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Celebrating Writers Nick Masesso, Oakland, Ca., has a new book "Armor of Innocence" through http://www.publishamerica.net/product90978.html Marie Delgado Travis, Houston, Tx. has been named 2010 HOUSTON HISPANIC BOOK FESTIVAL AUTHOR OF THE YEAR. An award-winning bilingual poet, she will be honored as the Author of the Year at the Eighth Annual Houston Hispanic Book Festival to be held at the Hilton Houston Southwest, 6780 Southwest Freeway in Houston, TX on Sunday, February 21, 2010, from noon to 6:00 p.m. January Dr. Charles Frederickson, Bangkok, Thailand, has a new chapbook fanTHAIsies published by Flutter Press: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/fanthaisies/8089595 December Cher Wollard, of Livermore, Ca., has been elected to the post of Poet Laureate of the city for the term of 2009 - 2011. She plans to take poetry wider into the community. June - July Flavia Cosma, Ontario, Canada - is announcing the opening of a new Writers and Artists Residency in Val David Quebec. She's the International Affairs Chair, The League of Canadian Poets. http://www.flaviacosma.com Dr. Milton Ehre, Chicago, Ill. Milton Ehre, long-time Professor of Russian literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the U. of Chicago, passed away at his home in River Forest, Illinois, on 30 June 2009. Born in 1933, Milt received his BA from the City College of New York in 1955 and embarked on a career as a school teacher. In 1966 he received an MA in Russian at Columbia University and continued on to receive his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1970. By this time he had already spent three years on the faculty of the U. of Chicago, where he earned promotion to Associate Professor in 1972 and Professor in 1981. He retired from the University in 1992. In 1973 Milt also published his first book *Oblomov and His Creator: The Life and Art of Ivan Goncharov*, for which V. S. Pritchett (writing in the *New York Review of Books*) praised Miltôs õclose knowledge of Russian critical writing and his observation of the detail of Goncharovôs impulses and methods as a novelist. Milt's second book, published in 1986, was *Isaac Babel*. In addition to these two books and a score of major essays, Milt was also an accomplished translator, publishing many translations of Russian poetry. Throughout his illustrious career Milt held two Fulbright-Hays fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Deborah Grossman of Pleasanton, Ca., has been elected the city's Poet Laureate for 2009 - 2011. During the two-year volunteer post, she plans to continue current poetry programs as well as add more offerings. May-June http://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/show_story.php?id=2046 Martin Willitts, Jr. of Norwich, NY has a new book about art and artists entitled "The Hummingbird" May 2009, through March Street Press: www.marchstreetpress.com Ihar Kozak, of the West Coast of Florida, has established his poetic web site: http://ihar-kozak.webs.com , 2009 David Holper, of Eureka, Ca., has his book of poems 64 Questions published by March Street Press. February 2009 Marie Delgado Travis, LanguageandCulture.net Spanish Poetry Editor, of Houston Texas, will be among the honorees at the Sucesos News Second Annual Gala, "A Tribute to the Hispanic Woman," commemorating International Women's Day on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 7 PM. The event will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel (290 and Pinemont)), Houston, TX. For more information, see www.sucesosnews.com/Reinado.html Bradley Buchanan, of Sacramento, Ca., has started a publication called Roan Press: www.roanpress.com Roberta Gould, of W. Hurley, NY, has had her book of poems Louder Than Seeds, published, by Foothill Press: http://www.foothillspublishing.com/2008/id73.htm, November, 2008 Michael Lee Johnson, of Chicago, has his new poetry chapbook From Which Place the Morning Rises and his new version of The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom (both with picture illustrations) available at http://stores.lulu.com/promomanusa Don Cellini has his Spanish/English bi-lingual book of poems: "Inkblots", published by March Street Press, www.marchstreetpress.com. Fall, 2008 Marie Delgado Travis' poetry chapbook "Miracles: A Book of (Mostly) Humorous Poetry" won Honorable Mention, 10th Annual International Latino Book Awards, Category: Best Poetry Book in English, Book Expo America, Los Angeles, CA. See www.lbff.us/press. "Miracles" is now a chapter in Marie's full-length poetry book, "Blossom: Collected Poems in English" available through major online booksellers and www.lulu.com/marilu, May, 2008 Susan Wilson of Livermore won 3rd place in short poetry and short non-fiction at the Pleasanton Poetry and Arts Festival, April 2008. She also won 1st place for fiction and 3rd place and Honorable Mention for poetry in the 2008 Las Positas College Anthology, May, 2008 Mike Maggio of Herndon, Va. attended AWP: A Conference in the Heart of the Literary World in Manhattan between January 30th and February 2nd. He heard the prolific and incomparable Joyce Carol Oates as well as Pulitzer Prize winning poet Galway Kinnell. Other well-known writers read their work as well as being panelists. These include Lebanese novelist and NYU Professor Elias Khoury, National Book Award winner and novelist Alice McDermott, the award-winning poet Marvin Bell and poet and activist Carolyn Forché. January, 2008 Martin Willitts, Jr., of Norwich, New York has an online poetry chapbook entitled: News from the Front, (Slow Trains). http://www.slowtrains.com/vol7issue2/newscover.html, October, 2007 Andrew Demcâk of Oakland Ca. His book of poetry, Catching Tigers in Red Weather (Three Candles Press 2007) be pre-ordered now. http://andrewdemcak.com/home. The Publication Date is October 30, 2007, see below, October, 2007 Cynthia Bryant of Pleasanton, Ca., Poet Laureate Emerita, will be honored and will receive an award from the Dancing Poetry Festival for her