[New-Poetry] More Heat, Please?

Thu Aug 3 11:49:52 EDT 2006

As if no electricity during 112 degree weather (on the East Coast, at least) wasn't enough, MiPOesias is flaming the fire with some sizzling new stellar work ~~

  Check it, please  ----->  http://www.mipoesias.com    

  ~ Peter Jay Shippy, Lucille Gang Shulklapper, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Anne Boyer, Anny Ballardini, Christopher Salerno, Noah Eli Gordon, John Sakkis, and Meghan Punschke ~ 

  Peter Jay Shippy's books are Thieves' Latin (University of Iowa Press) and Alphaville (BlazeVOX Books).  New poems can be found in The American Poetry Review, Cue, FIELD, and Jacket, among others.  He teaches at Emerson College.  More poems can be found at: www.peterjayshippy.com

  Lucille is a workshop leader for the Florida Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress.   Her poetry and fiction appear in journals and anthologies, including: The MonaPoetica anthology,  Slant, Gulfstream, Poetic Voices without Borders, and Still Going Strong.  She's the author of two chapbooks of poems: What You Cannot Have, The Substance of Sunlight, and a mini-chapbook:Godd, It's Not Hollywood.  Recent awards include third prize for a poem, awarded by Common Ground Review, first prize for a prose poem, awarded by the Nat'l League of Pen Women: Nob Hill Branch, and honorable mention for a short story awarded by the R. Rofihy Trophy.

  Jill Alexander Essbaum is the author of the 1999 Bakeless Prize winner in poetry, Heaven, and the 2005 collection of sonnets, Oh Forbidden. She has published in journals both religious and secular, both domestic and foreign, both well-known and rabidly obscure including The Christian Century, No Tell Motel, 32 Poems, Rhino, Image, and Poetry. In 2003, she was awarded an NEA literature grant for which she is still insanely grateful. She has particular affection for the sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay, the poems of Simon Armitage, the mystical theology of Simone Weil, the music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and the office politics of Wernam-Hogg. Occasionally, she plays with her food.

  Anne Boyer was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1973.  She is the author of Anne Boyer's Good Apocalypse (Effing Press, 2006) and The Romance of Happy Workers (forthcoming, Coffee House). Recent work can also be found at or forthcoming in The Poker, La Petite Zine, Jacket, Coconut, and other journals. She lives in Central Iowa with her daughter, Hazel, and teaches creative writing at Drake University.

  Anny Ballardini lives and teaches in Bolzano, Italy. She is the curator/editor of the Poets' Corner on the Fieralingue site. Among her many translations from and into English and Italian, several are the poems by Authors featured on the Poets' Corner, as the long poem In RI by Henry Gould, Smokestacks Allegro by R. Cominolli, and The Renaissance of the Self by Arturo Onofri. Her blog can be found under Narcissus Works. 

  Christopher Salerno's Whirligig was shortlisted for the Walt Whitman Award and was just published by Spuyten Duyvil Publishing House (NY). Other poems can be found in Verse, The Colorado Review, Jubilat, Jacket, The Tiny, The  New Hampshire Review, Agni online, Carolina Quarterly, Barrow Street, Free Verse, Electronic Poetry Review, Lit, River City, Forklift Ohio, Tar River Poetry, Spinning Jenny, GoodFoot , and in the anthology, The Bedside Guide To No Tell Motel. He teaches Composition, Poetry Writing and American Lit at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. 

  Noah Eli Gordon will have two books appear in 2007: Novel Pictorial Noise (selected by John Ashbery for the 2006 National Poetry Series) and A Fiddle Pulled From the Throat of a Sparrow (New Issues). He is the author of The Frequencies (Tougher Disguises, 2003), The Area of Sound Called the Subtone, (Ahsahta Press, 2004), and chapbooks from Duration Press, Margin to Margin, Anchorite Press, and Anon Books. Ugly Duckling Presse recently published That We Come To A Consensus, a chapbook written in collaboration with Sara Veglahn. His reviews have appeared in dozens of journals, including Boston Review, The Poker, 26, Jacket, and The St. Marks Poetry Project Newsletter . He writes a new chapbook review column for Rain Taxi and teaches creative writing at the University of Colorado at Denver. Visit blog.

  John Sakkis' poetry, interviews and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in  New American Writing, Aufgabe, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), Dusie, The Poker,  Hot Whiskey, commonweal, Shampoo, Bombay Gin, Shuffleboil, and Kulture Vulture among others. Translations of Greek poet Demosthenes Agrafiotis have appeared/ forthcoming in Fascicle, and Small Town. In the Summer 2005 Silas Press (Athens) published his translation of Siarita Kouka's long poem Benthos. A discussion with Benjamin Hollander was recently published in Hollander's book Vigilance (Beyond Baroque Books). A short play, Game 6, was directed by Kevin Killian and performed at the 2005 San Francisco Poet's Theater Jamboree. He edits the monthly BOTH BOTH series.

  Meghan Punschke resides in New York City and is currently attending the New School for an MFA in Poetry. She is the host and curator of "Word of Mouth," a reading series in the West Village dedicated to poets and fiction writers. This September, she will be hosting the first poetry event to be included in the Harlem Arts Festival. Punschke's work has also appeared in Free Focus. 

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  Cheers!

  Amy King, Managing Editor 
  Didi Menendez, Publisher/Producer
  http://www.mipoesias.com   

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