INTERVENE IN THE INTERVENTION!

The first U.S. publisher to publish one of my books is also about to release the next one, THE IN(TER)VENTION OF THE HAY(NA)KU: Selected Tercets 1996-2019.  Review copies are available; just contact me or mheditor@marshhawkpress.org

INTRODUCING THE INTERVENTION...!

I still remember when I was one of those Mark Young surveyed as to whether he should create an online mag. Now, OTOLITHS has forged a special place among online journals and I'm glad that the Introduction to my last 2019 poetry book is featured in its latest issue--go HERE for esteemed poet-critic (and painter) Thomas Fink's essay but here's an excerpt below. Later this year, I hope you check out my book THE IN(TER)VENTION OF THE HAY(NA)KU: SELECTED TERCETS 1996-2019 (Marsh Hawk Press)--it will be my last poetry book for a while, possibly forever:

excerpt from Introduction:

"Barrios articulates the feminist disclosure of female power in “the Enheduanna poems of Ménage à Trois with the 21st Century (2004), in which “Tabios privileges the woman’s voice and even when she speaks of the man longed for—‘you’—it is from the woman’s imagined perspective…. What really matters is the woman imagining ‘you’” (320) and not the actual “you,” whatever or whoever that is. In “Enheduanna #20,” the sole poem selected for The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets, ... two opening questions compel a recognition of the speaker’s influence over the man as she seeks to fathom his prediction about specifics of his future subjectivity: “As you fall asleep/ in my skin/ will you dream?// Will you want/ you or want/ to change?” Then again, Barrios might be right that this “is from the woman’s imagined perspective,” since the speaker’s apostrophic questions cannot be answered by a “you” who exists, if he exists, outside the poem. After some questioning of herself, she returns to questioning him:

Will you bring the scent
of red roses
I left behind

in New York City alleyways
(or has that season yet to pass)?
In my eyes

will you see
Baudelaire's infinity
he defined as the "sky"

you witness repeatedly
on and in any painting
marked by blue sapphire, lapis

lazuli, indigo, turquoise...sky...?"

MARSH HAWK REVIEW--FALL 2018 ISSUE IS RELEASED!

As its Guest Editor, I'm pleased to release the Fall 2018 issue of The Marsh Hawk Review. Thank you to the poets for sharing their works. Here are the participants to one of the largest (if not largest) issue conducted by the Review:

Mark Young
Irene Willis
Peter Vanderberg
Lynne Thompson
Susan Terris
Eileen R. Tabios
John Simonds
Mara Adamitz Scrupe
Barry Schwabsky
Susan M. Schultz
Janice Lobo Sapigao
E. San Juan, Jr.
Barbara Jane Reyes
Randy Prunty
Paul Pines
Naomi Buck Palagi
Gwynn O’Gara
David O’Connell
Geoffrey O’Brien
Rich Murphy
Michelle Murphy
Daniel Morris
Sandy McIntosh
Tricia McCallum
Agnes Marton
Mary Mackey
Hank Lazer
Amy Grace Lam
Basil King
Burt Kimmelman
Sherry Kearns
George Kalamaras
Jacqueline Jules
Paul Ilechko
Michael Hardin
Grace Grafton
Anne Gorrick
Kirk Glaser
Robert Gibb
Danny Gallardo
Thomas Fink
Thomas Fink and Maya D. Mason
Carol Dorf
Shira Dentz
Aileen I. Cassinetto
Tom Beckett
Ryan Bayless
Ivy Alvarez

MARSH HAWK REVIEW, FALL 2016

I'm delighted to announce the release of the Fall 2016 issue of Marsh Hawk Review which I had the pleasure of guest-editing. You can go to the issue (and archive) over HERE.  The Fall 2016 issue presents the following poets -- thanks for sharing their poems!

