Michael Henson is author, through Dos Madres Press, of The Tao of Longing (2006), a collection of love poems. He is also author of Crow Call (2007, West End Press), a collection of poems in response to the killing ten years ago of the activist for the homeless, Buddy Gray. Henson’s work has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, the Birmingham Poetry Review, Red Crow Poetry Journal, Pine Mountain Sand & Grave, Wind, and other publications. He also has two books of fiction (Ransack and A Small Room With Trouble on My Mind). He is a member of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative and a frequent contributor to StreetVibes, the Cincinnati homeless newspaper.
20th May, 2008
The Poem Creates Community an essay by Michael Henson
17th May, 2008
Press release from Michael Heller
Speaking the Estranged
Essays on the Work of George Oppen by Michael Heller
Speaking the Estranged brings together the work by Michael Heller on the distinguished American Objectivist poet George Oppen (1908-1984), written over the past twenty years since Heller’s first book on the Objectivists, Conviction’s Net of Branches. These essays cover the range of Oppen’s poetry and the ways it has been read at all stages of his career, from his overtly Objectivist roots through his abandonment of poetry for political activism in the thirties to his renewed poetic output after the 1950s. Heller’s sustained and astute attention to Oppen, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1968, illuminates what many consider to be one of the most remarkable, complex and original bodies of work in twentieth-century literature.
22nd Apr, 2008
Reading: Joseph-Beth Booksellers
Dos Madres Press Poetry Night
April 23, Wednesday 7:00 pm at Joseph-Beth Booksellers
(Free and Open to the Public)Poetry Reading and Book Signing
2692 Madison Rd., Cinti.OH 45208 513-396-8960
www.josephbeth.com
RICHARD LUFTIG - Off The Map $8.00 Dos Madres Press “In Off The Map, Richard Luftig writes a poetry of place: a place of the vanishing family farm and of a small town America struggling against those changes which threaten the very fabric of its life. His poems may in one sitting be ironic, humorous, or like a genial poke in the ribs from a friend who knows you well. One who knows that what really lies beneath those ribs is a broken heart.”
PAULETTA HANSEL - First Person $8.00 Dos Madres Press ““My friends are writing in third person now”, Pauletta Hansel tells us in the title poem of this collection. “They are trying to find the story lines…plump spider of meaning”, while “I am stuck with myself”. I’m here to assure you that being stuck with a Pauletta Hansel poem is like being handed the finest of cobwebs caught intact on a black velvet cushion: all we can do is marvel at the intricacies there, and delight in their presentation.”
DAVID A. PETREMAN - Candlelight in Quintero $8.00 Dos Madres Press “In the Chilean winter of 1984, I made my first of seven trips—so far—to the country I call mysecond home … I embraced a camaraderie unlike anything I had previously experienced. I discov-ered the spirit of Pablo Neruda on his own turf, and, more importantly for me, I was blessed to be-come close to Neruda’s friend, drinking partner, confidant and fellow writer, Francisco Coloane.”
For more information on the authors and their work go to http://www.dosmadres.com
22nd Apr, 2008
Dos Madres Press Poetry Night
Dos Madres Press Poetry Night
April 23, Wednesday 7:00 pm at Joseph-Beth Booksellers
(Free and Open to the Public)Poetry Reading and Book Signing
2692 Madison Rd., Cinti.OH 45208 513-396-8960
www.josephbeth.com
RICHARD LUFTIG - Off The Map $8.00 Dos Madres Press “In Off The Map, Richard Luftig writes a poetry of place: a place of the vanishing family farm and of a small town America struggling against those changes which threaten the very fabric of its life. His poems may in one sitting be ironic, humorous, or like a genial poke in the ribs from a friend who knows you well. One who knows that what really lies beneath those ribs is a broken heart.”
PAULETTA HANSEL - First Person $8.00 Dos Madres Press ““My friends are writing in third person now”, Pauletta Hansel tells us in the title poem of this collection. “They are trying to find the story lines…plump spider of meaning”, while “I am stuck with myself”. I’m here to assure you that being stuck with a Pauletta Hansel poem is like being handed the finest of cobwebs caught intact on a black velvet cushion: all we can do is marvel at the intricacies there, and delight in their presentation.”
DAVID A. PETREMAN - Candlelight in Quintero $8.00 Dos Madres Press “In the Chilean winter of 1984, I made my first of seven trips—so far—to the country I call mysecond home … I embraced a camaraderie unlike anything I had previously experienced. I discov-ered the spirit of Pablo Neruda on his own turf, and, more importantly for me, I was blessed to be-come close to Neruda’s friend, drinking partner, confidant and fellow writer, Francisco Coloane.”
