New Night Train 10.1 includes my poem "Funeral with No Music"

This is a great issue and I'm pleased to be in the company of some of these folks!

• FICTION
• Melanie Datz
• Murray W. Dunlap
• Steve Frederick
• Jeffrey N. Johnson
• Caroline Kepnes
• Mitzi McMahon
• John Minichillo
• Sheryl Monks
• Alec Niedenthal
• David William Rea
• James Warner
•  
• POETRY
• Bethany L. Carlson
• Jim Daniels
• Alayna Frankenberry
• Timothy Gager
• Michael P. McManus
• Richard Merrill
• Sue Miller
• David Sergeant
• K.M.A. Sullivan
•  
• and others!

The Criterion An Online International Journal in English publishes "Arms up to the Sky"

Arms Up to the Sky (page 58) is a longer magical realism story I wrote in 2005, published in the debut issue of Criterion. It might take a few clicks to get there. Melissa Studdard, whom we published in last months Wilderness House Literary Review was the editor who accepted the story.

The Metazen Show....they publish me again!

Two there in less than three weeks. This one is called Eight Months Later, Charlie Goes to Omaha.

Press release for my New Jersey reading on Sunday

River Read Presents Timothy Gager and Steve Peacock

Type:

Music/Arts - Performance

Date:	Sunday, April 11, 2010
Time:	2:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:	The Dublin House
Street:	30 Monmouth Street
City/Town:	Red Bank, NJ
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Description

Come out to the Dublin House for high quality literature. River Read Reading Series featuring Timothy Gager and Steve Peacock. Be sure to not miss this special River Read with Timothy Gager traveling down from Mass and Steve Peacock, Journalist, Prose Writer and Poet. Open mic, meet and greet and book signing to follow the feature presentations. Bring some extra scratch to support our writers and an appetite for high quality Dublin House Food and Drink!! Special guest host Dr. Christine Redman-Waldeyer . Visit www.johnpetrolino.com/river_read for more information.

THE BOSTON NATIONAL POETRY MONTH FESTIVAL April 10 and 11th, 2010--I'm reading Saturday at 12:30

THE BOSTON NATIONAL POETRY MONTH FESTIVAL April 10 and 11th, 2010

CO-SPONSORS: Tapestry of Voices & Kaji Aso Studio in partnership with the Boston Public Library, SAVE the DATE, Saturday, April 10th 10:00 A.M.- 4:45 P.M. OPEN MIKE: 1:30 to 3:00P.M.; & Sunday, April 11th, 1:10 to 4:30P.M. The Festival will be held at the library’s main branch in Copley Square. FREE ADMISSION


56 Major and Emerging poets will each do a ten minute reading; ALSO

Featuring six extraordinarily talented prize winning high school students: from Boston Latin High School: Andy Vo and Justin Singletary, and Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah; Boston Arts Academy:Erica Telisnor and Osiris Morel; Gabriella Fee: Walnut Hill School for the Arts. These student stars will open the Festival at 10:00 A.M. SAM CORNISH, Boston’s current and first Poet Laureate will open the formal part of the Festival at 11:00 A.M. 55 additional major and emerging poets will follow with a

POETRY MARATHON

Some of the many luminaries include SAM CORNISH, Diana Der Hovanessian, Richard Wollman, Jennifer Barber, Afaa M. Weaver, Barbara Helfgott-Hyett, Alfred Nicole, Ellen Steinbaum, Doug Holder, Charles Coe, Kathleen Spivack, Ryk McIntyre, Elizabeth McKim, Regie O’Gibson, Kate Finnegan, Michael Bialis, Susan Donnelly,John Ziemba, (Kaji Aso Studio), Sandee Story, CD Collins, Marc Goldfinger, Gloria Mindock, Tim Gager, Diana Saenz, Stuart Peterfreund, Valerie Lawson, Tom Daley, Molly Watt, Ifeanyi Menkiti, Mark Pawlak, Lainie Senechal, Harris Gardner, Joanna Nealon, Richard Hoffman, Susan Donnelly, Irene Koronas, Robert K. Johnson, and a Plethora of other prize winning poets.

This Festival has it all: Professional published poets, celebrities, numerous prize winners, student participation, OPEN MIKE.

