Poesia News
July 2008

The Spring Issue of Poesia Was Brought To You By


Alessio Zanelli * Bill Millager * Dave Gregg * Don Streit * E.P. Fisher * Heather Nicaise *
J. Donald Coonrod * Tajin * Laurie M. Marshall * Linda Nemec Foster * Mark Wisniewski *
Paul Bernstein * Randall Marquardt * C.R. Johnson * Rose Feinstein * Sophie Soil * Susanne Morning  *  
                * Vincent Tomeo * Rob Jacques * Shirley Valencia *  Steve DeFrance * Tim Bellows *
Alexandra Franzen * Chris Crittenden * Dennis Saleh *  Doug Johnson * Ian Haight *
James Michael Ward * Jody A. Hedge * Judith Skillman * L. B. Sedlacek * Mark Hart * Marlis Elbers *    
         Padmore Agbemabies * Ray Bilderback * Marvin Sokolow * Leonard Cirino * Gary Guinn *
Kristina Marie Darling *  Charles P. Ries  * Luc Avignon *

Featuring in our current issue poets, poetry, literary reviews and essays from Italy, Germany, France, and the
United States.
Available by individual purchase or by
subscription.

Now In Our Sixth Year of Publication

OUR FALL ISSUE TARGETED FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 1


Indian Bay Press Newest Release is
Now Available
    Dog Soup and Donuts                
Susanne Morning's Latest Collection















Susanne Morning's most recent work, Dog Soup and Donuts,
ISBN # 0-9773695-2-8 published by Indian Bay Press is now available
Direct orders from Indian Bay Press are available at $ 17.95 including shipping within the continental
United State.  Purchased elsewhere and the shipping is not included.
Morning, a New Zealand native
has created this collection of whimsical and entertaining poetry of her
experiences as an English language professor at a University in Korea.  
As many poets, she is also an artist, and more about her and her works
can be viewed at
www.susannemorning.com.   

It is also available at Barnes and Nobles bookstores
and the Lost Book Store online at
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DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES                                          
ANNUAL OLIVER W. BROWNING
        POETRY COMPETITION APPROACHING SOON!
                  

Submissions are now being accepted for the Annual Oliver W. Browning Poetry Competition.  Winners
will be announced in the Fall 2008 issue of
Poesia.  The deadline for submissions is August 1, 2008.  Entry
fee is $ 18.00 which will also grant to the entrant a one year subscription to
Poesia.  First place takes
$ 500.00, Second $ 150.00 and Third Honorable Mention.  
Submission guidelines are the same for regular
submissions to
Poesia.  














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JUDITH SKILLMAN  -  A POESIA PROFILE

Poesia contributor, Judith Skillman (Poesia, Spring 2008) who resides in Kennydale, Washington with her
husband is no stranger to publication with her works hav
ing appeared in numerous publications.

She has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Eric Mathieu King Fund Award from the
Academy of Poets for her book "Storm" (Blue Begonia Press, 1998).















She has also received private and public grants for her works from the King
County Arts Commission and a fellowship from the Washington
State Arts Commission.  A Jack Straw Writer for 2008, her residencies
include the Centrum Foundation and Hedgebrook
in Washington State.

Her poems have appeared in
Field, Poetry, Poesia, The Iowa Review, Northwest Review, Prairie Schooner,
Seneca Review, Journal of the American Medical Association and others.

Her published volumes of poems include "Worship of the Visible Storm" (Breitbush Books, 1988) with
which she won the King County Publication Prize, and "Red Town" (Silverfish Review Press, 2008) with
which she won the Bumbershoot Literary Award.  A recent work "Heat Lightning:  New and Selected
Poems 1986 - 2006" was published by Silverfish Review Press in 2006.

Skillman has a Masters in English Literature from the University of Maryland.  You can learn more of this
poet by visiting
www.judithskillman.com.

















Cover Art for the Fall issue

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE FALL ISSUE OF POESIA
STILL OPEN BUT CLOSING SOON

Those wishing to submit poetry, essays and reviews for the Fall issue of Poesia may do so now by
following the
submission guidelines found on this site.  Submissions for this edition will close August 1,
2008.
The Fall issue is targeted for release October 1, 2008.

ANOTHER LANDMARK IS LOST
TO LITERARY HISTORY

It survived a firebombing in 1989 for its support of
First Amendment Rights
only to end its half-century existence to the economic times.  Cody's Books, a San Francisco area legend
closed its doors on June 20th.

Having earlier closed its branches in San Francisco and another Berkley location, it sole remaining store
located on Shattuck Street in Berkley is now no more.

The writing on the wall appeared a few months ago when the store rent nearly tripled, and after a further
staff layoff, books sales could not sustain the extra burden.  Sadly, Cody's has gone the way of far too
many independent bookstores.

It was founded in 1956 by Fred and Pat Cody and has gone through a number of hands since then.





UNINVITED GUEST EDITORIAL
By: SÉRGIO PRATA
Our Man in Brazil
Personal Che  -  From Poetical Jesus to Christ

If Roland Barthes (1915 - 1980) was alive and writing his
indispensable "Mythologies", published for the
first time in 1957, he certainly would have include a
chapter about Che Guevara.

The release of the new documentary "Personal Che"
cannot cite Barthes directly, but it is a minuscule
analysis of the construction of a contemporary myth.

