Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Tameme Releases Its Second Chapbook
Here below is the latest from editor C. M. Mayo at Tameme:
We are delighted to announce the publication of Tameme's second bilingual chapbook, "Los fantasmas del Palacio de los Azulejos" / "Ghosts of the Palace of Blue Tiles," a beautiful collection poems by one of the most outstanding Mexican poets of his generation, Jorge Fernández Granados, splendidly translated by John Oliver Simon.
As many of you know, Tameme recently ceased publication of the Tameme literary journal in order to focus on publishing chapbooks. Our mission is to promote English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English literary translation by publishing new writing from North America— Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. With the chapbooks, we celebrate and disseminate this new writing and translation in an attractive and more affordable format.
Visit Tameme to read the title poem, "Los fantasmas del Palacio de los Azulejos" / "Ghosts of the Palace of Blue Tiles". The chapbook's cover painting, "Tiled Window, Seashell and View of Mexico City," is by Mexican artist Elena Climent. Read about our other titles, including last year's chapbook, "Carne verde, piel negra / An Avocado from Michoacan," a short story by Agustin Cadena, in the Tameme catalog.
Please consider purchasing a copy for yourself, for friends (it makes a great gift!), and if you teach, please also consider adopting a Tameme chapbook as a textbook.
Tameme, Inc. is a nonprofit foundation based in the state of California. Your purchase and / or donation help support quality literary translation and intercultural understanding.
Sincerely, C.M. Mayo
Editor, Tameme www.tameme.org
We are delighted to announce the publication of Tameme's second bilingual chapbook, "Los fantasmas del Palacio de los Azulejos" / "Ghosts of the Palace of Blue Tiles," a beautiful collection poems by one of the most outstanding Mexican poets of his generation, Jorge Fernández Granados, splendidly translated by John Oliver Simon.
As many of you know, Tameme recently ceased publication of the Tameme literary journal in order to focus on publishing chapbooks. Our mission is to promote English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English literary translation by publishing new writing from North America— Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. With the chapbooks, we celebrate and disseminate this new writing and translation in an attractive and more affordable format.
Visit Tameme to read the title poem, "Los fantasmas del Palacio de los Azulejos" / "Ghosts of the Palace of Blue Tiles". The chapbook's cover painting, "Tiled Window, Seashell and View of Mexico City," is by Mexican artist Elena Climent. Read about our other titles, including last year's chapbook, "Carne verde, piel negra / An Avocado from Michoacan," a short story by Agustin Cadena, in the Tameme catalog.
Please consider purchasing a copy for yourself, for friends (it makes a great gift!), and if you teach, please also consider adopting a Tameme chapbook as a textbook.
Tameme, Inc. is a nonprofit foundation based in the state of California. Your purchase and / or donation help support quality literary translation and intercultural understanding.
Sincerely, C.M. Mayo
Editor, Tameme www.tameme.org
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Tameme's Chapbook Series
Tameme, Inc., edited by C.M. Mayo of Washington, DC, has begun a chapbook / cuardernos series, the first of which is Carne verde, piel negra by Mexican author Agustín Cadena. The translation, An Avocado from Michoacán, is by C.M. Mayo.
The story encased in a handsome chapbook with a painting by Mexican artist Edgar Soberon with the bookcover designed by Ines Hilde is quite Mexican in its style, tradition and message.
A boy's mother is dying and her last wish is a delicious Michoacán avocado in the middle of winter, a wish which torments the narrtor, the son. The son is worried about his mother's health and finds himself repeating Catholic customs such as making the sign of the cross which is no engrained that it has become a ritual, so Spanish in character that visions of semana santa, as done in Sevilla during the Easter Holy Week, come to mind upon reading the passage. Yet we are in the USA in this story, the dream having transported the mother back to her homeland though she awakes and is told that it is snowing. She refuses to see the snow and instead is focused on an avocado her son now attempts to get for her.
The story is the first of the bilingual (English/Spanish) series to be continued by Tameme, Inc., which has as its goal to bring forth good Spanish work to English speakers/readers and English work to Spanish speakers/readers via translations of current writers from Canada, the USA, and Mexico.
