Congratulations to Anushka Anastasia Solomon

author of Please,God, Don't Let Me Write Like A Woman

Anushka Anastasia Solomon is one of 8 remarkable women

(Anna Politkovskaya, Lydia Cacho, Anushka Anastasia Solomon, Shirin Ebadi, Arundhati Roy, Wangari Maathai, Aung San Suu Kyi and Woeser)

who Glasgow Women's Library and Amnesty International will feature at the 

International Heroines Exhibition, July 2nd, 2009, GWL, 2nd Floor, 81 Parnie Street, Glasgow, G1 5RH, Scotland.
 
Well known Scottish writer A L Kennedy will perform readings from the work

of these women who dared to speak out against human rights abuses

in the face of repression & adversity. 

http://www.womenslibrary.org.uk/2009/07/international-heroines/

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Congratulations to Gary Metras 

author of Francis d'Assisi 2008

for making the 9th Annual

Massachusetts Book Awards Recommended Readings List!

The full listing can be seen on their site at http://www.massbook.org   

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Congratulations to Deborah Gordon Cooper!

Deborah Gordon Cooper's chapbook Between the Ceiling & the Moon received

the Honorable Mention Prize

in poetry at the Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony.

The awards, for work published in 2008,

were presented at the University of Minnesota Duluth on May 17,
2009. www.d.umn.edu/lib/nemba

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Congratulations to Carol Hamilton author of Shots On!

Shots On has been selected as a finalist in the 20th Annual Oklahoma Book Award Competition

Congratulations to our Finishing Line Press Authors:

The following has been nominated for the Oregon Book Award:

Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award:

On a Good Day One Discovers Another Poet by Helen Degen Cohen

At the Edge of the Known World by Mary Ellen Geer

Time of Sand & Teeth by Gunilla Theander Kester

Visionware by Caridad Moro-McCormick

Still Here by Charles W. Pratt

Hawk Weather by Anna Ross

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Congratulations to W.E. Butts, author of Sunday Factory (FLP, 2006)

for being appointed to a five year term as New Hampshire poet laureate.

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Judy Loest had her poem "Faith,"from the FLP collection After Appalachia, released on the

website, www.americanlifeinpoetry.org, on Monday, May 11.

American Life in Poetry provides

newspapers and online publications with a free weekly

column featuring contemporary American poems.

Newspaper circulation is about 4,000,000 per week in papers from Maine to Hawaii.  

E-mail subscribers in such places as Australia, Uganda, Peru, Poland, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and the UK, as well as throughout the USA.

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Finishing Line Press: Hear the interview with

Sr. Editor Leah Maines and Managing Editor Kevin Maines

on Accents radio show for literature, art and culture, WRFL, 88.1 FM, Lexington, Kentucky

hosted by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer: http://www.katerinaklemer.com/radio.html

or the direct link to the file is http://www.katerinaklemer.com/audio/acce nts_050809.mp3

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Listen to an interview of Aileen Murphy author of There Will Be Cats on the NPR show

Studio Virginia hosted by Gene Marrano http://home.comcast.net/~paulheilker/studio.virginia.mp3

PRAISE FOR THERE WILL BE CATS

Love is easy. You see it and you do it. Falling in love. A baby. A car. A special way someone fries chicken. The sun going down. The moon coming up. The way Grandmother hummed when she rocked your cold away. The hard part of love is letting the object of that love know that what you offer is love when you offer a doctor; a harsh word; an expectation; a push at the door; discipline at school; the kind of love you offer when your love is a Mother's love: asking only that you accept this love; reaching out to you when you need to be loved; uncritical love. There Will Be Cats offers a precious love to share with us. Aileen Murphy has written a wonderful prose/poem.

And we are warmed by that embrace.

*~Nikki Giovanni, author of Black Feeling/Black Talk, Black Judgment and Acolytes

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Here is an article about Kentucky poet Sherry Chandler.

She is the author of the FLP chapbook Dance the Black-Eyed Girl.