From a complex and multifaceted form, the film
by Brazilian Douglas Duarte and Columbian Adriana
Marino traveled the globe to investigate the various image
remakings suffered by the Argentinian revolutionary that was a part of the success of the Cuban
revolution and died attempting to implant the same by way of a guerrilla war in Bolivia where he was
executed in 1967 with the assistance of the American CIA.

Immortalized by photographs taken by Alberto Korda and captured by the language of mythology, the
figure of Che has little footing in facts.

According to Barthes the function of myth is to "transform an eventuality into eternity" in a process of  
"deformation" that "eliminates the quality of history.  In myth the reality is lost in the production.
This process is clearly evident in the film that shows various examples of the veneration of Che.

He arrived at sainthood or in otherwise was converted from Jesus to Christ.  In the region of Bolivia where
he died his personage has been in fact made into a saint and he is venerated as such.  
The Directors of the film avoid intellectualizing in excess this discussion, but they do not avoid the
analysis entirely.  Well organized the documentary offers enough information necessary to observe the
process without losing the view of his human side.  In the end, the myth wins.

Little known is the fact that Che fancied himself and poet, and an admirer of classical poetry.  For his
poem, "Song to Fidel", he wrote:
And when we will arrive at the place of battle
For the work of purification against tyranny,
Here, at your side, ready for the last battle,
We will have it.

With the aid of myth, his battle will rage for eternity, and his image used by all those claiming his cause
from the truly oppressed to the fascist on both extremes who claim the same.

The Romantic Poetry of War
Do We Really Want A Remake
Or A Sequel?


























As of July 1, 2008

U.S. Military Deaths 4113


EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

San Francisco and Area

Indian Bay Press has partnered with the American Book Exchange for the on-line marketing of its books
and publications for domestic and international sales accepting Visa/Mastercard through online ordering
at
www.abebooks.com effective June 1, 2008.

First Monday from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at the Gallery Café, 1200 Mason at Washington Street, in San
Francisco Tel. 415.775.0261, All Poets Welcome Reading Series.  Featured Readers will be followed by an
open Mic.  Food and wide drink selection available.

Every Tuesday, San Francisco's newest open Mic in one of the city's hottest nightclubs.  Come to
Amnesia in the Mission District for Red Light Open Mic.  Performances start at 7:00 p.m.
Amnesia, 853 Valencia, San Francisco, Tel. 415.970.0012

Every Friday night at 8:00 p.m., Café International host an open Mic for Poets and Musicians.  Sign up is
at 7:45 p.m., 508 Haight Street at Filmore, San Francisco.h

On second Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. Ramu Aki, poet, writer and artist host the Faithful Fool Series providing
insight and vision to the way Arts brings life to the world and work of fools.
234 Hyde Street, San Francisco

Last Sunday of each month at Bird and Beckett, 653 Chenery, San Francisco, Tel. 586.3733 Walker Brent,
masterful story teller and a cornucopia of literary fact and fiction will present a monthly talk.


San Francisco International Poetry Festival presents
Flor y Canto en el Barrio, Celebration of Latin Poetry
featuring young, unpublished poets alongside established authors.  
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, July 24, 25, 26, 2008 at various locations and venues in the Mission District.

The Red Poppy Art House & Word Party invite you to celebrate the heat of mid-summer with a night
designed to "bring back the love" by bringing together a diverse mix of perspectives for one hot night of
poetry and love.
Friday, July 25, 2008 9-11 pm., the Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom Street at 23rd
San Francisco







ELSEWHERE

WATCHUNG BOOKSELLERS
Announces a poetry reading by Susan Tepper and Roger Sedarat
Thursday, July 10 @ 7:30 p.m.
54 Fairfield Street
Montclair, NJ  
973.744.74177

There is heavy praise for Don Winter's new chapbook, "No Way In But Out"
Purchase online from New York Quarterly
http://nyqstore.poetscraft.com/winter.htm
or
send $ 10.00, check or money order payable to
Don Winter, Working Stiff Press
P.O.. Box 1284, Niles, MI  49120

Elizabeth Woods, poet from Victoria, British Columbia has
added a new blog to her website and is soliciting comments
Visit www.elizabethrhettwoods.ca







New from Pygmy Forest Press, "Ululations: Poems 2006" by Leonard Cirino, 104 pages, $ 16.00 postage
and delivery included, Pygmy Forest Press, 1125 Mill Street, Springfield, OR  97477. ISBN
978-0-944550-39-7.  Leonard Cirino is the author of sixteen chapbooks
and twelve other full-length collections of poems from numerous
presses since 1987.  He lives in Springfield, Oregon and devoted
nearly four decades to reading, writing, editing and publishing
poetry.  You can contact him at cirino7715@comcast.net.





                                      
                    






Poesia Italian Contributor, Alessio Zanelli New Editor of
  
Private Photo Review

Alessio Zanelli of Cremona, Italy  Editor of Private Photo Review,
a distinguished international
magazine of black and white photography calls for submissions.
Based in Italy
and publishing the works of professional photographers from
around the world, the magazine features both general and
geographical themes.  Poetry is also featured with much of the
photography.  The forthcoming issue will showcase Poland, and
he is seeking submissions from Polish poets and authors and
other international poets and writers provided the theme is
centered on Poland.

                                                                      Submission guidelines available at                                                    
                           Website
www.privatephotoreview.com





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