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Saint Julian Press Presents an Evening of Poetry and Music
Saint Julian Press presents an evening of music and poetry:
Poet and actress (Chocolat) Hélène Cardona and poet John FitzGerald
read from their new poetry collections Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry, 2013) and The Mind (Salmon Poetry, 2011)
at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1015 Holman Street at Main, Houston, Texas 77004 on October 5, 2013
from 7-9 PM.
Composer and pianist John Hardesty will accompany them.
A book signing will follow the free reading.
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc.
Press release:
http://saintjulianpress.com/press-rel...
Poet and actress (Chocolat) Hélène Cardona and poet John FitzGerald
read from their new poetry collections Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry, 2013) and The Mind (Salmon Poetry, 2011)
at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1015 Holman Street at Main, Houston, Texas 77004 on October 5, 2013
from 7-9 PM.
Composer and pianist John Hardesty will accompany them.
A book signing will follow the free reading.
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc.
Press release:
http://saintjulianpress.com/press-rel...
Nov 11 at 8 PM: MadHat Live Presents Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes
MadHat Live Presents Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes:
Beloved Los Angeles poets HÉLÈNE CARDONA, JOHN FITZGERALD, AMÉLIE FRANK and MARIE LECRIVAIN join Zürich-based poet MARC VINCENZ, visiting North America to celebrate the release of his new book, Mao’s Mole (NeoPoiesis Press). They will be accompanied by the music of GREGORY LENCZYCKI. RICK LUPERT will bravely MC.
Beyond Baroque, The Mike Kelley Gallery
681 Venice Blvd.
Venice, CA
Beloved Los Angeles poets HÉLÈNE CARDONA, JOHN FITZGERALD, AMÉLIE FRANK and MARIE LECRIVAIN join Zürich-based poet MARC VINCENZ, visiting North America to celebrate the release of his new book, Mao’s Mole (NeoPoiesis Press). They will be accompanied by the music of GREGORY LENCZYCKI. RICK LUPERT will bravely MC.
Beyond Baroque, The Mike Kelley Gallery
681 Venice Blvd.
Venice, CA
At PEN American Center with Andrés Neuman and John M Fitzgerald
Snapped by PEN American Center at AWP while getting ready for The Puterbaugh Festival with World Literature Today!
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With
Traveler of the Century by Andrés Neuman, Favorite Bedtime Stories by John M Fitzgerald and my book Dreaming My Animal Selves.
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With
Traveler of the Century by Andrés Neuman, Favorite Bedtime Stories by John M Fitzgerald and my book Dreaming My Animal Selves.
Fantastic review by Amélie Frank of The Mind By John Fitzgerald
Fantastic review by Amélie Frank of The Mind By John Fitzgerald:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
f I were still working with John FitzGerald (in the interest of full disclosure, we worked together at Red Hen Press), I would nudge him and say of his book THE MIND, "Skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th."
My sense of John is that he has been aware of himself for a long time, but not in a solipsistic or narcissistic way at all. He is a keen observer, a consumer of origins, fine distinctions, continua, grand schemes, and minute details. He likely began observing and contemplating information from the moment he experienced the glare of light in the delivery room, and he has never stopped.
Interestingly, while THE MIND is about the remarkable way John thinks, it speaks to the larger questions of how we all think, how we came to be sapient in the first place, and how we develop as thinking souls in space and time. Keeping the language of his prose-like tercets basic, unadorned, and free-flowing, he accomplishes poetry of significance and elemental beauty. Left brain contemplation of structure and systems aligns itself with right brain wonder and whimsy, but neither hemisphere dominates in the work, so the reader can only expect the unexpected. And the rewards are great: poems of curiosity, orientation with the universe, sorrow, finding center, and surprising hilarity. (Only John can make the idea of rocks funny.)
If I were teaching from John's book, I would encourage poetry students to examine his masterful skill with personification. I would encourage philosophy students to wrestle with his experiences of phenomena. I would ask psychology and neuro-biology candidates to experience the brain from inside-out. I would ask physics students to explore how we process space and time in an era when such concepts are continually challenged and updated. I would ask divinity students to consider creation from the point of view of the created. THE MIND weighs so many approaches to thinking and being that you won't devour it in one or two sittings. Read it as you would the Book of Genesis, or Hawking, or an introduction to meditation. You will not think the same way ever again after reading it.
Amélie Frank
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
f I were still working with John FitzGerald (in the interest of full disclosure, we worked together at Red Hen Press), I would nudge him and say of his book THE MIND, "Skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th."
My sense of John is that he has been aware of himself for a long time, but not in a solipsistic or narcissistic way at all. He is a keen observer, a consumer of origins, fine distinctions, continua, grand schemes, and minute details. He likely began observing and contemplating information from the moment he experienced the glare of light in the delivery room, and he has never stopped.
Interestingly, while THE MIND is about the remarkable way John thinks, it speaks to the larger questions of how we all think, how we came to be sapient in the first place, and how we develop as thinking souls in space and time. Keeping the language of his prose-like tercets basic, unadorned, and free-flowing, he accomplishes poetry of significance and elemental beauty. Left brain contemplation of structure and systems aligns itself with right brain wonder and whimsy, but neither hemisphere dominates in the work, so the reader can only expect the unexpected. And the rewards are great: poems of curiosity, orientation with the universe, sorrow, finding center, and surprising hilarity. (Only John can make the idea of rocks funny.)
