Chez Robert Giron

One of my favorite poets is Joy Harjo, whom I first met in 1976 or 1977 in El Paso, when she came to give a reading at the invitation of Leroy V. Quintana. Quintana and I both taught at El Paso Community College around that time, if I have the years correct.

Anyway, Harjo struck my fancy because up to that point I had not met someone who identified herself as an American Indian and a poet. Obviously living in El Paso, one can't avoid knowing or meeting American Indians and in fact many El Pasoans and Southwesterners either know or simply don't know or have forgotten that perhaps an ancestor was an American Indian or partly American Indian. I mention this because I knew my maternal great-grandmother was Comanche but I had never met someone who identified herself as an Indian poet--to me at this time Harjo was a novel concept. After meeting Harjo, I began to ask my mother and maternal grandmother more about my great-grandmother, whom I had met but who died in the 1960s. There was always a mystery about her and she insisted on living in her own home nearby a younger daughter. What many people might not know is that many Americans of Mexican descent actually have Indian ancestry though they have adopted the Spanish-language culture of Mexico long before it became the United States.

Sorry to get off topic, but perhaps this is why Judge Sonia Sotomayor is still causing such a stir in the news. She is a Latina but we don't know what her ancestry is. Though few Puerto Ricans have American Indian ancestry, many have other ancestries. And as with some Spanish of Spain, perhaps many have forgot or simply don't know that their fore bearers were either Moors and/or Jewish but after the Spanish Inquisition they simply became Catholic. In fact, growing up in Nebraska and then moving to El Paso at a young age, I still remember telling people I was Catholic when I was asked what I was--they wanted to know my lineage but for me only my religion was important. In truth, it would be many years later that I would discover the multi-ethnic background of my fore bearers: French, Spanish, Mexican, Bavarian, Comanche and only God knows what else. I only know that when I heard the Kaddish the first time I was touched to the core in the same manner as when I hear ancient Arabic love music. Perhaps that is why I love the Gypsy Kings so much, I don't know--it's in my blood.

This brings me back to Harjo. Harjo is getting back to her roots and when she does, her music soars. Though I have no clear idea why the songs No Huli and Witchi Tai To speak to me, I feel lifted. In fact, I have listened to the CD numerous times now and have gone back to her previous CD Native Joy For Real to hear the difference between the two; the Fear Song is one of my favorites from this CD--there is something Buddhist about it that speaks to me as a spiritual person.

Sadly, Harjo informs us that folks don't seem to buy her music as much as her poetry. Her interview speaks to this issue of the spoken word via music and its relationship between the word. Whatever is going on is truly amusing in a way, for Bob Dylan is doing something similar with his music and the lyrics. I suppose the purists aren't able to see the beauty in the mixture. The culmination of this rich fabric comes through in the song Goin' Home and her saxophone is that unusual instrument that brings all the ancient forms home.

I encourage you to visit Joy Harjo by listening to her interview via the link below and her webpage also listed below:
Joy Harjo's Interview on You Tube

Joy Harjo.com

Joy Harjo doesn't disappoint in her latest CD. There are many tunes that I simply found myself going back to listen to because of the mixture of music and the lyrics.

For those of you out there who only read poetry, I encourage you to give Harjo's music a listening to and to those of your out there who only listen to music, I encourage you to read Harjo's poetry. Perhaps one day, you will realize the link between them; it's up to you.

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Gival Press is pleased to announce the release of Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 edited by Robert L. Giron. Upcoming readings are scheduled for March 18th at the New York Center for Independent Publishing (NYC), April 23rd at the Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, VA), and April 30th at the Halsted Center (Chicago).

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This international anthology of over 150 poets who write in English, French, and Spanish includes work by Grace Cavalieri, Rita Dove, Dana Gioia, Joy Harjo, Peter Klappert, Philip Levine, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gloria Vando, among many other fine poets.

The voices are passionate and enlightening while echoing a desire in their own way to transform, to change, to transcend borders, be they personal, cultural or national, in a poetic manner as if to say that within literature there isn't a border for the human spirit, for it is that energy that keeps us going.

