Natasha Trethewey featured in DVD Anthology "POETRY ATLANTA:TROUBLE & HOPE"

Trouble & Hope is DVD anthology of poets in performance and conversation more than two years in the making. The film features some of Atlanta's finest poets and spoken word artists. Featured on the DVD are: Travis Denton, Kodac Harrison, Karen Head, Collin Kelley, Alice Lovelace, Opal Moore, Natasha Trethewey, Dan Veach, Megan Volpert and a special tribute to the late Shannon Leigh.

Read more about the DVD and the upcoming viewing at the Georgia Center for the Book here:
http://www.georgiacenterforthebook.org/

Dan Albergotti to read at "Chin Music: The Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series"

Friday, June 12, 2009
Final Chin Music of the season Thursday.

Chin Music: The Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series
Featuring Sarah Manguso, Dan Albergotti, and Blue Chevigny

Please join us for the season finale of Chin Music, the Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series. Next Thursday, June 18th, we are excited to feature three wonderful poets: Sarah Manguso, Dan Albergotti, and Blue Chevigny. Writers on-deck for the autumn season include Roddy Lumsden, John Casteen, Paige Starzinger, Major Jackson, and David Baker.

Read more about the event and the series here:
http://pacificstandardbrooklyn.blogspot.com/2009/06/final-chin-music-of-season-thursday.html

"No Pause for Breath" Camille Dungy on the One-Sentence Poem

Camille Dungy

No Pause for Breath

I was talking to a friend today about one-sentence poems I love.

By one-sentence poems I don’t mean very short poems like the one-line poems Michael McFee discussed in his Feb. 2008 article in the AWP Writer’s Chronicle. McFee has written a whole book made up of monostich (The Smallest Talk), and so he is likely much interested in the form and its function. That is an interesting line of inquiry (pardon the pun), but not what I’m talking about when I mention one-sentence poems here.

Read the entire post here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/no-pause-for-breath/

A. Van Jordan on "Writers on Writing with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett"

Marie Stone moderates a poetry panel with poets Stanley Plumly, author of Old Heart, B.H. Fairchild, author of Usher, and A. Van Jordan, author of Quantum Lyrics.

Read more here:
http://writersonwriting.blogspot.com/2009/06/stanley-plumly-bh-fairchild-and-van.html

Listen to the podcast here:
http://www.barbarademarcobarrett.com/writersonwriting/audio/Stanley-Plumly_B.H.-Fairchild_A.Van-Jordan_Jun-3-2009.mp3

Jeniifer Julian Reviews David A. Taylor's "Success: Stories" for storySouth

David A. Taylor’s Success: Stories
by JENNIFER JULIAN

Success: Stories
by David A. Taylor
Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 216 pages, $15.95






David A. Taylor, journalist and documentary film writer, presents fourteen superbly-crafted tales in his recent collection, Success: Stories. While aptly titled, this is not an assortment of fourteen “success stories” in which protagonists achieve their desires and experience triumph in the face of adversity. Rather, these are moments that explore the most vital crises of existence, when human emotions—desire and isolation, suspicion and jealousy—boil over, leaving in their wake exquisite failure and a conflict that blooms in complexity every time the reader revisits it.

Read the entire review at storySouth: http://storysouth.com/2009/03/success-stories-david-taylor.html

"Five Canadian Women Eco-Poets" New post by Camille Dungy at The Poetry Foundation

Camille Dungy

Five Canadian Women Eco-Poets

I’m in Canada right now at the biennial conference for Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE). In honor of my host nation, I thought I’d write about a few Canadian women poets whose work I enjoy.

Since I’m at the ASLE conference, thinking about the intersection between poetry and discussions of human impact on the environment, I should start by talking about Di Brandt. Brandt has been concerned about these issues for most of her career. In a review of her collection Now You Care, Jeff Gundy of the Georgia Review writes, “Brandt roams this industrial landscape like a feminist environmentalist postmodern Apollinaire, one who finds beauty and destruction wherever she goes.”

Read the entire post here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/3214/

Natasha Trethewey to take part in The Fourteenth Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge

June 1, 2009

Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge

Poets House presents

The Fourteenth Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge
Monday, June 8, 6:30pm

with poets Hettie Jones, Galway Kinnell, Thomas Lux, Natasha Trethewey and Kevin Young, and actor Bill Murray.

Read more about the event here:
http://njpoetspoetry.blogspot.com/2009/06/poetry-walk-across-brooklyn-bridge.html