Announcements
If you have a literary announcement to make, please contact the CPC at rwendellking@comcast.net (Bob King, Colorado Poets Center)
Finalists Named for Colorado Book Award
Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book have announced the finalists for their annual awards. In Poetry, the four finalists are Jessy Randall (A Day in Boyland), David Mason (Ludlow), Robert King, (Old Man Laughing), and Anne Waldman (Outrider). The finalists in fiction are Teresa Funke (Dancing n Combat Boots), Gary Schanbach (Migration Patterns), Jennifer Davis (Our Former Lives in Art) and Aaron Abeyta (Rise, Do Not Be Afraid) The awards will be announced at a dinner on Oct. 8 at the Tivoli Center in Turnhalle. Tickets are $65 per person, $55 for those in the trade. For information: www.coloradohumanities.org
Marginalia in Poets & Writers
Marginalia, the annual literary review from the English Dept. at Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado, was selected by Poets & Writers magazine as one of the “Twenty New Journals Ready to Read Your Work” in P&W’s May-June 2008 issue, and got a nice write-up. We applaud the work of all the staff of Marginalia. The journal publishes a print and an electronic version.
HOWEVER, Colorado poets should know that it is not accepting submissions at the moment “due to an overwhelming number of submissions.” The magazine plans to start accepting later in the year—watch the website for further information. (www.westernstate.edu/marginalia)
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.
The 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been awarded to two poets, Robert Hass (Time and Materials) and Philip Schultz (Failure). Ellen Bryant Voigt was a finalist in the competition.
Anstett chosen as Pike’s Peak Laureate
At the beginning of April, 2008, Aaron Anstett was named the Pike’s Peak region's first-ever poet laureate. He'll serve a two-year term and receive a stipend of $2,000 in exchange for making public appearances and pursuing a major poetry project in the community. He said his brain is abuzz with the places he can infiltrate with poetry - schools, baseball games, dentists' offices.
As Bill Reed of the Springs Gazette wrote, “Anstett has been an active member of the local poetry community for a decade, running open mikes, organizing benefit events and serving as one of the leaders of Poetry West. He's also made a splash in the wider poetry community, publishing three collections that have captured several awards including the national Balcones Poetry Prize.”
Congratulations to Colorado poet Aaron Anstett.
For more information, go to www.pikespeakpoetlaureate.org/current_poet.html
Contact Joe Hutchison to be put on his regular e-mail-delivered literary blog, “The Perpetual Bird”: joe@hwriter.com.
Many Mountains Moving has announced its 2009 Poetry Book Contest. June 1 is the deadline with a $25 fee. Check on format for submissions at www.mmminc.org
Eleanor Swanson’s new website is www.eleanorswanson.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/
The winner of the 2007 Colorado Book Award for Poetry is David Keplinger for The Prayers of Others (New Issues Poetry & Prose). The award was announced Wednesday, Oct. 17, at the 16th annual Colorado Book Awards banquet.
Joe Hutchison’s blog address has been changed to http://perpetualbird.blogspot.com.
Bin Ramke is a featured poet in the Sept-Oct., 2007, issue of Poets & Writers magazine. The article, "Noble Rider," celebrates his 9th collection, Tendril (Omnidawn Publishing).
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
Cheryl Loetscher's poem “The Persistence of Hunger” won one of two Honorable Mentions and $250 in the Natchez Poetry contest judged by New Orleans poet, Andrea Young.
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.