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Faculty News Faculty publications available online from the University of Southern Maine Bookstore October 26, 2009 Kazim Ali is now blogging at www.kenyonreview.org/blog. Jaed Coffin, and Reza Jalali (alumni) are included in the this year's Maine Literary Festival (Maine Literary Festival to Explore Literature of New Voices in America Reflecting Cross-Cultural Exp). Source: www.earthtimes.org. David Anthony Durham will be reading from The Other Lands at Borders Bookstore (Boston, MA – 511 Boylston Street) on Nov. 20, 7pm with Jeff VanderMeer and Paul Tremblay. If you're in the area David would be very pleased to see you. Aaron Hamburger's essay on the Biblical story of David and Jonathan is featured in the new anthology: Fifty Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read (Alyson). (It's the first essay in the book!) Other writers in the anthology include Jonathan Franzen, Edmund White, Carol Anshaw, and many others. Nancy Holder’s YA dark fantasy series, Wicked, has been picked up by DreamWorks! Sibling scribes Aaron and Matthew Benay have sold a pitch to DreamWorks based on the five-book series written by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie. DreamWorks co-president of production Mark Sourian preemptively grabbed the adaptation for mid-six figures and optioned the rest of the series. The Gotham Group's Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Lindsay Williams and Michael Prevett are producing. Described by one person involved with the project as “Twilight meets Wanted with witchcraft," the young-adult Wicked novels include Witch, Curse, Legacy, Spellbound and Resurrection. The books detail the struggle of Holly Cathers, who moves in with an aunt after her parents die and becomes drawn into a dark world of secrets and magic. The Benays will build the script from the first two books in the series. Jim Kelly's new co-edited anthology is out: The Secret History of Science Fiction, edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel ($14.95), was released on October 12th by Tachyon Publications in trade paperback. Included in the anthology are stories by Margaret Atwood, T. C. Boyle, Michael Chabon, Don DeLillo, Thomas M. Disch, Karen Joy Fowler, Molly Gloss, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jonathan Lethem, Maureen F. McHugh, Steven Millhauser, George Saunders, Carter Scholz, Lucius Shepard and Kate Wilhelm. In their introduction, the editors argue what Stonecoast already knows, i.e. that literate science fiction and literary fiction that uses science fictional tropes are very hard to tell apart. Debra Marquart invites all Stonecoast writers to the 6th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination to be held at Iowa State University, Ames, IA on January 29 - 31, 2010. The symposium is an environmental literary festival sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment at ISU featuring readings, poetry performances, panel discussions, documentary films, book signings, and receptions. All Events are Free & Open to the Public. This year's topic is "Things Fall Apart: Finding Beauty in a Broken World." Keynote speakers are Rick Bass (author of The Watch, Ninemile Wolves, and Why I Came West); Patricia Smith (author of Blood Dazzler and Teahouse of the Almighty); and Terry Tempest Williams (author of Refuge and Finding Beauty in a Broken World). For full schedule: http://engl.iastate.edu/programs/creative_writing/mfa/visiting-writers-series/wildness2010.html. October 13, 2009 David Anthony Durham recently came to terms with his German publisher, Blanvalet. They'll be continuing his Acacia series by publishing The Other Lands in a German edition. The series has also been picked up by the Portuguese publisher Saida de Emergencia. They'll be publishing both Acacia and The Other Lands. Other authors on their list include George RR Martin, Mervin Peake, Guy Gavriel Kay, Robin Hobb, Dan Simmons and Tim Powers, just to name a few. davidanthonydurham.com Aaron Hamburger has an essay on "The Eroticism of Football" in the new anthology I Like It Like That (Arsenal Pulp Press). Also, he's been invited to the Yaddo Artists' Colony next spring. Richard Hoffman’s Gold Star Road was selected for the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Motton Award for best book of poetry published in the past two years. Also, The Boston Foundation has chosen him for a Brother Thomas Fellowship. These are two-year $15,000 fellowships given in alternate years to up to 8 Boston artists across disciplines. Barbara Hurd will be reading at Warren County Community College in Washington, NJ on October 22 and will serve as Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Toledo's Science and Sensibility Project on Nov. 4-7. Charles Martin has finished editing the Norton Critical Edition of his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, which will be out this December. Poems and translations of his will be appearing soon in The Hudson Review, Southwestern Review, Smartish Pace, The Yale Review and Per/Contra. Elizabeth Searle is included in the newly released book: Illuminating Fiction: Today’s Best Writers of Fiction, edited by Sherry Ellis; available from Red Hen Press. Other authors in the book include Julia Glass, Steve Almond and Arthur Golden. See: www.redhen.org Elizabeth Searle, Richard Hoffman and Baron Wormser all appear on the Cambridge Forum, 'Fairly Unbalanced: A Panel on Political Satire', which took place in June, sponsored by Cambridge Forum and PEN/New England and which has just been posted as a film on WGBH/Cambridge Forum website; it will also be broadcast this fall over many National Public Radio stations; film link: http://forum-network.org/lecture/fairly-unbalanced-writing-political-satire-21st-century Suzanne Strempek Shea (sess7@comcast.net) wrote about the death of 72-year-old “Guiding Light,” the soap opera she’s been watching since childhood, for Obit Magazine. (http://www.obit-mag.com/articles/a-guiding-light-extinguished) September 28 , 2009 Jeanne Marie Beaumont will read with Maine poet and prose writer Dawn Potter on Tuesday, Oct 13th at 7:00 pm at The Community Bookstore in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY. The bookstore address is 143 7th Ave, between Carroll and Garfield