Grace Cavalieri, Producer and Host of the Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress says of The Keepers that “our senses come alive with language, simple and true,” and adds that “the short story is said to be a courtship with the read. If this is so, the reader will say, Yes.”

Madeleine Mysko, author of Bringing Vincent Home says “Mike Maggio the storyteller leans back in his comfy, authoritative omniscience and narrates in a voice that is familiar and charming,” adding that “the reader is immediately taken in, only later to recall that it is from the familiar that the surprise jumps out – and also, sometimes, the delicious terror.”

And Nathan Leslie, author of Night Sweat and Driver says that The Keepers “straddles the line between the lyrical and the caustic” and says that “with the deft touch of a poet, Maggio’s imaginative fiction pulls you in and won’t let go. These stories offer a rich landscape for those just now discovering his work. “

Signed copies of The Keepers are available via my website, www.Mikemaggio.net for $9.00 plus shipping and handling.

Reviewers and literary magazines may request copies by contacting Robert Bixby at rbixby@earthlink.net or myself.

Thank you and may you all have a wonderful holiday.

Best wishes,
Mike Maggio

Now available
The Keepers
March Street Press

Coming soon

Haunted Garden,

from Pudding House Publications

Man – (Comedy/Biblical) – http://youtu.be/jg9hVLMLYeY – MOST POPULAR Fish – (Comedy) – http://youtu.be/M8ltKVlALfk Last Round – (Comedy) – http://youtu.be/RmBKMzmGm2M Tree – (Inspirational) – http://youtu.be/0kNYqKWTLrs Church – (Controversial) – http://youtu.be/XT_BoYC68pE My Brew – (Comedy) – http://youtu.be/A80rb_fYaJc Closet – (Food For Thought) – http://youtu.be/SfhdnDhb2WA Crime – (Food For Thought) – http://youtu.be/9za8oVOHpHI Blind – (Food For Thought/Comedy) – http://youtu.be/3aCmIftdbtI Signs – (Food For Thought) – http://youtu.be/W_KAC7RwV_8 Broken – (Food For Thought)- http://youtu.be/P7tWZpW3f24 Haunted – (Food For Thought) – http://youtu.be/v5fo1jAaJxw Outside – (Food for Thought) – http://youtu.be/aHOTD-YdfSo Behind The Door – (Comedy) – http://youtu.be/So6AvmL24o4 Little Seed – (Inspirational) – http://youtu.be/mXTRP7ZT3xs Kid – (Controversial/Inspirational) – http://youtu.be/iiueJ74Lzu8 – Child Abuse

She’s here, ready to pull your hair and poke out your eyes. Come to a reading, buy a book and she will love you dearly, or leave you alone, whichever annoys you the more. She is the BAD DAUGHTER.

Upcoming opportunities to view Bad Daughter and her alter ego Sarah Gorham:

Thursday, November 3, 7:00-9:00 pm
McNally Jackson Bookstore
52 Prince Street, NYC 10012

Thursday, November 17, 7:00 pm
Carmichael’s on Frankfort Ave
Louisville, KY 40206

Friday, December 9, 8:00 pm
InKY Reading Series @ The Bard’s Town
1801 Bardstown Rd.
Louisville, KY 40205

Visit Sarah Gorham’s website for a peek at the Bad Daughter trailer and much more: http://www.sarahgorham.net/
Purchase the book ahead of time at: Four Way Books
Sarah Gorham

I have long admired the exquisite poise-as well as the wisdom and disarming grace-of Sarah Gorham’s poetry. Her newest collection, Bad Daughter, offers meticulously observed meditations arising from a kaleidoscope of familial relationships centering upon mothers and daughters. This is Sarah Gorham’s most powerful and eloquent book yet, a sequence of sustained poetic reckonings upon the demands, despairs, and delights of family-both past and present-and the revelations that emerge in the course of the well-lived life. This is a collection of boundless pleasures.

-David St. John

Dear Writer, Magazine Editor or Publisher

I’m writing to let you know that I intend to withdraw The AA Independent Press Guide from my website soon. I have been travelling for a few years now and just haven’t had the time to maintain it. It is still reasonably accurate and certainly it is still useful, but as time passes the information will become defunct. You may want to download this information before it disappears. If so, go to my website, which is at http://www.thunderburst.co.uk (I will delete it on 1st October 2011)

This is the last time you will hear from me by email.* I am going to destroy my AA Independent Press Guide email address book. I am now finished with running the AA Independent Press Guide or with any of the other Writer’s Resources on my website. This is not due to disillusion, but because I have found a greater love in yoga and meditation, which I am currently studying full-time, and will eventually start teaching.

