Winter Fattening

New Somerville Workshop member Sarah Green is again the organizer extraordinaire for a collaborative poetry challenge. "Winter Fattening" is a 60-day long-form poetry challenge in which close to a dozen poets will create long poems in a public (or semi-public) forum for two months. 

The carbo-and-noun-loading  begins October 31. 

At the moment, all four members of the NSWS anticipate getting fat on poems this winter. We're in. 

Check it out here: http://winterfat.wordpress.com/

Literary Translation

New Somerville Workshop member Katherine Hollander has been awarded the Schmuel Traum Prize in literary translation. 

Please see Boston University's creative writing blog. 

http://blogs.bu.edu/crwr/2009/07/08/schmuel-traum-prize/

Your Limbs Will Be Torn Off in a Farm Accident from Zachary Schomburg on Vimeo.

Another good one.

I think this is great. It's by Zachary Schomburg:

The Black Hole from Zachary Schomburg on Vimeo.

Contemporary French Poetry

Sometimes you come across a new poet who is clearly so talented you want to just throw in the towel.

New Lungfull!

I have 2 poems in the new issue of Lungfull! The issue includes:

POEMS & ROUGH DRAFTS
Matt Hart, Jessea Perry, Sam Magavern, Nathan Hoks, Nick Antosca, David Berrigan, Bradford Gray Telford, Sean Kilpatrick, Stephanie Cleveland, Rebecca Loudon, Anthony Farrington, Elizabeth Hughey, Craig Cotter, Duane Vorhees, Todd Colby, Jeni Olin, Chris Martin, Scott Abels, Eugene Ostashevsky, Fred Schmalz, Lee Ranaldo, Noelle Kocot, Will Morris, Marianne Vitale, Mike Topp, Clnt Frakes, Kevin McWha Steele, Suejin Suh

We Are Proud

We are tickled and proud to announce that New Somerville Workshop members Sarah Green and Nathan Hoks were both finalists for this year's Walt Whitman Award.

For more information on the prize and the eventual winner, click here:

http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/110

Congratulations Sarah and Nate!

Your Best Beach Body: A Poem a Day for 100 Days

New Somerville Workshop member Sarah Green hosts "Your Best Beach Body," a blog to which ten poets contribute a poem a day for 100 days. The poems must be written within 24 hours of posting. 

Sarah describes the project this way: "Extremely fit poets grapple with new poems and slippery watermelons in swimming pools from May 15 to August 22."

All four members of the NSW are in. Watch us wrestle watermelons. 

Check it out here: 

http://yourbestbeachbody.blogspot.com

Bay State Underground

Here's the flyer for the Bay State Underground reading!
Doors and refreshments at 7:00, reading starts at 7:30.
As mentioned below, readers will include New Somerville Workshop member Katherine Hollander--please come!

Kate Hollander Reading at the Bay State Underground

When? you ask...
Thursday, March 5th,

Where? you ask...
at
236 Bay State Road, Boston MA, 02215
(the offices of AGNI Magazine)

Sponsored by:
the Boston University Creative Writing Program and AGNI Magazine
(you probably weren't asking...)