Somerville: Book Fair & Writers Festival

The Somerville News Writers Festival, hosted by Timothy Gager:
Nov. 14, 2009  7PM.
 
I’ll be at the Ibbetson Street Press table from 2-4 for the:
Book fair,  11:00-4:30
 
[T directions:  Take the #88 bus to Highland and Benton--starting from Davis Square on the Red Line or Lechmere Station on the Green Line]
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2nd Annual MASS POETRY FESTIVAL: October

Kudos to the organizers of that huge three-day event.  Man, that was fun!!   Great audience  at B&N!   Thank you to the readers who bought my book.  Big thank you and apology to the would-be listeners who missed me because of the time change and took the time to come tell me they were [...]

Ah, Autumn: The Smell of Sports in the Air

Monday night, the Patriots.  Come from wayyyy behind win!  Last night, the Red Sox.  Classic rally to win 4-1.  Welcome back Matsuzaka!  This is the time of year that makes me love New England living:  the trees’ leaves revert to their natural glory, and my favorite athletes show their true colors.

UMPH! PROSE SEEKS SUBMITS

City narratives (prose poetry, flash fiction, etc.) wanted for first issue of new online journal U.M.Ph.! Prose. Get ‘em in soon. I’m ready to roll!
Check guidelines first, then submit to umphsubmits@yahoo.com.
http://umphprose.com

Interviewed

Photo: Jack Scully
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Interviewed by: Doug Holder
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Mignon Ariel King is a dyed-in-the wool Boston poet. In her introduction to her new collection of poetry “The Woods Have Words,” she invites the reader to:”…stroll along the Charles River… walk through the streets of Boston,…or zip under and over the state of Massachusetts on the country’s oldest subway.” King [...]

THE WOODS HAVE WORDS

Cover painting: Charmed Silent by Hannibal King
THE WOODS HAVE WORDS: poems of tribute, my first collection of poetry, is now available from Ibbetson Street Press. Thank you for supporting small-press poetry.
http://lulu.com/ibbetsonpress
 
Review by Gloria Mindock, Cervena Barva Press

With poetry so honest and images so powerfully quiet, Mignon will be your guide to the many areas of Boston. [...]

September Poems

Chilling with Longfellow
If a body meet a body
in Mount Auburn Cemetery,
that’s probably not a good thing.
But coyotes aren’t a big threat
regardless of the springing dash
of a tan jackrabbit into bushy cover,
making a break right before
Longfellow’s crypt looms up to the left
of the leafy-lined Indian Ridge Path.
Dead men don’t care what I wear
or how much I [...]

Open-mic at Poetry Reading in Newton

Tomorrow, Sept. 9:
Newton Free Library 330 Homer Street, Newton Centre.
 Check MBTA website–never been there via T, but some friends have. 
I’m going mostly to see the phenomenal Michael Mack, but I’ll be reading
from my book-to-be at the open mic.

Poet’s Moon Cafe (East Boston)

Poets’ Moon Cafe hosts a series (with open-mic followed by two features) in the gorgeous Cultural Exchange Center on the East Boston waterfront.   

 

North Shore Writers’ Group

A new North Shore Writers’ Group (The Parlor) has formed, and I heard Hannah Tinti read from her debut novel The Good Thief in her native town Salem.  The setting is a fictional yet familiar-seeming New England town.  The main character reminds one of Johnny Tremain and a few good Dickens protagonists rolled into one. 
The talkshow-style [...]