Truly Tameme and C.M. Mayo are doing fine work and I hope others will visit the website to read and support the press: Tameme.Org
The story encased in a handsome chapbook with a painting by Mexican artist Edgar Soberon with the bookcover designed by Ines Hilde is quite Mexican in its style, tradition and message.
A boy's mother is dying and her last wish is a delicious Michoacán avocado in the middle of winter, a wish which torments the narrtor, the son. The son is worried about his mother's health and finds himself repeating Catholic customs such as making the sign of the cross which is no engrained that it has become a ritual, so Spanish in character that visions of semana santa, as done in Sevilla during the Easter Holy Week, come to mind upon reading the passage. Yet we are in the USA in this story, the dream having transported the mother back to her homeland though she awakes and is told that it is snowing. She refuses to see the snow and instead is focused on an avocado her son now attempts to get for her.
The story is the first of the bilingual (English/Spanish) series to be continued by Tameme, Inc., which has as its goal to bring forth good Spanish work to English speakers/readers and English work to Spanish speakers/readers via translations of current writers from Canada, the USA, and Mexico.
Truly Tameme and C.M. Mayo are doing fine work and I hope others will visit the website to read and support the press: Tameme.Org
Thursday, October 02, 2008
C. M. Mayo Offers a "Flash Fiction" Work on Oct. 5th
C.M. Mayo's "Flash Fiction" Sunday October 5 only, from 1 - 4 pm.The Writers Center, Bethesda MD.
Flash, or micro-fictions are stories as short as six and as long as, say, 1,000 words. Though a genre with a distinguished tradition, flash fiction is perfectly suited for blogging and podcasting. For both beginning and advanced writers, this workshop will focus on improving your fiction-writing craft and generating new material. Click here for more information and also link to register on-line: https://www.writer.org/workshops/details.asp?id=1578
About the Writers Center: www.writer.org
About the one day format: Uniquely geared toward both beginning and advanced writers, C.M. Mayo's one-day creative writing workshops emphasize techniques for tapping into creativity, and specific aspects of craft. Mayo does not critique manuscripts but rather offers a series of mini-lectures interspersed with exercises, readings, and discussion. The goal is that by the end of the workshop, your writing will be of notably higher quality.
About C.M. Mayo: C.M. Mayo is the author of the forthcoming novel The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Unbridled Books); Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico (Milkweed Editions), and Sky Over El Nido (University of Georgia Press), which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in many outstanding literary journals, among them, Chelsea, Creative Nonfiction, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Massachusetts Review, Paris Review, Potomac Review,and Tin House. An avid translator of contemporary Mexican literature, she is also founding editor of Tameme and editor of Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion.
For more about C.M. Mayo and her work, visit www.cmmayo.com . P.S. Don't forget "Giant Golden Buddha" & 364 More Five Minute Writing Exercises, free on-line at www.cmmayo.com/d5mwe.html
Visit: C.M. Mayo at www.cmmayo.com
Flash, or micro-fictions are stories as short as six and as long as, say, 1,000 words. Though a genre with a distinguished tradition, flash fiction is perfectly suited for blogging and podcasting. For both beginning and advanced writers, this workshop will focus on improving your fiction-writing craft and generating new material. Click here for more information and also link to register on-line: https://www.writer.org/workshops/details.asp?id=1578
About the Writers Center: www.writer.org
About the one day format: Uniquely geared toward both beginning and advanced writers, C.M. Mayo's one-day creative writing workshops emphasize techniques for tapping into creativity, and specific aspects of craft. Mayo does not critique manuscripts but rather offers a series of mini-lectures interspersed with exercises, readings, and discussion. The goal is that by the end of the workshop, your writing will be of notably higher quality.
About C.M. Mayo: C.M. Mayo is the author of the forthcoming novel The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Unbridled Books); Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico (Milkweed Editions), and Sky Over El Nido (University of Georgia Press), which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in many outstanding literary journals, among them, Chelsea, Creative Nonfiction, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Massachusetts Review, Paris Review, Potomac Review,and Tin House. An avid translator of contemporary Mexican literature, she is also founding editor of Tameme and editor of Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion.
