Hello - My current “Intersections” essay is about the grafting of racist aesthetics onto Western thought. Using The Manichean Leitmotif by Dr. Arthur Graham as a basis for my essay, I try to answer the following questions:
“Do white poets generally project positive black imagery onto the world? Or do we tend to be – as we’ve been told we should be – color blind, in a world in which color affects the destiny of humankind? Worse yet, do many, or most, or all of us, intentionally or unwittingly, use black imagery to symbolize the negative? (For an example outside the realm of poetry, think of the westerns in which the bad guys can be identified by their black outfits.)”
You can see the essay at “Intersections” at http.alsopreview.com
Joyce
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Sunday, August 26, 2007
My collaborative CD: Inventions: Fictions, Fusions, & Poems
A CD I produced of recitations, many accompanied by music and/or audio affects, was reviewed along with an interview of me here. Four of the pieces (tho in MP3 rather than WAV) may be heard here. Two others are online at Notre Dame Review and Action Yes (links at my blog: carolnovack.blogspot.com).
The original CD is in revision. "Destination" (at myspace) now has cinematic music by composing musicologist Don C Meyer. "Minnows" and "Once in a Field" will also have audio/music (by [respectively] Don and Benjamin Rush Miller) in the 2d edition of the CD, due to emerge by October 1st.
Enjoy!
Carol
The original CD is in revision. "Destination" (at myspace) now has cinematic music by composing musicologist Don C Meyer. "Minnows" and "Once in a Field" will also have audio/music (by [respectively] Don and Benjamin Rush Miller) in the 2d edition of the CD, due to emerge by October 1st.
Enjoy!
Carol
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Wouldn't Miss It for the World
My novel, Wouldn't Miss It for the World, was released this week. Yay! Some of you may remember that I read from this novel at the Studio Center at the spring open house. It's about a destination wedding in Belize and, if I do say so myself, is a great summer read.
Oh, and it's published under my 'adult' fiction pen (maiden) name: Tara McCarthy.
Oh, and it's published under my 'adult' fiction pen (maiden) name: Tara McCarthy.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
book interview
I got interviewed about my experience with my first book. The interview is published as part of an ongoing series by the poet Kate Greenstreet.
You can read it here:
www.kickingwind.com.
You can read it here:
www.kickingwind.com.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Performance Next Week
I'm performing at Poetry vs. Comedy next week: 8PM at the Bowery Poetry Club.
It's usually a complete blast, much more funny stuff than serious stuff. I'm reading some new poems -- never before seen by human eyes (unless you consider my eyes, but I'm only half-human).
JULY 25TH LINEUP
EMCEE: Carolyn Castiglia -- so funny you could just die (and might)
COMEDIANS
Liz Miele -- Profiled as a comedienne by the New Yorker
Greg Walloch -- been on all sorts TV shows with Ben Stiller
Sven Wechsler -- performed all over NYC, also on TV
POETS
Christine Hamm -- published some poetry
Livia Scott (as Anthony Moscowitz)-- has been on Late Night With Conan O'Brien
Kathleen Warnock -- award-winning playwright
MUSICAL GUESTS: Manson Family Singers
What They Say About PVC:
"tonight it is ok to laugh at the poets... At the Poetry Vs. Comedy Variety Show poets rage against comedians in a battle of wits."
-- Gothamist.com
"another celebratory night of the hottest talents on the downtown comedy scene."
-- TheTicker.com
____________________
Hope you can make it!
It's usually a complete blast, much more funny stuff than serious stuff. I'm reading some new poems -- never before seen by human eyes (unless you consider my eyes, but I'm only half-human).
JULY 25TH LINEUP
EMCEE: Carolyn Castiglia -- so funny you could just die (and might)
COMEDIANS
Liz Miele -- Profiled as a comedienne by the New Yorker
Greg Walloch -- been on all sorts TV shows with Ben Stiller
Sven Wechsler -- performed all over NYC, also on TV
POETS
Christine Hamm -- published some poetry
Livia Scott (as Anthony Moscowitz)-- has been on Late Night With Conan O'Brien
Kathleen Warnock -- award-winning playwright
MUSICAL GUESTS: Manson Family Singers
What They Say About PVC:
"tonight it is ok to laugh at the poets... At the Poetry Vs. Comedy Variety Show poets rage against comedians in a battle of wits."
-- Gothamist.com
"another celebratory night of the hottest talents on the downtown comedy scene."
-- TheTicker.com
____________________
Hope you can make it!
Sunday, June 3, 2007
A Poem in Feile Feste
I have a poem called “Pop” ( meaning “my grandfather”) coming out in the 2nd annual literary arts journal Feile-Festa. I won’t be in New York for the reading at the KGB Bar on June 16th (7 – 9 pm) , but maybe some of you who live in the area can stop in and say “hello and best wishes” to Frank Polizzi, the editor. I’ve posted text from the flyer below. I just received the magazine, and it looks really good!
Let me know if you go. The drinks are on me!
Joyce Nower
Let me know if you go. The drinks are on me!
Joyce Nower
Monday, May 28, 2007
Poems in AVATAR REVIEW
Hi –
I have two poems in the Summer Issue of Avatar Review: “The Back Yard” and “On the Roof.” An audio rendition accompanies “The Back Yard.” (The Noo Yawk accent is audible!)
http://www.avatarreview.net/AV9/
Hope you get a chance to visit the site.