I have not given up my own personal creative processes, though I no longer dedicate quite so much time to them. For those of you who are interested in my art, writing and music I have now set up a dedicated Facebook page which I will update on a fairly regular basis: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dee-Sunshine-Writer-Artist-Musician/201729451659

Finally, if you are ever in need of artwork for a book or magazine jacket you might like to browse my online art gallery at http://www.rimbaud.org.uk/artmainpage.html

It’s been a pleasure running the AA Independent Press Guide, and I’m grateful to all of you who supported it through your words of encouragement and support, and especially to the few of you who made donations to help keep it running. It was 13 years ago that the AA Independent Press Guide started off as a humble appendix to Acid Angel magazine. We had a long run; and now we are done. If any of you want to publish the list on your websites, feel free.

Wishing you all the very best with your writing, your magazines and other projects

Dee Sunshine

(aka Dee Rimbaud)

* If you are interested in receiving occasional email updates about my art, writing and music let me know and I will add you to my opt in e-mailing list.

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DOWNLOAD FREE E-BOOKS OF MY NOVEL & MY POETRY COLLECTIONS AT OBOOKO.COM

The Bad Seed : My first collection of poetry, originally published in paperback by Stride (1998)

Dropping Ecstasy With The Angels : My second collection of poetry, originally published in paperback by Bluechrome (2004)

Visions Of The Drowning Man : My third collection of poetry, only published as an e-book via Obooko (2009)

Stealing Heaven From The Lips Of God : My first novel, originally published in paperback by Bluechrome (2004)

There’s a big change to the competition, in this our sixth year, but it’s still as writer-friendly as ever. The entry fee is just a year’s subscription to the magazine, so no one walks away empty-handed — and, as always, we’ll read your work fairly and swiftly, and consider every poem for standard publication in Rattle.

But here’s the news: We’ve increased the number of paid finalists from ten to fifteen poets — each receiving $100 and publication in our winter issue. As the competition expands, more people deserve to be paid; that just makes sense.

Not only that, but for the first time this year YOU get to vote for the $5,000 winner. After selecting 15 finalists in our usual blind review, we’ll publish those poems in our winter issue, and include a ballot in the back. The winner will then be chosen by popular vote among all entrants and eligible subscribers.

Logging all those votes is going to be a massive undertaking. Are we nuts? Have we been watching too much American Idol? No…we just have faith in the ability of our readers to make the best choice possible. At Rattle we’ve always felt that everyone should have an equal say in what poetry is and what it should do, and the idea of one or three authoritarian editors judging which poem out of 8,000 deserves a huge prize doesn’t quite feel right.

There’s no way our subscribers can sift through all the entries, though, so it’s our job to help the cream rise to the top in the fairest way possible. We’ll do the grunt work, and then big decision is up to you. We’ll even let you blurb the winner…or if the winning poem is yours, you’ll have a thousand blurbers. How does that sound?

If you’re worried about it becoming a popularity contest, don’t be. Only subscribers who already had subscriptions prior to the announcements of the finalists get to vote. Ballot stuffing isn’t possible. And there are 3,000 of them, so no amount of politicking is going to overcome the true popular opinion. Having run this contest for five years, I’m absolutely sure that all 15 finalists will be deserving of the big prize. They always are. So I have no doubt that the winner will be the most outstanding poem that moves the greatest number of readers — and that’s what we’re always looking for in a poem, anyway.

We’ll see how it goes — I’m excited about every aspect, from our hunt for finalists, to the grand tally of the votes. The Rattle Poetry Prize is always fun, but this year it’s going to be a freaking carnival. I love it. Hope you do to. If you still have any questions, hit reply.

For complete guidelines on either email or hardcopy entries, go here: http://www.rattle.com/rpp/rpp.htm

Timothy Green
Editor / Rattle
12411 Ventura Blvd
Studio City, CA 91604
www.rattle.com
tim@rattle.com

I’m very happy to tell you that my first chapbook of poems, Optimism About Trees, will be published by Finishing Line Press and released in July 2011. I’ve attached a flyer with more information about the book. Please take a look.

