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Happy New Year! The Newsletter will resume in February!
The 2008 Červená Barva Press Ebook Contest Winner: Secrets by Jessica Harman
Jessica Harman has recently published poems in "Rosebud" and "The Bellevue Literary Review." Her poems are forthcoming
in "Spillway," "Karamu," and "The South Carolina Review." An essay on poetic language (as having its source in both fire
and water) was published in "The Iconoclast." Currently she is a freelance writer and visual artist. She has also worked
as a researcher at Harvard Medical School, a video store clerk, and a contributing editor for "Matrix" magazine. Currently
she is working on an essay about mirrors in poetry. She believes, like Jack Kerouac, that one should "Scribble secret
notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr. own joy." She lives in the Boston area.
Announcing: Sarasota VII by Lo Galluccio
Reading Sarasota VII is like watching, no staging, a play that happens to be
written in poetry. By playing with structure, Galluccio has done
something akin to Calvino where the structure itself is a character and a part
of the plot, and you're right in the thick of it. You need to read it.
Ralph-Michael Chiaia, poet, Ten Poems & Ampersands, Coatlism Press.
Passionate, poignant and concise, Lo Galluccio's Sarasota VII presents us with a
story of loss and raw delinquent energy, woven into a great surreal web of
metaphors and magic. Crafted with care and lucid honesty, this poetic prose offers
its readers an intense vision of real and imaginary journeys across universal and
interior landscapes. "We write as if it matters, so it does. We love as if it matters,
so it does," declares the author.
Flavia Cosma, poet of Gothic Calligraphy and Season of Love
As in the heavens, there is much beauty and much destruction, where even light
cannot escape black holes, and "nothing's pure and nothing's stable." Galluccio
takes the reader on a journey from a hotel room in Florida into the expansive
cosmos of the soul, revealing a woman caught up between passion and intellect,
raging to be free while seeking to merge; loving, losing, dominating and
submitting in her evolution to reconnect and be whole.
Karen Bowles, Publisher Luciole Press
So this is what Anne Boleyn whispered to the men who took her head—both her husband and her
executioner—so this is what the henchman replied; for nowhere has sinner and saint been so
exquisitely linked than in Lo Galluccio’s Sarasota VII. As the curtain parts, it is not
polar opposites that are revealed but a single conjoined child. Traversing Sarasota VII (it
has less in common with reading, more so the navigation to heaven or the surrender into hell)
is like giving definition to the word ‘passion.’ This is how to say profoundly simple words
with often incomprehensible meanings: Love. Desire. Hate. Birth. Destruction. And who
hasn’t attempted this— to grasp the single rose in the pit of thorns. And who hasn’t, on
occasion, failed and been banished? But Lo’s beautiful, prophetic prose lulls us, even as we
burn, and she tells us to “Fossilize the monster” and “Tend our rings like vain kings.” She
is right. We must. For something so terrifyingly beautiful should, forever, be.
Coleen T. Houlihan
$12.00 | 57 Pages | ISBN 978-0-615-26369-4 | In Stock
Announcing: Zero Boundaries by Irene Koronas
Irene Koronas has a fine arts degree from Mass College of Art Boston. She is a multi media artist working with paint,
collage, mono-printing, artists books and poetry. She is currently the poetry editor for Wilderness House Literary Review
and is the submissions editor for Ibbetson Street Press. Her poetry has appeared in lummox journal, free verse journal,
posey magazine and on line zines such as arcanam café, spearhead, index poetry, unblog, haiku hut
and lynx. She has seven chap-books: 'work among friends,' 'where words drip,' 'perception, tongue on everyday,'
'species,' 'flat house' and 'to speak the meaning of being.' Her most recent book 'self portrait drawn from many'
is published by ibbettson street press. Her poems also appear in anthologies.
$7.00 | 41 Pages | In Stock
Announcing: Flowering Weeds by Robert K. Johnson
Robert K. Johnson was born in New York City and later lived on Long Island. He obtained a B.A. from Hofstra College
(now University); and earned graduate degrees from Cornell University and Denver University. Now retired, he was a university
professor of English, mostly at Suffolk University in Boston, for many years. He is currently submissions editor of Ibbetson Street.
Many of his poems have appeared individually in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers. Five full-length collections of
his poetry, the most recent being From Mist To Shadow, have been published, plus two chapbooks.
$7.00 | 37 Pages | In Stock
Announcing: On The Platform A play by Denis Emorine, Translated by Brian Cole
Cover Art: L' Echo oculaire by Farah Willem Dahri
On the Platform, by Denis Emorine, takes us to a crowded platform where impatient travelers wait for a train from Paris.