Joyce Nower
I have two poems in the Summer Issue of Avatar Review: “The Back Yard” and “On the Roof.” An audio rendition accompanies “The Back Yard.” (The Noo Yawk accent is audible!)
http://www.avatarreview.net/AV9/
Hope you get a chance to visit the site.
Joyce Nower
Saturday, May 26, 2007
another post, not about me!
I saw this call for submissions and I thought it might be useful for the fiction writers:
The second issue of Cantaraville is coming out this fall and we're actively seeking submissions of short fiction as well as reviews and novel and script excerpts. Previously published okay. Comps of Cantaraville go out to editors, agencies and producers (one contributor, in fact, landed a top-tier agent query). Our editorial staff is second-to-none in excellence while maintaining a warm and thoughtful rapport with all our authors. For guidelines, visit http://www.cantaraville.com.
The second issue of Cantaraville is coming out this fall and we're actively seeking submissions of short fiction as well as reviews and novel and script excerpts. Previously published okay. Comps of Cantaraville go out to editors, agencies and producers (one contributor, in fact, landed a top-tier agent query). Our editorial staff is second-to-none in excellence while maintaining a warm and thoughtful rapport with all our authors. For guidelines, visit http://www.cantaraville.com.
new poem
Hi. It was nice coming to the writers' forum again, today. I got inspired.
A Tender Age
in this corner, a dog is screaming
he is calling your name
Oliver, Oliver
you have better things to do
you in your urchin shirt
rusty shoes, hat full
of night and spiders
you sneak the hubcaps
off dead men’s eyes
you borrow morning
ransom it for some
chilled red soup
you tuck bracelets, brooches,
feathered hat pins in your pockets
they clank an odd song when you run
they rub together like bones in your thin
shoulder joint
no meat
no meat
for the strangers’ mouths
for the dog still barking
for the profiles made of metal and gems
when the street lights pop on
so many bad ideas over so many
dusty, perfumed heads
you are just getting started
your business hawking pocket watches
stealing time
and other boys’ tender teeth
A Tender Age
in this corner, a dog is screaming
he is calling your name
Oliver, Oliver
you have better things to do
you in your urchin shirt
rusty shoes, hat full
of night and spiders
you sneak the hubcaps
off dead men’s eyes
you borrow morning
ransom it for some
chilled red soup
you tuck bracelets, brooches,
feathered hat pins in your pockets
they clank an odd song when you run
they rub together like bones in your thin
shoulder joint
no meat
no meat
for the strangers’ mouths
for the dog still barking
for the profiles made of metal and gems
when the street lights pop on
so many bad ideas over so many
dusty, perfumed heads
you are just getting started
your business hawking pocket watches
stealing time
and other boys’ tender teeth
Monday, April 16, 2007
publishing news
MiPoesias just accepted my chapbook, Children Having Trouble with Meat!
I'm very happy. Many of you have probably heard the poems in the book --thanks for your feedback!
I'm very happy. Many of you have probably heard the poems in the book --thanks for your feedback!
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Some online postings for Joyce Nower, and you can even vote for the poem in #1!
1. Don't you want something else to do? Sure you do. You can vote for my poem “The Wild Parrots” at the Hapa Nui website www.hapanui.com. What's in it for you? The pleasure of my being included in an anthology. What's in it for me? The pleasure of my being included in an anthology. Vote early, but don't vote often - only one of your votes actually gets registered.
2. My poem “There Was a Time” is in the current issue of Kaleidowhirl (March ’07)
http://home.alltel.net/ellablue/index.html
A mighty nice zine!
3. Thirteen poems have been posted at The Poets' Corner, at Fiera Lingue, site hosted by the Pedagogical Institute of Bolzano, Italy, and edited by Anny Ballardini. http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content
4. “Ephesus” and “Column of Silence” appear in the Winter 2006 issue of Poemeleon, Vol. 1, #2.
5. A double dactyl – “Hooray for Diversity!” - in Umbrella’s Bumbershoot (Winter ‘07). (Go to Umbrella, click on Bumbershoot, and search the “Double Dactyl” section.)
1. Don't you want something else to do? Sure you do. You can vote for my poem “The Wild Parrots” at the Hapa Nui website www.hapanui.com. What's in it for you? The pleasure of my being included in an anthology. What's in it for me? The pleasure of my being included in an anthology. Vote early, but don't vote often - only one of your votes actually gets registered.
2. My poem “There Was a Time” is in the current issue of Kaleidowhirl (March ’07)
http://home.alltel.net/ellablue/index.html
A mighty nice zine!
3. Thirteen poems have been posted at The Poets' Corner, at Fiera Lingue, site hosted by the Pedagogical Institute of Bolzano, Italy, and edited by Anny Ballardini. http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content
4. “Ephesus” and “Column of Silence” appear in the Winter 2006 issue of Poemeleon, Vol. 1, #2.
5. A double dactyl – “Hooray for Diversity!” - in Umbrella’s Bumbershoot (Winter ‘07). (Go to Umbrella, click on Bumbershoot, and search the “Double Dactyl” section.)
