Hanging Loose News

Interview with Mark Pawlak and Dick Lourie

There's an interview with HL editors Mark Pawlak and Dick Lourie in Breakwater Review http://www.breakwaterreview.com/6/hanging-loose/

Joan Larkin Wins Academy Fellowship!

Joan Larkin receives Academy Fellowship 2011! Congratulations Joan! We are thrilled for you! http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/22558

Readings of Sherman Alexie's Poems

David Harris will read and discuss selections from The Summer of Black Widows by Sherman Alexie during the live broadcast of Difficult Listening:the Poetry Show on Sunday, January22, 2012 from 10:00 til noon Central time. The program can be heard on 107.1 LPFM in the Nashville area, and via the website www.radiofreenashville.org. Live video (and an archive) of the second hour, which includes poetry segments, should be accessible at http://tinyurl.com/24adsp9. or http://www.ustream.tv/discovery/recorded/all?broadcast=4654694

Readings of Cirelli Poems

David Harris will read and discuss selections from Vacations on the Black Star Line by Michael Cirelli during the live broadcast of Difficult Listening:the Poetry Show on Sunday, March 18, 2012 from 10:00 til noon Central time. The program can be heard on 107.1 LPFM in the Nashville area, and via the website www.radiofreenashville.org. Live video (and an archive) of the second hour, which includes poetry segments, should be accessible at http://tinyurl.com/24adsp9. or http://www.ustream.tv/discovery/recorded/all?broadcast=4654694

Reading of Dialect of a Skirt

David Harris will read and discuss selections from Dialect of a Skirt by Erica Miriam Fabri during the live broadcast of Difficult Listening:the Poetry Show on Sunday, April 29 , 2012 from 10:00 til noon Central time. The program can be heard on 107.1 LPFM in the Nashville area, and via the website www.radiofreenashville.org. Live video (and an archive) of the second hour, which includes poetry segments, should be accessible at http://tinyurl.com/24adsp9. or http://www.ustream.tv/discovery/recorded/all?broadcast=4654694

Mark Pawlak Publication

Here is the link for an excerpt from Mark Pawlak's Denise Levertov memoir-in-progress that just appeared in the Istanbul Literary Review.

http://www.ilrmagazine.net/dsound/issue20_ds2.php

Great News for Chuck Wachtel

3/03 by Chuck Wachtel was nominated for and won the Media Ecology Association's 2011 Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work. Congratulations, Chuck!

Paul Violi Memorial Reading at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's

Memorial Reading for Paul Violi
June 13, 2011
7:00 pm
Monday

Please join us as we remember the life and work of Paul Violi. Paul wrote eleven books of poetry, including Overnight, Fracas, The Curious Builder, and Likewise, from Hanging Loose Press, and a selection of his longer poems, Breakers, from Coffee House Press. He taught in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and in the graduate writing program at New School University. Violi was an interim Artistic Director for The Poetry Project and a frequent featured reader and contributor the the Newsletter. With Tony Towle, Charles North, Eileen Myles, Bob Hershon, Donna Brook, David Lehman, David Shapiro, Michael Quattrone, Karen Koch, George Green, Reagan Upshaw, Ed Friedman, Amy Lawless, Allison Power, Andrew McCarron, Bill Zavatsky & Mark Statman. FREE

Paul Violi's Obituary in The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/books/paul-violi-poet-dies-at-66.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=paul%20violi&st=cse

Joan Larkin Wins The Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award!

We are so thrilled and proud of our author Joan Larkin who is the co-recipient of the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award. Rigoberto Gonzalez and Joan are sharing this year's award, just announced on their website at http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/frost_and_shelley/shelley_winners/

The awards ceremony is on Tuesday, April 19, at 7:00 p.m. at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South. Charles Simic will be presented with the Frost Medal, and winners of other PSA awards will be announced. Admission is free, if you like ceremonies....

A Note from David Lehman about the Paul Violi Prize

On behalf of Robert Polito, I write to announce that the New School Writing Program is establishing a Paul Violi Poetry Prize to be awarded annually to a poetry student in our program. Details -- who will judge, what criteria will be used etc -- will be worked out soon. This project has the blessing of Ann Violi, Paul's widow.

To fund the prize, we encourage people to contribute what they can. This is what donors need to do:

-- Make out checks to "New School Writing Program," with the words "in honor of Paul Violi" in the memo line

-- Checks should be sent to Office of Development, The New School, 79 Fifth Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10003, attention Mr. Francisco Tezén, Senior Director.

-- Contributors may wish to enclose a letter of intent, an example of which is attached. (The attachment also includes these instructions for donors.)

-- If donors prefer to make a gift by credit card, The New School has a credit card form (which can be found on the university's Web site http://www.newschool.edu/giving/ under "Ways of Giving"). There is a space to indicate a specific "Allocation of Gift."

Paul loved teaching at the New School. "Simply walking in the door made me a happy man," he said more than once.

Please spread the word. Thank you.

David