Even more, it is about community, neighborhoods, diversity, Boston, and Massachusetts. This popular tradition is one of the largest events in Boston’s Contribution to National Poetry Month. FREE ADMISSION !!!

FOR INFORMATION: Tapestry of Voices: 617-306-9484 or 617-723-3716

Library: 617-536-5400

Wheelchair accessible. Assistive listening devices available. To request a sign language interpreter, or for other special needs, call 617-536-7855( TTY) at least two weeks before the program date.
Harris Gardner

Boston National Poetry Month Festival
Poets’ Reading Schedule
Boston Public Library
Rabb Lecture Hall

Saturday, April 10, 2010
10:00 Boston Latin High School, Andy Vo
10:10 Boston Latin High School, Justin Singletary
10:20 Boston Latin High School, Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah
10:30 Boston Arts Academy, Erica Tilesnor
10:40 Boston Arts Academy, Osiris Morel
10:50 Walnut Hill School for the Arts. Gabriella Fee
11:00 Sam Cornish (Boston Poet Laureate)
11:10 Robert J. Clawson
11:20 Regie Gibson
11:30 Joanna Nealon
11:40 Elizabeth McKim
11:50 Cathy Salmons
12:00 Carol Weston
12:10 Robert K. Johnson
12:20 Jeffrey Harrison
12:30 Tim Gager
12:40 Kaji Aso Studio: Kate Finnegan,
Michael Bialis, John Ziemba
12:50 Mark Pawlak
1:00 Lisa Beatman
1:10 Susan Donnelly
1:20 Coleen Houlihan
1:30 Philip E. Burnham, Jr.
1:30- 3:00 OPEN MIKE- Room 5-6
1:40 Frank Blessington
1:50 Valerie Lawson
2:00 Diana Saenz
2:10 C.D. Collins
2:20 Walter Howard
2:30 Ron Goba
2:40 Elizabeth Doran
2:50 Wendy Mnookin
3:00 Barbara Helfgott-Hyett
3:10 Jack Scully
3:20 Andy Levesque
3:30 Sandra Storey
3:40 Tomas O’Leary
3:50 Molly Bennett
4:00 Molly Watt
4:10 Jan Schreiber
4:20 Anne Elizabeth Tom
4:30 Gloria Mindock
4:40 Ryk McIntyre

SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010

1:10 Tom Daley
1:20 Ifeanyi Menkiti
1:30 Lo Galluccio
1:40 Ellen Steinbaum
1:50 Victor Howes
2:00 Rhina P. Espaillat
2:10 Diana DerHovanessian
2:20 Tino Villanueva
2:30 Doug Holder
2:40 Lainie Senechal
2:50 Harris Gardner
3:00 Stuart Peterfreund
3:10 Irene Koronas
3:20 Kathleen Spivack
3:30 Marc Goldfinger
3:40 Charles Coe
3:50 Isabella Nebel
4:00 Alfred Nicole
4:10 Richard Wollman
4:20 Jennifer Barber
4:30 Afaa M. Weaver

I Look at You Through Glass and Water published on Litsnack

Here it is. Enjoy:

This Friday's, Dire Literary Series

Date:	Friday, April 2, 2010
Time:	8:00pm - 10:10pm
Location:	Out of the Blue Art Gallery
Street:	106 Prospect St
City/Town:	East Cambridge, MA
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Description 

For more information www.direreader.com

Open Mic followed by features:

Jane Roper is the author of Baby Squared, a narrative blog on Babble.com about her adventures and misadventures in parenting twins. She also writes fiction, nonfiction, and a whole lotta advertising and marketing copy. Jane lives and writes in the Boston area. Jane's forthcoming novel, Eden Lake, was a semi-finalist in the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, where it was the most downloaded contest entry, and reached as high as #61 on the Amazon Bestseller List. It will be published by Last Light Studio in May 2011.

Adam Gallari grew up on the outskirts of Manhattan and received an MFA from the University of California, Riverside. He currently lives by a train station in Exeter, England where he is pursuing a PhD, listening to train whistles blowing in the night and working on a novel.Adam's We are Never as Beautiful as We are Now was released in 2010 by Ampersand Review Press.

