Publication News Late Winter/Early Spring

Late Winter – Early Spring Publications Posted on May 1, 2024 Rhyme and Punishment, Comedic Verse 2024 Local Gems Press

Happy to receive my copy of Rhyme and Punishment and thrilled to see my baseball Catku in it. Thanks James P Wagner (Ishwa). Kudos to Lorraine Conlin, George Northrup, Kelly J Powell, Judy Turek, James P Wagner (Ishwa), Margaret Wahl, Chris Bogart, R Bremner, John J Trause, etc.

Hear We Are, a Rapsody in view- The Alternative New Year’s Day Spoken Word/ Performance Extravaganza 2024 Anthology– The Rogue Scholars Collective

Wow, I received my copy of Hear We Are today from The Rogue Scholars Collective and proud that my poems “Nature Boy” and “Media Speaks” are in it. Thanks CD Johnson. Shout outs to Austin Alexis, Joel Allegretti, Madeline Artenberg, Geer Austin, Ronald P. Bremner, Didi Champagne, Bill Considine, Pete Dolack, Dorothy Friedman, Phillip Giambri, Robert Gibbons, Patrick Thomas Hammer, Roxanne Hoffman, Tina Chan, C. D. Johnson, Jennifer Juneau, Linda Kleinbub, Ron Kolm, Ptr Kozlowski, Linda Lerner, Mindy Matijasevic, Prince A McNally, Joshua Meander, Puma Perl, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Miriam Stanley, Zev Torres, Robert Anthony Gibbons, Susan Weiman, Bruce E. Whitacre, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Francine Witte, et al.

Alien Buddha Press Ceasefire Now! March 4, 2024

Thank you Alien Buddha Press for doing this project and for publishing “The Palace” and “Gaza Haiku.”

Fixed and Free Quarterly Vol 3, Issue 1, March 2024

Thank you Billy Brown for publishing “Wild Is the Wind” and “Lamentations” in the March Edition of Fixed and Free Quarterly. Kudos to Josephine LoRe Bill Nevins Sandy Yannone Charles Cobean, and more.

Four Feathers Press Pie Sighs March 14, 2024

Happy Pi Day! Thank you Don Kingfisher Campbell of Four Feathers Press Pie Sighs for publishing my Kitty Pie Haiku. Congrats to Stone Soup’s Robert Fleming Don Kingfisher Campbell and Jackie Chou.

https://piesighs.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR3CN_WYbhbHYffyfragFBOF1WUfHdNkBUqZFX73cJgsIE_OENtW909MCZY

Carnyx Collective Anthology Vol #1, 2024

Thank you Pen Draig the Poet for publishing my poems “Lamentations” and “Media Speaks.” Congrats to my talented friends David Dephy Heath Brougher Ronald P. Bremner Chad Parenteau Margo Taft Stever and to those I missed in listing.

The project was conceived to raise funds for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders and all proceeds from the sale of this anthology go to supporting their work. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1P2TYDR?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

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Brownstone Poets: Claudia Serea, Arthur Russell, Anton Yakovlev,

Brownstone Poets: Claudia Serea, Arthur Russell, Anton Yakovlev, Saturday, May 25 at 2 p.m. ET

Brownstone Poets is happy to present on Saturday, May 25 at 2 pm ET

The Red Wheelbarrow Poets:

Claudia Serea

Arthur Russell

Anton Yakovlev

Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.

Please follow the directions below, completing both steps at least two days before the reading to avoid delays entering the meeting room. Note the order of the open mic follows the order of signup. Sign up early to read early in the program. Last-minute signup means you will read at the end of the program. (Note that your contribution is not refundable.)

Please follow these instructions:

Step 1: Make your $5 contribution: https://bit.ly/3bkqFmO

(Note that your contribution is not refundable.)

Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting:

https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D

Step 3: After making your contribution and completing your registration, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.

Looking forward to seeing you at our May reading!

For your convenience, here is the link to our Facebook event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/25201736422802952

Bios:

Claudia Serea is a Romanian American poet, translator, and editor with work published in Consequence, The Southern Review, Field, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Oxford Poetry, among others, as well as featured on The Writer’s Almanac. She is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently In Those Years, No One Slept (Broadstone Books, 2023). Serea won a Pushcart Prize, the Joanne Scott Kennedy Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of Virginia, and the New Letters Readers Award for her poems. She is a founding editor of National Translation Month, serves on the board of The Red Wheelbarrow Poets, and co-hosts their monthly readings.

