EVENTS
sponsored by Pudding House
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RATTLEBOX National
Readings sponsored by or emceed by Jennifer Bosveld
at special events.
Coming up, April 2008, The National Association for Poetry Therapy Conference,
in Minneapolis, Millenium Hotel, 1st wk of April, google "poetry therapy"
Pudding House dislpays at this conference annually.
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PLUM PUDDING Regional Readings Nationwide
featuring Pudding House chapbook authors
organized by the poets in the region.
They are happening all over the place.
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SALON
Poetry Writing Workshop sponsored by Pudding House
led by Rose Smith
Writing, critiquing, read-arounds, sharing news about poetry events
1st Saturdays monthly, 9:30am – 4pm
meeting at MCL Cafeteria, E. Main St., in Columbus Ohio
Registration only $65/yr
New workshop started in February 2008
Send to Pudding House a passionate letter of interest, 6 of your best poems,
$10 non-refundable application fee payable to Rose Smith, your email
Fee will apply to registration if you’re accepted.
Appropriate for a broad range of writers producing poetry
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POETRY PUBLISHING ADVANCE
Invitational-only, free closed workshop sponsored by Pudding House
directed by Kip Knott
10 well-publishing poets gather informally at Jennifer’s
to further expand publication credits
3rd Saturdays monthly, 9:30am – 2pm
Abbott, Bosveld, Burgess, Everett, Feen, Fix, Knott, Pringle, Roscoe, Smith
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Jen's address and phone number:
81 Shadymere Lane, Columbus, Ohio 43213
(614) 986-1881
BREAKING NEWS!
1/3/08--Pudding House former intern, the exceptional poet, Eva Della Lana,
is a 3-time victim of Plagiarism by a New York City writer.
Adria Giattino, now a college student at Barnard in NYC, stole Eva Della Lana's
poem, "Menarche in Rural Ohio," and entered it into three NYC competitions
and won or placed in all three, receiving $5000 from Random House,
$200 from New York City College, and a prize from Scholatic.
NYCC has been wonderful, believed us immediately, and obtained a written
full confession from the plagiarist. We've yet to hear real results from Random House, the biggest financial damages victim. Can you believe that Random House wrote to us saying, "We're satisfied with her apology." We're furious about this. How irresponsible to the other contestants, to the publishing industry, to the true author and her publisher. There are many victims in the crime: 3 competition sponsors, Stuyvesant High School and their administrators, teachers, the crook's own mother, competition corporate sponsors, the judge/s, but the number one victim is Eva Della Lana. It's going to be interesting to see how this pans out. The poem is the opening poem in her chapbook that was published by Pudding House and the opening poem in Pudding 53. Readers, surf the net and help us report any illegal usages of Eva's great poem, "Menarche in Rural Ohio." Please.
Trial period a huge success--chapbook manuscripts now considered
by email only 24/7/365
1) Send $12 reading fee by phone, VISA/MC w/exp date, or pre-sent
check in the mail then
10-32 (21-28 best) page manuscript by email attachment.
2) Microsoft Word for Windows PC doc with subject line
"c-last name, first name, title of chapbook"
with everything in one file or document, having proofed
and assured great prepwork.
Do not send .dat or docx files. Send .doc files; rtf might be ok.
3) On cover page list your name, all contact information, email,
mss title, payment by phone at (614) 986-1881. If we're traveling,
we could be gone as long as 6 wks. People staying here
do not open mail or answer phone. There is no answering machine.
4) Type only in Times New Roman 11 pt font throughout, straight type,
no pagination or "inserted" page breaks or column breaks.
Do absolutely no page set-up within the document.
No lay-outs on page; we do book lay-out, not authors.
Space bar 4 lines between poems or place them at top of next page.
5) Include in one document, in order: Cover page w/all contact info,
title page, acknowledgments showing poem title and first appearance publication credits,
contents (not as a "table", use no page numbers and do not number the poems), poems,
About the Author statement. DO NOT PAGINATE.
All page numbers must be removed from document text and Table of Contents.
6) Send to Pudding House via jen@puddinghouse.com.
Same-day response unless we're traveling.
We are no longer accepting chapbooks by U.S. Mail
since if accepted, we'll need it by email attachment anyway.