Sherry Chandler: I like to tell a story and work with voices

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s interview with poet Sherry Chandler on

Public Republic

http://www.public-republic.net/sherry-chandler-i-like-to-tell-a-story-and-work-with-voices.php

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ON TV

• Karen Zaborowski Duffy, author of Giving in to the Smoke, was featured on the The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.  Karen was featured on the national TV broadcast and also online.  Click above to go to the online story. Giving in to the Smoke was the winner of the 2007 Starting Gate Award.

• Charles Pratt was featured in National PBS documentary profiling New England writers workshop.Charles Pratt, joins other members of the long-running, Skimmilk Farm writers workshop in the half hour documentary MONDAYS AT SKIMMILK: 30 YEARS OF WRITERS AT WORK.  Released in 2008, through American Public Television, MONDAYS AT SKIMMILK has aired all over the PBS system, and continues to pick up air dates.  The film celebrates the wit and wisdom of some of New England's top writers, mostly poets, in interviews and workshop scenes from Skimmilk Farm, the summer home in southern NH, of poet Jean Pedrick.   Founded by members of the Alice James Books press in the 1970's, the workshop attracted many writers, nurturing the careers of several noted poet laureates of NH, essayist Nancy Mairs, and Pratt, who became the first male member of the group.Boston Globe called MONDAYS AT SKIMMILK a " fitting tribute" and current NH Poet Laureate Pat Farignoli called the film "exquisite....a joy to watch".   For more information and to order a DVD of the film contact:  skimmilk@kbprods.comor call Ken Browne Productions at 212 240 9044. Visit :   www.kbprods.com/skimmilk

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ON THE WEB  and/or   IN THE PRESS

Visit our page on Facebook-http://www.facebook.com/finishinglinepress

ON THE RADIO: Poet Roger Craik, author of the forthcoming Of England Still (Finishing Line Press),

will be a guest on the radio show Accents a Radio Show for Literature, Art and Culture, WRFL 88.1 FM, Lexington, KY.

Friday, June 19, 2009 at 2:00pm EST. Listen online live from http://wrfl.fm    (An archive of the shows will be available later.)

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Writer Craig Leaf at home in Lowell with son Versailles, age 2. (Joanne Rathe/Globe Staff)

Read the interview by James Sullivan of Craig Leaf author of Lost in Hindsight

in the Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/04/05/after_hindsight_writer_turning_over_a_new_leaf/

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WINNING WRITERS FEATURES LEAH MAINES POETRY CONTEST INSIDER: WINTER 2008-09 FEATURES NOW ONLINE  Jendi Reiter Interviews Leah Maines Senior Editor of Finishing Line Press Click here for the complete interview and bonus feature, "Self-Promotion for Poets"

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East Moriches poet Adam Penna, photographed at the Beach Bakery in Westhampton Beach. PAT ROGERS

Read the interview of Adam Penna author of The Love of a Sleeper

"Success for an everyday poet" by Pat Rogers"

in the The East Hampton Press & The Southampton Press

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Congratulations to Susanna Rich for being featured

in the Star-Ledger see highlights of her stage show Television Daddy:

http://www.nj.com/multimedia/featuredvideos/index.ssf/2008/11/not_your_ordinary_poetry_readi.htm

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Check out this great site which features Heather McNaugher, author of Panic & Joy :

The link to a blog run by Karen Lillis, a Pittsburgh librarian who also runs Lillis Distributor/Pittsburgh: A SMALL small press Distributor & Info Provider.

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=259082034&blogID=358122903

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Check out this great site which features George Held , author of THE ART OF WRITING AND OTHERS :

poetryvlog.com

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NOTE TO FLP; Author's Anamorphy a Journal and Anamorphy Weekly Podcast, is always looking for both Poets with new books/chapbooks toreview, poems for magazine, and authors to interview or read for
weekly podcast. DIRECT LINK TO PODCAST http://web.mac.com/anamorphypress/iWeb/Site%206/ANAMORPHY%20WEEKLY%20a%20PODCAST/ANAMORPHY%20WEEKLY%20a%20PODCAST.html