If I were teaching from John's book, I would encourage poetry students to examine his masterful skill with personification. I would encourage philosophy students to wrestle with his experiences of phenomena. I would ask psychology and neuro-biology candidates to experience the brain from inside-out. I would ask physics students to explore how we process space and time in an era when such concepts are continually challenged and updated. I would ask divinity students to consider creation from the point of view of the created. THE MIND weighs so many approaches to thinking and being that you won't devour it in one or two sittings. Read it as you would the Book of Genesis, or Hawking, or an introduction to meditation. You will not think the same way ever again after reading it.
Amélie Frank
Poetry & Art this Saturday Sept 13, 6:30 to 8 PM at Building Bridges Art Foundation, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Poetry & Art Saturday Sept 13
With great pleasure we invite you to join us this Saturday from 6:30 to 8 PM
at Building Bridges Art Foundation
2525 Michigan Ave Suite F2, Santa Monica, California 90404
for a Poetry reading featuring Laurel Ann Bogen, Jacqueline Tchakalian, Hélène Cardona, and John Fitzgerald
See more at: http://redhen.org/events/rhp- at-building-bridges/
Join us & Red Hen Press for a special collaboration of poetry and contemporary art at the Bergamot Station Arts Center. Established in 2005, Building Bridges Art Exchange is dedicated to the promotion of national and international contemporary artists, providing a variety of international art exchanges, artist residencies and workshop programs.
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With great pleasure we invite you to join us this Saturday from 6:30 to 8 PM
at Building Bridges Art Foundation2525 Michigan Ave Suite F2, Santa Monica, California 90404
for a Poetry reading featuring Laurel Ann Bogen, Jacqueline Tchakalian, Hélène Cardona, and John Fitzgerald
See more at: http://redhen.org/events/rhp- at-building-bridges/
Join us & Red Hen Press for a special collaboration of poetry and contemporary art at the Bergamot Station Arts Center. Established in 2005, Building Bridges Art Exchange is dedicated to the promotion of national and international contemporary artists, providing a variety of international art exchanges, artist residencies and workshop programs.
http://redhen.org/events/rhp-at-build...
http://redhen.org
http://www.imdb.me/ helenecardona
http://www.helenecardona.com
An Enchanted Reading of Poetry and Translations!
You're invited to join Martha Rhodes, Hélène Cardona, John FitzGerald, Carolyn Tipton, Stephen Kessler at Beyond Baroque for An Enchanted Reading of Poetry & Translations!
Saturday January 20th @ 8PM at Beyond Baroque
beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Martha Rhodes, Carolyn Tipton, Stephen Kessler, John FitzGerald and Hélène Cardona will read from recents works.
Please join us with Richard Modiano at Beyond Baroque.
Martha Rhodes is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Thin Wall (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is the director of
Four Way Books and lives in New York City.
John FitzGerald’s most recent books are Favorite Bedtime Stories and The Mind, both from Salmon Poetry. Other works include Primate and The Essence of Life.
Hélène Cardona’s 7 books include Life in Suspension, the translations of Dorianne Laux’s What We Carry, Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings, Birnam Wood, and Hemingway Grant winner Beyond Elsewhere. Acting credits include Chocolat, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Hundred-Foot Journey, For Serendipity.
Carolyn L. Tipton teaches at U.C. Berkeley. She has won fellowships from both the N.E.H. and the N.E.A. Her first book, To Painting: Poems by Rafael Alberti, won the National Translation Award. Her new book of translated poems by Alberti, Returnings: Poems of Love and Distance, won the Cliff Becker Translation Prize.
Stephen Kessler's translations of Luis Cernuda have received a Lambda Literary Award, the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, and the PEN Center USA translation award.
Regular admission. Members FREE
Saturday January 20th @ 8PM at Beyond Baroque
beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Martha Rhodes, Carolyn Tipton, Stephen Kessler, John FitzGerald and Hélène Cardona will read from recents works.
Please join us with Richard Modiano at Beyond Baroque.
Martha Rhodes is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Thin Wall (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is the director of
Four Way Books and lives in New York City.John FitzGerald’s most recent books are Favorite Bedtime Stories and The Mind, both from Salmon Poetry. Other works include Primate and The Essence of Life.
Hélène Cardona’s 7 books include Life in Suspension, the translations of Dorianne Laux’s What We Carry, Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings, Birnam Wood, and Hemingway Grant winner Beyond Elsewhere. Acting credits include Chocolat, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Hundred-Foot Journey, For Serendipity.
Carolyn L. Tipton teaches at U.C. Berkeley. She has won fellowships from both the N.E.H. and the N.E.A. Her first book, To Painting: Poems by Rafael Alberti, won the National Translation Award. Her new book of translated poems by Alberti, Returnings: Poems of Love and Distance, won the Cliff Becker Translation Prize.
Stephen Kessler's translations of Luis Cernuda have received a Lambda Literary Award, the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, and the PEN Center USA translation award.
Regular admission. Members FREE
