Announcements
If you have a literary announcement to make, please contact the CPC at rwendellking@comcast.net (Bob King, Colorado Poets Center)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Green Fuse Poetic Arts is accepting poems for the 2012 IMPROV Anthology of Grass Roots Poets. Please send 3-5 short poems to: greenfusepress@yahoo.com.
Poems should respond to the theme: BIRTH, DEATH AND RE-BIRTH IN 2012.
Deadline: March 15, 2012. Poems should be sent in one file in Word and as an attachment with “IMPROV” in the subject box. Please leave submissions completely unformatted, using the default settings of Word only.
Green Fuse does not require a bio or any publishing history whatever. All are encouraged to submit.
Poets.org Interviews
Poets.org currently features interviews with nearly 100 poets (although only 29 are listed in the column following). From Elizabeth Alexander to Richard Wilbur at:
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/611?utm_source=poetsupdate_013112&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=content&utm_content=interview_landing_page
Adams' Website
Michael Adams' website has an interactive blog with postings of poems, music, questions and responses.
http://www.michaeladamspoetry.com
Progenitor Deadline Feb. 15
The Progenitor, ACC’s award-winning art and literary magazine, invites you to submit your poetry, prose and art for their upcoming Spring issue. We accept submissions from students, faculty, and community members. Deadline for this year’s submissions is midnight, February 15. All submissions this year will be accepted electronically. For more info and how to submit: http://www.arapahoe.edu/campus-life/student-press/progenitor-art-and-literary-magazine
Bombay Gin's Colorado Issue
Bombay Gin, the literary journal produced by Naropa University, is currently accepting submissions from the writers and artists of Colorado’s Front Range. Much like writing traditions or “schools” have been often historically organized by location, such as New York or Bay Area, the Bombay Gin editors this year have decided to showcase the many talented writers in the Colorado area. Whether it is through their affiliation with a Colorado university, being born and raised in the area, or simply relocation, we are looking to showcase the best of Colorado writing today.
Open Submissions will close on February 15, 2012.
Submission guidelines, etc.: http://www.naropa.edu/bombaygin
Friedman Book in Multimedia
M. D. Friedman’s Leaning Toward Whole is now available as a multimedia e-book version in pdf format. (It will display beautifully on your computer but is not fully functional on mobile devices and e-readers.) This enhanced multimedia edition includes the full text of the original perfect bound chapbook plus authentic live audio recordings for most of the poems in Leaning Toward Whole, provided courtesy of the Poets' Co-op TV Show and recorded at the Liquid Light Press Book Launch Party at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café in Boulder, Colorado, on June 8, 2011. The poem, "Never Ask a Poet Directions," is included in this enhanced e-book as text, audio and as an experimental video. In addition, this special interactive e-book includes an animated, two-voice video version of the poem, "Know Where to Go Crazy." The separate video file for just this digital poem is also available on I-Tunes.
Price $9.99.
Visit http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/leaning-toward-whole-(multimedia-pdf-edition)/18837581
8th Annual Writer's Contest
The Writers Studio at Arapahoe Community College announces its 8th Annual Writers Studio Literary Contest for unpublished work in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. $250 prize, publication in Progenitor, ACCs award-winning literary magazine, and invitation to the Spring Literary Festival will be awarded to first-place winners in each category. Second place winners will be invited guests at the literary festival. The contest is open to all Colorado residents and the deadline to submit work is March 1, 2012.
Final judges for this year's contest are Harrison Fletcher (creative nonfiction), author of Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life, a Bakeless Literary Award finalist, and selection for the University of Nebraska Press American Lives Series edited by Tobias Wolff, Dan Beachy-Quick (poetry), author, most recently, of Circle's Apprentice (Tupleo 2011) and Wonderful Investigations (Milkweed 2012), a book of poetry and a book of essays, mediations, and tales (respectively). (poetry) and Jennifer Davis (fiction), author of Her Kind of Want, winner of the Iowa Award for Short Fiction and Our Former Lives in Art, selected by Barnes and Noble for their Discover Great New Writers series. The judges will also serve as writing faculty for the 2012 Spring Literary Festival on Saturday, April 21.
