RED OCHRE LiT'S CHAPBOOKS
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CHAPBOOKS OF 2012
VOLUME 2 NUMBER 1 SPRING 2012
Jacqueline Marcus (“The Long Summer Rains”) has poems that have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Ohio Review, The Antioch Review, The Journal, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Literary Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry International, Hotel Amerika, The Delta Review, The American Poetry Journal, the Laurel Review, and recently, the North American Review and eight poems were selected for publication in the North Dakota Quarterly. Her book of poems, “Close to the Shore”, was published by Michigan State University Press. She taught philosophy at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, California, and is the editor of http://www.ForPoetry.com.
CHAPBOOKS OF 2011
Nov 2011
Nathaniel Hunt ("Runaways") grew up on a family farm near Eugene, Oregon. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Writing and Literature (with a minor in Spanish language) from George Fox University in the fall of 2009. His poems have been published in The Iconoclast, Mudfish, Perceptions, and The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review.
David James ("Only One Way Out") wrote “She Dances Like Mussolini”, which won the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Award for poetry. His one-act plays have been produced from New York to California. He teaches for Oakland Community College.
Patricia Smith Ranzoni ("WHEREing"), a mixed-blood Yankee, writes from one of the subsistence farms of her youth in mid-Maine. Her unschooled poetry has been published across the U.S. and abroad, most recently in Scythe and XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics/New Europes. Her eighth book, BEDDING VOWS: Love Poems from Outback Maine is forthcoming from North Country Press. She loves reciting wherever she finds herself, however she is dressed. Links: www.poetryinmaine.org and Poets & Writers Directory Ranzoni.
Barry Spacks ("This, Plus That"), known mainly as a poet/teacher, has brought out various novels, stories, three poetry-reading CDs and ten poetry collections while teaching literature and writing at M.I.T. & U C Santa Barbara. His most recent book of poems, “Food For The Journey”, appeared from Cherry Grove in August, 2008. Over the years his poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and hundreds of other journals.
David James ("Only One Way Out") wrote “She Dances Like Mussolini”, which won the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Award for poetry. His one-act plays have been produced from New York to California. He teaches for Oakland Community College.
Patricia Smith Ranzoni ("WHEREing"), a mixed-blood Yankee, writes from one of the subsistence farms of her youth in mid-Maine. Her unschooled poetry has been published across the U.S. and abroad, most recently in Scythe and XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics/New Europes. Her eighth book, BEDDING VOWS: Love Poems from Outback Maine is forthcoming from North Country Press. She loves reciting wherever she finds herself, however she is dressed. Links: www.poetryinmaine.org and Poets & Writers Directory Ranzoni.
Barry Spacks ("This, Plus That"), known mainly as a poet/teacher, has brought out various novels, stories, three poetry-reading CDs and ten poetry collections while teaching literature and writing at M.I.T. & U C Santa Barbara. His most recent book of poems, “Food For The Journey”, appeared from Cherry Grove in August, 2008. Over the years his poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and hundreds of other journals.
Oct 2011
Lorraine Caputo ("Venezuela Vignettes") has literary pieces in over 70 journals in Canada, the US and Latin America, such as Drumvoices Revue, Canadian Dimension and ENcontrARTE. Other publications are seven poetry chapbooks and three audio recordings, including “Latina Nights / Noches Latinas” (Dimby, 2000). She also pens travel pieces, with works appearing in the anthologies “Drive: Women's True Stories from the Open Road” (Seal Press, 2002) and “V!VA List Latin America” (V!va Travel Guides, 2007). In March 2011, the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada chose her work “Snow Dreams” as the poem of the month. She has done more than 200 readings from Alaska to Patagonia, and is an award-winning slam poet. She continues journeying through the southern reaches of the hemisphere, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.
