WELCOME PALOMA PRESS!

It's always lovely to see the birth of a new literary/arts press, in this case, PALOMA PRESS! I was happy to blurb its first poetry book, BLUE by Wesley St. Jo and Reme-Antonia Grefalda:

Never mind fairy tales! Reality can offer enchantment! As in BLUE’s unique tale of the luminosity in a pair of eyes expanding to blue the world with all the shades and nuance of a color that’s apt for many things literal or metaphorical: sky, sorrow, the ocean, sunlight, a telephone, “some yesterday tune,” and “belonging obviously to you" … 

Elsewhere, I also blurbed this forthcoming poetry collection:

On EGOCENTRICITY: TIME SPIN by Phyllis Ann Shaw: 

Phyllis movingly describes a life in these poems, a life that blossomed through “the growing pain of growing.” As she notes, “things … / cannot remain constant.” With empathy, she meditates over life’s moments and comes to share valuable lessons for the receptive reader. It is apt—and believable—that she ends her collection by sharing, “it has been told / … that things of gold / glitter // but I find / that other things shine.” Phyllis, herself, shines with these poems.

Speaking of publications, here's my latest Relished W(h)ines update of recently imbibed books and wines.  As ever, please note that in the Publications section, if you see an asterisk before the title, that means a review copy is available for Galatea Resurrects!  More info on that HERE. 

PUBLICATIONS

BLUE, poems by Wesley St. Jo and Reme-Antonia Grefalda (see above blurb)

EGOCENTRICITY: TIME SPIN, poems by Phyllis Ann Shaw (in manuscript; see above blurb)

CLAIMING BREATH by Diane Glancy (fabulous. LinkedIntoPoetryRecommendation (LPR) #265)

HISTORY NOW, poetry/memoir by Basil King (super and superb)

SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR, poems by John Ashbery (my NaPoMo 2017 project—to disrupt the disruptive Ashbery)

POROUS BORDERS, poems by David Giannini (outstanding, unleavened)

RICKSHAW CHASM, poems by David Giannini and collages by John Digby (wonderful)

FOUR PLUS FOUR, poems by David Giannini (wonderful 2)

BLACKACRE, poems by Monica Youn

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF OCTAVIO PAZ 1957-1987, Edited by Eliot Weinberger

THE GILLES POEM: WINTER 2006 COLLECTION by Sabrina Calle

*  WHERESO, poems by Karen Volkmann

*  IN MEMORY OF AN ANGEL, poems by David Shapiro

*  GATES & FIELDS, poems by Jennifer Firestone

*  ON A CLEAR DAY, poems and lyric essays by Jasmine Dreame Wagner

*  CHRYSANTHEMUM MOON, poems by Gerry Grubbs

*  TRANSOM, poems by Rick Mullin

*  DATA PRIMER, poems by Marthe Reed

*  WEATHERED REPORTS: TRUMP SURROGATE QUOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND, poetry/art collaboration by Amy Bassin and Mark Blickley

*  POST-REEL, poems by Nate Logan

*  DONALD TRUMP AND THE POCKET ORACLE, poems by Jared Schickling

*  DEFYING TRUMPLANDIA, PART II: PITHY PEMINIST POETRY by Melinda Luisa de Jesus

*  POST HOPE, poems by Geneva Chao

*  SO THAT THEY SHALL NOT SAY THIS IS JEZEBEL, poems by Aliki Barnstone

*  POESY FOR THE POTUS … OUT DONALDCITO, poems by Chuck Richardson

*  SANCTUARY, poems by Therese Bachand

*  THE OWL STILL ASKING, poems by Kath Abela Wilson

*  DUMPED THROUGH, poems b Ronald Mars Lintz

*  THE INAUGURAL POEMS by John Bellinger

*  ADIOS, TRUMPLANDIA!, poems by Melinda Luisa de Jesus

*  IMPROVISATIONS AGAINST PROPAGANDA, poetry and vizpo by Jim Leftwich

*  SHATTERED WINDOW ESPIONAGE, poems by Matina L. Stamatakis

*  HOW FASCISM COMES TO AMERICA, poems by Steve Klepetar

*  OF GOOD COUNSEL, poems by Magus Magnus

*  LA POLICE, poems by Bill Lavender

*  WE ALL SAW IT COMING, poems by Bill Yarrow

*  NOVEMBER ODDS, poems by Gary Hardaway

*  THE BEAST TURNS ME INTO A TANTRUMBEAST, poems by Agnes Marton

*  PROSPECTORS, poems by Eric Mohrman

*  IF WE WERE BIRDS, poems by Janine Harrison

*  WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY, poems by Michael Vander Does

