JANUARY 2011
FEATURED POET: Watch for her book in AUGUST 2012!
Denise Calvetti Michaels: Psychology Professor at Cascadia Community College, Bothell, WA, was awarded the Washington Community College Humanities Association Crosscurrents Prize in 2004 for poetry and in 2008 for prose. A Jack Straw Writers Program 2010 participant, her poems focus on exile and sites of transformation. Recent poems are published in Clamor, San Diego City Works Press, and Paterson Literary Review with new work forthcoming in Floating Bridge Review #4. Anthologies where her work appears include: "Against Forgetting, (Kent State University Press, 2009);"In Praise of Farmland," (Whit Press 2003); and "between sleeps, the 3:15 experiment 1993-2005," (en theos press, 2006). "Polenta," a memoir about growing up as the writer in her Italian American family is included in The Milk of Almonds, Italian American Woman on Food and Culture, (Feminist Press, 2002). RETURNING FROM ITALY
Clearing customs—
first English in a month
—do you have anything to declare?
red earth
piece of red rock earth
garlic clove
chestnut from ancestor village
-Denise Calvetti Michaels
TURNU da L’ITALIA
Passu entrada—
Prim Englese in un mes
—Ha qualche cosa da mustrami?
Tera russa
Un tok tera roca russa
Un tok lye
Castagne dal me paes
-Signora Calvetti
WRITE YOUR POEM
Balance over power. Timing over speed. Do you sit upside down on the couch at times? Catch fish on the Colorado River? What do you do to see the edge? Unplug from the world. William Carlos Williams gave us imagism all between shifts as a doctor. He definitely wrote in the edges. What do you do to get to the poem? Where's the edge? Write to someone. Write your poem.
ARTISTS
Make sure to visit Mike Hiler's "Fired Clay"
Check out Kate Cartwright at www.katecartwrightart.com
Check out Rosalind Brenner's art. www.rosalindbrenner.com If you are in the East Hampton's ask about here Bed and Breakfast themed for artists!
Check out John Szabo and his abstract pieces. Great work. Check his site to connect up to his poetry and art.
http://www.westcoastmodernart.com/
Deborah Ann