Arthur Russell is the winner, most recently, of the 2023 Rattle Chapbook Prize (https://www.rattle.com/chapbooks/c2023/) and the 2023 Fractured Lit Flash Fiction Prize. His poems and stories have appeared in Copper Nickel and Glimmer Train among other publications. He is one of the directors of the Red Wheelbarrow Poets of Rutherford, New Jersey, where he co-leads the weekly workshop, co-hosts the monthly reading series, and co-edits the annual journal.

Anton Yakovlev’s poetry collection One Night We Will No Longer Bear the Ocean comes out in May 2024 from Redacted Books, an imprint of ELJ Editions. His chapbook Chronos Dines Alone (SurVision Books, 2018) won the James Tate Prize. He is also the author of Ordinary Impalers (Kelsay Books, 2017) and two prior chapbooks. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Daily, The Hopkins Review, Plume, upstreet, and elsewhere. The Last Poet of the Village: Selected Poems by Sergei Yesenin Translated by Anton Yakovlev came out from Sensitive Skin Books in 2019.

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“johnmac’s Monthly Poetry Workshop” Wed, April 24 at 6:30 pm ET

Happy National Poetry Month!

Mark your calendars for Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. ET

Be sure to join us on this Wednesday, April 24th at 6:15 PM ET for “johnmac’s Monthly Poetry Workshop” on Zoom

Our guest poet this month will be Zoom veteran & coordinator of the Brownstone Poets and editor of its annual anthology, Patricia Carragon (bio below).

Hosted by John F. McMullen

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83176155376 to join (no additional software is required)

Bio:

Patricia Carragon’s recent publications: Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, Jerry Jazz Musician, I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe (Milk & Cake Press), Nat’l and Int’l Goddess, NBPF 2023 Festival Anthology, The New Verse News, Out Loud, an LGBTQA Literary Arts Anthology (Red or Green Books), The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, The Scene, Spillwords, Wales Haiku Journal, Waymark, Witchery-Issue 3- Summer 2023, et al. Her poem, “Wild Is the Wind,” received a 2024 Pushcart Nomination from Poets Wear Prada’s The Rainbow Project. Her debut novel is Angel Fire (Alien Buddha Press). Her books from Poets Wear Prada are Meowku and The Cupcake Chronicles. Her book Innocence is from Finishing Line Press. She hosts Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology.

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International Haiku Day Moonstone Arts Center Zoom Event, Sunday, 4/21 at 2

International Haiku Day Moonstone Arts Center Zoom Event, Sunday, April 21 at 2 pm ET

Happy to be reading my haiku with Amy Barone and Bruce E. Whitacre and other great poets this Sunday, April 21 at 2 pm ET for the Moonstone Arts Arts Center's Zoom celebration of International Haiku Poetry Day .

Hosted by Larry Robin

Please click below to register:

https://moonstoneartscenter.org/event/virtual-poetry-international-haiku-day/

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REMINDER:Brownstone Poets on ZOOM

Happy National Poetry Month from Brownstone Poets!

Saturday, April 27 at 2 pm ET

Cornelius Eady Sarah Sarai Bruce E. Whitacre

Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.

Please follow the directions below, completing both steps at least two days before the reading to avoid delays entering the meeting room. Note the order of the open mic follows the order of signup. Sign up early to read early in the program. Last-minute signup means you will read at the end of the program. (Note that your contribution is not refundable.)

Please follow these instructions:

Step 1: Make your $5 contribution: https://bit.ly/3bkqFmO

(Note that your contribution is not refundable.)

Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting:

https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D

Step 3: After making your contribution and completing your registration, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.

Looking forward to seeing you at our April reading.

For your convenience, here is the link to our Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/3661184087484052

Bios:

Poet and cofounder of Cave Canem, Cornelius is the author of several collections of poetry, including Hardheaded Weather (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008); Brutal Imagination (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001), which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry; The Gathering of My Name (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1991), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; and Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (Ommation Press, 1986), which was chosen by Louise Glück, Charles Simic, and Philip Booth for the 1985 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. Eady’s honors include the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2023, he received the Pegasus Award for Service in Poetry, alongside Derricotte. Eady is currently a professor of English and John C, Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of TN-Knoxville.

Sarah Sarai’s latest collection, Bright-Eyed (Poets Wear Prada), is a version of her family’s move from New York to Los Angeles—the San Fernando Valley, the Crenshaw District, Echo Park; with a time out for San Francisco, where she lived in the Haight with a Bach fanatic and escapee from a Russian prisoner-of-war camp. She is a past recipient of an NEH Fellowship (funding a six-week seminar at Kenyon College); and grants in poetry, fiction, and editorship from both the Seattle and King County Arts Commissions. Her poems are in numerous journals including Threepenny Review, BostonReview, Southampton Review, and Barrow Street. She is currently finalizing her short story collection, It’s People; her novellas: Lucy Needs Work: A Vote for Ross Perot and The Meriweather Treasure; and her novel The To-Do List Manifesto. She’s lived in N.Y.C. for over twenty years, wondering where she really belongs.

