Visit our page on Facebook  www.facebook.com/finishinglinepress

and for photos of gigs and more event details visit the Leah Maines Facebook Fan Page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cincinnati-OH/Leah-Maines/157333019072

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• Maria Lisella, author of Amore on Hope Street (click to go to FLP New Releases)

[Finishing Line Press] and Two Naked Feet [Poets Wear Prada]

Italian American Writers Association
Presents
Marisa Frasca and Maria Lisella
Saturday, Feb. 13
at
Cornelia St. Café
at
5:45-7:45 pm

Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
Between West 4th & BleeckerN

New York, NY
Tel. 212-989-9319
ADMISSION: $7.00 includes one drink
Visit www.iawa.net

Since 1991, IAWA has given voice to writers through its

Open Reading series at Cornelia St. Café on the 2nd Saturday of every month; 5:45-7:45 p.m.
Directions:  By Subway: A,C, E, B, D, F, V  to West 4th Street or
1 & 9 to Christopher Street / Sheridan Square

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LYN LIFSHIN POETRY READING FEBRUARY 14 AT IOTA AT 6PM

Please be sure to come out to Iota Club and Cafe Sunday, Feb. 14 at 6 pm to hear the distinguished

poets Lyn Lifshin and Steven B. Rogers. Admission is free, as always, and there will be an open reading

after the featured reading. Street and garage parking are nearby, as is the Clarendon Metro stop on the

Orange Line. A full bar and dinner menu are available.

Lifshin (www.lynlifshin.com) will read from recent books including PERSEPHONE,

ANOTHER WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE ME, BARBARO:BEYOND BROKENNESS, NUTLEY POND AND LIGHT AT THE END,

LOST IN THE FOG (click here to purchase on amazon.com), THE LICORICE DAUGHTER: MY YEAR WITH RUFFIAN

Iota Club and Cafe is at

2832 Wilson Blvd. in

Arlington, VA.

For more information, call (703) 256-9275.

Marie Gauthier (author of Hunger All Inside, click here to purchase from amazon.com Finishing Line Press 2009)

will read at the

Blacksmith House in

Cambridge, MA,

as part of their "New Voices: Emerging Writers"

evening, on February 22, 2010, at 8:00 pm.

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Laurel Peterson, author of That's the Way the Music Sounds (click here to purchase from amazon.com Finishing Line Press, 2009) 

will be the featured reader on

February 24, 2010 at Wednesday Night Poetry at

Blue Z Coffeehouse (127 S Main Street) in

Newtown, CT ((203) 364-0631).

The evening begins with an open "myk" at 7:45pm, followed by the feature at about 8:30pm. 
Wednesday night poetry is the longest running weekly series in Connecticut

and has a diverse "community."  Check out their website - http://wedpoetry.net/ -

to get a feel for the series. They offer an attentive, appreciative audience, and a lovely venue (Blue Z Coffeehouse).

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Linda Leedy Schneider editor of Mentor’s Bouquet (click here to purchase now)

Intensive Writing Workshop

The Wonder of Words: Writing For your Life   

Linda Leedy Schneider

• February 27, Saturday, 10- 

4 392 Central Park West, Apt. 10P

New York, NY

Loschneider @AOL.com 

Linda Leedy Schneider
Featured Poet
• March 1, Monday 7:30 PM
Saturn Series Poetry Reading
Nightingale Lounge
213 E. 13th Street at 2nd
New York, NY
www.supolo.com
Open readings  Sign up at 7.

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• C.S. Leaf author of Lost in Hindsight (click to go to amazon.com)

reading at Portsmouth's Poetry Hoot on March 3rd 2010 at 7-9 PM.  

C.S. Leaf was specially invited by the Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH (Mark DeCarteret). 

Walter E. Butts, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire State

 ( Finishing Line Press author of Sunday Factory )

will be introducing Leaf at this special Poetry Hoot reading .
More info at  http://www.pplp.org/HootNight.htm

The Poetry Hoot (Part of The Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program)

is a monthly poetry reading,

Featured Readers are specially invited by Mark DeCarteret,

the Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH. The Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program

is dedicated to building community through poetry by appointing and

supporting an outstanding local poet as Poet Laureate for the city,sponsoring

events that feature area poets and authors from outside the New Hampshire Seacoast,

and encouraging a love of poetry among people of all ages.The Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program

presents a variety of events throughout the year; readings, celebrations, publications.

These events are announced in the Portsmouth Herald and the WiRE Magazine.