Sean Patrick Hill is a freelance writer, in Portland, Oregon. He earned his MA in Writing from Portland State University, where he won the Burnam Graduate Award. He received a grant from Regional Arts and Culture Council and residencies from Montana Artists Refuge, Fishtrap, and the Oregon State University Trillium Project. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Exquisite Corpse, elimae, diode, In Posse Review, Willow Springs, RealPoetik, New York Quarterly, Sawbuck, Redactions, and Quarter After Eight. His blog is theimaginedfield.blogspot.com.

It's Bigger than Charles Atlas

Metazen (since today is Tuesday) published a story that I wrote with Elizabeth Rawlins called Bigger than Charles Atlas. The story is not at all based on this advertisement since Jesus has nothing to do with Charles Atlas, but there is a sand in the face reference.

We wrote it within personal messsages on Facebook. Metazen has also published such folks as Alexandra Isacson, Howie Good, Mel Bosworth and Jen Michalski.

Here's what they say about themselves:

metazen pub­lishes sto­ries by var­i­ous authors


metazen pub­lishes poems
*

metazen pub­lishes new con­tent every sin­gle day


*

metazen has a schedule:

mon­day- a story is published
tues­day- a story is published
wednes­day- a story is published
thurs­day- a story is published
fri­day- a story is published
sat­ur­day- a ‘lit­er­ary sat­ur­day morn­ing car­toon’ is published
sun­day- a “best of metazen” is (usu­ally) published

Screw Iowa? Why?

Screw Iowa is the name of a journal that published two poems ("these days I worry" and "Elementary Physics") of mine. Why is it called that? Find out here.   I think they are fantastic!

Screw Michelle Bachman.

April Wilderness House LIterary Review is out...Early!

It's a great issue! You can read it here

It's interesting and helpful to my own writing to read as much fiction as is submitted. Here's the list of fiction works:

Beverly Jackson - Last Communion

CD Collins - I Am Losing Everything

David Bulley - Confessions on The Verge of Icy Death

DeWitt Henry - A Tribute To “Tornado At The Club,” From Evan S. Connell’s, Mrs.Bridge (As Revised Into The Screenplay, Mr. And Mrs. Bridge, By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)

F. John Sharp - Billy and Us

Jen Michalski - You Were Only Waiting for This Moment to Arrive

Kirsi Marcus - Nobodies in the Universe

Melissa Studdard - Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: A Creation Story

Mitchell Waldman - The Widow Across the Way

Nathan Graziano - A Long Way from New Hampshire

Rusty Barnes - The Green Man


Josh Howatt's Fault of Frangipani is the winner of our 2010 Checkov Prize

Scrawl: The blog

I’ve been a member of SCRAWL: The Writer’s Asylum for six years. During that time I have completed six full length books or chap books and I credit SCRAWL for some of that output. Work-shopping at SCRAWL has taught me much, made me a better writer. There are many talented poets and writers within SCRAWL,  and these folks are tremendous writers.

Scrawl: the blog will give links, interviews, essays, poems and stories, and basically anything that has to do with the written form. From time to time you’ll meet exciting and relevant guest bloggers. This space will also serve as a “real time” Story Garden, the literary magazine that SCRAWL publishes at irregular intervals.

Our goal is to promote SCRAWL, our writing home, to potential new members who will join us (if they are serious about writing, and all that’s entailed in this critiquing workshop) and to share the talent of our private area of the web, to put it out into the mainstream for everyone to enjoy. I’m confident that they will.

Our current staff is Rusty Barnes, Ken Clark, Brad Green, Richard Lee, Kathleen McCall, Sue Miller, Tori Munn, Mary Corinne Powers and Elizabeth Rawlins. This group is an All-Star team and if you read their bios and their work, you’ll understand where I’m coming from.

Here’s some information about SCRAWL from one of our public pages.

Some more stuff....JMWW Journal plus Six Questions for me.

Jim Harrington is running a blog which asks fiction editors what they look for in a story. It is interesting reading. Today his interview with me is up, but read them all, it's a great guideline for improving your acceptance rate.

JMWW has their Spring Issue out today. And it's all flash fiction. It includes my How to Give Dating Advice as a State Social Worker.

