poemeleon

Celebrate National Poetry Month

Workshop Your Poetry with Roger Weingarten

Saturday April 14, 2007
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
$65 (lunch included)
Palm Springs
For Reservations & Location Phone: (760) 318 8038

Public Reading follows at Palm Springs Public Library
1:30-3:30pm
Featuring Roger Weingarten & Kate Fetherston

Roger Weingarten is the author of ten collections of poetry including Premature Elegy by Firelight, Longleaf Press, 2006; Greatest Hits: 1972-2002, Pudding House Press, 2003; Ghost Wrestling, 1997; Infant Bonds of Joy, 1990, and Shadow Shadow, 1986, all with David R. Godine; The Vermont Suicides, 1978; Ethan Benjamin Boldt, 1975, with Alfred A. Knopf, and reissued in 1987, with an introduction by Mark Jarman, Story Line Press, and What are Birds Worth, 1975, The Cummington Press. His poems have appeared in APR, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, The Prague Revue, and The Kenyon Review, among many others. He has co-edited six poetry anthologies, including Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience, University of Iowa Press 2006; New American Poets, 2005; Poets of the New Century, 2001; New American Poets of the ‘90s, 1991, all with David R. Godine. He edited Ghost Writing, a short story collection, Invisible Cities Press, 2001, and co-edited Open Book: Essays from the Postgraduate Writers’Conference, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. Poetry Consultant for David R. Godine, 1987-1994, he is General Editor of the Invisible Cities Press Poetry Series, and Contributing Editor for Interpoezia, an international online and print journal presenting poems in Russian and English. His awards include a Pushcart Prize, a Louisville Review Poetry Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Award, and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award in Literature. He has lectured, taught and read at writers’ conferences, poetry festivals, and universities nationally and internationally. He founded and teaches in the MFA in Writing and the Postgraduate Summer Writers’ Conference at Vermont College of the Union Institute and University.

Kate Fetherston’s poems have appeared in numerous journals including Hunger Mountain, Artful Dodge, and Drexel Online Journal, Third Coast and Crying Sky. Essays on translation have appeared in Poetry Miscellany and Interpoezia. She co-edited (with Craig Crist-Evans and Roger Weingarten) Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience published by the University of Iowa Press in 2006. She’s co-editor (with Roger Weingarten) of Open Book: Essays from the Vermont College Postgraduate Writer’s Conference, forthcoming from Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The recipient of a Vermont Arts Council grant, Kate has an MFA from Vermont College, and is currently at work on her first book of poems. She lives in Montpelier, Vermont.

This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation

Susan Settlemyre Williams's chapbook Possession is due to appear April 15 from Finishing Line Press.  Advance orders are now being accepted: go to Finishing Line Press and select "New Releases."  Shipping is free on orders received before March 15.  The chapbook, which was also a runner-up for the Tupelo Press Snowbound contest, includes "Woman Dressed in Her Long Hair," from the most recent issue of Poemeleon.

The deadline for submission to Volume II Issue 1 (dedicated to poems in form) is February 28th. We have already received upwards of several hundred submissions and will begin to put the issue together starting next week. Notifications should begin to go out mid-March. Looks like it's going to be another fantastic issue!

Marilyn Taylor's chapbook manuscript, "Going Wrong", has just been accepted by Parallel Press, to be published spring of 2009. 

Additionally, she just received an Honorable Mention in the Dancing Galliard sonnet contest (Prism Quarterly) for two poems: "Family Picnic" and "Cover Letter."  Congratulations!

Eloise Klein Healy's new book of poems, The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho, is out from Red Hen Press. 

In addition to that, she now has an imprint with Red Hen, Arktoi Books.  Information about Arktoi Books can be found here.