NEW REVOOOOOOOOS

An embarrassment of riches.  But I'm grateful to the reviewers who took the time.  First, I FORGOT LIGHT BURNS was reviewed by Zvi A. Sesling in Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene.  You can see entire review HERE but here's an excerpt:

...many of the poems are worth remembering. Take for example the following poem ...

I forgot memory contains an underbrush—
I forgot the inevitability of ashes—
I forgot sentences like veins—

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Also receiving a recent review is SUN STIGMATA (SCULPTURE POEMS), reviewed by Edric Mesmer in new issue of Yellow Field.  You can see entire review HERE but here's an excerpt (reprinted in Marsh Hawk Press Blog as YF is a print edition):

...Tabios is a poet who needn't reinvent herself; rather the span of her expression is wide, and this booked enfold takes on a more narrative aspect than other collections, often sensuous in its rend: "I'd give you / the ripest plum, ready to split / apart from a thought I still / would be folded about your tongue" (61); other times, anguished: "familiar with departures / the loosening of embraces / the forfeiture of birth places" (60); and once more, philosophically political: "the unanswered question / will be, "Might Justice / be colored white?"

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!

AT MARSH HAWK PRESS BOOK LAUNCH!

You are invited to Marsh Hawk Press' Spring Book Launch, with bounteous wine and appetizer reception, at the wonderful Poets House.   Launch details:

Poets House
New York City
May 15, 2015
7 pm
Free and open to the public

The launch will be for books released during Winter 2014-Spring 2015:

Christina Olivares: No Map of the Earth Includes Stars 

Jon Curley: Hybrid Moments

Jane Augustine: KRAZY: Visual Poems and Performance Scripts

Basil King: The Spoken Word / The Painted Hand from Learning to Draw / A History

Eileen Tabios: SUN STIGMATA (Sculpture Poems).

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THE ASEMIC GETS TOUCHED BY MIDAS

Interesting how I came to refer to the work as "the asemic" -- like it's a creature.  Anyway, here it is golden-ed. And I think it's birthing something more solid than it is -- like the effect of reading?

GALATEA RESURRECTS IS FRESH!

Galatea Resurrects is live at Issue No. 24!  Thanks as ever to Galatea Resurrects' generous volunteer staff of reviewers. In addition to presenting wonderful feature articles, we feature 53 NEW POETRY REVIEWS in this issue.  

With Issue No. 24, GR has provided 1,499 new reviews and 125 reprinted reviews (the latter brings online reviews previously available only viz print or first published in now-defunct online sites). With this issue, we also increased our coverage of poetry publishers by 24 to 544 publishers in 17 countries. This is important as much of the ground-breaking poetry work is published by independent and/or relatively small presses who (by the nature of their work) are not always as well-known as they deserve. 

Go discover some fabulous poetry books!  Happy Reading!

Galatea Resurrects No. 24, the most fun poetry review online!

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And don't forget about the next review submission deadline: Nov. 15, 2015!  Come join the party!

I WON'T FORGET SPAIN...

I was delighted today to receive copies of that little--but not small--magazine, Yellow Field, "collated" by Edric Mesmer out of Buffalo, N.Y. and highlighted in this article about Buffalo Libraries' Special Collections. Over time, YF, has become "a space for the poetics of the local, of the international, of the visual-sonically-textual, of the inter-phemic, of the multi-disciplinary, and of late of the intertextual."  It's an honor to publish there my Summer 2014 travel diary for Spain.  I mostly visited its wine country, which provided much fodder for poetry as you can see from excerpts below.  Thank you, Edric Mesmer!

KUWENTO! DISCOVER THE "LOST THINGS"!

I thank the lovely novelist Noel Alumit for reading my poem "The Creation Diptych" during the Los Angeles book launch for one of the most interesting anthologies recently released: KUWENTO: LOST THINGS, an anthology of Philippine myths.  Here's his loveliness:

Thanks to the vibrant and energetic Rachelle Cruz and Melissa Sipin for including my poems.  My poems delight in being included!