Announcements
If you have a literary announcement to make, please contact the CPC at rwendellking@comcast.net (Bob King, Colorado Poets Center)
Author Fest Oct. 2-3
The fourth annual Author Fest of the Rockies is slated for Oct. 2-3 at the Cliff House in Manitou Springs. Rita Lewis, President of the Friends of the Manitou Springs Public Library Board: “For aspiring and established writers, poets and illustrators, avid readers or book club members, Author Fest offers useful information, interactive sessions and an opportunity to learn, collaborate and share. The art of the written and spoken word, next generation Internet marketing, how to critique a book, memoir writing, how to start a book club, social networking---we have gathered a wealth of expertise for conference attendees.” For info, go to www.authorfestoftherockies.org.
Chris Ransick’s new URL is http://chrisransick.com. You can find his blog, “Word Garden,” there as well as a poem from Asleep Beneath the Hill of Dreams, forthcoming from Ghost Road Press in Nov. 2009.
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 www.clas.us for information about themes and deadlines. Inquiries to editor Mike Wenk, at mjwenk@hotmail.com.
The latest issue of editor Steve Schroeder’s on-line Anti- is now up, featuring Lee Ann Roripaugh.
http://anti-poetry.com/
Volume 6, Issue 8 of Poetry Victims, edited by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, is now online, featuring photography by Sheng Wen Lo and poetry by Edward Wells II. http://www.poetryvictims.com/index.html
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 www.lithicpress.com.
Kenneth Goldsmith’s introduction to Flarf and Conceptual Writing (“The 21st Century’s most controversial poetry movements”) from Poetry magazine is available at:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=237176
MP3s available from Internet Poets
This news from M. D. Friedman (see his listing for contact info): 79 new mp3s have just been uploaded to the Internet Poets' Cooperative Web Site. These recordings are from our Spring 2009 Open Reading Series and include some truly amazing performances. The www.mp3poetry.com's TOP TEN Downloaded Poetry List for the first half of 2009 is also up. The entire 700+ media archive has received over 40,000 hits this so far this month alone. To top it all off, the Poets' Co-op TV Show is now broadcasting as live streaming video on the internet in addition to our local cable broadcast and internet podcast which averages about 1,500 viewers a month.
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.
Arda Collins, of Denver, was one of five poets wining the first series of American Academy of Arts and Sciences Poetry Prizes, honoring “emerging poets of exceptional promise and distinguished achievement.” Collins was the winner of the Yale Younger Poets Series in 2008.
A very busy Mary Crow has had translations accepted by Chelsea, Hawaii Review, and Visions International. Her poems have appeared, or will this year, in Appalache Review, Freshwater Review, Poetry East, The Dos Passos Review, Wisconsin Review, Tipton Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Gingko Tree Revision, Visions International, A Public Space, Eclipse, Midwest Quarterly, and Oracle. She’s also been nominated for a Pushcart Award.
Colorado’s “Explosion of Poets”
David Milofsky, a professor of English a CSU, had a “Book Beat” column in the April 5, 2009, issue of the Denver Post, titled “Colorado sees an explosion of poets.” Milofsky refers to many poets on the Colorado Poets Center website, including, Beachy-Quick Carr, Gordon, Ramke. Steensen, and York. The article speaks of the excitement around the area these relatively young poets have helped stir. Read the full article at http://www.denverpost.com/bookbeat
Fischer Poetry Prize Winners
The Telluride Council for the Arts & Humanities and Talking Gourds has announced the winners of the 12th annual Mark Fischer Poetry Prize.
Wendy Videlock, Grand Junction poet and the 2007 winner of the award, was the final judge of the anonymous manuscripts.
Quinten Collier won 1st Place with “Thirty Years Till Birth,” Beth McKee won 2nd with “My Children at the Ute Monument,” and Robert King won 3rd with “Naming Names.”
“Sub-Scribe magazine (part of CU/Boulder) is looking for writing.. Submitting work is a great incentive to put the final touches on a story, poem or essay. Plus it's good to share your brilliance and see your work published. Send them something! I did.” More at Sub-Scribe.org
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 www.sugarmule.com
Editor Stephen Schroeder, of Anti-, presents Rebecca Loudon in issue #19, available at http://anti-poetry.com
Reading Series in Norwood
The Norwood Writers’ Guild, in conjunction with Talking Gourds, has initiated a monthly reading series for poets and writers in the lower San Miguel Basin. It will be held on the first Monday of each month at Two Candles in Norwood at 7 p.m. Bring short pieces to read, share, and discuss.
Contact Art Goodtimes for more information at <gourds@paleohippie.com> or call 327-4767
There’s an interview with and material about Colorado poet Art Goodtimes in “Telluride Inside…and Out”, available at: http://www.tellurideinside.com/2009/01/doers.html#more
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 www.poetscoop.org
The Green Fuse poetic community has changed their web address. The new address is: www.greenfusepoeticarts.org
Becoming a non-profit, Green Fuse Community Press has changed its name to Green Fuse Poetic Arts Association. The new web address is: www.greenfusepoeticarts.org
Phil Wood's Original Mind has just appeared from Turkey Buzzard Press.
The Green Fuse Poetic Arts Association in northern Colorado has begun a quarterly member-written newsletter. The first issue features a Letter from the Editor by Katherine West, “Notes from a Poetry Workshop” by Pat Maslowski, “Ballads and Blues” by song-writer/poet Jeff Hoffman and a review by M. D. Friedman of Amy Wray Irish’s Creation Stories, published by Green Fuse Community Press in 2008. To be put on the mailing list, contact them at greenfusepress.yahoo.com.
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 www.jaredsmith.info
Jeffery Bahr has a lengthy list of poetry publications, with website links, name of poetry editor, submission periods and more at: www.jefferybah.com/Publications/defualt.htm. His “whimsical weblog on poetry, cuisine, politics and whatever captures his fancy” is at www.whimsyspeaks.com
Joe Hutchison writes of a new poetry magazine to our attention. They’re looking for submissions: http://glass-poetry.blogspot.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: 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.
David Rothman is now serving as Guest Poetry Co-Editor of Marginalia, Western State College's literary magazine. He’s “particularly interested in submissions which are formally tight...recent acceptances for the journal include wonderful work by Chris Ransick and Wendy Videlock.
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 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.
Dona Stein's "The Poetry Show" airs every Sunday at 6 p.m. on KRFC, 88.9 fm, from Fort Collins. Outside the listening area, go to www.krfcfm.org and hit the "Listen Now" button.