Poetry Repairs

The new issue of the on line poetry journal Poetry Repairs is now up with a recent drawing of Norman Olson's on the cover and inside fine new work by Lyn Lifshin, Jan Oskar Hansen and John Horvath jr...  as well as lots of other interesting poetry...

http://www.poetryrepairs.com

Ascent Aspiration News

Ascent Aspirations Magazine News March Issue

Ascent Aspirations Current Issue March 2012
http://ascentaspirations.ca/tableofcontents.htm

Special Anthology of Art and Children's Stories Contest
Deadline March 31
http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/childrensstorycontest.htm
 
Disorders Anthology - Advanced Orders
http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/ascentspring2012.htm

Archived Copies of Ascent Aspirations Print Magazine
We are no longer publishing a print magazine so these copies are becoming collector's items. Special offer. See details.
http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/anthologycovers.htm

Caught in My Throat, David Fraser's fourth collection available on-line
http://www.davidpfraser.ca/collectionsdavidfraser.htm

Submissions
http://ascentaspirations.ca/guidelines.htm
We accept submissions year round and decide on placement of accepted submissions for issues forthcoming or as far away as four months.

What's New
http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/whatsnew.htm

On Poetry
Poetry and Poetics with Naomi Beth Wakan and David Fraser
http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/publishing.htm

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Performances
Wellington Library National Poetry Month Reading April 5, 2012
Honeymoon Poets Reading April 23rd, 2012
Hazelwood Writers' Festival, August 12, 2012


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Death of a Mauve Bat - Rick Lupert

Highlands and Islands eBooks Winter 2011

Open publication - Free publishing - More ebooks

Vagabondage Press Newsletter

NEW RELEASES FOR 2012


Beware The Hawk by A.J. O’Connell
Spy Satire

Sure, being a courier for a secret, possibly terrorist society has its
risks, but the pay was worth it. At least I thought it was until I was
ordered to make a late-night run to Boston to meet an opium-addicted,
vodka-addled contact, who blows the deal. Now I am being hunted as I
hobble, injured through the streets of Beantown. When I discover a gun and
my new assignment, I wonder if perhaps I made a bad career choice.

Digital Novelette, available at Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook and
elsewhere.
Read more: http://www.vagabondagepress.com/bookpreviews/bewarethehaw...


Love Notes, A Collection of Romantic Poetry
Poetry Collection

Love shared, love in secret, celebrated, exploded. Unrequited longing and
love that’s mellowed through the years. Love at long distance, across
continents, so close there’s no space to breathe, or never quite close
enough. Love lost and love found. Love from the inside out and love from
the outside in.

Love Notes has it all: a collection of poetry as diverse as the experience
of  falling in love itself.  A shared candied apple, a farewell at
Paddington Station, a name scribbled in a notebook, a face that leaves us
breathless, a single word that changes our life forever. Love Notes is a
rich tapestry of verse woven from fragments of life and those moments that
make falling in love so irresistible. And so inevitable.

Love is unique, love is universal. Love is everywhere.
Digital / Print, available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere.
Read more: http://www.vagabondagepress.com/bookpreviews/lovenotes.htm.


Cat and the Dreamer by Annalisa Crawford
Women's Fiction / New Adult

As a teenager, Julia survived a suicide pact, while her best friend,
Rachel, died. Julia’s only escape from her guilt, and her mother’s
over-protection, is her imagination. When Adam arrives in the office,
Julia’s world takes a startling turn as she realises reality can be much
more fun than fantasy. Finally she has someone who can help her make the
most of her life. But can she allow herself to be truly happy?

Digital, available at Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and elsewhere.
Read more: http://www.vagabondagepress.com/bookpreviews/catandthedre...



Tinseltown by Erin Ward
Erotic Romance

Los Angeles is a place nobody is actually from. If you’re beautiful, or
just different and have something to offer, then you come to L.A. It’s
America’s foster home for those corrupt oddballs with a gimmick, someone
with a quick ace up his sleeve, and those too gorgeous for their own good.

You’d think I’d be right at home in a place like that, born in a city that
adopts all the lovely kooks and crazies of the world, but never seems to
really give birth on its own. You’d think a lot of things, even that a
blue girl in Los Angeles isn’t such a bizarre thing nowadays…and maybe
never was.

