Chez Robert Giron

Eric Schaeffer's Company by Stephen Sondheim, book by George Furth, has pulled it off once again: It's a hit.

While no cast director is listed, probably Eric himself, I have to say that this is one of the crucial elements that makes for breaks a play / musical and the cast works in tandem and smoothly, all with super voices. In fact, the finale number: "Being Alive" brought tears to my eyes as Matthew Scott sang it last night. Equally as powerful were Carolyn Cole, who plays Marta "Another Hundred People", and Erin Weaver, who plays Amy "Getting Married Today."

The use of TV monitors on the upper level works quite nicely and adds to the production without overdoing it. The use of props, as always, moves seamlessly (scenic design, Daniel Conway). The lighting (Chris Lee), sound (Matt Rowe), the costumes (Frank Labovitz) worked exceptionally well during the hat routine (choreography, Matthew Gardiner).

There was nothing about this production that one could possibly point to and say: this is off. Just the opposite: It works "like butter." All which would make Sondheim proud.

So put this on your list of things to see this summer.

The Gival Press Novel Award contest which carries a prize of 3K and publication has a deadline of May 30th.

For complete details see Givalpress.com.

Winner of the 2013 Ventura Valdez English Poetry Award

THE LIMITED*

We boarded the shiny car under la Guera's
careful watch. The Limited lurched from the station,
passed hills that border East L.A., accelerating, slicing
the Mojave, blurred outlines of yuccas and tumbleweeds
near the tracks, home and the overcast sky far behind.
Tranquilized by constant heartbeat of iron upon iron,
the Limited rocked us to sleep. The train caught its
breath on short stops -- Yuma, Phoenix, Tucson, as it ran
with the night to encounter the sun. Guera awakened us
before red and orange mountains swallowed the train.
It strained, climbed, emerged from the cliffs like a
serpent -- the last cars visible on tenuous tracks winding
high above Ysleta and the Rio Grande. My sister and I
walked into a warm sun consoled and wrapped in the love
of our Mexican family. For 30 days we escaped the
painful, permanent void that awaited.


*The Southern Pacific Sunset Limited.

Copyright © 2013 by Joseph Baldi Acosta.

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Winner of the 2013 Ventura Valdez Spanish Poetry Award


Hambre…..


Hoy pienso……..

Hubo días en que pasé hambre
e intenté engañar al hambre durmiendo,
pensándote, soñándote. Tengo hambre de ti.

Hambre de tu boca, de tu voz,
de tu cabello, de tus ojos risueños,
de tu piel, de tu cuerpo.

¡Quiero comer el aura de tu hermosura!
tomarme el cóctel de tus labios,
la nariz soberana del arrogante rostro más tierno del mundo.
Quiero comer la sombra fugaz de tus pestañas. Tu mirada.

Hambriento estoy, vengo y voy olfateando
tu aroma, como un perro, siguiéndote el rastro.
Buscando tu corazón, anheloso,
como un puma acechando a su presa.
Aún no consigo un bocado de ti,
haciendo de mi vida un ayuno.


Copyright © 2013 by Arturo Garcia.

AWP-Boston Gival Press Reading
Authors' Book Signing at Table J19

--Thursday from 3 PM to 5 PM: Rich Murphy, Voyeur, 2008 Gival Press Poetry Award
--Friday from 11 AM to 1 PM: Perry Glasser, Riverton Noir 2011 Gival Press Novel Award
--Saturday from 10 AM to Noon: Yvette Neisser Moreno, Grip 2011 Gival Press Poery Award

Please join us on Thursday, March 7, 2013

Rich Murphy, Voyeur (poetry)
Perry Glasser, Riverton Noir (fiction)
Yvette Neisser Moreno, Grip (poetry)
John Domini, A Tomb on the Periphery (fiction)
John Gosslee, 12: Sonnets for the Zodiac (poetry)
Lowell Mick White, That Demon Life(fiction)

West End Branch Library (Boston)
6 pm to 7.30 pm
151 Cambridge St.
Boston, MA 02114
617.523.3957
FREE

Gival Press is pleased to announce that Karenmary Penn of Rancho Santa Fe, California, has won the 9th annual Gival Press Short Story Award-2012 for her short story titled Void.

The story was chosen by last year's winner Kristin FitzPatrick.


Finalists
Lint, Dust and Hair
by Gregory Loselle of Southgate, Michigan.


Duck Soup and My Mother's Double Death
by Tim Walsh of Madison, Wisconsin.


The English Master Sails Ashore
by Mark Wagstaff of London, England.


Red Line Stories
by Carrie Lee Patterson based in Chicago, Illinois.


To read the story, click on the link for ArLiJo
below:ArLiJo

Ripple Copyright © 2012 by David Bernier.


Petroglyph Copyright © 2012 by David Bernier.

Bridge Copyright © 2012 by David Bernier.

Click here to visit ArLiJo.

The Gival Press Poetry Award with a prize of $1,000.00 plus publication is this Dec. 15th.

Collections of poetry must be original poetry in English of at least 45 pages or more. To read the complete guidelines, click on the link below:

Gival Press
and follow the links.