GALATEA RESURRECTS ITSELF FOR MARCH!

I'm delighted to release the March edition of Galatea Resurrects. You can see issue HERE, but I cutnpaste the Contents below for convenience.  Thanks as ever to our volunteer-reviewers!


MARCH
You Envelop Me by Laynie Browne
Reviewed by Kylan Rice (3/22)

Poems and Fragments by Elise Cowen, edited by Tony Trigilio
Engaged by Jim Leftwich (3/21)

Pantoums by Dennis Daly
Engaged by Eileen Tabios (3/20)

MEAT by Sophie Seita, Sublunar by Tom Jenks, and In Accident & Emergence by Rosa van Hensbergen
Reviewed (viz "revicules") by Colin Marshall (3/19)

Old Ballerina Club by Sharon Olinka
Reviewed by Sheila Black (3/18)

Like a Fat Gold Watch: Meditations on Sylvia Plath and Living, edited by Christine Hamm
Engaged by Eileen Tabios (3/17)

Three Ariel Poems by Sylvia Plath
Engaged by Tasha Cotter (3/16)

Featured Essay: "Brief Notes on Thomas McEvilley"
By Peter Valente (3/15)

Phaneagrams by Jake Berry
Engaged by Jim Leftwich (3/15)

The Body Ghost by Joseph Lease
Engaged by Eileen Tabios (3/14)

The Critic Writes Poems: Abigail Licad
(3/13)

SELECT POEMS by John M Bennett
Engaged by Ivan Argüelles (3/12)

Answer To An Inquiry by Robert Walser
Engaged by Jim Leftwich (3/11)

Silence by Julie Unruh
Reviewed by Jim McCrary (3/10)

Featured Essay: "Hay(na)ku/Sci(na)ku--Six-Word Poetry"
By Lauren McBride (3/9)

Sound Rituals by Jim Leftwich and Billy Bob Beamer
Engaged by John M. Bennett (3/8)

Debths by Susan Howe
Engaged by Jim McCrary (3/7)

Publications by Cole Swensen, Jean Day, P. Inman, Scott MacLeod, Daniel Davidson and Rae Armentrout
Engaged by Scott MacLeod (3/6)

Editor's Recommendations From Review Copy List
By Eileen Tabios (3/5)

"SARAJEVO BLUES"

I come late to this book but I already know it will be one of my most powerful poetry reads this year: SARAJEVO BLUES by Semezdin Mehmedinović. Indeed, it compelled a tanka:

"Sarajevo Blues"

--a tanka for and after Semezdin Mehmedinović

Let us go then, you

And I, in denial of

Shrouded streets, where red

Laser beams cut through dimness

And maybe we will be missed

TANKA, VOL. I

Deep gratitude to poet-visual artist Sacha Archer for asking, and then creating a gorgeously elegant object that is my chap, TANKA, VOL. I. It just came out from Simulacrum Press in Ontario. 

The chapbook includes my first tanka in the traditional form but, within 34 tankas, applies what my publisher calls "increasingly stylized experiments" for a "reconfiguration" of this ancient, classical form.

This is the first tanka I ever wrote:

#1

Last night my white cat

Approached with whiskers drooping

Signs are increasing

The world around me ages

I shiver in its cold wake

When you compare that traditional tanka with the sample tanka on my publisher’s bookpage, I hope you’ll be interested in how I radically reconfigured the form within 34 tankas with the help of the MDR Poetry Generator and Heidegger’s philosophical strategy, “sous rapture.”

I hope some of you check it out (and, in the process, support an independent publisher).

ONWARD WITH HAY(NA)KU 15 ANTHOLOGY!

My brain is absolutely smashed —though deliriously (as in happily) so — from editing HAY(NA)KU 15. I just sent the manuscript's first cut to the book designer. For this project, I looked over 76 poets in English, with some also translated into 7 languages: Filipino, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. Then an all-Spanish section involving 36 English-language poets translated into Spanish by 12 translators originally through the Poetry and Translation Seminar at UNAM in Mexico. Must now look for cover image. It's all ... g.o.o.d.

I am looking forward to adding a fourth book to this list of hay(na)ku anthologies!

SCI(NA)KU TANKA!

Roxanne Barbour has invented a new hay(na)ku variation: sci(na)ku tanka. Some are forthcoming in the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association's journal, Star*Line. For this form, add a speculative element and the word-per-line count is

1

2

3

2

1

A reverse sci(na)ku tanka would be

3

2

1

2

3

Go, World!

See all (or most as I don't know if I'm keeping up) of the hay(na)ku variations at https://eileenrtabios.com/haynaku/haynaku-variations/  Meanwhile, there are also visual manifestations, like this painting by poet-painter Thomas Fink:

HAY(NA)KU'S 19 POETS FOR "WORDS WITH A VIEW" EXHIBIT

There are several layers to the hay(na)lku's quince celebration this year, including an anthology, exhibits, and a Sept. 8 readings/performance/eating/book launch. More info at HERE. 