Sts. http://communitybookstore.net. The French edition of David Anthony Durham's new novel, Terres Etrangeres, goes on sale in about a week. His French publisher has just launched a new website for him: http://www.acacia-le-livre.com/. Nancy Holder has agreed to cowrite a "storywide" novella with Moonstone Books publisher Joe Gentile starring Domino Lady and the Spider, another noir pulp character. She will be signing her new YA horror novel, Possessions, at the Mira Mesa Barnes & Noble on Westview Parkway in San Diego on October 4th from 2 pm to 4 pm. Jim Kelly’s collection, The Wreck of The Godspeed and Other Stories, published last year by Tachyon Publications, has won the 2009 Award for Outstanding Book of Fiction presented by the New Hampshire Writers’ Project. This award has been given biannually by New Hampshire's statewide writers organization since 1992. Previous winners include Barbara Dimmick, Ernest Hebert, Rebecca Rule and Thomas Williams. Mike Kimball’s plays “Say No More” and “Reorient” will be featured on October 2nd & 4th at the New England Fringe Festival: http://www.nefringefestival.com/. On the weekends of October 16-24, Mike Kimball’s new short play “Bar Exam” will be staged at Theater906 in Framingham, Massachusetts, along with David Ives’ collection of shorts, All in the Timing. http://www.theater906.org/index.html Debra Marquart’s memoir, The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere, has been selected by Dakota College as the 2009 “Campus Reads” Book. For the Campus Reads Program, Dakota College at Bottineau will host a total of eight campus-read brown bag sessions relating to Ms. Marquart's memoir. Topics include North Dakota German Russian History, The Geology of the Horizontal World, An Ecological Perspective of Life on the 100th Meridian, A Three-Generation View of Rural Life, The Memoir as Creative Nonfiction, Prairie Life from a Woman's Perspective, and Fargo Rock City: a Look at Midwestern Underground Rock Bands. Marquart will also receive the 2009 Iowa Author’s Award from the Iowa Center for the Book. She will be honored at a ceremony at the Des Moines Public Library on October 1, 2009. The Des Moines Public Library Foundation sponsors the annual award designed to recognize and honor Iowa's rich literary heritage. David Mura's novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire (2008, Coffee House Press) was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, the John Gardner Fiction Prize from Binghamton Uiversity and the Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award. September 14 , 2009 Kazim Ali has poems forthcoming in Barrow Street and Colorado Review, and a blog currently running at www.kenyonreview.org/blog kaajumiah@yahoo.com Jaed Coffin has begun his first day as the Wilson Fellow at Deerfield Academy. He'll be here until June. All Stonecoasters should come visit! Jaed will also be reading in the University of New Hampshire's Visiting Writers Series on Oct. 1. jaedcoffin@yahoo.com David Anthony Durham's new novel, The Other Lands, officially enters the world on September 15th. He'll be doing a live chat to discuss the book via Suvudu.com at 7pm est. He's also one of handful of authors (including Geraldine Brooks, Nam Le, Alice Mcdermott, Jay McInerney, Francine Prose and Amy Tan) asked to compose and read a short piece for the Pen/Faulkner Foundation's Gala Ceremony on Sept 21st in Washington, DC. davidanthonydurham@yahoo.com Richard Hoffman will be reading at USM on September 25th. rchoffman@comcast.net Elizabeth Searle is giving a seminar on Script-Writing for both stage and screen at the Media Matters Conference, run by the Boston Globe newspaper at UMassBoston on November 5th and 6th, 2009. e.searle@comcast.net Tim Seibles will be poet-in-residence at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA for the coming spring semester, 2010. Also, Tim just had 3 poems published in the last issue of Ploughshares. tseibles@odu.edu August 31, 2009 Kazim Ali will be keeping a daily blog of his experiences fasting during the month of Ramadan (8/22-9/20) at http://www.kenyonreview.org/blog. His novel, The Disappearance of Seth (Etruscan Press) and his memoir Bright Felon (Wesleyan University Press) have both just been released; please check them out! He also has poems forthcoming in American Poetry Review and Colorado Review. kaajumiah@yahoo.com Ted Deppe's new collection of poetry, Orpheus on the Red Line is now available from Tupelo Press. Ted and Annie Deppe are featured writers in the current issue of the online journal Babel Fruit (http://web.mac.com/renkat/BABEL_FRUIT/BabelFruit.html). They directed the Dingle Writers Week from 15-22, August 2009 which featured Stonecoast's Suzanne Strempek Shea, Irish poet Eva Bourke, and Northern Irish novelist and memoir writer Carlo Gébler; Stonecoast alumni Judith Podell, Rick Wile, and Bonnie Naradzay were among the ten participants. teddeppe2@hotmail.com Annie Finch's new limited-edition chapbook from Dusie Kollektiv, Shadow-bird: From the Lost Poems, is now also available as a free e-chapbook from Ahadada Press: http://www.ahadadabooks.com/content/view/179/43/. afinch@usm.main.edu Annie will spend the last two weeks of September on a Faculty Research Grant to research a new book of poetry with a crew of biologists in the wolf dens of Glacier National Park in Montana. afinch@usm.main.edu Nancy Holder and her coauthor Debbie Viguie just signed a 3-book deal for a spinoff of their Wicked anthology, which hit the New York Times bestseller list. Crusade, the first novel, will come out in fall of 2010. Her young adult horror novel, Possessions, will be on the shelves this September 3rd. She also just turned in short stories for The Girls’ Guide to Guns and Monsters and Chicks and Capes. nancyholder@san.rr.com Mike Kimball’s new short play “Bar Exam” will be part of his show I Fall For You, a collection of shorts to be staged at the Firehouse Theater (Newburyport, Massachusetts) Sept 18-20 http://www.firehouse.org/L3-shows-theater7.html; Acorn Studio Theater, as their grand opening (Westbrook, Maine) Sept 25-26 http://www.acorn-productions.org/pages/IFallForYou.html; and The New England Fringe Festival (Burlington, Mass) Oct 2 and 4 http://atlantisplaymakers.com/neff.html; and Club Passim (Cambridge, Mass) on December 21 http://www.clubpassim.org/. “Bar