Prize Deadline
Go to: htpps://cim.ou.edu/for information on the "Creativity in Motion Prize" which "celebrates visionary creative work in process.” The work must be underway at the time of application. Applications may be downloaded from that website or you may request materials by contacting Kristi Morgan at 405-325-2347 or kcain@ou.edu.
Those individuals or organizations making successful proposals will be awarded grants up to, but not more than, $40,000.
Deadline for the 2011 prize is Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010.
New Mag: Little Star
For Joe Hutchison’s opinion of, and examples from, the new magazine Little Star, go to his blog: http:perpetualbird.blogspot.com
Poet Space Moves by July 1st
M. D. Friedman’s Poets Space is moving to a new location. “To continue to enjoy our community, “ he writes,” you will have to go to our new Poet Space site ( http://poetspace.poetscoop.org/ ). Once there you need to click on the link that says "Create new account" and register. For all of our protection, you will then receive an email stating that you will need to wait until I approve your application. Once I get to it, you will then receive an email with log in instructions. I would advise moving before July 1, when Ning evicts us so you can simply copy your current Poet Space page and paste in to create your new Poet Page at our new address. For you fellow computer geeks, we will be using Drupal as our platform and all the pages will be hosted on my server so there should never be a need to move again. I think you will find the new interface not quite as fancy but quite functional for supporting our little poet community.”
Poetry/Flash Fiction Contest
Many Mountains Moving announces its new 2010 Poetry & Flash Fiction Contest with a $500 cash prize in each genre. Deadline is Dec. 30, 2010, and the entry fee is $15 for five poems and $15 for two flash-fiction (or short-short story under 1,500 words). Guidelines available at: http://mmminc.org/html/2010contests.htm
Jared Smith's Longer Poems
Jared Smith's Looking into the Machinery: The Selected Longer Poems is now out from Tamarack Editions. The book consists of 12 longer poems written by Smith from 1983-2008. The Boulder poet has published seven other volumes of poetry.
Jake York Interview
An interview with Jake York (A Murmuration of Starlings, 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry) by Brian Brodeur can be found on Brodeur’s blog, “How a Poem Happens”: http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2010/03/jake-adam-york.html
Lois Beebe Hayna Writing Center Opening
Lois Beebe Hayna received an honorary doctorate degree from Regis University for her contributions as a poet and author and was on hand in April to celebrate the opening of the Lois Beebe Hayna Writing Center on the Regis Denver campus.
New MFA Program in Colorado
Western State College of Colorado in Gunnison is offering a new low-residency MFA program in poetry with an emphasis on formal verse. “As far as I know,” says David Rothman, director of the poetry track, “it is one of the very few MFA programs to foreground the study of poetic craft.” The program, involving such courses as Scansion Immersion, Public Performance, and Metrical Traditions and Versification, entails two years of on-line study and three two-week residencies in Gunnison. There is also a track in mainstream genre fiction and one in screenwriting. For more information, the website is http://www.western.edu/academics/creativewriting. On Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Gunnison-CO/Westerns-MFA-in-Creative-Writing/370024430285
New mp3s at PoetsCoop
M. D. Friedman’s Poets Coop has announced 86 new mp3s and three new TV shows available at http://www.poetscoop.org. The site has gotten more than 300,000 hits in the last six months.
New Pilgrimage Anthology
In lieu of new issues of Pilgrimage in 20099, the press has put together an anthology, Telling It Real: The Best of Pilgrimage Magazine. Visit their website to purchase: http://www.pilgrimagepress.org
Poetry on the Marquee
Five short poems by Colorado poet Ayaz Daryl Nielsen, of Longmont, were “published” in a unique way during the week of Feb. 15-21. The Shreve Memorial Library in Shreveport, Louisiana, ran them on the electronic marquee outside the main library as well as on its website. (Go to http://www.shreve-lib.org and click on “services,” then “poem of the day”).
Other Colorado poets might want to check this out. Send 5-10 poems of 50 words or less (do not need to be haiku) and suitable for the general public to: ccolon@shreve-lib.org.