Monday, March 12, 2007
Readings Wed 3/21, Fri. 3/23, Thurs. 3/29
Come see me (with clothes on!)
at IN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 at 8 PM
HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE
302 BROOME STREET, NYC
(B/D to Grand, J/M/Z to Bowery, F to Delancey)
212-334-9676
www.happyendinglounge.com
Admission: Free
Happy Ending Lounge: 212-334-9676
http://inthefleshreadingseries.blogspot.com
This month, join Cheri Crystal (Erotic Interludes 3, 4, 5), Joel A. Nichols (Dorm Porn 2, Travelrotica 2), Carol Novack (Mad Hatters' Review), memoirist Suzanne Portnoy (The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker), who's making an appearance all the way from London, and Claire Thompson (Golden Boy, Slave Castle), along with host erotica writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel (He's on Top, She's on Top, Caught Looking) for hot stories from across the sexual spectrum. Free candy and mini cupcakes will be served and authors' books will be available for sale.
In the Flesh is a monthly reading series hosted at the appropriately named Happy Ending Lounge, and features the city's best erotic writers sharing stories to get you hot and bothered, hosted and curated by acclaimed erotic writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel. From erotic poetry to down and dirty smut, these authors get naked on the page and will make you lust after them and their words. Since its debut in October 2005, In the Flesh has featured such authors as Laura Antoniou, Andy Mo Beasley, Lily Burana, Jessica Cutler, Stephen Elliott, Polly Frost, Gael Greene, Andy Horwitz, Debra Hyde, Maxim Jakubowski, Emily Scarlet Kramer of CAKE, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Edith Layton, Sofia Quintero, M.J. Rose, Lauren Sanders, Danyel Smith, Grant Stoddard, Cecilia Tan, Carol Taylor, Susan Wright, and many others. The series has gotten press attention from Escape (Hong Kong), The L Magazine, New York magazine, Philadelphia City Paper, Gothamist, Nerve.com and Wonkette has been recommended by Dr. Ruth. This is not Amanda Stern's Happy Ending Reading Series.
Rachel Kramer Bussel is Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations, conducts interviews for Gothamist.com and Mediabistro.com, and wrote the popular Lusty Lady column for The Village Voice. Her erotic stories have been published in over 80 anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006, and she's edited 13 erotica anthologies, most recently Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists and Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 2. Rachel has also written for AVN, Bust, Cosmo UK, Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, Time Out New York and Velvetpark.
www.rachelkramerbussel.com
Cheri Crystal enjoys reading, writing, reviewing, eating, working out, and having sex—not necessarily in that order. Since appearing in Erotic Interludes 3: Lessons in Love, Cheri has erotica in other Bold Strokes Books, Cleis Press, and Alyson anthologies. When she's not busy raising a family or working in health care, Cheri is putting the finishing touches on her first novel, A Closet in Syosset.
Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz is a fiction writer and poet. Her work has appeared in various online and print journals as well as several anthologies. Though new to the erotic genre, Mintz has had work published in the online journal Clean Sheets as well as Down & Dirty 2 and Velvet Heat from Pretty Things Press. A very short work received an honorable mention in a contest at Katy Terrega's Sex-writers.com.
Joel A. Nichols was born and raised in Vermont. This year stories of his will appear in Dorm Porn 2, Travelrotica 2, Second Skin, Fast Balls, Distant Horizons: Queer Science Fiction (Haworth Positronic), C is for Co-ed (Cleis), Got A Minute (Cleis), and Sex by the Book: Gay Men's Tales of Lit and Lust (Green Candy Press), and have appeared in Alyson's Full Body Contact, Just the Sex, Ultimate Undies, and Sexiest Soles. An excerpt from his novel in progress won second place in the Brown Foundation Short Fiction Prize 2005. In 2002, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Berlin. Joel studied German at Wesleyan University and has a Creative Writing M.A. from Temple University. He lives in Philadelphia with his boyfriend and works for an internet porn company.
www.joelanichols.com
Carol Novack's writings can & will be found in many publications, including The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets, American Letters & Commentary, Del Sol Review, Diagram, First Intensity, 5_Trope, La Petite Zine, LIT, & Notre Dame Review. She publishes the e-journal Mad Hatters' Review.
carolnovack.blogspot.com
Suzanne Portnoy has been an entertainment publicist for twelve years. Divorced and with two children, aged 13 and 15, she is formerly from New York and now lives in London. Attractive and finally a size 8 after twenty years of yo-yo dieting, she is happily single and spends her spare time writing, having sex and acting as a one-woman car pool service. Her first book, The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker: An Erotic Memoir, is published by Virgin Books.
www.suzanneportnoy.com
Claire Thompson has written erotic fiction since 1995. Much of her work focuses on the romance of erotic submission, as well as the darker exploration of BDSM. Her most recent work focuses on the male/male romance and erotic submission. Claire has published numerous novels and short stories, both in print and ebook format. Says a reviewer for eCataRomance, "…Claire Thompson draws a compelling, graphic picture of a loving dominant/submissive relationship. Erotic and confronting, yet tender and intimate." Visit her website for a listing of all Claire's novels, upcoming releases, and more information.
www.clairethompson.net
Last year's True Sex Confessions night, with Dan Allen, Jessica Cutler, Miriam Datskovsky, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Judy McGuire, Audacia Ray and Felicia Sullivan drew the first really huge crowd for In The Flesh. We're back with more racy confessions from another equally talent group of writers, along with some much-anticipated audience participation!
