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
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
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)
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
a funny kinda poem
My first contribution:
The Aggressive Squirrels of Roosevelt Island
by Christine Hamm
we wear special lenses to see what lurks underneath the oak leaves
we have pulled our hair back tightly with leather bands -- they can nest anywhere
we are here to capture the reason
we have tweezers, chloroform
glass jars the size of a head
a gold pen for notation
a green one for classification
we watch our ankles
we keep our bags closed at all times
we do not sit underneath the inviting trees to rest
we use hip waders or heavy rubber boots and socks infused
with a tincture of iodine
we do not touch peanut butter for at least a week before entering the island
at dusk, we try to remember Sheila, who was
dragged down a hole
we plunge forward, keeping our purpose always foremost in our minds
when in doubt, we jump into the river
we remember, as we sink, that the tails only look soft
and if they pause to lift an offering from our palm
the gentle brush of their tiny nails only lasts for a moment
we convince ourselves that moment is not sweet
without hesitation they will gnaw us anew
fill our skull with walnuts
toss our toe bones back and forth with their teeth
their infants are the size of our thumbs and not quite as soft
as our down comforter on the other island, the one we’re starting to forget
we have left behind our candy, our lavender deoderant
and the ones too weak too run
according to our guide books, one bite does not cause much scarring
we are not much afraid
we have practiced by running short distances very fast
The Aggressive Squirrels of Roosevelt Island
by Christine Hamm
we wear special lenses to see what lurks underneath the oak leaves
we have pulled our hair back tightly with leather bands -- they can nest anywhere
we are here to capture the reason
we have tweezers, chloroform
glass jars the size of a head
a gold pen for notation
a green one for classification
we watch our ankles
we keep our bags closed at all times
we do not sit underneath the inviting trees to rest
we use hip waders or heavy rubber boots and socks infused
with a tincture of iodine
we do not touch peanut butter for at least a week before entering the island
at dusk, we try to remember Sheila, who was
dragged down a hole
we plunge forward, keeping our purpose always foremost in our minds
when in doubt, we jump into the river
we remember, as we sink, that the tails only look soft
and if they pause to lift an offering from our palm
the gentle brush of their tiny nails only lasts for a moment
we convince ourselves that moment is not sweet
without hesitation they will gnaw us anew
fill our skull with walnuts
toss our toe bones back and forth with their teeth
their infants are the size of our thumbs and not quite as soft
as our down comforter on the other island, the one we’re starting to forget
we have left behind our candy, our lavender deoderant
and the ones too weak too run
according to our guide books, one bite does not cause much scarring
we are not much afraid
we have practiced by running short distances very fast
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