Finishing Line offers a pre-publication period during which time shipping is only $1. My pre-publication period ends on May 25. Also, pre-publication sales must reach 55 for the book to be printed.

I think you’ll enjoy the poems, and I would be very pleased to have you order before May 25.

Here is the link for ordering:

http://www.finishinglinepress.com/NewReleasesandForthcomingTitles.htm

You can scroll down to the bottom for “Weiss”. Also you may need to scroll left or right to locate my listing.

Thank you so much for ordering at this early point. Finishing Line Press will be sending me an update each week as I progress toward the print date. Very exciting!

Again, many thanks,

Hilda
Poetry.LA

A video showcase of poets &
poetry venues in Southern California

www.Poetry.LA

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Praise for Burned House with Swimming Pool

“You will be impressed by the intelligent, arresting poems in Burned House With Swimming Pool. They are so finely crafted their language shapes the public voice of personal experience with both clarity and complexity. In the poet’s coming to grips with the successes and failures of middle age and middle America, she views life with the microscopic intensity only great writers can achieve.”
—Ai

Lisa Lewis’s books include The Unbeliever (University of Wisconsin Press, Brittingham Prize), Silent Treatment (Penguin, National Poetry Series), and Vivisect, (New Issues Press). A chapbook titled Story Box was also published as winner of the Poetry West Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Kenyon Review, Washington Square, Third Coast, American Literary Review, Fence, Seattle Review, and Rattle, as well as a Pushcart Prize anthology and two editions of Best American Poetry. She has also won awards from the American Poetry Review and the Missouri Review. She directs the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University and serves as poetry editor for the Cimarron Review.

from Burned House with Swimming Pool:

Regretful of Error

The merest rise in the sidewalk might friction a sneaker toe
To hang behind the body’s momentum.
This small flaw in motion’s assembly, akin to the stick
Of gears, embarrasses the flow of strolling, joints
And levers merging in rhythm to make the pace.
I occupy such a bag of bones, am nimble
Bearing grocery sacks or balancing wheelbarrow
Handles, backyard beast of burden until I stumble,
Singing to myself as the neighbors slam
Windows or listen for sour notes, victory to random
Rage, which exists despite sense or apology.
In public I rely on intuition to stay me upright
As a sail in narrow wind. I’m held like a fork
Between fingers. I prod like a stage prop
To crowd’s front, hoping they know where they’re going.
I’m visible as a sofa the cat sharpened claws on.
I’m the woman who pretended to control fate
When deafness drowned out the voices of everyone
But fear. Do I look all right? Can you tell what I did
Last night? Salt of the sea, fuchsia fuzz of champagne
Mimosa, syllables I hummed as if I possessed
The hoax of incantation? I measure my features
Against excuses and famous sayings, advertisements
For perfection and the fly in the sunburn salve.
It’s one pratfall after another, tumbler in a torn leotard,
The story I tell about the stories I told before
Telling the last one to the last laugh of the last listener,
Who spotted me in a throng, paused, and rushed on
Till an ankle turned in a divot like a cue ball leaping
From felt. In my dream we fell and rose again
Clothed in beauty. I reminded myself to count hopes
As facts so when everything went wrong I’d see
Smiles gracious as a vase of burnt roses, ash
Rubbed into cheeks and lips and veins of marble.

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I am pleased my new book ALL THE POETS (MOSTLY) WHO HAVE TOUCHED ME (LIVING AND DEAD. ALL TRUE: ESPECIALLY THE LIES) is out and getting strong reviews: “a tremendous book along the lines of John Berryman’s Dream songs”….”mind candy”..”witty…lusty…a feast of words.” If you are a poet, know a poet, or are wild for the secrets of writers you may never have heard before, this is a book you shouldn’t resist.

