C. Dale Young: A Review and 2 Poems

Torn review in Publisher's Weekly:

"Most of the poems in Young's articulate and honest third collection say something to, and about, the facts of his life: his Catholic and Latino heritage, his years spent in Boston, his residence in San Francisco, his training as a physician, and his self-discovery as a gay man. 'Dear God, what was it you placed in the heart,' he asks, 'not of necessity, but because it is the center/ of all moral forces and impulses?'...

And read 2 poems from the book on Poetry Daily!

http://poems.com/poem.php?date=15056

Tina Chang at Pratt Institute

Poet Tina Chang will deliver a talk on behalf of The Annual Christina Porter Art and Poetry in the Schools Lecture, on Thursday, March 24 at 12:30 PM in Higgins Hall Auditorium at 61 St. James Place in Brooklyn. She is the author of two books and her work has been featured in numerous publications. Chang is the current (2010) poet laureate of Brooklyn. Her new collection of poetry, Of Gods and Strangers, is forthcoming this year from Four Way Books.

http://www.archdaily.com/119476/pratt-institute-2011-spring-lecture-series/

Praise for TORN

Praise for C. Dale Young's Torn (and other forthcoming Four Way Books authors) from the Asian American Literature Fans blog:

On Torn: "With the best of poets, we gorge upon the texture of words and sonic registers, all at play here, even in the most horrifying of circumstances. This dissonance reminds us of paradoxical nature of art—our ability to make sense of and even to render with beauty that moments that can be the most traumatizing."

David Dodd Lee on Verse Daily!

If you missed David Dodd Lee's poem, "Red Salmon," on Verse Daily yesterday, you can still read the poem here.

An Essay by Sydney Lea

"Wherever you may be, if you are capable of memory there, can you fetch that dawn on Freeze-to-Death Island, the sleet slamming at our faces like some archaic dentist’s tool? A flock of geese drops in among the decoys, and without so much as a word between us, we let them paddle around unharmed on the riddled surface. There’s something so elegant about the birds that we just can’t fire on them. At length you rise from behind the rock we use for cover to shout, unaccountably, “Off to Cuba, baby ducks!” You pronounce it Cuber, like JFK. October of ‘62. The geese flush in a tumult of sound.

What elegy can there be?"

Read the rest of "Weather and Places" here.

Joni Wallace at Casa Libre

Maya Asher, Teresa Dawn Driver and Joni Wallace

When: Wed., March 23, 7:30 p.m.

As part Edge 32: A Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers, Casa Libre presents Maya Asher, Teresa Dawn Driver and Joni Wallace reading their work at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 23. $5 suggested donation. Call or visit casalibre.org for more information.

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/maya-asher-teresa-dawn-driver-and-joni-wallace/Event?oid=2585334

Daniel Tobin Reads for Salamander

A SALAMANDER POETRY AND FICTION READING

With Peter Brown, Valerie Duff, and Daniel Tobin

Wednesday, March 9, 2011
7pm
The Suffolk University Poetry Center
Milfred F. Sawyer Library, 3rd floor
73 Tremont Street
Boston

Salamander: a magazine for poetry, fiction, & memoirs presents a triple-bill poetry and fiction reading with Peter Brown, Valerie Duff, and Daniel Tobin.

Peter Brown is senior editor at Salamander. His short story collection A Bright Soothing Noise received the 2010 Katherine Anne Porter Prize. His translations have received support from the PEN American Center and the French Embassy. His stories have appeared in Harvard Review, Mississippi Review, and Post Road.

Valerie Duff, the poetry editor for Salamander, has received St. Botolph and Massachusetts Cultural Council grants for her poetry. Her first book, To the New World, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2010. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Harvard Review, Agni, and elsewhere.

Daniel Tobin is the author of five books of poems, most recently Belated Heavens (Four Way Books, 2010). Among his awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He is Interim Dean of the School of the Arts at Emerson College.

Interview with C. Dale Young at Lambda Literary

Check out Lambda Literary's interview with C. Dale Young, "We Are Complex Things," as he talks about his new book, Torn (Four Way Books, 2011).

"I am endlessly fascinated by the fact the human animal is capable of incredible tenderness and care while in the next moment it is capable of unthinkable brutality. I see this over and over. And I guess I imagine God must also be that way to have created us in His image, a fact theologians typically want to avoid. We are complex things. God is complex. Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. Nothing."

C. Dale Young in The Awl

Read "In flagrante delicto" by C. Dale Young in The Awl.

Ploughshares Reading with Daniel Tobin

Myra Sklarew, Daniel Tobin, and Andrew Sofer

Date: Mar 07, 2011
Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Harvard-Yenching Library
Address: Common Room 136, 2 Divinity Ave
Cambridge, MA

(Location: off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)
Free and open to the public.

http://www.pshares.org/events/event-detail.cfm?intNewsEventsID=2372

Poetry Pairs: Carol Muske-Dukes and Tom Healy

Sunday June 12 at 3pm
Poetry Pairs is produced by Fran Castan, who will introduce the poets.

Poetry Pairs features a nationally-acclaimed poet paired with a local poet of distinction, celebrating their latest books. Meet the authors, have your books signed, and enjoy refreshments in the Boots Lamb Education Center or garden!

$5 / $3 Members of Guild Hall
Tickets online at GuildHall.org or at Box Office starting May 18; theatermania.com; or 1.866.811.4111

This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from New York State Council on The Arts, a state agency and by Daniel and Joanna S. Rose.