Right scroll headlines, left scroll our webpages
How Pudding Got Its Name
$1,000
for you
The Pudding House Poetry Chapbook Competition
DEADLINE Sept 30 annually
Reading period for the 2008 competition
is now open through September 30, 2008. No simultaneous submissions.
Announcing. . . the 2007 winner:
Anne McCrady, Henderson Texas, for Under a Blameless Moon
AVAILABLE
2nd Place: Karen Schubert, Cleveland, Ohio, The Geography of Lost Houses
AVAILABLE
3rd Place: Matt Morris, Elkview, West Virginia, Here's How
AVAILABLE
Facts over the years:
Most competition entries come from
MA, NY, IL, CA, NC, PA, OH, CT, AZ, VT, MD, WA, OR, WV, VA in that order . . .
and we received entries from every one of the 50 states in 2007.
2006 Winner: John Repp, Erie, Pennsylvania
2005 Winner: David Chorlton, Phoenix, Arizona
2004 Winner: Maggie Smith, Columbus, Ohio
No Pudding House staff or their immediate families
or winners from past 2 years may enter.
TIPS:
Chapbook manuscripts scoring highest tend to
be those with "words dancing together that have never danced together before" (J Bosveld);
offer a clarity that makes them accessible at an opening level and offer layered meanings
and additional discoveries with repeated readings;
contain some aha moments;
are playful and fresh but not cute, or;
might be deadly serious with social justice or political implications
but don't beat us over the head;
have an inventive style;
might be educational as well as entertaining;
role model work replicable to some degree for poets developing their voices;
reflect the American popular culture with fresh insight and
a high level of artistic expression;
Rarely do we get much of that. We score on a scale of 1 - 10,
ten being nearly unheard of high. The highest score this year was
8.8 (scorers averaged perhaps influencing judge's score).
The high scores for 1st place winners over the years have been 8.8, 10, 9, 8, 9, 8.
Manuscripts would usually require scores 8.0 or over to place in the finals, befor that 7.0 to place in the "hold file".
WHO WILL BE PUBLISHED?
25 poets out of the pool of submissions.
JUDGE:
Jennifer Bosveld, with a desire to be influenced by Pudding House team members who may champion particular manuscripts. We want entrants to know who the judge is because the main purpose for sponsoring the competition is to find poems that come closest to Pudding House editorial taste.
HEADLINES & NEWS FLASHES--
JUNKYARD RHAPSODY Ekphrastic Invitational Poetry Competition
on photographs by H. Eugene Bradford at www.photo-genesis.net.
Winners announced:
1st Prize: Chad Prevost, Cleveland, Tennessee
broadside publication and small cash award. $100 retail
2nd Prize: Susan Terris, San Francisco, California
broadside publication, $50 retail.
3rd Prize: Kathleen Burgess, Chillicothe, Ohio
broadside publication, $50 retail. Available
4th Prize: W.K. Buckley, Gary, Indiana
broadside publication, $50 retail.
The next ekphrastic competition will be open to all American Poets and will have a small reading fee of 3 one dollar bills. Check back on this mainpage to discover the target subject.
Titles from our house poet, Mark Hartenbach
$10 each unless otherwise posted
Surfing the Infinite Pulse
Three Poems
Prayer Cards with Phone Numbers Written on Them, Love Songs and Painful Memories
Carp Head Replica
Confessions of an American Garbagehead (novella)
Land of Nod (chapbook)
Postcards from the Bunker (chapbook)
March (a 100 page book written over a month)Perfect bound, color, $15
Ten Houses Pudding House reprinted this acclaimed collection in 2005
Book of Resurrection(first Hartenbach book released.
Mark Hartenbach: Greatest Hits--his signature poems
Beneath the Valley of the Blue-eyed Boys--Jennifer's favorite
. . of all the Hartenbach collections. Amazing poems on his childhood.
Mark Hartenbach is published by Nerve Cowboy, Alpha Beat, Chiron Review, The Temple, Rio Grande Review, Louisiana Review, Kiosk, Black Moon, Wormwood Review, Thunder Sandwich, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His chapbook, Ten Houses (MonkeyBoy Press, Holland MI) received rave reviews from Janice Faye Fiering in The Temple and is re-released by Pudding House. Gerald Locklin praised him as one of the most significant voices out there. Reviewer Michael Basinski (SUNY/Buffalo) says "In all of small press there is no more saintly roving spiritually searching mind artist than Mark Hartenbach. Hartenbach is living soul-shivering, pondering, and roaring. Hartenbach searches the soul like a brillo at work on some baked on zucchini. I stand in awe.