Please check Amazon.com and my web site www.lynlifshin.com for more news

Lyn Lifshin

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ALL THE POETS (MOSTLY) WHO HAVE TOUCHED ME (LIVING AND DEAD. ALL TRUE: ESPECIALLY THE LIES)
A new Book — only $10.95 (+ shipping)
by Lyn Lifshin
Paperback: 234 pages
Publisher: World Parade Books (February 26, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0984619852
ISBN-13: 978-0984619856
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches

Publisher:
World Parade Books
5267 Warner Avenue # 191
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
www.worldparadebooks.com

Read Sample Poems Order from Amazon.com
Reviews:

I think ALL THE POETS WHO HAVE TOUCHED ME is a tremendous book along the lines of John Berryman’s Dream Songs. It’s the Lifshin persona with equal attention to the speaker and the subjects presented. There’s a great intellect at work in the book, showing the author has digested the essence of the poets, both recent and remote, presented as flesh and blood characters, with their eccentricities and normality. It humanizes them using sound biographical knowledge but fictionalizes them, adding luster and depth. The revelations of both speaker and related poets are powerfully original but have the sense of being basically historically sound. It’s an intriguing presentation that keeps the reader eager to see what’s on the next page. It’s scandalous and morally elevating in turn. It keeps coming back with additional observations real and imaginative. The book with its many pages and accumulation of factual and imagined information has the satisfying weight of a masterpiece, and though phrased in a perfectly conversational tone, it occasionally has the music of a hymn, sometimes a dark melody, at other times a radiance. The diction and milieu are in accord with the varied historical eras treated. The book is not just a hearty meal. It is a feast of words with fascinating descriptions and engrossing ideas. The reader will leave this banquet of literary delights fulfilled. — William Page

“Lyn Lifshin writes a moving and evocative collection of poetry that is a tribute to the poets who touched her and inspired her. Whether it is Allen Ginsberg giving her a rose, or meeting Dylan Thomas at the White Horse Tavern, or a dreamscape of Lifshin and Emily Dickinson picking berries, Lifshin imagery and imagination is on full display… a must read!” — Doug Holder/Ibbetson Street Press

Lyn Lifshin’s All The Poets is mind candy.
More than a third of the poetry affords us an entre-nous perspective of contemporary and classic poets…some dreamt of, alluded to, half known and some known intimately (but not well).
Velvetted treatments about Bly to Williams, from Beat Poets to off-beat places. Ms. Lifshin employs the witty, the anecdotal, the cathartic taut and lusty writing she is so deservedly well known for.
…Then, tucked amid the themed leaves, we meet The Ice Maiden, residing in a group of well-constructed pieces dripping with the severe, decadent and provocative qualities that have populated many of Ms. Lifshin’s other collections.
All the Poets reminds the reader of just how special and important a writer Lyn Lifshin is!
— Edward Roberts

Lifshin’s latest book get farther into the center of her psyche than anything else she has ever written. It essentially shows how she lived in the midst of poets living and dead, was part of the whole mystique that surrounded all of poetic aesthetics and history. William Carlos William, Frost, Bukowski, Anne Sexton…and all kinds of little personal contacts like having breakfast with Robert Bly in Normal, Illinois (of all places), a box of letters from Robert Frost to her father. She not only brings the poets themselves alive like I’ve never seen them brought alive before, but shows the massive, artistic context out of which her own masterpieces emerged. A classic and, in a way, for poets beginning to play the poetry game, a series of almost buddhistic meditations on roads to take into what poetic mountains and plains, what poetic rivers to glide down listening to the voices surrounding you. — Hugh Fox

For the delicious scoop and little known facts about Dylan Thomas, Garcia Lorca, James Dickey, Robert Frost, Alan Ginsberg and may more, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, you must read Lifshin’s entanglement with a wild variety of the famous and infamous. I loved the book. A must read.
— G.M. Howells

Lyn Lifshin’s lively and compelling new collection offers a romp through the generations of writers, most of them fellow poets, from Byron to Dickinson to the late Jane Kenyon, as she recounts scandalous affairs, intimate friendships, thoughts of what might have been. Lifshin’s vivid imagery and wicked sense of humor (“I have ghost writers. . . ” the poet confesses as she recounts every poet’s secret writing fantasy) make All the Poets Who Have Touched Me a collection no reader of poetry should miss.
I think this is a great and imaginative piece of writing, and I look forward to seeing it in print.
— Rebecca Baggett

“…(her) punch line is often a knockout…At least some of these are poems (it can be hard to tell which, which is part of the fun) describe fantasized meetings with a famous poet: every poetry lover’s daydream…. — Victor Schwartzman

from the book’s forward

Lyn Lifshin writes magically about the poets who have touched her life, figuratively and literally…we, the readers, must decide if the poets actually materialized in Lifshin’s world, or if, as in one poem about Dylan Thomas, they “walked right out of a poem into a dream”