TYGERBURNING: New England College MFA Program in Creative Writing

Best American Poetry Blog Interviews Chard deNIord on "Sad Friends, Drowned poets, and Stapled Songs".

2011-12-11T15:07:00.003-05:00

Best American Poetry Blog interviewed Chard deNiord on his new book of interviews, "Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs" (Marick Press, 2011)

Chard deNiord is the former program director and co-founder of the MFA program at New England College. The book is published by Marick Press.

This book of interviews with seven senior American poets-Jack Gilbert, Donald Hall, Galway Kinnell, Maxine Kumin, Lucille Clifton, Ruth Stone, and Robert Bly- and essays on Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell’s correspondence, specifically her delicate outrage over his use of his wife’s and daughter’s letters in his 1974 book, The Dolphin, James Wright’s poem To the Muse, and Philip Levine’s poems The Simple Truth and Call it Music, presents a broad view of the bold and original epoch in contemporary American poetry following World War II. In their wise and always engaging responses and commentaries, deNiord's subjects reflect candidly on their careers and the unprecedented big tent of American poetry today.

Datum Earth Reading

2011-12-09T06:48:00.001-05:00

POETRY BY

VERMONT POET LAUREATE SYDNEY LEA

& BECKY D. SAKELLARIOU

SATURDAY NIGHT

DECEMBER 10, 8PM

@THE STARVING ARTIST, KEENE, NH

http://datumearth.blogspot.com/

Winter 2012 Afternoon Electives

2011-12-06T09:52:00.002-05:00

The following six hour electives will be available during the Winter 2012 MFA Residency. These electives allow students to concentrate on areas of interest which result in work they can continue working on into their mentor semester or deliver during the residency. To review the different concentrations available, visit our pages on the right margin. The following workshops are currently offered for the 2012 winter residency:

RETURN GUEST FACULTY/WORKSHOP in

The Poem-in-Performance:

Working with our melopoeia, -- the innate music of our writing -- we will let our poetry guide us into various performance strategies and modes of composition. We will be working with our voice, our timing, possible instrumentation, collaboration and the like. We will consider methods of sprechstimme (speak-singing), monologue, vocal duets, curses, spels, lullabies, blues, poem-as-libretto, and also consider how to shape the work on the page with its orality in mind. We will begin with some “experiments of attention” and work toward individual pieces we will then record on a CD. Participants may also bring a piece of their choice to class to work on, as well as instruments they can play. Musicianship is welcome! Discussion will include some performance theory. Last winter this same workshop generated at least two individual performance pieces per student in addition to a group ensemble piece recorded professionally. Anne is phenomenal; Ambrose a musical genius when working with poets! --Anne Waldman & Ambrose Bye

One Foot in the Fire: the History and Practice of Prose Poetry

In this class we’ll discuss prose poetry from Baudelaire to Ben Marcus, look at some of the ‘forms’and conventions of the prose poem, and work on writing our own. Much of the focus here will be on the discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of prose vs. lineated verse. Hybridity will be encouraged, so even students with a strong preference for the line could consider coming, just to shake things up a bit. This will be primarily a generative workshop, though if you have prose poems or poems you think might work better as prose poems, feel free to bring in 20 copies on the first day of class
-- Katie Farris

New Media Poetics: Time: Motion and Typography Using Flash

In this workshop we will investigate the concept of time and typography in poetics (both on and off the page) and explore the possibilities of Flash animation software in the creation of new media poetry. Students will be guided in the process of translating/animating one of their own poems, using formal and conceptual elements and conventions common to both poetry and Flash animation, with particular emphasis on typography, elements of design, time concepts, and the relationship between form and content. Students will be given a foundation-level introduction to the Adobe Flash Professional software, which they will use in the production of an original, Flash (animated) poem. Please note, however, that this is not a software training class; rather, it is intended to introduce the fundamentals of new media poetry and its production to expand students’ understanding and appreciation of poetries both on and off the page, give students a hands-on experience in the creation of an original new media poem, and serve as a foundation for further exploration and learning.

Poet As Translator

Octavio Paz said: “Translation is an art of analogy, the art of finding correspondences. An art of shadows and echoes…” Charles Baudelaire said that poetry is essentially analogy. The idea of universal correspondence comes from the idea that language is a micro cosmos, a double of the universe. Between the language of the universe and the universe of language, there is a bridge, a link: poetry. The poet, says Baudelaire, is the translator.”

In this workshop we will read and compare multiple translations of single poems and examine the choices and strategies of translation. In addition, each student will also provide contributions of his or her own translation of given poems. These translations will serve as focal points for the larger subject of translation, that of the poet as translator. Knowledge of a second language is welcome but not necessary.

--Malena Morling

2012 Winter MFA Open House

2011-12-06T03:17:00.009-05:00

WINTER MFA OPEN HOUSE

Friday, JANUARY 6, 2012

SIMON CENTER at New England College | 98 Bridge Street | Henniker, NH

For individuals interested in finding out more about New England College’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing: Poetry program, please join us for a day of events at our MFA Winter Residency. Come and meet faculty and students to explore and see what a perfect fit our program is for your journey.

Spend the day on-campus attending a writing workshop and a choice of electives in New Media or Prose culminating in an evening filled with student readings. Co-directors Jim Harms and Jacqueline Gens will also be on hand to discuss the admissions process and financial aid options.

Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 Open House for prospective MFA Students, Teachers and Poets

9:15 AM Continental Breakfast and registration

9:30-10:00 AM

Welcome and Program Overview with

Co-Directors, James Harms and Jacqueline Gens

10:00 AM-Noon

Choice of New Writing Workshop with Carol Frost, Brian Henry,

Ilya Kaminsky or James Harms in the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI Building)

Noon-1:00 PM

Lunch in Gilmore Dining Hall

1:15 PM

Question and Answer Session

* Optional-- Participants who are interested may join one of the afternoon electives in either New Media or Prose

Please R.S.V.P. with Cristy McGuinness, Graduate Admission Counselor at:

cmcguinness@nec.edu or 603.428.2906. We look forward to seeing you.

For further information about New England College’s MFA in Creative Writing: Poetry program and faculty bios visit: www.nec.edu/sgps/mfa-in-poetry/

News from Barbara Benoit ('09)

2011-11-30T22:55:00.000-05:00

Pudding House is publishing Barbara Benoit's ('09) chapbook Waiting for the Thoroughness of Winter, and her poem "And If Not Good" is forthcoming in 5 AM.

Review of Carol Frost's Honeycomb

2011-11-08T12:47:00.000-05:00

Core faculty, Carol Frost's newest book of poems has been reviewed in http://nyqreviews.org/honeycomb-by-carol-frost/

Jenn Monroe (08) in the NH Manchester Examiner

2011-11-03T13:11:00.000-04:00

Jenn Monroe's (08) forthcoming book, Something More Like Love, will be released in early December by Finishing Line Press. An article about New Hampshire poet, Jenn Monroe and professor of creative writing at Chester College was featured in the NH Manchester Examiner.

Two Alumni at the Bowery Poetry Club

2011-10-24T08:54:00.004-04:00

Roy Nathanson ('08)
Saturday, October 29, 2011
at the Bowery Poetry Club

Roy Nathanson's Sotto voce with amazing poets - Kumanyakaa, Stern, Friedman, Holman, Ashby, MacarieThe Sotto voce band is Napoleon Maddox, Curtis Fowlkes, Tim Kiah, Jess Mills and Roy Nathanson, dancing notes, sounds and voices around these poets wine inspired musings plus Roy and Bob Holman will perform the beginning of their insane concoction "The sax lesson"

Irina Mashenski ('08) The first Compass Translation Award ceremony at the Bowery Poetry Club.
October 30, 2011
2:00 PM

In Memory of Oleg Woolf
Irina Mashinski In memory of Oleg Woolf (1954-2011)
An hour and a half of poetry, songs, and translation
Part I. Irina Mashinski, poetry; Oleg Woolf, songs.
Part II. The results of the First Translation Competition held under the auspices of the Cardinal Points Literary Journal. In English

The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
(Between Houston and Bleecker)
F train to 2nd Ave, 6 to Bleecker
mail@bowerypoetry.com
212-614-0505

Tomas Transtromer Wins 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature

2011-10-23T10:31:00.000-04:00

Check out Malena Morling's translation of a poem by newly appointed Nobel Prize winner in Literature Tomas Transtromer in the LA Times book review. Malena along with other core faculty, Brian Henry and Ilya Kaminsky, are leading translators of international poetry. During each residency, one of them conducts a three day workshop in translation for MFA students in the program.

PHOTO CREDIT: Louis Siegal

Chard deNiord on Poetry Foundation Best Seller List

2011-10-01T20:22:00.006-04:00

Chard deNiord's book, The Double Truth (University of Pittsburgh Press) is on the Poetry Foundation's "Best Sellers" list. Chard is the co-founder and former co-director of the MFA program at New England College.

Chard deNiord is the author of four books of poetry, The Double Truth(forthcoming in January, 2011 from the University of Pittsburgh Press),Night Mowing (The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), Sharp Golden Thorn (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), and Asleep in the Fire (University of Alabama Press, 1990). His book of interviews with senior American poets,Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs, is scheduled to appear in the Fall of 2011 from Marick Press. His poems, interviews and essays have appeared recently in Best of The Pushcart Prize, New England Review, Best American Poetry, Hudson Review, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review and Salmagundi. He is the co-founder of the New England College MFA Program in Poetry and an associate professor of English at Providence College. He lives in Putney, Vermont with his wife Liz, and their dog, Soze.

Datum Earth

2011-09-24T06:36:00.002-04:00

Irina Mashinski ('08) at Hampshire College

2011-09-23T07:14:00.008-04:00

IRINA MASHINSKI ('08) AN EVENING OF POETRY AND TRANSLATION

Poetry Reading and the Compass Translation Award: presentation and discussion. In English

WHEN: September 29, Thursday, 8 pm

WHERE: KIVA room (Main Library, 3d Floor)

Hampshire College, MA

map: http://www.hampshire.edu/vtour/

Irina Mashinski is a bilingual poet and translator. She has authored seven books of poetry in Russian, and her most recent collections are Volk [Wolf] (Moscow: NLO, 2009) and Raznochinets pervyi sneg i drugie stikhotvoreniia [Raznochinets First Snow and Other Poems] (New York: Stosvet Press, 2009). Her work has appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including Poetry International, Fulcrum, Zeek, The London Magazine, and An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005). She is the co-editor (with Robert Chandler) of the forthcoming Anthology of Russian Poetry from Pushkin to Brodsky (Penguin, 2014), as well as co-founder (with Oleg Woolf) and co-editor (with Robert Chandler and Oleg Woolf) of the Cardinal Points literary journal, published in the U.S. in English and Russian. Irina Mashinski is the winner of several literary awards, including the Russian America (2001) and Maximilian Voloshin (2003) Awards. Her poetry has been translated into English, French, Italian,Spanish, and Serbian.

Irina Mashinski holds a Ph.D. in Physical Geography and Paleoclimatology from Lomonosov Moscow State University and an M.F.A. in Poetry and Poetics from New England College. In the US, she has taught Mathematics, Science, Meteorology, Russian History, and The History of European Culture in high schools and universities.

Web-sites:

Ms.Mashinski:

http://www.stosvet.net/union/Mash/ - poetry

http://www.stosvet.net/union/mashinski/ - essays

Compass Translation Award:

http://www.stosvet.net/compass/index.html

Cardinal Points Literary Journal:

www.stosvet.net

Poetry & Politics at New England College

2011-09-21T21:20:00.004-04:00

New England College is excited to team up with the New Hampshire Writers’ Project (NHWP) to kickoff the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing: Poetry program's 10^th Anniversary. Poetry AND Politics is the theme of the first New Hampshire Book Festival sponsored by NHWP. NEC will host two poet laureates, Walter E. Butts, New Hampshire State Poet Laureate, and Dick Allen, Connecticut State Poet Laureate, a high school student from John Stark Regional High School who participated in this year’s Poetry Out Loud program, and three MFA poets: Janet Barry ’07, Ivy Page ’09, and Dawn Coutu ’12 on Friday, October 14, 2011 from 12:00-3:00pm. This event will be held in the Great Room of the Simon Center at New England College and is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Cristy McGuinness at CMcGuinness@nec.edu or (603) 428-2906.

For further information and complete participant bios, click here.

Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor (07)

2011-09-19T19:15:00.001-04:00

Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor (07) has launched a new blog:

Teachers Act Up! Thoughts on Teaching, Language, and Social Change from Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor

She is teaching "Poetry for Creative Educators" and getting more K-12 language teachers to write verse and act up in classrooms and schools. She just published poems in Pilgrimage (2010) alongside Lorraine Healy (05) and Alicia Ostriker and has poems forthcoming in Calyx Magazine and City of Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry (Ed. Ryan Van Cleave) with University of Iowa Press. She co-produces "Misha’s Poetry Podcast", interviewing poets on education and the teaching and learning of poetry.

