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• The Age of Aberrancy & the Poètes moignons by Tod Slone

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  (Click to enlarge)This is taken from Tod Slone's American Dissident site: you know you are doing something right when Slone attacks you....As part of an ongoing experiment to test the waters of democracy, especially in the academic and literary arenas, notice of this blog entry was sent to each of [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 12:33pm EST
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• Poets in Residence in “The Somerville Home”

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  Poets in Residence in “The Somerville Home”By Doug HolderNow—you would expect to find poets in the new Arts Amory in Somerville, or amidst the din of the Bagel Bards in Davis Square, or at a high-toned literary retreat like Yaddo…or its ilk. But you might be surprised to find a [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 10:10am EST
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• SOMERVILLE WRITER MO LOTMAN DOCUMENTS DAVIS SQUARE’S COUSIN: CAMBRIDGE’S HARVARD SQUARE.

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  SOMERVILLE WRITER MO LOTMAN DOCUMENTS DAVIS SQUARE’S COUSIN: CAMBRIDGE’S HARVARD SQUARE. BY DOUG HOLDER The first thing I noticed when I opened up Mo Lotman’s impressive illustrated history of Harvard Square was a picture of the Tasty Sandwich Shop. It closed a number of years ago, and it was right [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 10:05am EST
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• Ibbetson Poet Molly Lynn Watt ("Shadow People" Ibbetson Street) has been named the Poet Laureate of the Harvard Institute of Learning in Retirement

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  Ibbetson Poet Molly Lynn Watt ("Shadow People" Ibbetson Street) has been named the Poet Laureate of the Harvard Institute of Learning in Retirement. I go this from Molly yesterday.....On Wednesday at 3:15 I have been invited to read some of my new Civil Rights Movement Poems at Harvard Institute for [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 6:37am EST
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• An interview with the poet Richard Moore.

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  Poet Richard Moore is in the obits in the Boston Globe today.(Dec 2, 2009.) Here is an interview I conducted with him some years ago. He was on my show "Poet to Poet: Writer to Writer" on Somerville Community Access TV.An interview with the poet Richard Moore.Richard Moore: A Poet [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 4:10pm EST
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• AGNI 70 (autumn 2009) Keeps us Reading

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  AGNI 70 (autumn 2009) Keeps us Readingarticle by Michael T. SteffenA good deal of imaginative literature, writing that nourishes not only the thoughts but also the imagery and sensations in our minds, consists of cataloguing items, belongings and surroundings, evoking sensuous experience, prior to being analyzed or intellectualized.Here are excerpts [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:43am EST
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• Life: The Beautiful Struggle by John J. Deleo

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  Life: The Beautiful StruggleJohn J. DeleoDade City, Floridajjdeleo2003@yahoo.comREVIEW BY Renee Schwiesow“Life: The Beautiful Struggle,” in its third edition opens with sixteen pages of what Deleo refers to as “Reflections.” These aphorisms are printed as original adages that are meant to inspire us to contemplation. Deleo includes such sayings as:Rome was [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:11am EST
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• Review of DEATH OF TEATICKET HARDWARE by Alice Kociemba

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  Review of DEATH OF TEATICKET HARDWARE by Alice Kociemba of Falmouth, Massachusetts, 44 pages, no price listed, produced by New Wave Printing and Design, Inc., 2009 (http://jamaicapondpoets.com $10)By Barbara Bialick, author of “Time Leaves” (Ibbetson Street Press)Alice Kociemba, who is a poet and a psychotherapist, has created a bittersweet memoir [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 2:49pm EST
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• Poems from the Village of the Five Senses: Pentakomo Cyprus, by Irene Koronas

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  (Poet/Artist Irene Koronas)Poems from the Village of the Five Senses:Pentakomo Cyprus, by Irene Koronasarticle by Michael Todd SteffenOn the central south coast of Cyprus, two and a half kms inland from the bay of Ayios Yeryios Alamanou lies the small village of Pendakomo, or Pentakomo, with a church, a tavern, [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 3:24pm EST
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• Life Happens While We Are Making Other Plans. Terry Romanoff

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  Life Happens While We Are Making Other Plans. Terry Romanoff (www.publishamerica.com)Somerville author Terry Romanoff was born in Maine but moved to the Paris of New England: Somerville, Mass as a mere babe. She has lived in Somerville her whole life and has worked as a social worker, outreach worker, resource [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:13am EST
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• STEVE ALMOND WRITES: “This Won’t Take But a Minute”

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  STEVE ALMOND WRITES: “This Won’t Take But a Minute”Interview with Doug HolderI got this email recently from the noted author Steve Almond (My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow ,etc…) about a new project and subsequent event he is involved in. The event will be at the [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:05pm EST
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• Treating A Sick Animal: Flash and Micro Fictions. Timothy Gager.

