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CALENDAR
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 2/6---Maryland Poets Association celbrating Life in Me Like Grass on Fire: Love Poems incldg: Shirley Brewer, Frank Joseph, Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka, Margaret Mullins, Fernando Quijano II, Laura Shovan with tribute to Deborah Edelman
MONDAY 3 /5---Poets Margo Berdeshevsky & Lilah Hegnauer with tribute to Edward Weismiller
THURSDAY 04/05/12 --Angie Hogan & Kevin McFaddin with tribute TBA
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.
Jan 8: Gregory Luce & Anne Harding Woodworth
Feb 12: Tarfia Faizullah & Mark Fitzgerald
Mar 11--- Cliff Bernier with musicians Shep Williams and Mike Gillispie
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WORD WORKS ANNOUNCES
MASTER CLASS ON GERTRUDE STEIN
On February 4, 2012, The Word Works will sponsor Inspired by Gertrude Stein, an all-day writing Master Class focused on Gertrude Stein, a unique opportunity to learn about Stein and to be inspired by her work and the work of artists already influenced by this great Modernist.
The workshop will take place at the Stanford in Washington Art Gallery, 2661 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20008. The program, which includes an overview of Stein and her work, a curated tour of the exhibition “Insight & Identity: Contemporary Artists and Gertrude Stein,” writing time, and an opportunity to share newly created work, will be led by Karren Alenier, author of the opera libretto Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On, and Hans Gallas, co-curator of “Insight & Identity” exhibition.
A promotional video can be seen on our Workin' the Word blog.
The program is open to writers of all levels and genres. The cost is $50. For more information and to signup, click here.
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).
The Word Works is accepting advance orders through January 30, 2012 for Sorched by the Sun.
2011 WASHINGTON PRIZE WINNER
Mike White of Salt Lake City, Utah, has won the 2011 Washington Prize for his manuscript How to Make a Bird with Two Hands.
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.
2012 CAPITAL COLLECTION PUBLICATION
Gray Jacobik selected Marilyn McCabe of Saratoga Springs, NY, author of Perpetual Motion for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection for publication in spring 2012.
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 will pay 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, Deborah Edelman, John Haines, John Pauker, 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.
NEW VENUE FOR MILLER CABIN SERIES
The Word Works is pleased to be working collaboratively with the National Park Service for the 2011 Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Series which will take place on Thursdays at 7 PM starting June 9th at the Rock Creek Nature Center's Planetarium. The location is 5200 Glover Road NW, Washington, DC 20015, near the intersection of Military and Glover roads.
The eight-week program was competively selected from over 80 applicants . We thank all who sent in sample poems for consideration and hope those not selected will try again next year. There were many fine submissions for the limited number of program slots.
Fundraising is now underway and we thank all our supporting friends, donors and patrons who make these programs possible.
As of September 1, 2010,
The Word Works
URL is: wordworksbooks.org
Our
email address is: editor@wordworksbooks.org
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2012 The Word Works
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