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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Sat. 5/19: Fink, Hoffman, Karageorge, Shmailo at Cornelia St. Cafe in NYC
The Greek-American Writers’ Association
Presents
Tom Fink, Roxanne Hoffman,
Penelope Karageorge & Larissa
Shmailo
6-7:30 PM, Saturday, May 19th, 2012
The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street (Between West 4th & Bleecker Streets)
(212) 989-9319
A $7.00 entry fee
includes one complimentary house drink.
Hosted
by Dean Kostos
A freelance journalist, Penelope Karageorge writes frequently about film and theatre. She is the author of a crime novel, Murder at Tomorrow (Walker Publishing), Stolen Moments (Pinnacle Press) and a poetry collection, Red Lipstick and the Wine-Dark Sea (Pella Publishing). Her short stories have been published in journals as diverse as Mouth Full of Bullets and The Charioteer. Penelope began her career as a Newsweek reporter, interviewing luminaries including Bette Davis and Cary Grant. She was publicity director of People magazine. She's currently developing her original film script, a romantic comedy set on the Greek island of Lemnos, Drinking the Sun.
Roxanne Hoffman worked on Wall Street, now answers a patient hotline for a New York home healthcare provider. Her words can be found, on and off the net, in Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, Clockwise Cat, Danse Macabre, The Fib Review, Hospital Drive, Lips Magazine, Lucid Rhythms, Mobius: The Poetry Magazine, The New Verse News, The Pedestal Magazing and Shaking Like a Mountain; the indie flick Love and the Vampire starring Dave Gold and Rick Poli; and several anthologies including The Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates (Soft Skill Press), Love After 70 (Wising Up Press), and It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure (Harper Perennial). She started the small literary press Poets Wear Prada with her late husband in 2006, and continues to runs it with the poet, fiction writer and translator Jack Cooper.Her elegiac poem "In Loving Memory" with illustrations by Connecticut artist Edward Odwitt was published as a chapbook in 2011.
Larissa Shmailo has been published in The Unbearables Big Book of Sex, Barrow Street, Fulcrum, Rattapallax, Drunken Boat, Big Bridge, Mad Hatters Review, Naropa’s We among other publications. Larissa translated the Russian Futurist opera Victory over the Sun by A. Kruchenych for the original English-language production performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, archived at the Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. Her CD, Exorcism won her the 2009 New Century Music Awards for spoken word with music. Her first CD, The No-Net World, is heard frequently on the radio and internet. She has published three books of poetry, In Paran (BlazeVox), A Cure for Suicide (Cervena Barva Press), and the e-book Fib Sequence (Argotist Ebooks).
Friday, May 4, 2012
Hoboken Publisher and Author Roxanne Hoffman in New York City This May
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jack Cooper
201.253.0561
Hoboken
Publisher and Author Roxanne Hoffman in New York City This May
Poets Wear Prada
announced Senior Editor, Hoboken author Roxanne Hoffman in New York this month
to promote her new book: Sundays, May
6th and 13th, and Saturday May 19th.
(Hoboken,
NJ – May 4, 2012) Poets Wear Prada announced today Senior Editor Roxanne
Hoffman will be reading at several literary events in New York City this month.
“In Loving Memory,” her lyrical ballad chronicling a small-town church
congregation from funeral to marriage, features illustrations by Connecticut
artist Edward Odwitt.
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| IN LOVING MEMORY by Roxanne Hoffman illustationsby Edward Odwitt |
“‘In
Loving Memory’ should be on everyone’s shelves as it reflects on one of the
darkest human experiences with insight and humanity in a charmingly gothic
presentation,” said Garth von Buchholz, publisher, member of the National Book
Critics’ Circle and author. Vampire verse by author Hoffman, a frequent dabbler
in the horror genre, can be heard during Dave Gold’s 2005 indie flick “Love and
the Vampire.” Twice included in the “House of Horror” best-of-the-year
anthology, her 2010 contribution was nominated for Pushcart Prize.
Hoffman,
now making her home in Hoboken, New Jersey, grew up on Manhattan’s Upper
Westside. A Bronx High School of Science alumna, she lived for several years in
Greenwich Village, while attending New York University’s Stern School of
Business and later when she worked on Wall Street at Chase Manhattan Bank.
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| Roxanne Hoffman [Credit: Hugh Thompson] |
This
coming Sunday, May 6th, Hoffman returns to her hometown where from
6:00 until 8:00 PM she joins The Hebrew Mamita Vanessa Hidary at the JujoMukti
Tea Lounge, located at 211 East 4th Street, between Avenues A and B. Five
dollars admission buys both a pot of tea and a spot on the roster for anyone
wishing to participate in the open portion of the "unplugged" reading
hosted by David Lawton, poet, actor and musician. Directions: F train to Second
Avenue, 6 to Bleecker, or 14A bus from Union Square along Fourteenth to Third
Street at Avenue A.
Host Lawton described the event where Hoffman and Hidary will read round-robin as “Mixed communities. Different backgrounds. Contrasting styles. Two lovely female poets come together to represent the state of the art with good humor and sex appeal.” Featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, Hidary, herself a native New Yorker, recently published her first book “The Last Kaiser Roll in the Bodega.”
Host Lawton described the event where Hoffman and Hidary will read round-robin as “Mixed communities. Different backgrounds. Contrasting styles. Two lovely female poets come together to represent the state of the art with good humor and sex appeal.” Featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, Hidary, herself a native New Yorker, recently published her first book “The Last Kaiser Roll in the Bodega.”