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  Treating A Sick Animal: Flash and Micro Fictions. Timothy Gager. (Cervena Barva Press PO BOX 44035 W. Somerville, Mass. 02144) $15. http://www.cervenabarvapress.com The noted author Steve Almond once stated that Timothy Gager was one of his favorite local writers. I can see why. Gager shares Almond’s sense of irony, razor [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:47am EST
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• Shmailo, King, Holder,Viscusi, Bozicevic to read Cornelia St. Cafe (NYC) Dec 20th.

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  Launch party for Larissa Shmailo's new collection of poetry: "In Paran"6:00PM BOOK PARTY & READING The Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia Street, NYC 10014 212-989-9319 Hosted by Iris N. Schwartz Music by Brant LyonElaine Equi ;Elaine Equi is the author of several books including Surface Tension and Decoy both from [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 2:03pm EST
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• IS POET KIM TRIEDMAN LOOKING FOR TROUBLE?

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  IS POET KIM TRIEDMAN LOOKING FOR TROUBLE?BY DOUG HOLDER Kim Triedman doesn't look like a poet who is looking for trouble. Triedman, a member of Somerville's Bagel Bards, doesn't seek trouble but does see trouble underneath the seemingly placid surface of things. Triedman has recently come to poetry after working [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 12:31pm EST
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• Lois Ames: Confidante to Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.”

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  Lois Ames: Confidante to Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.”Interview by Doug Holder (2005)Recently I was privileged to hear Lois Ames speak at the “Wilderness House Literary Retreat,” in Littleton, Mass. Lois Ames is a poet, biographer and psychotherapist. She was a confidante of the poet Anne Sexton, and has published [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:29pm EST
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• Somerville's Wendy Blom Gives Us Food for Thought

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  Somerville's Wendy Blom Gives Us Food for ThoughtI have worked with Wendy Blom for a number of years at Somerville Community Access TV where I produce my show “ Poet to Poet: Writer to Writer." Blom, the director of SCAT, is so busy coordinating other projects that I was surprised" [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:34am EST
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• dialect of a skirt by erica miriam fabri

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  dialect of a skirterica miriam fabriHanging Loose PressBrooklyn, New YorkISBN: 978-1-934909-10-22009 $18.00bravo bravoimmediately, the cover of this first book, by erica fabri, made me jealous. the energy portrayed, the vibrant color, the direct approach, the ice-cream sundae image, all lent to my initial shock, “how dare she smack us with [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:17pm EST
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• BELLDAY POETRY PRIZE

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  BELLDAY POETRY PRIZE $2,000 PRIZE TO WINNING POET SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2010 CONTEST FINAL JUDGE: LUCIA PERILLOLucia Perillo has published five books of poetry, including Dangerous Life (1989), The Body Mutinies (1996), The Oldest Map with the Name America (1999), Luck is Luck (2005) and Inseminating the Elephant (2009). [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:12pm EST
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• LEN SOLO: A Poet and Painter who has seen the light.

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  LEN SOLO: A Poet and Painter who has seen the light. The play of light figures in the work of Len Solo. Whether it is his paintings, or his detailed poetry, light transforms and illuminates the object of his creative desire. Len Solo has been an educator for most of [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 1:14pm EST
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• Camelot Kid's Triggertopia by David S. Pointer

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  Camelot Kid's TriggertopiaBy David S. PointerPropaganda Pressalt-current.comalt.current@gmail.comPrice: $5A review by Mignon Ariel KingThe cover sketch of the collection announces that this is not pretty poetry: an automatic rifle and guitar hybrid. Inside is rough, political work with titles such as "A Slice of the Modern Sex Trade" accompanied by disturbing [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 12:19am EST
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• The Loulaki Bar and other poems from Hydra Henry Denander

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  The Loulaki Barand other poems from HydraHenry DenanderMiskwabik PressCalumet Michigan USA2009The poems in this illustrated book of poems are an intimatelook at intimate ways people live within a small communityand each poem becomes part of the whole story.“The water was leaking in the kitchen andI’d called the plumber. He was [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:25am EST
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• You Know About The Somerville News Writers Festival, Nov. 14, 2009 at 7PM. But how about the Book Fair?