Jonel Abellanosa

Kimberly Alidio

William Allegrezza

Urvashi Bahuguna

Tom Beckett

James Berger

John Bloomberg-Rissman

Karen Jane Cannon

Geneva Chao

M.A. Fink

Thomas Fink and Maya D. Mason

Ralph Semino Galan

Aileen Ibardaloza

Luisa A. Igloria

Mary Kasimor

Burt Kimmelman

Iris Lee

Susan Lewis

Mary Mackey

Sandy McIntosh

Stephen Paul Miller

Daniel Morris

Valerie Morton

Robert Murphy

Rene Navarro

George Quasha

Marthe Reed

Jared Schickling

Barry Schwabsky

Eileen R. Tabios

Susan Terris

Madeline Tiger

Jean Vengua

Mark Young
Ali Znaidi

MARSH HAWK PRESS SPRING BOOK LAUNCH!

The launch was a festive success!  Thanks to everyone for coming. Here are some photographed highlights (click on images to enlarge):

(Book Table at Poets House)

(Burt Kimmelman introduced the readers)

(As the audience started to arrive...)

(Tana Jean Welch, most recent recipient of Marsh Hawk Press Annual Poetry Prize, 

reads from LATEST VOLCANO)

(Paul Pines videoed by George Quasha as he reads from CHARLOTTE SONGS)

(Sandy McIntosh reads from A HOLE IN THE OCEAN: A HAMPTONS' APPRENTICESHIP)

(George Quasha reads from THINGS DONE FOR THEMSELVES)

(Stephen Paul Miller reads from ANY LIE YOU TELL WILL BE THE TRUTH)

(Thomas Fink reads from SELECTED POEMS & POETIC SERIES)

(Eileen Tabios also read from her book THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS; 

no photograph of her as she served as photographer)

(After the readings, Jane Augustine offered an introduction to the press since it began 17 years ago!)

(In the audience, Paul Pines with artist Marc Shanker)

(Must be a successful launch when even the press' lawyer, Ron Carlin, shows up!)

(Jane Augustine, MHP accountant and office manager Barbara McIntosh & Thomas Fink)

HOPE TO SEE YOU IN NEW YORK!

FOR

MARSH HAWK PRESS' SPRING BOOK LAUNCH

where I'll read poems from The Connoisseur of Alleys with fabulous other poets!

TERCE SUBMISSION CALL FOR MARSH HAWK REVIEW

I'm editing the Fall Issue of the Marsh Hawk Review. The theme will be TERCETS.

You are invited to send me poems utilizing this form by emailing galateaten@gmail.com  Deadline is August 1, 2016.

Previously published poems are fine, as long as they're not yet online. I will give Acknowledgments to print publications which first published them.

All best,

Eileen Tabios
P.S. I thank Barry Schwabsky for inspiring the theme by sending me two brilliant poems in this form (and which will be part of the Review). As my own recent work has been on this form, I'll be delighted to see other poets' approaches.

P.P.S.  The hay(na)ku is a tercet!!!!

FORTHCOMING IN POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Marsh Hawk Press has prepared an announcement of its Spring and Fall 2016 releases for the March/April issue of Poets & Writers magazine; this ad below will appear on the back cover! As you can see below, Vince Gotera went over-the-top for his praise for my Spring 2016 book, THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS, but my publisher was happy to receive it.  All I can say is, Thank you, Vince!

(click to enlarge)

You are also invited to visit Marsh Hawk Press' table at AWP to see these new books!

Of course, I recommend all of Marsh Hawk Press' books. And I also recommend a forthcoming book by Susan Schultz, such that I provided a blurb!  This will be released by the excellent poetry publisher, Talisman, helmed by the excellent poet Ed Foster! (This blurb is first-draft, unedited.)

