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Dzvinia Orlowsky’s poem, “Lullaby,” appears in the current issue of JAMA, (Vol 324, No. 4, pg. 401) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768810 Copyright 2020 American Medical Association, All rights reserved.

Dzvinia Orlowsky’s co-translated manuscript titled ECCENTRIC DAYS OF HOPE AND SORROW from the Ukrainian of Natalka Bilotserkivits’s poems, has been accepted for publication by Lost Horse Press and is forthcoming in fall of 2021. Bilotserkivits’s poems, known for lyricism and the quiet power of despair, became hallmarks of Ukraine’s literary life of the 1980s.  www.losthorsepress.org

Congratulations to Owen Lewis who has a new book of (mostly) poetry out from Dos Madres Press, entitled: Field Light.

Advance praise: “This is a book vast in social thought, in narrative, and, most of all, in exceptional poetry.”–Kevin Prufer”

A truly epic sweep of poems and prose of immediacy and history in the Berkshires.”–David Giannini 

Open air, safe-distanced, book launch/reading in Daniel Chester French’s Chesterwood Studio Garden, Stockbridge, Mass., July 25th, 4:30 pm.  To register to attend the reading: www.Chesterwood.org

Ed Meek has had poems recently in Into the Void, South Florida Poetry Journal, The Galway Review, Ekphrasis, High Shelf Press, The Blue Mountain Review, What Rough Beast, Dash, North of Oxford, Journal of Arts and Letters, Gold Walkman Review, The Athena Review, and the Provincetown Poem and a Photo Exhibit.

He has poems coming out in Constellations, Muddy River Poetry Review, Red Wheelbarrow Review, Aurorean, First Literary Review East, Ibbetson, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, The Blue Mountain Review, War, Literature and the Arts, Fragmented Voices Anthology, The North Sea Poetry Anthology. You can find his book reviews in The Arts Fuse and articles in Boomer Café and CounterPunch. His new book, High Tide, can be ordered at Aubadepublishing.com.

Sortings is a collection of poems focusing on the process of making distinctions, reflecting on life’s experiences, trying to discover and express what really mattered and continues to matter. The book explores a variety of subjects – childhood and growing up, the natural world, travel, artworks, and teaching. A major focus of this collection is the sorting through recent experiences with the poet’s mother as she traveled from the vital, funny, ironic, loving person she was, to becoming a 96-year-old elder struggling with the torments of dementia. The book has a kind of emotional coherence and a narrative arc, moving from memory to more recent subjects that inevitably link the now to the then.

https://www.dosmadres.com/shop/sortings-by-ann-taylor/

Congratulations to Tim Mayo, NEPC poet, whose chapbook, Notes to the Mental Hospital Timekeeper, won honorable mention in the 2020 Eric Hoffer Book Awards!

Hilary Sallick, NEPC vice president, discusses her recent publication, Asking the Form: “A small regret is that I didn’t include the dates of publication along with the acknowledgments of those journals that published some of the poems in Asking the Form…”

Author’s Note: Hilary Sallick on Asking the Form

Carolyne Wright (lifetime NEPC member since 1992), has received a 2020-2021 Fulbright Scholar Award to Bahia, Brazil, which she hopes to take up after the global COVID-19 travel advisory is lifted. Her most recent book is This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems (Lost Horse Press, 2017), whose title poem won the NEPC’s Firman Houghton Award as well as a Pushcart Prize, and was also included in The Best American Poetry 2009. Also appearing in 2017 was the bilingual sequence Trazas de mapa, trazas de sangre / Map Traces, Blood Traces by Chilean poet Eugenia Toledo (Mayapple Press, 2017), a Finalist for the 2018 Washington State Book Award and the 2018 PEN America-Los Angeles Award in Translation. Wright was co-editor of the ground-breaking anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace (Lost Horse, 2015), which received ten Pushcart Prize nominations and was a finalist in the Foreword Review’s Book of the Year Awards. She has nine other volumes of poetry (including the Blue Lynx Prize and American Book Award-winning Seasons of Mangoes & Brainfire), a collection of essays, and four other award-winning volumes of poetry in translation from Spanish and Bengali.  Wright has served as Visiting Poet and Writer at colleges and universities throughout the U.S., including Harvard, Radcliffe, Emory University and the University of Miami. She returned in 2005 to her native Seattle, where she teaches for Richard Hugo House, the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA Program (from 2005 until the program’s closure in 2016), and for national and international literary conferences and festivals. She has received grants from the NEA, 4Culture, Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture, and the Instituto Sacatar in Bahia, Brazil.