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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
    by Doug

  • 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
    by Doug

  • 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
    by Doug

  • 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
    by Doug

  • 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
    by Doug

  • 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
    by Doug

  • 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
    by Doug

  • 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
    by Doug

  • 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
    by Doug

  • 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
    by Doug

  • 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
    by Doug

  • 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
    by Doug

  • 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
    by Doug

  • 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
    by Doug

  • 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
    by Doug

  • 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
    by Doug

  • 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
    by Doug
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