Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene: Pictures From The Somerville News Writers Festival Nov. 2007

Friday, November 16, 2007

Pictures From The Somerville News Writers Festival Nov. 2007

From Top to Bottom.

Gloria Mindock
Irene Koronas
Tom Perrotta
Lo Galluccio
Richard Wilhelm
Michael Todd Steffen
Doug Holder
Steve Glines
Steve Almond
Tim Gager
Robert Pinsky/Doug Holder
Danielle Legros Georges
Doug Holder

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The Looking House By Fred Marchant

(Click on picture to order) "Fred Marchant looks at the toughest imaginable experiences ( conscience at war) and the most tender ( a sister aging). He finds them joined, or joins them. "The Looking House" is a major work by a poet whose ear is exquisitely tuned to contemporary anguish and whose voice rings with judgment, confidence and truth." James Carroll / "Marchant brings clarity, compassion, and inventiveness to his task. These are true poems, tireless in finding ways to make truth feel true." Rosanna Warren/ ".....I read these poems with joy." Ilya Kaminsky

PROS & CONS BY Paul C. DeFazio and Michael DeFazio

(click on picture to order) A Sizzling Summer Read! " If you enjoy reading thrillers with a real air of authenticity and gripping page-turner action, get your hands on PROS and CONS,by Paul DeFazio and his brother Michael. The storyline, which travels across continents and within different worlds of law enforcement.... is filled with insiders viewpoints and understanding of today's hottest crime headlines. It's a grat read--you won't be disappointed!" Paul Stone author of: "Or So It Seems"

When Performers Swim, The Dice are Cast by Judy Katz -Levine

(Click on picture to order) "There are many different languages a poem can speak in. For Judy Katz-Levine, it's the language of jazz. Music plays her rhythm and meter, her unusual imagery, and the world of dreams and past lives. For out of jazz and Judaism, her mysticism is born... It's always in the music where she finds her meanings, mysteries and explanations, and her uniqueness as a poet."-- Barbara Bialick, author of TIME LEAVES- Ibbetson St. Press Order from: Judy Katz-Levine 10 Hillshore La. Norwood, Ma. 02062-3009 $14.95- includes shipping

The Future That Brought Her Here; A Memoir of a Call to Awake by Deborah DeNicola

( Click on picture to order) In a provacitive memoir, both person and transpersonal, DeNicola is tapped by a clair-sentience drawing her into the esoteric world. Over three journeys the poet/professor explores her metaphysical insights. With revelations about String Theory, and quantum physics, medieval history, Templar Knights, Mary Magdalen, Black Madonnas and gnostic gospels, DeNicola finds the common denominator of diverse mystery traditions, demonstrating how dream work and creative process heal by expressive individual and archetypal truths. ( IBIS PRESS - ppb. $16.95)

In the Limelight by Jane Etzel

( Click on Pic to order) "Jane Etzel is a painter on the page and canvas. Her strokes with the brush and pen bleed color and insight."--Doug Holder/ The Somerville News/ "For me the tour de force of In the Limelight is "Alone," a poem which combines a Sartrean existentialist outlook with an understanding of the yin-yang principle."-- Richard Wilhelm/ Arts Editor Ibbetson St. Press/ "Jane Etzel's poems gently beckon us into the light of her kind, grateful, sincere attention. They remind us that anyhting seen in the limelight of love, no matter how painful, is transmuted into beauty."-- Rich Borofsky/Ed.D/Jane's first therapist

"The Paris of New England" Interviews with Poets and Writers" by Doug Holder

( Click on pic to order this and other Ibbetson Press titles) Interviews with poets and writers from the Paris of New England Somerville, Mass. " Thank you for your interview book. I read it straight through last night and enjoyed it very much...So many good ideas in one book." Eric Greinke-- Presa Press "Very engrossing collection of Holder's interviews, with a wide range of writers about their lives and work. Included are Mike Basinski, Mark Doty, Robert Creeley, Ed Sanders, Hugh Fox, Robert K. Johnson, and Pagan Kennedy.-- Chiron Review

Open Letters by Carolyn Gregory

Poetry Workshops With Doug Holder

( Click on Picture for Doug Holder's website) Doug Holder has led poetry workshops, both for indviduals and groups for a decade now. Robert Olen Butler ( Pulitzer Prize Winner for Literature) wrote of Holder's work: " I've been greatly enjoying your poems. You have a major league talent, man." Available for individual or groups. Expert in gently helping the novice into poetry and the poetry scene. Reasonable Rates. Available for editing. Call 617-628-2313 for more information. Or email: dougholder@post.harvard.edu

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(click on pic for more info) Elizabeth Swados ( Tony Nominated Playwright, Guggenheim Award Winner ): "Thanks you so much for this review on your blog. It helps so much, not just in terms of getting people to know that it exists, but also makes me feel that someone has gotten what I have tried to do. I wish you the very best." Marguerite G. Bouvard, PhD-- Resident Scholar Women's Research Center-Brandeis University: " I love reading your blog. What a refreshing respite from the New York Times. Thanks for all you do for poetry." Ed Hamilton--author of "Legends of the Chelsea Hotel" commenting on Chelsea Hotel article: " That's a great piece. Thanks for sending the link along." Richard Moore-- Finalist/T.S.Eliot Prize " I have just read your wonderful interview of the wonderful Eric Greinke!" Steven Ford Brown (Former Director of Research for the George Plimpton Interview Series): " You did a great job with the Clayton Eshleman interview, especially the personal stuff. So much better than doing the dry talk about literary polemics." Celia Gilbert (Pushcart Prize in Poetry) "Doug thanks so much for that fine shout out. I'm delighted how you put it all together!"

The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel

A new poetry book by Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene Founder, Doug Holder. "I'm enjoying 'The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel' -- perfect poems, especially in that ambiance." Dan Tobin -- Director of Creative Writing--Emerson College-Boston, Mass./ " It is quintessential Holder& bristles with sardonic wit. Congratulations."-- Eric Grienke (founder of Presa Press) / " I finished "The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel'...greatly enjoyed the menagerie of characters and imperfect human beings I met along the way. Excellent work Doug!"-- Paul Steve Stone ( Creative Director W.B.Mason and the autthor of "Or So It Seems.") Click on picture to access Cervena Barva Press.

Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

Friday, November 16, 2007

Pictures From The Somerville News Writers Festival Nov. 2007

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The Looking House By Fred Marchant

Kelly J. Cooper Personal and Professional Editor / Making You Look Good!

PROS & CONS BY Paul C. DeFazio and Michael DeFazio

When Performers Swim, The Dice are Cast by Judy Katz -Levine

The Future That Brought Her Here; A Memoir of a Call to Awake by Deborah DeNicola

Ibbetson Street Press Poetry Award 2009

In the Limelight by Jane Etzel

Ibbetson Street 25 Available ( "One of the best, small indie magazines" ( Presa Press)

The Boston Globe: Poetic Healing at McLean Hospital

Doo Wop to Hip Hop: Interview with poets Major Jackson and Afaa Michael Weaver

"The Paris of New England" Interviews with Poets and Writers" by Doug Holder

OR SO IT SEEMS BY PAUL STONE

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FROM BELLDAY BOOKS: Marc Jampole's "Music From Words." and Shelby Stephenson's Family Matters...

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Open Letters by Carolyn Gregory

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