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Guernica Editions Book Launch

May.18.2010

Guernica Editions launches three new books of poetry and one hot biography:
Time Slip by John Oughton
The He We Knew by Merle Nudelman
What We Pass On by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
The Young Maria Callas edited by Bruno Tosi
Mirolla and Connie McParland.

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John's Latest Blogs

Jun.09.2012 - 10:37 am
Join me Dec. 16-23 for a writing workshop in the tropical splendour of the rural Dominican Republic. $1000 covers seven days of meals, accommodations and five days of...
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Apr.09.2012 - 10:11 am
Poem-a-day Challenge for National Poetry Month #8 Quiet dune stroll through live and fallen pinesthen crash on path just ahead, white flag flip,big brown doe,she and...
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Apr.07.2012 - 5:14 am
 Photos Friends Post on Facebook Neil Young A rabbit making the shadow of a human hand An absurdly tiny home A Montreal walk-up 1888 Black Bull Tavern Adam Ant, desperate...
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Apr.06.2012 - 6:46 am
Poem-a-day Challenge for National Poetry Month #6 NEWS FLASH! In an incredible breakthrough, archeologists have found and decoded a 60-million-year-old dinosaur text which...
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Comments from John

Nov.23.2011 - 7:39 pm
In response to: A Book is Born!
I'm hoping, once my proposal is approved. to look at the role of emotions in education through the window of published...
Sep.11.2011 - 4:32 pm
In response to: Ear of Dionysius
for your comment, Tim.  Have you told the story of the drive from Catania on here?  
Sep.09.2011 - 10:12 am
In response to: A Book is Born!
I've been away from Red Room for a while (busy with my own dissertation proposal) so missed the first announcement of...
Mar.09.2011 - 6:10 am
In response to: Books I Brought Back from the Big Bash (or, Why My Back & Arms Hurt, But My Head & Heart are Happy -- A List in Lieu of a Post)
of books well worth reading. But now that you're finished them all, want another? I'll trade my latest book for one...
Mar.09.2011 - 6:04 am
In response to: Feast or Famine? Feast.
Yes, we do have a fair number of innovative poets up here, those reworking form and syntax -- Betsy Warland, Steve...