* THE MILO CHOIR SINGS WILD BOYS IN TRUMPLANDIA, poems by John Moore Williams

*  OCCUPY THE INAUGURAL, poems by Stephen Russell

*  BURNING TIDE, poems by James Robison

*  A RAGGED TEAR DOWN THE MIDDLE OF OUR FLAG, poems by Ron Czerwien

*  PRISON AND OTHER IDEAS, poems by Andrea Sloan Pink

*  I’M THE PRESIDENT, YOU ARE NOT, poems by Agnes Marton

*  FAHRENHATE, poems by Jackie Oh

*  WITHOUT METAPHORS, poems by Maryam Ala Amjadi

*  AUSTERE LIGHTS, poems by Ali Znaidi

*  GARDENING WITH WALLACE STEVENS, poems by Kathleen S Burgess

*  AT / WITH, poems by Gary Lundy

*  JAMES BROWN’S WIG AND OTHER POEMS by Melinda Luisa de Jesus

* DRIFTWOOD MONSTER: HAIKU FOR TROUBLED TIMES by Kath Abela Wilson

*  THEY WENT TO THE BEACH TO PLAY, poems by Wendy Taylor Carlisle

* INTERSYLLABIC WEFT, poems by Maria Damon, Adeena Karasick, and Alan Sondheim

*  THE ABSENCE OF THE LOVED, poems by Wade Stevenson

*  LITANIES SAID HANDEDLY, poetry, collage and performance by Ralph La Charity

*  THE SACRED QUIVER, haiku by Alysse Aallyn

*  HARPOON, poems by Michael Cavendish

FIELD GUIDE TO AUTOBIOGRAPHY, poems by Melissa Eleftherion

THE TATTERS, poems by Brenda Coultas

BRINK, poems by Shanna Compton

DICTEE, poetry/multi-genre by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

NOTEBOOK AND SHEAVES, poems by Christopher Mulrooney

DAYS OF UNWITTING, poems by Cal Bedient

THE ROOTS OF A THOUSAND EMBRACES: DIALOGUES by Juan Felipe Herrera

THE RAIN IN PORTUGAL, poems by Billy Collins

BROOKLYN POETS ANTHOLOGY edited by Jason Koo and Joe Pan

[FILIPINO-AMERICAN EKPHRASIS / working title], poems by Joel Abellanosa (in manuscript)

* NEVERTHELESS, #SHEPERSISTED, NO. 3, poems edited by Barbara Jane Reyes

THE MARSH HAWK PRESS REVIEW, Spring 2017, edited by Mary Mackey

CONTEMPORARY LITERARY HORIZON, literary magazine curated by Daniel Dragomirescu

The section Power and/of/in Poetry in THE VOLTA, edited by Evie Shockley

THE HATRED OF POETRY, essay by Ben Lerner (wonderful! LPR #266)

THE POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER #251, April/May 2017 edited by Betsy Fagin

SHORT TALKS by Anne Carson

SLOW READING / SLOW SEEING, Cal Conversations monograph for Lyn Hejinian’s research seminar at U.C. Berkeley for exhibition, Berkeley Museum of Art, Jan. 18-April 20, 2017

A RIVER, ONE-WOMAN DEEP: STORIES by Linda Ty-Casper

FICTIONARY: NEW AND AWARD-WINNING STORIES by Jenny Ortuoste

WINES

2003 M. Chapoutier L’Ermite Ermitage

2009 David Duband Nuits-Saint-Georges

2014 Layer Cake Pinot Noir

2005 Fritz Haag Braueberger Juffer Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese

2013 Angela Estate pinot noir Willamette

2001 Ch. La Veille Cure Fronsac

2014 Ebner-Ebenauer Gruner Veltliner Weinviertel

2015 The Forager pinot noir Sonoma Coast

2014 Volunteer cabernet NV

2014 Frogs Leap zinfandel

2010 Domaine de la Janasse Torre d’Argile Cotes du Rhone

Wine Club (4/1)

1995 Blanc es Millenaires champagne

2004 Etienne Sauzet Chevalier Montrachet

2004 Domaine Leflaive Chevalier Montrachet

2004 Robert Weil Kiedrich Grafenberg Trockenbeerenauslese

1971 Aldo Conterno Granbussia

1993 Robert Groffier Bonnes-Mares

1978 Gaja Sori San Lorenzo

1998 Henschke Hill of Grace

1990 Ch. d’Yquem
1961 Giacomo Conterno Barolo (madeirized)