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01/06/2025

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01/01/2025

You are invited to read Rusty Morrison's January 2025 contribution to our "Chapter One" series:

Rusty Morrison: “Writing into Risk” What it feels like to pay attention to the limitations I live with in my daily life Before I began writing my most recently published book, RISK, I was struggling with limitations, which I felt were mostly caused by forces beyond my control: bouts of difficult...

12/16/2024

We regret to share that beloved poet Madeline Tiger died on December 6, a few weeks after her 90th birthday. Our condolences to her family and friends.

12/05/2024

Marsh Hawk Press is pleased to announce that our next annual Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize will be judged by Elaine Equi.

The 2025 MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE CONTEST JUDGE: ELAINE EQUI   Elaine Equi is the author of many books of poetry including Voice-Over, which was chosen by Thom Gunn for the San Francisco State Poetry Award; Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems, which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Bo...

12/05/2024

You are invited to read Xiaoqiu Qiu's contribution to our "Chapter One" series. Xiaoqiu Qiu is a poet from Tongxiang, China whose poetry collection _Other Side of Ocean_ won the 2024 Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize.

Xiaoqiu Qiu: “The Little Dying” When my grandfather on my father’s side passed away in 2018, I had just arrived in the US for my second stint of grad school. I learned about their passing from a text message from my mom on the other side of the Pacific. I was driving through the desert with my...

12/05/2024

We’re happy to share Havana, 1939, a captivating new short story by the incredible David Lehman, now available on Tablet Magazine.

Learn more about David Lehman’s work and his journey as a writer by visiting Marsh Hawk Press and Chapter One! Don’t miss out on this must-read for fans of literary fiction and history.

Read more: marshhawkpress.org

12/05/2024

You are invited to read David Lehman's fiction piece, "Havana, 1939" in Tablet Magazine:

Tablet original fiction by David Lehman

12/05/2024

Our distributor IPG Books is offering a 30% discounted special on the three most recent books from Marsh Hawk’s critically acclaimed “Chapter One: On Becoming A Poet” series. You can go to this link—use the code “MarshhawkHoliday2024”—for ordering: https://www.ipgbook.com/marsh-hawk-press-publisher-MHW.php

11/26/2024

TC Marshall reviews Eileen R. Tabios' literary autobiography THE INVENTOR in the new issue of The Halo Halo Review. Here are excerpts:

"THE INVENTOR: A Poet's Transcolonial Autobiography is not just about one person who invented things. It is about several inventions in poetics brought to us by Eileen R. Tabios. For all that Mary Anderson and her windshield wiper did to improve life on the road, Tabios’ story is larger and involves nearly all of us as it works to transcend and repair the damage done by colonial attitudes and practices. In this book, you hear about poetic inventions, forms and methods and approaches that make for new possibilities in poetry and beyond, about poetry as a purposeful practice and a way of improving life.
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All poetry implies a poetics. Eileen Tabios’ has made this fact a focus without stopping there. The poetics of her poetry has social implications. It is actively anti-colonial, pointedly de-colonizing, and perpetually inventive. It is a good deed, a mitzvah, an action of connection as it makes such mitzvot more possible for more of us. Read THE INVENTOR and try some of its approaches; you’ll get it, and you’ll want to become a “Transcolonial” inventor too. As Tabios says, “through poetry, I wish for no one or nothing to be alien to me” (43); you can get there yourself by employing forms and approaches that let anything arise. As she says at the end, “Dear Reader, my poetry has never been my words, but yours” (99). This book is a seed packet; so read it, and go grow some poetry yourself."

T.C. MARSHALL Reviews The Inventor: A Poet’s Transcolonial Autobiography by Eileen R. Tabios (Marsh Hawk Press, 2023) BOOK LINK TH...

11/16/2024

Eileen Tabios' newest book helps inaugurate a new podcast, "Colors of Influence Book Talks" on Youtube. While the focus is on her novel THE BALIKBAYAN ARTIST, she also addresses what she calls "Kapwa poetics." You are invited to

This episode features Eileen Tabios, author of the novel “The Balikbayan Artist.” The book expands from the classic novel of the Filipino American experience...