Exam” is about a woman who runs into her male gynecologist at a singles bar. Mike’s historical play Submit! will be staged at the Brickstore Museum in Kennebunk, Maine, on September 30 http://www.brickstoremuseum.org/events.shtml#Sep; and at the Museums of Old York (Maine) on October 16 and 18 http://www.oldyork.org/. mikimba@gwi.net Tim Seibles had 3 poems published in Ploughshares journal this past May, and he has been invited to be Poet-In-Residence at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania for spring 2010. tseibles@odu.edu August 18, 2009 Richard Hoffman’s poem “An Old Story” won the Gretchen Warren Award for best published poem from the New England Poetry Club. “An Old Story” first appeared in Cimarron Review and then was reprinted in Verse Daily. His poem. “Best Picture,” first published in Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, won Honorable Mention in that same competition. August 03, 2009 Jeanne Marie Beaumont has new poems out in Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, Roger: an art and literary magazine, and on-line at Ekleksographia: http://ekleksographia.ahadadabooks.com/issuetwo/authors/jeanne. She and Rigoberto Gonzalez will read this Wednesday night Aug 5th at 8:00 at the Frost Place in Franconia, NH, in conjunction with the annual Advanced Seminar. Full schedule and information www.frostplace.org jeannembeaumont@nyc.rr.com Richard Hoffman has two poems in this issue of AGNI Online at: http://www.bu.edu/agni/ rchoffman@comcast.net Nancy Holder made the NYT Bestseller List again. This is the 3rd week for Wicked: Resurrection on the Children's Series list. She and her coauthor Debbie Viguie spoke and signed at Comic-con, followed by an author tour of Southern California with her coauthor, Debbie Viguie. Nancy also signed books for charity with her other coauthor, her daughter, Belle. nancyholder@san.rr.com Mike Kimball’s historical play Submit runs for the next two Tuesdays, in York, Maine. 22 November 1652. In Nicholas Davis's Tavern, Puritan commissioners from Massachusetts Bay Colony met with York's founder and 50 residents, demanding that they sign a submission charter, making Maine part of Puritan Massachusetts. The meeting lasted one hour, same as the play. Aug 4th & 11th @ Museums of Old York, Visitors Center. 7-8 P.M. Mike Kimball’s 20-minute western “The Brownwater Legend” will share the stage with Bruce Pratt’s “Electrolysis” on August 29 @ 4 P.M. at the Verona Grange Hall * 54 Main Street, Bucksport, Maine Mike’s new full-length show “I Fall For You” opens in Newburyport, Mass, Sept 18-20; then moves to Portland, Maine, Sept 25-26; then New England Fringe Festival Oct 2-3; then at Club Passim, in Cambridge, Mass, on Dec 21st. Details forthcoming. mikimba@gwi.net Elizabeth Searle's work has been chosen to appear in a forthcoming anthology of 'the best' of. (Also selected for this anthology is work by Stonecoast alum. Eugenio Volpe). The short-film version of Elizabeth's novella Celebrities in Disgrace is moving forward and the film is now scheduled to be released in December by Bravo Sierra Motion Pictures, directed by Stonecoaster Matthew Quinn Martin. To promote the film, Elizabeth now has a BLOG. She invites all Stonecoasters to visit and to post any celebrity-related thoughts/feelings (especially 'disgraceful' ones!). Visit Elizabeth starting in August at: celebritiesindisgrace.blogspot.com e.searle@comcast.net PEN New England’s Discovery Night has been rescheduled to Oct. 26 from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Atrium/Auditorium at Lesley College in Cambridge’s Porter Square, after having been postponed from the original spring date due to a snowstorm. Stonecoast alum Elisabeth Wilkins will be introduced by Suzanne Strempek Shea (sess7@comcast.net) and will read from her novel in progress. The public is invited, so come out to Cambridge and cheer for Beth. June 30 , 2009 Kazim Ali’s novel, The Disappearance of Seth is hotly off the presses, so can be ordered at your local bookstore or on-line today! Kazim also has poems forthcoming in American Poetry Review. kaajumiah@yahoo.com Jaed Coffin has accepted a one-year position as the 2009-2010 Wilson Fellow in Creative Writing at Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts. He has also accepted the position of 2009 Nonfiction Fellow at the Bread Loaf summer conference in August. This month his work appears in the Shambhala Sun on-line magazine and Post Road. Aaron Hamburger's essay on religion and mourning will appear in obit-mag.com in July. Also, his essay on the first chapter of The Wizard of Oz, inspired by a seminar on setting he taught at Stonecoast, is in the current issue of Post Road Magazine. Mike Kimball's full-length play "I Fall For You," a collection of 7 short sex-related plays, will be fully staged for one or two weekends in mid- September at the Firehouse Center for the Performing Arts, in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Mike's historical one-act play Submit: The Day the Puritans Stole Maine opens July 9th at the Museums of Old York (Maine) and will run periodically throughout the year. On July 10 -12, Mike's 20-minute western The Brownwater Legend premieres at the Players' Ring's Late Night Series in Portsmouth, NH, along with two other 20-minute plays (10:30 - 11:30), in a show called Evening Broadcasts (3 plays, 3 actors, one of them dead). Mike will be driving to the theatre and back again one night following the Stonecoast readings, if anyone would like to go. His minivan seats 7. On July 17 -19, Mike's two short plays, Estrus in Amazonia and Richard Gets Righteous, will be part of a show called "Late Night Confessions," again at the Players' Ring's Late Night Series in Portsmouth, NH, and again Mike will be driving to the theatre and back again one night following the Stonecoast readings, if anyone would like to go. His minivan seats 7. Humanities Iowa awarded Debra Marquart a $15,000 grant to support her work as director of the 6th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, & the Creative Imagination, to be held at Iowa State University in February 2010. The yearly symposium is sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University. All events are free and open to the public. For information on previous symposia schedules, visit the