Bruce E. Whitacre’s Good Housekeeping,April 2024 from Poets Wear Prada, is a BookLife Reviews Editors Pick. The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks, was also a BookLife Reviews Editors Pick and placed 2nd in Contemporary Poetry at The BookFest Spring 2023. His crown sonnet about the culture of violence won the Nebraska Poetry Society’s 2023 Open Poetry Contest. His poem “Garuda in Forest Park” is part of the 2024 edition of the Queensbound.com project matching poems with subway stops. His poems have appeared in many anthologies and over thirty-five journals. “Leave Meeting” was a sample poem in Diane Lockward’s craft book, The Strategic Poet, Terrapin Books, 2021. He has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net. A Nebraska native and a former theatre executive, he lives with his husband in Queens, NY. More info at www.brucewhitacre.com.

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The Annual Rainbow Book Fair, Saturday April 20 from noon to 6 p.m.

Brownstone Poets is proud and honored to join Poets Wear Prada with friends from Eggplant Press and Crown Rock Media at The Annual Rainbow Book Fair!

From Poets Wear Prada:

The Annual Rainbow Book Fair, the largest LGBTQ book event in the world, now in its twelfth year, will take place Saturday, April 20, 2024, from noon to 6 PM, at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center, 208 W 13th Street, west of 7th Avenue in New York’s Greenwich Village.

Poets Wear Prada is proud to be a Silver Sponsor of this year’s fair. We will be tabling with our friends from Brownstone Poets, Eggplant Press, and Crown Rock Media. Please stop by, browse and shop our books, meet our authors and the editors, and say hello! .

Admission is free, but a suggested donation of $5 is welcome at the door. .

The RBF brings more than 100 exhibitors and more than 1500 authors, agents, editors, publishers, and LGBTQ book lovers of all sorts together for full schedule of panels, book readings, an all-day Poetry Salon, and conversations. Special Featured Readers include Felice Picano, Torrey Peters, Samra Habib, and Andrea Lawlor. Panels include How to Get Published, The Male Muse Anthology at 50+, and Politics as Experience, Experience as Politics.

For more information: www.rainbowbookfair.com. Or, contact us by email: rainbowbookfair123@gmail.com.

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Happy National Poetry Month!

Happy National Poetry Month! Posted on April 6, 2024 Poets and Friends, Happy National Poetry Month!

Check out these books on Amazon:

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Brownstone Poets 2023 Anthology

Available on Amazon:

https://amzn.to/49XJIQi

$18

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Meowku

Available on Amazon:

https://amzn.to/3EnRNh5

now on sale for

$4.96 List Price: $12.00

Save: $7.04 (59%)

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The Cupcake Chronicles

Available on Amazon:

https://amzn.to/3ZsiDzM$12

$12

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Innocence

Available on Amazon:

https://amzn.to/3PQwjkN

$14.99

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Brownstone Poets Eady, Sarai, Whitacre

Happy National Poetry Month from Brownstone Poets!

Saturday, April 27 at 2 pm ET

Cornelius Eady Sarah Sarai Bruce E. Whitacre

Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.

Please follow the directions below, completing both steps at least two days before the reading to avoid delays entering the meeting room. Note the order of the open mic follows the order of signup. Sign up early to read early in the program. Last-minute signup means you will read at the end of the program. (Note that your contribution is not refundable.)

Please follow these instructions:

Step 1: Make your $5 contribution: https://bit.ly/3bkqFmO

(Note that your contribution is not refundable.)

Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting:

https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D

Step 3: After making your contribution and completing your registration, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.

Looking forward to seeing you at our April reading.

For your convenience, here is the link to our Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/3661184087484052

Bios:

Poet and cofounder of Cave Canem, Cornelius is the author of several collections of poetry, including Hardheaded Weather (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008); Brutal Imagination (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001), which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry; The Gathering of My Name (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1991), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; and Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (Ommation Press, 1986), which was chosen by Louise Glück, Charles Simic, and Philip Booth for the 1985 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. Eady’s honors include the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2023, he received the Pegasus Award for Service in Poetry, alongside Derricotte. Eady is currently a professor of English and John C, Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of TN-Knoxville.

