NMSU at AWP 11

NMSU will be well-represented at AWP this year, with both Puerto Del Sol and the NMSU MFA program exhibiting at the bookfair. The tables are right next to each other, so stop by and say hello, as well as pick up a copy of the latest Puerto and some information on the MFA at NMSU. Richard Greenfield's press, Apostrophe Books, will be sharing a table with Action Books. You can find Noemi Press at the Puerto table.

Be sure to attend Possess Nothing, a reading hosted by Apostrophe Books, Action Books, Black Ocean, Slope Editions, and Tarpaulin Sky Press on Saturday 2/5, 6:30 pm at the Wonderland Ballroom. 

Carmen Gimenez Smith will be participating in the following panels:

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 4TH AT 4:30PM

Omni Shoreham Empire Ballroom, West Lobby 
Poet/Editors on Inclusivity and Race. (Rich Villar, Dan Chiasson, Don
Share, Carmen Giménez Smith, Barbara Jane Reyes)
Poet/editors discuss inclusiveness (and lack thereof) of minority
voices in literary publications. Representing both mainstream and more
community-based projects, the panelists consider the challenges of
inclusiveness, and how successful (and unsuccessful) they have been.
They consider how, in an atmosphere of perceived mistrust,
constructive dialogue can be forged towards the goal of better
presenting the broad spectrum of American poetry.

Saturday, 4:30-5:45 p.m.

Wilson A, B, & C Room
Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level

S218. LaChiPo and the New Latino Poetics/Politics. (John-Michael Rivera, Rodrigo Toscano, Valerie Martinez, Roberto Tejada, Danielle Cadena Deulen, Carmen Giménez Smith) LaChiPo, an online forum for the Latino Diaspora, is the Latino’s 21st-century answer to “new” movements like flarf and conceptual poetics. Devoted to developing Latino letters, LaChiPo invites AWP attendees to resituate how they read, to relearn how identity is spoken, expanding their articulation of history, art and modernity. LaChiPo presents writers discussing Latino conceptions of internet community, identity and the avant-garde, reading individual and their collective poetry works.

Carmen will also be participating in the Floricanto reading, which is on Friday 2/4 at 6 pmat the True Reformer Building on U Street.

MFA students will also be busy; Heather Frankland will be volunteering for the conference. Carrie Murphy and Megan Wong will be at the NMSU MFA table, Mike Meginnis will be found at the Puerto Del Sol table and Robert Alan Wendeborn will be helping out at the Apostrophe table.

NMSU MFA Graduate's Literary Journal Celebrates First Print Issue

MFA Poetry '10 graduate Krystal Languell edits the journal Bone Bouquet, which is celebrating the release of its first print issue.  The NMSU English Dept helped fund the journal with a 2009-10 creative activities grant, and MFA student Elizabeth Brasher and fellow MFA Poetry '10 graduate Allison Layfield have also become involved with the journal. See below for information about the journal, and its inaugural launch reading in Brooklyn this month.

BONE BOUQUET FIRST PRINT ISSUE NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER 

Bone Bouquet is delighted to announce the availability of our first print issue--#2.1--in January 2011. As was our plan from the beginning, we're making the transition from web-only to a hybrid print and online publication.
The new issue is now available for pre-order (http://bonebouquet.org/2010/12/13/252/).

 This issue includes new work from: 

Arielle Greenberg, Jennifer Firestone
Tamiko Beyer, Dana Teen Lomax
Leigh Stein, Emily Skillings
Carolyn Guinzio, Dawn Pendergast
Jennifer H. Fortin, Kara Dorris
Becca Klaver, and Claire Hero.

The first two will remain viewable online, and select content from print issues will be available at our website as well. Issue 2.1 will begin shipping on 1/10/2011! 

BONE BOUQUET ISSUE 2.1 LAUNCH READING JANUARY 15, 2011
We'll be celebrating with a launch reading at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn on January 15, 2011 beginning at 6:00pm. We hope you'll join us if you can!
Readers include contributors Allison Layfield, Tamiko Beyer, Jennifer Firestone, Leigh Stein, Jennifer H. Fortin, and Kate Schapira!
Copies of the print issue will be available at the event, and wine will also be available. After party to take place across the street at Soda Bar.
Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt
Brooklyn, NY 11238
walkable from 2, 3 at Brooklyn Museum or 4, 5 at Franklin Ave or C train at Clinton-Washington.

Carmen Gimenez Smith News

Poet and professor Carmen Giménez Smith will have her third book of poetry, TREES OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY, published by The Center for Literary Publishing's new Mountain West Poetry Series in 2011. Read a new essay by Carmen in Shadowbox, a review of her book BRING DOWN THE LITTLE BIRDS in the latest issue of The Collagist, or her thoughts about the future of American poetry at The Huffington Post. 

On Gender and Publishing: A Panel Moderated by Carmen Giménez Smith

Poet and NMSU professor Carmen Giménez Smith, who edits both Puerto del Sol and Noemi Press, moderated a panel about gender and publishing for VIDA, the new women-in-the-literary arts organization. Tracy Bowling, a 3rd year MFA Fiction student who edits Uncanny Valley with her husband Mike, participated in the panel along with several other writers, editors, publishers and teachers. 


Carmen is also on the Outreach Committee for VIDA, a great new organization. Head on over to their site and check out the panel, as well as the other important work VIDA is doing in the literary world.


On a related note, MFA Poetry 09' grad Kara Dorris has just started a new poetry journal, Lingerpost. Submissions are open until November, so read the submission guidelines and send your poems!

NMSU MFA Alumni Projects

Check out just a few of the fascinating creative projects spearheaded by NMSU MFA program alumni:


MFA Fiction 04' Albert Martinez has an awesome website, Lively Words, where he features video footage of writers reading their work. Several people associated with the MFA program at New Mexico State have participated in his project, including former professors Antonya Nelson and Robert Boswell, current professor Connie Voisine and graduates Tim Staley and Dorine Jennette.


MFA Fiction 05' graduate Jacquie Fuller also has a website project, How I Found You. How I Found You "wants to know how you found someone, or something, significant in your life. How you found them for the first time, how you found them again. How they changed you forever." (from the website) Like Lively Words, you can find several submissions from people associated with the program, including former professors Kevin McIlvoy and Sheila Black. 


Voices Behind Walls is a creative writing workshop program started by MFA Poetry 08' alum Lee Rhyanes.  The program takes place in juvenile detention centers in the Southwest and encourages juvenile offenders to express themselves through poetry.  Read the interesting story of how the workshop developed on the website and sign up for the newsletter. Lee, along with NMSU Literature graduate Justin DeSenso, was also instrumental in helping to create "Hip-Hop Stacks," a catalog of hip-hop literature, music, art and scholarship now located at the Branson Library on the New Mexico State University campus.