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Connie Hales has some poems in a new anthology just out from Autumn House Press, New America: Contemporary Literature for a Changing Society, alongside poets and writers including Junot Diaz, Rita Dove, Dorianne Laux, Li-Young Lee, Naomi Shihab Nye and Gary Soto. A couple of our former students as well: Brian Turner and James Tyner. She’s even on the cover. It’s a terrific collection—check it out.
Ahsahta Press is about to go into its *fourth* printing of Connie Hales’ very first volume of poems Underground (1986). It’s a classic.
Happy 25th to Underground–and congratulations, Connie!
THE FRESNO POETS’ ASSOCIATION & FRESNO STATE’S MFA PROGRAM IN CREATIVE WRITING
Present the first in their Fall Reading Series
CORRINNE CLEGG HALES
Thursday, September 22, 2011, 7 p.m. at:
The Voice Shop
1296 N. Wishon
Fresno, CA 93728
Book signing and reception to follow. This event is FREE and open to the public. Limited seating.
Corrinne Clegg Hales is the author of five poetry collections. She’ll be reading from her most recent publication, To Make it Right, winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize for 2010 (Spring 2011, Autumn House Press). Her previous books include Separate Escapes, winner of the Richard Snyder Poetry Prize (Ashland Poetry Press); Out of This Place (chapbook, March Street Press), Underground (Ahsahta Press); and January Fire (chapbook, Devil’s Millhopper Press). Her poems have appeared in Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, and many other journals. Awards include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Devil’s Millhopper Chapbook Prize and the River Styx Poetry Prize.
She is currently the James and Coke Hallowell Professor of Creative Writing at Fresno State’s MFA Program in Creative Writing.
http://www.csufresno.edu/english/mfa/faculty/index.shtml
To Make It Right
By CORRINNE CLEGG HALES
Winner of the 2010 Autumn House Poetry Prize, selected by Claudia Emerson
“Her language muscular and resolute, equally hard-edged and finely honed, Corrinne Clegg Hales explores the sometimes uneasy resonances between family and community, the self and history, reminding us that one of poetry’s noble purposes lies in the skillful ordering of emotional chaos. To Make It Right contains poetry of fierce, undeniable beauty despite the hardships that have inspired it, and includes a sequence devoted to the discovery of a narrative’s first fine threads of truth buried with the victims of the Mountain Meadow Massacre of 1857, when Mormon zealots murdered over a hundred emigrant men, women, and children bound for California. Ambitious and sustained, this remarkable collection is the work of a poet intent on responding to the call of this world.” –Claudia Emerson
<http://www.autumnhouse.org/to-make-it-right-by-corrinne-clegg-hales/>
For more information about this event, contact Cindy Wathen at ciwathen@csufresno.edu.
THE FRESNO POETS’ ASSOCIATION is now a formal program of Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing in conjunction with the Madden Library. Please consider supporting our organization:
Annual memberships: Student $5; Individual $10; Family $15; Contributor $25; Patron $50; Sustaining $100
Please mail a check made payable to Fresno State Foundation to:
Office of the Dean, Madden Library,
5200 N. Barton Ave. ML 34
Fresno CA 93740-8014
PHILIP LEVINE PRIZE IN POETRY
$2000 prize and publication by Anhinga Press
Final Judge: DENISE DUHAMEL
Postmark Deadline: 9/30/2011
Previous Judges: Brian Turner, Garret Hongo, Dorianne Laux, C.G. Hanzlicek, Corrinne Clegg Hales, Philip Levine
Previous Winners: Lory Bedikian, Sarah Wetzel, Shane Seely, Neil Aitken, Lynn Chandhok, Roxane Beth Johnson, Steve Gehrke, Fleda Brown.
2011 GUIDELINES
Manuscript should be original poetry, not previously published in book form, 48-100 pages, no more than one poem per page. Include two manuscript title pages: one with name and contact information and one with the name of the manuscript ONLY. Manuscripts are screened and judged anonymously. Multiple submissions are fine as long as the manuscript is withdrawn immediately upon its acceptance elsewhere. The entry fee is $25. Checks should be made out to “Fresno State (Levine Prize)”. Poets can submit more than one manuscript, but each will be considered a separate entry and must be accompanied by the $25 fee.