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ON THE RADIO

• Congratulations to Julene Tripp Weaver author of Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues; George Held, author of Grounded and The Art of Writing and Others; GARY L. LARK, author of Men At the Gates, Joyce Greenberg Lott, author of DEAR MRS. DALLOWAY; Paula Sergi author of FAMILY BUSINESS and John Brantingham author of PUTTING IN A WINDOW! Poems from their FLP books were recently featured on Garrison Keillor's THE WRITER'S ALMANAC radio show.  (These titles are available on amazon.com) The Writer’s Almanac is a daily radio program produced by American Public Media (APM).  In each program Mr. Keillor presents a  list of cultural events and anniversaries, many associated with literature and literary figures, then ends with the poetry reading.  APM currently distributes the program for broadcast to about 320 non-commercial public radio stations around the country.  The program audio is also streamed and podcast from and archived on the APM website at http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org and may be streamed, archived on carrying station websites as well.

• Jane Beal, author of Sanctuary, shared her poetry on

"Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour" on KDVS

(90.3 FM in Northern California) on

March 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM Pacific Standard Time AND 7:30 PM Central Time. :)
To listen online, visit: http://www.kdvs.org/listen/.
To learn more about Jane Beal and see how she is

using internet technology to promote poetry, visit her new website: http://sanctuarypoet.net!

• Collin Kelley, author of After the Poison,

Collin read from and discussed After the Poison on

The Joe Milford Poetry Show on Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. You can listen at http://joemilfordpoetryshow.synthasite.com and the show will be archived for future listening.

Collin now has a YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/collinkelleypoetry. You can see his reading from After the Poison filmed live in October 2008 at Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City. Collin's debut novel, Conquering Venus, will be released by Vanilla Heart Publishing in Summer 2009.

• Hear Ed Frankel read his chapbook When the Catfish Are in Bloom: Requiem for John Fahey,

on KPFK  FM radio in Los Angeles, CA,The Global Village, hosted by John Shneider.

• You can hear Julene Tripp Weaver read her poetry: Julene Tripp Weaver and Ellen Bass read their poetry on Talking Earth: KBOO, 90.7 Portland, Oregon Radio,. Broadcast live on the web! And The Moe Green Poetry Hour, a World Wide Word Radio Network. David Rowe from New Orleans reads first. It aired Sunday April 6th, it is available to listen to at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword

• World Wide Word Radio Network , Michille Biting author of Blue Laws was a featured guest on the Moe Green Poetry Hour hosted by Rafael FJ Alvarado and Corrie GreatHouse: March 16 show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/page/3

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• Between the Sheets: Conversations with Editors: Stacey Mangiaracina & Roy K. Johnston
as they speak with Poet & Sr. Editor of Finishing Line Press,  LEAH MAINES podcast: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/2008/04/22/Between-The-Sheets-hosted-by-Stacey-Mangiaracina-Roy-Johnston

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• Angela O'Donnell, author of Mine, was interviewed recently by AMERICA magazine (one of her poems, "St. Vincent," appeared in the Jan 21st issue).  Here is the link to the podcast: http://americamagazine.podbean.com/2008/02/27/march-10-podcast-on-catholic-poetry/

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• Edythe Haendel Schwartz, author of Exposure, was Jeffrey Callison's guest on "Inisght,",

Sacramento Public Radio, KXJZ.

The podcast of the program is available at www.capradio.org/insight. March 6, 2008 show
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• Listen to Finishing Line Press poet Edward Dougherty On OFF THE PAGE  

with Bill Jaker WSKG http://www.wskg.com/offthepage.htm

Download a podcast or stream  it at http://wskg.com/offthepage.htm

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ANTHOLOGIES

CONGRATULATIONS TO ABIGAIL GRAMIG! Abigail Gramig's poem "Requiem" (first published by Finishing Line Press in her chapbook DUSTING THE PIANO ) is included in Billy Collins' new anthology. Available at amazon.com.

180 More :Extraordinary Poems for Every Day by BILLY COLLINS (Editor)

Dusting the Piano can be purchased at amazon.com.

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