November 3-10 she will host Anne Waldman for a short residency at the University of Georgia--there will be several events and all are listed on her blog.

If anyone is remotely close, please join the outRAGEous fun.

Benefit for Joe Gouveia (08)

2011-09-17T21:46:00.005-04:00

A Benefit for Cape Poet Joe/Jose Gouveia

WHEN: On Sunday, October 16, at 7:30pm

WHERE: The Cultural Center of Cape Cod

307 Old Main St. in South Yarmouth.

The Cultural Center of Cape Cod will host the Anything Goes Coffee House to raise funds for Joe “JoeGo” Gouveia ('08) who was recently diagnosed with his second bout of cancer only two months after his first cancer went into remission. A first-generation Portuguese-American who has been published in six countries on four continents, Joe is inextricably woven into the Cape’s extensive network of poets and literary events, working tirelessly to celebrate the art. Funds raised at the event will help Joe pay his bills while he undergoes chemotherapy. The event will feature

Music by The Beach Plums (a terrific local band that happens to include two great poets, Greg Hischak

and Kathleen Healy), readings by Cape and mainland poets, food and drink, and a silent auction/raffle.

Tickets are $15

and may be purchased at the Cultural Center

307 Old Main St., South Yarmouth, MA

or by calling 508-394-7100.

They may also be purchased at the door.

We invite artists and merchants across the Cape to donate items for the silent auction and food and drink for the Coffee House,” says Associate Director Lauren Wolk. We also urge poets to get in touch if they would like to read during the open mic portions of the event. Short poems, please, so we can fit in lots of readers and accommodate those coming from off-Cape to read in Joe’s honor.

Though refreshments will be provided, attendees are encouraged to bring their own beverages in order to keep costs low and proceeds for Joe high.

As a student at Cape Cod Community College, Joe was instrumental in organizing its poetry club in 1995. After graduating from CCCC and UMass Dartmouth, where he was awarded the 1995 Literary Association Prize for Poetry, Gouveia founded the Cape Cod Poets Theater and, in 1997, launched the National Hyannis Poetry Slam Team with other local poets after winning the Sarasota Poetry Theatre prize for oral poetry. Joe currently writes the Meter Man column about poetry for the Barnstable Patriot, hosts The Poets’ Corner for WOMR, and co-hosts the monthly Poets’ Corner open mic reading at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. Joe is also a member of the Highway Poets Motorcycle Club, founder of the Biker Poets & Writers Association, and editor or and contributor to the biker poetry anthology Rubber Side Down (Archer Books, 2008).

Joe graduated from the New England College MFA program in poetry in 2008 where he was much beloved by fellow students and faculty.

Poet Martín Espada has said of Joe’s work,

“Joe Gouveia’s poetry rolls and roars like a Harley into our collective imagination.”

The Cultural Center invites all of Joe’s friends, family, colleagues, and fellow/sister poets to gather on the 16^th to support him as he has supported the Cape’s cultural community.

The Center is located at 307 Old Main St. in South Yarmouth.

Those interested in donating items or refreshments for the event should

please contact Lauren Wolk at 508-394-7100

or lwolkculturalccc@verizon.net

All donations are tax deductible to the extent that the law allows.

News from Tamara J. Madison ('10)

2011-09-17T15:26:00.005-04:00

Photo: Tamara reciting a poem in the dining hall by Jacqueline Gens with IPhone

Tamara J. Madison ('10) is currently an instructor at Fairleigh Dickinson University (Florham Campus) in the College Writing Program. Her work has most recently been published in Black Magnolias Literary Journal Spring 2011 Special Issue on Transcultural Theory, Henniker Review, and aaduna an on-line literary and arts publication (http://www.aaduna.org/ ). Excerpts from her poetic sequence “Kentucky Curdled” have been published in aaduna’s premiere edition, with forthcoming excerpts in And/Or Magazine (Fall 2011). Tamara is also featured in Rockford Kingsley, Ltd.’s E-View-points: (http://www.rockfordkingsley.org/EZine/EViewPoints/InterviewWithTamaraJMadison/tabid/448/Default.aspx ) in an interview by Bill Berry, Jr., publisher and CEO of aaduna. Tamara will be performing excerpts from “Kentucky Curdled” in a special event produced by aaduna at the Seward House Museum on Friday, October 7^th from 5pm to 8pm in Auburn, New York.

Mary Catherine Jones (09) Announces Datum: Earth Reading Series

2011-09-14T03:17:00.004-04:00

FALLseries • 8 •

Almost time for apple pickin' and pie!

~save room for poetry~

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13

7 PM

the Starving Artist in Keene, NH

10 West Street

603-353-6900

$5 suggested (poets need lunch money too)

FEATURING ::

poetry by ELLEN DORÉ WATSON

creative non-fiction by BOB COWSER

poetry by PETER CAMPION

Visit: Datum Earth for details

News from Joanna Penn Cooper (09)

2011-09-14T03:12:00.002-04:00

Joanna Penn Cooper (09) has been accepted by the Vermont Studio Center for a month-long residency in May 2012. She has work in the current issues of South Dakota Review, Muse, and Everyday Genius.

Anne Waldman Performance in Poetry from her new book The Jovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment

2011-09-08T04:50:00.004-04:00

PHOTO: Anne Waldman 2011 AWP by Jacqueline Gens with I Phone

Former Core faculty and frequent guest performance faculty in the New England College MFA Program will present a POETRY IN PERFORMANCE event sponsored by the Poetry Society of America on WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 7:00 PM in NYC at the Rubin Museum. Anne is scheduled to return to NEC with Ambrose Bye during the 2012 January Residency for her annual Poetry Performance workshop for MFA students.

POETRY IN PERFORMANCE
Anne Waldman
Ha-Yang Kim, cello
Ambrose Bye, keyboard, electronics

Event Location:
Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street
NY, NY

Legendary poet Anne Waldman, recently elected to the Academy of American Poets, will present a recital of new and selected pieces, including poetry selections from her new book, The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment, a 1,000 page montage epic taking on issues of war and patriarchy, just published by Coffee House Press. She will be joined by celebrated cellist and composer Ha-Yang Kim with whom she has recently performed in Marrakech and Paris, and with her son Ambrose Bye, a frequent collaborator who has designed breathtaking soundscapes for her.

$15 /13.50 for Rubin Museum & Poetry Society of America Members/$5 Student Rush
Purchase tickets online at
PSA Members Use Online Code: PSA

New England College MFA Program Launches New Media Channel on Vimeo

2011-09-05T09:19:00.003-04:00

Please visit our New Media channel on Vimeo to shopwcase work by MFA students at New England College. Under the direction of core faculty, Tara Rebele, students who elected to take the New media 6 hour workshop during the summer 2011 residency created the following works using time based media combining film and original poetry composed by the students.

The following work was created by Lisa Bourbeau (13). To subscribe or view other works visit The NEC New Media Channel.

Istanbul Light from NEC MFA Poetry on Vimeo.

MFA Alums at New England College Create Trio House Press

2011-09-03T14:32:00.008-04:00

New England College MFA alumni Lisa Sisler (09), Dorinda Wegener (08), and Tayve Neese (08) recently formed a collective poetry press.

Trio House Press is an independent literary press publishing three or more collections of poems annually. We offer two annual poetry awards, the Trio Award for First or Second Book for emerging poets, and the Sable Stone Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence for a book of poems contributing in an innovative and distinct way to American poetry. We also have an open reading period annually in which no award is offered. Trio House Press adheres to and supports all ethical standards and guidelines outlined by the CLMP.

Trio House Press is a collective press. Individuals within our organization come together and are motivated by the primary shared goal of publishing distinct American voices in poetry. All award winning poets receive $1000 prize, publication, and twenty copies of their book. Additionally, award winning poets and all published poets must agree to serve as Collective Member of the Trio House Press for twenty-four months after publication in order to assist with the press and bringing more Trio books into print. Award winners and published poets must serve on one of four committees: Production and Design, Distribution and Sales, Educational Development, or Fundraising and Marketing. Since our Collective Members reside in cities from New York to San Francisco, monthly committee meetings are conducted by conference calls or internet services.

Our Trees

Founded in 2007, Eco-Libris is a green company working to green up the book industry in the digital age by promoting the adoption of green practices in the book industry, balancing out books by planting trees, and helping to make e-reading greener. To achieve these goals Eco-Libris is working with book readers, publishers, authors, bookstores and others in the book industry worldwide. So far Eco-Libris balanced out over 178,000 books, which results in more than 200,000 new trees planted with its planting partners in developing countries. For more details visit Eco-Libris website at http://www.ecolibris.net/

Left to right: Melinda Curley (07), Terry Lucas (08), Dorinda Wegener (08), Tayve Neese (08) and Lori Desrosiers (08) and Janet Goodman AWP 2009

Ivy Page ('09) and Dawn Coutu ('12) Have Featured Articles in the Fall 2011 NH Writers Newsletter

2011-09-03T13:33:00.001-04:00

Check out the newest Fall Newsletter of the NH Writers Project to read Dawn Coutu's ('12) interview with visiting faculty, Anne Waldman during her Performance workshop last winter. Ivy Page ('09) also has an article, "Pen to Paper: Two Ways to Start with Directed Freewriting."

Photo: Dawn Coutu and Anne Waldman (Winter 2010 Residency)

Cave Canum Fellows to read at the New School

2011-09-01T04:29:00.009-04:00

Cave Canum Fellow and New England College MFA alumni, M. Ayodele Heath (o7) will read with other Cave Canum fellows at the New School on September 1, 2011 from 6:30-9:30 PM (Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, NYC).

M. AYODELE HEATH is author of Brick Road Poetry Press’s latest collection, Otherness (2011). Creative Loafing describes this native Atlantan performance poet as “a lanky African-American man with arms that stretch and reach as his stories unfold.” Ayodele has been featured at such venues as the National Black Arts Festival, the Nuyorican Poets Café, the Turner Trumpet Awards, and TurnerSouth’s MySouth Speaks television campaign.

NEW: click here to view a video of the reading at the New School

Three NEC alums at the Frost Place

2011-08-17T02:22:00.003-04:00

Kathleen Fagley ('05), Mary Catherine Jones (09) and Lori Desrosiers ('09) attended the Advanced Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place.

Jules Gibbs (06)

2011-08-16T18:47:00.004-04:00

Jules Gibbs ('06) joins Melissa Severin ('05) and Erika Lutzner ('10) at Dancing Girl Press with her chapbook, Bulk of the Mailable Universe, 2011.

from the publisher
The Importance of Being Dada

How did we stumble upon
this chromatogram of web
recomendada, a dot-com
beautification project?
It’s abusable.
Try again, preponderant churchgoer —
I think I can help you work out
the fit, design and power
of your gingerbread sloop
and when all that is done
commit to the market-wise,
turn your passion into an empire.

News from Susan Shaw Sailer (07)

2011-08-15T05:41:00.009-04:00

“Coal by Susan Shaw Sailer is a necessary book that honors the men who go down into the mines, the beauty and the terror of that work, and the unspeakable prices paid”—Jan Beatty. Using the West Virginia Sago Mine disaster of January 2006, Sailer shows the “murder by negligence” practiced by large-scale coal owners against miners.

The book is available from Finishing Line Press, Post Office Box 1626, Georgetown, KY 40324. Preorders may be taken from August 16 through September 28. Your book will be mailed November 18. Preorders are used to determine the size of the press run. The cost is $14.00 plus $1.49 shipping per book. Checks or money orders made out to “Finishing Line Press” may be sent to the above address. You may also order online at www.finishinglinepress.com and clicking on “New Releases.”

About Susan Shaw Sailer

After retiring from the Department of English at West Virginia University where she taught 20^th Century Irish and British literature, Susan Shaw Sailer completed an MFA in the low-residency Program in Poetry at New England College in 2007. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Poetry International, Kestrel, 5 A.M., and Pearl. Her chapbook, Coal, will be published in 2011 by Finishing Line Press. Sailer lives in Morgantown, West Virginia. Her reviews and articles about poetry have appeared in Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner and Alehouse Review.

Eleven Miners

Blackest black beyond the glow of caplights.

Choking dust, boulders on rails, the mantrip

can’t go. They hang the barricade against

CO, fumble with air packs, each worth

an hour’s oxygen. They don’t speak or move.

That uses up good air. They sit, breathe

slow. One man recalls his hunting dog, dead

ten years, the way she’d point a pheasant,

flush a grouse. Another sees his baby daughter

stumble, grab the sofa, steady herself, step out.

He feels dizzy, grabs the air pack. “Damn it!

My pack ain’t working right!” “Don’t swear.

God hears us.” “Hey! Mine don’t either.”