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• Grailville Retreat Center in Loveland, Ohio presents:

Grailville Retreat and Program Center in Loveland Ohio invites you to attend

Giving Your Poems Roots and Wings, a panel discussion on publishing your poems

on Sunday, April 18, 2010, at 2:00 pm. This event is part of

Grailville’s new Third Sunday Poetry Series, offering monthly

opportunities for poets and poetry lovers to gather for readings,

performances and discussions, followed by an optional

poetry craft workshop led by poet and Grailville co-director Pauletta Hansel.

You’ve written; you’ve crafted it; you’ve read it out loud to an appreciative crowd.

Now what do you do with it? Join us at Grailville for tips from Greater Cincinnati area publishers and published poets on getting your poetry out into the world.

Richard Hague is a widely published poet and essayist, and former editor of Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel.  

Leah Maines is a poet and the Senior Editor of Finishing Line Press, an award-winning small press publisher.

Robert and Elizabeth Murphy are co-founders and (respectively) poet/Executive Editor

and artist/Designer of Dos Madres Press, creators of fine books pleasing to the eye and hand

and dedicated to the belief that the small press is essential to the vitality of contemporary literature.

Lynn Robbins is a poet, illustrator and graphic designer who has helped many women bring their words to press,

including poet and panelist Valerie Chronis Bickett, who received a grant to publish Triandafilo a memoir in free verse.

Each will give a short presentation based on their own trials and triumphs in the publishing world and engage

in conversation with the audience and each other.

Grailville’s Third Sunday Poetry Series is co-sponsored by Cincinnati Writers Project,

Dos Madres Press, Greater Cincinnati Writers League and InkTank. Spend Sunday afternoon

with learning from and with accomplished poets from the Cincinnati area and beyond!

There is a $15 fee for the 2:00 pm panel discussion. The Poetry Workshop,

beginning at 3:30 pm is by donation. Workshop participants should bring five copies on up to three poems.

All programs are at Grailville, 932 O’Bannonville Road, Loveland OH.

For information or to register contact visit www.grailville.org or call 513-683-2340.

Supported in part by the Tomcinoh Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation.

Grailville is a center of The Grail, an international movement of women committed

to spiritual search, social actions, ecological sustainability

and the release of women’s creative energy

throughout the world. Located on 300 acres of woodlands,

pastures and organic gardens, Grailville is a diverse community offering spiritual,

cultural and educational opportunities for the public,

as well as providing guest facilities for meetings, lodging and dining.

http://www.grailville.org/images/pictures/PoetryForWeb.pdf

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Finishing Line Press Editor Leah Maines Hosts
FLP Readers Read &
Sign New and Classic Releases
at
Cornelia St. Café, New York, New York
on
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
at
6:30 PM

Ned Balbo's latest collection is the Finishing Line chapbook

Something Must Happen. His second of two full-length collections,

Lives of the Sleepers (University of Notre Dame Press) received the Ernest Sandeen Prize and was a ForeWord Book of the Year in poetry.

George Held's Finishing Line Press books are Grounded (2005) and The Art Of Writing (2007).

His poems, stories, and book reviews appear regularly online and in print.

Maria Lisella has written two chapbooks, Amore on Hope Street (Finishing Line Press) and

Two Naked Feet (Poets Wear Prada). She is a member of the online poetry circle,

Brevitas and is the Program Coordinator for the Italian American Writers Association’s readings at Cornelia St. Café.

Katrinka Moore’s chapbook, This is Not a Story, won the New Women’s Voices prizeand was published by

Finishing Line Press in 2003.Thief was a runner-up for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and a finalist in the

Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and Cleveland State UFirst Book competitions.

Linda Leedy Schneider is the editor of  Mentor’s Bouquet, Finishing Line Press, March 2010. She is a poetry and

writing mentor, Pushcart nominee, and psychotherapist in private practice and has written five collections of poetry

including Through My Window: Poetry of a Psychotherapist.

Maria Terrone recently published Finishing Line Press chapbook is American Gothic, Take 2 .

She is the author of two poetry collections: A Secret Room in Fall (McGovern Prize winner, Ashland Poetry Press, 2006)

and The Bodies We Were Loaned (The Word Works, 2002).

Melora Walters Vendler is the author of the forthcoming chapbook Sonnets and Failures (Finishing Line Press),

winner of the 2010 Starting Gate Award. Melora is also an actress.

She plays the character Wanda Henrickson on the hit HBO series BIG LOVE.

Cornelia Street Café

29 Cornelia Street

Between West 4th & Bleecker

Tel. 212-989-9319

ADMISSION: $7.00 includes one drink

Directions:  By Subway: A,C, E, B, D, F, V  to West 4th Street or

1 & 9 to Christopher Street / Sheridan Square

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New Hampshire poet laureate W.E. Butts, author of Sunday Factory (click to go to amazon.com)

will be featured at these upcoming venues:

Thursday, May 20, 2010 7:00 p.m.