____________________________________
Mad Hatters' Review Edgy & Enlightened Literature, Art & Music in the Age of Dementia
Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes Reading Series
Curated & Pickled by Publisher/Editor Carol Novack
6th Reading
Friday, March 23, '07, 7 – 9 pm
KGB Bar
85 East 4th St. 2nd Floor
(between 2nd Ave and Bowery)
212-505-3360
http://www.kgbbar.com
Features:
Patricia Catto, former Finger Laker, now "Midwasterner," is Associate Professor of Something at the Kansas City Art Institute. She was tenured in 1994 after a now legendary battle with Franconian fascists. Her book Aunt Pig of Puglia (edible portions published in various journals – one such to be published in MHR) recounts the magical realist tale of her cruel, unacceptable, beloved family whose Auntie was born with bristles and trotters. The true but utterly fake tale of the Ferri Family, this fable can be understood as the Sopranos Meet the Fawkers and They All Call Into Car Talk For Advice on Existential Problems. Catto is the author of a poetry book, Wife of Geronimo's Virile Old Age (Mathom Press), several poesms, art reviews and earnest articles dealing with the ecospiritualviagra issues of our day. In addition to teaching creative writing (like, RIGHT) and raks sharki (belly dance ), she does large scale murals in Indian restaurants. She has studied with the Maurice Sendak Kalighat School of the Indian Restaurant Mural. Catto's latest triumph was surviving if not partially mastering a parasite ingested last summer in Chandigarh India. You'll want to come and see her -3 dress size and query her about weight loss strategies.
Ted Pelton is the author of three books, most recently the novel Malcolm & Jack (and Other Famous American Criminals) (Spuyten Duyvil, 2006). In 1994, he was awarded an NEA Fellowship in Fiction. In 2000, he founded Starcherone Books (starcherone.com), an independent publisher of innovative fiction, and he now serves as its Executive Director. He's also an Associate Professor of English at Medaille College of Buffalo, NY. See samples of his work at tedpelton.com.
Steve Tomasula's short fiction has appeared widely and most recently in McSweeney's, The Denver Quarterly and The Iowa Review where he received the Iowa Prize for the most distinguished work published in any genre. His essays on body art and culture appear in Leonardo and other magazines both here and in Europe. He is the author of the novels IN & OZ; The Book of Portraiture; and VAS: An Opera in Flatland, a novel of the biotech revolution that has been released in paper by the University of Chicago Press. He teaches in the writing program at The University of Notre Dame.
WITH LIVE MUSIC PLAYED BY BEN RUSH MILLER
For further info, email: madhattersreview@gmail.com
(type READINGS in the subject line)
_________________________________________
2ND OFFICIAL CLWN WR EVENT
MARCH 29TH , Brooklyn, NYC, 7pm
The Safe-T-Gallery at 111 Front Street,
Brooklyn ( D.U.M.B.O.), Gallery 214
The reading will start around 7:00, and will feature Jane Ormerod, Carol Novack and Bob Hart plus a number of special guests including Nathan Whiting, Jean Lehrman, EK Smith, Judy Kamilhor, Thomas Fucaloro and some others still to be announced - take the F train to York Street, walk downhill to Front and turn left under the Manhattan Bridge - for more information and alternative directions (from other subway lines) please check the Gallery website at http://www.safetgallery.com
Since its first issue in 1972, Clown War and its successor CLWN WR (both published by MHR contributor Bob Heman) have frequently published very small poems in both regular and special small poem issues. Among the writers who have contributed small poems to Clown War/CLWN WR are Cid Corman, Ted Berrigan, F.A. Nettelbeck, Ray DiPalma, Bruce Andrews, Lyn Hejinian, Eileen Myles, Bob Holman, Keith Abbott, Dave Morice, Joel Dailey, Nathan Whiting, Brian McInerney, Charles Bernstein, Alex Caldiero and many others. We have also published very small visual poems by David Cole, John M. Bennett, Scott Helmes, M. Kasper, Hannah Weiner, Roy Arenella and others. After a long hibernation CLWN WR is once again starting a series of special issues devoted to the very small poem in all of its manifestations. The website is currently being built.
at IN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 at 8 PM
HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE
302 BROOME STREET, NYC
(B/D to Grand, J/M/Z to Bowery, F to Delancey)
212-334-9676
www.happyendinglounge.com
Admission: Free
Happy Ending Lounge: 212-334-9676
http://inthefleshreadingseries.blogspot.com
This month, join Cheri Crystal (Erotic Interludes 3, 4, 5), Joel A. Nichols (Dorm Porn 2, Travelrotica 2), Carol Novack (Mad Hatters' Review), memoirist Suzanne Portnoy (The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker), who's making an appearance all the way from London, and Claire Thompson (Golden Boy, Slave Castle), along with host erotica writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel (He's on Top, She's on Top, Caught Looking) for hot stories from across the sexual spectrum. Free candy and mini cupcakes will be served and authors' books will be available for sale.