Digital, available at Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook and elsewhere.
Read more: http://www.vagabondagepress.com/bookpreviews/tinseltown.h...


Somethin' Else by E.S. Parkinson
New Adult Coming of Age / LGBT

Set on the cusp of the 60s, when everything seemed grey and staying put
felt as scary as getting out, this is Jim’s story – a working class lad
grimly determined to get to university, but dreaming of nights on the town
and the promise of rock and roll. Jim feels trapped in the post-war
housing development, the routine of work and school, and with the
girlfriend he can’t quite manage to fall in love with.

Until he meets Edward – full of passion and possibility - and in an
instant, Jim’s world is turned upside down and nothing is the same. Edward
doesn’t seem to notice rules or barriers and helps Jim to see the world
through fresh eyes.  Jim and Edward long for escape, but in the end,
escape means different things to each of them and brings with it as many
questions as solutions.

Digital / Print, available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere.
Read more: http://www.vagabondagepress.com/bookpreviews/somethinelse...


CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

Vagabondage Press is now seeking literary quality genre fiction for
consideration. We are seeking manuscripts in the following 'genres' for
stand-alone, royalty paying publication in both digital and print release:

New adult and edgy young adult
Romantic comedy and quirky romance (any orientation)
Horror and gothic, paranormal (non-romance)
Women's fiction
Tasteful, literary quality erotic romance and love stories
We also love satire and humor
Rock-related fiction and narrative non-fiction
Other quirky and hard-to-define 'genres' including

Please see our guidelines here:
http://www.vagabondagepress.com/submissions.html and please allow 4-6
months for a fair and full consideration of your work.


Thanks for reading!

Vagabondage Press

Fawn Neun
Managing Editor
http://www.VagabondagePress.com

Lyn Lifshin New Poetry Book

All the PoetsALL THE POETS (MOSTLY) WHO HAVE TOUCHED ME (LIVING AND DEAD. ALL TRUE: ESPECIALLY THE LIES)
A new Book — only $10.95 (+ shipping)
by Lyn Lifshin

Paperback: 234 pages
Publisher: World Parade Books (February 26, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0984619852
ISBN-13: 978-0984619856
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches

Publisher:
World Parade Books
5267 Warner Avenue # 191
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
www.worldparadebooks.com
Read Sample Poems Order from Amazon.com

Reviews:

I think ALL THE POETS WHO HAVE TOUCHED ME is a tremendous book along the lines of John Berryman's Dream Songs. It's the Lifshin persona with equal attention to the speaker and the subjects presented. There's a great intellect at work in the book, showing the author has digested the essence of the poets, both recent and remote, presented as flesh and blood characters, with their eccentricities and normality. It humanizes them using sound biographical knowledge but fictionalizes them, adding luster and depth. The revelations of both speaker and related poets are powerfully original but have the sense of being basically historically sound. It's an intriguing presentation that keeps the reader eager to see what's on the next page. It's scandalous and morally elevating in turn. It keeps coming back with additional observations real and imaginative. The book with its many pages and accumulation of factual and imagined information has the satisfying weight of a masterpiece, and though phrased in a perfectly conversational tone, it occasionally has the music of a hymn, sometimes a dark melody, at other times a radiance. The diction and milieu are in accord with the varied historical eras treated. The book is not just a hearty meal. It is a feast of words with fascinating descriptions and engrossing ideas. The reader will leave this banquet of literary delights fulfilled. — William Page

"Lyn Lifshin writes a moving and evocative collection of poetry that is a tribute to the poets who touched her and inspired her. Whether it is Allen Ginsberg giving her a rose, or meeting Dylan Thomas at the White Horse Tavern, or a dreamscape of Lifshin and Emily Dickinson picking berries, Lifshin imagery and imagination is on full display... a must read!" — Doug Holder/Ibbetson Street Press

Lyn Lifshin's All The Poets is mind candy.
More than a third of the poetry affords us an entre-nous perspective of contemporary and classic poets...some dreamt of, alluded to, half known and some known intimately (but not well).
Velvetted treatments about Bly to Williams, from Beat Poets to off-beat places. Ms. Lifshin employs the witty, the anecdotal, the cathartic taut and lusty writing she is so deservedly well known for.
...Then, tucked amid the themed leaves, we meet The Ice Maiden, residing in a group of well-constructed pieces dripping with the severe, decadent and provocative qualities that have populated many of Ms. Lifshin's other collections.
All the Poets reminds the reader of just how special and important a writer Lyn Lifshin is!
— Edward Roberts

