Many things have taken place since I last posted here. There have been some changes outside of this realm of publishing and books, hence the small hiatus since my last post.
LATEST NEWS:
- Zsuzsanna Donnell, the artist in our current issue of Omphalos, is now showing a beautifully cohesive exhibit of her colorful acrylics in the gallery at EFG Books in Bridgton. The show runs thru April 3rd.
- Michael Corrigan, as well as a group of six other very diverse poets, just read a fine selection of poems on Thursday night at EFG Books. You can read more about it here (when we finish transferring the audio recordings).
- Nine Point Publishing just released a signed limited edition letterpress card by Michael Corrigan on Thursday night in conjunction with him being the featured reader at Exploring the Source 6. Stop in EFG Books to pick up a copy or go here to see and buy the card (again, we’re still working on transferring images and setting up the buy option for it)
- Nine Point Publishing is releasing a chapbook of poetry by James Day Leavitt at the end of March, too. I will keep updating the progress of that publication as it evolves.
- Finally, on Saturday, April 3rd EFG Books & Gallery will be hosting a combined Closing Reception for Zsuzsanna Donnell from 5-7pm followed by a poetry reading at 7pm. Hopefully we’ll see many familiar faces and many new ones! Come down to spend the evening with us! We’ll have a medley of hors d’oeuvres, wine, coffee and sparkling water.
- And if you are on Facebook you can become of fan of EFG Books by going here.
‘The Thinking Heart’
Portland Conservatory of Music Concert Series
History in Poetry and Music
The Thinking Heart, an ensemble performance work in two voices, with cello, based on the writings of a Dutch woman, Etty Hillesum, who died in the Holocaust, will be presented at The Portland Conservatory of Music, 202 Woodford Street (Woodford Congregational Church), Portland, Saturday evening, February 13, at 7:30 pm. Admission: $15. (Reduced admission on request.)
Martin Steingesser
Portland, Maine’s First Poet Laureate (2007-09)
www.martinsteingesser.com
www.MatchBook.org
PO Box 7575
Portland, Maine 04112-7575
December 29th, 2009
Geoff
Happy New Year!
Thanks to Zsuzsanna Donnell, Omphalos 10 has a beautiful color lithograph on the cover. One of nine throughout this issue. Out now and in limited quantities available at select locations and online here.
We are also pleased to announce that now you can pick up your copy of the latest Omphalos at Beth’s Cafe in downtown Bridgton. Grab some tasty organic Maine roasted coffee and a literary mag. What else do ya need?
We will be adding a few new locations where you can find Omphalos in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
December 17th, 2009
Geoff
Omphalos 10 went to press last Friday and should be ready to ship out on Monday the 21st! Due to the holidays, however, most subscribers shouldn’t expect their issue to arrive until after Christmas.
Stay warm!
We still have copies of Jim Leavitt’s broadside for sale here for only $15! Help support our efforts to promote local writers and printers! It’s a fine piece for $15!
Keep checking back for a brand new letterpress chapbook by Jim coming out this winter!
Gary Lawless will give a one hour poetry reading and interview on WorldStream Radio’s world talk program, broadcast live on Wednesday evening, Dec. 9, from 10-11 PM.
The program is broadcast live online and can be accessed at HERE.
I hope that you will listen!
She said…She said
The conversation continues
This show continues a conversation Anne Bernard and Judy Schneider started in September, 2008. Each woman created a piece and traded it to the other, who then made a piece in response. This process resulted in a 2-person show for the Norway Commons Art Collective in April of this year.
The two artists have continued their dialogue at Cafe Nomad for the month of December. See the show through January 4 at:
Cafe Nomad, 450 Main Street in Norway, Maine
Tel: (207) 739-2249. Open Weekdays 7am-4pm; Sat 9am-3pm
Please join us this Thursday night at 7pm for our next poetry reading at EFG Books. You can sign up to read here.
November 15th, 2009
Geoff
from Gary Lawless . . .
Theodore Enslin will read from his poems on Monday, Nov. 30, 730 PM at Skelton Lounge of Chase Hall, Bates College, Lewiston.
Ted has lived in Maine since the 1950’s, first in Temple and now in Milbridge. He has published 118 books of poetry, contributed poems to innumerable poetry journals, and now has available a 20-cd collection of his reading of his own poems.
On a personal note, Ted has been a poet to read, a generous mentor and a kind friend to me since the very early 1970s. He has always been very generous with his poems to those of us trying to start small poetry journals and presses, and very supportive to anyone asking him to send poems, to come and read, or just to make suggestions of who or what to read.Ted keeps saying that this will be his last book, that this will be his last reading. I hope that for this rare reading, people will come out and listen as a way of honoring his work.
-Gary Lawless
November 11th, 2009
Geoff
Words, in and of themselves, may not be all that interesting or useful. Put them together in certain ways and they have the ability to conjure worlds. And by conjure I literally mean to “cause to appear as if by magic.”1 Because the result of this process can be so powerful, it behooves the writer to judiciously execute his incantations.
1 Oxford English Dictionary
example:
Soul melts into air,
anima into aura,
Serenitas.
-Ezra Pound, from Drafts & Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII (New Directions, 1968)
