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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.

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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/

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Charlotte Innes, author of Reading Ruskin in Los Angeles, will be reading at the following places:

Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 3 p.m.
If you happen to be in England... Charlotte will be reading at

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.
The Ugly Mug Caffe,

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 Redondo Poets series at

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.
The Cobalt Café,

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.
Charlotte Innes will be reading in the Moonday Poetry series at Village Books,

located at 1049 Swarthmore Ave., Pacific Palisades, California. Phone:

(310) 454-4063. Check the website at http://home.earthlink.net/~pero/moonday.html

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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

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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
Boothbay Railway Village, Boothbay, Maine, 04537.

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
Jessica Corwin will play the viola.


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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

raphaelkosek@frontiernet.net

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  Donna L. Emerson reads from and signs her new chapbook Body Rhymes

                                                                                                                                          

          • 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.

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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

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Martha Andrews Donovan will be reading selections from Dress Her in Silk at the following:
Thursday, July 16 at 7:00 p.m. at The Bass Harbor Memorial Library in
the village of Bernard on Mt. Desert Island, Maine (207-244-3798;
Contact person: Clara Baker, Librarian).
 
Wednesday, September 16 at 7:00 pm at Gibson’s Bookstore, 27 South Main
Street, Concord, New Hamsphire (603-224-0562). 

This reading will also be broadcast by the local radio station WKXL.

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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.
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Julene Tripp Weaver author of Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues will be reading at the following venues:
Saturday, July 25, 4-5:15 pm Fremont Library, 731 N. 35th St, Seattle, WA

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!
http://www.templebetham.org/music/drash/
The First Drash Northwest Mosaic Journal,

Publication Reading is this
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Sarah Wells author of Acquiesce (2008 Starting Gate Award winner) will be reading and signing books at the following venues:
Monday, July 27 at 6:45 p.m.
Reading to Open Up for Scott Russell Sanders
Ridenour Room, Dauch College of Education
Ashland University MFA Program Summer Residency
Ashland, Ohio

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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

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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

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Kathryn Ridall Book Launch The Way Of Stones

  • August 8, 2009

                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

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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

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Judith R. Robinson will be reading Dinner Date

           Location:

           Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Main (Oakland)
           First Floor Quiet Reading Room
           4400 Forbes Ave.
           Pittsburgh, PA 15213
           412-651-3151

           Ms. Robinson is scheduled to read in the Sunday Poetry & Reading Series

           on Sunday, August 16, 2009 from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. 
           The Sunday Poetry & Reading Series occurs every third Sunday of the month

           and offers readings from academic, experimental and spoken-word Pittsburgh poets and writers.  Free.
           Contact: 412-622-3151

           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.

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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.

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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

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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)

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