We are introduced to a character named Laure. She is waiting for her fiancé Julien to arrive. Is it chance or fate that
Laure meets a man named Marek? What transpires is an encounter we may all one day face. How extraordinary that in this
crowded landscape, Laure realizes her destiny and his are intertwined.
Denis Emorine perfectly captures the torment of Marek and the innocence of Laure, imparting to us a vivid picture of his
tortured soul and her radiant spirit. But, as the whims of Fate are unavoidable, Laure's life takes a profound turn…
-Gloria Mindock, Červená Barva Press
$14.00 | 42 Pages | ISBN: 978-0-615-25983-3 | In Stock
Announcing: From Tehran To Texas by Roger Sedarat
Roger Sedarat's poetry collection, Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, won Ohio University Press's Hollis
Summers Award. His poems have also appeared in such journals as New England Review, Poet Lore, and Iranian.com. He is
the recipient of scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference as well as a St. Botolph Society poetry grant. He
teaches poetry and translation in the MFA program at Queens College, City University of New York.
$7.00 | 38 Pages | In Stock
Announcing: Investigations: The Mystery Of The Girl Sleuth by Kathleen Aguero
Kathleen Aguero's books of poetry include, Daughter Of (Cedar Hill Books), The Real Weather (Hanging Loose Press), and
Thirsty Day (Alice James Books). She has edited three volumes of multicultural literature published by the Univiersity of
Georgia Press and has an essay in the anthology, Why I'm Still Married. The recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Council
on the Arts and the Elgin Cox Foundation, she is a Professor of English at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, MA, teaching in
their low-residency MFA and undergraduate programs.
Review:
Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth
Investigations is a celebration of Nancy Drew novels (50 years) during the late 1950’s. she led a way for young women who wanted
more than what they, may of perceived, as domestic boredom. Nancy did not have the proverbial mother to relate too. she also had an
absentee father, a lawyer. this left the young investigator on her won to rife out her suspicions. unlike superman who needed
superpowers to accomplish his task of riding the world of evil doers, Nancy worked closely with her friends for what seemed a
more human story.
“I understand, the mysteries of the scoured pot,
clogged toilet, tolling dinner bell,
hold no appeal. but chances are you’re not
going to marry Carson Drew,
conveniently absent when the action starts,
never demanding you halt mid-case to listen
to his tale of triumph at the office…”
Nancy Drew’s tale has been placed into the capable hands or words of Kathleen Aguero. Aguero translates, reinvents and looks
for clues that relate to her present situations as in, ‘the case of the suicidal friend,’ “you didn’t leave a note, just your
own body on the stairs.” and again in ‘jewel box,’ which I had the privilege of hearing the poet read Aguero shows us her
mother’s delusional clarity, her mother’s love, the perception of honesty in leaving, of placing value in memory, connecting,
collecting personal items, identifying their significance, “we have to do this now…” her poems are full of references, clues;
the password:
“she was clever.
she found the wooden gate where they put the garbage out.
she pulled, but it was locked.
she waited, but no one came
so she joined the walkers, round and round the halls
out one door, in the other…
this is a clear case. this chapbook will leave you wanting more
of Kathleen Aguero’s writing.
Irene Koronas
Poetry Editor
Ibbetson Street Press
www.ibbetsonpress.com
$7.00 | 34 Pages | In Stock
Poetry and Fiction Chapbook Contest
Accepting manuscripts November 1, 2008-January 31, 2009
Manuscripts postmarked after January 31st, will be returned.
No manuscripts will be returned.
For Poetry:
24 pages of poetry.
8 pages will be added automatically to the winning chapbook which will make the total 32 pages.
Include the following:
Title page with contact info
Title page with just the title
SASE for the announcement of the winning chapbook. Size 10 envelope only.
Send no cover letter or bio
Ok if poems have been published in literary journals. Don't include acknowlegements.
e-mail address for receipt of manuscript
Winner announced March 15. 2009
Winner receives 25 copies and $100.00
$11.00 entry fee/check or money order to:
Cervena Barva Press
P.O. Box 440357
W. Somerville, MA 02144-3222
For Fiction:
24 pages of fiction double-spaced.
8 pages will be added automatically to the winning chapbook.
Title page with contact info
Title page with just the title
Ok if fiction has been published before
Can be one story or more as long as it doesn't go over the 24 page total.
