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Challenges for the Delusional: Peter Murphy's Prompts and the Poems they Inspired

Challenges for the Delusional
Peter Murphy’s Prompts and the Poems They
Inspired

 

Contributors include: Dunn, Graber, Laux, Richardson, & more

Jane Street Press, 1st Edition
Edited by Christine Malvasi
Foreword by
Stephen Dunn

**Special
Events - Upcoming Readings**

http://www.murphywriting.com/challenges-for-the-delusional-winter-poetry-prose-getaway-anthology.html 

Book Description

Peter Murphy’s Prompts and the Poems They Inspired
Challenges
for the Delusional compiles a selection of Peter Murphy’s infamous and
eccentric poetry-writing prompts. For 19 years he’s shared these prompts at his
writers' conference, the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway, and this collection
features a sampling of the many diverse and wonderful poems that they’ve
inspired. Contributors include: Stephen Dunn, Kathleen Graber, Dorianne Laux,
James Richardson, and more.

From the Foreword by Stephen Dunn
"Peter's approach to
teaching poetry writing is unique and uniquely effective…. [his] quirky prompts
have given way to poems that range from humorous to serious, from affectionate
to nostalgic. They’ll take their place among the workshops, panels, good meals,
and late night dancing—the pleasures that abound at the Getaway."

Marsh Hawk Press 9th Annual Book Competition, Deadline: May 10, 2012

Announcing the Ninth Annual Marsh Hawk Press Book Competition, Deadline Extended to May 10th Electronic (and Hard Copy) Submissions Accepted (see details at website and below). $1000 prize plus book publication, book advertised nationally and at book launch in New York City. This Year’s Contest Judge is Cornelius Eady. See details here:

http://marshhawkpress.org/Contests_and_submissions.htm

The Wayward Orchard by Paul Sohar

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The Wayward Orchard

An Electronic Chapbook

by

Paul Sohar

What Matters by Adele Kenny

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Marsh Hawk Press Spring Book Launch, Thursday, 5/12/11, 6 PM, NYC

May 2011 You Are Cordially Invited To Our Spring 2011 Book Launch, Reading and Party!  Refreshments in our usual abundant, over-the-top style        Quick Links Visit the Marsh Hawk Press Web site  Visit Ceres Gallery         Celebrating New Titles By Justin Petropoulos and Thomas Fink.   Thursday, May 12, 2011   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM  Ceres Gallery, 547 West 27th St.  Suite 201, New York, NY 10001    Praise for Justin Petropoulos   Winner of the 2010 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize      "The brilliant serial prose poems of Eminent Domain frame a troubled scintillating world between animate/inanimate realities, bleak and transcendent at the same time.... This is a new Wasteland. Welcome an original consciousness from the belly of the beast."-Anne Waldman     Praise for shape=rect target=_blank track="on" linktype="link"> by Thomas Fink   "Fresh, marvelously exuberant lyric wildness, picking up a bit on the sprung prosody of Ceravolo's Fits of Dawn and perhaps also from Coolidge's Sound as Thought. Of special interest: a set of 'Yinglish' poems that bring the syntax of the Yiddish into the American lyric."- Charles Bernstein     Marsh Hawk Press books often highlight the affinity of poetry and the visual arts. Each book is produced with particular care to visual style, often including reproductions of artwork alongside poems. Marsh Hawk Press also sponsors readings and exhibits, and hosts a web site with a rotating exhibition space, as well as several blogs focused on poetry and visual art. The press also offers a poetry prize judged by a poet of national stature.   Marsh Hawk Press books are available from SPD, Amazon, and better bookstores. For more information contact us or visit our web site.

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When The Gods Play Hide And Seek by Gina Larkin

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1456539027/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_alp_msCznb0VRS0DA

 

Nancy Scott's new chapbook, Detours & Diversions, available at Main Street Rag Publishing Company

Detours & Diversions, my new chapbook from Main Street Rag Publishing Company, now available for the ludicrous presale discount price of $3.50, plus postage, in the true spirit of the chapbook's original meaning - cheapbook. (Nothing cheap about this chapbook).

Visit my Author’s Page for details: www.mainstreetrag.com/NScott.html
MSR Online Bookstore
Coming Soon Page

 

http://www.nancyscott.net/

 

Frenchtown Poetry Book Launch Weekend, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010 - Sunday, September 12, 2010

Frenchtown Poetry Book Launch Weekend

Featuring the launch of Ray Brown’s Book, “I have His Letters Still”

 

Thursday, Sept 9^th through Sunday September 12^th

 

11 other published poets reading and signing their books

8 additional poets will be reading

 

Thursday 9/9

Carl Peter Klapper – 1 pm

Gregg G. Brown – 3 pm

Warren Cooper – 7:45 pm

Ray Brown – 8 pm

 

Friday 9/10

Edie Miller Angelo – 6 pm

Basil Rouskas – 7:45 pm

Ray Brown – 8 pm

 

Saturday 9/11

Marcia S. Ivans & Jessica G. de Koninck – 1 pm

Anthony Buccino & Gail Fishman Gerwin – 2 pm

Bill Holmes & David Vincenti – 3 pm

Rick Mullin – 4 pm

Elijah B. Pringle III – 7:45 pm

Ray Brown – 8 pm

 

Sunday 9 /12

Bernadette Mc Bride. Pamela Perkins-Frederick, & Herb Perkins-Frederick - 1 pm

Tom Mullouk – 2 pm

Skye Van Saun, John Richard Smith & Warren Cooper- 3 pm

Ray Brown – 6 pm

 

Free - full schedule http://raybrownbooklaunchweekend.wordpress.com

 

Open Space Gallery

36 Bridge Street

Frenchtown, NJ 08825

908-392-2601

 

Contact Ray Brown

[email protected]

Hank Kalet's new book, Certainties and Uncertainties, available for presale

http://www.finishinglinepress.com/NewReleasesandForthcomingTitles.htm

 

 

Reunion by Bob Rosenbloom--Preorder Purchases Available

REUNION

by Bob Rosenbloom

 

Finishing Line Press is pleased to announce that 

Bob Rosenbloom’s first chapbook, REUNION, 

is now available for pre-publication orders.

Simply click on the link below, 

scroll down to Rosenbloom (authors are listed alphabetically), 

and place your orders using a credit card, 

by sending a check or money order, or via PayPal.

Click Here: http://www.finishinglinepress.com/NewReleasesandForthcomingTitles.htm

$12, paper

Preorder Purchase

Ships Oct. 22, 2010

"The poems in Reunion have a particular sympathy for childhood, family, and faith as they wrestle with the foolishness and grace of human existence. Powered by intimacy, humor, and astonishing familiarity, these poems understand loss, change, and human frailty with generosity and celebratory sadness. They understand what we can and cannot keep. Bob Rosenbloom's unique voice and use of language never seek to escape reality through a subtly piercing confrontation that finds a reason to exalt." 

Your pre-publication order will determine the size of this book's press run, 

so please consider ordering at your earliest convenience