| David McCann has been teaching, writing, translating, and otherwise engaging Korea sijo poetry. He and his wife attended the dedication ceremony last year for the new Sijo Stone Garden in Boryeong Korea. He was invited to send a poem, which has been translated into Korean and turned into yet one more stone in the garden. |
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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.
Jackie McRath, NEPC poet, is raising money to administer the 2021 Invitational Theresa-India Young Show at the Piano Gallery and to complete a documentary of her life and work (more information below).
Please consider making a donation if you’re able, and please share the fundraiser (and information about Theresa) with others who might be interested.
Theresa-India Young (1950-2008), fiber artist, teacher, and griot devoted her professional life to studying world cultures, nature and the practices of European tapestry, Ikat, Kente, Backstrap, and Navaho weaving. She taught these diverse cultural and artistic skills at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for twenty years. Prior to her appointment at the MFA, she taught costume/textile design at the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts and Roxbury Community College.
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.
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…”