In the Flesh is a monthly reading series hosted at the appropriately named Happy Ending Lounge, and features the city's best erotic writers sharing stories to get you hot and bothered, hosted and curated by acclaimed erotic writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel. From erotic poetry to down and dirty smut, these authors get naked on the page and will make you lust after them and their words. Since its debut in October 2005, In the Flesh has featured such authors as Laura Antoniou, Andy Mo Beasley, Lily Burana, Jessica Cutler, Stephen Elliott, Polly Frost, Gael Greene, Andy Horwitz, Debra Hyde, Maxim Jakubowski, Emily Scarlet Kramer of CAKE, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Edith Layton, Sofia Quintero, M.J. Rose, Lauren Sanders, Danyel Smith, Grant Stoddard, Cecilia Tan, Carol Taylor, Susan Wright, and many others. The series has gotten press attention from Escape (Hong Kong), The L Magazine, New York magazine, Philadelphia City Paper, Gothamist, Nerve.com and Wonkette has been recommended by Dr. Ruth. This is not Amanda Stern's Happy Ending Reading Series.
Rachel Kramer Bussel is Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations, conducts interviews for Gothamist.com and Mediabistro.com, and wrote the popular Lusty Lady column for The Village Voice. Her erotic stories have been published in over 80 anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006, and she's edited 13 erotica anthologies, most recently Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists and Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 2. Rachel has also written for AVN, Bust, Cosmo UK, Metro, New York Post, Punk Planet, Time Out New York and Velvetpark.
www.rachelkramerbussel.com
Cheri Crystal enjoys reading, writing, reviewing, eating, working out, and having sex—not necessarily in that order. Since appearing in Erotic Interludes 3: Lessons in Love, Cheri has erotica in other Bold Strokes Books, Cleis Press, and Alyson anthologies. When she's not busy raising a family or working in health care, Cheri is putting the finishing touches on her first novel, A Closet in Syosset.
Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz is a fiction writer and poet. Her work has appeared in various online and print journals as well as several anthologies. Though new to the erotic genre, Mintz has had work published in the online journal Clean Sheets as well as Down & Dirty 2 and Velvet Heat from Pretty Things Press. A very short work received an honorable mention in a contest at Katy Terrega's Sex-writers.com.
Joel A. Nichols was born and raised in Vermont. This year stories of his will appear in Dorm Porn 2, Travelrotica 2, Second Skin, Fast Balls, Distant Horizons: Queer Science Fiction (Haworth Positronic), C is for Co-ed (Cleis), Got A Minute (Cleis), and Sex by the Book: Gay Men's Tales of Lit and Lust (Green Candy Press), and have appeared in Alyson's Full Body Contact, Just the Sex, Ultimate Undies, and Sexiest Soles. An excerpt from his novel in progress won second place in the Brown Foundation Short Fiction Prize 2005. In 2002, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Berlin. Joel studied German at Wesleyan University and has a Creative Writing M.A. from Temple University. He lives in Philadelphia with his boyfriend and works for an internet porn company.
www.joelanichols.com
Carol Novack's writings can & will be found in many publications, including The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets, American Letters & Commentary, Del Sol Review, Diagram, First Intensity, 5_Trope, La Petite Zine, LIT, & Notre Dame Review. She publishes the e-journal Mad Hatters' Review.
carolnovack.blogspot.com
Suzanne Portnoy has been an entertainment publicist for twelve years. Divorced and with two children, aged 13 and 15, she is formerly from New York and now lives in London. Attractive and finally a size 8 after twenty years of yo-yo dieting, she is happily single and spends her spare time writing, having sex and acting as a one-woman car pool service. Her first book, The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker: An Erotic Memoir, is published by Virgin Books.
www.suzanneportnoy.com
Claire Thompson has written erotic fiction since 1995. Much of her work focuses on the romance of erotic submission, as well as the darker exploration of BDSM. Her most recent work focuses on the male/male romance and erotic submission. Claire has published numerous novels and short stories, both in print and ebook format. Says a reviewer for eCataRomance, "…Claire Thompson draws a compelling, graphic picture of a loving dominant/submissive relationship. Erotic and confronting, yet tender and intimate." Visit her website for a listing of all Claire's novels, upcoming releases, and more information.
www.clairethompson.net
Last year's True Sex Confessions night, with Dan Allen, Jessica Cutler, Miriam Datskovsky, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Judy McGuire, Audacia Ray and Felicia Sullivan drew the first really huge crowd for In The Flesh. We're back with more racy confessions from another equally talent group of writers, along with some much-anticipated audience participation!
____________________________________
Mad Hatters' Review Edgy & Enlightened Literature, Art & Music in the Age of Dementia
Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes Reading Series
Curated & Pickled by Publisher/Editor Carol Novack
6th Reading
Friday, March 23, '07, 7 – 9 pm
KGB Bar
85 East 4th St. 2nd Floor
(between 2nd Ave and Bowery)
212-505-3360
http://www.kgbbar.com
Features:
Patricia Catto, former Finger Laker, now "Midwasterner," is Associate Professor of Something at the Kansas City Art Institute. She was tenured in 1994 after a now legendary battle with Franconian fascists. Her book Aunt Pig of Puglia (edible portions published in various journals – one such to be published in MHR) recounts the magical realist tale of her cruel, unacceptable, beloved family whose Auntie was born with bristles and trotters. The true but utterly fake tale of the Ferri Family, this fable can be understood as the Sopranos Meet the Fawkers and They All Call Into Car Talk For Advice on Existential Problems. Catto is the author of a poetry book, Wife of Geronimo's Virile Old Age (Mathom Press), several poesms, art reviews and earnest articles dealing with the ecospiritualviagra issues of our day. In addition to teaching creative writing (like, RIGHT) and raks sharki (belly dance ), she does large scale murals in Indian restaurants. She has studied with the Maurice Sendak Kalighat School of the Indian Restaurant Mural. Catto's latest triumph was surviving if not partially mastering a parasite ingested last summer in Chandigarh India. You'll want to come and see her -3 dress size and query her about weight loss strategies.