Contribution to Poetry. This will be held at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, September 2007 Andrea Watson of Taos, NM, is a First Prize winner for her poem Weaving the Fifth World, as well as being a Second Prize Winner for her poem Campasantos, in the 2007 world wide Dancing Poetry Festival Contest, through Artists Embassy International, August, 2007 Michael Lee Johnson, of Chicago, Il has his 1st chapbook of poems and his first paperback of poems both available for purchase or download at: "The Lost American: A Tender Touch & A Shade Of Blue" (Chapbook with 57 pages), http://www.lulu.com/content/936633 and "The Lost American II: From Exile to Freedom (Full paperback with 98 pages) http://www.lulu.com/content/972649 July, 2007 Mike Maggio, of Herndon, Virginia has a new book of poetry: deMOCKracy with a review that appears in the Washington Paper. http://washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=2046, July, 2007
Marie Delgado Travis, of Houston, Texas received Honorable Mention for her bilingual poetry book La Ventana/The Window in the category of "Best Poetry Book - Spanish", from the 9th Annual International Latino Book Awards, NY, June 2007.His book is also available through Plain View Press: http://plainviewpress.net/gallery2/pages/demockracy.htm, Camille Thompson, of San Ramon, Ca. has had her article "Quake tales serve as reminder" published on April 13, in the Danville Times, a local edition distributed Fridays with the Contra Costa Times. Watch for her weekly Word on the Street column, along with upcoming feature stories. http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_5658281 Douglas R. Curtis, of Los Gatos, Ca., a writer of articles on electronic music, has a tribute about him and his contributions to the keyboard industry in Keyboard online mag: http://www.keyboardmag.com/story.asp?sectioncode=29&storycode=17586, April 2007 Flavia Cosma, of Toronto has a new book of poetry: Gothic Calligraphy, translated from the original Romanian by Flavia Cosma with Charles Siedlecki, Červená Barva Press (2007). These poems are candid, romantic and metaphysical. March, 2007 Andrew Demcâk of Oakland Ca. His book of poetry, Catching Tigers in Red Weather, has won the Three Candles Press Open Book Award. Out of 1,100 entries, it was selected as one of 15 finalists by the publisher, then won. Catching Tigers in Red Weather will be published in mid-November 2007. http://www.threecandles.org/press/news.htm, January 2007. Lisa R. Davis of Dublin, Ca., is showing her paint, paper, lace and rafia collage, which includes her poem 'Nestle', as part of 'Art in the Heart of Pleasanton', held at Alexander's Main Street Gallery. January, 2007 Mike Maggio of Herndon, Va. is pleased to announce that Amazon Shorts has just published his latest short story; "A Sort of Santa Claus."January, 2007. The story is available for purchase at this link: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st/104-6409649-7011919?page=1&rh=n%3A14261551&sort=daterank&x=11&y=7 Marie Delgado Travis, Houston, Tx., is one of four "SPOTLIGHTED GUEST CONTRIBUTORS" in the latest issue (vol. 21, no. 2) of LUCIDITY (established 1985, Ted O. Badger, Director, http://lucidity.poetryinarts.org/journal.htm). Her poems "Ardor" and "Things I Wish I'd Said" appear on pages 13-14, January 2007 Paul Hostovsky, Boston, Ma. His poetry book: 'Dusk Outside the Braille Press' Riverstone, A Press for Poetry, 2006, won the 2006 Riverstone Poetry Chapbook Award, November, 2006 Tim Bellows of Gold River, Ca. has new book of poetry: Sunlight from Another Day - Poems In & Out of the Body (AuthorHouse, 2006). The book features poems from the bizarre and unexpected to the spiritually enlivened. There are also the Author's original photographs. For sample poems see http://www.authorhouse.com/bookStore/BookHome.aspx. October 2006 Liz Fortini of Pleasanton, Ca. Her short story 'A Little Bit of "Old Faithful"' won first prize in www.poeticdiversity.org prose contest, October 2006. The story will be published in their April 2007 edition. We regret to announce that our Arabic Editor Elias Abu-Saba of Alameda, passed away on September 28th, 2006. He was a wonderful poet and translator. Alice Kite of Pleasanton, Ca. Her poem 'To the Dandelion' won the Theme Prize at the 2006 Alameda County Fair, June/July 2006 Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul placed Second in the Best Self-Help Book-English Language category, 8th Annual International Latino Book Awards, presented at BookExpo America in D.C., May 2006 Gabriela Anaya Valdepeña of North Park, Ca.’ book of poetry Welcome, Eavesdropper (see Book Reviews) won the San Diego Book Award for best published book of poetry. She recently was featured in Biobytes, in the San Diego Union-Tribune. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060501/news_mz1b1biobyte.html, May 2006 Susan Wilson of Livermore, Ca. won the 2006 Lydia Wood Award for Poetry in the Las Positas College Anthology.(see 2005 – 2006 Chapbook Series). She also won 3rd Place and 3 Honorable Mentions. Las Positas College is located in Livermore, Ca.: www.laspositascollege.edu, May 2006 Marie Delgado Travis of Houston, Texas (see Book Reviews) led readings and panel discussions by Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul led contributors from Texas: Esther Bonilla Read, Rogelio Gomez, Maria Luisa Salcines, Olga Valle-Herr and Margarita Velez at the EDWARD JAMES OLMOS LATINO BOOK FAIR AND FAMILY FESTIVAL in Houston, the first weekend of May. Marie also is one of the contributors to the anthology. The Book Festival travels to Dallas on July 29/30, 2006. For a complete itinerary, see http://www.lbff.us/ , May 2006 Judith Wilkinson of Groningen, the Netherlands wrote an article “Translating Toon Tellgen”, published in Poetry International, from the featured country and poet of the month: http://netherlands.poetryinternational.org/, April 2006 Celebration of the Centenary of Pablo Neruda, March 11, 2004 back to top |
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