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--MORE NEW PUDDING HOUSE CHAPBOOKS--
pre-publication and released titles
$10 each!
2007/08 NEW TITLES
90% of these titles will be on display at the 2008 POETS HOUSE Spring Showcase
the important annual gala in New York City.
The titles that didn't make it this year will be on display next year.
See "Publications List" for full list of all collections previous to 2007
The Heat of Blooming by L. Ward Abel
By the Numbers by Carl Adkins
One Life Shining: Addie Finch, Farmwife by Lucy Adkins
Whatever It Is I Was Giving Up by Diane Allerdyce,
. . . winner of the Red Wheel Barrow Award
Reassembling Dust by Fred Alsberg
Dictionary Quilt by John Anderson
Digging for Water by David Austerweil
Death Song at Dawn by Robert Milo Baldwin
Lonesome by Jon Ballard
The Story Box by George Bandy
The Pinball God Let Fly by Pam Herbert Barger
The Concert Review by J.Mae Barizo
After the Barn Door Opened by Anne Barney
No One Ever Looks Up by Amye Barrese
Ellen Bass: Greatest Hits by Ellen Bass
Raising Petra by Michele Battiste
Another Country by Joan E. Bauer
Firestorm by John Bennett
Tumani Means Hope by Louise B. Bennett
Funerals in the South by Roy Bentley
Woman and Alligator: The Florida Poems by Roy Bentley
Carlo X by Edward Boccia
Liberry by Barbara Bonney
Chapbook on the Making of The Chapbook by Jennifer Bosveld
7 7 7: Poems of Fortune edited by Jennifer Bosveld
In Hindsight: A Happy Accident by Partridge Boswell
Brief Bio of the Stick Figure by Ian Brand
Sharp Edges by David Breeden
Fifty White Stones by Tim J. Brennan
Glances Back by Emily Bright
Yesterday's Hay by Bill Brown
Between You and Me by Alfred J. Bruey, 2nd Pl 2006 competition
It's Always Gettysburg by Jack Burgess
We Swallowed Spiders in Our Sleep by Zachary C. Bush
What to Say if the Birds Ask by W.E. Butts
From the Middle Kingdom by Sam Byfield
The East Point Poems by Michael Scott Cain
The Performer by Michael Cantor
Near the End of the Rainy Season by Nancy Corson Carter
Flicka by T.R. Catanzarite
Controlled Burn by Casey Charles
Lazarus Field by Adam Chiles
A Chronology of Calamities by Alex Cigale
Three Hundred and Sixty Four Paper Boats by Michael Fitzgerald Clarke
Reviving the Damsel Fish by Sara Claytor
A Cozy Lie by Elayne Clift
Thank You For Your Submission by Mark Collins
A Father's Story by Temple Cone
Quandry Farm by Temple Cone
Tadiolaria by Temple Cone
This I'd Know of Birds by Thomas Cook
Gardening in a Time of War by Maryann Corbett
Strip Searched by Susan DeBow
Brief and Glorious Transit by Robert DeMott
Scrofula by Matt Dennison
Ancestor Worship by Brock Dethier
Longing for Home by Norita Dittberner
Drive-Ins, Gas Stations, Bright Motels by Wendy Drexler
Roger Dunsmore: Greatest Hits by Roger Dunsmore
Blind Curves by Pat Durmon
How We Name Thee: Poems of the Motherland by Peg Edera
Liberal Translations by Robert Martin Evans
Homemade Engines from a Dream by Noah Falck
Annie Finch: Greatest Hits by Annie Finch
Dragon Emerging from Waves by Andy Fogle
Runaway Girl by CB Follett
Summer of Salvage by Anne C. Fowler
Whiskey Stitching by Anne Carrol Fowler
Four Hours to Mpumalanga by Matthew Gavin Frank
Weather Report by Laura Freedgood
This Stone Will Speak by Lisha Adela Garcia
Excuses for Happiness by Jen Garfield
Charles Ghigna: Greatest Hits
Anatomy of a Scream by Dana Gilkes
Lining the Rails by Carmen Gillespie
Faith is the Next Breath by Arthur Ginsberg
A White Girl Lynching by Elizabeth P. Glixman
The Cost of Living by Norman Goodwin
I Stole a Briefcase by Jason Gordon
Walking Home by John Graber
Super Rich by J.M. Green