following website:http://engl.iastate.edu/programs/creative_writing/events Suzanne Strempek Shea has been successful in sniffing out story ideas for the next few issues of one of her favorite magazines, Bark (www.thebark.com). Slated to run in the next few months is a Q&A with Leslea Newman, who wrote Hachiko Waits, the only English-language version of the tale of a faithful Japanese dog who daily awaited his master’s return at the train station – even years after the man never came back. The magazine assigned the story to coincide with an unrelated film version of the story, Hachiko, A Dog’s Story, to be released in August and starring Richard Gere. Suzanne credits mentee Joanne Turnbull with the tip for a story she pitched about Kents Hill School, a boarding and day school for grades 9 through 12 in Kents Hill, Maine, that allows faculty and staff to bring dogs onto campus. The offer is taken up enthusiastically, and the school’s 33 canine family members nearly outnumber the 34 children of faculty. June 01 , 2009 Mike Kimball's play Ghosts of Ocean House has been pulled from the summer schedule at the Utah State Theater by the incoming producing director (the former musical director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir) for fear that, as he explained to the press, the play's theme of incest might offend the local community. As a member of the popular fiction faculty, Mr. Kimball would like to assure his friends at Stonecoast that incest is not the play's theme, nor does the play advocate incest--which assuredly would be a very un-popular point of view. The play's theme does bring focus to the ways some men use religion to dominate women. Mr. Kimball assumed that illuminating such a theme in a haunted house tale would be very popular. He was wrong, at least in Utah. http://hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2009/05/27/news/news02-05-27-09.txthttp://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12473861 mikimba@gwi.net Elizabeth Searle's novella Celebrities in Disgrace is being produced as a short film by Bravo Sierra Productions with a script co-written by Elizabeth (with filmmaker Paul Ramsay). The film will be shot this summer in NYC, directed by Stonecoaster Matthew Quinn Martin. Visit the forthcoming website and blog, www.celebritiesindisgrace.com. e.searle@comcast.net May 18 , 2009 Kazim Ali has an essay "Write Something on My Wall: Body, Identity, and Poetry" about Battlestar Galactica, Emily Dickinson and Jean Baudrillard (among other things) in the current May/June issue of the American Poetry Review. His novel, The Disappearance of Seth, is being released on June 1 by Etruscan Press and a memoir, Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities is being released September 1 by Wesleyan University Press. kaajumiah@yahoo.com The French translation of David Anthony Durham’s novel, Acacia, has been named a finalist for the Prix Imaginales in France. Also, David has recently accepted an invitation from George RR Martin to write in his ongoing Wild Cards series of collaborative novels. davidanthonydurham@yahoo.com On Friday, Annie Finch turned in the ms. of her 9-year double textbook project, A Poet's Craft and A Poet's Ear. She has poems forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Oranges and Sardines, and Prairie Schooner, and she is finishing a class poem for her Yale College reunion. For anyone in New York, Annie Finch will be reading tomorrow night (Tuesday May 19) in the Dusie kollektiv reading: Jeffrey Harrison has had new poems accepted by The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, and TriQuarterly, and poems of his have recently appeared or are forthcoming in the anthologies The Poets' Guide to the Birds, edited by Ted Kooser and Judith Kitchen and Seriously Funny, edited by Barbara Hamby and David Kirby. A discussion/interview about his poem "Coincidences" will soon be featured on the blog "How a Poem Happens" (http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/). He has recently done readings at the Collegiate School in New York City, Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Mass., and the Newburyport Literary Festival. jeffrey.harrison@comcast.net Lesléa Newman has sold her 57th book (and will refrain from making any Heinz ketchup jokes!). DONOVAN'S BIG DAY is a children's book about a boy who has a very special job to do on a very special day--the day his two moms get married. The book will be published by Tricycle Press in 2011. leslea@lesleakids.com In September, Patricia Smith begins a new job as an assistant professor in creative writing at the City University of New York in Staten Island. Also, her book Blood Dazzler was one of NPR's Top 5 books of 2008 and Library Journal's Best Books of 2008. patricia@wordwoman.ws As its new writer in residence, Suzanne Strempek Shea has been helping Bay Path College (www.baypath.edu) organize its first annual Kitchen Sink writing weekend, led by women for women at the campus in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Dates will be July 31 to Aug. 2, and the event will feature a keynote address by bestselling author Luanne Rice. Faculty will be Elinor Lipman (fiction), Madeleine Blais (non-fiction), Leslea Newman (writing for children and young adults), Diane Lake (screenwriting) and Sarah Walker (humor). Please contact Briana Sitler - Bsitler@baypath.edu - to receive a brochure and registration information. sess7@comcast.net May 04 , 2009 Annie Finch wrote and performed a poem in honor of the inauguration of the new President of the University of Southern Maine, Selma Botman. The poem and pictures of the inauguration may be found at USM's inauguration website, http://www.usm.maine.edu/pres/inauguration/poem.html. Annie's poem "American Witch" will be featured in the new "baby boomer" issue of Prairie Schooner, and her memoir essay "Traces" will be out this fall in Puerto del Sol. afinch@usm.maine.edu Lesléa Newman has news in all four genres, plus one! FICTION: The short story, "Bashert" has been accepted for publication in Something to Declare: Good Lesbian Travel Writing which will be published by University of Wisconsin Press in Fall 2009. POP FICTION: The short story, "A True Story (Whether You Believe It or Not" has been accepted for publication in Romantic Interludes 2: Secrets which