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Entries from January 1, 2008 - February 1, 2008

Friday
25Jan

Judy Kronenfeld reading in San Dimas, California, Sunday January 27, 2008

Poemeleon contributor Judy Kronenfeld will be the featured reader this Sunday, January 27, 2008, for the Our Poetic Souls reading series in San Dimas. She is the author of several poetry collections: Shadow of Wings, Disappeared Down Dark Wells and Still Falling, and Ghost Nurseries. Her most recent collection, Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, recently won the Litchfield Review Annual Book Contest and will be published by Litchfield Review Press in 2008. 

2:30 p.m. Sunday January 27, 2008

Home Brew Coffee Company
661 West Arrow Highway
San Dimas , Ca. 91773
909-394-1964

Information including a link to a map is on the web - http://www.chrystin edrums.com/ PoeticSouls. html


Located across the street from Lowes Hardware, one block North off the I-57 freeway, Arrow Highway exit. On Bonita Ave. , in the shopping mall area. Corner of Bonita Ave. and Arrow Hwy. Turn in where you see the Boot Barn, look for the corner of the mall with the school house steeple.

Wednesday
23Jan

New Book & Prizes: Maureen Alsop

Previous Poemeleon contributor, current Poemeleon Associate Editor, Maureen Alsop's first full collection of poetry, Apparition Wren, is now available!  Check out her website for upcoming readings and events at www.apparitionwren.com.  She will be at AWP Book Fair at the Finishing Line Press table with with her chapbook Nightingale Habit on Friday 2/1/08 at 3:00. 

 

She was also the recent recipient of Bitter Oleander's 2007 Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award for her poem "Sky Hour Lumiére, Circa 1936" and Typo Magazine nominated her poem "Looking at John Rabboné’s Painting: “Notes from the Blue Terrace” Circa 1927" for a pushcart prize.
Tuesday
22Jan

New Chapbook: Cati Porter

My chapbook, small fruit songs, has just been released by Pudding House Publications. If you would like a copy of the chapbook they are available through the Pudding House website, or you can buy one directly from me and I will cover the shipping. Send me an e-mail at Cati_Porter (at) yahoo (dot) com.

Or if you'd like more information, visit my blog and click on the "small fruit songs" tab: http://catiporter.wordpress.com.

Monday
14Jan

New book: Sarah Maclay

Poemeleon contributor Sarah Maclay (volume II issue 2, devoted to the prose poem) has a new book, The White Bride, to be released during the upcoming 2008 AWP conference . She will be signing books both at the Tampa Review table as well as at the Poetry International table during the book fair.

Monday
14Jan

Announcing our new book review editor, Tom Hunley

Please join me in welcoming the newest member of our editorial staff, book review editor Tom Hunley. If you would like to submit a review copy of your book to Poemeleon please send an e-mail to editor (at) poemeleon (dot) org.  

From Mr. Hunley's bio:

[He is] ...currently an assistant professor in the English department at Western Kentucky University and the director of Steel Toe Books. His poems have appeared in TriQuarterly, New York Quarterly, issues of Rattle, Poetry East, Connecticut Review, and other journals. His latest books are My Life as a Minor Character (Pecan Grove Press, 2005), and Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five Canon Approach  (Multilingual Matters LTD. ). His book of poems about new fatherhood, Octopus, won the Holland prize and will be published by Logan House Press in 2008.

Tom Hunley's work was previously featured in Poemeleon, volume I issue 2 (poetry, the ekphrastic issue), and volume II issue 1 (book review, issue devoted to poems in form).