The following poets have work in Poetic Voices Without Borders 2:
Alenier, Karren LaLonde
Ambroggio, Luis Alberto
Ambroggio, Xavier
Amen, John
Antler
Ayala, Naomi
Barkan, Stanley H.
Baysans, Greg
Beck, Gary
Belin, Mel
Berger, Donald
Bergman, David
Bernal, Leonel P.
Bolz, Jody
Bourgeois, Louis E.
Bowen, Kristy
Browder, Clifford
Buck, Janet I.
Burch, Beverly
Cantú, Norma Elía
Carrión de Fierro, Fanny
Cavalieri, Grace
Cellini, Don
Chun, Ye
Collins, Martha
Conlon, Christopher
Corn, Alfred
Corwin, Nina
Cravzow, Roy
Cremades, Luis
Cross, Teri Ellen
Dasgupta, Shome
Davis, Bradley Warren
Del Peschio, John
del Pliego, Benito
Domini, John
Dove, Rita
Duhamel, Denise
Encinar, Jesús
Evans, J. Glenn
Falco, Edward
Fellner, Steve
Fisher, Andres S.
Garfinkel, Patricia
Garza, Efrain
Gaspar de Alba, Alicia
Geyer, Bernadette
Gilgun, John
Gilman, Josh
Gilreath, Shannon
Ginsberg, Arthur
Gioia, Dana
Giron, Robert L.
Godoy, M. Juan
Goldemberg, Isaac
Goldman, Paula
Gray, Patricia
Greenberg, Janet
Grossberg, Benjamin S.
Guerrero, Jose Marcial
Gwiazda, Piotr
Habra, Hedy
Harjo, Joy
Harjo, Suzan Shown
Hislop, Robin Ouzman
Holland, Walter R.
Hudson, Ron
Hurezanu, Daniela
Ifland, Alta
Inez, Colette
Jensen, Kim
Joysmith, Claire
Kasprowicz, Marcella
Kessler, Stephen
Kester, Gunilla Theander
Kirkpatrick, Kathryn
Klappert, Peter
Klawitter, George
Koch, Randy
Kreiter-Foronda, Carolyn
Lader, Bruce
Lecrivain, Marie
Lee, Daniel W. K.
Lee, Donna J. Gelagotis
Lehmann, Gary
Levchev, Vladimir
Levine, Philip
López-Luaces, Marta
Luczak, Raymond
Luna-Escudero-Alie, María Elvira
Mann, Jeff
March, Sydney
March, Thomas
Marín, Desiree S.
Martínez, Pablo Miguel
Martínez de Merlo, Luis
Mayo, C. M.
McCombs, Judith
Meléndez, Mario
Melleby, Arnold
Micheaux, Dante
Miller, Edmund
Miller, E. Ethelbert
Mills, Stephen S.
Montlack, Michael
Moore, David Miles
Murphy, Kay
Neisser Moreno , Yvette
Nye, Naomi Shihab
Ostriker, Alicia Suskin
Pantano, Daniele
Paris, Anika
Pastoriza Iyodo, Benito
Peabody, Richard
Plum , Emily Lupita
Queneau, Raymond
Reevy, Anthony W.
Rimbaud, Arthur
Rivera, Wanda
Roberts, Kim
Robinson, Blake
Robinson, J. E.
Roffé, Mercedes
Ross, Joseph
Ross, Sean
Rummel, Mary Kay
Rutkowski, Thaddeus
Saba, Mark
Salum, Rose Mary
Schaffner, M. A.
Schimel, Lawrence
Shapiro, Gregg
Shulklapper, Lucille Gang
Singer, Ron
Slone, G. Tod
Smith, J. D.
Snider, Clifton
Soden, Christopher
Soniat, Katherine
Tandon, Jason
Tilley, Jonathan
Toscano, Rodrigo
Tusa, Chris
Ungar, Barbara Louise
Van de Kamp, Alexandra
Vando, Gloria
Vélez-Mitchell, Anita
Wade, Julie Marie
Walt, Jeff
Whittenberg, Allison
Williams, Jill
Wormwood, Ernie
Wozek, Gerard
Yakovina, Katharina

ArLiJo is currently featuring poetry by John del Peschio and Thomas Rain Crowe and fiction by Steve Fellner.

For a direct link to ArLiJo click here below:
ArLiJo.com

Biographies of the featured writers:


John Del Peschio lives in Brooklyn Heights. His work has appeared in lodestarquarterly and modern words. He often walks past a wooden building that in the 1840s was a meniac's hairdressing parlor as he likes to think Whitman went there.