Ted Pelton is the author of three books, most recently the novel Malcolm & Jack (and Other Famous American Criminals) (Spuyten Duyvil, 2006). In 1994, he was awarded an NEA Fellowship in Fiction. In 2000, he founded Starcherone Books (starcherone.com), an independent publisher of innovative fiction, and he now serves as its Executive Director. He's also an Associate Professor of English at Medaille College of Buffalo, NY. See samples of his work at tedpelton.com.
Steve Tomasula's short fiction has appeared widely and most recently in McSweeney's, The Denver Quarterly and The Iowa Review where he received the Iowa Prize for the most distinguished work published in any genre. His essays on body art and culture appear in Leonardo and other magazines both here and in Europe. He is the author of the novels IN & OZ; The Book of Portraiture; and VAS: An Opera in Flatland, a novel of the biotech revolution that has been released in paper by the University of Chicago Press. He teaches in the writing program at The University of Notre Dame.
WITH LIVE MUSIC PLAYED BY BEN RUSH MILLER
For further info, email: madhattersreview@gmail.com
(type READINGS in the subject line)
_________________________________________
2ND OFFICIAL CLWN WR EVENT
MARCH 29TH , Brooklyn, NYC, 7pm
The Safe-T-Gallery at 111 Front Street,
Brooklyn ( D.U.M.B.O.), Gallery 214
The reading will start around 7:00, and will feature Jane Ormerod, Carol Novack and Bob Hart plus a number of special guests including Nathan Whiting, Jean Lehrman, EK Smith, Judy Kamilhor, Thomas Fucaloro and some others still to be announced - take the F train to York Street, walk downhill to Front and turn left under the Manhattan Bridge - for more information and alternative directions (from other subway lines) please check the Gallery website at http://www.safetgallery.com
Since its first issue in 1972, Clown War and its successor CLWN WR (both published by MHR contributor Bob Heman) have frequently published very small poems in both regular and special small poem issues. Among the writers who have contributed small poems to Clown War/CLWN WR are Cid Corman, Ted Berrigan, F.A. Nettelbeck, Ray DiPalma, Bruce Andrews, Lyn Hejinian, Eileen Myles, Bob Holman, Keith Abbott, Dave Morice, Joel Dailey, Nathan Whiting, Brian McInerney, Charles Bernstein, Alex Caldiero and many others. We have also published very small visual poems by David Cole, John M. Bennett, Scott Helmes, M. Kasper, Hannah Weiner, Roy Arenella and others. After a long hibernation CLWN WR is once again starting a series of special issues devoted to the very small poem in all of its manifestations. The website is currently being built.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
I'm reading my poetry!
Come to my readings?
Christine Hamm is reading her poetry!
Many places and not quite all at once.
One on Tuesday:
The Battle Hill Reading Series
will be serving up a Highfill-Hamm extravaganza…
on Tuesday March 13th at 8PM
CHRISTINE HAMM
&
MITCH HIGHFILL
Their brilliance will be accompanied by bourbon & brisket, thanks to
our venue-Bar BQ -
(Directions)
Battle Hill Readings
at BarBQ: 20th Street & 6th Avenue
Corner of 20th/6th ave in South Slope/Greenwood Heights
in Green-Wood Heights/South Slope Brooklyn
Take the R or M to the Prospect Avenue station. Walk up the hill and
turn right on 6th Avenue. Two blocks down on 6th Avenue.
One on Sunday:
JOIN US FOR A READING AT PARK SLOPE’S 440 GALLERY!
WHEN: Sunday, March 18th from 4:30-6:00 pm
WHERE: 440 Gallery, 440 Sixth Avenue (at 9th St., F to 7th Ave.)
CONTACT: Brooke Shaffner at brshaffner@hotmail.com
Admission Free
WHO:
NICOLE STEINBERG
MATTHEW THORBURN
AMY LAWLESS
CHRISTINE HAMM
RICHARD EAGAN
For more information, go to http://www.440gallery.com
One on another Tuesday:
The Drew Graduate Student Creative Writing Group
reading their works-in-progress
in the Drew Writing Center
Drew College
7:30 pm
on Tuesday March 20, 2007.
Featured readers include: Joel Campbell, Andrea Braunius, Terri White,
Christine Hamm, and Rachel Bower.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
poem about Queens
I thought I'd share this, since it's related to Queens.