Lifshin's latest book get farther into the center of her psyche than anything else she has ever written. It essentially shows how she lived in the midst of poets living and dead, was part of the whole mystique that surrounded all of poetic aesthetics and history. William Carlos William, Frost, Bukowski, Anne Sexton...and all kinds of little personal contacts like having breakfast with Robert Bly in Normal, Illinois (of all places), a box of letters from Robert Frost to her father. She not only brings the poets themselves alive like I've never seen them brought alive before, but shows the massive, artistic context out of which her own masterpieces emerged. A classic and, in a way, for poets beginning to play the poetry game, a series of almost buddhistic meditations on roads to take into what poetic mountains and plains, what poetic rivers to glide down listening to the voices surrounding you. — Hugh Fox

For the delicious scoop and little known facts about Dylan Thomas, Garcia Lorca, James Dickey, Robert Frost, Alan Ginsberg and may more, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, you must read Lifshin's entanglement with a wild variety of the famous and infamous. I loved the book. A must read.
— G.M. Howells

Lyn Lifshin’s lively and compelling new collection offers a romp through the generations of writers, most of them fellow poets, from Byron to Dickinson to the late Jane Kenyon, as she recounts scandalous affairs, intimate friendships, thoughts of what might have been. Lifshin’s vivid imagery and wicked sense of humor (“I have ghost writers. . . ” the poet confesses as she recounts every poet’s secret writing fantasy) make All the Poets Who Have Touched Me a collection no reader of poetry should miss.
I think this is a great and imaginative piece of writing, and I look forward to seeing it in print.
— Rebecca Baggett

"…(her) punch line is often a knockout…At least some of these are poems (it can be hard to tell which, which is part of the fun) describe fantasized meetings with a famous poet: every poetry lover's daydream…. — Victor Schwartzman

from the book's forward

Lyn Lifshin writes magically about the poets who have touched her life, figuratively and literally…we, the readers, must decide if the poets actually materialized in Lifshin's world, or if, as in one poem about Dylan Thomas, they "walked right out of a poem into a dream

mgv2>publishing refreshed

Retrouvez le blog des éditions numériques mgv2>publishing avec déjà quelques titres à leur actif. Ici

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Deux créations | Mathieu Pathé

En ce moment du 21/02 au 01/03

Je ne suis personne

Textes de Fernando Pessoa

Mise en scène : Guillaume Clayssen
Avec : Aurélia Arto
Conseiller littéraire : Patrick Quillier
Scénographie et lumière : Stéphanie Rapin
Administration : Mathieu Pathé

Production : La Compagnie des Attentifs
Durée du spectacle 50 min. - à partir de 11 ans


Les 21 22 23 28 29 février et le 1 er mars à 19h


La Loge
77 rue de Charonne 75011 Paris

01 40 09 70 40 / [e-mail].
Métro : Charonne Bastille Ledru-Rollin
Bus 76 et 56 arrêt Charonne


Avec le soutien de la ville de Paris.

Je ne suis personne : Une intimité plurielle.

Fernando Pessoa n’est pas un poète mais plusieurs poètes et explore l’existence en multipliant sur elle tous les points de vue possibles. Je ne suis personne rend hommage à ce vertige des « hétéronymes », à toutes ces identités inventées par Pessoa, toutes ces visions poétiques du monde à l’origine de son écriture. Faire entrer de plein corps le spectateur dans cette langue plurielle qui cherche à atteindre l’immédiateté des choses et de notre expérience, lui faire entendre le rythme et les images inclassables de cette poésie unique, telle est l’aventure théâtrale que propose ce spectacle.

Seule sur le plateau, une comédienne - Aurélia Arto - porte avec intimité et singularité ces textes tirés du Livre de l’intranquillité de Bernardo Soares, du Gardeur de troupeaux d’Alberto Caiero, des Odes d’Alvaro de Campos et d’autres recueils encore. Une heure de voyage intense dans le monde peuplé de solitude de Fernando Pessoa !!

Guillaume Clayssen
        
A venir du 21/03 au 31/03

BRÛLE !