Thomas Rain Crowe is an internationally recognized poet and translator whose work has been published in several languages. He is the author of twenty books of original works, translations, anthologies and recordings including The Laugharne Poems, written at the Dylan Thomas home in Laugharne, Wales and published by Welsh publisher Carreg Gwalch; Thomas Rain Crowe & The Boatrockers LIVE, which received praise by such poet-musicians as Joy Harjo and by Pete Townshend of The Who; and the multi-award winning book of nonfiction Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods, published in 2005 by the Univ. of Georgia Press. As an editor, he has been an instrumental force behind such magazines as Beatitude, Katuah Journal and the Asheville Poetry Review. As a translator, he has translated collections by poets such as Hafiz and Yvan Goll. His archives have been purchased and are collected by the Duke University Special Collections Library. He lives in the Smoky Mountains of rural western North Carolina.


Steve Fellner's first book of poems Blind Date with Cavafy won The Third Annual Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, judged by Denise Duhamel. It was released early this year. He currently teaches at SUNY Brockport.

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Arlington, VA (January 10, 2009)—Gival Press is pleased to announce the release of Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, an international anthology including over 150 poets, including Philip Levine, Rita Dove, Dana Gioia, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye as well as many local Washington, DC poets. The anthology is edited by Robert L. Giron.

On Sunday, January 18, 2009, from 3:30 to 5:30 PM Busboys and Poets will host a special reading with the following poets: Karen Alenier, Christopher Conlon, Patricia Gray, Sydney March, Yvette Neisser Moreno, and Joseph Ross. The poets will read from the anthology and their current work in a joint celebration for President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration. The poets’ bios follow.

The voices found within these pages are passionate and enlightening while echoing a desire in their own way to transform, to change, to transcend borders, be they personal, cultural or national, in a poetic manner as if to say that within literature there isn’t a border for the human spirit, for it is that energy that keeps us going.

Melissa A. Tuckey, co-director of Split This Rock Poetry Festival, will open the event at the 1390 V St., NW, Washington, DC location. For further information, please call 202. 387.7638.



Special Joint Event in Celebration
of the Release of Poetic Voices Without Borders 2
and President-elect Barack Obama’s Inauguration

Sunday, January 18, 2009 from 3:30 to 5:30 PM
Busboy and Poets ~ 1390 V St., NW, Washington, DC ~ 202.387.7638
A Special Reading with the Following Poets

Karren LaLonde Alenier is the author of five collections of poetry, including Looking for Divine Transportation, winner of the 2002 Towson University Prize for Literature. Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On, her opera with composer William Banfield and Encompass New Opera Theatre artistic director Nancy Rhodes premiered in New York City in June 2005. Her latest book is The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas. Website: www.steinopera.com.

Christopher Conlon is the author of three books of poems Gilbert and Garbo in Love, The Weeping Time, and Mary Falls: Requiem for Mrs. Surratt as well as a novel, Midnight on Mourn Street. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Patricia Gray’s book Rupture was chosen by the Montserrat Review as one of the best books of poetry for 2005. In 2006, she received an Artist’s Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and in June 2007 she was a guest poet at the South Carolina Spoleto Festival. Gray coordinates the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress, where she has directed the Poetry at Noon reading series for 14 years.

Sydney March, a Jamaican poet, essayist, musician, and journalist, resides in Washington, DC. A former member of the WritersCorps 1996-1998, he is a recipient of grants from The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and Poets and Writers (2007), as well as Jenny Moore and Lannan Fellowships. He has recently served as a panelist for the DC Commission’s Artist Fellowship Grants in Literature. Publications include Dark Warriors of the Spanish Main (Smithsonian New World, Smithsonian Institution, 1992), The Maroons of Jamaica (Encounters, University of New Mexico Press, 1994) and a collection of poetry, Stealing Mangoes (Mica Press, 1997).

Yvette Neisser Moreno is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her translation of Luis Alberto Ambroggio's Difficult Beauty: Selected Poems is forthcoming from Cross-Cultural Communications in 2009. She teaches poetry in public schools in both Arlington County, Virginia, and Washington, DC, as part of the Folger Poetry Program.

Joseph Ross is a poet in the Washington, DC area. His poetry has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies including Poetic Voices Without Borders, Sojourners, Solo Cafe, DC Poets Against the War, and Beltway Poetry Quarterly. He co-edited a collection of poetry responding to Fernando Botero's Abu Ghraib paintings, published by American University.

