New Album from NEPC member Max Heinegg

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NE Poetry Club member Max Heinegg has released Through Traveler, a 14 song record of poetry adaptations from the public domain and by author permission. Taking poems that speak to the theme of travel and life’s journey, Max Heinegg has, in the words of award-winning poet John Sibley Williams, “recontextualize(d) poems I thought I already knew, returning them to poetry’s musical roots.” The album can be heard on Bandcamp and will be also available on all streaming services soon.

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Member Dzvinia Orlowsky publishes a new book of co-translations!

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The eighth volume in the Lost Horse Press Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series, Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow, co-translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Ali Kinsella, brings together a selection of Natalka Bilotserkivets’s poetry written over the last four decades. Having established an English language following largely on the merits of a single poem, “We’ll Not Die in Paris,” Bilotserkivets’s larger body of work continues to be relatively unknown. Natalka Bilotserkivets was an active participant in Ukraine’s Renaissance of the late-Soviet and early independence period.

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Congratulations to NEPC Board President Mary Buchinger on the publication of her new chapbook

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About / klaʊdz /

The making of meaning from ephemera is a deeply human activity. The poems in this collection arise from this impulse. The title / klaʊdz / is the phonetic transcription of ‘clouds’— the symbols indicate how to pronounce the word. Like clouds, sounds are re-combinable elements with shifting meanings and outcomes both consequential and transient, as well as subject to randomness and governed by physics. Each poem plays with its subject— roams within its confines and pushes against (sometimes through) the walls of its meanings.
The topics range from the concrete— “hive,” “camisole,” “lantern”—
to the abstract— “resurrection,” “absence,” “derivation.”

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