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| The Hebrew Mamita Vanessa Hidary |
May
13th, the following Sunday, Hoffman goes west, to Greenwich Village where
she joins Michael Graves, author of four poetry collections, the most recent, “In
Fragility,” from Black Buzzard, for his Phoenix Reading Series at Scalinatella,
245 Bleecker Street (west of Carmine), from 4:00 until 6:00 PM. An open reading
follows two additional features to be announced. There is an $8 food/beverage
minimum plus a suggested $3 donation. Take the 1 train to Christopher
Street-Sheridan Square; alternatively the A, B, C, D, E, or F train to West 4th
Street. (212) 255-5353.
Again
in Greenwich Village, Saturday, May 19th, Hoffman will be reading for
the Greek American Writers Reading Series at the Cornelia Street Café, 29
Cornelia Street (off Bleecker). Convening every third Saturday of the month,
for poetry, prose — music, occasionally, and song — from 5:45 until 7:45 PM,
the series, with Dean Kostos — his latest book, “Rivering,” soon to be
published by Spuyten Duyvil Press — as host, has a $7 cover charge, which
includes one free house drink. Co-featuring with Hoffman on the 19th
will be Larissa Shmailo, Tom Fink and Penelope Karageorge.
Roxanne Hoffman worked on Wall Street.
She divides her time now between a “night” job, answering the patient hotline
for a New York home-healthcare provider, and a “day” one, running the literary
press Poets Wear Prada. Her writing has appeared and continues to appear in periodical
publication, widely — “Champagne Shivers,” “Danse Macabre,” “Dark Eye Glances,”
“Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine,” “Hospital Drive,” “House of Horror,” “Lucid
Rhythms,” “Mirror Dance,” “The Pedestal Magazine,” “Scarlet Literary Magazine,”
“SNM Horror Magazine” among many others, and numerous anthologies including “The
Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates”
(Soft Skull Press), “Love after 70” (Wising Up Press), and “It All Changes in
an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure” (Harper
Perennial).
“In
Loving Memory,” by Roxanne Hoffman with illustrations by Edward Odwitt,
paperback: 24 pages, ISBN-10: 1468019074 ISBN-13: 978-1468019070,
list price: $12.00, is now available from Amazon Books, Barnes & Noble, and
other booksellers. Signed copies may be purchased directly from the author at readings.
Founded
in 2006, Poets Wear Prada publishes beautifully designed, well-crafted poetry
chapbooks from Sinatra’s hometown, the birthplace of professional baseball.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Poets Wear Prada Announces Six Nominations for Pushcart Prize
Small New Jersey Literary Press Picks Six for Shot at Annual Pushcart Prize
Recognizing Best of 2011 by Small Presses
Hoboken publisher Poets Wear Prada announced its six nominees for the Pushcart Prize, recognizing the best of 2011 published by Small Presses: Chocolate Waters, Davidson Garrett, Dean Kostos, Melinda Goodman, Dorothy Friedman and John Marcus Powell.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Roxanne Hoffman
201.253.0561
Hoboken, NJ (Dec 05, 2011) - Poets Wear Prada, a small literary press based in Hoboken, NJ, announced today its six nominations for the 36th Annual Pushcart Prize, the coveted award signaling the best work published by small presses the previous year. Nominations for the Pushcart Prize are made by little magazine (print and online) and small book press editors. Editors can nominate poems, short stories, essays, chapters from novels, or “literary whatnots” -- up to six selections -- by the postmark deadline of December 1. Translations, reprints, and both traditional and experimental writing are welcomed. Bill Henderson with the editors of the Pushcart Press select from the nominations for inclusion in an annual anthology printed and distributed with W.W. Norton since 1976.
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| Pushcart Prize XXXVI Best of the Small Presses |
From “Pears, Prose & Poetry,” four additional selections were nominated: “At the Barber’s” by Dean Kostos, “Just How Crazy Brenda Is” by Melinda Goodman, “Magic Bistro” by Dorothy Friedman August, and “St. Vincent’s” by John Marcus Powell. “At the Barber’s” first appeared in "OCHO 22," edited by Miguel Murphy, MiPOesias, 2009. “Just How Crazy Brenda Is” was previously published in "Middle Sister" by Melinda Goodman, MSG Press, 1987, and "Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time: An Anthology," edited by Carl Morse and Joan Larkin, St. Martin’s Press, 1988.
“This year’s selection process was particularly challenging,” said publisher Roxanne Hoffman, “as all of the 19 poems included in ‘Pears, Prose & Poetry,’ selected from the over fifty solicited submissions by some of the best local poets in the GLBT community, are ‘winners,’ all deserving recognition.”
Poets Wear Prada, a small literary press based in Hoboken, New Jersey, was founded in October, 2006, to develop and promote new and established writers of narrative and lyrical poetry. Poets previously nominated by the press include Iris Berman, Carol Wierzbicki, Michael Montlack, Susan Maurer, Erik La Prade, Gil Fagiani, Bob Heman, Maria Lisella and Laura Vookles. Poets Wear Prada blogs at http://pwpbooks.blogspot.com/. Titles are available at Amazon.com, BN.com, and CreateSpace.com, as well as directly from the publisher.
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Poets Wear Prada is a small literary press based in Hoboken, New Jersey, devoted to introducing new authors through high-quality chapbooks primarily of poetry, since October 2006. Please visit us at: http://pwpbooks.blogspot.com/. "Have you had your poetry today?"
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