Tomorrow: David Hadbawnik, John Hyland, Robert Dewhurst & Holly Melgard

On Friday, March 25th at 7:00 p.m. Woody O'Brien's in Old Town Saginaw will play host to four poets from the University of Buffalo. The event is free and open to the public. Here is a little info about each poet:

Robert Dewhurst edits Satellite Telephone, and co-edits Wild Orchids. His recent poems and criticism have appeared in Peaches and Bats, ON Contemporary Practice, the Poetry Project Newsletter, and Animal Shelter (forthcoming). He lives in Buffalo, NY, where he attends the Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo.

David Hadbawnik is a poet and performer currently living with his wife in Buffalo, NY. Recent publications include the books Translations From Creeley (Sardines, 2008), Ovid in Exile (Interbirth, 2007), and SF Spleen (Skanky Possum, 2006); essays in Jacket and Chicago Review; and poems in Damn the Caesars, Little Red Leaves, and Exquisite Corpse. He is the editor and publisher of Habenicht Press and the journal kadar koli. He began studying towards his PhD in poetics at SUNY Buffalo in fall 2008, where he directs the Buffalo Poets Theater.

John Hyland recently relocated to Buffalo from the Boston-area to do a PhD in English at the University. He has completed graduate degrees at Brandeis University and the University of Maine–Orono. Work has appeared in Tarpaulin Sky and The Modern Review, as well as in numerous places online such as H_NGM_N.

Currently a PhD student in Buffalo’s Poetics Program, Holly Melgard is the incoming co-editor of P-Queue (based at the intersection of prose, line, and verse), ongoing editor of Con-Verse (constraint-based trans-crip/lat-ion series), former editor of Slightly West (Evergreen-based multi-media journal), and forthcoming author of the poetry chapbook Narcsolicitation (TROLL THREAD). Sections of her manuscript Echochambermusic have been published or are forthcoming in Boog City, Scrap Paper, PRESS, Wheelhouse Magazine, TROLL THREAD,
M-Scape, Wikipedia, and Craigslist.

Optimism Against All Logic

An article I wrote about Detroit/Michigan/Saginaw is now up at Frontier Psychiatrist. You can read it here.

In it, amongst other things, I list a number of open murder cases in the city, but there is some breaking news: today two suspects have been arrested for one of the cases. No details reported yet, but I am hearing a lot of rumors.

March Reviews at NewPages

The first half of our March reviews are now up at NewPages. In the current listing you'll find the following:


- Caleb Tankersley reviews Our Chrome Arms of Gymnasium by Crystal Curry


- Sima Rabinowitz revews You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake by Anna Moschavakis, Triggermoon Triggermoon by Julia Cohen, My Business Is To Create: Blake's Infinite Writing by Eric G. Wilson, Jargon by Brian Clements, and A Beautiful Name for a Girl by Kirsten Kaschock


- Kimberly Steele reviews then, we were still living by Michael Klein


- Kristin Abraham reviews Saint Erasure by Donna de la Perriere


- JodiAnn Stevenson reviews Head Off & Split by Nicky Finney


- Alex Myers reviews Asunder by Robert Lopez


- Patricia Contino reviews Eden Lake by Jane Roper


- Olive Mullet reviews Fireflies in the Mist by Qurratulain Hyder


- Renee Emerson reviews I & We by Joseph P. Wood


- Alec Moran reviews Horizontal Surfaces by George Bowering


- C.J. Opperthauser reviews This Isa Nice Neighborhood by Farid Matuk


You can view them all here: http://newpages.com/bookreviews/. And check back on March 14th when the second half of this month's reviews will go up.