Blurb for Memory Cards: Thomas Traherne Series by Susan Schultz:  

As each poem by Susan Schultz begins with a line from Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditations, the strengths of her poems honor their source, offering a fresh reason for Traherne’s meditations remaining relevant as centuries unfold. Schultz’s poems are prose poems like Traherne’s paragraphs but are located in her and our (as readers) time. Sadly, this means referencing the homeless, “Kabul,” the Walmart worker’s low wages and even “Trump.” Fortunately, Schultz keeps our attention, even on topics that one might wish to bypass, through resonance (“Lavafall at Pahoa’s transfer station; someone lays red petals on its black”), imagery (“loss, like a rope in my stomach, turning to braid”), even whimsy (“Await the typo for that is where tooth lies”), and finally wisdom (“The weed whackers insure an absence of quiet. Quiet must be made; it’s not a taking away but an addition to.”) With their layers, often combined in pleasingly unexpected ways, these meditations—and poems—offer an immensely satisfying read. 

--Eileen R. Tabios

Relatedly then, 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

MEMORY CARDS: THOMAS TRAHERNE SERIES by Susan Schultz (in manuscript; see above blurb)

SELECT POEMS by John M. Bennett (I like to read poets’ COLLECTEDS and SELECTEDS. This book shows not only that John Bennett’s lifetime poetic endeavors are worthwhile but that readers are lucky such a book as his SELECTED exists. His SELECTED allows us to see his trajectory and we see a restless, brilliant mind at work in the service of poetry. LinkedIn to Poetry (LPR) #222) 

THEY AND WE WILL GET INTO TROUBLE FOR THIS, poems by Anna Moschovakis (distinct and pleasurable. LPR #221)

THE UNFOLDING CENTER, poem by Arthur Sze and art by Susan York plus a conversation with John Yau (so resonant. LPR #218)

MY CHOCOLATE SARCOPHAGUS by Claudia Carlson (moving; delicate and steel at the same time. LPR #216)

THE AHA MOMENT, visual poetry by Márton Koppány (E-ratio Editions, 2016)
 (brilliant. LPR #220) 

LOST WAX: TRANSLATION THROUGH THE VOID, poems by Jonathan Stalling with translations by Zhou Yu, Yao Benbiao, Nick Admussen, Jami Proctor-Xu, Jennifer Feeley, Eleanoir Goodman, Lucas Klein and Andrea Lingenfelter and sculpture and photography by Amy Stalling (fabulous example of poetry-in-progress, LPR #219)

GOSSAMER LID by Andrew Brenza (wonderful enough to blurb! LPR #217)

*  A WINGED HORSE IN A PLANE, poems by Salah Faik, translated by Maged Zaher (really enjoyed this; found it moving and more)

*  LEARN TO LOVE EXPLOSIVES, poems by Geoffrey Woolf (deft and pleasingly energetic with enjoyable twists)

SOME NOTES ON MY PROGRAMMING, poems by Anselm Berrigan (fabulous energy)

ONE BIG SELF: AN INVESTIGATION, poetry/poems by C.D. Wright

NEGATIVITY’S KISS, noir poem by Alice Notley

FOX: POEMS 1998-2000 by Adrienne Rich

I MUST BE LIVING TWICE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Eileen Myles

ONE WITH OTHERS [A LITTLE BOOK OF HER DAYS], poetry by C.D. Wright

SKY JOURNAL, poems by Hassen Saker

SOME WORLDS FOR DR. VOGT, poems by Matvei Yankelevich

*  STANZAS ON OZ: POEMS 2011-2014 by David M. Katz

*  LATEST VOLCANO, poems by Tana Jean Welch

*  THINKING SINGING: SELECTED POEMS OF HANK LAZER / PENSANDO CANTANDO: POESIE SCELTE DI HANK LAZER with Italian translations by Anny Ballardini

