We could not be more pleased to learn that our past participants have published their work. Posting these listings is brand new for us, but we like to boast about the talented poets who take part in festival workshops and we are thrilled to share the news of their recent accomplishments.
Betsy Aoki (2009)
Chapbook: Every Vanish Leaves Its Trace, Finishing Line Press, January 2009, Poems: "Primordial Soup" and "Transplant" were included in the Asian American anthology, Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves.
Elinor Benedict (2006, 2007, 2008)
My book, Late News from the Wilderness, is due out in December from Main Street Rag, (Discount advance orders now on web: www.MainStreetRag.com/store under Coming Soon. Individual poems:
"Grandfather in November,” won Honorable Mention in MacGuffin, Winter, 2009; "Appalachian Gift," "Inheritance," Connecticut Review, Spring 2010; "The Boys," Hon. Mention, North American Review, Spring, 2010.
Rosalind Brenner (2006, 2007, 2008)
"The Artist" Southampton Review 2007, "The Milliner" Long Island Sounds 2007; "Startling" Poetry Bay 2009.
Dorothy Brooks (2008)
My poetry chapbook, Interstices, was published this summer by Finishing Line Press and is available at www.finishinglinepress.com.
Deborah DeNicola (2007, 2008 2009)
My essay, "Paul Hoover's Eternal Moment," won the Critical Essay award from Packingtown Review and was published in their winter 2009 issue. "The Future That Brought Her Here; Memoir of a Call to Awaken," my memoir, was published by Nicolas Hays/Ibis Press in June 09 and I won the Santa Barbara Poetry Award for a poem. My poem "The Bacchanalia of Trash" was selected by Dorianne Laux for The Best of the Net Anthology: http://www.sundress.net/bestof. Other poems appeared in Umbrella Online, Tonopah Review and are forthcoming in Tiferet Review.
Kim Dower (2008, 2009, 2010) David Lee Garrison (2005) Terry Godbey (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) Luisa Igloria (2006) Holly Jaffe (2006, 2007, 2008 2009) Hari Bhajan Khalsa (2006) George Longnecker (2009) Amy Maclennan (2006) Taylor Mali (2008, 2009) Lucinda (Mau) Sabino (2007) Jacqueline Michaud (2009)
A new collection of poems, Air Kissing On Mars, is due out October 1st from Red Hen Press. "A rare and astonishing first book,” says poet Thomas Lux, “a kind of miracle!” And, Stephen Dobyns calls Dower’s work, “jazzy, sassy, sexy -- poems that move fast, are full of surprise, and tweak the heartstrings.
David Lee Garrison, Sweeping the Cemetery (San Francisco: Browser Books, 2007). Garrison Keillor read two poems from this book on The Writer's Almanac on November 7 and 11, 2008. Ted Kooser selected my poem, "Bach in the DC Subway," for his American Life in Poetry website for the week of October 19, 2009.
Recently published poems include: "Rwandan Mother, 1994," 2009 Editors' Choice Writecorner Press Poetry Prize, www.writecorner.com; "Daughters of China," Dogwood Poetry Prize finalist, Dogwood, 2009; "Shame," Pearl, sometime in 2009 or 2010, "Produce Man" and "If I Were Her," Connecticut Review, 2009 or 2010, "Only Child," Quercus Review, 2009; "Sweet Sixteen," Slipstream, summer 2009; "Next Night," Free Lunch, 2009; "Where Grief Lives," CALYX Journal, winter 2009; "What David Told Me," Florida Review, summer 2009, "Susan's Eyes," CALYX Journal, winter 2011; Book: "Behind Every Door," Slipstream Press, 2006.
Trill & Mordent, (WordTech Editions), Juan Luna’s Revolver won the 2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize, University of Notre Dame Press).
Poem published in South Florida talent magazine, Winter/Spring Issue of 2009. New poems appearing online in Unlikely Stories, http://www.unlikelystories.org/jaffe1209.shtml
A chapbook "Life in Two Parts" was chosen as a finalist for the Main Street Rag Annual Chapbook Contest and subsequently accepted for publication. Release date is early 2010.
George Longnecker's poem “Edsel” was a winner in The 2009 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, with an honorary mention and is forthcoming in The Paterson Review. His poem "Diptych" was published in the Spring, 2009 Rockhurst Review.
Paste Eater, River Styx, Issue 76/77, Spring 2008; The Drain, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Spring/Summer 2008; Middles of Deserts, Linebreak, week of July 29, 2008; Lures, Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems (Ragged Sky Press), March 2009; Procrastination, When Nancy Drew the Line, Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women (Haven Books), March 2009.
My second book of poems, "The Last Time As We Are," was published in September 0f 2009! Several of the poems in it were workshopped at the two festivals.
My chapbook, We're Coming Close, was published by Puddinghouse Press, July 2009.
2nd book, working title "Nothing Personal", anticipated publication date 2010.
My poem, "Feeding Frenzy" was the second place winner in the 2009 poetry division of the Writers Network of South Florida contest.
Yaddyra Peralta (2007, 2008, 2009)
My poems "Father's Heart" and "Learning to Read," were published in the current (and inaugural) issue of "Hinchas de Poesia," At www.hinchasdepoesia.com.
Haya Pomrenze (2009)
Poem forthcoming in Admit Two: "Thank You For Your Interest in Our Magazine," collaborative poem with Denise Duhamel; "U"netaneh Tokef - Prayer For Life,"forthcoming on www.OMEK.COM; "Go-Ju' wriiten in Kimiko Hahn's workshop forthcoming in Karate Anthology; and two poems are forthcoming in Poetica Magazine.
Wanda Praisner (2008)
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Clela Reed (2009)
"Ascension," "The Gift," "More" in Clapboard House, Spring, '09; Dancing on the Rim (book) Brick Road Poetry Press, http://www.brickroadpoetrypress.com, July, '09; Bloodline (chapbook) Evening Street Press, Sept. '09.
James Scruton (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
Exotics and Accidentals, won the 2009 Grayson Books Chapbook Prize, and was published in May 2009.
Jim Tilley (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) In Confidence, Jim's first full collection will be published by Red Hen Press in January 2011. About the book, Billy Collins commented, "what wins our confidence is not his range but his steady hand on the poem and his steady gaze at the world," along with Stephen Dobyns-- "These are finely crafted poems in which readers will find bits and pieces of their own lives."