For more about C.M. Mayo and her work, visit www.cmmayo.com . P.S. Don't forget "Giant Golden Buddha" & 364 More Five Minute Writing Exercises, free on-line at www.cmmayo.com/d5mwe.html
Visit: C.M. Mayo at www.cmmayo.com
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
The Literary Washington, DC Scene Thrives
Sunday's panel at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland, was quite an eye-opener with regard to the literary scene in Washington, DC.
With well over eleven different editors/publishers representing journals, magazines, publishing collectives, and small presses, the audience was given a pretty good view of the realities of publishing. Certainly the author/poet in the area has plenty of options for publication from online to book form.
Though not all journals and magazines in the immediate area were present, Folio , Poet Lore, and Tameme, for example, were not represented, the wealth of knowledge and experience from the editors/publishers was extremely impressive. There were some with over 30 years of experience in the field, who regardless of the harsh realities of publishing are still committed to making a difference in the business. I say business because the truth of the matter is that whether one is a non-profit or for-profit entity somehow the bills need to get paid or the entities would not continue. And so I thank those who have continued to dedicate hour after hour, year in and year out, to make a positive contribution to the field of publishing in the Washington, DC area if not beyond.
So hurray for Bogg, Dryad, Gargoyle, Gival Press, Minimus, Passager, Potomac Review, Pretend Genius, WordWorks, Washington Writers' Publishing House, and WordWrights! who continue to make a difference in field of literature.
With well over eleven different editors/publishers representing journals, magazines, publishing collectives, and small presses, the audience was given a pretty good view of the realities of publishing. Certainly the author/poet in the area has plenty of options for publication from online to book form.
Though not all journals and magazines in the immediate area were present, Folio , Poet Lore, and Tameme, for example, were not represented, the wealth of knowledge and experience from the editors/publishers was extremely impressive. There were some with over 30 years of experience in the field, who regardless of the harsh realities of publishing are still committed to making a difference in the business. I say business because the truth of the matter is that whether one is a non-profit or for-profit entity somehow the bills need to get paid or the entities would not continue. And so I thank those who have continued to dedicate hour after hour, year in and year out, to make a positive contribution to the field of publishing in the Washington, DC area if not beyond.
So hurray for Bogg, Dryad, Gargoyle, Gival Press, Minimus, Passager, Potomac Review, Pretend Genius, WordWorks, Washington Writers' Publishing House, and WordWrights! who continue to make a difference in field of literature.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
ArLiJo Featuring Short Story by Agustín Cadena
ArLiJo is currently featuring the shorty story Lady of the Seas by Agustín Cadena which is translated by writer C.M. Mayo.
The English translation is included in the collection Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion edited by C.M. Mayo, (Whereabouts Press, 2006).
To read the story, click on the link below:
ArLiJoThe Arlington Literary Journal online
Biography of Agustín Cadena:
Agustín Cadena was born in 1963 in the Valle del Mezquital, Mexico. Poet, fiction writer, essayist, and translator, he has published more than twenty books in these genres and received numerous national awards, fellowships and other recognition for his literary work. His most recent book is Los pobres de espíritu, which won Mexico's San Luis Potosí National Prize for Fiction. His writing has been translated into English, Italian and Hungarian as well as adapted for radio and television. He currently teaches a seminar on Mexican culture and literature at the University of Debrecen, in Hungary.
Please visit his website:
Agustin Cadena
His blog:
AgustinCadena's Blog
C.M. Mayo is the author of the widely-lauded travel memoir, Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico, and Sky Over El Nido, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her poetry has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies, most recently, Poetic Voices Without Borders. Founding editor of Tameme, the bilingual Spanish / English) chapbook press, Mayo is also a translator of contemporary Mexican poetry and fiction. Her anthology of Mexican fiction in translation, Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, was published by Whereabouts Press in March 2006.