Sarah Sarai’s latest collection, Bright-Eyed (Poets Wear Prada), is a version of her family’s move from New York to Los Angeles—the San Fernando Valley, the Crenshaw District, Echo Park; with a time out for San Francisco, where she lived in the Haight with a Bach fanatic and escapee from a Russian prisoner-of-war camp. She is a past recipient of an NEH Fellowship (funding a six-week seminar at Kenyon College); and grants in poetry, fiction, and editorship from both the Seattle and King County Arts Commissions. Her poems are in numerous journals including Threepenny Review, BostonReview, Southampton Review, and Barrow Street. She is currently finalizing her short story collection, It’s People; her novellas: Lucy Needs Work: A Vote for Ross Perot and The Meriweather Treasure; and her novel The To-Do List Manifesto. She’s lived in N.Y.C. for over twenty years, wondering where she really belongs.

Bruce E. Whitacre’s Good Housekeeping,April 2024 from Poets Wear Prada, is a BookLife Reviews Editors Pick. The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks, was also a BookLife Reviews Editors Pick and placed 2nd in Contemporary Poetry at The BookFest Spring 2023. His crown sonnet about the culture of violence won the Nebraska Poetry Society’s 2023 Open Poetry Contest. His poem “Garuda in Forest Park” is part of the 2024 edition of the Queensbound.com project matching poems with subway stops. His poems have appeared in many anthologies and over thirty-five journals. “Leave Meeting” was a sample poem in Diane Lockward’s craft book, The Strategic Poet, Terrapin Books, 2021. He has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net. A Nebraska native and a former theatre executive, he lives with his husband in Queens, NY. More info at www.brucewhitacre.com.

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Reminder: Browntone Poets

Reminder: Brownstone Poets on Zoom: Marissa Prada, Bryan Franco, Edith Blackbird Brownstone Poets on Zoom: Marissa Prada, Bryan Franco, Edith Blackbird, Sat, March 30 at 2 pm ET

You are invited from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET, the last Saturday of the month, March 30 for our next installment of Brownstone Poets with our rockstar features:

Marissa Prada

Bryan Franco

Edith Blackbird

Plus a limited (3-minute) open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print and pays for our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.

Please follow directions below, completing both steps at least two days before the reading to avoid delays entering the meeting room. Note the order of the open mic follows the order of signup. Sign up early.

Please follow these instructions:

Step 1: Make your $5 contribution: https://bit.ly/3bkqFmO

(Note that your contribution is not refundable.)

Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting:

https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D

Step 3: After making your contribution and completing your registration, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.

Looking forward to seeing you at our February edition! For your convenience, here is the link to our Facebook event page:AD

https://www.facebook.com/events/773123818024105

Bios:

Marissa Prada turned to writing and spoken word as a method of healing. Marissa continues to write as a tool for managing anxiety, stress, and trauma, as well as an expression of love, independence, and sexuality. She has been published in many periodicals and anthologies around the world. Marissa is the founder of Read or Green Books and is the Co-Founder and Creative Director for The Word is Write on Facebook & Instagram; a platform that hosts open mics, slams & workshops almost every day of the week. Marissa is a founding member of the worldwide women’s poetry group, Tesoro.

Bryan Franco is a gay, Jewish poet from Brunswick, Maine. He competed with the Portland, Maine Rhythmic Cypher slam team in the 2014 National Poetry Slam in Oakland, California. He has been published in the US, Australia, England, India, Ireland, and Scotland and has featured for poetry events in the US, England, Ireland, and Scotland. He was a finalist in the 2022 NAMI NJ Dara Axelrod Expressive Arts Poetry Contest. He hosts Café Generalissimo Open Mic, is a member of the Beardo Bards of the Bardo poetry troupe, painter, sculptor, gardener, and culinary genius. His book Everything I Think Is All in My Mind was published in 2021 by Read Or Green Books.

Edith Blackbird is a Mexican queer trilingual writer/poet/performer with a “Declamation Style”. In Mexico 2005, placed second in a nationwide poetry contest, and in 2007, the Sonora University published her in the anthology Realidad Aleatoria. Now in USA, Edith has been published in the anthologies Di-vêrsé-city (2020), the SINEW: 10 Years of Poetry in The Brew (2021), the Touching Tongues (2021), and in the Out Loud: An LGBTQ Literary Art Anthology (2022). She was featured in the Lion and Pirate event at Malvern Books (2020), in the Pastiche House event (2021), in the Waterfront Immersive Arts Festival (2020, 2021, and 2023), and in the 2023 NM Poetry Summit. She co-hosts Lenguas a virtual event that promotes cultural diversity and art.

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Fixed and Free Zoom Event

Fixed and Free reading on Zoom March 28, 2024 – 8pm ET/6 pm MT

featuring:

Patricia Carragon, Brooklyn, NY

Kimberley Adonna, Albuquerque, NM

Hosted by Billy Brown

Open Mic

***If you wish to attend and be on the open mic list, please email Billy Brown for Zoom info & invitation:

Welbert53@aol.com

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