“Or mine.” They move to share. A watch face

shows forty minutes gone. “Dear God, let them

find us soon.” The youngest wonders, could

his wife be pregnant from last night? The oldest

hopes his wife won’t find his gambling debt.

He planned to pay it off next week. One guy

wishes he had a smoke. He sees his Camels,

dashboard of his Ford. Roof rumbles. Rescuers?

They pound the ceiling, scream, shout. Sit. Wait.

Coal and rock dust coats their lips, lashes, stops

their ears. “Damn dust!” Beer would be good.

They should hear drilling. Two pray, all join in:

“Heavenly Father, have mercy on me.” One man

traces letters in the dust: J-E-S-U-S S-A-

New Media and Performaance Student Work from the MFA Program at New England College Highlighted

2011-08-11T03:03:00.007-04:00

Since 2008 the New England College MFA program in Creative Writing has offered elective workshops in New Media Poetics, Translation and Prose during our winter and summer residencies. Over the next few weeks we will be adding a variety of student work on Tygerburning.

Students may choose two areas they are most drawn to and spend 2-3 consecutive days during each residency focusing on any two of the following areas: New Media, Translation, Performance or Prose with the aim of creating a deliverable work, work in progress or beginning of a third semester project. These elective workshops are in addition to a rigorous schedule of writing workshops, faculty lectures and readings while students meet one-on-one with their faculty mentors to form their individual study plans.

The following student work is highlighted:

The recording for the text of Maria Teutsch's cinepoem, Chronicle on Violence, was first created during Anne Waldman's Winter Resdency 2010 workshop and recorded by guest faculty, Ambrose Bye. The film was later developed. Performers reading from the text of Chronicles on Violence include Anne Waldman, Mariela Griffor, Dawn Coutu, Anchia Kinard, Katie Cloute, Deyon Williams and other members of the workshop.

"The Inventor's Last Breath" by J. Hope Stein is an excerpt from her long poem of the same title. This cinepoem was created as part of her third semester project while working with mentor Malena Morling. To view the excerpt, click here.

Jillian Mukavetz ('12) "Sucks with Her Fiddle" is an original composition using low tech features on her computer. The results are stunning.

To view an excerpt from Francesco Levatoe's award-winning cinepoem, "War Rugs" click here.

New England College has a state of the art design lab. For further information about the concentration in New Media, click here.

COMING SOON--Work created in Tara Rebele's Summer 2011 Workshop

Erika Lutzner to host 10th Anniversary September 11 Reading to Commemorate those Loved and Lost

2011-08-10T19:43:00.003-04:00

Photo: Louis Seigal

Erika Lutzner ('10) will be hosting a reading this 10th anniversary of 9/11 to commemorate those loved and lost. Dorianne Laux, Nin Andrews, James Harms, Malena Morling, Martin Woodside, Joanna Fuhrman and John Lane will be reading. Please join for an evening of poetry and remembrance. The reading will take place in Brooklyn, NY. Erika runs Scapegoat Review, an online journal, and curates Upstairs atErika's, a poetry salon. She has a chapbook forthcoming with Dancing Girl Press—Invisible Girls. For information about the reading, write Erika at viofem@gmail.com.

Days and Nights Festival with Composer Philip Glass to Feature Three New England College Poets

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Days and Nights Festival and the Henry Miller Memorial Library is proud to present An Evening of Poetry. Held on the library’s beautiful outdoor stage, the night will feature four of California’s preeminent poets, presenting original collaborations with Philip Glass and the YOA: Orchestra of the Americas. New England College MFA program is represented by current student Maria Teutsch (('12), alumnus Francesco Levato ('11) and core faculty, Eleni Sikelianos who will accompany Philip Glass.

For further information visit Days and Night Festival.

Ilya Kaminsky Interviewed

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Ilya Kaminksy and Eleni Sikelianos, 2010 Winter Residency

PHOTO: Jacqueline Gens with IPhone

Core faculty, Ilya Kaminsky, of the New England College MFA Program in Creative Writing was recently interviewed in 3:AM Magazine by SJ Fowler. Read on to experience the magic.

Recent Alumni News

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Lori Desrosiers, 2011

"Storytelling in Poetry: Crafting the Narrative Poem" was accepted out of 1012 entries as a panel this year at AWP. Three NEC alums are on the panel: Lori Desrosiers(08) who is moderating, Terry Lucas (08) and Christina Lovin (04). The other presenters are Pamela Uschuk and Susan Deer Cloud.

Event Description: Narrative poetry is at the root of poetic history:stories handed down through generations, memorized through the use of rhyme and meter, repeated around campfires or blazing hearths. In the midst of today¹s myriad poetic styles, the tradition of narrative poetry continues to provide many readers with that for which they long, a story told well and, in the case of poetry, told with attention to all that makes a poem. The story¹s the thing; the trick is to tell it beautifully.

Terry Lucas ('08) recently had two poems published in THIS Literary Magazine(http://www.thiszine.org/poetry/two-poems-lucas), and has work forthcoming in the New Mexico centennial edition of New Mexico Poetry Review (http://newmexicopoetryreview.com/). Terry's chapbook, Making Up The Dead, was selected by Dorianne Laux for second prize in the 2010 Palettes & Quills Chapbook Contest. Terry is currently compiling and editing a book of essays in memory of the late New Mexican poet, Keith Wilson.

Steve Halle (06) has a review of Frnacesco Levato's ('10) cinepoem, War Rugs in Jacket 2.

Steve Halle is the author of a collection of poems Map of the Hydrogen World (Cracked Slab Books, 2008) and the chapbook cessation covers (Funtime Press 2007). His creative and critical work has been published in journals like Another Chicago Magazine (ACM), Milk Magazine, Moria, OCHO, Poets & Artists (O&S), Cordite Poetry Review, and Gaga Stigmata, among others. He edits the online poetry journal Seven Corners. He is currently pursuing a PhD in English Studies at Illinois State University.

To view an excerpt of the film which was featured in Issue #1 of Tygerburning Literary Journal, click here.

Poet, translator, and filmmaker Francesco Levato is the author of three books of poetry: Elegy for Dead Languages; War Rug, a book length documentary poem; and Marginal State. He has translated into English the books of Italian poets Tiziano Fratus, Creaturing, and Fabiano Alborghetti, The Opposite Shore. His work has been published internationally in journals and anthologies, both in print and online, including Drunken Boat, The Progressive, Versal, and many others. His cinépoetry has been exhibited in galleries and featured at film festivals in Berlin, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere.

Left to right: Marilyn McCabe and Alice Weiss (Class of 2009)

Marilyn McCabe's (09) manuscript, Perpetual Motion, won the Hilary Tham contest from Wordworks judged by Gray Jacobiki. The book will be published in early 2012.

Tara Betts 2010 AWP

Tara Betts (07) and Lori Desrosiers (08) are included in the text, Wingbeats: Exercises and Practices in Poetry by Scott Wiggerman and David Meischen

Lori Desrosiers AWP 2010

NEC alums Featured in Boog City's 20th Anniversary Poetry Festival/NYC

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Welcome to Boog City’s 20th Anniversary!

The most seasoned festival planner goes to Boog City who has been doing these for many years now. The festival will be from Friday, August 5 through Tuesday Aug 9th and will feature 67 poets, 10 musical acts and 8 plays over the five days.

You’ll find further information and a complete schedule here.

Check out participating NEC alums: J. Hope Stein, Ping Pong aka Maria Teutsche, Joanna Penn Cooper and Douglas Piccinnini

Datum Earth Reading Series Curated by Mary-Catherine Jones (09) Coming July 16 to the Starving Artist

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July 16 Reading

Check out
contemporary poets:

James Shea
Nicole Trigg
Ewa Chrusciel

Starts at 8 p.m. Suggested $5 donation.
The Datum Earth Reading Series at the Starving Artist is curated by NEC alumna, Mary Catherine Jones (09).

The Starving Artist is located at 10 West Street,

Keene, NH

603--353-6900

Psst. Vice & Verses open mic starts at 6 p.m.

Stay tuned to datumearth.blogspot.com for author bios.

Tayve Neese (08) Published in the Paris Review

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Tayve Neese's (08) poem, "Because my Daughters are Growing," was published in the

No. 197, Summer 2011 of the The Paris Review.

This is Tayve Neese’s unsettling poem “Because my daughters are growing.” The children’s refrain (“Oh, Spider Mother”) about their mother turns out, in that unforgettable final turn, to prefigure their own (potential) futures as mothers, “a small life” inside them that "struggles like an angry fly.” Good poems change what we see: the next time I see a pregnant woman, thanks (I think!) to Neese, that’s what I will see. —Dan Chiasson

Click here to read the poem and leave comments.

Malena Morling featured on the Writer's Almanac

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MFA faculty, Malena Morling, was featured on The Writer's Almanac for June 30, 2011

SUMMER 2011 MFA RESIDENCY AT NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE

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Paula McLain reading an excerpt from THE PARIS WIFE at New England College

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Summer Residency June 25, 2011 Paula Mclain Reading introduced by James Harms

Jack McCarthy Reads at New England College

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The legendary Jack McCarthy Reading tonight 7:30 PM

in the Great Room, 98 Bridge Street, Henniker, NH

with NEC alum, Summer Whhitmore & Mark Palos

Jack McCarthy is a retired Boston-area working guy. He's been writing poetry since the mid-60's. Orphaned as a teenager, Jack went through Exeter and Dartmouth on scholarships and graduated with honors (though not without incident). He'd been averaging about a poem a year until 1992-93, when two things happened. First, his new wife, Carol, blackmailed him into attending a workshop with Galway Kinnell; then he brought his daughter Annie, for her birthday, to the open mike at the Cantab Lounge in Central Square, Cambridge, hoping she'd get excited about poetry. Jack was the one who got hooked.

Since then he's brought out Grace Notes, two chapbooks (Actual Grace Notes andToo Old to Make Excuses (But Still Young Enough to Make Love)), a 60-minute cassette tape (Poems for Hannah), and a CD (Breaking Down Outside a Gas Station). A major book, Say Goodnight, Grace Notes, was released in 2003 by EM Press to rave reviews. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including The Spoken Word Revolution.

He was a member of the 1996 Boston National Slam Team, and is an engaging minor character in the feature film, Slamnation, which documents those proceedings; he was a member of the Worcester team at the 2000 National Poetry Slam, where he finished as the 10th ranked individual, and at the 2002 Nationals he was the first poet to represent New Hampshire. The Boston Phoenix has named him "Best Standup Poet," the Boston Poetry Awards "Best Love Poet," and the Cambridge Poetry Awards "Best Spoken Word" and "Best Humorous Poet ." The Boston Globe says, "In the poetry world, he's a rock star."

Among his influences he numbers Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, and Garrison Keillor. He doesn't think of himself as a "performance poet," but as a "standup poetry guy." "Standup Poetry" was, in fact, the name of his Billerica cable TV show, on which he traded poems with many of the best slam poets, including Taylor Mali and Patricia Smith, but also national figures like Thomas Lux, Donald Hall and Stephen Dobyns. Poet Stephen Dobyns has written, "Jack McCarthy is one of the wonders of contemporary poetry. He writes-and often performs-dazzling narratives full of wit and humor, sadness and hard thinking. He should be cloned." Of Say Goodnight, Grace Notes, ALA Booklist says, "McCarthy brings his compelling experiences to his poetry with nimble humor, hard-won wisdom, and a raconteur's knack for telling diabolically barbed stories.concrete, candid, personal, and utterly captivating.caustic, sexy and smart."

Thomas Lux has written, "The only ambition he seems to have is to tell the truth as best he can in poems." That is a very worthy ambition, but it's not his only one. He also hopes to be remembered as an integral member of the movement to restore poetry to its rightful place in everyday American life. So that when Americans think of poetry, they don't think of school and homework, but of laughter and tears; a shortcut to the heart.

Recently relocated to the state of Washington, Jack's website is standupoet.net, and he can be reached atstandupoet@yahoo.com.

Alumni Updates

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Photo of Ayodele Heath (07) by Bhisham Bherwani at NEC

Ayodele Heath (07) has published his first collection of poems, Otherness, by Brick Road Press

Born in Atlanta, poet M. Ayodele Heath is a graduate of the MFA program at New England College. Heath’s honors include a 2009 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize and a McEver Visiting Chair in Writing at Georgia Tech. He has been awarded fellowships from Cave Canem, Summer Poetry at Idyllwild, and the Caversham Centre for Writers & Artists in South Africa and received a grant in Literary Arts from the Atlanta Bureau for Cultural Affairs. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in: Crab Orchard Review, diode, Mississippi Review, Callaloo, The New York Quarterly, Chattahoochee Review, and Mythium, as well as featured in anthologies including Poetry Slam: the Competitive Art of Performance Poetry (2000), Java Monkey Speaks Anthology I (2004), and My South: a People, a Place, a World All Its Own (2005).

