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• Shawn Regina Jones author of Womb Rain will be reading at Mane-Lee Kinky Hair Studio 5333 Rt. 70 West Pennsauken, NJ Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 5:50 pm. The poem "On Bourbon Street" from the collection Womb Rain was featured in the March issue of Essence magazine. `
• Anushka Anastasia Solomon author of Please,God, Don't Let Me Write Like A Woman • Anushka Anastasia Solomon is one of 8 remarkable women (Anna Politkovskaya, Lydia Cacho, Anushka Anastasia Solomon, Shirin Ebadi, Arundhati Roy, Wangari Maathai, Aung San Suu Kyi and Woeser) who Glasgow Women's Library and Amnesty International will feature at the International Heroines Exhibition, July 2nd, 2009, GWL, 2nd Floor, 81 Parnie Street, Glasgow, G1 5RH, Scotland. Well known Scottish writer A L Kennedy will perform readings from the work of these women who dared to speak out against human rights abuses in the face of repression & adversity. http://www.womenslibrary.org.uk/2009/07/international-heroines/ `
• Charlotte Innes, author of Reading Ruskin in Los Angeles, will be reading at the following places: • Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 3 p.m. Moondogs Artstop Café, located at 167a Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire (between London and Oxford.) England Phone: 0118 959 8417 or from the U.S: 011-44-118 959 8417. See the website: http://www.moondogcafe.co.uk • Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 8 p.m. 261 North Glassell Ave, Orange, California. See the website for all the details: http://www.poetryidiots.com/ • Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 8 p.m. The Coffee Cartel, 1820 S. Catalina Ave., Suite 1081, Redondo Beach, CA 90277. Phone: (310) 316-6554. • Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 9 p.m. located at 22047 Sherman Way in Canoga Park. It's just west of Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles County, California. For details check the website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/ • Monday, September 14, 2009 at 7 p.m. located at 1049 Swarthmore Ave., Pacific Palisades, California. Phone: (310) 454-4063. Check the website at http://home.earthlink.net/~pero/moonday.html `
• Andrea Scarpino, author of The Grove Behind will be reading and signing copies of her book on Tuesday, July 7th at 7pm at Rohs Street Cafe in Cincinnati, Ohio. Link here for more information: http://www.rohsstreetcafe.com/ • Saturday, July 18th at 4pm at Metropolis Books in Los Angeles, California. Link here for more information: http://www.metropolisbooksla.com/events.htm `
• Bob Brooks, author of A Story Anyone Could Stick To, will be participating along with some 40 other writers in the fifth annual Books and Blooms book fair of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, to be held this year on Saturday, July 11, from noon to 3 pm , at the • On Wednesday, August 5, at 7 pm, Bob Brooks, author of A Story Anyone Could Stick To will be reading at the Wiscasset Library, Wiscasset, Maine; George V. Van Deventer will be the principal reader, and
• Raphael Kosek, author of Letting Go will be reading and signing books at the following venue: • July 11, Saturday 2:00 WOODSTOCK POETRY SOCIETY: Raphael Kosek and Marnie Andrews, Woodstock, NY Town Hall Please feel free to contact me with any questions or if you need directions, etc. at ` • Sat., July 11 Delavan Art Gallery, Syracuse 2:00 - 3:00 pm 501 Fayette Street, Syracuse, NY
• Tues., July 28 Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, 7:30 - 9:00pm with Janet Jennings, David Alpaugh, Victoria Granucci, and Lynn Ireland 1408 Mission Street, San Rafael, CA
• Mon., August 31* Mahoney Library, Santa Rosa Jr. College 6:00 - 7:00 pm 680 Sonoma Mt. Parkway, Petaluma, CA
• Tues, September 8 Healdsburg Literary Salon 7:00 - 9:00 pm 133 Matheson Street, Healdsburg, CA
• Sat., September 12* Copperfield’s Bookstore, “Meet ‘n Greet” 1:30 - 3:30 pm 140 Kentucky Street, Petaluma, CA
• Sat., September 19 Rincon Valley Library, Santa Rosa 2:00 - 3:00 pm 6959 Montecito Blvd, Santa Rosa, CA
• Sun., September 20 Poetry Walk, Downtown Petaluma 10:00 - 11:00 am Petaluma Arts Center 230 Lakeville Street, Petaluma, CA
• Sat., September 26 Book Passage, with Janet Jennings, Rose Black 7:00 - 9:00 pm 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
• Fri., October 16 Word Temple, Copperfield’s Books 7:00 - 9:00 pm Montgomery Village, Santa Rosa, CA
• Mon., November 2* Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Jr. College 12:00 – 1:00 pm Emeritus Hall, Elliot Ave., Emeritus Circle 1501 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa, CA
* Jared Emerson-Johnson will play introductory and closing music on violin and mandolin. `
• Helen Degen Cohen will read from On a Good Day One Discovers Another Poet at the following venues: July 14th -- The Cafe -- 8-10 pm. POETRY 5115 N. Lincoln, Chicago. Web sites: HABRY by Helen Degen Cohen -- http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/puddinheadpress/books/Habry.html Poems related to the War (new in 2009) SUNY Press: Where We Find Ourselves -- http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61780 (fiction: Mirka & I, an excerpt from The Edge of the Field - was on editorial board for the anthology.) DISCOVER HELEN DEGEN COHEN :: ChicagoPoetry.com :: The Center of Chicago's Cyberspace Poetry `
• Martha Andrews Donovan will be reading selections from Dress Her in Silk at the following: This reading will also be broadcast by the local radio station WKXL. `
• Ruth D. Handel will be reading from her chapbook, Reading the White Spaces, at Bet Am Shalom Synagogue, White Plains, New York, on Saturday, July 18 at 1:15 p.m. See the synagogue’s website, BetAmShalom.org for further information.
