MFA school year about to begin

I'll be in two classes this term at Southern: a seminar on James Joyce and a workshop on poetry with Vivian Shipley. It's going to be a lot of work! But I am looking forward to it.

Southern's MFA web site is at http://www.southernct.edu/creativewriting/

The Working Group in Contemporary Poetry (WGCP) is meeting again at Yale. The first meetings are on Pierre Alferi's book _Oxo_.

Pierre Alferi: Oxo (Translated by Cole Swensen; Burning Deck, Providence, R.I., 2005; paperback, 60pp, $10; isbn 1886224668)

The first meeting is Sept. 10.


The WGCP Web page is http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/working-group-in-contemporary-poetry/

2010 The John Holmes Award

I won the 2010 The John Holmes Award of the New England Poetry Club. That's cool. There was a bit of a mix up and I never got a letter from them. I had even forgotten that I had sent in 5 poems for the contest in May. So I missed the awards reading in June in Cambridge at the Longfellow House. I would have loved to done that reading.

The NEPC is online at http://www.nepoetryclub.org/ and the announcement of the award is at http://www.nepoetryclub.org/contests2010.htm#students

They listed my college as "North Haven College." That's pretty funny. I live in North Haven, but I'm in the MFA program at Southern Connecticut State University. I'll get them to correct that soon. I haven't heard from them, yet. I'm working on that. I don't even know which of the poems I sent won the award. More on this later.

Some independent bookstores

COLORADO
Tattered Cover Book Store - 1628 16th St - (303) 436-1070
http://www.tatteredcover.com/

CONNECTICUT
Labyrinth Books - 290 York St. - (203) 787-2848
http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/

R.J. Julia Booksellers - 768 Boston Post Rd
http://www.rjjulia.com/

IOWA
Prairie Lights Bookstore - 15 S. Dubuque St. - (319) 337-2861
http://www.prairielights.com/

MASSACHUSETTS
Provincetown Bookshop - 246 Commercial St.

MICHIGAN
McLean & Eakin Booksellers - 307 E. Lake St.
http://www.mcleanandeakin.com/

VERMONT
The Vermont Book Shop - 38 Main St. - (802) 388-2061
http://vermontbookshop.indiebound.com/

2010 Leo Connellan Prize

I won the 2010 Leo Connellan Prize for the poem "The Catfish." Wow. I can't believe it.