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  You Know About The Somerville News Writers Festival, Nov. 14, 2009 at 7PM. But how about the Book Fair? Timothy Gager, like me, realizes the need to mix art and commerce. Gager is allergic to the dust that collects on unappreciated books on shelves in many bookstores. Since he appreciates [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 1:45pm EST
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• For the Sake of the Light: New and Selected Poems. Tom Sexton

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  For the Sake of the Light: New and Selected Poems. Tom Sexton. (University of Alaska Press PO BOX 756240) $23. I reviewed a previous collection from Tom Sexton (Clock With No Hands), a poetry collection that dealt with his childhood in Lowell, Mass. Well Sexton is not only a topnotch [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 3:32pm EST
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• Two Reviews: The Inman Review/ Bankrupting Joe the Taxpayer

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  Review of The INMAN REVIEW, Volume 1, Fall 2009, $4, Jahn Sood and Zachary Aiden Evans, editors, Cambridge Street Press, inmanreview@gmail.com By Barbara Bialick A new literary magazine in the hip nation of Cambridge has risen up to serve and explain the sensibility and heart of Inman Square. Published by [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 2:35pm EST
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• Poet Valerie Lawson: A New Home "Off the Coast"

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  Poet Valerie Lawson: A New Home "Off the Coast"Interview by Doug Holder Valerie Lawson, has the healthy ruddy complexion of a woman who spends a good bit of her time outdoors. This makes sense since she recently moved to the hinterlands of Maine and is editing a magazine "Off the" [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 12:47pm EDT
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• When Things are Tight, check out Hanging Loose The Fall 2009 issue

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  When Things are Tight, check out Hanging LooseThe Fall 2009 issuearticle by Michael Todd SteffenLiterary journals as a rule, gathering work from several sources, tend one way or the other: to demonstrate a coterie likeness (in theme or style), or to celebrate like Walt Whitman a grand embrace of variety. [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 5:54am EDT
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• Terrible Baubles by Lo Galluccio

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  (Lo Galluccio)Terrible Baubles.By Lo Galluccio2009; 56pp; Pa; AlternatingCurrent, PO Box 398058,Cambridge, MA 02139,color photos by Lo Gallucio.Review by Hugh Fox Lo Galluccio’s non-sequitur unexpectedness is one of the most refreshing language-/thought-variants on Planet Earth: “Explosions in the open fists of leaves/Over East 4th Street America’s quilt/Drops handkerchief for patriotic [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 5:39am EDT
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• PENTAKOMO CYPRUS BY IRENE KORONAS

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  PENTAKOMO CYPRUSBy Irene KoronasCervena Barva PressCopyright 201050 pages, $16.00By Lo Galluccio Unlike Irene’s first full-length book “self portrait drawn from many 65 poems in 65 years,” where she explores the formation of poetic language through grids of text which make allusion to various historical figures, including artists and saints, the [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 5:23am EDT
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• More Fulcra Poems by Richard Kostelanetz

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  More Fulcra PoemsRichard KostelanetzPRESA :S: PRESSPO Box 792Rockford, Mi 49341$6.00Richard Kostelanetz’s ‘More Fulcra Poems,’ the literalword becomes, visible meaning. Single letters jut throughthe word form, lending to even more meaning. Meaning takeson a size and relationship. The relationship of two laid outon whitespace, layers layered, turning the single word intomemory [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 5:40am EDT
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• Review of ANONYMOUS FOX by Naomi Feigelson Chase

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  Review of ANONYMOUS FOX by Naomi Feigelson Chase, (Turning Point, Cincinnati, OH, 2009)By Barbara BialickANONYMOUS FOX is a book you can dive right into even though the familiar yet obscure images keep you wondering what deftly sculpted insight you’re about to experience. One thing you’ll notice right away is that [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 3:56pm EDT
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• MEETING M.F.K. FISHER by Leo Racicot