Here's the full line-up. My compliments to editor David Erlewine:

Charles Lennox
Jarrid Deaton
Gary Moshimer
Rusty Barnes
Katrina Gray
Timothy Gager
Seth Fried
Tria Andrews
Damian Dressick
Sheldon Lee Compton
Ethel Rohan
Craig Renfoe, Jr.
Andrew Roe
Kyle Minor
Michael Czyzniejewski
Matt Bell
Edward Mullany
Matthew Salesses
Kevin Wilson
Curtis Smith
Tara Laskowski
Molly Gaudry
Erin Fitzgerald
Meg Pokrass
Roxane Gay
Sam Nam
Robert Swartwood
Scott Garson
Ben Loory

The Price is Right!

My friend, the incredibly lovely,  Molly Gaudry, was rejected from an MFA program and found herself broke-assed and down in the dumps sent out a message: 

* For $1.00, I WILL WRITE YOU A POEM and post it here and on our friend, Facebook. * So here is mine for that ridiculous cheap price.

A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings

for Timothy Gager

What no one knows about old Knut Hamsun

is how handsome he was. Poverty was pretty

when Knut wore her, and like a corner whore

she claimed him as her own--hungry sultress.

Outcasts, vagabonds, aggression. Melancholy

resignation. The themes of his life and work,

according to Nobelprize.org. The Intellectual

Life of Modern America is a rare, gone thing.

Hunger is not. We know it now in every sense

of its belly-aching, tongue-tensed clinging

ringing, hollowed, as whatever pride we had;

I do not lie. Nor do you. We know this, right?

Like that childhood Pan, like that garden, risen

and Grown of the Soil, like a funny Game of Life

with no Sunset because, Under the Autumn Star,

there is a different view, offered by A Wanderer

[who] Plays on Muted Strings while all around

The Wild Chorus, the Children of the Age, the

unhappy inhabitants of Segelfoss Town and their

many ragged Vagabonds, every August, remind us

that if we take it The Road Leads On, and if

we don't The Ring is Closed to those who refuse

to climb in and fight at the height of their sorrow,

their sagging, aging faces power-limned with rage.

Updated Reading Schedule

March 25, 2010 Salem, Ma

Cornerstone Books, Salem, ma

Cornerstone Books, 7 PM
45 Lafayette St,
Salem, Ma.
Thursday Theater of Words and Music
Featuring with Gloria Mindock



April 2, 2010 Cambridge, Massachusetts

Hosting and reading at The Dire Literary Series, 8 PM

Out of the Blue Art Gallery

106 Prospect Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Featuring: Jane Roper, Adam Gallari and Sean Patrick Hill





April 10, 2010 Boston, Massachusetts

Boston National Poetry Month Festival, 12:30 PM

Boston Public Library, Copley Square

Large Auditorium

Boston, Massachusetts

Featuring over 100 poets on April 10th and 11th





April 11, 2009. Red Bank, NJ

The River Read Series, 2 PM

The Dublin House,

30 Monmouth Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701


Featuring with Steve Peacock





April 21, 2010 Cambridge, Ma

Cervena Barva 5th Anniversary Party, 7 PM

Pierre Menard Gallery

10 Arrow St,

Cambridge, Ma.

Featuring with Andrey Gritsman and Jana Kiely




May 7, 2010 Cambridge, Massachusetts

Hosting and reading at The Dire Literary Series, 8 PM

Out of the Blue Art Gallery

106 Prospect Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Featuring: Jon Papernick, Tara Masih and Matt Jasper




May 13, 2010 Boston, Massachusetts

Reading at Axiom Poetry Series, 7 PM

Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media

141 Green Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Reading with: Daniel Hudon and Ian Poole




May 17, 2010 Cambridge, Massachusetts

Reading at Four Stories Series, 7 PM (music starts at 6)

The Enormous Room

569 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Reading with: Shankar Vedantam, Lauren Mackler, Naoe Suzuki and Joanna Smith Rakoff

The theme of the evening will be "Me, Myself, and I: Stories of Solitude, Solipsism, and Individuality,"





May 19, 2010 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Reading at New Yinzer Series, 8 PM

Modern Foundations

4919 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA

Reading with: TBA


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Future Series Appearances

June 19, 2010. Baltimore, MD
510 Reading Series
Minás Gallery, 815 W. 36th Street

June 26, 2010. WBZ News Radio, 1030-AM Boston
Appearing as guest of Jordan Rich's Book Club show

November 13, 2010. Somerville, Ma.
Somerville News Writers Festival