New this year: we will be accepting electronic submissions only for art and literary pieces through Submittable, the online submission manager. For submission guidelines or about the Writers Studio, visit the Writers Studio Web site at ACC Writers Studio General Submission Guidelines or e-mail the Writers Studio at writerstudio@arapahoe.edu.
Loveland Writer's Circle
The Loveland Writer’s Circle will meet monthly to share work by reading in an intimate atmosphere. Call Jeanne and Leo at 970-593-1203 or Katherine and Jeff at 970-214-8766 or email greenfuseporess@yahoo.com for more information.
Loveland Critique Group
Poetry Critique Group meets on the second Saturday of every month from 11-1 p.m. in the Daz Bog Cafe conference room at 5th and Lincoln in downtown Loveland, across the street from the Loveland Museum. The event is free and all are welcome. Copies are a good idea if feedback is desire.
Free Issues of Poetry
CHICAGO —Poetry magazine, published by the Poetry Foundation, is pleased to announce a giveaway of Poetry in celebration of National Poetry Month (April) and the magazine’s centennial. An unlimited number of free copies of the April 2012 issue of Poetry magazine will be available to book clubs and reading groups that request them by March 23.
The April 2012 issue of Poetry will feature new poems by well-known poets Yusef Komunyakaa and David Lehman; prose by Sven Birkerts; first appearances by Patricia Kirkpatrick, Sean Hill, and Kathy Nilsson; and the return of an occasional feature in which poets remember other poets: Patricia Smith celebrates Gwendolyn Brooks, Maxine Kumin recalls Howard Nemerov, and Gerald Stern reflects on Muriel Rukeyser, among others.
The April issue will ship in late March so that reading groups will receive their copies for consideration during National Poetry Month. Reading communities may discuss thought-provoking Poetry content—both commentary and poems—or simply read the issue aloud.
Requests, including only one mailing address per reading group, will be accepted online through http://www.poetryfoundation.org/npm or by calling 312-799-8015.
Michael Adams Website
Michael Adams reports he “finally” has a website going and asks for poets to check it out. One section is titled “News,” a blog for posting things temporarily and receiving comments. He wants to try it as an interactive space and has posted a poem with a question. “If you feel so moved,” he says, you may respond.
http://www.michaeladamspoetry.com/.
GJ Writers' Forum Site
The Grand Junction-based Western Colorado Writers’ Forum has a website providing information on their writers’ conference, events and classes, ongoing programs, and a lot more. Visit them at:
http://www.westerncoloradowriters.org/
Also, a 24-minute video of the Writers’ Forum fall conference, “The Language of This Land,” is available at: http://vimeo.com/34622096
Poetry West Celebration
Poetry West announces a triple celebration: Po(e)t-Pourri: Muse Madness” on Friday, Jan. 27, from 6 to 9 p.m. at The Warehouse Restaurant, 25 W. Cimarron St., in Colorado Springs. It honors and presents Poet Emerita Lois Hayna from her 7th book, marks Poetry West’s 30th anniversary with a brief history and open mic opportunity, and celebrates the 100th birthday of Poetry magazine. The event is free and features, we’re told, “a substantial cake!”
Book Launch for Trommer
A book launch party and reading for Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s The Miracle Already Happening: Everyday Life with Rumi will be held on Feb. 24, 2012, at Ziggies Live Music (4923 W,. 38th Ave., Denver). Sponsored by Liquid Light Press (http://liquidlightpress.com/), hosted by and hors d’oeuvres by Julie Cummings.
York at Kenyon Workshop
Jake York will be serving as a faculty member at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, June 16-23, 2012. Other teacher-writers include David Baker, Carl Phillips, Rebecca McClanahan, Dinty W. Moore, Lee K. Abbott, Geeta Kothari, Nancy Zafris, and David Lynn. “It is, indeed, a ‘workshop,’" York writes, “organized in small groups (approximately 10 students) that produce new work each day. Each participant gets to read his or her work to the community, so there are many chances for feedback.”