• Julene Tripp Weaver author of Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues will be reading at the following venues: Julene Tripp Weaver is pleased to announce her poem "Over Here, Over There" has been published in Drash! This poem is written in a variation of a 12th Century Arabic form, Zajal, a call and response form traditionally sang.Composed of two columns, each are read separately then across. She is delighted this anti-war poem has found such an excellent home! Hear her read it at a series of Drash publication readings soon! Publication Reading is this
• Sarah Wells author of Acquiesce (2008 Starting Gate Award winner) will be reading and signing books at the following venues: `
• Felicia Mitchell author of The Cleft of the Rock: • August 2, 3 PM, Malaprops Bookstore and Cafe, Asheville (NC). Felicia Mitchell, reading from The Cleft of the Rock (FL, 2009) will participate with two other poets in this event in downtown Asheville. For more information, visit www.malaprops.com<http://www.malaprops.com `
• Susan Lewis, author of Animal Husbandry, will be reading and signing books at the following venue: • Sunday, August 8th, 2009 2:00 PM Woodstock Poetry Society Woodstock Town Hall 45 Comeau Drive Woodstock, NY visit www.woodstockpoetry.com for more information `
• Kathryn Ridall Book Launch The Way Of Stones
7 p.m. Book Passage 51 Tamal Vista Boulevard Corte Madera, California • Rebound Bookstore Fourth Street San Rafael, CA 9/26/09 4-6p.m. 415 482-0550 • Poetry Farm at Dr. Insomina's Cafe 800 Grant Avenue Novato, California 10/12/09 7p.m. 415 897-9500 `
•Judith Pacht will be reading User's Guide •Sunday, August 16th at 3 PM: DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood Brentwood Country Mart 225 26th Street Santa Monica CA 90402 (310) 576-9960 •Saturday, September 19 between 6 - 7 PM Sierra Madre Books 52 W. Sierra Madre Blvd. Sierra Madre CA tel. 626. 836.3200 • September 23, 7:30 The Ugly Mug (Coffee House) Glassell Street Orange, CA `
• Judith R. Robinson will be reading Dinner Date • Location: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Main (Oakland) Ms. Robinson is scheduled to read in the Sunday Poetry & Reading Series on Sunday, August 16, 2009 from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. and offers readings from academic, experimental and spoken-word Pittsburgh poets and writers. Free. • Book Launch Event: where: Silver Eye Center for Photography 1015 E. Carson St. Pgh. PA 15203---Pittsburgh’s South Side when: Thursday, September 10, 2009 5:30---7:30 reading & refreshments… • A poetry reading Café Muse Series where: 4433 South Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 when: Monday, November 2, 2009 Café Muse is a co-production of The Word Works and the Friendship Heights Village Center, located at 4433 South Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD 20815. Adele Steiner. Café Muse opens at 7pm with refreshments and classical guitar music by Michael Davis; the readings begin at 7:30. Dinner Date is a new poetry collection published by Finishing Line Press. `
• V. Jane Schneeloch will be reading from her chapbook Climbing to the Moon: Poems Inspired by the Art of Georgia O’Keeffe on Sunday, August 23, at Trinity United Methodist Church in Springfield, Massachusetts. There will a light lunch at 11:45AM followed by the reading. Trinity is located at 361 Sumner Avenue in Springfield. If you have questions or need directions, call 413-782-9021 or 4143-786-3386. `
• Jennifer Militello, author of Anchor Chain, Open Sail, will read on: • Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:30 pm Left Bank Books 9 South Main Street Hanover, NH 03755 With April Ossman • Wednesday, November 4, 2009 7:00 pm Portsmouth Poetry Hoot Café Espresso 738 Islington Street 800 Islington Plaza Portsmouth, NH • Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:30 pm River Valley Community College The Charles P. Puksta Library One College Drive Claremont, NH `
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 ********************************************************************************************************************************************************* 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. |
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