Don't include acknowledgements
Winner announced March 15, 2009
Winner receives 25 copies and $100.00
SASE for the announcement of the winning chapbook. Size 10 envelope only.
Send no cover letter or bio
e-mail address for receipt of manuscript
$12.00 entry fee/check or money order to
Cervena Barva Press
P.O. Box 440357
W. Somerville, MA 02144-3222
Deadline Jan. 31st. Manuscripts past deadline will be returned.
All entrees receive a winning chapbook in the category they entered.
Judge for both: Gloria Mindock
All manuscripts will be judged blind.
My Webmaster will take all contact info out of the envelopes before
giving them to me. I believe in fairness.
I have always received high quality work in the past for the contests.
I look so forward to reading all the work sent to Cervena Barva Press.
Thanks,
Gloria
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Announcing Cloudkeeper Press
So many Authors have queried Červená Barva Press
asking if we would print their chapbooks for a fee, that we have established Cloudkeeper Press to fill this need.
We will work closely with you and make publishing your chapbook a positive experience. We do high quality work.
To visit Cloudkeeper Press just click on the Logo or here!
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ABOUT THE PRESS
ČERVENÁ BARVA PRESS was founded in April of 2005.
The press solicits poetry, fiction, and plays from various writers
around the world, and holds open contests regularly for its chapbooks,
postcards, broadsides and full-length books.
I look for work that has a strong voice, is unique, and that takes risks with language.
Please see submission guidelines for current information.
I encourage queries from Central and Eastern Europe
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Gloria Mindock is editor and publisher of Červená Barva Press. In 2007, she took over as editor of the
Istanbul Literature Review, an online journal based in Turkey.
She is the author of two chapbooks, Doppelganger (S. Press), Oh Angel (U Šoku Štampa) and is the author of two books,
Blood Soaked Dresses (Ibbetson St. Press, 2007) and Nothing Divine Here (U Šoku Štampa) which is forthcoming in 2008.
Gloria has been published in numerous journals including River Styx,
Phoebe, Poet Lore, Blackbox, Ibbetson St., WHLR, Poesia, Arabesques, Bogg and UNU: Revista de Cultura in Romania with
translations by Flavia Cosma. She has work in numerous anthologies including Bagel With the Bards No.1 and No. 2,
Murmur of Voices by Cogito Press in Romania/Translations by Flavia Cosma and forthcoming in a WHLR.
anthology which she is editing.
Gloria has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was awarded a fellowship from the Somerville Arts Council.
From 1984-1994, she edited the Boston Literary Review/BLuR and was co-founder of Theatre S & S. Press, Inc.
Theatre S. received grants from the Polaroid Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Globe Foundation,
New England for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Somerville Arts Council.
With an extensive background in theatre, Gloria has written and performed numerous performance pieces including
BIG BOMB BUICKS, WHERE DID ALL THOSE BIRDS AND DOGS COME FROM?, I WISH FRANCISCO FRANCO WOULD LOVE ME, and
SKIN CELLS, MAGGOTS, AND OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST. Her poetry collection called Doppelganger was a text of a
theatre piece of the same name performed by THEATRE S. A review by STAGES stated she took great liberties with
Poe and "captured the romantic desperation of "William Wilson," a tale of self-destructive double-identity."
For over 36 years, Gloria has performed, acted, composed music, and sang in the theatre.
Her newest performance piece, to be performed in September, is called WALKING IN El SALVADOR. Gloria works
as a Social Worker and freelances editing manuscripts and conducting workshops for writers.
Blood Soaked Dresses by Gloria Mindock
Ibbetson Street Press, 2007
In her fascinating poem cycle, Gloria Mindock jolts back into memory the roots of El Salvador's present day violence.
Mindock coaxes to the page the voices of the dead who lie, less in peace, than in restless obsession with the atrocities
they suffered. She brings forth as well the voices of the living who seem startled to find that they died somewhere between
the horrors they witnessed and the grave they have yet to lie down in. Blood Soaked Dresses is a beautiful,
harrowing first book.
--Catherine Sasanov
Also available at Grolier Poetry Bookstore in Cambridge, MA., and can be ordered online at: Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, and Powells.
For signed copies: order directly from the author at: P.O. Box 440357, W. Somerville, MA 02144-3222 ($13.50 plus $3.00 S/H)
To read reviews go to:
Boston Globe review by Ellen Steinbaum
Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene Reviews:
http://dougholder.blogspot.com/search?q=lo+gallucio
http://dougholder.blogspot.com/search?q=irene+koronas
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