Meanwhile, I'd like to share the poets whose hay(na)ku will be exhibited this summer at SFPL's 3rd Floor, Kresge Foundation International Center. Their poems will comprise the "Words With A View" exhibit, so named as their poems will look over the views in an internal rotunda. My gratitude to these poets for their interest in the hay(na)ku (choices were made with a bias for poets located in the Bay Area for obvious reasons):

William Allegrezza
Gabriela Pascual Bautista
Tom Beckett
Charles Bernstein
Paul Cassinetto
Melinda Luisa De Jesus
Carol Dorf
Peg Duthie
Vince Gotera
Crag Hill
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Lani T. Montreal
Cesar Polvorosa, Jr.
Zvi A. Sesling
S. Shaw
Eileen R. Tabios
Glynda “G.T.” Velasco
Jean Vengua
Mark Young

As ever, I'm grateful to Librarian Abraham Ignacio (among others) for facilitating this exhibit! Maraming Salamat!

Here's a sort of view of the rotunda. Here you can see pillars where poems will be exhibited...

INDIA REVIEWS LOVE

"Tabios' concern for our world is global in its reach and this is a book that is very much of our time."-Contemporary Literary Review India

What a lovely surprise in the mail: my first review in India ... of my first French-published book. Contemporary Literary Review India reviews LOVE IN A TIME OF BELLIGERENCE! Hopefully I'll get permission to reprint it online but until then here are images (reflecting how the review focused on my series, "The Ashbery Riff-Offs") ...

(click on images to enlarge)

Thanks to reviewer Neal Leadbeater and CLRI Editor-in-Chief Khursid Alam.

MANIFESTING ...

I was asked to provide a Manifesto, so I wrote one as Flash Fiction. Coz that's what a Poet does. The result is

"AUTO (An OBU Manifesto"

Have at it!

**

I don't have illustrations for this post. So how about some of my kittens Tarzan and Addie?

NEXT READING, SAN FRANCISCO!

PAWA PRESENTS FILIPINX POETS

Eileen Tabios, Chris Santiago, Jason Magabo Perez and Barbara Jane Reyes

sponsored by Philippine American Writers & Artists (PAWA)

6-8:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco

447 Sutter Street, 6th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94108

The event is free, open to the public, and include refreshments.

About Chris Santiago: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/poetry/tula-chris-santiago

About Barbara Jane Reyes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04zrykq

About Jason Magabo Perez: http://www.jasonmagaboperez.com

About Me: I'll be at the event's hors d'oeuvres table. Yes, there'll be refreshments -- join Moi!

(RSVP optional but it'd be great if you do so the food planners can, um, plan.  Which means the more who say Yes, the more I can eat :)  RSVP through Facebook.)

MY POEMS TRAVEL MORE THAN I DO!

I'm grateful my French publisher took LOVE IN A TIME OF BELLIGERENCE to an international book fair in Braine-l'Alleud (Belgium). I love that my poems go farther than I do...

MURDER ... RECOMMENDED!

Quite a (post) headline, eh? But thanks to Small Press Distribution for putting MURDER DEATH RESURRECTION on its latest SPD Recommends List!

A POET READS POEMS-FEBRUARY

As of Jan. 1, I began tracking the following stats on a daily basis:

--how many poems I wrote and/or edited

--how many poems I read

--how many poetry chapbooks and/or books I read

--other media that relates to poetry, e.g. audios and videos

On Facebook, where I post my daily list, my favorite comment was from witty Melinda de Jesus who said, “They’re like a FitBit for poetry…” My daily posts can look like this entry:

1/7/18: Today

I wrote zero poems.

I read 6 poems and 1 poetry book

That’s it. No names, which is why I’m posting below the names of poets whose works I read. I name them, whether I read a single poem or an entire book by them. January's reading is HERE. These poets make up February's reading:

