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Stonecoast News March 31, 2008 Current Student News Lisa Romeo's essay, "Who Was That Super Couple?" appeared on the New Jersey Monthly Magazine website just prior to the Super Bowl. Her essay, "Reading What I Want to In New Jersey," was featured at Women Who Love to Read. Another essay, "Depression Era Quilt" has been accepted for a 2009 issue of Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion magazine.
Alumni News J
Jaed Coffin was interviewed recently on 207, a local television show. Here is a link to the video clip: httpwww.wcsh6.com/life/lifestyle/207/video/article.aspx?storyid=83479:// Christopher Fisher's short story "Tattletale" received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 2007, co-edited by our very own Kelly Link. Mary Harwood has a review of Mary Gaitskill’s novel, Veronica, on the Her Circle Ezine website, http://www.hercircleezine.com/books/ The review will go into the archives at the end of March, when a new review will appear. In April, she’s reviewing Elizabeth Nunez’s novel Bruised Hibiscus. Renee Olander ('05 poetry) has these poems in press: "Sestina: To My Sisters" (13th Moon, Spring 2008); "For Gram: The Morning after the Dream" (South Loop Review, Sept. 2008); and "Ten Things I'd Tell My Mother If I Could" in an anthology Things I'd Never Tell My Mother. In addition, her full-length mansucript, American Dangerous, was an "Honorable Mention" in The DeNovo Contest held by C&R Press. Kathleen Sullivan, 2006 poetry alum, will read from her work at the Freeport Community Library's National Poetry Month event on Wednesday, April 16, at 6:30. Also featured are Annie Finch and Nathan Nye. The library is located at 10 Library Drive.
Rick Wile's essay"Requiem in Stones" appears in the 2008 Spring Equinox issue of Cezanne’s Carrot: http://www.cezannescarrot.org/vol3iss2/index.html
Faculty News Annie Finch will be celebrating national poetry month with a series of readings. The dates, venues and times are: Tuesday, April 15 -- 7:00 pm North Star Café 225 Congress St., Portland, Maine
Sunday, April 20 – 7:00 pm with Lee Ann Brown Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia St., New York, New York Wednesday, April 30 -- 12:00 Noon Portland Public Library 51 Monument Square, Portland, Maine Suzanne Strempek Shea is busy promoting her newest book, "Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith," which is just out from Beacon Press. National Public Radio's Liane Hansen interviewed Suzanne on Easter Sunday morning's Weekend Edition broadcast, and the book has been chosen for mention by Book Sense, a national marketing campaign by and for the independent bookstores of America, and in May will noted in the 450,000 May Book Sense flyers distributed through independent bookstores around the country. A schedule of readings is available on www.suzannestrempekshea.com sess7@comcast.net
March 17, 2008 Current Student News Mike Beeman has recently begun reviewing books for Publisher’s Weekly. His first review is available at the website now, www.publishersweekly.com, and he is currently working on his second book. Carol Berg's poem "Mother" has been accepted for publication in The Journal of the Association of Mothering, special issue on Carework and Caregiving.
Janell Oliver’s essay, "The Hope Center" will be published in the April 12th edition of The Thoroughbred Times, a horse racing magazine that circulates on a national level. Alumni News Ruth Foley's poem "Skylark" is included in the recently-published anthology Sinatra: . . . but buddy, I'm a kind of poem. Tanya Eby Sirois (Fiction '05) won the 2007 Kalliope Literary Journal fiction contest. Her piece “What I Want To Know About My Mother” will be published in the spring. Lisa C. Taylor’s poem “Enclosure” is upcoming in Pacific Review. She is also reading at Eastern Connecticut State University CCSU Faculty Research Conference on March 29, at the University of Connecticut Coop on Monday March 31 at 7:00; at the Jonathan Trumbull Library in Lebanon, CT on April 10 at 7 (with Still River Writers), at the Chaplin Library, Chaplin, Ct on April 30th at 7, at the Prosser Library in Bloomfield, Ct on June 10 at 7:00, and at the Out of the Blue Gallery Open Bark Reading/106 Prospect Street/Cambridge, MA on June 21st at 8:15 pm. Raye Tibbitts's Bad Mother Chronicles has recently gone online as a blog for the Portland Press Herald's Raising Maine, where a BBC producer read it and invited her to appear on the radio show World Have Your Say. Hear her podcast and check out other motherhood musings at www.raisingmaine.mainetodaycom/badmotherchronicles Her story “Milk & Cookies” appeared in January in the inaugural issue of MotherWords, and she has more work forthcoming in the next issue due out in March. Recently invited to present her third semester thesis on mama zines and underground publishing at the Association for Research on Mothering Conference in May, Raye is still at work on a memoir and as always, busy raising her boys.