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  *** M.F.K. Fisher is the author of more than 20 booksmost of which deal with the subject of food, its philosophies,its mysteries and the memories induced by it. Her books,among them "How to Cook a Wolf", "Consider the Oyster","The Gastronomical Me" and the now classic "Art of Eating"act as autobiography [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 1:46pm EDT
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• The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction

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  The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash FictionEditor, Tara L. MasihReview by Timothy Gager· Paperback: 208 pages· Publisher: Rose Metal Press; First edition (May 13, 2009)· ISBN-10: 0978984862· ISBN-13: 978-0978984861 As a writer of flash fiction, I found this field guide extremely interesting, pertinent and useful. It is [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 10:31am EDT
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• The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction

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  The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash FictionEditor, Tarah L. MasihReview by Timothy Gager· Paperback: 208 pages· Publisher: Rose Metal Press; First edition (May 13, 2009)· ISBN-10: 0978984862· ISBN-13: 978-0978984861 As a writer of flash fiction, I found this field guide extremely interesting, pertinent and useful. It is [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 10:31am EDT
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• Poppin' Johnny: new American Poems by George Wallace

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  Poppin’ Johnnynew american poems byGeorge WallaceThree Rooms Press, New YorkCopyright © 2009 by George WallaceISBN: 978-0-9840700-2-2102 pages.Review by Zvi A. SeslingPoets like to be compared to great poets, so when I read George Wallace, the late Charles Bukowski wormed his way into my brain. Fortunately, this George Wallace isn’t the [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 10:31am EDT
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• Some Misplaced Joan of Arc by Leah Angstman

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  Some Misplaced Joan of Arc by Leah Angstman (Alternating Current Press alt.current@gmail.com) $5 alt-current.com)Review by Doug Holder Leah Angstman, founder of the local Alternating Current Press works as a bartender at an aptly named place for a writer to work in: "Bukowski's," a bar in Inman Square, Cambridge. She puts' [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 5:20am EDT
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• Barbara Trachtenburg: A Polymath, A Prison Poet.

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  Barbara Trachtenburg: A Polymath, A Prison Poet. Barbara Trachtenburg is one of those people you can comfortably call a force of nature. She is a poet, educator, and currently involved in PEN’s Prison Writing Program. She is also a visual artist, and plays with chamber music, and other forms of [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 6:11pm EDT
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• Ibbetson Poetry Prize Winners 2009// Kirk Etherton // Marc Goldfinger// Frank Bidart to get Ibbetson Lifetime Achievement Award

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  Both poets will read their award-winning poems at the Somerville News Writers Festival: Nov 14, 2009 7PM http://somervillenewswritersfestival.com The Ibbetson Poetry contest was judged by poet Richard Wilhelm.First prize: "Georgia, 1963" by Kirk EthertonSecond runner-up "Flower Days" by Marc Goldfinger**** Frank Bidart is the winner of the Ibbetson Poetry Award. [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 3:29pm EDT
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• New Mexico Poetry Review

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  New Mexico Poetry Reviewhttp://newmexicopoetryreview.com Review By Shannon O’Connor The cover of New Mexico Poetry Review is graced by a painting by the great-grandmother of the editor, Blanche Bell Lefler Evans, a pioneer who moved from Kansas to New Mexico in 1909. One hundred years later, New Mexico Poetry Review has [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 11:39am EDT
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• Ibbetson Street Press Puschcart Nominees 2009

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  Ibbetson Street Press Pushcart Nominees 20091) Fall/Winter issue (#26): Gayle Roby: Strawberry Moon" by Gayle Roby2) Spring/Summer issue (#25): Tony Artuso: "Norm Visits His Autistic Daughter."3) Spring/Summer issue (#25): Lyn Lifshin: "Orals." 4) Spring/Summer issue (#25) Tunny Lee "At the Sackler Musuem the Day Before Thanksgiving"5) Spring/Summer issue (#25) Philip" [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 11:10am EDT
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• Under the El by David Stone

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  Under the Elby David Stone Propaganda Press2009Review by Miriam LevineIn the DepthsIt’s a fine thing to have these little chapbooks from Propaganda Press. The not-for-profit press is part of Alternating Current Arts Co-op based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and dedicated to “inexpensive publishing and distributing.” So far their list includes: A.D. [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:01am EDT
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• Review of BEFALLEN by K. Alma Peterson

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  Review of BEFALLEN by K. Alma Peterson, 2009, 21 pages, Propaganda Press ($7 plus $2 shipping) to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge, MA 02139, USABy Barbara BialickBEFALLEN, by K. Alma Peterson, has some interesting lines—“little soldier of spring in tree bark fatigues” ; “I wasn’t meant to be in [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 3:39pm EDT
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• John Buffalo Mailer: A Writer with an illustrious literary pedigree comes to Somerville.

