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Since June 2005 the River Junction Poets have hosted free Poets Birthday Readings at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Saginaw Michigan to read and discuss life, poetry and the pursuit of happiness. We plan our events around the birthdays of poets; the bookstore mentions our events in its monthly in-store Newsletter. When we send a birthday card to the poet we celebrate, we include the Newsletter that mentions the event. We've received Thank You notes from several of these poets.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Ekleksographia -- Guest edited by Amy King

"The Burden of Happiness" by Orna Ben-Shoshan
"The Burden of Happiness" by Orna Ben-Shoshan
Ekleksographia #2
Diana Adams
 Cynthia Arrieu-King with Hillary Gravendyk
Anny Ballardini
 Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Dan Boehl
 Alexander Dickow
Linh Dinh
 Tomas Ekström
Erica Miriam Fabri
 Farrah Field
Adam Fieled
 Annie Finch
Ossian Foley
 Jennifer H. Fortin
Maya Funaro
 Heather Green
Niels Hav, trans. by P. K. Brask & Patrick Friesen Scott Hightower
Dan Hoy
 Dorta Jagić, trans. by Ana Božičević
Amy King
 Tony Mancus
Nicholas Manning
 Miguel Murphy
Gina Myers
 Keith Newton
Obododimma Oha
 Daniela Olszewska
Maya Pindyck
 Matthew Rotando
Tomaž Šalamun, trans. with Michael Thomas Taren Barry Schwabsky
Evie Shockley
 Lytton Smith
Sampson Starkweather
 Rohith Sundararaman
Chris Vitiello
 David Wolach


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  • by Alexander Dickow:
    • Catherine Daly's Chanteuse/Cantatrice (Factory School, 2007)
    • Sampson Starkweather's City of Moths (Boston: Rope-a-dope Press, 2008)
  • by Adam Fieled:
    • Brooklyn Copeland's Borrowed House: 15 Poems (Greying Ghost Press, 2009)
    • David Prater's Morgenland (Vagabond Press, 2007)

Thanks, Matt, for your kind words!



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Violetwrites said...

I love this post, especially the art. So cool Amy

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