Sunday, January 28, 2007

demigods -- Jolie Cuminale

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
Waltz Cafe-Astoria, 23-14 Ditmars Blvd, Astoria, NY 11105
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
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.

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)