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Visit our page on Facebook www.facebook.com ` • Joseph A. Soldati, author of APOCALYPSE CLAM, will open the 2008-09 MILWAUKIE POETRY SERIES with a reading of his poems on
Ledding Library Pond House, 2215 S.E. Harrison, Milwaukie, Oregon. His reading will feature many new poems and will last approximately an hour followed by a 30-minute “interaction” with the audience. `
East Bay Performances: Sunday, September 14, 2008, 7pm dancer Frances Sedayao, singer Larena Burno, composer Ron Quesada and dj fflood. Emceed by Lisa Marie Rollins. Lolan Sevilla (translating new brown), Patricia Justine Tumang and Jenesha de Rivera (Homelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time (Seal Press 2007)). vision, generations of women and their relationships to home. [In this collection], Suzara reveals her gifts as poetic witness." - Lee Herrick, author of This many Miles from Desire / maybe we should not be allowed to care about the things that are not inside of us / and maybe there are things we should never see because they will never leave us alone - excerpt from "some days I think I am crazy" ` • Helen W. Mallon will be reading from her Finishing Line Press chapbook, Bone China, on September 14 at 2:00 at Robin's Books, 108 South 13th Street in Philadelphia, PA. ` • Lisa C. Taylor , author of Talking to Trees,
` • Gary L. Lark will read from Men at the Gates in Lane Literary Guild’s Windfall series at the Eugene Public Library, 100 W. 10th Ave, Eugene, Oregon on Tuesday, September 16th. Joining Gary will be Susan Denning, Oregon Book Awards and literary fellowships program director for Literary Arts of Oregon and editor of Caffeine Destiny. ` • Barbara Wiedemann, author of Half-Life of Love, will be reading at the following venue: September 18, 2008, 7 pm, at The Gnu's Room Bookstore, 414 South Gay Street, Auburn, AL (334-821-5550). ` • Bob Brooks, author of A Story Anyone Could Stick To, will be reading • Julene Tripp Weaver will read from Case Walking: An AIDS CAse Manager Wails Her Blues! ` • Gladys L. Henderson, author of Eclipse of Heaven, will be reading at the following venues:
Molloy College, Wilbur Arts Center, 1000 Hempstead Turnpike, Rockville Centre, New York. www.molloyedu.
` • Collin Kelley Reading from After the Poison at the following venues:
` • Phebe Davidson, Linda Annas Ferguson, Terri McCord, Carol Peters, and Warren Slesinger • Rachel Bunting, author of Ripe Again, will be reading at the following venue:
` • Glenda Barrett, author of WHEN THE SAP RISES, will be reading at the following venues:
at Phillips & Lloyd Book Shop; Main Street; Hayesville, NC; on Saturday, October 4, 2008; 10:00 AM--1:00 PM.
Young Harris, Ga; Saturday, October 18th; 10:00 A.M. until 12:00 P.M. ` • Brenda Kay Ledford, author of SACRED FIRE, will read and sign books during "First Saturday," at Phillips & Lloyd Book Shop; Main Street; Hayesville, NC; on Saturday, October 4, 2008; 10:00 AM--1:00 PM. ` • Shawn R. Jones, author of Womb Rain, will be reading on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 4 PM. 140 N. Haddon Ave. in Haddonfiled, New Jersey • Howard Stein Reading and signing Theme and Variations 16 October 2008, 6:30-8 PM Full Circle Bookstore 50 South Pennsylvania Avenue Oklahoma City, OK 73118 ` • Carol Hamilton, author of SHOTS ON ,
The Verandas, 108 E League St., Burnit, Texas, (512-715-0190 ).
The Boys and Girls Club, 700 Northington, Burnit Texas (512-756-1444).
