Madison Poet wins Senior Poet Laureate award
 
Carol Leavitt Altieri, 74, retired teacher of Madison, won the 2011 Connecticut Senior Poet Laureate award in the 19th annual National Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition for American poets age 50 and older. Her winning poem “Nature’s Wide-Screen Light Show” explores the infinite beauty of the Aurora Borealis.  
 
Winners of the 2011 National Senior Poet Laureate Awards are two retired educators. Raynette Eitel of Las Vegas, Nev. won the national SPL title for “At the Irish Pub” and Jo Carpignano, Ph.D. of San Mateo, Calif. was runner-up with “The Yellow Bus.”
 
All winning poems appear in Golden Words online anthology at the sponsor’s website
www.amykitchenerfdn.org

 

FORGOTTEN HEROES: Poems for and about Veterans
of the Vietnam War
Michael F. Lepore
Grayson Books
Vietnam War veterans are honored in Michael Lepore’s book Forgotten Heroes: Poems for and about Veterans of the Vietnam War, which portrays individual soldiers from the Vietnam War era, and the families they left behind. The progress of the war is illuminated by short news accounts, each followed by a poem focusing on the experiences of a young soldier, a soldier’s loved ones, or a veteran of the war. Lepore gives their stories the attention they deserve in his first book of poetry.
available from
http://www.graysonbooks.com

Gray Jacobik's most recent book is Little Boy Blue: A Memoir in Verse from CavanKerry Press (http://www.cavankerrypress.com -- click on books/Notable Voices or visit Gray's website at www.grayjacobik.com).

Gray Jacobik is blogging on the Michigan Quarterly Review's website.  Her blog is titled "Come A Little Bit Closer Now Baby" and is dedicated to the practice of close reading.  Twice monthly, by her own lights, Gray will examine how a single canonical poem achieves its effects. (www.michiganquarterlyreview.com -- click on "blog" then scroll down to "Gray Jacobik").  

 

Doris Henderson's What Gets Lost is available from her or from Antrim House Books (www.AntrimHouseBooks.com) and from the Barn Gallery, Route 37, New Fairfield, CT.The date of publication is December 2009

Polly Brody has a new book-length poetry collection. Published by Antrim House. Title: "Stirring Shadows." It is priced at $16.00, and can be obtained directly from Polly or through the publisher.

A collection of poetry by Alexandrina Sergio, My Daughter is Drummer in the Rock 'n Roll Band, was released by Antrim House in September. Copies are available at $18.00 (plus 6% sales tax in CT) from Antrim House.  For more information on the book and upcoming readings or to order, see www.antrimhousebooks.com  .

Peggy Sapphire(In The End A Circle) is available from Antrim House

Tony Fusco - Droplines, Grayson Books, 2009 for more information

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Lisa Siedlarz- I Dream My Brother Plays Baseball, Clemson University, 2009 -$15, contact Lisa at bearbucca@sbcglobal.net

Greg Salvatore's first poetry collection, Digging Up the Past: Poetry from High School (1994-97), can do so by writing out a check for $12 (plus $3 shipping and handling, for a total of $15) to: Greg Salvatore, P.O. Box 3113, Vernon, CT 06066.  All CPS members need only pay $12, as shipping fees will be waived for them.  Also, purchasers should signify if they want the books signed (and to whom), and where to send the books, if different from the address provided on their checks. Sample poems

Sharon Olson, of Guilford, has had two books published. The first is Clouds Brushed in Later, an Abby Niebauer Memorial Chapbook, published by the San Jose Poetry Center Press in 1987. Out of print.

The second book is The Long Night of Flying, published in 2006 by Sixteen Rivers Press, San Francisco, California. This book is available on Amazon, from Small Press Distribution (www.spdbooks.org), and directly from the publisher Sixteen Rivers Press, P.O. Box 640663, San Francisco, CA 94164-0663, Tel: 415.273.1303 (www.sixteenrivers.org).

More information about her work can be found at this page:  http://www.sixteenrivers.org/books_authors/long_night_of_flying.asp

POLLY LASZLO BRODY

The Burning Bush: Essays with Poems, Antrim House, 2005, $17.00

www.antrimhousebooks.com or berylline33@yahoo.com

 

GINNY LOWE CONNORS

Barbarians in the Kitchen, Antrim House, 2005, $18.00

www.antrimhousebooks.com or www.amazon.com

Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems about Marriage (ed.), Grayson Books, 2003, hardcover: $21.95, softcover: $15.95

www.amazon.com or www.graysonbooks.com

To Love One Another: Poems Celebrating Marriage (ed), Grayson Books, 2002, hardcover: $16.95, softcover: $12.95

www.amazon.com or www.graysonbooks.com

Essential Love: Poems about Mothers and Fathers, Daughters and Sons (ed), Grayson Books, 2000, hardcover: $21.95, softcover: $14.95

www.amazon.com or www.graysonbooks.com

Debra Sansone published her first chapbook of poetry. The title of the book is Shared Air and Other Poems, which was published by Finishing Line Press of Georgetown, Kentucky on February 28, 2008. The book can be obtained either through finishinglinepress.com or amazon.com.

TONY FUSCO

Jessie’s Garden, Negative Capability Press, 2004, $10

www.amazon.com

GERRI RADACSI Trapped in Amber , Connecticut River Press, 2005, $15.95 Tightrope Walker, Antrim House, 2007, $15.00 www.antrimhousebooks.com  

SYLVIA FORGES RYAN (with Edward Ryan) Take a Deep Breath: The Haiku Way to Inner Peace , Kodansha International, hardback, 2002; Russian edition published in 2003 by Sophia Press, Kiev ; paperback edition published by Apocryphile Press, Berkeley , California , 2006. www.amazon.com  

PEGGY SAPHIRE A Possible Explanation, Partisan Press, $12.00  

JEAN TUPPER Woman in Rainlight, Hobblebush Books, $14.95 www.hobblebush.com or www.finelinepoets.com or

JENNIFER SMITH TURNER Lost and Found: Rhyming Verse Honoring African American Heroes, Connecticut River Press, www.jennifersmithturner.com

 

CHRISTOPHER L. WEBBER

Beyond Beowulf, iUniverse, 2006