will be published by Bold Strokes Books in September, 2009. NONFICTION: The personal essay, "A Woman Like Me" has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming "Mothering" issue of the Women's Studies Quarterly. Another personal essay, "A Poetic Life" which is about Allen Ginsberg appears on obit-mag.com and can be found here: http://www.obit-mag.com/viewmedia.php?prmMID=5333 POETRY: The poems, "Mother", "Skirting the Issue", "The Bad Mother", "Dear Daughter", and "Fortune" have been accepted for publication by 13th MOON and will appear in their forthcoming issue, Mothers and Daughters #2. CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The picture book, A Sweet Passover has been accepted for publication by Abrams Books for Young Readers and will be published in 2011. This book, formerly titled Lotsa Matzo was read and discussed in the revision panel that took place several residencies ago. Five drafts later (for a total of 19) the book has been accepted (though the song that appeared at the end and which you all sang so beautifully wound up on the cutting room floor). COME TO A READING: All Stonecoasters are invited to a reading Lesléa Newman is giving at the York Art Association in York, Maine, on Thursday, May 14th at 7:00 p.m. And for those of you on the west coast, please come to a reading at the Hillel of Stanford University, Stanford, California on May 19th at 7:00 p.m. leslea@lesleakids.com Patricia Smith was a judge for the recent national finals of the Poetry Out Loud contest in Washington DC. She will be teaching a workshop called WRITING AWAY FROM THE SURFACE at Poets House in New York from May 6-June 10. THe workshop will be composed of discussion and exercises designed to write toward darkness, secrecy, trauma, regret and, eventually, insight. Wednesdays, 6:30-9 pm. Poets House, 594 Broadway, Suite 510, NYC. 212-431-7920. April 21 , 2009 Annie Finch has been named the winner of the eleventh annual Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award for scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. Previous winners include Paul Fussell, Marina Tarlinskaja, and John Hollander. Annie will receive the award at the West Chester Poetry Conference on June 13. afinch@usm.maine.edu Popfic faculty member Nancy Holder has a short story in the newly released Domino Lady: Sex as a Weapon from Moonstone Books, publishers of comic books and pulp fiction. Her story is titled,"The Strange Case of the Domino Lady and Mr. Holmes." nancyholder@san.rr.com An evening of Michael Kimball's short gay/lesbian plays will be performed on May 7th, 7PM, at The Pearl in Portsmouth, NH. Mike's play Reorient will be part of Stage Q (Madison, Wisconsin) "Queer Shorts," one-act play festival, May 28 - June 6.http://www.stageq.com/ A reading of Mike's new collection of short omnisexual plays, A Chance Mating, will be performed on Saturday, June 6th, at The Actors Studio, in Newburyport, Massachusetts. http://www.newburyportacting.org/home.html .While we're in summer residency, The Players' Ring, in Portsmouth, NH, will stage Mike's short plays at their Late Night summer program (10:30 PM): The Brownwater Legend (July 10-12) an Safe at Home and Estrus in Amazonia (July 17-19) mikimba@gwi.net April 07 , 2009 Annie Finch will be reading as part of the Poets Out Loud series at Fordham University, NYC at 7 PM on Monday April 6. She'd love to see any Stonecoasters there. Aaron Hamburger's short story "Lyudmilla in the New World" will appear in the anthology Between Men 2 published by Alyson Books in May. Elizabeth Searle’s opera/rock opera is now the subject of a documentary film that will premiere in Toronto in June: A Good Whack: The Making of ‘Tonya & Nancy, the Opera'. The Preview (link below) features Elizabeth on MSNBC, clips from various productions of the show and some familiar Stonecoast faces... LINK to GOOD WHACK film website; press Play Trailer: http://www.agoodwhack.com/AGoodWhack.html March 23 , 2009 David Anthony Durham is a finalist for the 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer of Science fiction. The winner will be announced at WorldCon in Montreal this August. He's also recently learned that Acacia: The War With Mein will be published in Spanish and that Pride of Carthage will be published in Romanian. davidanthonydurham@yahoo.com March 09 , 2009 Arielle Greenberg has poems in the new issue of the Fairy Tale Review and creative nonfiction in the new issues of Witness and The Southeast Review. With her friend and frequent collaborator Rachel Zucker, she launched Starting Today: Poems for the First 100 Days on the day of Obama's inauguration, a blog to which 100 poets were invited to contribute a poem each on an assigned day. The site was written up in The New Yorker online and was featured on the NPR syndicated show "The Story." Check it out: http://100dayspoems.blogspot.com. February 23 , 2009 David Anthony Durham's short story, "An Act of Faith", appears in the anthology, It's All Love, edited by Marita Golden (Broadway Books, Feb 2009). His new novel, The Other Lands, has been accepted by his publisher. It is scheduled for publication in the fall in the US, the UK and in France. davidanthonydurham@yahoo.com Mike Kimball's10-minute play Estrus in Amazonia has been selected for performance at OUTWORKS 2009, LouisianaStateUniversity's annual LGBTQ-themed Festival, which runs from April 28 to May 3 at the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. More information about the theatre department at LSU and OUTWORKS can be found at http://www.theatre.lsu.edu. Lesléa Newman's poem "13 Ways of Looking at 9/11" has been published on February 10 , 2009 Annie Finch will be guest-blogging this month in three locations: the Harriet blog at the Poetry Foundation, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/; the online poetry workshop of the UK paper The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/poetryworkshop; and BigThink.com. afinch@usm.maine.edu
