LAY BARE THE CANVAS: New EnGland Poets on ARt
Beatrice Lazarus, Editor
From the POETRY LOFT PRESS
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“Lay Bare the Canvas" is the most fascinating book I have seen in years. Coupling fifty-five exciting works of art with poems they inspired by notable New England poets, this anthology belongs in every collection and in every library.” —X.J. Kennedy
Beatrice Lazarus, editor
"Lay Bare the Canvas"
Summer drowning by Ira SCHAEFFER
Winner of the Editor's Choice LOFT Chapbook Prize, judged by Jane Lunin Perel.
Book Launch and reading was held at the William Hall Library, Cranston RI.
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A Pushcart Prize nominee, Ira Schaeffer's poems have appeared in Penumbra, On the Dark Side: Anthology of Fairy tale Poetry, 50 Haiku, Silver Birch Press, and elsewhere. A former professor of English at Community College of Rhode Island, Ira enjoys teaching classes at the Lifelong Learning Collaborative and co-hosts a reading series at the William Hall Library in Cranston. Ira lives with his wife Bobby in Warwick, Rhode Island.
WORLD OF SHADOWS BY JAMES CRONIN
Published by Poetry Loft Press
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"James Cronin's impressive first collection of poetry is haunted by a sense that we live on the edge of nothingness: "the holes in the glass / and the dread that won't pass." Poetic form, however, is his counter-weighted response to that dread. From sonnet to ghazal, from meter and rhyme to free verse, his poetry is in a restless search for the meaning that form can reveal, especially when the poet is confronted with and challenged by loss, suffering, death, and the other shadows we so often meet in this world."
―Fred Marchant, author of Said Not Said
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Hope Street: Nine New England Poets
Edited by Beatrice Lazarus
Published by Main Street Rag
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Authors: Nancy Brown, James Cronin, Michael Crowley, Diane Dolphin, Joan Fishbein, Karen Haskell, Maureen Lapre, Beatrice Lazarus, and Sandra Moran.
- In these superbly crafted poems is the weight of modern like's disappointments and the lasting shine of its possibilities. In Sandra Moran's poem "Ten Years Before Now," the sense of impending loss is poignantly felt in the first stanza: "Before our souls were rubbed against/ the wall like chalk, / we had to burn the sticks / of our povertyt. / Lamp smoke-- once it had power." This is a commendable collection. --Lori Desrosiers
analgesia by james celenza
Analgesia was published as a Chapbook by Poetry Loft Press (2014) and originally appeared in Ars Medica, University of Toronto Press,
- James Celenza has had plays performed by Theatre of the Bewildered, Barplays Festival, Think Tank Festival, Culture Park Festival, New Ten Minute Plays Festival at Perishable Theatre and in collaboration with Theater Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. James co-produced Station Nation: National reflections on the Station Fire (2013).