Carolyn Gutierrez-Abanggan

Jonel Abellanosa

Jasmin Ado

shaina evero isles fedelin agbayani

Jim Pascual Agustin

Raad Ahmad

Dilruba Ahmed

Anna Akhmatova

Yosano Akiko

Austin Alexis

Francisco X. Alarcon

Kazim Ali

William Allegrezza

Billy Antonio

Cesar Ruiz Aquino

Sacha Archer

Mesbah Alam Arghya

Ivan Arguelles

Tim Atkins

W.H. Auden

Gracia G. Balangue

Desiree L. Balota

Subkhro Bandopadhyay

Santanu Bandyopadhyay

Sheila Bare

Guy R. Beining

John M. Bennett

Brian Bilston

S.H. Bjerg

John Bloomberg-Rissman

Viktor Bokov

Eavan Boland

Lolo Bomboy

Rose Booker

Kristy Bowen

Jessica Bozek

Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Brandon Brown

Laynie Browne

Andrew Alan Buhman

Reed Bye

billy cancel

Kai Carlson-Wee

Rosy Carrick

Hayden Carruth

Wayne Benitze Castillo

Albert B. Casuga

Joe Ceravolo

Dara Cerv

Leila Chatti

Ching-In Chen

David Chirot

Shaku Choku

Margaret Chula

John Clare

Lucille Clifton

Billy Collins

Shanna Compton

William Corbett

Robin Coste-Lewis

Ray Craig

Robert Creeley

Nick Cruz

Michael Daley

Will Y. Darling

Amilyn Villador David

Tyree Day

Augusto De Campos

Melinda Luisa de Jesus

Mirtha Dermisache

Ricardo de Ungria

John DeWitt

Umit Singh Dhuga

Denise Duhamel

Aja Couchois Duncan

Jim Dunn

Jessica Pujol Duran

Sophie Anne Edwards

Larry Eigner

Carl F Emerich

S.O. Fasrus

Maconn Feliciano

Deb Y Felio

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Norman Finkelstein

Kathy Fish

Felix Fojas

Sarah Fox

Saito Fumi

Asha Futterman

Cori Gabbard

Ralph Semino Galan

Danny Gallardo

pe garcia

Drew Gardner

Danny Gallardo

Geoffrey Gatza

Sukanta Ghosh

Louis Ginsberg

Jesse Glass

Ed Go

melissa christine goodrum

Anne Gorrick

Erica Goss

Vince Gotera

Michael Graves

Michelle Greenblatt

Adrienne Gruber

Mike Guffan

Mike Gullickson

Daniel Y. Harris

Curtis Hayes

Dah Helmer

Robert Herrick

Robert Hershon

Crag Hill

Eric Hoffman

Anselm Hollo

Bob Holman

Langston Hughes

Victor Hugo

Emily Hunt

Geof Huth

Luisa Igloria

Brenda Iijima

Margarita Ilieva

Daniel Ionita

Robinson Jeffers

Antony John

Leroi Jones

Pierre Joris

Malu M. Juego

Kitahara Kakusha

Okamoto Kanoko

Marie Luise Kaschnitz

Brigit Pegeen Keely

Miyazawa Kenji

Diane Keys

Robert Kiely

Kevin Kilroy

Amy King

Bill Knott

Irene Koronas

Anna Kreienberg

Natalie Pardo Labang

Philip Lamantia

Gerrit Lansing

Neil Leadbeater

Jim Leftwich

Joseph Legaspi

Rebeka Lembo

Julia Rose Lewis

Abigail Licad

Michelle Lin

Richard Livermore

Kimberly Lyons

Travis Macdonald

Joey Madia

Ligaw Makata

Ligaw Malaya

Alyssa Manansala

Monica Manolachi

Peter Manson

Sean Manzano

Colin Lee Marshall

Lauren McBride

Jim McCrary

Martha McCollough

Miriam Midley

Rachel Mindell

Saito Mokichi

Fred Moten

Aryanil Mukherjee

Madua Mukherjee

Michelle Murphy

Robert Murphy

Gina Myers

Blanca Elorde Nagac

Cory Nakasue

Maribelle Adelfa A. Navarro-Laude

Michael Thomas Nelmida

Stephen Nelson

Friedrich Nietszke

Elly Nobbs

Okuma Nobuyuki

Linda Norton

Mori Ogai

Mary Oliver

George Oppen

Jenny Ortuoste

Amy Pabalan

Jose Padua

Danielle Pafunda

lars palm

Tamara L. Panici

Astra Papachristodoulou

R.T.A. Parker

Marianne Paul

Craig Santos Perez

Joseph Persad

Fernando Pessoa

Sasha Pimentel

Aloysiusi Lionel Salome Polintan

Erwin Ponce

Ethel Rackin

Tom Rapp

Alexandra Lytton Regalado

Maria Crozalle Reyes Raymndo aka Weeween

Jose Rizal M. Reyes

Lizae Cervantes Reyes

Tony Robles

Stan Rogal

Muriel Rukeyser

Rumi

Jesrael Rivera aka Siangmakata

Maekawa Samio

Sabyasachi Sanyal

Barry Schwabsky

Herb Scott

Nancy Bell Scott

Margarita Seeafimova

Heidi Seaborn

Nicole Sealey

Bilshan F. Servanez

Zvi A. Sesling

Ndaba Sibanda

Stewart Shaw

Masaoka Shiki

Miya Shuji

Randee Silv

Denis Smith

Layli Long Soldier

Lina Stern

Iris Stoler

Matthew Stolte

Leny Strobel

Celina Su

Hiromi Suzuki

Eileen Tabios

Debra Tachibana

Ishikawa Takuboku

Hiroshi Taniuchi

Alice Tarbuck

Yosano Tekkan

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Orchid Tierney

Robin Tomens

Tony Torn

Wendy Trevino

Richard Tuttle

Randy Salvador N. Ugay

Florence Uniacke

Upanishads

Eliana Vanessa

Nico Vassilakis

Jean Vengua

Noel Vera

Santiago Villafania

Rosario Villaluz

Lina Ramona Vitkauskas

Linda Jeannette Ward

Cathy Weedon

Jameka Williams

William Carlos Williams

Eryk Wenziak

Kath Abela Wilson

Daniel Wuenschel

Mark Young

Toki Zenmaro

Eleni Zisimatos

Jim Zola