M. Ayodele Heath is a poet so fierce, so tender, so (rightly) angry, so generous of heart and spirit that I am 1) grateful, and 2) reminded again and again why I love poetry, why I have reason to love poetry: because it can be like this!

— Thomas Lux, author of God Particles

In this electrifying first collection of poems, Ayodele Heath explores “otherness” -- Black otherness, Southern otherness, African otherness, his otherness which becomes our otherness and everyone's otherness -- with such heat and such heart and such precision and magic that the words fairly fly off the page. This is language swooning and falling in love with itself; “consonants sharp as fangs and clean/ as bone.” Here are poems “burning the pages in my eyes;” poems that are sharp, hip, sassy and smart as whips, taut as drums; poems full of beauty and horror and passion, unpredictable at every turn. This is the kind of poetry that keeps poetry alive.

— Cecilia Woloch, author of Carpathia

The words of M. Ayodele Heath are ‘a foam which knows no foreign shore.’ With his collection, Otherness, Heath bathes us in pools flooded with humankind’s purest mind. A golden tongued man teaching the tone deaf to dance, his beat filled heart pulsing arrhythmic codes to the misbegotten, one eye witnesses the gore and the other praises glory. Open this book and allow this high priest of prosody to reveal the secrets of okra seeds germinating beneath the djembe’s skin.

— Robert Earl Price poet/ playwright

M. Ayodele Heath’s Otherness is many-voiced, peopled with a rich and real throng of speakers clamoring to have their say. Heath seems part stage director, part mimic, part ventriloquist as he channels and divines and ultimately bears witness to this subject of “otherness,” the history and repercussions of race in America and abroad. His ear is outrageously good, his music rangy, unswerving, and often dizzyingly ambitious. This is a remarkable first collection.

— Paula McLain, author of Less of Her, Stumble, Gorgeous and The Paris Wife

Click here to view an interview with Ayodele http://youtu.be/C9tscsvkjBc

Stephan Delbos (07) is happy to announce the publication of the anthology he had spent the past two years editing. From a Terrace in Prague is a 300-plus page anthology of poems about Prague from 1888-2010, translated into English from 16 languages, including the work of Ingeborg Bachmann, Pablo Neruda, Marina Tsvetaeva, Guillaume Apollinaire, Nazim Hikmet, Roque Dalton, Adam Zagajewski and Vaclav Havel among many other poets who have visited Prague and written about the city. With poems from 16 languages translated into English, the anthology is unparalleled in scope. The book is available for order from: http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/terrace.html

Anyone interested in reviewing the book, please contact Stephan at sdelbos@praguepost.com

Summer Open House on June 25, 2011

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Jack McCarthy reading, Summer 2010

OPEN HOUSE Saturday, June 25, 2011

For individuals interested in finding out more about our MFA program in poetry, please join us for a day of events at our Summer Residency. All events are free but pre-registration is required. Come meet our faculty and students to explore if our program is a good fit for your needs. For further information contact Jacqueline Gens at jgens@nec.edu or call 604-219-9172.

The Schedule

9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast & Registration, Simon Center Lobby

98 Bridge Street

Henniker, NH

10:00-Noon

Writing workshop with Program Director, Jim Harms

CEI #120

Noon-1:00 PM

Lunch, Gilmore Hall

2:00-3:00 PM

Faculty Lecture on the Epic with Eleni Sikelianos

CEI #110

3:00 PM

Tea, CEI lobby

3:30-4:30 PM

Reading and Booksigning with Paula McLain
author of the best-selling novel, The Paris Wife.

6:00 PM

Dinner, Gilmore Hall

7:30 PM

Jack McCarthy Performance with Summer Whitmore and Mark Palos

Great Room, Simon Center

Beautiful Henniker and the NEC campus

Around NEC and Henniker

Tomaž Šalamun Guest Faculty Summer 2011

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Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun is one of Europe’s most prominent poets and a leader of the Eastern European avant-garde. Early in his career he edited the literary magazinePerspektive and was briefly jailed on political charges. He studied art history at the University of Ljubljana, where he found poetry suddenly, as a revelation, describing its arrival in a 2004 interview as “stones from the sky.”

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ALUMNI News News News

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An interview with DOUGLAS PICCINNINI (09) can be found on the Best American Poetry Blog by Rob Crawford.

For a review of Soft, click here.

Douglas Piccinnini is the author of Crystal Hard-On (Minutes Books) and Soft (The Cultural Society). He is also the founder of the CROWD reading Series and, with Josef Kaplan, co-editor of Tea Party Republicans Press.

He will read at NEC on June 26, 2011 with Joanna Penn Cooper at 7:30 PM in the Great Room, Simon Center.

JOANNA PENN COOPER (09) will perform with Clif's trio Secret Orchestra at 8 pm at University of the Streets. in a hybrid music/poetry piece performed at this year's New Year's Day Marathon at the Poetry Project, which received a positive response. They were mentioned as a "musical highlight" of the event in the Brooklyn Rail: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/02/poetry/unto-the-house-of-words

Monday May 9, 2011
8pm

Secret Orchestra
with special guest poet Joanna Penn Cooper
Yuko Fujiyama - piano
Clif Jackson - bass
David Gould - drums/percussion

University of the Streets
Muhammad Salahuddeen Memorial Jazz Theatre
130 E. 7th St.
2nd Floor
NY, NY 10009

Friday 5/13 at 7 pm, Joanna will read in the Mega Women's Reading in the Stain of Poetry Series. That takes place at Goodbye Blue Monday in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

The lineup includes:
Joanna Penn Cooper ~ Claire Donato ~ Farrah Field ~ Molly Gaudry ~ Hailey Higdon ~ Anne Cecilia Holmes ~ Brenda Iijima ~ Julia Story

For bios, photos, and venue information, please visit the website

{Joanna will also be reading at NEC during the summer residency with Douglas Piccininni on JUNE 26, 2011}

TARA BETTS (07)

Annual LUNGFUL: Gala Release Bacchanal, Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 6:00-9:00 PM
Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street (between Thompson and Sullivan)
NYC

TARA BETTS at Salt Salon, Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 7:00-10:00 PM
221 Linden Blvd.
Brooklyn, NY

TARA BETTS at Greenleaf Jazz and Spoken Word, Thursday, JUly 21, 6:-8:00 PM
Fort Greene Park
85 S. Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY

PABLO NERUDA BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION & Villanelle Workshop, Saturday July 30, 2011 2:00-4:00 PM
Hudson Public Library
66 Leroy Street
NYC

To listen to Tara on radio WNYC

For further information contact Tara Betts at tarabetts@aol.com

My apology to Paul Fisher (05) , Lana Hechtman Ayers (04) , and Lorraine Healy (06) for failing to post their Reading on April 22, 2011 at 7:00 PM in Bellingham WA in which they reported that they pitched NEC's MFA program shamelessly. They each read from their new books:

The Habit of Buenos Aires by Lorraine Healy

A New Red by Lana Hechtman Ayers

Rumors of Shore by Paul Fisher

I was happy to hear Lorraine read her deeply moving work at the AWP conference in the panel organized by Misha Cahnman (07) on Women and War that included former faculty Anne Waldman and Alicia Ostriker. {Jacqueline Gens}

Lorraine Healy (06) and Leslie Sisko (06) at AWP 2011 in Washington DC

Summer Concentrated Studies in New Media, Translation and Performance and Prose

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Summer Residency Afternoon Electives

New Media Poetics: Time by Tara Rebele

In this workshop we will investigate the concept of time in poetics (both on and off the page) and explore the possibilities of time-based media in poetry, specifically how the use of time-based media

(animation, video, sound) can transform, translate and/or expand an existing page-oriented or performance poem. Students will be guided in the process of translating/building upon one of their own poems, using formal and conceptual elements and conventions common to both poetry and time-based new media art, such as rhythm, timing, repetition, duration (or length), pace, emphasis/subordination,

imagery, etc., with particular emphasis on aesthetic choices and the relationship between form and content. Students will be given a foundation-level introduction to the software necessary for production of their time-based new media poems. Please note, however, that this is not a software training class; rather, it is intended to introduce the fundamentals of new media poetry and its production to expand students’ understanding and appreciation of poetries both on and off the page, give students a hands-on experience in the creation of an original new media poem, and serve as a foundation for further exploration and learning.

*No prior experience with time-based media/software is necessary, but students should be comfortable with general computer use. Students who have questions or concerns about the workshop or its technical/skill requirements may contact Tara Rebele by email (tara@tararebele.com) or see her in person at the residency.

June 30 and July 1, 2:00-5:30 PM in Computer Graphics Lab
For further information about the New Media concentration, click here.

Translation Taught by Brian Henry

This three-day workshop will focus on poetry translation as both a process and a product. We will examine the possibilities for conventional translation as well as more innovative translation techniques. We also will engage in translation as imitation and “self-expressive reformulation” (Clive Scott, Translating Baudelaire).

Proficiency in a second language is welcome but not required. (There are many ways around fluency in the original language. Just ask Ezra Pound, who did not know Chinese. Or W.S. Merwin, who knows a small fraction of the 16 languages represented in his Selected Translations).

June 26, 27, 28, 2011, 3:30-5:30 PM
For further information about the Translation concentration, click here.

Performance with Jack McCarthy : Always Leave Them Wanting More

This workshop is a continuation of Jack’s previous workshop during the summer 2010. He will also meet with students in conferences to discuss their work.

This workshop is for poets who approach poetry readings with an attitude of respect for their audience and a desire to please.

If you’re a poet whose mind is made up that you will never, ever run the risk of reading your poetry or anyone else’s out loud, in front of people, then this workshop is not for you. All others may expect to learn something useful.

The facilitator has never considered himself a performer, rather “a writer of poems that perform themselves,” and in this workshop we will be using total voluntary participation to explore the particular elements that make one poem-in-performance more successful than another.

The poems we are proudest of are not necessarily our most audience-friendly. In that respect, we are often the worst judges of our own material. Performance issues will be dealt with as they arise, but the structure of the workshop will be aimed less at performance itself, and more at selecting and writing with performance in mind.

Participants are encouraged to read the advance materials provided, and to come to the workshop bearing a brand new pocket notebook and a representative cross-section of their own work, selected both for range and quality. --Jack McCarthy

June 26, 27, 28, 2011, 3:30-5:30 PM
For further information about the Performance concentration, click here.

Prose Workshop: Fairy Tale and Myth with Katie Farris

In this afternoon workshop, we’ll be working with two different types of folklore—creation myths and fairy tales. We’ll discuss some basic history and theory of the forms, and then examine various texts from around the world, from (obviously!) ancient times to the present day. Then we’ll attempt to either write our own, or incorporate elements of either (or both!) into our prose or poetry. If you’re interested in basic narrative theory, this might be a good class to take, as it will deal with one of the most compact and easy-to-understand narrative systems available.-- Katie Farris

Alumni Reading at the Starving Artist in Keene, NH

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Join the Datum:Earth Reading Series for an NEC alumni reading.

Saturday, April 16, 8pm
Starving Artist Gallery,
Downtown Keene, NH

Ivy Page
Tucker Sampson
Jenn Monroe

Come early for the Vice & Verses open mic at 6pm.

visit www.datumearth.blogspot.com for details.

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Brian Henry and Chard deNiord at Harvard's Lamont Library

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Omniglot Series: Partners in Translation

March 24, 5:00 PM
Brian Henry and Ales Steger

In this seminar, renowned Slovenian poet Ales Steger and his translator Brian Henry (author of Wings Without Birds) present an in-depth look at their most recent collaboration, The Book of Things. This presentation will offer a behind-the-scenes tour of the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of the translation process, and the nuances of the translator-poet relationship. Henry will also discuss the impact that translation has had on his own poetics. The Omniglot series welcomes all creative writers and translators of all levels. Co-sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard Review & Zoland Poetry.

Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library, Room 330
Free and open to the public.

Espmark

WPR Works in Progress: A Lens on the Nobel Prize in Literature
Kjell Espmark. Introduction by Chard DeNiord

Thursday, April 14, 5:00pm

Former chairman of the Nobel Prize in Literature and current Nobel committee member Kjell Espmark will offer a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the Nobel process. As one of the leading poets of Sweden (and a member of the Swedish Academy), he will also share his perceptions of contemporary Swedish poetics. We encourage you to bring your questions and opinions to this informal, roundtable discussion. A casual reception will follow the event. Co-sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room and the Department of English, Harvard University.

Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library, Room 330
For details, contact Christina Davis at 617-495-2454

For further information, click here. http://hcl.harvard.edu/info/exhibitions/#poetry_room_events

Recent Alumni News & Publications

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MARILYN McCABE (10)
Marilyn McCabe's chapbook, Rugged Means of Grace, can now be ordered from Finishing Line Press in anticipation of ship date of June 24, 2011.