Robert L. Giron, founder of Gival Press, has written five collections of poetry and is the editor of the Poetic Voices Without Borders series and the online journal ArLiJo.com. He teaches English and creative writing at Montgomery College-Takoma Park/Silver Spring, Maryland, where he also serves as a poetry editor for Potomac Review.
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The Fall for the Book Conference will kick off on 9/21/08 at George Mason University.

For a complete list of the sessions and description of the participants, click on the link below:

Fall for the Book


Fall for the Book 2008 Participants
Fiction:
Chinua Achebe
Biyi Bandele
Richard Bausch
Charles Baxter
Peter Brown
Ethan Canin
Ron Carlson
Alan Cheuse
Michael Cunningham
Frank Delaney
Solveig Eggerz
Garrett Epps
Jenny Gardiner
Frank Joseph
Ana-Maurine Lara
Alison Larkin
Alain Mabanckou
Kathleen McCleary
Sue Miller
Tahra Nichols
Benjamin Percy
Nani Power
Nicole Shivers
Porter Shreve
Veronique Tadjo
David Taylor
Gioia Timpanelli
Tim Wendel

Poetry:
Karen Leona Anderson
Jennifer Atkinson
Dan Beachy-Quick Linda Bierds
Noelle Bolou
Catherine Bowman
Suzanne Buffam
Brian Brodeur
Jennifer Chang
Kyle Dargan
Alec Finlay
Katie Ford
Joy Harjo
Judith Harris
Kevin McFadden
Mel Nichols
Eric Pankey
Jon Pineda
Srikanth Reddy
Rod Smith
Melissa Tuckey
Brian Turner
Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave
C.K. Williams

Nonfiction:
Mark Anderson
David Bacon
Michael Beschloss
Sven Birkerts
Eric Brende
Vincent Carretta
Ryan Coonerty
Aime Ellis
Daniel Mark Epstein
Andrew Ferguson
Harvey Frommer
Michael K. Fauntroy
Donald R. Gallehr
Caroll R. Gibbs
Diane Goldstein
Maryemma Graham
Michael D. Hais
Frederick P. Hitz
Linwood Holton
Mary T. Hufford
Scott Huler
Robert Jensen
Clint Johnson
Scott Keeter
Rushworth Kidder
Michael Klare
Chris Lear
Eric Lichtblau
Elaina Loveland
James Miller
Honor Moore
Lisa C. Moore
George Norfleet
Curtis Christopher Robinson
Larry L. Rockwood
Ariel Sabar
Colleen Shogan
Michael Sims
Lori Smith
Jonny Steinberg
Peter Stearns
Amy Sullivan
James L. Swanson
Lee Talbot
Christina Thompson
Mike Tidwell
Alan Weisman
Robert Whitaker
Joshua Wolf Shenk
Children's & Young Adult
P.W. Catanese
Chris Crutcher
Lulu Delacre
Moira Donohue
Kathryn Erskine
Katy Kelly
Jerdine Nolen
Beckie Weinheimer

PUBLISHING & OTHER:
Nancy Crampton
Bruce George
Robert L. Giron
Bill Glose
Keith Hall
David Rovics
Ann Falcone Shalaski



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Gival Press is pleased to announce the release of Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, an international anthology including over 150 poets, including Philip Levine, Rita Dove, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye and many other well-known poets. The anthology is edited by Robert L. Giron.

On Wednesday, March 18, 2009, at 6:30 PM The New York Center for Independent Publishing will host a special reading in celebration of Small Press Month with the following poets: Stanley H. Barkan, Cliff Browder, John Del Peschio, John Domini, Isaac Goldemberg, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Marta Lopez-Luaces, Mercedes Roffe, Thad Rutkowski, Ron Singer, Rodrigo Toscano, and Barbara Louise Ungar. The poets will read from the anthology and their current work. Their bios follow.

The voices found within these pages are passionate and enlightening while echoing a desire in their own way to transform, to change, to transcend borders, be they personal, cultural or national, in a poetic manner as if to say that within literature there isn’t a border for the human spirit, for it is that energy that keeps us going.

Tim W. Brown, author and Board Member, of The New York Center for Independent Publishing will open the event at 20 West 44th St (between 5th and 6th Avenues in midtown Manhattan), New York, NY 10036. For further information, please call 212.764.7021.