For more information on the authors and their work go to http://www.dosmadres.com
11th Apr, 2008
Performance: Keith Wahle
SMALL STREAMS-1 is being presented by Cincinnati Choreographers Collective, April 18-19, at 8:00 p.m. at the College Hill Town Hall, 1805 Larch Avenue in Cincinnati. Admission is $15 general, and $13 for students & seniors. You can call (513) 731-8847 if you want reservations, or more information.
The other dancers and choreographers on the program are: PAIGE CUNNINGHAM, DIANE GERMAINE, K-RON BROWN LEHMAN, and STEPHANIE BLACKMON WOODBECK’S MOVING COLLECTIVE.
3rd Apr, 2008
New Audio, Visual Section
We’re introducing a new feature aspect for Dos Madres Press for its readers and authors. Both Audio and Video of readings, plus interviews. Please let us know if this feature is to your liking, or how we might improve or enhance our Dos Madres site. You will find audio/video link on the sidebar to the right.
31st Mar, 2008
Reading: F. Keith Wahle
RIVERBANK POETRY PROJECT P R E S E N T S
A POETRY READING by F. Keith Wahle with dance interpretations by Judith Mikita Tuesday, April 8, 2008 @ 7:15 p.m.
Fairfield Community Arts Center 411 Wessel Drive, Fairfield, OH 45014 | 513.867.5348 Free Admission | Refreshments and live music by Jammin’ John Kraimer, starting at 6:30 p.m. | Poetry readings begin at 7:15 p.m., followed by an Open Reading. | (Bring something to read for the Open Reading.)
Driving directions from Cincinnati:Take Hamilton Avenue outbound from Cincinnati (you can also pick up Hamilton from either Ronald Reagan Highway or I- 275 .) Hamilton Avenue becomes Pleasant Avenue when you enter Fairfield. Turn left onto Wessel Drive. The Fairfield Community Arts Center is on the right at 411 Wessel, and has its own parking lot. For more detailed direcotns, phone the Arts Center at 867.5348 .)
10th Mar, 2008
Reading: Alexander Jorgensen
Poet Alexander Jorgensen will be reading at Xavier University in Cincinnati Ohio Wednesday March 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Seurkamp Family Center, Alumni Center Building. Jorgensen has worked extensively in Asia–most recently in China–and edits Black Robert Journal (http://black-robert-journal.com/).
5th Mar, 2008
Reading: Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Tuesday, April 8, 3:00-9:00pm
The Shape of Disclosure: George Oppen Centennial Symposium
On the occasion of George Oppen’s centennial and the publication of his Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers, poets and scholars gather to honor the life and work of this spare, powerful and original poet. Co-sponsored by Poets House, Tribeca Performing Arts Center at BMCC and University of California Press. Funded in part by the New York Council for the Humanities.
3:00pm Panel: Biographical-Historical Continuum
Moderated by Michael Heller
Featuring Stephen Cope on Oppen’s diaries and journals, Norman Finkelstein on the late poems, Eric Hoffman on Oppen’s political identity and Kristin Prevallet on Oppen’s response to World War II.
5:00pm Panel: Literary-Philosophical Spectrum
Moderated by Thom Donovan
Featuring Romana Huk on Oppen’s relationship to metaphysics and Judeo-Christian philosophy, Burt Kimmelman on Oppen and Heidegger, Peter O’Leary on Whitman’s influence on Oppen and John Taggart on Oppen’s poetry as “a process of thought.”
7:30pm George Oppen Centennial Reading
Stephen Cope, Thom Donovan, Norman Finkelstein, Peter Gizzi, E. Tracy Grinnell, Michael Heller, Erica Hunt, Burt Kimmelman, Geoffrey O’Brien, Peter O’Leary, Kristin Prevallet, Hugh Seidman, Harvey Shapiro, Stacy Szymaszek & John Taggart
George Oppen was born April 24, 1908 in New Rochelle, New York, and died in San Francisco in 1984. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Of Being Numerous (1968), Oppen was also the author of Discrete Series (1934), The Materials (1962), This in Which (1965) and Primitive (1978).
@ Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Borough of Manhattan Community College
199 Chambers Street
$10/Free to Students and Poets House Members
Audiences may attend individual events or the entire symposium
26th Feb, 2008
Reading: David A. Petreman
The Poet Speaks Poetry Reading at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center 301 W. Main Street TroyMarch 6, 2008 7:30 P.M. Free and open to the public. Click here to download a flyer for the reading.
David A. Petreman has published widely in U.S. and Canadian literary magazines and has won local, regional and national awards for his poetry. In 1991, he won the Writers Exchange Competition sponsored by Poets and Writers of New York, who selected his manuscript as the best from the state of Ohio. Petreman has given poetry readings at bookstores, colleges and universities and at the Poetry Society of America in New York City. In 2007 he published Candlelight in Quintero from Dos Madres Press. This collection of poetry deals with his many stays in Chile.