Pollack and Ossmann in Poets & Writers

Two Four Way Books authors in the new issue of Poets & Writers! Purchase a copy to read essays by Eileen Pollack (In the Mouth, and the forthcoming Breaking and Entering) and April Ossmann (Anxious Music).

http://www.pw.org/content/marchapril_2011

Jennifer Denrow Reads for Huffington Post Video

Video Book Readings: Emerging Stars In Fiction And Poetry
Anis Shivani:

"Wow! We are excited. Not only are these amazing readings by some of today's strongest emerging talents in literary fiction and poetry--just check out the readings by Harmony Holiday, Dan DeWeese, and Garrick Davis, to take your breath away!--they represent some of the finest work being produced by the nation's best presses committed to discovering new talent: presses like Four Way Books, Fence Books, Wave Books, Noemi Press, and many others on the leading edge of innovative writing. These videos were all recorded exclusively at the request of the Huffington Post, and the writers also generously shared personal statements to introduce their work--words that can't fail to inspire emerging writers hoping to make their own breakthrough. To paraphrase Rebecca Wolff of Fence Books, don't let the awesome coolness of these readings interfere with appreciation of the fine literary quality!"

Cynthia Cruz Reads at the New York Botanical Garden

Saturday, Apr 2, 3:00pm

The Bronx, NY

A SEASON IN POETRY
Cynthia Cruz, Lisa Olstein, and Cynthia Zarin

Welcoming the arrival of Spring, with poets reading classic favorites as well as their own work at the largest botanical garden in the United States.

Co-sponsored by The New York Botanical Garden.

Admission is free with general admission to the Botanical Garden.

New York Botanical Garden
Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road

For directions see www.nybg.org

Lecture w/ Daniel Tobin: Labor in Irish-American Poetry

Press release -- St. Ambrose University.

DAVENPORT -- "In the Suburbs of Ulro: The Metaphysics of Work in Irish-American Poetry, " this year's St. Ambrose University McCaffrey Lecture of Irish-American Studies, will be presented 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, in Rogalski Center, located at the corner of Ripley and Lombard streets, one block west of Harrison Street.

Professor and poet Daniel Tobin,dean of the School of the Arts at Emerson College, Boston, Mass., will combine poetry reading and lecture to illuminate the place of labor in the poems of several Irish-American poets.

The lecture, which is part of the university's "Ubiquity of Work" series, is free and open to the public. For information, contact Ryan Dye (563) 333-6389, or go to www.sau.edu.

On the Other Side, Blue: Starred Review in Publisher's Weekly!

from Publisher's Weekly:

On the Other Side, Blue

Collier Nogues, Four Way (UPNE, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (66p) ISBN 978-1-935536-07-9

Nogues's debut quietly but squarely takes on death, family, place, landscape, history, love, marriage, though grief ties them all together, providing not only identity but also genealogy and community throughout the book. Although Nogues begins with her own bereavement following her mother's death, she is as much an observer of mourning as a participant in it, charting the similarities and variations of grief's progression in a lover, family members, strangers, neighbors. The book then moves from death to a sort of rebirth, ending with a warily hopeful epithalamion in which "[t]he promise absents a fear/ which had been helpful/ in its way but can now be discarded." Finally Nogues's observation of loss gives way to connection with landscape and the natural world; in her best moments, Nogues counterbalances elegy with trust in plainspoken description, yielding nothing short of wisdom: "[i]t's not true/ to say there's light behind those trees. Those trees/ are all there is." In careful lines and with a particular, wry Western twang, Nogues works her way out of mourning and back into a world of living things. (Apr.)

Young and Barot @ SMU Lit Fest

C. Dale Young and Rick Barot have been selected to appear at the SMU Literary Festival in March:

http://www.dallasvoice.com/gay-poets-featured-smu-lit-fest-1065075.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+DallasVoice+(DallasVoice)&utm_content=Twitter

Lambda Literary Names TORN One of the 23 Highly Anticipated Books in 2011

"Lambda Literary Award-finalist C. Dale Young’s publishers (Four Way Books) sold all 75 advance copies of his new poetry collection during the poet’s signing at AWP. Enough said."

You can view the entire list here.

Monica Youn at Copper Colored Mountain Arts

"COPPER COLORED MOUNTAIN ARTS CELEBRATES NATIONAL POETRY MONTH WITH APRIL READINGS, LECTURES AND CONVERSATIONS"
Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 8-23, 2011

One Pause, a poetry series in its second year at Copper Colored Mountain Arts, welcomes nationally recognized poets Monica Youn, Raymond McDaniel, Mark Wunderlich, Clayton Eshleman, and Jerome Rothenberg for a series of readings and talks during National Poetry Month this April. The events will represent a diverse range of contemporary poetry. Collectively, the visiting poets have received grants from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Poetry Series; and the Lambda Literary Award, a National Book Award, and many others. “Yet their work is all very different,” says One Pause Director, Sarah Messer. Poetic topics range from hurricane Katrina, to Paleolithic Cave Paintings, to 18th century Lutheran “Heaven Letters,” to the comic strip “Crazy Kat.” Readings and talks will be spread throughout the month of April and will be followed by recorded public “conversations,” where the poets will discuss their poetic process, their inspirations, and why poetry matters.

All Readings and Conversations are FREE and open to the public. Location: 7101 W. Liberty Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

View the full schedule here.

Debra Allbery Interview & Review on WNYC's The Read

Debra Allbery publishes Fimbul-Winter, poems that move through landscapes and personal growth

by Rob Neufeld

A review and an interview.

"It can be in a word or, for me, probably it’s more likely that the germ of the poem—the initial seed—is in an image. You see something and you feel it vibrate. You know that the poem is in there. For me, it’s often images in the natural world. That probably comes across in the book as the place where the poem begins. It rises out of the landscape, and then the landscape becomes a fruitful and beneficial—I don’t want to say mask because it’s not a hiding—but a means of translating yourself."

Read the entire feature here.