Please visit her website:
CMMayo.com
Her blog:
MadamMayo
The English translation is included in the collection Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion edited by C.M. Mayo, (Whereabouts Press, 2006).
To read the story, click on the link below:
Biography of Agustín Cadena:
Agustín Cadena was born in 1963 in the Valle del Mezquital, Mexico. Poet, fiction writer, essayist, and translator, he has published more than twenty books in these genres and received numerous national awards, fellowships and other recognition for his literary work. His most recent book is Los pobres de espíritu, which won Mexico's San Luis Potosí National Prize for Fiction. His writing has been translated into English, Italian and Hungarian as well as adapted for radio and television. He currently teaches a seminar on Mexican culture and literature at the University of Debrecen, in Hungary.
Please visit his website:
Agustin Cadena
His blog:
AgustinCadena's Blog
C.M. Mayo is the author of the widely-lauded travel memoir, Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico, and Sky Over El Nido, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her poetry has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies, most recently, Poetic Voices Without Borders. Founding editor of Tameme, the bilingual Spanish / English) chapbook press, Mayo is also a translator of contemporary Mexican poetry and fiction. Her anthology of Mexican fiction in translation, Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, was published by Whereabouts Press in March 2006.
Please visit her website:
CMMayo.com
Her blog:
MadamMayo
Monday, June 26, 2006
Mayo & Giron Reading in Kensington, MD
If any of you out there are near Kensington, Maryland, you are welcome to visit Kensington Row Bookshop on Wednesday, 28 June 2006, at 7 pm, and hear C. M. Mayo and yours truly read from our work. The event is free and open to the public.
The Kensington Row Bookshop is located at 3786 Howard Avenue in Kensington, Maryland. Call 301 949 9416 for directions. Come early to browse and chat. Refreshments provided. An open reading will follow. Kensington Row Bookshop.
C. M. Mayo, founding editor of the bilingual TAMEME, editor of MEXICO: A TRAVELER'S LITERARY COMPANION, and author of MIRACULOUS AIR, a Baja California memoir, has won three Lowell Thomas travel writing awards and the Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Award for SKY OVER EL NIDO. Her poetry has appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Natural Bridge, Rio Grande Review, and West Branch, among many other literary magazines, as well as in anthologies, most recently, Robert Giron's POETIC VOICES WITHOUT BORDERS. Visit her website: C.M. Mayo or her blog:
MadamMayo
Robert L. Giron, trilingual editor of the award-winning English-Spanish-French POETIC VOICES WITHOUT BORDERS and AN INTERDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S STUDIES, is co-poetry editor for POTOMAC REVIEW and editor of the literary Gival Press. He has five collections of poetry, and teaches at Montgomery College-Takoma Park / Silver Spring. Visit: GivalPress.com
The next Kensington Row Bookshop reading will be Wednesday, 27 September 2006, at 7 pm, with Grace Cavalieri and Donna Denize.
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Blogs to Visit
Stop by and visit award-winning poet Grace Cavalieri's radio site:
Grace Cavalieri On the Air
The pronouncements of Madam Mayo on books, creative writing, literary translation, Mexico, Washington DC, the world, human potential, soundwork, and pugs
MadamMayo
CM Mayo is a writer, poet, and translator; she also edits Tameme, a bilingual journal.
E. Ethelbert Miller
E. Ethelbert Miller is a poet and educator who lives and works in Washington, DC.
Dee Rimbaud
Dee Rimbaud is both a writer and artist who hails from the UK but who is about to go south on the European continent.
MJ Rose
MJ Rose is a writer.
Grace Cavalieri On the Air
The pronouncements of Madam Mayo on books, creative writing, literary translation, Mexico, Washington DC, the world, human potential, soundwork, and pugs
MadamMayo
CM Mayo is a writer, poet, and translator; she also edits Tameme, a bilingual journal.
E. Ethelbert Miller
E. Ethelbert Miller is a poet and educator who lives and works in Washington, DC.
Dee Rimbaud
Dee Rimbaud is both a writer and artist who hails from the UK but who is about to go south on the European continent.
MJ Rose
MJ Rose is a writer.
