FAU Presents ‘Readings in DIRT’ by South Florida Authors

Six nationally recognized writers will read original works that explore the theme of "dirt," its literal and figurative connotations, in conjunction with the exhibition “DIRT: Yuta Suelo Udongo Tè,” which is currently on view at Florida Atlantic University’s Ritter Gallery, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus.  The readings take place on Thursday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m., and are free and open to the public. More information can be found at www.fau.edu/galleries.  

Miami writers Michael Hettich, John Dufresne, Elizabeth Jacobson and Geoffrey Philp will join FAU professors Andrew Furman, Ph.D., (English) and Edward Petuch, Ph.D., (geology). The authors will present their works written specifically for the exhibition as well as texts about this fundamental element that they have selected by other authors.

Hettich, an award-winning author, curated the program while contemplating the nature of “dirt” in language: “What is dirt and dirty depends on context as much as material, doesn’t it? And don’t we grow our food in dirt? When it comes right down to it, everything is dirt, though not everything is dirty.” Hettich has published more than a dozen books of poetry, most recently, “Systems of Vanishing” (University of Tampa Press, 2014), which won the 2013 Tampa Review Poetry prize. He has worked extensively with artists and musicians and was instrumental in the SWEAT Broadside Portfolios, a collaboration of South Florida book artists, novelists, poets and printmakers. He teaches English and creative writing at Miami-Dade College.  

Dufresne has published novels, short story collections, poetry chapbooks, guides to writing, plays and screenplays. Two of his novels, “Louisiana Power & Light” (Plume, 1994) and “Love Warps the Mind a Little” (W.W. Norton, 2008), have been New York Times Notable Books of the Year. He teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University.

Jacobson has published numerous works of poetry, including a book of poems titled “Her Knees Pulled In” (Tres Chicas Books, 2012). She is the founding director of the WingSpan Poetry Project at Lotus House in Miami and at several locations in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which brings weekly poetry classes to local shelters.

Geoffrey Philp is a Jamaican poet, novelist and playwright. He is author of the novel “Benjamin, My Son” (Peepal Tree, 2003), and five poetry collections. Philp is associate professor in the English department at Miami-Dade College where he teaches creative writing.

Furman has published works of fiction, nonfiction and literary criticism, including “Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida” (University Press of Florida, 2014). Furman teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at FAU.

Petuch’s research interests lie in the geology of the Florida peninsula and the Atlantic coastal plain, among other topics. He has authored many works, including “The Geology of the Everglades and Adjacent Areas” (Taylor and Francis, 2007). Petuch teaches in the Department of Geosciences at FAU.

For more information and a full schedule of events, call the University Galleries at 561-297-2661 or visit www.fau.edu/galleries.

The exhibition and programs are made possible by grants from State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; Cultural Council of Palm Beach County; Beatrice Cummings Mayer and R.A. Ritter Foundation. Museum Education and AMP Programs made possible by Kaye Arts Integration Endowment and a grant from the Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin Counties.

FAU Presents Exhibition about DIRT

Dirt, the unclean stuff that gets under your nails, also inspires art. “DIRT: Yuta Suelo Udongo Tè” is a group exhibition curated by artist Onajide Shabaka featuring many South Florida artists. The exhibition will be on view at the University Galleries, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus from Friday, Jan. 22 to Saturday, March 5, 2016. An opening reception will be in the Ritter Art Gallery on Saturday, Jan. 23 at 6:30 p.m.

The exhibition title refers to the different ways that diverse cultures interpret dirt, not only physically, but also spiritually and symbolically. The exhibition includes site-specific installations, sculpture, photography, paintings, drawings and mixed-media works. The inspiration for this exhibition dates to 1999 when artist and curator Onajide Shabaka visited Ely, Minn. Attracted to the area’s vibrant red oxide dirt, Shabaka saw a connection between it and elements of the West African Yoruba religion, particularly the deity Orisha Oggun, the god of minerals associated with iron and industry. Shabaka’s subsequent research led to his recognition that responses to dirt vary widely across the world.

“We are excited to present this exhibition about DIRT to the South Florida community,” said Rod Faulds, director of the University Galleries at FAU. “Investigating how diverse cultures interpret this fundamental substance aligns with our mission here at the University Galleries, where we seek to understand differing points of view through art. We are also pleased to support South Florida artists, particularly Onajide Shabaka, who has long been a stalwart of the area’s art community.”

Artists in the exhibition include Dona Altemus; Robert Chambers; William Cordova; Edouard Duval Carrié; Veronica Scharf Garcia; Mark Hahn; Alette Simmons Jimenez; Kim Nicolini; Lori Nozick; David Rohn; Ralph Provisero; Yanira Collado; Debra Wilk and Jovan Karlo Villalba.

There will be a public program to complement the exhibition on Thursday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. It will include a panel discussion which will include Edward Petuch, Ph.D., FAU professor of geology, along with a series of readings by writers and poets John Dufresne, Elizabeth Jacobson and Geoffrey Philp, and the FAU creative writing team who have focused on the topic of dirt. The discussion will be organized by award-winning poet Michael Hettich. For more information and a full schedule of events, call the University Galleries at 561-297-2661 or visit www.fau.edu/galleries.