KAREN DIETRICH (08)
Anchor Glass by Karen Dietrich ('08) is now available for pre-order from Finishing Line Press. The title will be released on June 24, 2011. To order, please visit Finishing Line Press by clicking here.

Karen will read from Anchor Glass on March 16, 2011 at the Pitt-Greensburg Writers' Festival. For more details on this and other readings, visit her website karendietrich.com

TAMARA J. MADISON (10)

Tamara J. Madison is currently working as a Basic English Adjunct Instructor at Hudson County Community College in Jersey City, New Jersey where she teaches in academic foundations and squeezes poetry in wherever she can.

Excerpts from the poetic sequence, "Kentucky Curdled," developed during her MFA studies are currently published on-line in at aaduna. An additional 10-pg excerpt will be printed later this year in And/Or Magazine. To date, over half of the poems from her book-length manuscript, Conception Immaculate, have been published or are committed for publication in the upcoming year in a number of journals and magazines including: Tidal Basin Review, Poetry International, Turbulence Magazine (U.K.) and Black Magnolias. She currently has a book review (House by poet, Mariela Griffor) and reflections on an interview (Brian Henry's Quarrantine) published in the current edition of Web Del Sol Review of Books.

Tamara will be sharing excerpts of her latest work at a local reading at Hudson County Community College later in March and at a reading at Fairfield University in April for the inaugural edition of Mason's Road. Grateful for her experiences at NEC, she hopes to return for the poetry program's graduation in the summer of this year.

PHOTO: Jacqueline Gens with IPhone 2011 AWP Left to right: Susan Sailor, Jay Rubin and Robert Feins

ROBERTA FEINS (07)
Roberta Feins won first place in Women in Judaism's First Annual Writing Competition 2010. She has poems published or forthcoming in BlueLine, Earth's Daughters, Flyway, Meadowland Review, The Naugatuck River Review, Slant, Tattoo Highway, Through the window and Tygerburning Literary Journal.

STEVEN RIEL (08)
Greetings, fair poets!

I have begun teaching poetry part-time to master's-level students at Antioch University Midwest. I attended the Antioch Writer's Conference and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival in the summer of 2010.

I will be one of the poets featured in the upcoming issue of Assaracus, where 6 of my poems will be published later this month. I'll travel down to the Rainbow Book Fair in NYC, where the new issue will be unveiled.

I have other poems forthcoming in Evening Street Review and Le Forum.

After receiving my MFA, I traveled to Lincoln, England to present the paper based on my NEC critical thesis at the Tennyson Society International Bicentenary Conference, "The Young Tennyson." The title of my paper was “’And With the Thought Her Color Burns’: Tennyson’s Female Masks."

I have a new position at Harvard due to reorganization: I'm currently the head of E-Resources, Serials, and Government Documents Cataloging in the Harvard College Library Technical Services department.

CHELLA COURINGTON (09)

Chella Courington reports that her chapbook, Paper Covers Rock, will be issued by Indigo Ink Press in August 2011. For other recent news visit this link on Tygerburning.

Congratulations to Anne Waldman Newly Elected Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets

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PHOTO: By Jacqueline Gens, 2011 AWP

Former core faculty (2002-2007) and frequent visiting faculty in the MFA Program at New England College, Anne Waldman has been elected a chancellor of the American Academy of Poets.

About Waldman's poetry, Academy Chancellor Lyn Hejinian recently said:

Visionary; activist; luminary; feminist; writer of myth, lyric, epic, chant; teacher; editor; organizer; diva of altruistic event, performer; perpetual champion of the planet and its poets and poetries—Anne Waldman is one of the contemporary world's greatest writers. Her lifelong commitment to an expansive poetics and to an open-spirited, generous, and, when need be, feisty engagement with words in the world began in the 1960s and continues to this day, unabated."

Congratulations Anne!!!!

AWP 2011

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AWP Alert.... Events Featuring MFA Faculty, Alumni, & Students February 2-5, 2011

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PHOTO BY JACQUELINE GENS: Jay Ruben , AWP 2010

PLEASE Visit our booth #516 to check in with us, learn about our program, or just hang out a bit for some R & R in the quieter curtained booth section we will be located this year.

Here are some NEC related events to check out:

OFFICIAL ONSITE EVENTS

Alumni Melisa Cahnman Taylor (07) and Lorraine Healy (06) will be featured in a panel along with frequent guest faculty, Anne Waldman and former core faculty, Alicia Ostriker in Home Front:

Women Poets and War on Friday, February 4, 2011 in Palladian Ballroom , Omni Shoreham Hotel, West Lobby, 1:30-2:45 PM.

F184. Home Front: Women Poets and War. (Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Lorraine Healy, Maria Melendez, Alicia Ostriker, Anne Waldman) Despite increasing numbers of female soldiers, women often “stay at home” during times of war. How do women poets respond to issues of war, especially when those wars take place far from the home front? How does one engage with aspects of politics and violence when one’s personal experience may be far from the front line? Armed with poems, women writers from different regions, generations, origins, and aesthetics attack the issue, sharing their approaches to the poetry of war.

PHOTO BY JACQUELINE GENS: Misha Cahnmann Taylor (07), 2010 AWP

CHECK OUT Maria Teutsche's ('12) Ping Pong Magazine at Table F19

Program Director, Jim Harms will read with Carnegie Mellon University Press ON Saturday, February 5, 2011 in the Maryland Suite Room, Mariot Wardman Park, Lobby Level at 3:00-4:15 PM

Maryland Suite Room
Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level

S192. A Celebration of Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry.(John Hoppenthaler, Cornelius Eady, James Harms, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Jerry Williams, Michael Waters) Founded in 1972, Carnegie Mellon University Press (CMUP) has produced well over 200 collections, including books by Pulitzer Prize winners Rita Dove and Stephen Dunn. It is difficult to overstate CMUP’s dedication to supporting and advancing the literature of our time; the press has produced as many books as money will allow each year, striving to keep CMUP open to new voices. This reading will feature six poets who have found in CMUP a home for his or her poetry, and the purpose of this panel is to sing of it.

OFFSITE EVENTS IN WASHINGTON D.C.

Friday, February 4, 2011 at 5:00-6:30 PM

Faculty, Carol Frost will read (Sponsored by Northwestern University Press) at Slaviya restaurant and cafe, located at 2424 18th St., NW, Washington, D.C. All alumni & friends are invited to convene there. During Happy Hour all drinks are 1/2 price. Full eastern European menu. Looks like a fun place to gather together.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Alumni Lori Desrosiers and Lana Ayers at Naugatuck River Review Poets Reading
4:00-5:00 PM at the Big Hunt Please join them and hear poets from NAUGATUCK RIVER REVIEW, a Journal of Narrative Poetry. Poets include Pam Uschuck, Marie -Elizabeth Mail, Sheila Squillante, Lana Hechtman Ayers, Kathyryn Neel and more. Refreshments and drink for purchase.

VISIT NAUGTUCK RIVER REVIEW at the 2011 AWP Bookfair in E1

PHOTO BY JACQUELINE GENS: Lori Desrosiers (08) at AWP, 2010

SLIDESHOW OF 2010 AWP

Interview with Galway Kinnell by Chard deNIord featured on Poetry Daily

2011-01-28T01:02:00.004-05:00

PHOTO CREDIT:Galway Kinnell at NEC by Lorraine Healy (06)

Former co-director, Chard deNiord's interview with Galway Kinnell in the current American Poetry Review is the featured prose piece selection on Poetry Daily. Galway Kinnell visited the MFA program at New England College in 2006 and was awarded an honorary doctorate at the May 10,2008 commencement.

New Alumni Publications Forthcoming

2011-01-23T04:53:00.016-05:00

Lori Desrosiers' (08) manuscript, The Philosopher's Daughter, has been accepted by Salmon Poetry for publication in 2012.

Joanna Penn Cooper's (09) manuscript, How We Mostly Were, was a finalist for the 2011 Alice James Kenereth Gensler Award

Douglas Piccinnini reading at the Poetry Project on January 1, 2011

Two new chapbooks by Douglas Piccinnini's (09) Soft was published by the Cultural Society. Crystal Hard-On was released by Minute Books also in 2010. Recent reviews of CRYSTAL HARD-ON appear in the Best American Poetry Blog and The Poetry Project Newsletter.

With co-editor Josef Kaplan, Piccinnini will launch Tea Party Republicans Press this spring. TPR Press will publish titles by Asrtid Lorange and Lawrence Giffin—among others.

Piccinnini just returned from a west coast tour with the band Holy Spirits.

Chella Courington's (09) second publication, Girls and Women, is scheduled for release by Burning River in April 2011.

Recent work appears or is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, Lo-Ball, Gargoyle, Opium Magazine, Pirene’s Fountain, and The Collagist. Her first chapbook, Southern Girl Gone Wrong, was published in 2004 by Foothills Publishing of New York. Girls & Women is her second-released chapbook, Chella teaches writing and literature at Santa Barbara City College in California.

“Chella Courington’s Girls & Women reveals a fearless and ferocious sensibility that has been secretly stalking the poem for years, and has now rushed in for the kill. Ted Berrigan advised his coterie to write poems that were “feminine, marvelous and tough,” and Lorine Niedecker sought T&G, or Tenderness & Gristle in her poems. Has Courington been conversing with Niedecker? Has she bedded Ted Berrigan? These poems, in their incredible timing and fabulous sense of the mysterious, are at times baring their formidable teeth, at times licking the human wound.”

~Eleni Sikelianos, author of Body Clock, The California Poem, and The Book of Jon

“Religion, sex, family, education–this brilliant collection of prose poems probes the body from personal and social viewpoints, examining how the body is sexualized, repressed, checked, and, ultimately, objectified; still, we get insightful images from Courington’s personal story and well-crafted prose poems.”

~William Allegrezza, author of Collective Instant, Fragile Replacements, and Ladders in July.>

"Diana loved anything orange," the first piece in Girls & Women, was runner-up in The Collagist Flash Fiction Contest 2009. Readings booked thus far are the Artists Union in Ventura in April & Beyond Baroque in Venice in July.

Performance Recordings from Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye Performance Workshop

2011-01-15T08:56:00.012-05:00

Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye conducted a six hour Performance workshop for Winter Residency participants. In all, an amazing twenty-four diverse performances were professionally recorded and produced by Ambrose Bye.

PERFORMANCE # 1

The following poem/text by Deyon Williams, read by Anchia Kinard.
Title: "The Miseducation of Martin Luther King Day." Deyon was waiting for his contact lenses to arrive so had difficulty reading his poem. Chi-Chi was enlisted to read it for him. Her reading wowed us all.

PERFORMANCE # 2

Performance poem by Dawn Coutu accompanied by Jilian Mukavetz on fiddle and Ambrose Bye on piano. At some point Dawn revealed her special talent for imitating accents. When she began to read with her Scottish accent, the humor of her poem lept out at us.

Title: "The Difference Between Gilt and Gild"

All Photos: Jacqueline Gens with IPhone

Recordings produced by Ambrose Bye

All New England College MFA recordings are stored on archive.org in the public domain.

Carol Frost Featured on Poetry Daily

2011-01-11T07:53:00.003-05:00

Carol Frost has three pomes featured on Poetry Daily today. The poems are selected from her newest publication, Honeycomb.

PHOTO: Carol Frost reading from Honeycomb at the Winter 2011 Residency

Welcome to our 19th Consecutive Residency!!!!! Beginning Jan 4 thru Jan 12, 2011

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PHOTO : Taken by Jim Harms with his IPhone, January 3, 2011 Henniker looking towards Gilmore Hall from the bridge at dusk

Stay tuned for updates and lots of mug shots

Recent Faculty and Alumni News

2010-12-24T21:16:00.006-05:00

The Upstairs Hammer, a chapbook by Hildred Crill (04), is now available from Argos Books.

Karen Dietrich (08)
Anchor Glass
Finishing Line Press, forthcoming

Program Director, Jim harms is the featured poet on the NH Poets Showcase curated by NH poet laureate, Walter Butts.

Joanna Penn Cooper's (2009) manuscript How We Mostly Were was a finalist for the Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books. Joanna will be reading with the trio Secret Orchestra at the Poetry Project New Year's Day Marathon. Douglas Piccinini (2009) will be reading too along with many friends and luminaries including Anne Waldman.

The Light at the Turning of Winter Solstice

2010-12-21T17:40:00.004-05:00

Photo: Rosemary Rawcliffe

Season's Greetings from the MFA Program in Poetry at New England College and wishing you all endless possibilities of harmony, good health and prosperity in the New Year and oh so many poems
to illuminate our path.