Faculty News An excerpt from Carol Moldaw's forthcoming novel, The Widening, is in the current issue of StoryQuarterly: http://www.narrativemagazine.com/SQ/ The Widening is due out from Etruscan Press the beginning of April. Here is a list of spring readings: April 13, 2008 - Main Street Series, Oberlin, Ohio April 14, 2008 - MacsBacks Books, Cleveland, Ohio: April 15, 2008 - 7pm: DeBartolor Stadium Club in Stambaugh Stadium, Youngstown State University Reading Series, Youngstown, Ohio May 9, 2008 - 5:30: Booksigning at Collected Works Bookstore, 208 BW. San Francisco St., Santa Fe, NM (tel 505/988-4226) Elizabeth Searle's Tonya & Nancy the Rock Opera premiered in Portland, OR on Feb. 21 with Tonya Harding herself enthusiastically in attendence, inspiring nationwide media coverage. This included an AP wire story, extensive clips from the Rock Opera broadcast on CNN, Fox and Good Morning America, (available online), positive reviews in The Portland Mercury and The Columbian newspaper as well as a front-page Portland Oregonian write-up headlined: "'TONYA' ROCKS THE STAGE!" On the fiction front, Elizabeth has a short story forthcoming in Massachusetts Review. She will give an afternoon reading on April 3rd, sponsored by the Harvard Advocate, at Harvard University. Visit www.tonyaandnancytheopera.com March 3, 2008 Current Student News
Linda Sienkiewicz’s poems “Security” and “Bomb Shelter Drill” have been accepted for publication by Free Verse, and my poetry chapbook manuscript “Device” was a semi-finalist in the 2008 Black River Chapbook Contest by Black Lawrence Press. Also, as an artist, my mixed media art will soon be appearing in Tar Wolf Review. lindakays@comcast.net
Alumni News Jaed Coffin is reading from A CHANT TO SOOTHE WILD ELEPHANTS on Thursday, March 6 at 7 pm Newtonville Books 296 Walnut St. Newtonville, MA. It's a "Books and Brew" event. Call the bookstore, or go online, for directions and details: 617-244-6619 http://www.newtonvillebooks.com/
Bridget Gage-Dixon’s poem “The Art of Camouflage” will appear in the forthcoming issue of Inkwell. crash3391@optonline.net
Did you know that you can save nearly $7,000 per year by giving up car ownership? Buses, bicycles and car rental agencies offer low-cost alternatives to the enslavement of the car culture. In a feature article entitled "Busing It" in the March issue of Bangor Metro magazine, Henry Garfield (fiction 2004) explains how this can be done even in one of the most car-dependent regions of the country. hwgarfied.com, hankwgarfield@yahoo.com
Cindy Williams Gutierrez has had two book reviews published in the winter 2008 issue of CALYX. The reviews are of SOLTANDO AMARRAS/CASTING OFF by Claribel Alegria (translated by Margaret Sayers Peden) and of CALENDARS by Annie Finch. (Thanks to Carol Moldaw for her great seminar, The Short Literary Review!) cindy@grito-poetry.com
Kim Dana Kupperman has an essay, "Eight," in the current issue of Nightsun, published at Frostburg State University and guest edited by Dinty Moore. Kim will be presenting at a panel and teaching a workshop at the Rehobeth Beach Writer's Conference, scheduled for March 13-16; for more information, visit www.writersatthebeach.com. kimdana@comcast.net
Kristin Latour’s poem "The Night of the Fire" will be out in the 5th Wednesday Jounral in May. poemgirl@comcast.net
Bruce Pratt's story "Dawning of the Day" will appear in the next issue of Hawk and Handsaw.