Poetry Reading Effingham

Public Library 30 Townhouse Road

Effingham, New Hampshire 03301

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Life Lines: Poetry for Our Patients, Our Communities and Ourselves
               
A conference examining the place of poetry in care giving:

What are the challenges and benefits of offering poetry to patients?

Can the sharing of poetry expand the vision of practitioners and students in healthcare professions?  

What is the role of poetry in community programs? In shelters? In prisons? What can caregivers gain from writing and reading poetry?

Join us as we hear from physicians, therapists, poets and discussing the practicalities and possibilities of poetry in health care.

We are just beginning to publicize this conference, but it is not too early to mark your calendars:
 
May 21 –23, 2010
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
Join us on May 21-23, 2010 at Duke University for the upcoming conference

Life Lines: Poetry for Our Patients, Our Communities, Our Selves .

The conference will bring together nationally-known poets and healthcare providers

for panel presentations, group discussions and workshops examining the place of poetry in caregiving.  

Highlights of the conference include Friday and Saturday evening talks by David Whyte and Jane Hirshfield.

For information about the conference and to register, visit our website: http://www.duke.edu/web/lifelines.

Guest speakers will include:

David Whyte        author of The Heart Aroused
Jane Hirschfield   award winning poet, translator and essayist
Danielle Ofri  editor of The Bell View Journal of Literature and Medicine
Kate Daniels,    poet and editor
 
Contact Grey Brown for more information and to be included on the mailing list:
 
brown097mc.duke.edu
Website coming soon!
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Finishing Line Press: Hear the interview with Sr. Editor Leah Maines and Managing Editor Kevin Maines

on Accents radio show for literature, art and culture, WRFL, 88.1 FM, Lexington, Kentucky

hosted by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer: http://www.katerinaklemer.com/radio.html

or the direct link to the file is http://www.katerinaklemer.com/audio/acce nts_050809.mp3

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Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher. 

Recent winners and notables: Congratulations to poet Cheryl Loetscher and Finishing Line Press for Winning the New England Poetry Club's Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award (for the best chapbook published in the preceding year) for the Finishing Line Chapbook, Unclaimed Baggage, Judged by Harris and Svetlana Sussman; Tania Runyan's poetry collection Delicious Air won the 2007 Belles Lettres Book of the Year award by the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Brenda Kay Ledford's Shew Bird Mountain won the 2007 PAUL GREEN MULTIMEDIA AWARD. The Paul Green Multimedia Award is given by the North Carolina Society of Historians. Marianne Worthington’s Larger Bodies than Mine (NWV Series) won the 2007 Appalachian Book of the Year Award for Poetry awarded by the Appalachian Writers Association. Anne Wilson won the San Diego Book Award (for "a book of poetry ") for her book SOLEA! Congratulations to BG THURSTON author of Saving the Lamb for making the “Highly Recommended” list of the 8th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards; Frederick Smock's Sonnets was a finalist in the Kentucky Literary Awards for excellence in poetry. Linda Annas Ferguson’s chapbook, Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk, won an honorable mention in the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Book Award of the Poetry Council of NC.  Kaye Bache-Snyder won first place in the National Federation of Press Women’s annual competition, in category 75, creative verse for her book PINNACLES AND PLAINS. Carolyn Howard-Johnson was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Silver Award for Excellence for her chapbook of poetry, Tracings. Abigail Gramig's poem "Requiem" (first published by Finishing Line Press in her chapbook DUSTING THE PIANO) is included in Billy Collins' new anthology 180 More : Extraordinary Poems for Every Day by BILLY COLLINS (Editor). Julene Tripp Weaver author of Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues; George Held, author of Grounded and The Art of Writing and Others, GARY L. LARK, author of Men At the Gates, Joyce Greenberg Lott,author of DEAR MRS. DALLOWAY, and to Paula Sergi author of FAMILY BUSINESS and John Brantingham author of PUTTING IN A WINDOW were all recently featured on Garrison Keillor's THE WRITER'S ALMANAC radio show. Karen Zaborowski Duffy’s (author of Giving in to the Smoke) poetry was featured on the PBS show The Newshour with Jim Lehrer . Michael Milburn’s poem “Preserved” from his FLP chapbook The Blessings of Motion and Silence appeared in Mary Karr’s weekly Book World feature, “Poet’s Choice.” In her column Ms. Karr picks a poem (or poems) each week and introduces it briefly. Book World is syndicated to a number of other papers, including the Washington Post Book World in The Washington Post National Weekly, washingtonpost.com, on-line data services and microfiche and CD-ROM versions of The Washington Post. Also appearing in The New Yorker (online only)

Finishing Line Press has also been featured in Poet's Market Insider Report.