I dwell in Possibility – (466)

BY EMILY DICKINSON

I dwell in Possibility –

A fairer House than Prose –

More numerous of Windows –

Superior – for Doors –

Of Chambers as the Cedars –

Impregnable of eye –

And for an everlasting Roof

The Gambrels of the Sky –

Of Visitors – the fairest –

For Occupation – This –

The spreading wide my narrow Hands

To gather Paradise –

Ilya Kaminsky Appointed Head of the Harriet Monroe Institute at the Poetry Foundation

2010-12-08T17:15:00.001-05:00

Ilya Kaminsky, core faculty in the MFA program at New England College since January 2007, has been appointed as the Director of the Harriet Monroe Institute (HMPI) at the Poetry Foundation, Kaminsky will lead the HMPI think tank for the next two years.

The HMPI was created in 2008 to provide a space in which fresh thinking about poetry, in both its intellectual and its practical needs, could flourish. HMPI is an independent forum, free of any allegiance other than to the best ideas. The Institute exists to identify and support solutions to benefit the art form in general. By convening poets, scholars, publishers, educators, and other thinkers from inside and outside the poetry world, it addresses issues of importance to the art form of poetry.

Kaminsky is a beloved member of our community who travels each summer and winter to be part of our winter and summer residencies.

Ilya Kaminsky and program director, James Harms at the 2010 AWP conference in Denver.

The Poet's Corner on WOMR Hosted by Joe Gouveia (08)

2010-11-28T02:04:00.003-05:00

Joe Gouveia (08) reports that his WOMR/Provincetown Community radio show, "The Poets Corner," is now archived online in podcast available for download or subscribe to "The Poets Corner" podcast at this link.

"The Poets Corner" features poets each week in casual conversation with host Joe Gouveia, leading the talk into a reading of some poems. Most recent podcast shows include: the late Jack Powers, Joy Harjo, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Marge Piercy. Past podcasts include Martin Espada, Robert Pinsky, Diane Wakoski and Diane DiPrima. Subscribe to "The Poets Corner" podcast and hear, or eavesdrop, on what the poets have to say this week.

News from Terry Lucas (08)

2010-11-23T10:21:00.002-05:00

Terry Lucas ('08) has new work in Prime Number Magazine, and forthcoming work in Alehouse. Terry grew up in New Mexico, and has resided in the San Francisco bay area for more than a decade. Three times nominated for a Pushcart Prize, he is currently an assistant editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal and the founder of the on line community for poetry MFA graduates at http://postpoetrymfa.ning.com/.

News from Chard deNiord, Co-founder of the MFA Program in Poetry at New England College

2010-11-16T09:38:00.009-05:00

The University of Pittsburgh Press will publish Chard deNiord's newest book of poetry, The Double Truth, in January 2011.

Also forthcoming from Marick Press in 2011, are his collected interviews, Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs with senior American poets, Jack Gilbert, Maxine Kumin, Ruth Stone, Galway Kinnell, Lucile Clifton, Robert Bly, and Donald Hall.

Visit his NEW website, Chard deNiord, for news and and updated publications

Chard deNiord is the author of four books of poetry, The Double Truth (forthcoming in January, 2011 from the University of Pittsburgh Press), Night Mowing (The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), Sharp Golden Thorn (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), and Asleep in the Fire (University of Alabama Press, 1990). His poems, interviews and essays have appeared recently in Best of The Pushcart Prize, New England Review, Best American Poetry, Hudson Review, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review and Salmagundi. He is the co-founder of the New England College MFA Program in Poetry and an associate professor of English at Providence College. He lives in Putney, Vermont with his wife Liz, and their dog, Soze.

Lana Hechtman Ayers (04) Publishes A NEW RED: A FAIRY TALE FOR GROWN UPS

2010-11-10T16:04:00.005-05:00

Pecan Grove Press has just published Lana Hechtman Ayer's (04) book of poems, A New Red : A Fairy Tale for Grown Ups

"Lana Hechtman Ayers's sharp, vivid poems in A New Red allow a modern Red Riding Hood, an artistic wolf, and characters like Baba Yaga to spring to life. In one of the opening poems of the book, "Baba Yaga Advises Red Riding Hood," Baba Yaga warns: "Never say yes/ when you mean no,/ and mean no/ all the time." A meditation on the choices a woman makes in her life, in her relationships, and in her art, this book maps the journey through the trials, wonders, and frustrations of a love affair."

--Jeannine Hall Gailey, author ofBecoming the Villainess

Lana's other books include:

What Big Teeth: Red Riding Hood’s Real Life

Kissena Park Press, 2010

Dance From Inside My Bones

Snake Nation Press, 2007

Chicken Farmer, I Still Love You

D-N Publishing, 2007

Love is a Weed

Finishing Line Press, 2006

Visit her website for further information about her work and biography.

Lea Deschenes (07) Performing at Mike Geffner's Inspired Word in NYC

2010-11-06T09:57:00.003-04:00

Recently, Lea Deschenes (07) performed at Mike Geffner's Inspired Word in NYC. Watch the video for her terrific performance, bio and rousing pitch for the MFA program. To listen to Lea and other performance alumni from the MFA program at New England College go to our archived recording page or Concentration in Performance page on the right sidebar. The MFA program at New England College welcomes and supports spoken word and performance poets seeking to refine their literary work. Past poets include Regie O'Hare Gibson, Tara Betts, Ayodele, Truth Thomas, Misha Cahnmann Taylor, Lea among others. The college also supports visiting faculty each residency dedicated to performance including, Anne Waldman (winter 2011) and Jack McCarthy (summer 2011).

Lori Desrosiers (08) and Irene Willis (07) to Read

2010-11-02T07:46:00.001-04:00

Poetry at Pages Coffee Bar and Used Bookstore in Conway, MA
Featuring NEC alums from the MFA program: Lori Desrosiers (08) and Irene Willis (07)

Sunday, November 7, 2-4 p.m.
at Pages Coffee Bar and Used Bookstore, 98 Main Street, Conway, MA. 413-369-0244

Lori Desrosiers’ chapbook of poetry, Three Vanities, a chronicle of three generations of women in her family, was published by Pudding House Press in 2009 and her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals. She is the publisher of Naugatuck River Review, a journal of narrative poetry, and teaches English at Westfield State College. She earned her M.F.A. in Poetry from New England College.

Irene Willis is a lifelong educator and holds an MA & Ph.D. from NYU as well as an MFA from New England College. Irene has published three collections of poetry: They Tell Me You Danced (University Press of Florida); At the Fortune Café (winner, Violet Reed Haas Poetry Prize from Snake Nation Press); and Those Flames (Bay Oak Publishers, 2009). Irene is the poetry editor of International Psychoanalysis. She is also a Pushcart Prize nominee, as well as having received numerous awards, including from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

The Book of Things Reviewed in Publishers Weekly

2010-10-25T20:55:00.002-04:00

The Book of Things by Ales Steger, translated from the Slovenian by core faculty, Brian Henry was reviewed by Publishers Weekly.

A chair "slightly confused from the noises of centuries," a cake of soap that smiles "like a dog," and a loquaciously hermaphroditic tapeworm take their places among the "things" that speak and are spoken for in the eminent Slovenian poet Steger's English-language debut. Naming each poem for a household object, body part, or animal ("Jelly," "Bandage," "Sea Horse," "Cocker Spaniel," "Toothpick"), Steger finds causes for hope and for despair: watching a pupa, the poet asks, "Isn't it insignificant, the likelihood/ That one day we will fly away?" Steger more often prefers the earthy, the melodramatic or the grotesque: "Windshield Wipers" are "Like two serfs in black rubber boots./ They get up to go immediately back to bed." The prolific poet Henry renders Steger's long lines in an unfailingly fluent American English. Steger's efforts sometimes bring to mind such Western European figures as Francis Ponge and Craig Raine, who also sought to make household things look new and strange. Yet Steger brings a melancholy Central European sense of history--his objects tend to remember, or cause, great pain: "It pours, this poisonous, sweet force," Steger writes of "Saliva," "Between teeth, when you spit your own little genocide."

Fro a review of The Book of Things by Erica Wright in Guernica, click here

Winter 2010 Electives in Performance, Translation, New Media Poetics and Prose

2010-10-19T09:37:00.031-04:00

THE POEM-IN-PERFORMANCE: A WORKSHOP WITH ANNE WALDMAN & AMBROSE BYE

Working with our melopoeia, -- the innate music of our writing -- we will let our poetry guide us into various performance strategies and modes of composition. We will be working with our voice, our timing, possible instrumentation, collaboration and the like. We will consider methods of sprechstimme (speak-singing), monologue, vocal duets, curses, spels, lullabies ,blues, poem-as-libretto, and also consider how to shape the work on the page with its orality in mind. We will begin with some “experiments of attention” and work toward individual pieces we will then record on a CD. Participants may also bring a piece of their choice to class to work on, as well as instruments they can play. Musicianship is welcome! Discussion will include some performance theory. Taught by Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye

POETICS OF METAMORPHOSIS: TRANSLATION

Through 1960s, the great Italian author Italo Calvino was obsessed with translation of Les Fleurs bleues by Raymond Queneau. This intense work of translation, critics and scholars agree, led to a revolution in Calvino's own literary language and style. By changing his style, Calvino also greatly influenced contemporary Italian literature. How can we learn from Calvino's experience, and take translation as a tool for transforming the way we (and others) see the English language?

Since the times of Chaucer, all through the 17th century and Modernism, translation has played an important role in the development of our literature. In this workshop, we will consider how the process of translation teaches us about the new possibilities and joys of our very own English language. What can we learn about English by translating from another poet of a very different culture and tongue? How can we extend the boundaries of our speech and make them feel beautiful? What new poems can arise from that process? What are the metaphysics of translation?

Taught by Ilya Kaminsky

CINEPOETRY: COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOP

The production of a poetry film is often a collaborative process. It can be as simple as something like a slideshow or something as complex as a feature film. With all the technology, software, and techniques that span multiple artistic disciplines required how do you, as the poet, navigate the process? How do you create your poetry film if you’re not an experienced filmmaker? In this workshop we’ll explore both the theory and practice of cinépoetry with a focus on the collaborative process. Participants will work as a film production crew to direct, film, edit, and produce a collaborative poetry film.

Taught by Francesco Levato

ONE FOOT IN THE FIRE: THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF PROSE POETRY

Each workshop consists of six hours of concentrated study during the winter residency. Students elect two according to their interests. For more details about our concentrated studies, visit our individual pages on the right sidebar of this site.

Faculty News

2010-10-12T03:01:00.026-04:00

New England College is pleased to announce that Malena Morling, core faculty in the MFA Program in Poetry has been awarded the a two-year Lannan Fellowship. In 2008, Core faculty, Ilya Kaminsky was also awarded a Lannan Fellowship.

PHOTO: Eleni Sikelianos teaching during the winter 2010 residency at New England College by Erika Lutzner.

Two core mentor faculty in the MFA program at New England College are represented in the publication Poets on Teaching, A Sourcebook published by the University of Iowa Press. Eleni Sikelianos' essay "Sidelong and Uncodifiable" is featured on the Academy of American Poets website. Brian Henry also has an essay in the publication.

“Here is an astonishingly generous gathering of poetic energies and imaginations aimed toward turning more and more classrooms into scenes of transformative engagement with the prime instrument of our humanity, language. The essential work of exploratory play with words is presented in heartening variety in its necessary wildness, surprising pleasures, gravitas, illumination. This book is a catalogue of invention: visionary, pragmatic, surprising, fun—useful because it’s inspiring and vice versa. The poets’ essays are themselves an affirmation of the vital presence of poetry in our culture, proof and promise, Q.E.D.”—Joan Retallack, coeditor, Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary, and author, The Poethical Wager

To order the publication, click here

Carol Frost's most recent publication, Honeycomb, is now available from Northwestern University Press.

Carol will read from her new book during the Winter 2011 residency on Thursday, January 6 at 7:30 PM in the Great Room at New England College located at 98 Bridge Street, Henniker, NH. The reading will be followed by a book signing.

Brian Henry's publication, Wings Without Birds is available from Salt Publishing

Brian will read from his new book on January 5, 2011

in the Great Room at New England College

98 Bridge Street Henniker, NH

7:30 PM

Brian Henry’s Wings Without Birds reconfigures the quotidian, making the everyday a site for innovation and investigation. Although diverse in form, these poems continually return to explorations of family, time, selfhood, and physical space. Moving through marriage and parenthood, the house and the backyard, Henry’s poems consider ways of being simultaneously singular and plural. Although known for having a dark and satirical sensibility, he brings compassion and self-deprecating humor to Wings Without Birds, delving into what binds people to each other. At the center of the book, the long poem “Where We Stand Now” offers a meditative stream of quotidiana that captures both the daily and the domestic with tenderness, wit, and vigor. With other poets who have informed his aesthetic—particularly James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, and John Forbes—as the book’s presiding spirits, Henry continually explores how to occupy a moment, how to identify “what dominates the near.”

For faculty biographies, visit our MFA Faculty page.

