Prior to February, 2010
RAGGED SKY POETS READ IN PRINCETON
Thanks to everyone who braved the arctic chill to hear Ragged Sky poets Ellen Foos, Arlene Weiner, Elizabeth Anne Socolow, Elizabeth Danson, and Carlos Hernández Peña read from their work on December 16, 2009, at the Princeton Public Library.
Ellen's back there again at the podium at the Trenton Review Reading this Sunday, the 20th, at 2:00, alongside Pulitzer-Prize-winning Yusef Komunyakaa.
If you're stuck at the other end of New Jersey Transit, go hear Eating Her Wedding Dress poet Elaine Equi read with Doug Holder, Amy King, and Bob Viscusi with music by Brant Lyon, Sunday at 6:00 at the Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia St. (between Bleecker & West 4th Sts.), NYC. $7 (includes one house drink) Contact: (212) 989-9319
REVIEW OF EATING HER WEDDING DRESS
"Clothing: rich in literary tradition & poetic possibilities." Read the latest review of Eating Her Wedding Dress where Sharon Bray of Off-the-Coast Review weaves our anthology into the historical play of words and garments.
DIANE LOCKWARD IN PHILADELPHIA
Eating Her Wedding Dress poet Diane Lockward joins Teresa Leo, Lynn Levin, and Bill Wunder for a reading Sunday, December 6, 2009, 3-5 at the Manayuk Art Center, 419 Green Ln., Philadephia.
RAGGED SKY POETS READ
Join Ragged Sky Poets Elizabeth Danson, Ellen Foos, Carlos Hernández Peña, Elizabeth Anne Socolow, and Arlene Weiner for a reading at the Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, New Jersey, on Wednesday, December 16, 2009, at 7:30 pm. Free. The poets will read new and selected work.
ACCOLADES FOR EATING HER WEDDING DRESS POETS
"I can unfasten each word, open it wide..." Leslie Wheeler's poem "Heterotopia" won the Barrow Street Poetry Prize.
"There are worse places to live with your secrets..." Maria Terrone had a poem accepted by the Hudson Review.
A NEW COLLECTION BY ANDRENA ZAWINSKI
"Something about the rain, the way it clucks its testy tongue against the glass..."
Eating Her Wedding Dress poet Andrena Zawinski has a new collection out: Something About published by Blue Light Press.
POEM BY EATING HER WEDDING DRESS POET DIANE LOCKWARD FEATURED ON WRITER'S ALMANAC
"...a vegetable striptease..." Diane Lockward's "The First Artichoke" is published in Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac.
MAXINE SUSMAN READS
Eating Her Wedding Dress poet Maxine Susman reads with Nancy Scott, Tuesday, November 10, 7-10 pm at the Bridgewater Public Library, 1 Vogt Drive, Community Room C, Bridgewater, New Jersey. Free. Open Reading to follow. Contact: (908) 526-4016.
PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEES
Ragged Sky Press has selected the following poems from Eating Her Wedding Dress as nominees for the Pushcart Prize:
"Apparel" by Katrin Talbot
"1969" by Celia Lisset Alvarez
"Glove Song" by Arlene Weiner
"My Grandmother’s Suit" by Winifred Hughes
"Trapeze Song" by Charlotte Nekola
"A Dead Woman’s Dress" by Shelley Spence Kiernan
"WE FLEE BY INCHES..."
Eating Her Wedding Dress poet Maxine Susman reads from her collection "Wartime Address," a poem sequenced based on the real experience of a woman's flight from Nazi-occupied Paris. Caldwell College, Wednesday, November 4, 2009. Info in the Caldwell College Web site.
ANNOUNCING A NEW BOOK PUBLISHED BY RAGGED SKY: LOOSE PARLANCE
Daniel Harris, author of Loose Parlance, will be reading poems from that book as well as new poems, at the Hopewell, New Jersey, Public Library, 13 East Broad Street, on Septemeber 24, 2009 at 7 p.m.
PRINCETON BOOK FAIR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
Ragged Sky Press will be at the Princeton Shopping Center Book Fair Saturday, September 19, 2009, from 10am-4pm. Please stop by to say hello.
EATING HER WEDDING DRESS IN PORTLAND
The Eating Her Wedding Dress event in Portland on May 15, 2009, was great fun. Laura, Amy, Jane, and Penelope read their poems, as well as Roberta's, Ann's, and Carl's. Many in the audience came in fancy dress.
FABULOUS!
First review in Literary Bohemian calls Eating Her Wedding Dress "fabulous!"
EATING HER WEDDING DRESS WORLD TOUR
The Eating Her Wedding Dress World Tour continues in Madison, Wisconsin, and Portland, Oregon. Come if you can--wear iconic dress if you wish:
Madison, Wisconsin, May 4, at Room of One's Own Bookstore, featuring Shoshauna Shy, Andrea Potos, Katrin Talbot, Angela Rydell, and Eve Robillard. 6:30 pm.
Portland, Oregon, May 15, at Looking Glass Books, 7983 SE 13th St. (Sellwood), featuring Laura LeHew, Amy MacLellan, Jane Knechtel, Carl Palmer, Roberta Feins, Ann Walters, and Penelope Schambly Schott. 7 pm.