Seven-Line Story Contest
Opium magazine has a contest for a 7-line Story, i. e. a story or prose poem that is seven lines or less (8.5” x 11” with 1” margins). Deadline Aug. 2, 2010. $10 for a single entry. Cash awards. Amy Hempel judges.
See http://www.opiummagazine.com/contest.aspx
Chapbook Competition for Women Poets
“dancing girl press” has a chapbook competition for women poets. The next contest is June 1-Aug. 30. The website is: http://www.dancinggirlpress.com/guidelines.html
Uschuk Review
You can read a review of Pamela Uschuk’s book of poems, Crazy Love, at: http://womenwritersgettogether.squarespace.com/crazy-love-by-pamela-uschuk/
Audio on Poets' Coop
Hear Jared Smith’s “This Poem” (and find others) from the Internet Poets Cooperative:
http://www.poetscoop.org/media/ThisPoem2009.mp3
New Perigee Archives Access
Perigee, an on-line literary magazine, will no longer provide free access to their archives, but will make them available to “donors”. The actual donation may be modest. But its current issue is still available on-line for free. Find it at: http://www.perigee-art.com/
Michele Harvey Website
Poems by Michele Harvey and a monthly featured artist may be found on her website: http://www.micheleharveypoet.com/
Best of the Blogs
Joe Hutchison, who keeps literary things going with his daily blog, The Perpetual Bird, has started writing articles for a website called Suite 101. In the current article he suggests 13 literary blogs that poets and readers might check out, including Don Wentworth’s “Issa’s Untidy Hut,” Ron Silliman’s blog (2.5 million visitors for his link-rich essays), and a group gathered around Best American Poetry. Most of the blogs let readers post comments on the entries, and, Joe says, “as a rule the comments are lively and intelligent.” His article is currently at:
http://resourcesforwriters.suite101.com/article.cfm/poetry_blogs_a_bakers_dozen_of_the_best
Visit Art from Ashes?
If you’re unfamiliar with the work of this Denver-area group and its focus of “empowering youth through poetry and other creative therapies,” check out their website which includes workshop announcements and poems by young poets. http://www.artfromashes.org
Free Spoken-Word Poetry
Listen to over 800 free spoken-word poetry MP3s at http://www.poetscoop.org. 86 new audio files just posted (12/09) from the Internet Poets Cooperative Open Reading Series. Poets include Jared Smith, M. D. Friedman, Katherine West, Diana Royce, Ray Foreman, and Gordon Holladay. You may also visit the special studio-recorded selections at http://www.mp3poetry.com featuring internet poets from around the world.
Green Fuse Books at the Mandolin Café
Green Fuse Poetic Arts Association announces that its published books, currently available from their website (http://www.greenfusepoeticarts.org), will also be available at a mini-bookstore in the Mandolin Café on 4th St. in downtown Loveland.
Heartlodge Closes
The Colorado magazine HeartLodge has closed until further notice due to a variety of other literary projects the staff are working on. Andrea Watson is now the editor and publisher of HeartLodge: Honoring the House of the Poet. The press may be reconfigured as a book publisher in the future. If you have a project you believe might be of interest, from chapbook to book, you may contact Andrea at heartlodgepoets@gmail.com. Also, keep an eye out for future publications or projects.
Mini-Book Reviews of Yours?
Joe Hutchison informs us that Crab Creek Review will be featuring mini-reviews called “Editor’s Choice”. If you’d like your book to be considered for review, send them a copy or have your publisher do so. There’s no guarantee your book will be selected for review but at least it would be listed under Publications Received. Send to: Crab Creek Review, PO Box 1524, Kingston, WA 98346
David Mason Interview
Hear an interview with David Mason about transforming his verse-novel Ludlow into an opera on Colorado Matters, comatters_pay.m3u via I-Tunes. Nov., 2009.
Website for Interviews
The Joe Milford poetry show at blogtalk.radio.com offers a variety of interviews with such poets as Bob Hicok, C.D. Wright, Stephen Dunn, Russell Edson, Rae Armantrout, Gregory Orr, C.K.Williams and Mark Strand. Archives at: http://joemilfordpoetryshow.com/archives.php
Marginalia Moves
Marginalia, says Mark Todd, has separated from Western Sate College: the URL is now http://www.marginaliajournal.com.