Mike Kimball's20-minute play Reorient! has been selected for performance at the Maine Short Play Festival, March 27 to April 5, at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, in Portland. Reorient! -- Sexual reorientation coaches arrange a first date between a gay man and a lesbian woman. David Mura’s novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire, is a finalist in the 21st annual Minnesota Book Awards. http://www.thefriends.org/award_winners_and_finalists.html Lesléa Newman has been awarded the Alice B. Reader's Appreciation Medal for Lesbian Fiction. The award, which includes a medal, a lapel pin, and a $500 prize, is given annually to living writers who have careers distinguised by consistently well-written stories about lesbians. Other winners this year include Jane Fletcher, Nicola Griffith, and Gun Brooke. http://www.alicebawards.org. Lesléa will be reading with former US Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur, slam strategists Taylor Mali and Iyeoka Okoawa, and emerging talent from the page poetry tradition and slam innovation on Sunday, February 15th at 2:00 p.m. at the Academy of Music in downtown Northampton. Worth the trip! For information on tickets, which only cost $6.00 visit the Northampton Arts Council website at: http://www.northamptonartscouncil.org leslea@lesleakids.com January 26, 2009 Michael Kimball'splay Ghosts of Ocean House, which was nominated for the 2007 Edgar Award (Mystery Writers of America), will be staged by the Utah State Theatre from July 9 - August 1, 2009, Caine Lyric Theatre, 28 West Center, Logan, Utah. His 30-minute monologue Actual Glass will be performed again in NYC, this time at The Beckmann Theatre, 314 W 54th St. (between 8th and 9th Aves) Feb 15 and 16 (8 PM), Feb 21 (3 PM), and Feb 22 (7 PM). From June 4 - 13, Michael's 10-minute play Say No More will be performed at the Inspirato Festival, in Toronto. http://www.inspiratofestival.ca/index.php mikimba@gwi.net December 22 , 2008 Elizabeth Searle's Tonya and Nancy: the Rock Opera will receive national coverage in a forthcoming '09 issue of SPIN magazine. Elizabeth will teach both Drama and a Fiction Writing at the Desert Lights, Rising Stars writers' conference in Arizona in Feb. She has '09 fiction forthcoming in Massachusetts Review and Words & Images. On Feb. 13th she will give a reading at the Cambridge Center for Adult Ed. in Harvard Square on the subject of 'Love, Sex and Longing.' e.searle@comcast.net December 08 , 2008 Michael Kimball'sfull-length play The Secret of Comedy has been selected for a "First Reading" at Abingdon Theatre Company in NYC on Monday, Jan 26, at 7 PM. November 24, 2008 Aaron Hamburger was awarded a fellowship by the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria, Italy. The fellowship includes a four-week stay at the Civitella Ranieri Center, a workplace for gifted artists from different disciplines and countries, located in the 15th century Civitella Ranieri castle in the Umbria region of Italy. http://www.civitella.org http://www.aaronhamburger.com November 10 , 2008 Jaed Coffin spoke at Brown University this month. His memoir, A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants, is now a permanent addition to the syllabus of the anthropology seminar entitled "Growing Up Ethnic and Multicultural." Recently, he spoke at St. Michael's College, in Burlington, VT, where his book is now taught in a memoir course entitled, "The Examined Life." A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants has also been integrated into the sophomore curriculum at several high schools in Maine and Vermont. In Portland Magazine's annual 10 Most Intriguing People in Maine, Coffin was included as number seven. October 27, 2008 Kazim Ali’s essay entitled "The Architecture of Loneliness: Darwish, Mehmedinovic, Peri Rossi, and Ritsos" will be appearing in the November/December issue of American Poetry Review; his essay entitled "In the Eye of the Hurricane: the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish" will appear in the Kenyon Review, winter issue. Kazim has poems forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Third Coast, Whiskey Island, and Pebble Lake Review and a new novel, The Disappearance of Seth, will be published by Etruscan Press is 2009. Also, Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities, from Wesleyan University Press. kaajumiah@yahoo.com September 15, 2008 FAMOUS SUICIDES OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE "David Mura is essential. There is no writer that dives deeper (or more bravely) into the chasm that is the human heart. His first novelFamous Suicides of the Japanese Empire is a tour de force: luminously written and by turns crafty, tough, wise, and joyful. Pure poetry is in these pages, and a voice for the ages.” -JUNOT DI_AZ "Charged and probing,Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire heals and surprises-a moving act of reclamation.” --GISH JEN Ben Ohara grows up tough in a tough Chicago neighborhood, driven to extremes by his father's unspoken anguish and unexplained absences, his mother's fierce pragmatism, and the certainty that his younger brother, Tommy, is much smarter than he is....Memoirist (Turning Japanese, 1991) and poet Mura manages rather spectacularly to bring a light touch to his intense first novel, a crepuscular tale of one man's struggle to decipher his poisonous legacy of sorrow, shame, and prejudice; refuse the narcotic of forgetting; and pursue the bracing clarity of truth and remembrance. -- Donna Seaman, Booklist Ben Ohara, a struggling historian, is the sole surviving member his family. Ben's younger brother, a troubled and brilliant astrophysicist, has mysteriously vanished in the Mojave Desert. His father, haunted by an unspoken history, committed suicide when Ben was young. And his mother, who steadfastly refused to revisit the past, has died with her secrets. As Ben retraces his steps through a childhood colored by tough Chicago streets, horror movie monsters, sci-fi villains, Japanese folk tales, TV war dramas, and family tragedy, he comes to understand the profound courage of those closest to him. From heroes both acknowledged and unsung, Ben begins to find his personal history entwined with the experience of Japanese Americans during World War II-with draft resisters, decorated veterans, and with the No-No Boys, who refused to sign a government loyalty oath during the internment years. And on his journey to reconcile the past-leading ever closer to his brother's last days and the site of his father's internment-he will forge a path toward redemption, mapping the byways we all travel on the road toward forgiveness.
