Poetry Flash Presents The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. An anthology reading with the editor, Francisco Aragón, and contributing poets Venessa Fuentes, Adela Najarro, Paul Martínez Pompa, and John Olivares Espinoza.
This reading celebrates The Wind Shifts, the anthology edited by Francisco Aragón with a Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera, and published by the University of Arizona Press.
John Olivares Espinoza’s first full-length book of poetry is The Date Fruit Elegies; he’s appeared in many journals and anthologies, most recently in The Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems from California.
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The landmark signing of The Bleeding Edge anthology at Mystery & Imagination in Glendale, CA on Feb. 20th, 2010. Editors/contributors William F. Nolan and Jason V Brock sign along with authors Ray Bradbury, Norman Corwin, George Clayton Johnson, John Shirley, James Robert Smith, Cody Goodfellow, Lisa Morton, Earl Hamner, and John Tomerlin. Special guests Dennis Etchison, John Skipp, Paul J. Salamoff, Pete Atkins also make an appearance. Incidentally, this event had all of the surviving Twilight Zone writers under one roof, except for Richard Matheson who was unable to attend.
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Poetry Flash Presents The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. An anthology reading with the editor, Francisco Aragón, and contributing poets Venessa Fuentes, Adela Najarro, Paul Martínez Pompa, and John Olivares Espinoza.
This reading celebrates The Wind Shifts, the anthology edited by Francisco Aragón with a Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera, and published by the University of Arizona Press.
Adela Najarro has appeared in many literary journals, including Crab Orchard Review, Cimarron Review, and Another Chicago Magazine.
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In this excerpt from the Family of Choice webcast (01/14/2009), author and children’s attorney Andrew Vachss answers a reader’s question, “Your website, The Zero, has a great list of authors that you like. Any chance you could get ten of those to write a new short story for an anthology that you’ll edit?” [Q36]
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Garage Sale Purchases: 5 Mad Magazine Anthologies plus a Bonus.
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A collection of stories and poems, created by members of the Published Authors Forum on the world wide web, reflecting the bond of friendship between writers from all over the world. Forever Friends is a celebration of the power of friendship and human relationships.
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Poetry Flash Presents The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. An anthology reading with the editor, Francisco Aragón, and contributing poets Venessa Fuentes, Adela Najarro, Paul Martínez Pompa, and John Olivares Espinoza.
This reading celebrates The Wind Shifts, the anthology edited by Francisco Aragón with a Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera, and published by the University of Arizona Press.
Paul Martínez Pompa’s first full-length book of poems, While Late Capitalism, was selected by Martín Espada as winner of the 2008 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize and will be published by University of Notre Dame Press in 2009; he is a former editor of Indiana Review.
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Poet Patricia Smith appears at the National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Patricia Smith’s fifth book of poetry, “Blood Dazzler” chronicles the human, physical and emotional toll exacted by Hurricane Katrina, a catastrophic natural event with lasting spiritual and political impact. It was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award. This volume is also the focal point of a new dance-theater collaboration between Smith and Urban Bush Women dancer Paloma McGregor. Smith is also the author of “Teahouse of the Almighty” (2006), a National Poetry Series winner, the Best Poetry Book of 2006 on About.com and a 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and Paterson Poetry Prize winner; “Close to Death” (1998), “Big Towns, Big Talk” (2002) and “Life According to Motown” (1991). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, poemmemoirstory, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, the Chautauqua Literary Journal, TriQuarterly and other journals, and in many anthologies, most recently Gathering Ground, The Spoken Word Revolution, The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry and Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry. Her poem “The Way Pilots Walk” received a Pushcart Prize, and is featured in Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses.
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Finishing out our coverage we present you two anthologies of the rest of our interviews. We had a great time at Staple 2008 and we’ll see you at Staple 2009.
Featured Interviews Include:
Dylan Edwards
http://www.feepingcreatures.com
John Sitton & Pat Loika
Mike Youngbluth
Mike Baron & Scott Bieser
http://www.bigheadpress.com
Sean McGrath
http://www.orthocomics.com
David Hopkins
http://www.antiherocomics.com
Natalia & Alex
http://www.theonion.com
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Finishing out our coverage we present you two anthologies of the rest of our interviews. We had a great time at Staple 2008 and we’ll see you at Staple 2009.
Featured Interviews Include:
Bram Meehan & Monica Meehan
http://www.baaadasssscomics.com
Mike Lagocki
http://www.artlovemagic.com
Thomas P. Reidy III & Dave Justus
http://www.fullofmonkey.com
Nate Bramble
http://www.bramblevinecomics.com
Joshua Boulet
http://www.joshuaboulet.com
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