In Celebration of Small Press Month and the Release of Poetic Voices Without Borders 2
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 6:30 PM
The New York Center for Independent Publishing
20 West 44th St. (between 5th & 6th Avenues), NY 10036 ~ 212.764.7021


A Special Reading with the Following Poets

Stanley H. Barkan is the editor/publisher of the Cross-Cultural Review Series of World Literature and Art, which in the past thirty-six years has produced about 350 titles in fifty different languages. His translations and co-translations, besides Spanish, include Bengali, Hebrew, Italian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, and Sicilian, while his own poetry has been translated into twenty-two different languages.

Clifford Browder’s poetry has appeared in Snake Nation Review, Hawaii Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Heliotrope, Runes, and elsewhere. He is also the author of two published biographies and a critical study of the French Surrealist poet Andre Breton.

John Del Peschio lives in Brooklyn Heights. His work has appeared in www.lodestarquarterly.com and modern words: a thoroughly queer literary journal. He often walks past a wooden building that in the 1840s was a men's hairdressing parlor; he likes to think Whitman went there.
John Domini has won awards in all genres, most recently an Iowa Major Artist grant for creative non-fiction. His poetry has appeared in Meridian and elsewhere, and his latest novel is A Tomb on the Periphery (Gival Press, 2008).

Isaac Goldemberg, born in Peru, has lived in New York since 1964. He is the author of three novels, a collection of short fiction, 12 collections of poetry and two plays. His novel The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner was selected by a panel of international scholars convened by the National Yiddish Book Center as one of the 100 greatest Jewish books of the last 150 years. He is the recipient of the 1977 Nuestro Award in Fiction, the Premio Estival de Teatro (2003), and of the Orden de Don Quijote (2005), an award received in previous years by such authors as Camilo José Cela, Fernando Arrabal, and Elena Poniatowska.

Donna J. Gelagotis Lee's book, On the Altar of Greece (Gival Press, 2006), winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award, received a 2007 Eric Hoffer Book Award: Notable for Art Category and was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She lives in New Jersey but lived in Greece for many years. Website: www.donnajgelagotislee.com.

Marta López-Luaces has published two books of poetry, Distancias y destierros (Red Internacional del Libro, 1998) and Las lenguas del viajero (Huerga y Fierro, 2005) and a plaquette entitled Memorias de un vacío (Pen Press, 2000). A selection of her work appeared in English in the Revel Road’s chapbook series (2004) and in the literary journal, Literary Review (New Jersey, 2003). She is the co-director of Galerna, a Spanish-language literary journal published in the USA. She was awarded speaker for the New York Council for the Arts and the Humanities (2003-05).

Mercedes Roffé, an Argentine poet, has been widely published in Latin America and Spain. Her work has also been translated into Italian, French, and Romanian. An anthology of her work in English translation, Like the Rains Come: Selected Poems 1987-2006, has recently appeared in England (Shearsman, 2008). Since 1998 she has edited the New York-based poetry series, Ediciones Pen Press. Among other distinctions, she was awarded in 2001 a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry.

Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of the novels Tetched (Behler Publications) and Roughhouse (Kaya Press). Both books were finalists for an Asian American Literary Award. He teaches fiction writing at the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA in Manhattan, where he lives with his family. Visit: www.thaddeusrutkowski.com.

Ron Singer trawls the genres: poetry, fiction, satire, journalism about Africa, and librettos for two operas. His essay-review on The Caine Prize for African Writing appeared in the Summer 2007 Georgia Review, and a second printing of his chapbook, A Voice for My Grandmother (Ten Penny Players, Inc.), was issued in Fall 2007. Visit: www.ronsinger.net.

Rodrigo Toscano is the author of To Leveling Swerve (Kruspkaya Books, 2005), Platform (Atelos, 2004), The Disparities (Green Integer, 2002) and Partisans (O Books, 1999). His new manuscript, Collapsible Poetics Theater, won the National Poetry Series 2007, while his poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry 2004, War and Peace (2004), War and Peace (2007) and In the Criminal's Cabinet: An Anthology of Poetry and Fiction (2004), Junta: An Anthology of Experimental Latino Poetry (2008), and The Gertrude Stein Awards Anthology. Originally from the Borderlands of California, he lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan at the Labor Institute.

Barbara Louise Ungar is the author of The Origin of the Milky Way, winner of the 2007 Gival Press Poetry Award and The 2007 Adirondack Literary Award for the Best Book of Poetry, among other awards, and Thrift, which was a finalist for many awards including the May Swenson Poetry Award and the Tupelo Prize, as well as the chapbooks Sequel and Neoclassical Barbra, and Haiku In English. Her poems have appeared in Salmagundi, The Minnesota Review, The Cream City Review, The Literary Review, and other publications. She’s an associate professor of English at the College of Saint Rose in Albany.