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  John Buffalo Mailer (Right), Norris Mailer (Center), Norman Mailer ( Far Left)Interview by Reza Tokaloo As a new member of the “Bagel Bard” collective, I found myself in an interesting position. While at a recent meeting of the Bards at the Somerville Au Bon Pain, I was asked by the [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 1:27pm EDT
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• Set in Motion by Karen McKinnon

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  Set in MotionKaren McKinnon$14.00The Wildflower Presswww.thewildflowerpress.comREVIEW BY: Renee SchwiesowChance meetings are not always chance. Nor does time and distance sever the connection made during brief encounters that we may brush aside as trivial. For Karen McKinnon and Pastor Ian (Murdo) MacKenzie, even an absence that covered the span of forty-one [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 2:45am EDT
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• An Adventure of Economy in Gringo Guadalupe, poems by Kevin Gallagher: Article by Michael T. Steffen

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  An Adventure of Economy in Gringo Guadalupe,poems by Kevin Gallagherarticle by Michael T. SteffenA nifty, true to the term “pocket” book (from the French “livre de poche”), a 7”x 4” paperback distributed by Ibbetson Street Press, Kevin Gallagher’s Gringo Guadalupe is handily organized into two sections that immediately solicit comparison. [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 2:08am EDT
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• Susan Tepper, Doug Holder, Gloria Mindock, Pam Laskin, Martin Golan to read in NYC at KGB BAR OCT 9,2009 7PM

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  CERVENA BARVA PRESS READINGKGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street New York City, NY October 09, 2009 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson St. Press. His poetry and prose have appeared in The Boston Globe, Rattle, Cafe Review, The New Renaissance, Home Planet News, [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 10:08am EDT
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• Interview with Fiction Writer Susan Tepper: Author of “Deer and Other Stories”

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  Interview with Fiction Writer Susan Tepper: Author of “Deer and Other Stories” Susan Tepper has been described as a “dear” person by many people I have talked with. She also likes to use “Deer” and other animals in her work. Tepper is the author of the newly released “Deer and [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 9:47am EDT
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• I’m Just A Gigolo: Ronan Noone’s New Play: Little Black Dress

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  I’m Just A Gigolo: Ronan Noone’s New Play: Little Black DressDirected by Ari EdelsonBoston Playwright’s TheatreOct 1 to 25http://www.bostonplaywrights.orgReview by Doug Holder Every now and then I make my way back to my old stomping grounds of Boston University to review a play at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. I attended [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 1:25pm EDT
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• Don Winter's Last Book of Poetry?! A Review of Saturday Night Desperate by Todd Moore.

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  (Don Winter Center)Don Winter told me this is his last book of poetry and it has been reviewed by small press icon Todd Moore, so I decided to publish this insightful review in addition to Irene Koronas'. Hope you enjoy, and I hope this isn't really Don Winter's last book!SATURDAY' [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 10:51am EDT
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• Doug Holder to teach: Residencies at the Asylum: Poets at McLean Hospital / Newton Community Education / Starting Jan 12, 2010

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  To register for "...Poets at McLean Hospital" contact:Newton Community Education http://newtoncommunityed.org360 Lowell AveNewton, MA 02460-1831(617) 559-6999McLean Hospital is known as a top shelf psychiatric hospital with Harvard faculty psychiatrists, groundbreaking research, etc... But it also has been a residency of sorts for poets such as Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, and [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 12:56pm EDT
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• Reviews of Don Winter's "Saturday Night Desperate" and Ed Galing's "Burlesque"

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  ( Don Winter) ( Ed Galing)Saturday Night DesperateA retrospective 1999-2009Don WinterWorking Stiff Pressdansheridanwsp@yahoo.com Winter is like a portrait painter. Unlike Edouard Vuillard or even Picasso, in which the light tends to be diffused, Winter, like Rembrandt, who touches the darkness with a brilliant orange light. Rembrandt’s characters are the ordinary [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 11:45am EDT
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