Willow Springs Interviews
Willow Springs posts its interviews with writers, from Marvin Bell to Robert Wrigley, on their site. The most recent are Mark Childress, Lynn Emanuel, Dorianne Laux, and Thomas Lynch. Go to: http://www.ewu.edu/willowsprings/interviews.html
David Feela's new website is http//www.feelasophy.blogspot.com
Statement, the Journal of the Colorado Language Society, is interested in poets’ articles on teaching poetry K-12 as well as original poems, “any topic and any style,” sent to Jim Hobbs, 621 S. Paris St., Aurora, CO 8 0012.
Check the CLAS website at http://www.clas.us for information about themes and deadlines. Inquiries to editor Mike Wenk, at mjwenk@hotmail.com.
Sandra Dorr’s book of poems, Desert Water, is available from the author ($9.95, 48 pp. perfectly bound, $12 shipped), by sending a check to Sandra Dorr at 2529 Grand Overlook Drive, Grand.Junction, CO 81507. You can also order it from http://www.lithicpress.com.
James Tipton’s Washing Dishes in the Ancient Village/Lavando platos en el pueblo antiguo, is a collection of 100 short poems--in both English and Spanish--about Mexico and Latin America. Some of the poems are humorous, some are erotic, all very human. One critic calls these "haiku on testosterone". The book is available for $10.95 plus $3.00 shipping and handling through Bread & Butter Press, 1150 S. Glencoe, Denver, CO 80246.
Robert Cooperman has his new website up now at http://robertcoopermanpoet.com.
A new issue of Sugar Mule, a Colorado Springs “literary magazine with eccentric Buddhist leanings” edited by M. L. Weber, is now on-line at http://www.sugarmule.com
58 new audio files (MP3) from the Loveland Poets Cooperative series, including poems by Katherine West, Deborah Russell, Stewart Warren, M. D. Friedman, Amy Irish, and many others are available at http://www.poetscoop.org
Becoming a non-profit, Green Fuse Community Press has changed its name to Green Fuse Poetic Arts Association. The new web address is: http://www.greenfusepoeticarts.org
Phil Wood's Original Mind has just appeared from Turkey Buzzard Press.
Contact Joe Hutchison to be put on his regular e-mail-delivered literary blog, “The Perpetual Bird”: joe@hwriter.com.
New Colorado poet Jared Smith has a website of information on his work. See http://www.jaredsmith.info
Jeffery Bahr has a lengthy list of poetry publications, with website links, name of poetry editor, submission periods and more at: http://www.jefferybah.com/Publications/defualt.htm. His “whimsical weblog on poetry, cuisine, politics and whatever captures his fancy” is at http://www.whimsyspeaks.com
Joe Hutchison’s blog address has been changed to http://perpetualbird.blogspot.com.
Joe Hutchison passes on this website containing poetry and bios and “other good stuff” from 21 countries: http://international.poetryinternationalweb.org.
Poetry West poets, “the largest community of poets and writers in the Pikes Peak region,” meet from September to May on the first Saturday of the month, usually at the Worner Center on the Colorado College Campus (corner of Cascade and Cache La Poudre). They also publish The Eleventh Muse. For more information see the Poetry West web site: http://www.poetrywest.org.
Pam Uschuk’s Scattered Risks, published by Wings Press (San Antonio) was recently nominated by Ploughshares for the Zacharias Book Award. Good reviews of that collection are in current issues of The Asheville Poetry Review (winningwriters.com) and The Café Review.
Copper Nickel is now reading submissions year-round and selecting for two issues at once, so they are inviting poems and stories for consideration. All submissions should be in Microsoft word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Send poetry to poetry@copper-nickel.org and fiction to fiction@copper--nickel.org. Complete submissions guidelines are at http://www.copper-nickel.org
Laurie Wagner Buyer's Across the High Divide from Ghost Road Press is now available from Ghost Road Press. An interview with Laurie can be found at www.ghostroadpress.com.