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4 Poems in July Issue of Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine Out Now

Four of my poems, "Once Bitten," "This Kiss," "Just a Little Bit of Hocus Pocus," and "Letting Him Go," appear in the July Issue of Dark Gothic Resurrected out now.  The issue is available in both print and e-book (pdf download) formats from LULU.com, fairly priced at $10 and $5 respectively. To order your copy visit http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/dark-gothic-resurrected-magazine--summer-2010/11609560 . For more information about the magazine and their submission policy, please visit: ...

June 28: Goth Night with Gordon Gilbert 6-8pm at Yippie Cafe, NYC

GOTH NIGHT THIS EVENING WITH GORDON GILBERT & MORE!
Monday June 28, 2010 6:30PM-8PM @ Yippie Museum Cafe, 9 Bleecker Street, between Bowery & Elizabeth Streets,  An Evening of Vampire Poetry & Performance featuring Big Mike, Mike Fiorito, Nicholas Fofonoff, Robert Gibbons, Gordon Gilbert, Viviana Grell, Roxanne Hoffman, Evie Ivy, Orion 0.62, Puma Perl, Minnie Petruzzi, and Tom White.Hosted by Gordon Gilbert.  No Cover.  Please purchase a beverage to help support the venue.

VGP Chapbook Anthology: America Remembered Now Available

Reposted from Virgogray Press:
VGP Chapbook Anthology: America Remembered

Thanks to everyone who sent their work in for the America Remembers Anthology. We are very pleased to release this anthology as it has been a goal in our mind's eye for sometime and we extended deadlines for this project and prompted with calls for submissions. The poets responded and the time has come. We are proud to release a publication on the topic of our nation, the United States of America. This fine menagerie of w...

VGP Chapbook Anthology: America Remembered Due Out June 22

Sharing some good news! I just found out from Michael Aaron Casares, Editor/Publisher of Virgogray Press that my poem "The Wright Brother" will be included in a new VGP chapbook anthology AMERICA REMEMBERED, due out June 22, 2010.  Michael describes the poem as  "a quaint expression of American history" and thought it would "work nicely in the text."

The poem was inspired by Wilbur Wright's letter to Octave Chanute, dated May 13, 1900. "For some years I have been afflicted with the belief tha...

New Review of Maja Trochimczyk's CHOPIN WITH CHERRIES Posted

Some news from Maja Trochimczyk, Editor of Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse : Alison Ross just posted her review of the anthology on Clockwise Cat . Follow the link to read her review: http://clockwisecat.blogspot.com/2010/05/cherry-fully-chopin-book-review-by.html 
The first official review of Chopin with Cherries appeared the Spring 2010 issue of The Cosmopolitan Review , a Canadian journal:
http://cosmopolitanreview.com/articles/56-2010-spring-vol-2-no1/204-chopin-with-cherries-review. ...

Response to Shakespeare's Sonnet 115 on David Morneau's 5 OF 4 MUSIC

MANY HAVE ASKED...
A Response to Shakespeare's Sonnet 115
by Roxanne Hoffman

My response to Shakespeare's Sonnet 115, "Many Have Asked How We Stay Together" is now up on David Morneau's 5 OF 4 MUSIC website (http://www.5of4.com/love_songs/poets.html).  Last August, David contacted me, after getting my name from fellow writer Susan Maurer, to participate in his "Love Songs" project.  A composer,  he is creating a set of songs based on Shakespeare's Sonnets. Each song is actually a pair of poems: ...

3 Poems to Appear in DARK EYE GLANCES, New Canandian Horror Journal

After a flurry of rejections, I just received notice of publication with contract from Dark Eye Glances , a new Canadian horror journal. 3 of my horror pieces, "I Scream at Dawn's Break," "Dare I," and "Persephone's Dream" have been accepted for the premiere issue and will be considered for the 2010 annual anthology. The editor, Garth Von Buchholz,  thanked me for my submission and actually complimented my writing! I'm especially, delighted since one of the poems is "Persephone's Dream," edite...

WHITE RABBIT Compilation Party Sunday May 29 at Westbeth NYC

Ms. Dorothy Friedman August is hosting the White Rabbit Issue 5 Compilation Party. Issue 5 is a celebration of spring and regeneration.

Saturday, May 29
@
WESTBETH COMMUNITY ROOM
57 Bethune St
New York, NY 10014
http://www.westbeth.org

Location:
57 Bethune Street mid block b/w Washington and West Sts, then up steps to inner courtyard.

Or 155 Bank St b/w Washington and West Sts, enter outer courtyard and up ramp to inner courtyard.

Directions:
Take A, C, E, or L trains to 14th Street and 8th Avenue...