Omphalos 10 is Available Now!
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!
Omphalos 10
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!
Jim Leavitt broadside
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 on WorldStream Radio, December 9th
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!
Anne Bernard and Judy Schneider at Cafe Nomad thru Jan 4th
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
POETRY READING THIS THURSDAY at 7PM
Please join us this Thursday night at 7pm for our next poetry reading at EFG Books. You can sign up to read here.
Theodore Enslin reads at Bates College
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
Writing
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)
December 6th Poetry Reading at Gulf of Maine Books
Poetry Reading December 6th at 3pm at Gulf of Maine Books. more here–>