re:Play by Michael Gregory
Litany of Finger Prayers by Carol Lynn Grellas
S.A. Griffin: Greatest Hits by S.A. Griffin
Bob Grumman Greatest Hits by Bob Grumman
Gathering Down Women by Michael Gushue
Skating Backward by Ann White Haggett
Greatest Hits by Therese Halscheid
Decalmaker by Sheri Fresonke Harper
Surfing the Infinite Pulse by mark hartenbach
three poems by mark hartenbach
The Measure of Loss by Irene Hays
The 30th Anniversary Warsaw Community Commemorative Book Burning
. . . by Steve Henn
Bully in the Spotlight by Jane Herschlag
William Heyen: Greatest Hits
Beryllium Diary by Nancy Jean Hill
My Daily Walk by Nellie Hill
The Dance by John Holbrook
Bone in a Tin Funnel by Tiff Holland
Negative Time by Tom Holmes
Leaps of Hope and Fury by Will Inmann
Every Burning Thing by Beverly A. Jackson
Psychological Clock by D.R. James
Writing at the Waffle House by Jerry Judge
Necessary Salt by Jen Karetnick
Strange News by Lawrence Kessenich
Skipping Stones by Don Kimball
The Heaven of Elephants by Romella D. Kitchens
The Immortals by Romella D. Kitchens
The Red Covered Bridge by Romella Kitchens
Fishing for Portents by Jennifer Lagier
Places She's Been by Eva Della Lana (2006)
Vocabulary of Awakening by Senechal Lainie
Over the Threshhold of Roots by Sandra Jane Larson
Town Limits: Red Beaver Lake, Minnesota by Kristin LaTour
Behind the Beat by Dudley Laufman
There are Crows in My Blood by Mercedes Lawry
Weaning the Babies by Ann Neuser Lederer
Waking Up on a Sinking Boat by Rodger LeGrand
Widows & Orphans of Winesburg Ohio by Jared Leising
A Girl by Mary Leonard
Jubilate by Lance Levens
New Years Tangerine by Donald Levin
Talking to Poets by Victoria Levitt
Heaven Changes by V.P. Loggins
Field Guide to Luck by Chris Lord
The Daughter Poems by Jack Lorts
Phantom Limb by Gregory Loselle
Awakening Indigo by Diana Lundell
Thomas Lux: Greatest Hitst by Thomas Lux
Flags by Katharyn Howd Machan
Dry Glass Blues by Al Maginnes
Detained By the Authorities by David Treadway Manning
Magic Word by Margorie L. Manwaring
The Commentaries Shad Daniel Marsh
The Loneliness of Dogs by Tim Mayo
disGrace Notes: Confessions of a Relapsing Remitting Catholic
. . . by Jack McCarthy
Free Will, The Billiard King, & Other Mad Dogma by Rohana McCormack
Under a Blameless Moon by Anne McCrady WINNER 2008
Robert E. McDonough: Greatest Hits by Robert E. McDonough
Greatest Hits by Robert McNamara
Ray McNiece: Greatest Hits by Ray McNiece
Pack Your Bags by Steve Meador
A Good Sharp Knife by Steve Meador
Charlie Mehrhoff: Greatest Hits by Charlie Mehrhoff
Greatest Hits by Philip Memmer
Gary Metras: Greatest Hits by Gary Metras
The Wishing Bones by Jolina Mhyana
I Give You This Ghost by Jesse Millner
Fellow Traveler by Robert Miltner
Girls Girls Girls by Michael Montlack
Spoils of War by Carolyn Moore ON HOLD
To Play in Sonnet Song and Double Haiku by Paul Moosberg
Following the Day by Dan Morris
Here's How by Matt Morris
Loons: the cycle by Michael C. Mpugnoli
Great Grandfather by Rich Murphy
Howling at the Gibbous Moon by Sheryl L. Nelms
Parallel to the Horizon by Ann Floreen Niedringhaus
Greatest Hits by Sheryl Noethe
What I Left Behind by Lezlie Oachs
The Discarded Halo by Matthew Olzmann
Holograms and Dance Shoes by Mary C. O'Malley
Pavement and Potholes: New York Poems by Lou Orfanella
The Discarded Halo by Matthew Orzmann
Over the Edge by Suzanne Owens
Harry Truman All the Way by John Palen
The Fairytale Diaries by Ellen Palmer
A String of Blue Lights by William Palmer
Window, Shadow, Mirror by Kenneth Parsons
Sight-reading Schumann by Lee Passarello
Hawaii Slides by Jeffrey Owen Pearson