*  AS FAR AS I KNOW, poems by Joseph Somoza

*  HOW TO BE ANOTHER, poems by Susan Lewis

*  LICHEN LOVES STONE, poems by Jen Crawford

*  AWKWARD HUGGER, poems by Timothy Dyke

*  ORIGINAL SIN, poems by Michael Daley

*  ORPHAN, poems by Joseph Han

*  LORD’S OWN ANNOINTED, poems by Kevin Cutrer with drawings by Rob Fairburn

*  OLD BALLERINA CLUB, poems by Sharon Olinka

*  THE POND IN ROOM 318, poems by Kip Zegers

*  WHERE YOU WANT TO BE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Kevin Pilkington

THE MESHES, poems by Brittany Billmeyer-Finn

HOW WE BECAME HUMAN: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1975-2001 by Joy Harjo

NEW YEAR, TWENTY SIXTEEN, poetry card-broadside by Sheila Murphy

*  OVER HEAR: SIX TYPES OF POETRY EXPERIMENT IN AOTEAROA / NEW ZEALAND, poetics essay by Lisa Samuels

ERATIO#22, literary journal edited by Gregory St. Vincent Thomasino 

*  THE UNBEARABLE CONTACT WITH POETS, prose and interviews by Derek Beaulieu

LIFE IN A TIN CAN: THE REAL PIANOVAN, memoir by Chris Stroffolino 

GIRL DRIVE: CRISS-CROSSING AMERICA, REDEFINING FEMINISM, study/journalism by Nona Willis Aronowitz & Emma Bee Bernstein

THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST LOOKS LIKE (2014) by The Sitting Room writers

BROKEN VERSE, art monograph by Darrell Nettles

RHYTHM FIELD: THE DANCE OF MOLISSA FENLEY, Edited by Ann Murphy and Molissa Fenley

INSIDE THE ARTIST’S STUDIO by Joe Fig

INSIDE THE ART STUDIO: A GUIDED TOUR OF 37 ARTISTS’ CREATIVE SPACES edited by Mary Burzlaff Bostic and the editors of AMERICAN ARTIST magazine

THE ACCORDION FAMILY: BOOMERANG KIDS, ANXIOUS PARENTS AND THE PRIVATE TOLL OF GLOBAL COMPETITION, study by Katherine S. Newman

WINES

2005/6 Peter Michael chardonnay “Point Rouge”

1996 Domaine Leroy Clos de Vougeot

2012 Dancing Hares

2003 Villi Schaefer Spatlese

1990 Ch. D’Yquem

2013 Failla chardonnay Sonoma Coast

1998 Haut Brion

2007 Peter Michael Ma Belle Fille

1991 Vega Sicilia

1993 Araujo Eisele Vineyard

2009 Artadi El Carretil

2010 Les Halos de Jupiter PAR Philippe Cambie Cotes du Rhone

1990 Ch. Haut-Marbuzet

2010 pinot noir Calera Jensen Vineyard

KRAZY FOR MARSH HAWK PRESS!!!

Continuing moi preference of being present but invisible, feel free to see the visual coverage of perhaps one of the top three best poetry readings I've ever attended (not because I was part of it :) but in terms of the "on-ness" of the featured poets). I was willing to do a 36-hour transcontinental round trip as this is Marsh Hawk Press' 15th anniversary, and it was worth it. Glad to be associated for 14 years now with this very independent press. Indie-thinking: it matters.

One of the marvels of the poetry reading was Jane Augustine.  Her book KRAZY presents visual poems that she, for performance/reading porpoises, chose to treat as scripts for a sound presentation.  Her energetic rendition became sound poetry as its best, in part because of the impressive length of her breath, i.e. she must have spat out a gazillion words without having to take a pause to inhale!  As someone whose breath --and consequently poetic lines -- has shortened with age, I was both enthralled and amazed by Jane's presentation.  Here she is and I do so recommend her book KRAZY!  Delighted to be published by the same press and here she is during her performance at the book launch:

Dear Marsh Hawk Press, Happy Anniversary! May you live long and prosper!  And present more events like THIS!

TRUCK HAS DELIVERED ITS MARCH LOAD!

And so I end my guest-curatorship of The List or Catalog Poem Series over at TRUCK.  I end with me.

