misterjim and the All Collegiate Slam!

2007 AWP ANNUAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Saturday: March 3rd, 2007

Hilton Atlanta
Henry Wing
2nd Floor
Room S170.

All Collegiate Poetry Slam. All Collegiate Poetry Slam sponsored by Wilkes University and Etruscan Press. Event is open to all undergraduate and graduate students attending the conference. Participation is limited to twenty-five poets. Sign-up at the Wilkes University low residency MA in Creative Writing/Etruscan Press table in the book Fair. Prizes, judges, and organization of the event all handled by Wilkes University Asst. Program Director and poet—James Warner.

For more info about the conference click here.

for Roy Buchanan

roy buchanan on paralell Earth 2

shoelaces are the last vote
of confidence. Taken

away, they confim all your doubts;

this is fine. You are still
alive and the blues you will

learn sleeping off the Wild Turkey
doesn't even take your Telecaster

out
of
tune.

Christine Gelineau Reading

Third Friday Open Mic

Wordpainting
156 S. Franklin St. 2nd Floor
Wilkes-Barre, PA

Date: Friday, Feb. 16th
Time: 7 p.m.
$5

Arrive early to sign up for the open mic portion of the evening.
Featured Reader: Christine Gelineau

Remorseless Loyalty, Christine's first full-length collection of poetry has just been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry by David St. John. Remorseless Loyalty was the winner of the Richard Snyder Publication Award from Ashland Poetry Press and is new out in 2006. Her new chapbook, In the Greenwood World is expected early in November, 2006, while French Connections an anthology of Franco-American poets, is scheduled for a January 2007 release.

Poetry Out Loud

Congratulations Chellsie Heil! Chellsie bested eight other talent high school students to become the 2007 Northeast Pennsylvania regional winner of Poetry Out Loud. She will go to Harrisburg in March to compete against 11 regional winners to earn the right to represent Pennsylvania at nationals.

Thank you Jennifer Hill Kaucher at Paper Kite Press, IU 19, and PCA for inviting me to judge--I had a blast with my fellow judges.

For more info about Poetry Out Loud,click here.

Back to the Noble

Hello everyone,

I will be returning to host the monthly Barnes and Noble poetry reading on Friday February 9th @ 7pm-ish at the Arena Hub Plaza Barnes and Noble. This will be the first time I have hosted the Barnes Reading in over six monthes. . . come share the love!

Where: Barnes and Noble (Arena Hub Plazza, Wilkes-Barre)
When: Friday Feb. 9th @ 7pm

falling in love @rehab

falling in love at rehab

He had a little boy and a promise.
The ink on her neck told a story
she couldn’t keep to herself.

At night, he would toss and turn on
a bed of empty needles. The hunger

never went away—became cold
sweat with memory rings around

his shirt collar. She was a memory
with a candy necklace—color dissolving

sugar into collarbone and bony fingers.
Tips licked sugar away like denial—the

fire of addiction, two slow glowing
coals at the heart of her icy irises. A

photograph was framed—tattooed arms
held her night against his nicotine

breath. The smoke of smoldering,
shouldering the burden of being in love

with the love that kills. His baby boy
visited with Uncle of Ashes—each long

Kool drag, a crayon-colored letter. The
bluest pills were the ones swallowed

by distant eyes. A kindergarten snap
shot taped to the bathroom mirror. When

they were finally free—the baby, the ink,
and the man—then they could be a family.

She cradled the boy in his mirror, holding
nothing and everything back with the tiniest push.