Robert L. Giron, founder of Gival Press, has written five collections of poetry and is the editor of the Poetic Voices Without Borders series and the online journal ArLiJo.com. He teaches English and creative writing at Montgomery College-Takoma Park/Silver Spring, Maryland, where he also serves as a poetry editor for Potomac Review.
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The Split This Rock Festival in Washington, DC is coming up (March 27-30, 2014). Please note that the featured readings are free and open to the public (no registration required). If you are interested in the workshop "Poetic Strategies for Change" --connecting poetry to social justice action--do register for the festival.


The line up of poets is really amazing. Sadly, I'll be in Portland, Oregon for a different conference otherwise I would do my best to attend.


If you have admired the work of: Joy Harjo, a favorite of mine; Eduardo C. Corral; Yusef Komunyakaa; Myra Sklarew and many others, then get yourself to the events.


The Festival schedule link: Split This Rock schedule of events

The Festival registration: Split This Rock registration

Gival Press is pleased to announce the release of Museum of False Starts by Chip Livingston of New York City.

Livingston’s poetry has been called unique because he writes about his diverse background. Though he lives in New York City, he has Mvskoke ancestral ties and he is a gay poet. The combination of these two has led him to write from a varied place, yet it is accessible to the reader. This is Chip Livingston’s first collection of poetry.

Advance praise:
“...Chip Livingston makes the ordinary exotic, erotic and extraordinary.”
—Ai

“…Not a false start at all, this first book is a distant drum announcing a fresh vision and an original approach to craft in our poetry.”
—Alfred Corn

“All poets must juggle the sacred and profane and each must make some kind of peace with the paradox, fight it, or find a unique road in the up and down. Chip Livingston, in his first book, Museum of False Starts, makes a distinct trail of poems, through Mvskoke ancestral country, through the maze of American myths, through bars and parties at the edge, through disturbance and awe. What an auspicious beginning!”
—Joy Harjo



Photo by Nicolás Arellano.


Biography:
Chip Livingston’s poems and stories appear widely in literary journals such as New York Quarterly, Ploughshares, Mississippi Review, Cincinnati Review, McSweeney’s, and New American Writing. He has received awards from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, AABB Foundation, and Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. He has taught writing for the University of Colorado, the University of the Virgin Islands, Brooklyn College, and Gotham Writers Workshops. He lives in New York City.

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To order a copy, visit:
Museum of False Starts at Amazon.com

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Join countless book lovers and authors at the Bethesda Literary Festival on Friday-Sunday, April 28th-30th.

Also visit the Small Press Book Fair at the Writer's Center nearby on Walsh Street on Saturday.

Stop by and visit the WNBA--the Women's National Book Associatio-DC--table where you will find books by members, including the award-winning poetry collection Poetic Voices Without Border edited by Robert L. Giron, winner of the 2006 Writers Notes Magazine Book Award--Notable for Art. This collection includes 148 poets from six continents and has poetry in English, Spanish, and French.

Click here for more details about the book and samples from the book:

Poetic Voices Without Borders


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The poets included in the anthology are listed below in alphabetical order.
Alenier, Karren L. (USA); Al-Jundi, Assef (Syria/USA); Allison, Shane (USA); Ambroggio, Luis Alberto (Argentina/USA); Amen, John (USA); Antler (USA); Armendariz, Rosanna (USA); Bailey, Scott (USA); Ball, Sally (USA); Baysans, Greg (USA); Belfiglio, Gabriella (USA); Belin, Mel (USA); Ben-Kotel, José (Chile/USA); Benton-Floyd, Morrigan (USA); Bernal, Leonel P. (Cuba/USA); Berroa, Rei (Dominican Republic/USA); Bieler, Linda (USA); Blazek, Larry (USA); Bolton, Jeanell Buida (USA); Bolz, Jody (USA); Bourgeois, Louis E. (USA); Buck, Janet I. (USA); Calbert, Cathleen (USA); Cardenas, Brenda (USA); Carpenter, Carol (USA); Carrión de Fierro, Fanny (Ecuador); Cavalieri, Grace (USA); Cellini, Don (USA); Conlon, Christopher (USA); Corn, Alfred (USA); Corwin, Nina (USA); Curran, James (USA); Curtis, G. L. (Ireland); Darling, Jill (USA); Douglas, Mitchell L. H. (USA); Elledge, Jim (USA); Evans, J. Glenn (USA); Figuroa, Manuel (USA); Finch, Steven (Switzerland); Flannery, Maureen Tolman (USA); Fletcher, Gretchen (USA); Freireich, H. Susan (USA) Gardner, Mary L. (USA); Garza, Efraín (Mexico/USA); Geyer, Bernadette (USA); Gilgun, John (USA); Giron, Robert L. (USA); Godoy, Juan M. (Spain/USA); Goldman, Paula (USA); Gomez, Jewelle (USA); Gonzalez, Rigoberto (USA); Grey, John (Australia/USA); Grossberg, Benjamin Scott (USA); Guerrero, José M. (USA); Gwiazda, Piotr (Poland/USA); Hardy, Myronn (USA); Harjo, Joy (Muscogee Nation/USA); Harjo, Suzan Shown (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee Nations/USA); Hefko, Daniel (USA); Hilsen-Bernard, Wendy (USA); Hinton, Laura (USA); Holland, Walter (USA); Huggins, Peter (USA); Jacob, Lucas J. (USA); Jenkison, John (USA); Jordan, Fran (USA); Joysmith, Claire (USA); Jules, Jacqueline (USA); Kester, Gunilla Theander (Sweden/USA); Klappert, Peter (USA); Klawitter, George (USA); Koch, Randy (USA); Kramer, Teresa Joy (USA); Lader, Bruce (USA); Larkin, Mary Ann C. (USA); Lee, Daniel W. K. (USA); Lehmann, Gary (USA); León, Raina J. (USA); Lifshin, Lyn (USA); López-Luaces, Marta (Spain/USA); Luczak, Raymond (USA); Manchester, Steven (USA); Mann, Jeff (USA); Manrique, Jaime (Colombia/USA); Mayo, C. M. (USA); McCombs, Judith (USA); Meyerhofer, Michael (USA); Michael, Colette (USA); Miller, E. Ethelbert (USA); Moffi, Larry (USA); Mohring, Ron (USA); Montesi, Albert (USA); Murphy, Kay (USA); Murray, Victoria Bosch (USA); Neisser, Yvette (USA); Nkulu-N’Sengha, Mutombo (D.R. of the Congo/USA); Pantano, Daniel (Switzerland/USA); Pastoriza Iyodo, Benito (Puerto Rico/USA); Peabody, Richard (USA); Penha, James (USA); Pobo, Kenneth (USA); Potter, Adrian S. (USA); Pourroy-Braud, Emmanuelle (France/USA); Proitsaki, Maria (Greece/Sweden); Reevy, Tony (USA); Rivera Cohen, Maritza (Puerto Rico/USA); Roberts, Kim (USA); Roberts, Peter (USA); Robinson, J. E. (USA); Rodriguez, Irving (Puerto Rico/USA); Ross, Joseph (USA); Ross, Marianne (Austria/USA); Saba, Mark (USA); Salazar, Jhoanna Calma (The Philippines/USA); Salum, Rose Mary (Mexico/USA); Schneeloch, V. Jane (USA); Scotcher, Keith Richard (England); Shapiro, Gregg (USA); Shapiro, Marian Kaplun (USA); Shulklapper, Lucille Gang (USA); Sklarew, Myra (USA); Slone, G. Tod (USA); Smith, J. D. (USA); Sool, Reet (Estonia); Speer, Laurel (USA); Strasser, Judith (USA); Stryk, Dan (USA); Sweet, John (USA); Tandeciarz, Silvia R. (Argentina/USA); Tham, The late Hilary (Malaysia/USA); Tombe, Sheila (Northern Ireland/USA); Vando, Gloria (Puerto Rico/USA); Wake, Shelley Ann (Australia); Walders, Davi (USA); Walker, Amelia (Australia); Walt, Jeff (USA); Warren, Charlotte Gould (India/USA); Whittenberg, Allison (USA); Wilcox, Fred A. (USA); Williams, Jill (USA/Canada); Winans, A. D. (USA); Wormwood, Ernie (USA); Wozek, Gerard (USA); Wright, Helen E. (USA); Yakovina, Katharina (Ukraine/Russia).

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Poetic Voices Without Borders 2
has won the 2009 National Best Book Award for Fiction & Literature: Anthologies, sponsored by USA Book News. Congratulations to the contributors and Ken Schellenberg, the book designer.