Mail Entries to: Philip Levine Prize in Poetry Department of English, Mail Stop PB 98 5245 N. Backer Ave. California State University, Fresno Fresno, California 93740-8001
<http://www.csufresno.edu/english/mfa/levine>
or email Connie Hales at connieh@csufresno.edu
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DENISE DUHAMEL Bio:
In 1961, Denise Duhamel was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. She received a BFA degree from Emerson College and a MFA degree from Sarah Lawrence College.
She is the author of numerous books and chapbooks of poetry, including: “Ka-Ching!” (University of Pittsburgh, 2009), “Two and Two” (2005), and “Mille et un sentiments” (Firewheel Editions, 2005).
Her other books currently in print are “Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems” (University of Pittsburgh, 2001), “The Star-Spangled Banner,” winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize (1999); “Kinky” (1997); “Girl Soldier” (1996); and “How the Sky Fell” (1996). Duhamel has also collaborated with Maureen Seaton on three volumes: “Little Novels” (Pearl Editions, 2002), Oyl (2000), and “Exquisite Politics” (Tia Chucha Press, 1997).
In response to Duhamel’s collection “Smile!,” Edward Field says, “More than any other poet I know, Denise Duhamel, for all the witty, polished surface of her poems, communicates the ache of human existence.”
A winner of an National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, she has been anthologized widely, including four volumes of “The Best American Poetry” (2000, 1998, 1994, and 1993).
Duhamel teaches creative writing and literature at Florida International University and lives in Hollywood, Florida.
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Pakatelas! A Literary Torta w/ poet Corrinne Clegg Hales
Thursday, May 26 · 3:00pm – 3:30pm
KFCF 88.1 FM and kfcf.org (live feed)–All Times Pacific
Join us as we interview poet and director of CSU, Fresno’s Creative Writing Program, Corrinne Clegg Hales. Hales is the author of five poetry collections, most recently “To Make It Right” (2011 Autumn House Press), which won the 2010 Autumn House Poetry Prize, selected by Claudia Emerson.
Critical Praise for “To Make it Right”
Corrinne Clegg Hales latest collection, “To Make It Right,” recognizes the dead we carry within us, as well as the inheritance of grief we pass on to those we love. These poems refuse to avert their gaze, opting instead for a lyrical scrutiny of loss and tenderness given in equal measure. “To Make It Right” gathers in the resilience of those who survive the wounds of a broken world, poem by poem, until the book s end reaches a hard-earned and stunning beauty. It is a brave work that I will return to often as the years go by. –Brian Turner
This is a masterpiece. Hales, at the peak of her powers, pierces the past, present and future. I am in absolute awe. –Juan Felipe Herrera
Our faculty also had a busy Spring Break. Here’s what they were up to:
Connie Hales’ new book, To Make It Right, has been released and is available here. The book was selected by Claudia Emerson as the winner of the 2010 Autumn House Poetry Prize. Congratulations, Connie!
You may remember that earlier this year, Steven Church’s essay “Auscultation” was published by The Pedestrian. We’ve just learned that the essay has been selected for the 2011 Best American Essays, due out in October. Way to go, Steven!
Also, Steven’s awesome essay, “Colossal Colon,” has been accepted for publication by the online lit journal, Waccamaw. If you’ve never heard him read this essay, you’re missing out on a wonderful experience. Request it next time he does a reading!
Last but not least, Alex Espinoza reviews Gil Cuadros’s City of God and John Rechy’s City of Night in the current American Book Review, edited by former Fresno State Distinguished Visiting Writer Dagoberto Gilb. Check it out!
Friends, Professor Connie Hales and MFA graduates Eileen Apperson & James Espinoza all have work featured in The Packinghouse Review Vol. 2. No. 3. Congratulations Connie, Eileen & James !
Professor Connie Hales’ poetry manuscript “Accidental Revelation” (part of her new book) was first Honorable Mention for the 2010 Open Chapbook Competition/ Finishing Line Press Prize in Poetry. Congratulations, Connie!