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Penelope Schwartz Robinson (CNF '04) will read from Slippery Men, her Stonecoast Book Prize-winning manuscript at the North Star Cafe, 227 Congress Street, Portland, Maine, on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. For further information, call Nathan at 207-450-1815. probins2@maine.rr.com
A chapter from Rick Wile's (still) unpublished memoir will appear in the Summer Issue of Under The Sun. wiles2@gwi.net
Faculty News
Ted Deppe's fourth book of poems, ORPHEUS ON THE RED LINE, will be published by Tupelo Press in Spring 2009. teddeppe2@hotmail.com
February 18, 2008 Current Student News On February 23, Susan Lilley will be among six Florida poets reading at the Kerouac Festival on the campus of Valencia Community College (Orlando) along with "headliner" Billy Collins. David Sloan has recently published his book, Life Lessons: Reaching Teenagers Through Literature. It is available online at awsna.org (published by the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America), as is a previous book on teaching drama called Stages of Imagination: Working Dramatically with Adolescents. Both should also be available online soon from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Alumni News Please send alumni news to stonecoastmfa@usm.maine.edu Faculty News Annie Finch's poem "Portland Rumbling," published in Salt Flats Annual, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has poems forthcoming in the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and poems in two new anthologies about mothering: In White Ink (Demeter Press) and Not For Mothers Only (Fence Books). Her textbook on poetry writing, A Poet's Craft, has been accepted by University of Michigan Press and will be forthcoming in 2009. Nancy Holder has agreed to a short story for "Nocturne Bites," an e-publishing program from Harlequin; and a short story for THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF VAMPIRE ROMANCE. She will be the featured fiction author for Issue #13 of CITY SLAB MAGAZINE, and is writing a new short story about her two cannibal rock stars, Dwight and Angelo.
January 22, 2008
Current Student News: Jackie Ernst's flash fiction piece, "The Gift of Self-Destruction" has been accepted for publication by SLAB (Sound and Literary Art Book) literary magazine. It will appear in the April 2008 issue. Elizabeth Garber’s poem, “The Tow TruckDriver’s Story”, was featured in the December 13th episode of The Writer’s Almanac.
Alumni News: Kim Dana Kupperman will be participating on a panel at AWP, “Women Essayists You’ve (Likely) Never Read.” She will also be teaching a nonfiction workshop and participating on a panel at the 2008 Writers at the Beach Conference, held in Rehobeth Beach, Delaware. For more information about Writers at the Beach, please visit www.writersatthebeach.com. Kristin Latour’s poem, "Filter" has been posted at The New Verse News. The website is http://www.newversenews.com Ken Markee’s poem "Hauling" is in print at Cider Press Review for Volume 9, due out in the spring of 2008. His sonnet "Talking Shop" currently appears in the online issue of 14 by 14.com. His poem "Summer 1973" appears in Mettle: a literary zine of Stonecoast. His sonnet "Pinky" will appear in the spring '08 quarter poetry journal, "from east to west: bicoastal verse" http://www.geocities.com/pj_nights/submissions.html. He will also be a judge for the 2008 Adult Poetry Contest at the Baxter Memorial Library. Anne Britting Oleson and Bruce Pratt read from their work as part of Bangor, Maine's New Year's Eve celebration at Lippincott Books. Bruce Pratt's poem "The Good Friday Raven" will appear this month in the Irish journal, Revival. Lisa C. Taylor’s collection of poetry “Talking to Trees” was nominated for an L.L. Winship PEN New England Award. Jennifer Van Orman (Winter 07)- The Orange Room Review accepted the poem "Like an Astronauts Ashes" for their 10th issue, out February 1st. Rick Wile's 1000-word condensation of his critical thesis will appear as a Capsule Review in the next issue of Fourth Genre. Faculty News: Julia Spencer-Fleming has won The Nero Award, for her novel "All Mortal Flesh”. This award presented each year to an author for the best American mystery written in the tradition of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series. It was presented Dec. 1 in New York City. Michael Kimball's play The Secret of Comedy will be performed as a staged reading by the Villagers Theatre Company in Somerset, NJ. Feb 18. http://www.villagerstheatre.net/ Another of Michael's plays, Best Enemies, will be given a staged reading in May by the Freeport community Players, in Freeport, Maine. http://www.fcponline.org/. Michael's 10-minute play Say No More! is part of a full-length show called "Open 24 Hours," which recently took first prize in the Kentucky Theatre Association's 2007-2008 Annual Conference in Bowling Green, which makes the show Kentucky's entry in the Southeast Theatre Conference, March 5-9, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. http://www.setc.org/festivals/community.asp Michael's play and four others that comprise "Open 24 Hours" will be published by Original Works Publishing. http://www.originalworksonline.com/ The Feb/March issue of Portland Magazine http://www.portlandmagazine.com/ will publish Michael's monologue "Teaching Bobby," in which Dylan's high school English teacher tries to help him revise his song lyric "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" http://bobdylan.com/songs/zero.html for the school's literary journal, "Words-Worth." On Jan. 30, Ohio State University's New Works Lab will present a staged reading of my 10-minute play Henny and Hitler in Hell as part of their Limbo Plays Project. Lesléa Newman's personal essay, "Death Takes a Holiday" has been published on-line at obit-mag.com and can be found here: http://www.obit-mag.com/news.php?id=267 Michael White’s newest novel, Soul Catcher, is going to be broadcasted by over 75 public radio stations beginning March 7 and will be streamed all over the world by those stations. December 10, 2007
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