David Anthony Durham's Acacia has just come out in a mass market paperback edition from Anchor. It's also been rolling out in several foreign editions. It's appeared in German, in the UK, and in Italian already. It will be in French, Polish, Russian and Swedish soon. The novel was a finalist for a John W Campbell Award, and David is pleased to announce that Relativity Media and Michael DeLuca Productions have acquired the film rights They have a screenwriter working on an adaption now!
The premiere of Michael Kimball's new play HIDEAWAY will open the 2008-09 season at The Players' Ring, Portsmouth, NH. http://www.playersring.org/2008-2009%20Season/Hideaway.htm "Michael Kimball has a rare talent for capturing the erotic undercurrents flowing beneath his deeply flawed characters and is not afraid to explore the more extreme forms of behavior." Chicago Tribune The play runs Friday - Sunday for three weeks, Sept 5 - 21. Call for info and reservations: 603-436-8123 Lesléa Newman has found good homes for three of her manuscripts. Nobody’s Mother, her newest collection of poetry has been acquired by Orchard House Books (new name of same publisher who brought out her two previous poetry collections, SIGNS OF LOVE and STILL LIFE WITH BUDDY). The press hopes to bring the book out late this fall. Lesléa's long-awaited novel, THE RELUCTANT DAUGHTER has been accepted by Bold Strokes Books, a press specializing in literature that focuses on the LGBT community. The novel will be published in fall 2009 under the publisher's Victory Imprint which focuses on literary fiction. Finally, Lesléa's latest children's book, JUST LIKE MAMA has been bought by Abrams Books for Young Readers. The press plans to bring out her chidren's book, LITTLE MISS TUTU in 2010; no pub date has been set for JUST LIKE MAMA as yet. Michael White's novel Soul Catcher has been chosen as a finalist for the Connecticut Book Awards for Fiction. This is the second time one of his novels has been selected, the other being The Garden of Martyrs. August 4, 2008 Jim Kelly’s new collection, The Wreck of the Godspeed and Other Stories has just been published by Golden Gryphon Press. $24.95 ISBN: 1930846517. Booklist says the stories are “fast paced and witty enough to offset their frequent mind-boggling nature, but exhilaration and amusement aren’t all Kelly provides. Check out 'Luck,' 'Bernardo’s House,' and the short novel BURN for quieter, more profound effects." Publishers Weekly checks in with "Kelly frequently evokes a twisted, nostalgic America, and his characters seem contemporary and casual even in the prehistoric fairy tale 'Luck.'" Jim has a regular gig writing a column on science fiction on the internet for Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. In the current installment (among other things) he makes an embarrassing confession and looks at attitudes toward genre in MFA programs. Stonecoast gets mentioned twice by name, for those keeping score at home. http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0807_8/Onthenet.shtml On Wednesday August 20 Jim will be reading with fellow author Jeff Somers at the KGB Bar 85 East 4th Street, NYC 10003 as part of the Fantastic Fiction Series. The program runs from 7-9PM. http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-08-20_fantastic_ficti.html jamespatrickkelly@comcast.net July 21, 2008 Mike Kimball's short play "Say No More" tied for first place (Best Play) at the Rapscallion Theatre Collective's SALUTE UR SHORTS play festival in NYC. June 23, 2008 Annie Finch's 1994 anthology A FORMAL FEELING COMES: POEMS IN FORM BY CONTEMPORARY WOMEN has been reissued by Wordtech Editions. Also, LETTERS TO THE WORLD: POEMS FROM THE WOMEN'S POETRY LISTSERV, based on the listserv Annie founded in 1997, has been published by Red Hen Press. Nancy Holder has accepted a position as a regular columnist for the Science Fiction Writers of America Bulletin. She will cover crossover markets, with an emphasis in cross-genre romance. June 9, 2008 Nancy Holder's Domino Lady comic book editor has asked her to write a mini-caper to be published in an issue of The Phantom. Pulp noir lives! Barbara Hurd’s Walking the Wrack Line was featured on Alan Chuse’s summer reading list on NPR. Here is a link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90995424 Michael Kimball's new full-length play Hideaway will open the new season at The Players' Ring, in Portsmouth, NH, and run from Sept 5 - 21 (Fri & Sat nights at 8PM and Sundays at 7PM). 603-436-8123 for reservations. Hideaway will also receive a "first look" staged reading June 17th, 7:30 PM, at the York Public Library, York, Maine. Audience talkback to follow the performance. Reservations: 207-363-2818 Mike's short play Say No More! has been selected for performance in the Rapscallion Theatre Collective's "Salute UR Shorts New Play Festival," which runs July 17-20 at the Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond St. (East Village), NYC. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 PM and Sunday at 2PM. Tickets can be reserved by calling 347-350-9110. Lesléa Newman's poem, "First Love" has been accepted for publication in the next issue of SALAMANDER a magazine for poetry, fiction, and memoirs. (The poem isn't about what you think it's about....). Her personal essay, "When Death Came to Call" has been published by obit-mag.com and can be found here: http://www.obitmag.com/news.php?id=230. She has sold three children's books: Continuing the pioneering work she began with HEATHER HAS TWO MOMMIES, Leslea has sold the first board books ever written for children with two moms or two dads. MOMMA, MOMMY, AND ME and DADDY, PAPA, AND ME will be published by Tricycle Press in 2009. MISS TUTU'S STAR, a picture book about a clumsy little girl who wants to be a ballerina (another example of thinly disguised autobiographical fiction) is forthcoming from Abrams.