Charles W. Pratt, author of Still Here, winner of the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition, will be reading at the following venues:
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` • Bob Brooks, author of A Story Anyone Could Stick To, will be reading The event is part of the Concord Festival of Authors A reception and book signing will follow. Directions at www.concordpoetry.org. Charles W. Pratt, author of Still Here, winner of the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition, will be reading at The Concord Poetry Center, 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, 01742, on Sunday, November 2 at 3 p.m. He will be joined by 10 other Concord Poetry Center members who have published with the press: Bob Brooks, A Story Anyone Could Stick To Polly Brown, Each Thing Torn from Any of Us Helen Marie Casey, Fragrance Upon His Lips Julia Lisella, Love Song Hiroshima Maura MacNeil, A History of Water Gary Metras, Francis d’Assisi 2008 Kathy Nilsson, The Abattoir Suzanne Owens, In the Lake’s Eye and Harvesting Ice Susan Edwards Richmond, Birding in Winter bg Thurston, Saving the Lamb ` • Joseph A. Soldati, author of APOCALYPSE CLAM, will host and read at the William Stafford Birthday Commemorative Reading at the Portland, Oregon, Central Library (801 S.W. Tenth Ave), on Sunday, January 25, 2009, from 2:00 until 4:00 p.m. Don Colburn, author of ANOTHER WAY TO BEGIN, will also read. This is one of many Stafford Birthday readings honoring the late Oregon laureate and National Book Award Recipient held in the Northwest and throughout the nation during the month of January. ` NOTE TO FLP; Author's Anamorphy a Journal and Anamorphy Weekly Podcast, is always looking for both Poets with new books/chapbooks toreview, poems for magazine, and authors to interview or read for ********************************************************************************************************************************************************* Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher. Recent winners and notables: Tania Runyan's poetry collection Delicious Air won the 2007 Belles Lettres Book of the Year award by the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Brenda Kay Ledford's Shew Bird Mountain won the 2007 PAUL GREEN MULTIMEDIA AWARD. The Paul Green Multimedia Award is given by the North Carolina Society of Historians. Marianne Worthington’s Larger Bodies than Mine (NWV Series) won the 2007 Appalachian Book of the Year Award for Poetry awarded by the Appalachian Writers Association. Anne Wilson won the San Diego Book Award (for "a book of poetry ") for her book SOLEA! Frederick Smock's Sonnets was a finalist in the Kentucky Literary Awards for excellence in poetry. Linda Annas Ferguson’s chapbook, Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk, won an honorable mention in the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Book Award of the Poetry Council of NC. Kaye Bache-Snyder won first place in the National Federation of Press Women’s annual competition, in category 75, creative verse for her book PINNACLES AND PLAINS. Carolyn Howard-Johnson was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Silver Award for Excellence for her chapbook of poetry, Tracings. Abigail Gramig's poem "Requiem" (first published by Finishing Line Press in her chapbook DUSTING THE PIANO) is included in Billy Collins' new anthology 180 More : Extraordinary Poems for Every Day by BILLY COLLINS (Editor). Julene Tripp Weaver author of Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues; George Held, author of Grounded and The Art of Writing and Others, GARY L. LARK, author of Men At the Gates, Joyce Greenberg Lott,author of DEAR MRS. DALLOWAY, and to Paula Sergi author of FAMILY BUSINESS and John Brantingham author of PUTTING IN A WINDOW were all recently featured on Garrison Keillor's THE WRITER'S ALMANAC radio show. Karen Zaborowski Duffy’s (author of Giving in to the Smoke) poetry was featured on the PBS show The Newshour with Jim Lehrer . Michael Milburn’s poem “Preserved” from his FLP chapbook The Blessings of Motion and Silence appeared in Mary Karr’s weekly Book World feature, “Poet’s Choice.” In her column Ms. Karr picks a poem (or poems) each week and introduces it briefly. Book World is syndicated to a number of other papers, including the Washington Post Book World in The Washington Post National Weekly, washingtonpost.com, on-line data services and microfiche and CD-ROM versions of The Washington Post. Also appearing in The New Yorker (online only) Finishing Line Press has also been featured in Poet's Market Insider Report. |
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