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CALENDAR
Joaquin Miller Poetry Series
Rock Creen Nature Center, 5200 Glover Rd., NW, Washington, DC.Sundays at 3 pm with open
readings after featured readers. Free. Deborah Ager, Kathi Morrison-Taylor and Rosemary Winslow host.
6/3---Susan Oakie & Ehud Sela
6/10---Elizabeth Arnold with Jacklyn Potter Young Poets Zachary Fine & Ariana Yeatts-Lonske
6/17---Kathleen Hellen & Alyse Knorr
Cafe
Muse Literary Series
Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 South
Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD. 7:00 pm with open
readings after featured readers. Free. Adele Brown, Hailey Leithauser, and Laura Golberg host. Michael Davis plays
classical guitar at most programs.
MONDAY 6/4---Translation program featuring the work of Maria Teresa Ogliastri presented by Patricia Bejarano Fisher & Yvette Neisser Moreno with tribute to Eleanor Ross Taylor
MONDAY 7/2 --Don Illich & Annabelle Moseley with tribute to John Pauker
MONDAY 8/6 ---Goethe Institute German, Chinese, American Translation Program—Sunil Freeman, Rod Jellema, Fred Joiner with tribute to Ernie Wormwood
The
Iota Poetry Series
Iota Bar and Restaurant,
2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Virginia at 6
pm. Open readings follow. Admission free. Miles David Moore hosts. For
more information, call 703-522-8340 or 703-256-9275.
June 10--- Nancy Naomi Carlson & Lola Haskins
July 8: Patricia Bejarano Fisher & Yvette Neisser Moreno
Aug 12: Special All-Open Reading
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WORD WORKS ANNOUNCES
WASHINGTON PRIZE WINNER
In March at the 2012 Associate Writing Programs Bookfair, The Word Works proudly released How to Make a Bird with Two Hands by Mike White of Salt Lake City, Utah. He was selected winner of the 2011 Washington Prize.
How to Make a Bird with Two Hands is White’s first published book. His work has appeared in many journals, including Poetry, The New Republic, The Threepenny Review, and The Iowa Review, and has also been featured online at Poetry Daily and Verse Daily.
Raised in Canada, White came to the US to earn his PhD at the University of Utah, where he now teaches literature and creative writing. Previously he was also editor at Quarterly West.
PERPETUAL MOTION ARRIVES
In February, The Word Works is published Perpetual Motion by Marilyn McCabe of Saratoga Springs, NY. Selected by Gray Jacobik for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection, Perpetual Motion is McCabe’s first full-length book.
McCabe’s work has been published in Painted Bride Quarterly, Nimrod, Beloit Poetry Journal, Rhino, and other journals, and she has received awards through the New York State Council on the Arts and the Adirondack Center for Writing. Her chapbook Rugged Means of Grace was published by Finishing Line Press in 2010.
McCabe left government work to pursue the arts, training as a jazz singer and poet. She holds an MFA in poetry from New England College.
SCORCHED BY THE SUN ARRIVES
The Word Works is pleased to announce publication of Sorched by the Sun by Israeli poet Moshe Dor as translated in English by Barbara Goldberg with the author. Originally published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011, this book, imbued with things Israeli, concerns love -- love for a woman and love for the motherland.
In December 2011, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature selected Scorched by the Sun for one of their translation awards. This award will provide a handsome purse for translators Barbara Goldberg and Moshe Dor.
With many prestigious awards, Moshe Dor is regarded as one of the most prominent poets in Israel. As the author of 40 books of poetry, essays, interviews and children’s books, he is an influential presence on the Israeli literary scene, actively publishing today. His poems have been translated into some 30 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, Georgian, Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbian-Croatian, Ukrainian and Yiddish. He is also held in high esteem worldwide, having served as President of Israeli P.E.N.; Counselor for Cultural Affairs in London, and Distinguished Writer in Residence at American University, Washington, DC.
Barbara Goldberg has worked with Moshe Dor for more than 20 years. She is a poet in her own right (e.g. Berta Broadfoot and Pepin the Short: A Merovingian Romance) and early in their collaboration received the Armand G. Erpf Award from the Columbia Center for Translation. The Stones Remember: Native Israeli Poetry (The Word Works, 1991) received the prestigious Witter Bynner Foundation Award. Their next anthology of contemporary Israeli poetry, After the First Rain: Israeli Poems on War and Peace (Syracuse University Press, 1998), contains an introduction by then Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Dor and Goldberg also collaborated in translating The Fire Stays in Red: Poems by Ronny Someck (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002).
CAFE MUSE IN 2012
In 2012, The Word Works will continue to honor late poets held dear by the literary community at each of our 12 Cafe Muse programs.
In January, we paid tribute to Barbara Moore , who won the 1990 Word Works Washington Prize for her book Farewell to the Body. Other poets we plan to honor are: Cicely Angleton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edward Cox, John Haines, Mariquita Mullan, John Pauker, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Edward Weismiller.
Please help us with this effort by sending your tax-deductible donation to:
The Word Works Cafe Muse Fund
P.O. Box 42164
Washington DC 20015
Indicate to which poet tribute you would like your donation assigned.
As of September 1, 2010,
The Word Works
URL is: wordworksbooks.org
Our
email address is: editor@wordworksbooks.org
© Copyright
2012 The Word Works
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