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` ` • C. S. Leaf, author of Farewell to the Dust, is a Featured Reader at Poetry @ Water Street Bookstore, books avalable for purchase and signing. Leaf will be reading with well known poets Pat Parnell and Trina Daigle! May 14, 2008, No cover charge, reading starts at 6:30 p.m. Water Street Bookstore 125 Water Street, Exeter, New Hampshire. View Water Street Reading times and authors on line at http://jbf.fergus.com/wsbpoets.htm . ` • Foresight is 20-20-20: Sixty Minutes Divided by Three Hollins University Authors-- Mattie Quesenberry Smith, author of Mother Chaos: Under Electric Light, is joining fellow Hollins alumnae Jeanne Larsen and Heather Davis for a reading at Studio Eleven, 11 South Jefferson Street, Lexington, Virginia, on Friday, May 16 at 7:00 p.m. This reading is hosted by artist Agnes Carbrey in celebration of her show at Studio Eleven which lasts through May, 2008. A reception follows the reading. www.agnescarbrey.com •Jenny Kander will be giving a talk to The Swope Alliance at the Swope Art Gallery in Terre Haute, Indiana, on Friday May 16th 2008. The title of the talk is "Poetry: My Mission". Among other aspects she will be talking about and reading from her chapbook TABOO. ` •Jo Pitkin, author of The Measure, will be reading in the following venues:
• Donna Doyle, author of Heading Home will read poems • Jessica G. de Koninck , author of Repairs ,
Friends of the Library Poetry Night Series Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:30 p.m. 31 North 5th Ave. Highland Park, NJ 08904 (732) 572-2750; FAX (732) 819-9046. To arrange a reading for your group or organization contact Jessica at jessica.dekoninck@verizon.net ` • Flip author Barbara Berman -THE GENEROSITY OF STARS will read and sign books on Wednesday June 4 at 6:30 PM at Book Bay at Fort Mason in San Francisco. For more information call 415-771-1076 or go to www.friendsofthesfpl.org ` • Anita Gevaudan Byerly will read from her chapbook, October Light,
Wednesday ,June 4, 2008 from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the William Pitt Student Union, University of Pittsburgh, Fifth Avenue at Bigelow Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Anita Gevaudan Byerly will read with poets, Rosaly DeMaios Roffman and Ellen McGrath Smith on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at Hemingway's Cafe, 3911 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. ` • Carol Peters will read from her chapbook Muddy Prints, Water Shine, • You are cordially invited to attend a poetry reading including selections from the author’s debut chapbook The Significance of Swans by Sørina HigginsSaturday, 7 June 20087:00 p.m. The Master’s Academy of Fine Arts 258 Main Street, East Greenville, PA for more information: 484.866.2147 or iambic.admonit@gmail.com. Student composers will perform their musical settings of Mrs. Higgins’ verse, and an open mic will follow. There will be an entrance fee of $3.00, and refreshments will be available for purchase. ` • Lisa C. Taylor , author of Talking to Trees,
` • Kristin Berger will be reading from her chapbook, For the Willing, Thursday June 19 at 6:30 pm at In Other Words Bookstore in Portland, OR (along with fellow poet, Katharine Salzmann). ` • Shawn Jones, author of Womb Rain,
author of Ripe Again)
author of Giving in to the Smoke) • Rachel Bunting, author of Ripe Again, will be reading at the following venues:
• Gretchen Primack , author of The Slow Creaking of the Planets ,
` • Stephanie Coyne DeGhett will be reading from her chapbook No Longer any Place But Here at the Old Forge Public Library in Old Forge, NY on August 5, 2008 at 7:30 pm. She will be reading with poet Roger Mitchell. ` NOTE TO FLP; Author's Anamorphy a Journal and Anamorphy Weekly Podcast, is always looking for both Poets with new books/chapbooks toreview, poems for magazine, and authors to interview or read for ********************************************************************************************************************************************************* Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher. Recent winners and notables: 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! 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 . Finishing Line Press has also been featured in Poet's Market Insider Report. |
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