EATING HER WEDDING DRESS LAUNCH PARTIES
Two exciting events took place in April, with talismanic dress and wedding-dress-shaped cakes by Editor Ruth Zamoyta O'Toole:
Friday April 3, 2009, at the Arts Council of Princeton, and Friday April 10, 2009, at Threads: A Reading, Reception & Juried All-Media Gallery Exhibition, at Gallery 125 in Trenton.
EATING HER WEDDING DRESS READING SCHEDULED IN PORTLAND, OREGON
Contributors to Eating Her Wedding Dress will present poetry in Portland, Oregon, at Looking Glass Books on May 15, 7 pm.
Roberta Feins, Laura LeHew, Jane Knechtel, Amy MacLellan, Carl Palmer, Penelope Schambly Schott, and Ann Walters will read at this charming bookstore in the Sellwood neighborhood of southeast Portland. Enter through the red caboose!
APRIL 2009: ANNOUNCING A NEW ANTHOLOGY PUBLISHED BY RAGGED SKY PRESS
Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems edited by Ellen Foos, Vasiliki Katsarou, and Ruth O’Toole has just been released.
100 contemporary poets—local stars and literary luminaries such as Kim Addonizio, Margaret Atwood, Billy Collins, Elaine Equi, Jorie Graham, Maxine Kumin, Paul Muldoon, Charles Simic—join together in this collection to celebrate clothing in its many forms and functions: as desire, as ghost, as body, as poetry, as talisman, as transformer of the soul.
2007: THREE NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED BY RAGGED SKY
Ragged Sky Press is pleased to publish Dog Watch, by Valerie Lawson. Lawson lives Down East in Robbinston, Maine. A long-time co-host of the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she has been part of the Maine poetry scene at Ofelia in Bangor. Lawon's work has been published in literary journals, anthologies, and e-zines. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has won awards for Spoken Word and Best Narrative Poem at the Cambridge Poetry Awards.
Early praise for Dog Watch comes from Doug Holder at the Ibbetson Street Press and Melanie Lauwers at the Cape Cod Times.
We are also proud to present two additional new books: The Confidence Man by Michael Brown, and Penguins in a Warming World by Anca Vlasopolos, a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Wayne State University.
FIVE RAGGED SKY POETS TO READ AT TRENTON ART FESTIVAL
Elizabeth Danson, Ellen Foos, Carlos Hernández Peña, Elizabeth Anne Socolow, and Arlene Weiner, Ragged Sky Poetry Series authors, will read new work and selections from their books on March 24th, 2007, at 1 pm at the Trenton City Museum/Ellarsie Mansion in Cadwalader Park, Trenton, NJ. U.S.1 Poets Cooperative poets will also read. Poetry collections and the U.S.1 annual, U.S.1 Worksheets, will be available for purchase.
The reading is part of "Spring Forward," a two-day event presented by the Trenton Artists Workshop Association, beginning with a public reception at 12:30 pm. Internationally recognized poet Paul Muldoon will read at 2:00 pm. Orrin Evans, internationally known jazz musician, and the Orrin Evans trio will present new works in a salute to Evans' father, playwright Don Evans, at 3:30 pm.
Other arts events will take place on March 25th, including an exhibit and gallery tour by Mel Leipzig, a workshop on arts funding, and a play reading.
Spring Forward was developed by area artists and arts coordinators in cooperation with Co/Works.
ELLEN WINS FELLOWSHIP
July 10, 2006: Ragged Sky founder Ellen Foos has been awarded a fellowship for the MacDowell Colony for Fall 2006. The MacDowell Colony's stated mission is "to nurture the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which to produce enduring works of the imagination." They're in their hundredth year of doing so.
Hooray for them for recognizing Ellen's talent!
GARRISON KEILLOR READS POEM FROM RAGGED SKY SERIES
ARLENE READS
Ragged Sky poet Arlene Weiner read in Pittsburgh's Choice Cuts Series on June 16, 2006, at the Slaughterhouse Gallery.
PRIZES AND PUBLICATION FOR LIZ SOCOLOW
Poems by Elizabeth Socolow will appear in the fall in the anthology Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality, from Bottom Dog Press.
Liz has won Isotope's Editors' Prize in poetry for 2006! Isotope is "A Journal of Literary, Nature, and Science Writing."
Liz' prize-winning poem, which will appear in the journal, is called "Asymptotes."
CV2, the Canadian journal of contemporary verse, announced the 2005 winners of the 2-Day Poem Contest. Liz shared first prize for her poem "July 1969." Liz rose magnificently to the challenge of producing a poem that used 10 specific words (gossip, emanate, trellis, marble, street, orbit, bodega, chesterfield, figure, vent)--in only two days.
DELAWARE VALLEY POETS HOST RAGGED SKY POETS, OCTOBER 2006
Monday, October 9, 2006, 8:00pm -- Ragged Sky Poets Elizabeth Danson, Ellen Foos, Carlos Hernández Peña, Elizabeth Socolow, and Arlene Weiner read at an event hosted by Delaware Valley Poets. Princeton, New Jersey, Barnes & Noble store at Market Fair on U.S.1. An open-mic session follows the presentation.
Garrison Keillor, author/host of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac, a daily radio show, Internet site, and e-mail newsletter, read "1959," a poem from Arlene Weiner's Escape Velocity, on Saturday, July 8, 2006.© 2012, Ragged Sky Press | Admin