11/11/2024

Congratulations to Liane Strauss for receiving a fine review of her contest-winning collection, THE FLAWS IN THE STORY, from Mark Jarman and as published in THE HUDSON REVIEW, Autumn 2024. Here's an excerpt of the review:

"There is from line to line a sense of erasure, a lack of linkage, which can produce aphorism. In the case of “Forsan et Haec Olim Meminisse Iuvabit,” a passage of the Aeneid which has been translated various ways, the poet adds her translation in a note, “A joy it will be one day, perhaps, to remember even this.” Strauss attributes this version to Robert Fagles, in explanation of a line that had given him trouble as a translator. In Rolfe Humphries’ translation of the Aeneid, that line, from book I, is rendered, “Some day, perhaps, remembering even this / Will be a pleasure.
” Aeneas is reminding his shipmates of the perils they have survived before landing near Carthage. Strauss for her part is reminding us of the layers of interpretation that may come between a reader and a text. These surely are the flaws in the story. And it may be such flaws which give rise to Strauss’s aphoristic bent. As she states in the first line of “Sanctuary, ” “I know as soon as I wake up it’s time to start rethinking everything again. ” The occasion is New Year’s Day, but the experience, she implies, occurs every morning. For rethinking we can imagine reweaving. Like Penelope, we remake our stories with all their flaws, daily. Liane Strauss has given us an invaluable book of poetry about reading and finding ourselves in a paradox of being both narrator and narrative of our own lives. “History is lit, history
is vanishing,” she writes punningly in the book’s final poem."

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11/07/2024

You are invited to read Ilya Kaminsky's essay "Reading Dante in Ukraine" in the latest chapter of Marsh Hawk's Chapter One series:

Ilya Kaminsky: “Reading Dante in Ukraine” I have a friend who, before she ran from Kyiv as Russia bombarded the city in early 2022, spent weeks shivering in the bomb shelters as the city was shelled. At first, she first recited poems by heart, and then she began to translate the poems she rememb...

10/01/2024

Jim Natal interviews Forrest Gander in latest "Chapter One" series presentation.

Forrest Gander: “The Questions We Ask Ourselves: An Interview by Jim Natal Jim Natal: You studied geology as an undergrad at William & Mary and you’re still out there exploring the fissures and crevices of the San Andreas Fault. How does Earth Science with its strata, core samples, tectonic plat...

09/19/2024

Eileen R. Tabios is interviewed about her autobiography THE INVENTOR on WLBH Radio's "Listen & Be Heard" program. You can catch it online at this link:
https://listenandbeheard.net/2024/09/19/s2e29/

Information on Eileen's newest Marsh Hawk Book is at https://eileenrtabios.com/prose-collections/the-inventor/

Martha talks with Eileen Tabios, author of The Inventor, A Poet’s Transcolonial Autobiography, and, Professor Jonathan Storm, from USC of the Upstate, co-author of a free Field Guide to the Southern Piedmont. Poetry by Phil Talbot and Anne Marina Pellicciotto. And, we persist in pursuing publicati...

09/18/2024

Managing Editor Sandy McIntosh is noted in Vanity Fair's new article on Donald Trump. The article excerpts from Lucky Loser, Russ Buettner's and Susanne Craig's account of how an adolescent Trump craved undeserved praise and authority at the New York Military Academy. Sandy's version of the story will be published in his forthcoming Marsh Hawk Book, ESCAPE FROM THE FAT FARM.

In an excerpt from their new book 'Lucky Loser,' Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig recount how an adolescent Trump craved undeserved praise and authority at the New York Military Academy, where he mysteriously rose through the ranks despite habitually shirking his duties. “His father was rich,” on...

09/01/2024

You are invited to read Jane Hirshfield's essay in our "Chapter One" series, "Borges's Generosity & Some Thoughts on Doubt."

Jane Hirshfield: “Borges’s Generosity & Some Thoughts on Doubt” Sign Up for Our Free NEWSLETTER for Timely Contest Updates and the Chapter One series.     A writer sometimes needs encouragement. There are, perhaps, writers who are sure of their own greatness. Most walk more often – sometim...

08/01/2024

Congratulations to Tony Trigilio whose CRAFT: A MEMOIR is a finalist for the Big Other Award for NonFiction!
https://bigother.com/2024/08/01/announcing-the-finalists-for-the-2023-big-other-book-award-for-nonfiction/?fbclid=IwY2xjawEYtgJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHV5hb8HntU0QFwwZuZOC_av6aErMji0gqHL9GhGrVrQrpbdb9RVbDKVZ8g_aem_k_f9yNua6QYcBgrG8r2F6g

We’re excited to announce the finalists for the 2023 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction. The winner will be announced at the 2023 Big Other Book Awards Ceremony, which will be aired virtuall…

07/31/2024

We are delighted to announce that Elaine Equi will be the judge for Marsh Hawk Press' 2025 Poetry Prize. You can see more information about her at https://marshhawkpress.org/elaine-equi-2025-marsh-hawk-press-poetry-prize-judge/

More info on the contest, whose deadline is April 2025, is at https://marshhawkpress.org/2025-marsh-hawk-press-poetry-prizes/

The 2025 MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE CONTEST JUDGE: ELAINE EQUI   Elaine Equi is the author of many books of poetry including Voice-Over, which was chosen by Thom Gunn for the San Francisco State Poetry Award; Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems, which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Bo...