Sep 2011
Helen Vitoria ("Blackwater: A Pneumatic Disturbance") lives and writes in Effort, PA. Her work can be found and is forthcoming in over fifty online and print journals including, elimae, PANK, MudLuscious Press, >kill author, Poets & Artists Magazine, FRIGG Magazine, and Dark Sky Magazine. Her chapbooks: “The Sights & Sounds of Arctic Birds” and “Random Cartography Notes” ) are both available as e-chaps from Gold Wake Press, 2011. Her first full length poetry collection: “Corn Exchange,” is forthcoming from Scrambler Books, Winter 2011. She is working on a chapbook: “1611” and a novel(la) in verse: “Amsterdam.” Find her here: http://helenvitoria-lexis.blogspot.com.
Jul 2011
| 'Group 16' |
Robert Lietz has completed several print and hypertext (hypermedia) collections of poems for publication, including Character in the Works: Twentieth-Century Lives, West of Luna Pier, Spooking in the Ruins, Keeping Touch, and Eating Asiago & Drinking Beer. Over 700 of his poems have appeared in more than one hundred journals in the U.S. and Canada, in Sweden and U.K, including Agni Review, Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, Epoch, The Georgia Review, Mid-American Review, The Missouri Review, The North American Review, The Ontario Review, Poetry, and Shenandoah. Seven collections of poems have been published, including Running in Place (L’Epervier Press,). At Park and East Division (L’Epervier Press,) The Lindbergh Half-century (L’Epervier Press,) The Inheritance (Sandhills Press,) and Storm Service (Basfal Books). Basfal also published After Business in the West: New and Selected Poems.
Jun 2011
| 'Geophagy: A Hunger for Place' |
Mallory Bass is a candidate for an MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary's College of California. She is a proud native of Mississippi, where she received her B.A. at The University of Mississippi. She lives in Oakland with three other poets and her dog, Hoka. Other publications include selections in Amphibius, Four Paper Letters, and Corium Magazine.
May 2011
| 'Sacred Embers and Ebullient Flames' by Amy L. George |
Amy L. George loves words. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from National University. Her poetry has been published in various journals, such as WestWard Quarterly, The Foliate Oak Online, Toronto Quarterly, and others. Her book reviews have been published by 360MainStreet.com and Perpetual Folly. Her chapbook, The Fragrance of Memory, was published in 2010 by Amsterdam Press. She is the editor/publisher of Bird's Eye reView. She currently lives in Texas where she enjoys teaching English at a private university and moderating a weekly poetry workshop for her community.
Apr 2011
| 'Door, Door' by John Sibley Williams |
John Sibley Williams is a poet and book publicist residing in Portland, OR. He has a previous MA in Writing and presently studies Book Publishing at Portland State University, where he serves as Acquisitions Manager of Ooligan Press and publicist for Three Muses Press. His poetry was nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Prize and won the 2011 Heart Poetry Award. His debut chapbook, A Pure River, was published in 2010 by The Last Automat Press. Some of his over 100 previous or upcoming publications include: The Evansville Review, RHINO, Rosebud, Ellipsis, Flint Hills Review, Euphony, Open Letters, Cadillac Cicatrix, Juked, The Journal, Hawaii Review, Cutthroat, The Furnace Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Aries, and River Oak Review.
Mar 2011
| (s)he dead by Lars Palm |
Lars Palm lives with his wife, currently in Malmö, Sweden. He is the author of a handful of chapbooks, including: ho(s)tel window (with photos by Petra Palm) (PoFot, 2011), for good behaviour (Differentia Press, 2010), and whomeanswhat (Sacrifice Press, 2010). His chapbook what's in a, to be published by The Red Ceilings Press is forthcoming. He also translates and runs a small ungovernable press. In addition to that, Lars states, his "favourite colour is red and his blog is called mischievoice".
Jan 2011
| 'Reactions' by Felino A. Soriano |
Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974) is a case manager and advocate for adults with developmental and physical disabilities. In 2010, he was chosen for the Gertrude Stein "rose" prize for creativity in poetry from Wilderness House Literary Review. Philosophical studies collocated with his connection to classic and avant-garde jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences. For information, including his 38 print and electronic collections of poetry, over 2,400 published poems, interviews, and editorships, please visit his website: www.felinoasoriano.info.
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