Queens Ascending
Queens Ascending
all over Jamaica Kew Gardens
Astoria and Forest Hills
beauticians are taking flight
they put down their curling irons
leave the blow-dryers on full
rise away from the toxic puddles
of nail polish remover,
the sad piles of tweezed eyebrow hair
the mounds
of fluffy bleached curls
strewn like rushes on the checked linoleum
they rise up over the 99 cent stores
the dry cleaners the funeral parlors
the basketball courts and the bodegas
the bridges humming with cars like shining eggs
the subway lines singing their mechanical vibrato
their press-on nails their aprons
the scissors in their pockets fall away
their lipstick peels away to nothing
and high, high above the borough
that is shaped like two clasped hands
they sprout wings
our angels of beauty
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
New publications
If anyone wants to view my crazy babies, proceed HERE (Del Sol Review).
The online complement to the print version of Notre Dame Review has published an audio of the printed piece that I created with a composer/musicologist. You can listen to it HERE
Just scroll down.
Also, I have a relatively new trilogy of prosepoems up at SALT RIVER REVIEW:
Hope you enjoy!
Carol
The online complement to the print version of Notre Dame Review has published an audio of the printed piece that I created with a composer/musicologist. You can listen to it HERE
Just scroll down.
Also, I have a relatively new trilogy of prosepoems up at SALT RIVER REVIEW:
Hope you enjoy!
Carol
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Review of my chapbook
There's a review of my chapbook, The Animal Husband, up at Galatea Resurrects. It's quite flattering, and something that I definitely needed on Valentine's Day. You can find it here.
Saturday, February 3, 2007
call for fiction
I found this on Craigslist and thought it might be of interest to some of you.....
Reply to: fiction@thelmagazine.com
Date: 2007-02-01, 2:04PM EST
Following the enormous success of our first two competitions, The L Magazine is proud to announce the third annual Literary Upstart, The Search for Pocket Fiction.
Once again, our panel of literary experts will include professional authors, literary agents and top-notch book editors (including Ben Greenman of the NewYorker, Christine Pride of Random House/Doubleday, Katherine Fausset of the Curtis Brown Agenct, and Gabriel Delahaye of Gawker.com) who will judge our winning entries during a series of readings right here in NYC (think American Idol without all of the sycophantic boobery, or at least without some of it). The winner will receive a cash prize; the three top final entries will be published in The L Magazine.
Submission deadlines are on a rolling basis for the three semifinal readings; the first reading is March 29, with a deadline of March 9.
Submission guidelines:
Entries should be polished little labors of love of no more than 1,500 well-chosen, un-published words. We want to guffaw and to weep, but remember to keep it lively, lovely and short.
Kindly email submissions in the body of an email or as a Word document in a standard, 12-point font to: fiction@thelmagazine.com.
You can also send a hard copy of your story (please include your email address) via post to:
Fiction Editor
The L Magazine
20 Jay Street, Ste. 207
Brooklyn, NY 11201
While curlicues and bubble fonts make us blush, they also make our poor eyes bleed, so please keep it simple and please double space. Participants may submit no more than 2 stories for consideration.
Last, but not least, please remember that the live readings are a major component of this competition, so if you're not living in the NYC area or cannot arrange to be here for a reading or two between March and June, you may wish to reconsider submitting your work...Style and content are up to you.
Happy Writing,
The L Magazine
Posting ID: 271850466
Call for Submissions: The L Magazine Wants Your Short Fiction
Reply to: fiction@thelmagazine.com
Date: 2007-02-01, 2:04PM EST
Following the enormous success of our first two competitions, The L Magazine is proud to announce the third annual Literary Upstart, The Search for Pocket Fiction.
Once again, our panel of literary experts will include professional authors, literary agents and top-notch book editors (including Ben Greenman of the NewYorker, Christine Pride of Random House/Doubleday, Katherine Fausset of the Curtis Brown Agenct, and Gabriel Delahaye of Gawker.com) who will judge our winning entries during a series of readings right here in NYC (think American Idol without all of the sycophantic boobery, or at least without some of it). The winner will receive a cash prize; the three top final entries will be published in The L Magazine.
Submission deadlines are on a rolling basis for the three semifinal readings; the first reading is March 29, with a deadline of March 9.
Submission guidelines:
Entries should be polished little labors of love of no more than 1,500 well-chosen, un-published words. We want to guffaw and to weep, but remember to keep it lively, lovely and short.
Kindly email submissions in the body of an email or as a Word document in a standard, 12-point font to: fiction@thelmagazine.com.
You can also send a hard copy of your story (please include your email address) via post to:
Fiction Editor
The L Magazine
20 Jay Street, Ste. 207
Brooklyn, NY 11201
While curlicues and bubble fonts make us blush, they also make our poor eyes bleed, so please keep it simple and please double space. Participants may submit no more than 2 stories for consideration.
Last, but not least, please remember that the live readings are a major component of this competition, so if you're not living in the NYC area or cannot arrange to be here for a reading or two between March and June, you may wish to reconsider submitting your work...Style and content are up to you.
Happy Writing,
The L Magazine
- Compensation: Winner will receive a cash prize; finalists receive publication in The L Magazine
- Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
- Please, no phone calls about this job!
- Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
Posting ID: 271850466
Sunday, January 28, 2007
demigods -- Jolie Cuminale
demigods
they were demigods
they were demigods
not full-fledged but only semi
only half
of their full potential
to reach the stars the sky to feel full
and empty
to need the emptiness to feel complete
I was so much happier empty
A vessel waiting
unswollen with wrath
sort of slender and well-slept
well-kept and not sloppy
I felt whole being empty
And I’m tired and feel the need to nap my way back to emptiness
Maybe if I exercised
Or exorcised the demons inside me
I might feel whole again empty.
Somehow the experience of a couple of days
worth of satiation in his
Absence
righted my sense of being
tethered to his side
Happier to bask in the lonely glow of years
than in my bursting belly
Friday, January 5, 2007
January Readings
SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2PM
Phoenix Reading Series Hosted by Mike Graves
High Chai, 18 Ave. B, NYC212-477-2424
One PurchaseDonation
Featuring
Carol Novack, Rob Stephenson, & Anne Elliott
PLUS OPEN MIC, time permitting
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Thursday, January 25, 8pm
Women's Studio Center Reading
FEATURING
Blick, Katrinka Moore and Carol Novack
Instructors at Women's Studio Center
Followed by Bessie Bazile, Phyllis Blaney, Gina Buttafoco,
Maura Candella, Christine Hamm,Celeste Hastings, Tamanna Hye,
Alice Jacoby, Ameena Lacey and Dulcie L. Leimbach
FEATURING
Blick, Katrinka Moore and Carol Novack
Instructors at Women's Studio Center
Followed by Bessie Bazile, Phyllis Blaney, Gina Buttafoco,
Maura Candella, Christine Hamm,Celeste Hastings, Tamanna Hye,
Alice Jacoby, Ameena Lacey and Dulcie L. Leimbach
Waltz Cafe-Astoria, 23-14 Ditmars Blvd, Astoria, NY 11105
http://www.waltz-astoria.com/
http://www.waltz-astoria.com/
$7.00 MinimumOfferings include coffee & tea drinks, wine and decadent desserts
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Mad Hatters' Review
Edgy & Enlightened Literature, Art & Music in the Age of Dementia
Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes Reading Series
Curated & Pickled by Publisher/Editor Carol Novack
5th Reading
Friday, January 26th, 7 – 9 pm
Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes Reading Series
Curated & Pickled by Publisher/Editor Carol Novack
5th Reading
Friday, January 26th, 7 – 9 pm
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, N.Y.C.
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Featuring
NORMAN LOCK -- author of The Long Rowing Unto Morning (Ravenna Press), A History of the Imagination (Fiction Collective Two), Land of the Snow Men (Calamari Press), 'Notes to the Book of Supplemental Diagrams' for Marco Knauff's Universe (Ravenna Press), Trio (Triple Press), Emigres & Joseph Cornell's Operas (elimae books and YKP, Istanbul), Cirque du Calder (Rogue Literary Society), and The House of Correction (Broadway Play Publishing). Two Plays for Radio is due fall '06 from Ravenna Press. His stage plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, in Germany, and at the 1996 Edinburgh Theatre Festival. Women in Hiding, The Shining Man,The Primate House, and Money, Power & Greed were broadcast by WDR, Germany. He wrote the film The Body Shop, produced by The American Film Institute. He is the recipient of the Aga Kahn Prize for fiction, given by The Paris Review. He lives in Philadelphia. Two of his book reviews and a short fiction can be found in MHR.
TERESE SVOBODA has been described as "A fabulous fabulist," in Publisher's Weekly review of her fourth novel and ninth book, Tin God. Her writings have appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, Atlantic, Slate, Bomb, Lit, Columbia, Yale Review and Paris Review,
and her honors include an O. Henry for the short story, a nonfiction Pushcart Prize, a translation National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, a PEN/Columbia Fellowship, two NYFA Fellowships in poetry and fiction, an NYSCA grant, a Jerome Foundation grant in video, the John Golden Award in playwriting, and the Bobst Prize in fiction and the Iowa Prize in poetry. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence, Williams, the College of William and Mary, the University of Hawaii , the University of Miami, the New School, St. Petersburg, Russia and is currently Writer-in-Residence at Fordham. She lives in New York City and will be teaching in Kenya in Bennington next spring. Her opera WET premiered at L.A. Disney Hall in December '05.
and her honors include an O. Henry for the short story, a nonfiction Pushcart Prize, a translation National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, a PEN/Columbia Fellowship, two NYFA Fellowships in poetry and fiction, an NYSCA grant, a Jerome Foundation grant in video, the John Golden Award in playwriting, and the Bobst Prize in fiction and the Iowa Prize in poetry. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence, Williams, the College of William and Mary, the University of Hawaii , the University of Miami, the New School, St. Petersburg, Russia and is currently Writer-in-Residence at Fordham. She lives in New York City and will be teaching in Kenya in Bennington next spring. Her opera WET premiered at L.A. Disney Hall in December '05.
DEB OLIN UNFERTH 's fiction has appeared in Harper's, Conjunctions, Fence, NOON, Pushcart Prize anthologies, and elsewhere. Her first book is forthcoming from McSweeney's.
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A limited edition of signed "Homeland Security" posters (our cover artwork for Issue 5) createdby contributing artist & writer Marty Duane Ison will be on sale, as will books by our featured authors.For further info, email: mailto:madhattersreivew@gmail.com(type READINGS in the subject line)
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