Textes et mise en scène : Ludovic Pouzerate
Avec : Bertrand Barré, Stéphane Brouleaux, Antoine Brugière, Elsa Hourcade, Etienne Parc, Clément Victor et Les Indics

Son vidéo : Jean François Domingues
Lumière : Romuald Lesné
Scénographie : Florence Plaçais
Costumes : Virginie Alba
Régie Générale : Xavier Lescat
Administration : Mathieu Pathé

Production Le Groupe Krivitch
Coproduction : L'atelier à spectacle - La scène conventionnée de Dreux agglomération pour l'accompagnement artistique, Collectif 12 - Mantes La Jolie, Théâtre Gérard Philippe - CDN de Saint Denis, Les 6000 - Fontaine L'Abbé, Collectif 360. Avec l’aide à la production du ministère de la culture et de la communication (DRAC Île-de-France), d’ARCADI, et de la SPEDIDAM.

Durée du spectacle 1h40 - à partir de 14 ans

Du 20 au 31 mars à 20h30 - relache le 26

Concert des Indics le 25 mars après la représentation !

CONFLUENCES
190 Boulevard de Charonne
75020 Paris

01 40 24 16 34
Metro Alexandre Dumas ou Philippe Auguste

BRÛLE ! : Une comédie sur fond d’émeutes.

Au départ c’est une histoire de pères noël. Et ceux-là sont manutentionnaires. Ils travaillent en sous-sol. Dans un local de Zone d’Activité. C’est là qu’ils œuvrent à faire prospérer leur petite entreprise. C’est la période des fêtes. Alors nos pères noël ils se démènent. BRULE ! c’est une histoire de manutentionnaires qui n’en peuvent plus mais qui sourient quand même. Au départ les émeutes n’ont pas encore éclaté. Alors c’est drôle. De les voir. Avec leurs colis. Leurs pâtes de fruits et leurs jésus en sucres. Ça monte au fur et à mesure. Pendant toute la pièce. Et aujourd’hui. Le jour de la pièce. Dehors. Ça éclate. A l’extérieur. Pour finir en chaos complet. D’autres pères noël que les notre travaillent à d’autres noëls. Sauf qu’ils sont bien plus énervés. Bien plus perdus. Bien plus violents. L’écrasante machine à rêves et à frustrations a engendré ses pires ennemis. C'est-à-dire ses plus beaux enfants. Les notre de pères noël ont encore quelques principes. Quelques traces d’éthique. La trentaine à peine et tous les rêves de fraternité déjà bien enfouis. C’est ça le fond de la question. De la pièce. Les effets du temps. En peu de temps. Comment on s’arrange avec la réalité. Comment on prend le parti de son parti. De s’en sortir soi. Seul. Mais peu importe. Tant qu’on arrive à s’en sortir soi.

Ludovic Pouzerate

Eric Demey / Mouvement.net : « Quel bonheur de voir surgir sur la scène d’un théâtre les chanteurs d’un groupe de rap, les Indics. Quelle joie de surfer sur ces subversifs flots de paroles qui disent nos renoncements, dans un dénuement, une esthétique qui ne sort pas des salons. Quel plaisir que de se heurter au sordide d’un père Noël dépressif, que de se coltiner la violence en puissance de l’émeute qui monte. Quand le théâtre vient ainsi d’ailleurs, puise sa force hors des circuits convenus, il possède une puissance propre à renverser les réticences esthétiques »

Ottavia Locchi / Un fauteuil pour l'orchestre : « Étonnant et détonnant ! Ludovic Pouzerate frappe directement là où il veut aller. Chacun des personnages va faire parler toute une génération, tout un monde. Difficile de ne pas se sentir concerné... voir sur scène un malaise percer sa carapace et crever l’abcès a ceci de particulier que ça en devient jouissif ! Tout est en parfaite harmonie dans ce crescendo vers le chaos. Un très beau travail de prise de conscience collective par une prise de parole individuelle. Le Groupe Krivitch n’a pas fini de faire parler de lui ».

Edith Rappoport / Théâtre du blog : « Ludovic Pouzerate brosse cette comédie sur fond d’émeutes avec une belle maîtrise théâtrale et musicale, un sens du rythme et un certain humour, les huit acteurs ont une vraie présence »
  

Anal Electric Fur Harvest on Reverbnation

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