Here’s the link (open in January) on that workshop for those interested.
http://www.kenyonreview.org/workshops/writers/
New Hoffman Book
Chris Hoffman’s new book, Realization Point (Poetic Matrix Press, 2011) is now available from Small Press Distribution (www.spdbooks.org) and Amazon. Joseph Bruchac says “A clear meditative voice that bridges the gap between our human lives and the healing spirit of nature.” Chris’ website is http://www.hoopandtree.org
11th Muse Appearing in January
Poetry West's literary magazine, "The Eleventh Muse," is due to come out in January 2012. It will contain work by poets from all over the country, as well as some special-request/established poets .The anthology will be available through Poetry West and also online.
http://www.poetrywest.org, julianza@comcast.net
Kingston Book Forthcoming
Katie Kingston’s poetry manuscript, Translating Clouds, will be published by Lost Horse Press in fall 2012. It placed as a finalist in the 2011 Idaho Prize for Poetry under the title What Does Lorca Own? Her poem “Woman Resting” placed as a finalist in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry given by Nimrod International Journal. It was written in Teotitlan del Valle at the Oaxaca Woman’s Writing and Yoga Retreat last March.
Innisfree Bookstore on Facebook
Find poems, news, and links to poetry articles at Boulder’s Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Café on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Innisfree-Poetry-Bookstore-Cafe/152102094837613
From Green Fuse Press
Colorado’s Green Fuse Press announces the publication of Kenneth Pobo’s Contralto Crows. Also the publication of IMPROV 2011 Anthology of Grass Roots.
Both are $10. To order, e-mail greenfusepress.@yahoo.com.
Making a Poetry Book
There are 27 points to consider in Jeffrey Levine’s article “On Making the Poetry Manuscript.” See it at
http://jeffreyelevine.com/2011/10/12/on-making-the-poetry-manuscript/
Denver Poetry Community
The Denver Poetry Community is a Facebook site with news of readings and activities including Slam Nuba, Laptop Poetry, Art from Ashes, Mercury Cafe and many more. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=130804653598842
Two Poets Win MacArthur Prize
Two poets were among the twenty-two individuals who received MacArthur “genius awards” in September: Kay Ryan, the 16th U. S. Poet Laureate who also won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, and A. E. Stallings (Archaic Smile, 1999; Hapax, 2000) who has lived in Greece since 1999.
Green Fuse Has Moved
The new address for Green Fuse Press is 1000 W. Eisenhower, #11, Loveland, CO, 80537.
Beer Wins Colorado Book Award
Nicky Beer won the 2011 Colorado Book Award in Poetry for her book The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon University Press). Maria Melendez, Flexible Bones (University of Arizona Press), and Barbara Ellen Sorensen, Song from the Deep Middle Brain (Main Street Rag Publishing Company) were finalists.
New Ciletti Blog
Jim Ciletti, current Pikes Peak Poet Laureate, has a new blog at http://plumlover.wordpress.com
Weekly Reading Series
Two Colorado weekly reading series that happen so quickly we can't update the particulars: --On Thursdays from 7-9 p.m: Weekly reading series at Boulder’s Innisfree Poetry Bookstore (1203 13th St. Ste A.) (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Innisfree-Poetry-Bookstore-Cafe/152102094837613) --On Sundays at 8 p.m.: Poetry Slam at Denver’s Mercury Café (2199 California St.). $5 (http://www.mercurycafe.com/poetry.html)
Goodtimes Named Western Slope Laureate
In March, 2011, Art Goodtime was named the first Poet Laureate of the Western Slope. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, the San Miguel County Poet Laureate, presented the honor to Goodtimes at the recent poetry festival in honor of Karen Chamberlain who passed away in September of 2010.
Innisfree Opens on Sundays
The Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, at1203 13th St. Suite A, in Boulder, is now open Sundays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
New Lit Mag from Denver
Temporary Infinity, a Denver-based literary journal, is open for submissions. Read the first two issues as PDFs at http://www.ti-writes.com
Submission information at http://ti-writes.com/?page_id=10
Songs of WordWulf
Tom Sterner-Howe (aka WordWulf) has songs of his own composition for download (and other delights) at his ever-expanding website: http://wordwulf.weebly.com
New Word Wulf Site
Tom (WordWulf) Sterner has a new website up “with pages of original music, art, photography, You Tube videos, poetry and novels.” See it at http://wordwulf.weebly.com
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.
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
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
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
David Feela's new website is http//www.feelasophy.blogspot.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.
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
Contact Joe Hutchison to be put on his regular e-mail-delivered literary blog, “The Perpetual Bird”: joe@hwriter.com.
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.