James Harms has two books forthcoming in 2011. What to Borrow, What to Steal will be published by Marick Press and Comet Scar by Carnegie Mellon University Press

Where "all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average"

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Over the past couple of years, a number of our alumni have been making more than poems. Here is a brief slideshow of some of our recent alumni milestones.

First Annual Hayden Carruth Poetry Prize Announced for Tygerburning Literary Journal

2010-09-28T06:42:00.005-04:00

Tygerburning Literary Journal, a publication of the MFA Program in Poetry at New England College announces its first annual Hayden Carruth Poetry Prize. The submission period for the prize is October 15-December 15, 2010. For general submission guidelines for Issue #2, edited by James Harms, please go to the Tygerburning Literary Journal's website Submit page

An Annual Poetry Contest

One first place winner receives $1000 and publication in Tygerburning Literary Journal, Issue #2, Spring 2011 edited by James Harms ! Two honorable mentions receive $100 and publication.

The 2011 judge: Brian Henry*

When is the deadline?
The postmark deadline is December 15th, 2010

What are the guidelines?
• $20 entry fee. Make checks payable to “Marick Press”
• Entries must be postmarked by December 15th
• Submit up to three poems, not to exceed six pages.
• Poems must be original, written in English, and previously unpublished
• Your name or address should not appear anywhere on the poems.
• Your name or address should appear only on the cover letter.
• You may submit via electronically or by snail mail.
• If you mail your entry, enclose an index card with poem titles, your name, address, phone number, and email address
• If you mail your entry, enclose an SASE for notification of winners
• You may also enclose a postage-paid postcard for acknowledgement of entry (if you’d like)
• Entries must be typed, and on one side of the paper only
• If using the mail, use a paper clip or send unbound—no staples or binding, please
• Once submitted, entries cannot be altered
• No translations please
• Multiple entries allowed—each entry must include a separate entry fee
• No entries will be returned
• Email jgens@nec.edu for information or questions

To submit electronically, please submit only one file as a word attachment, with up to three poems. In the subject of your email, enter "Hayden Carruth Prize". In the body of your email, please provide your contact information and a brief biography. Email to jgens@nec.edu

To submit via the mail, send to Tygerburning Literary Journal, New England College, MFA Program in Poetry, 98 Bridge Street, Henniker, NH 03242. Include a check for $20.00 payable to “Marick Press” or pay using a credit card on PayPal on Marick Press Website under Hayden Carruth Poetry Prize or click below.

*No former or current students, colleagues or friends of the judge may enter the contest.

Harvard Review Online & Poetry International Double Issue (#15 & #16)

2010-09-25T10:31:00.005-04:00

Many alumni & faculty work are represented in the current Issues of Harvard Review and Poetry International

Harvard Review Online

Suellen Wedmore (05) and Chard deNiord, co-founder and former co-director of the MFA program at New England College currently have poems in Harvard Review's new online journal. To read their poems online, click on their names above.

POETRY INTERNATIONAL Double Issue (#15 & #16)

The stunning double issue of Poetry International has work by MFA Faculty, Brian Henry, Eleni Sikelianos, and James Harms. Alumni work by Michelle A. Galo ('10), Mary Catherine Jones ('09), Jacqueline Gens ('05), and Jenn Hope Stein ('11) are also included.

News from Ivy Page (09)

2010-09-16T00:23:00.005-04:00

OVS Magazine (edited by Ivy Page ‘09 and Cinnamon Stuckey ’09) recently received a review from NewPages.com

Dorinda Wegner (08) and Lisa Sisler (09) are currently guest editors for the Fall issue of OVS Magazine.

Ivy Page (09) has poems forthcoming in Tidal Basin, Grey Sparrow Journal, and vox poetica. Her first book, Any Other Branch will be out in March of 2012 on Salmon Poetry of Ireland. She is currently teaching at New Hampshire Technical Institute, Colby-Sawyer College, and Keene State College. In her spare time, she hosts a Kitchen Session poetry reading in her home, runs a local community creative writing group at D Acres, and curates a reading series at The Mill Fudge Factory in Bristol, NH. Visit her website at www.poeticentanglement.com

Barbara Paparazzo's (05) Chapbook, The Red Silk Scarf, Published by Shivastan Publications

2010-09-13T12:19:00.011-04:00

Barbara Paparazzo (05) is happy to announce the publication of her chapbook, The Red Silk Scarf from Shivastan Publications (Woodstock & Nepal). The Red Silk Scarf is the record of a pilgrimage to Bodhgaya, India, showing how grief can become an opening into something larger than ourselves.

The chapbook is $12 including shipping. To order, please contact Barbara Paparazzo at blp@stuaf.umass.edu.

(Excerpt]

[12]

Not knowing better, we hired
a blue canoe and rowed
through reflections of snow-capped
Himalayas
to a small Hindu temple
where black and white goats played
in the sunshine. We snapped
pictures, sat on sun-warmed rocks
& admired the animals about to be
sacrificed, we found out later
& all that gamboling turned inside out
reminding me of that slice
unexpected, brutal
between my life when you were alive
and my life now.
Two pieces, both dead.

Marilyn McCabe (09) and Bhisham Bherwani (06) to Read in Bright Hill Press Word Thursday Series

2010-09-13T12:00:00.016-04:00

PHOTO: Left to right, Marilyn McCabe and Alice Weiss, class of 2009

Marilyn McCabe (09) will be reading at Bright Hill Press's Word Thursdays in Treadwell, NY, on September 23 with colleagues Elaine Handley, Mary Sanders Shartle and Bhisham Bherwani (06).

Marilyn McCabe has had her poems published in Nimrod, Blueline, CQ, Poetry Motel, and in Bright Hill Press's Word Thursdays Anthology, and essays in Hunger Mountain and the Travelers' Tales: America anthology. She has been published in regional newspapers and magazines, including Adirondack Life. She recently won a NYSCA Individual Artist's Grant in Saratoga County. She also writes fiction for young readers.

Bhisham Bherwani (06) studied Fine Arts at New England College. He is also a graduate of New York University and Cornell University, and the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, New England College, and The Frost Place, as well as a residency fellowship at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation. He was born in Bombay, India; he lives in New York City. His book, The Second Night of the Spirit, was published in 2009 by Cavankerry Press.

Anchia Kinard ('11) Talks About Her Third Semester Project on You Tube

2010-09-07T08:59:00.007-04:00

Students in the MFA Program of Poetry at New England College come from a variety of backgrounds that range from academics with a Ph.d to performers, artists, social workers, teachers, soap opera stars, weather anchor, business men and women, doctors, therapists, recent college graduates, retired individuals, filmmakers, publishers, trades people--you name it and anything is possible with poets. The program encourages all students to stretch their boundaries, take risks in their writing in a non-competitive environment and explore new avenues of expression in the context of a rigorous curriculum. The results speak for themselves.

Anchia Kinard (11) is a talented singer and songwriter who entered the MFA program shortly after graduating from college. Now in her third semester, she talks about her creative process in this recent video she posted on You Tube.

Anne Waldman & Ambrose Bye Visiting Performance Faculty During Winter 2011 Residency

2010-09-06T18:21:00.042-04:00

Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye will conduct a six-hour Performance workshop during the Winter 2011 residency on January 6 & 7, 2011 followed by a Performance on Friday, January 7, 2011 in the Great Room at New England College.

The Performance workshop is offered as part of the MFA Program in Poetry's Concentrated Studies in Performance presented at each residency. During the past summer residency, legendary stand-up poet, Jack McCarthy taught in the program (Jack will be returning during the Summer 2011 program).

The Poem-in-Performance:
A Workshop with Anne Waldman & Ambrose Bye

Working with our melopoeia, -- the innate music of our writing -- we will let our poetry guide us into various performance strategies and modes of composition. We will be working with our voice, our timing, possible instrumentation, collaboration and the like. We will consider methods of sprechstimme (speak-singing), monologue, vocal duets, curses, spels, lullabies, blues, poem-as-libretto, and also consider how to shape the work on the page with its orality in mind. We will begin with some “experiments of attention” and work toward individual pieces we will then record on a CD. Participants may also bring a piece of their choice to class to work on, as well as instruments they can play. Musicianship is welcome! Discussion will include some performance theory.

Poet Anne Waldman has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community for over 40 years as writer, sprechstimme performer, professor, editor, magpie scholar, infra-structure and cultural/political activist. Her published work is prodigious and she has concentrated on the long poem as a cultural intervention with such projects as Marriage : A Sentence, Structure of The World Compared to a Bubble, the recent Manatee/Humanity (Penguin Poets 2009) which is a book-length rhizomic meditation on evolution and endangered species, and the 800 page Iovis Trilogy : Colors In The Mechanism of Concealment which will be published by Coffee House press in 2011. “Waldman’s work is the antithesis of stasis…She is a flame. ” as one reviewer has noted. She has also collaborated extensively with a number of artists, musicians, and dancers, most recently artists Pat Steir and Kiki Smith and the theatre director Judith Malina. She has also been working most recently with other media including film and video, with her husband, writer and video/film director Ed Bowes. Publishers Weekly recently referred to Waldman as “A counter-cultural giant”.

The apocryphal rumor that she started – started- the phenomenon of Poetry Slams when she and Ted Berrigan donned shiny trunks and boxing gloves to verbally pummel each other with uppercuts of verbs and roundhouses of metaphor.. Her prodigious proliferation: publishing a book of poems a year, not to mention translations, edited anthologies, sound recordings, cameo appearances in Bob Dylan’s film Renaldo and Clara, performances with Allen Ginsberg, Meredith Monk in the documentary Cooked Diamonds, fried Shoes, collaborations with artists Richard Tuttle and Elizabeth Murray, with musicians Steven Taylor and Steve Lacy, the co-founding with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, the first Buddhist-inspired educational institution in America, two-time winner of the International championship Poetry Bout in Taos, New Mexico, recipient of many of the country’s major grants and literary awards, onwards… by Ravi Shankar, in the Quarterly Conversation 2008

Ambrose Bye, musician (piano/keyboard, guitar, voice) and composer, grew up in the environment of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at
Naropa University, counting Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs as 'poetic' godfathers. He graduated from The University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in music/sociology and was certified at the music /production program at the Pyramind Institute in San Francisco, working on numerous productions and his own compositions as well. He also studied and played in gamelan orchestras in Bali, Indonesia, Boulder, and Santa Cruz. He has performed on stage a number of times, accompanying poets and performers at New York¹s Issue Project Room, The Poetry Project, The Bowery Poetry Club, KGB Bar, at The Boulder Theatre¹s ³Music and Poetry for Progressives²
headlined by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Naropa University, The New School, White Columns Gallery, and San Francisco¹s Meridian Gallery. He is in production with his next CD, Hombres. His most recent CD is Matching Half with Anne Waldman and Akilah Oliver, which was produced by Farfalla, McMillen, Parrish. His previous composing/ production credits include In The Room of Never Grieve, (produced by Coffee House Press) and The Eye of
the Falcon (Farfalla, McMillen, Parrish) with poetry by Anne Waldman. His music accompanies the video The Wake- Up Call of a Poet, produced by the Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation, the Netherlands and was broadcast over Dutch TV in December, 2009.

Listen to Flame, a collaboration between Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye on You Tube

News from Francesco Levato ('11)

2010-09-01T13:44:00.003-04:00

Elegy for Dead Languages (Marick Press, October, 2010)

Elegy for Dead Languages collects in print the long documentary poems War Rug; Elegy for Dead Languages; and Hood, Handgun, Power Drill.

“Francesco Levato’s powerful documentary, War Rug—like Eliot Weinberger’s What I heard about Iraq before it—detains the language of the perpetrators of global military aggression and redeploys it to indict them. From J.C. Penny catalog copy to counterintelligence manuals and autopsy reports, War Rug is a fierce yet unfortunate reminder of the absolute horrors of our age.”

—Mark Nowak, author of Coal Mountain Elementary about War Rug

CREATURING (Marick Press, March, 2010)
Tiziano Fratus
Translated by Francesco Levato

Click here to order from Marick Press

Cinépoetry Related News

War Rug, the film, featured at The 2010 War, Literature, and the Arts Conference at the United States Air Force Academy.

This international conference will offer top-tier academic presentations and keynote speakers in a variety of genres to include literary and journalistic criticism, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, film studies, photography, painting and music. The thematic center of the conference is the representation and reporting of America’s wars from 1990 to present. This timeframe presents a compelling opportunity to focus on the near past as well as current engagements: topics and creative output that directly affect all Americans in the present.

Featured Speakers:

Benjamin Busch, “The Wire,” “Generation Kill” Mark Boal, “The Hurt Locker” Dexter Filkins, “The Forever War” Brian Turner, “Here, Bullet,” “Phantom Noise”

For more information please visit: http://wlajournal.com

“War Rug” part of Poetry Foundation study

“War Rug” was included in the new media works consulted for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute “Poetry in New Media Project.”

The Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute is an independent forum created to provide a space in which fresh thinking about poetry, in both its intellectual and its practical needs, can flourish free of any allegiance other than to the best ideas. With this in mind, the Institute convenes leading poets, scholars, publishers, educators, and other thinkers from inside and outside the poetry world to address issues of importance to the art form of poetry and to identify and champion solutions for the benefit of the art.

For more information: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/newmediaproject.html

War Rug” official selection Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin
War Rug, the film, was recently selected for the Zebra Poetry Film Festival at Literaturwerkstatt in Berlin, Germany.

The Zebra Poetry Film Festival is one of the premier European festivals focussed on cinépoetry.

For more information: www.literaturwerkstatt.org

Tara Betts (07) and Core Faculty Malena Morling to Read at the 2010 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival

2010-08-28T09:39:00.014-04:00

New England College is proud to announce that alumna, Tara Betts who graduated from the MFA Program in Poetry in 2007 along with Core faculty, Malena Morling, will be among the featured readers in this year's Geraldine R. Dodge festival.

The festival which is held in alternate years is probably the largest gathering of poets in North America with audiences of up to 20,000 participants.

For the full schedule of poetry events October 7-10, 2010, visit: http://www.dodgepoetry.org/

Tara Betts (07) received her MFA from New England College and is a Cave Canem fellow. Her work appears in Callaloo, Essence, Gathering Ground, and The Spoken Word Revolution, among other publications. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and lives in the New York area. Arc and Hue is her debut collection.

Watch Tara read her poem "Erasure" on You Tube here

Malena Mörling was born in Stockholm and grew up in southern Sweden. She is the author of two books of poetry, Ocean Avenue, winner of The New Issues Press Poetry Prize in 1998 and Astoria published by Pittsburgh Press in 2006. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times Book Review, New Republic, Washington Post Book World, Ploughshares, the New England Review and Five Points. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008 and is a Research Associate at The School For Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM. She is also a recipient of a Lannan Residency Fellowship for Fall 2010. She is currently co-editing the anthology Swedish Writers On Writing with Jonas Ellerström, which will be a part of The Writer’s World series from Trinity University Press. She teaches at The University of North Carolina, Wilmington and in the Low-Residency MFA Program at New England College.

James Harms to Read with Sharon Olds and Walter Butts at the Concord Literary Festival

2010-08-26T12:24:00.002-04:00

James Harms, co-director of the MFA Program in Poetry at New England College, will read with Sharon Olds and Walter Butts at the McGowan Fine Art Gallery Block Party fundraiser for the NH Writers Project on October 16, 2010 in Concord, NH as part of the Concord Literary Festival October 21-23, 2010

McGowan Fine Art
6:00-8:00 PM
10 Hills Avenue, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
phone: (603) 225-2515 | fax:(603) 225-7791 | email: art@mcgowanfineart.com
$100 by invitation or call, (603) 314-7980

For directions visit: www.mcgowanfineart.com

James Harms is the author of five books from Carnegie Mellon University Press, After West (2008), Freeways and Aqueducts (2004), Quarters (2001), The Joy Addict (1998) and Modern Ocean (1992). His poems, stories and essays have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Verse, The Antioch Review, West Branch and many other journals. For his poetry he has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and grants from the Pennsylvania and West Virginia Arts Commissions. He lives with his family in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he was the founding director of the MFA Program at West Virginia University. He is the program director of the New England College MFA Program in Poetry.

To view some of Jim's poems online, click on the links below:

Poetry Daily

Prime Number Magazine

Today in Literature

Joe Gouveia (08) Interviews Yevgeny Yevtushenko

2010-08-23T06:47:00.000-04:00

Listen to the podcast of Joe Gouveia's (08) 15-minute excerpts of his interview with Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko and/or the full 58-minute interview on Provincetown's WMOR radio show, Poets Corner he hosts. Just click on the link below to Provincetown radio's online talk show jukebox:

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/womr/.jukebox?action=programs Scroll down the list of shows, look for the show title The Poets Corner w/ Yevtushenko, and you'll find 3 listings, the first 2 fifteen-minute interviews and the full 58 minute interview.

On August 25/26 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko Poetry will read hsi poetry including his famed Babi Yar at the First Congregational Church of Wellfleet, Mass. To buy tickets click:
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/740735

Special Film Presentation: Stalin's Funeral 1989 film starring Vanessa Redgrave & Albert Todd
(Julie Harris Stage) for more info click: http://www.what.org/events/

Dorinda Wegener '08

2010-08-23T06:38:00.000-04:00

Dorinda Wegener (‘08) has three poems, “Statue,” “Four Fields,” and “There is a Third Eye to Every Memory,” featured in the current issue of Hotel Amerika, Spring 2010; and, her poem, “Today: Kinetic,” reads in the current issue of Sou’wester, Spring 2010. Upcoming publications include the anthologies: Knocking at the Door: Approaching the Other with the poem, “I Write You with the Intention of Amendment,” and The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow 3, which will publish “As the Apple Passes to Lilac,” along with rare work by William Carlos Williams. Both anthologies are due late 2010.

Dorinda has been a Featured Poet on New Hampshire Poet Showcase by invite of NH Poet Laureate, Walter E. Butts (hosted by the NH State Council on the Arts). She currently guest edits OVS Magazine Vol. 3. In February 2011, she will be presenting on William Carlos Williams at the Williams Center for the Arts, Rutherford NJ; afterwards, she will read her own work along with special guest, alum, Lisa Sisler.

News from Erika Lutzner ('10)

2010-08-18T11:36:00.001-04:00

Erika Lutzner's (10) chapbook, The Invisible Changes, will be coming out this fall by Pudding House Publications. It's about Indonesian sulphur mine workers and Cambodian prostitutes, those without voices. Look for book party this fall at Upstairs at Erika's.

Erika will also be hosting her annual September 11 reading:

POETRY READING IN REMEMBRANCE

September 11, 2010

Poets:
Cynthia Cruz, Katie Ford, James Harms, Elaine Sexton,
Joanna Fuhrman, Alan Gilbert, Nicole Peyrafitte, Pierre Joris & more

Warren Malone's incredible music

Acupuncture and Reiki:
Complementary Acupuncture and Reiki will be offered by Corey DiStasio and Betsy Cohen with the intention to enhance relaxation, balance, and healing. Please join us in sharing a safe space to find calm and support. All are welcome to participate or simply be present

The evening will be to honor those no longer here—

For further information please contact Erika at viofem@gmail.com
the event is in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at 6 p.m.

Christina Lovin (04)

2010-08-06T14:05:00.000-04:00

Poetry of Christina Lovin (’04) has been published or is forthcoming in the journals: Crab Orchard Review, Alehouse, Halfway Down the Stairs, Schlock, you are here: the journal of creative geography, Public Republic, Poetry Quarterly. Her work also is or has been featured in anthologies: Multi-Culti Mixerations, When Last on the Mountain, Motif 2: Chance, Anthology of Appalachian Writers and New Southerner (online and print anthology). In June, Lovin was a visiting poet for the 2010 Summer Writing Conference at Eastern Kentucky University, where she is an adjunct instructor of writing.

Chard DeNiord to Read at the White Mountain Kitchen Session Camp-out

2010-08-05T10:01:00.000-04:00

Chard deNiord
Reading at the White Mountain Kitchen Session CAMP-OUT
August 28th 8PM
to August 29th Noon

Join us for the 8th White Mountain Kitchen Session, featuring Chard deNiord! It is a poetry CAMP-OUT! Bring your tent!

What is a kitchen session? A gathering of poets reading brand new work! Bring your new poems (poems you have never read aloud) and a snack to share. After the casual open mic, our featured poet(s) will read!

Location:
32 Lisnsey Lane
Warren, NH 03279
Feel free to call for directions, or with questions!
Ivy Page: 603-481-3943

103.9 FM will be recording for their Performances and Lectures Series!

Chard deNiord is the author of three books of poetry, Night Mowing (The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), Sharp Golden Thorn (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), and Asleep in the Fire (University of Alabama Press, 1990). His poems and essays have appeared recently in The Pushcart Book of Poetry, New England Review, AGNI, Literary Imagination, Salmagundi, The American Poetry Review, and The Hudson Review. Next spring, his new book of poems, The Double Truth, is due out from The University of Pittsburgh Press, as is his book of interviews with senior American poets, Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs from MarickPress. He is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Providence College and cofounder of the New England College MFA Program in Poetry. He lives in Putney, Vermont.

Highlights from our Summer 2010 Residency

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News from our Faculty

2010-07-27T16:57:00.000-04:00

Core Faculty in the MFA Program in Poetry at New England College, Brian Henry, is the featured blogger for David Lehmans' The Best American Poetry.

Terry Lucas (08)

2010-07-25T13:52:00.000-04:00

Terry Lucas ('08) has work in the current editions of Green Mountains Review and MiPOesias Magazine. Terry provides resources for MFA graduates at http://www.postpoetrymfa.blogspot.com and http://www.thewideningspell.blogspot.com.

PAUL FISHER (05)

2010-07-20T22:11:00.000-04:00

Rumors of Shore, Poems by Paul Fisher (05), the winner of the 2009 Blue Light Book award, is now in print and available at Amazon, Powell's, Barnes & Noble, and other booksellers. "The Boat," the collection's opening poem, first published in Waccamaw Journal, was issued as a limited edition broadside from Egress Studio Press, and is also archived (July 2010) in a different format with music and illustration at www.panhala.net/Archive. Paul currently has poems forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, Naugatuck River Review, and Nimrod International Journal. For more information or to contact, visit his website at: www.PaulFisherPoet.com.

The Boat

Maybe the eyes of a dragon or goddess
glare from its prow.

More likely it leaks, loses an oar,
and reeks of rainbows awash on a sheen
of gutted salmon and gasoline.

If it's a liner, we lash ourselves
to whatever will float or sell.

No matter which. We choose. We're aboard,
icebergs or no, as we plow
through the songs of the siren stars --

one boat, black water, dark whispering below.

Cinnamon Stuckey (09)

2010-07-20T00:30:00.000-04:00

Cinnamon Stuckey's (09) poems "Vision Quest", "Harvest", "Geronimo's Home", and "A Pawnee Stor"y, will be published in the University of Arizona's Red Ink Magazine 20th Anniversary Issue.

Her poems, "CNN, U.S. Edition" and "San(s) Diego" are forthcoming in Tidal Basin Review.

Cinnamon Stuckey stems from a mixed cultural bloodline of Chiricahua Apache, Afro-Cuban, Irish and Czechoslovakian. She lives and writes in Sierra Vista, AZ. Currently working on her MBA in Management through Western International University, she is a graduate of New England College with an MFA in Creative Writing (2009).

Douglas Piccinnini (09) Presents Popsickle Literary Festival

2010-07-20T00:20:00.001-04:00

POPSICKLE 2010 unites Brooklyn’s literary curators for a two-day festival of readings, performances and screenings. The festival will take place on Saturday July 24th from 3-8 PM & Sunday July 25th 1-5 PM at Bushwick's beloved MARKET HOTEL | 957 Broadway | Brooklyn.

FEATURING: Alaina Stamatis, Anna Fitzgerald, Ben Fama, Brandon Downing, Brett Price & Dani Leventhal, Carter Edwards, Dan Magers, Eddie Hopely, Emily Pettit, Evan Burton, Gina Abelkop, Jamie Peck, James Copeland, Jordan Michael Iannucci, Joshua Mehigan, Lauren Russell, Leigh Stein, Marc Nasdor, Michael Barron, Natalie Lyalin, Nicole Trigg, Paige Taggart, Parker Phillips, Timothy Donnelly and more!

Participating series include:
BODY ACTUALIZED CONTROL
THE BUSHWICK READING SERIES
CROWD
POETRY TIME at SPACE SPACE
STAIN
SUPERMACHINE

For more information and to read exclusive content by POPSICKLE contributors, please visit popsicklefestival.blogspot.com
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Summer 2010 Residency June 23-July 3, 2010

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Welcome to our 18th residency in the MFA Program in Poetry at New England College from June 23-July 3, 2010. Check back during the residency to view videos, slide shows and highlights from the residency.

NEC campus & Henniker, NH

News from Joe Gouveia (08)

2010-06-15T13:47:00.001-04:00

Joe (Jose) Gouveia (08 writes that his latest Meter Man column came out this week, "I Have A Rendezvous With Frost." Past Meter Man columns are now also archived at this link as well.

His poetry radio show The Poets Corner out of WOMR-FM Provincetown, now offers podcast in mp3 format of his shows. This link brings you to the podcasts available this month (refreshed daily) of all WOMR-FM talk radio shows, just scroll down the list and look for Poets Corner, as new poetry shows are added to the list each week end.