Hm. "I end with me."  That's, like, almost as catchy as "I is the Other" but I digress...

I said, "I end with me" because I chose to feature as the last poem a poem written by Sandy McIntosh when he was making fun of how prolific I am and specifically with thick books like, as he called them, the BRICK and SON-OF-A-BRICK.  Funny guy, my publisher.

Anyway, it's been a joy to do this project.  And I thank the poet-participants again and, for your convenience and re-reading pleasure, post their names below -- you can check out their List Poems by going HERE:

1 – Pamela Hart 

2 – Amanda Ngoho Reavey 

3 – Barry Schwabsky  

4 – Stephanie Strickland 

5 – Sandy McIntosh

6 – John Bloomberg-Rissman

7 – Anne Gorrick

8 – Sheila Murphy 

8 – Rebecca Loudon

9 – Patrick James Dunagan

9 – Jean Vengua 

10 – Anny Ballardini 

11 – Patti Greenberg 

12 – Neil Leadbeater 
12 – Lanny Quarles

13 – Laura Roghaar 

14 – Donna Fleischer

15 – Marton Koppany 

16 – Minal Hajratwala 

17 – Michael Sikkema 

18 – lars palm 

19 – Tom Beckett 

20 – Mark Young 

21 – Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow 

22 – Alex Gildzen 

23 – Melissa Eleftherion

24 – J.G. Dimaranan 

25 – G. Mae Aquino 
26 – Erin Virgil
27 – J Likha Yatco

28 – Julia Fleeman 

29 – Shloka Shankar 

29 – Jim McCrary

30 – Halvard Johnson 

31 – Eileen Tabios & a Doppelganger (Sandy McIntosh)

DO PENCIL ME IN FOR NEW YORK!

I'm flying to New York City in May for literally a one day in-and-out.  Why?  For launching my books with the rest of Marsh Hawk Press' recently-published authors.  May 15, 7 pm at Poets House.  More info HERE.

You are invited!!!

ON THE ONE HAND, PROLIFIC; ON THE OTHER HAND, A SLACKER!

Huh.  Last year, I released three poetry collections and an edited anthology.  So far in 2015, I've released two books, have another forthcoming, have two manuscripts under consideration, and three other manuscripts I'm just sitting on as I don't have time for them except to sit on them.  But apparently, I can still be considered a slacker.  Well, at least when I start getting compared to Joyce Carol Oates!  It's all good, of course.  If anything, coverage like that by my local paper reminds me not to keep sitting on my butt ...

The St. Helena Star is three books behind on its coverage of me....but no complaints: I'm just happy to have coverage!

IN THREE QUESTIONS, A WORLD

Marsh Hawk Press has commenced a very interesting "Three Questions" series for its authors to focus on their books.  You can find the Contents page with links HERE.  The series is new and so far presents Mary Mackey, Tom Beckett, Norman Finkelstein and Michael Rerick.  I am the fifth author with a focus on I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED.  You can see my Q&A HERE where I discuss, among other things, the relationship as I concocted it between noted Filipino artist V.C. Igarta and Clyfford Still.

V.C. Igarta

Clyfford Still

THE MARSH HAWK REVIEW

I guest-edited the Fall issue of The Marsh Hawk Review, and it's just been released and is available HERE.  You are invited to read!

Featured poets are

Harriet Zinnes


Jean Vengua

Susan Terris

Eileen R. Tabios

Felino A. Soriano

Barry Schwabsky


Susan M. Schultz

Michael Rerick

Marthe Reed

Paul Pines


Sheila E. Murphy

Daniel Morris


Stephen Paul Miller

Meredith Lewis

Michael Leong


Eric Hoffman


Anne Gorrick

Joanna Fuhrman

Donna Fleischer

Thomas Fink

Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason

Brian Clements


John Bloomberg-Rissman and Anne Gorrick


William Allegrezza