List of the Contributors:
Alenier, Karren LaLonde
Ambroggio, Luis Alberto
Ambroggio, Xavier
Amen, John
Antler
Ayala, Naomi
Barkan, Stanley H.
Baysans, Greg
Beck, Gary
Belin, Mel
Berger, Donald
Bergman, David
Bernal, Leonel P.
Bolz, Jody
Bourgeois, Louis E.
Bowen, Kristy
Browder, Clifford
Buck, Janet I.
Burch, Beverly
Cantú, Norma Elía
Carrión de Fierro, Fanny
Cavalieri, Grace
Cellini, Don
Chun, Ye
Collins, Martha
Conlon, Christopher
Corn, Alfred
Corwin, Nina
Cravzow, Roy
Cremades, Luis
Cross, Teri Ellen
Dasgupta, Shome
Davis, Bradley Warren
Del Peschio, John
del Pliego, Benito
Domini, John
Dove, Rita
Duhamel, Denise
Encinar, Jesús
Evans, J. Glenn
Falco, Edward
Fellner, Steve
Fisher, Andres S.
Garfinkel, Patricia
Garza, Efrain
Gaspar de Alba, Alicia
Geyer, Bernadette
Gilgun, John
Gilman, Josh
Gilreath, Shannon
Ginsberg, Arthur
Gioia, Dana
Giron, Robert L.
Godoy, M. Juan
Goldemberg, Isaac
Goldman, Paula
Gray, Patricia
Greenberg, Janet
Grossberg, Benjamin S.
Guerrero, Jose Marcial
Gwiazda, Piotr
Habra, Hedy
Harjo, Joy
Harjo, Suzan Shown
Hislop, Robin Ouzman
Holland, Walter R.
Hudson, Ron
Hurezanu, Daniela
Ifland, Alta
Inez, Colette
Jensen, Kim
Joysmith, Claire
Kasprowicz, Marcella
Kessler, Stephen
Kester, Gunilla Theander
Kirkpatrick, Kathryn
Klappert, Peter
Klawitter, George
Koch, Randy
Kreiter-Foronda, Carolyn
Lader, Bruce
Lecrivain, Marie
Lee, Daniel W. K.
Lee, Donna J. Gelagotis
Lehmann, Gary
Levchev, Vladimir
Levine, Philip
López-Luaces, Marta
Luczak, Raymond
Luna-Escudero-Alie, María Elvira
Mann, Jeff
March, Sydney
March, Thomas
Marín, Desiree S.
Martínez, Pablo Miguel
Martínez de Merlo, Luis
Mayo, C. M.
McCombs, Judith
Meléndez, Mario
Melleby, Arnold
Micheaux, Dante
Miller, Edmund
Miller, E. Ethelbert
Mills, Stephen S.
Montlack, Michael
Moore, David Miles
Murphy, Kay
Neisser Moreno , Yvette
Nye, Naomi Shihab
Ostriker, Alicia Suskin
Pantano, Daniele
Paris, Anika
Pastoriza Iyodo, Benito
Peabody, Richard
Plum , Emily Lupita
Queneau, Raymond
Reevy, Anthony W.
Rimbaud, Arthur
Rivera, Wanda
Roberts, Kim
Robinson, Blake
Robinson, J. E.
Roffé, Mercedes
Ross, Joseph
Ross, Sean
Rummel, Mary Kay
Rutkowski, Thaddeus
Saba, Mark
Salum, Rose Mary
Schaffner, M. A.
Schimel, Lawrence
Shapiro, Gregg
Shulklapper, Lucille Gang
Singer, Ron
Slone, G. Tod
Smith, J. D.
Snider, Clifton
Soden, Christopher
Soniat, Katherine
Tandon, Jason
Tilley, Jonathan
Toscano, Rodrigo
Tusa, Chris
Ungar, Barbara Louise
Van de Kamp, Alexandra
Vando, Gloria
Vélez-Mitchell, Anita
Wade, Julie Marie
Walt, Jeff
Whittenberg, Allison
Williams, Jill
Wormwood, Ernie
Wozek, Gerard
Yakovina, Katharina

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The finalists in the 2009 National Best Book Award category included:

Cuentos del Centro: Stories from the Latino Heartland
by the Latino Writers Collective

Dragons Composed
by James Ferris

Little Stories
by Jeff Roberts

Randoms
by Keith B. Darrell