From Terezin by Gail Peck
Caught by Currents by Cynthia Pederson
Tether by Romy Shinn Piccolella
Whiskey and Clay by Rob Plath
small fruit song by Cati Porter
Sonnet for a New Country by Ying Wong Pui
My Muse Undresses Me by Diana M. Raab
Maj Ragain: Greatest Hits by Maj Ragain
Dark Light Shines by Ramsey
Michael Rattee: Greatest Hits by Michael Rattee
Judy Ray: Greatest Hits by Judy Ray
No Away by John Repp, 1st place chapbook competition 2006
Angel Poison by Tree Riesener
White Rose in the Desert by Sarah Rodgers
Arrangement of Desire by Nicole Rollender
The House My Father Could Not Build by Sankar Roy
Mantra of the Born Free by Sankar Roy
Liketown by Chuck Rybak
Fairy Tales for the Bourgeoisie by Clarise Samuels
Island Year by John Sangster
Through My Window: Poetry of a Psycotherapist by Linda Leedy Schneider
The Geography of Lost Houses by Karen Schubert
Black Neon by Anthon Seidman
Crazies Bus Stop by Michael Selker
Vocabulary of Awakening by Lainie Senechal
The Intimate Verge by Stephanie Sesic
The End of the World Announced on Wednesday by Marian Kaplun Shapiro
Ghost-Writing by Carrie Shipers
Escape Routes by Lori Shpunt
Liebestod by Carole Sineni
Swerve by Jeffrey Skinner
On the Way to Wendys by Carol Smallwood
Samsara by Cheryl Snell
Humdinger by Dennis Ward Stiles
Across the Longing Bridge by William F. Stocks
On the Edge of a Delicate Day by Barbara Buckman Strasko
Rather, It Should Shine by S. Thomas Summers
Sonnets from a Broken Bowl by David Swerdlow
The Biography Thief by Mark Taksa
wolf maiden moon by Cheri L.R. Taylor
Born of Good Tries by Chloe Teasley
Block Party by Susan Terris
Moment of Comfort by Laurence W.Thomas
Asteroid by Hugh Tribbey
Rope as Witness by Melissa Tuckey
Close to the Fallen by John Valentine
The Trembling in Us All by John Valentine
Everywhere at Once by Lisken Van Pelt Dus
Standing on Cliffs by M.E. Walker
Under Orion by Gregg Weatherby
Thief, Mango, Constable, Flower by Anthony Russell White
Mrs. Bliss and the Paper Spouses by Sarah White
Mountain by Richard Widerkehr
Shoulders, Fibs, and Lies by James S. Wilk
Lowering Nets of Light by Martin Willetts
Turnings by Marian Willmott
Helen Takes the Stage: The Helen Keller Poems by Kathi Wolfe
Garden of Regret by Carla Wood
Old Haunts by Cherise Wyneken
PUSHCART NOMINEES from Pudding House:
2007:
Roy Bentley, Wendy Drexler, John Repp, Ian Brand, Al Maginnes, Jeffrey Skinner
2006:
Eva Della Lana, Lowell Jaeger, Kathleen Burgess, John Kneisly
--GREATEST HITS
by invitation only,
Pudding House is eight years into GREATEST HITS
the invitational-only national archive. These chapbook treasures may be purchased from Pudding House for $10 each. See the Greatest Hits link on the selection panel. Subscription price: $200/25 titles.
Pudding 54 is in typesetting.
Upcoming featured poets include Mark Hersman, Louise Robertson, and Jerry Roscoe,
not necessarily in that order. Ohio regional poets take longer to appear because we are a national journal. If you have had conversation with the Editor
about the probability of becoming a Featured Poet and it hasn't happened yet,
you might reconnect in order to explore where we are with that. What is your
understanding?
There is no physical business site for Pudding House now that Jen moved to Columbus. It's all happening in the electronic ether called the Web though we produce physical products. There is no more "storefront" business you can visit. But we certainly dazzle the abyss! Connect with us at 614-986-1881
Mainpage update: March 15, 2008 The Ides of March
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