Elizabeth Searle's Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera has just been nominated for Best Original Musical and for Best Original Song (Three and a Half Minutes; lyrics by Elizabeth; music by Michael Teoli) by The Portland Music Awards for 2008. The Rock Opera completed an extended run in Portland, Oregon was featured on Good Morning America and is being scheduled for a new run in Seattle in the fall. Songs from the Rock Opera were selected to be featured in Boston Cabaret's Songwriter Showcase 2008. On the fiction Front, Elizabeth gave a reading sponsored by the Harvard Advocate at Harvard University in April. She has new short stories in the Spring '08 issues of Hayden's Ferry Review and New England Review. May 12, 2008 Jeffrey Harrison's most recent book, Incomplete Knowledge, was chosen as one of two runners-up for the 2008 Poets' Prize, which is given annually to the best book of poems published in the previous year. The winner was A.E. Stallings, and the other runner-up was Carol Frost. All three finalists received strong support from the committee of American poets that judges the prize, out of a field of more than forty nominated books. Jeffrey will be reading briefly at the prize ceremony on May 22 at the Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York City. An excerpt from Mike Kimball's "Book by Michael Kimball" appears in USM's just-published literary journal WORDS AND IMAGES. Two of his recent short plays will be included in the show "Late Night Confessions," which will run July 25-August 3 at The Players' Ring, in Portsmouth, NH http://www.playersring.org/ (Fri and Sat at 10:30 PM and Sun at 9:30 PM). Mike's plays are: I Wrestle an Old Friend and Reorient! In preparation for its September premiere run in Portsmouth (NH), on June 24th, Mike Kimball's new play HIDEAWAY will be performed as a staged reading at the York (Maine) Public Library, followed by an audience talk-back. York Public Library, York, Maine * Tuesday, June 24, 7:30 PM * Michael Kimball's HIDEAWAY http://www.york.lib.me.us/
Baron Wormser will be reading on Tuesday, May 20 at 7 p.m. at Longfellow Books, Monument Square, Portland. I will be reading from the paperback edition of THE ROAD WASHES OUT IN SPRING, from THE POETRY LIFE: TEN STORIES and from SCATTERED CHAPTERS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. Two new books and one in a new edition. April 28, 2008 Nancy Holder's second comic book script for Domino Lady has been accepted and she has been commissioned to continue the series on a regular basis. She has also been offered a reappointment as a guest lecturer at UCSD, where she will teach "Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Irrealism." She is in preliminary talks with Harlequin to launch a series of books tied in to a new show on TV; details to follow. She will be signing in the Horror Writers Association booth at Book Expo America in Los Angeles on Saturday, May May 31. nancyholder@san.rr.com Gray Jacobik was 2008 National Poetry Month Distinguished Guest at Old Dominion U. - Virginia Beach; she gave an afternoon reading followed by a booksigning/reception on April 15, 2008; she also gaive an evening reading at Prince Books of Norfolk (an independent bookstore in Norfolk, VA) on April 15, and on April 16 a guest lecture to ODU MFA Program students. Mike Kimball's 30-minute monologue Actual Glass (which he read at the summer '07 residency) has been selected for performance at the Sola Voce Estrogenius Festival, at Manhattan Theatre Resource http://www.theatresource.org/ in October (date and time TBA). This annual festival of female voices includes theatre, solo shows, music, visual art and dance, and is open to submissions from around the world. mikimba@gwi.net
Lesléa Newman's personal essay, "A Woman Like Me" has been published on obit-mag.com and can be found here: http://www.obit-mag.com/news.php?id=366 April 14, 2008 Jim Kelly sold a science fiction story that he wrote at Stonecoast this winter to Nature, the international weekly journal of science, for its regular Futures feature. The story, “Shoppers” appeared in the April 3rd issue. It was written as an assignment he gave to his second half workshop to write a flash story of under a thousand words. Jim and his Workshop Assistant, Allison Hartman, also did the assignment; all the stories were critiqued anonymously. Jim wants to give a shout out to Allison , and his students Karen Pullen, Linda Daly, Debbie Steiman Cameron, Alison McMahan and Benjamin Turner for their comments. March 31, 2008 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 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 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
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 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 Boman Desai received a contract for an Indian publication (Roli Books, my regular publisher) of a collection of humorous short stories: The Gottschalk Chronicles. He will also be an adjunct professor at Roosevelt University in Chicago for the spring semester. Carol Moldaw has poems in the current issues of FIELD, Epiphany, and Salamander, which should be out any day. |
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