The exhibition and programs are made possible by grants from State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; Cultural Council of Palm Beach County; Beatrice Cummings Mayer and R.A. Ritter Foundation. Museum Education and AMP Programs made possible by Kaye Arts Integration Endowment and a grant from the Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin Counties.

Miami Artists and Writers SWEAT

MDC’s Galleries of Art + Design Presents The SWEAT Broadsheet Collaboration


Miami, October 23, 2012 - Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Galleries of Art + Design will present The SWEAT Broadsheet Collaboration, a project that originated with a small group of South Florida artists and writers, from Friday, Nov. 2 through Friday, Dec. 21 at the Wolfson Campus Centre Gallery. An opening reception will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, November 1.The reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.    

The 46 artists and 40 participating writers were interested in the intersection of their respective genres – that is, artists interested in text and book arts, and poets and fiction writers attracted to visual images. Through a series of planned meetings, artists and writers from Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties met, shared their work and began to collaborate to create varied and vibrant limited edition artworks.

Nearly four years in the making, this exhibition includes seventy-eight broadsheets, fine art prints created in a wide variety of media. Media included in the exhibition include letterpress, silkscreen, etching, digital pigment prints, relief prints, monoprints and many forms of hand work, including hand coloring, hand-cut paper and applique on fabric.

The theme was “sweat,” partly as homage to South Florida’s tropical climate, partly as a nod to Sweat Records, the beloved store in Little Haiti where the group’s first meeting was held, and wholly intended as a flexible, broadly defined concept to be interpreted widely by the participants in the project.

MDC will host two related events. On Saturday, Nov. 17, a reading and discussion will be presented as part of the college’s Miami Book Fair International. A panel discussion with Alex Campos, executive director of the Center for Book Arts in New York, will be held at 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10. Panelists will include visual artist Rosemary Chiarlone; Michael Hettich, poet and professor at MDC; Jogn Cutrone, director of Jaffe Center for Book Arts and Frank Luca, Chief Librarian at the Wolfson Library

The participating artists are as follows: David Almeida, Diane Arrieta, Andrew Binder, Pip Brant, Abraham Camayd, Rosemarie Chiarlone, Xavier Cortada, John Cutrone and Seth Thompson (printers) with John Rachell (image), Denise Delgado, Ashley Ford, Robin Griffiths, Charles E. Humes Jr., Dorothy Kraus, Eddie A. López, Park McArthur, Alberto Meza, Scott Miller, Beatriz Monteavaro, Gary L Moore, Hugo Moro, Ania Moussawel, Joe Nicastri, Lea Nickless, Maria Pasita Andino, Celeste Pierson, Brian Reedy, Karen Rifas, Lydia Rubio, Beatricia Sagar, Samantha Salzinger, Pete Santa-Maria, Claudia Scalise, Onajide Shabaka, Alette Simmons-Jimenez, Victoria Skinner, Kari Snyder, Sara Stites, Lara Stein Pardo, Laura Tan, Sherri Tan, Carol Todaro, Alfredo Useche, Tom Virgin and Michelle Weinberg.

The participating writers are as follows: Lynne Barrett, David Beaty, Birds are Nice, Peter Borrebach, Crissa-Jean Chappell, C. M. Clark, K. C. Culver, P. Scott Cunningham, Purvis Daniels, Edwidge Danticat, Hector Duarte, John Dufresne, Denise Duhamel, Chloe Firetto-Toomey, Andrea Gollin, David Gonzalez, Nadege Green, Michael Hettich, Walter Hnatyish, Joanne Hyppolite, Brad Johnson, Brian Lehnen, Mia Leonin, Truman Lusson, Jessica Machado, Nick Mansito, Campbell McGrath, Astrid Justine

Nicastri, Yaddyra Peralta, Geoffrey Philp, Rochelle Theo Pienn, Phil Santa-Maria, Thomas Sleeper, Gabreil Spera, Nick Vagnoni, Susan Weiner, Antonia Wright, Stephen Caldwell Wright and Cyn. Zarco.

The Wolfson Campus Centre Gallery is located at 300 NE Second Ave., Building 1, Third Floor. Gallery hours are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 1 – 6 p.m.

For more information, please call 305-237-7700, or e-mail galleries@mdc.edu. 

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The Florida Poets Project: Michael Hettich

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Marcus and the Amazons Hits the Road!

Marcus and the Amazons, which was recently highlighted in the Miami Herald and the KART Kids Book List Middle School 4th - 6th (Ages 9 - 12), will be featured on Y-100's Here's Help next week Sunday. 

As part of the Teen/Tween program for the Miami Book Fair International, I will be traveling to four schools in the Miami Dade Public School System: 

Paul Bell Middle

Richmond Heights Middle

Jorge Mas Canosa Middle

Zelda Glazer Middle 

The Zelda Glazer Middle reading will almost be a pilgrimage because Zelda was instrumental in the Poets in the School program in which Jeffrey Knapp, Adrian Castro, Jan Sebon, and I under the patronage of Mary Luft's TigerTail Productions visited many elementary and middle schools and taught the children how to write poems and stories. 

I will also lecturing at Nova Southeastern University, Rhythm, Metaphor, and the Practice of Poetry on November 15, 2011. 

On Saturday, November 19, 2011, Adrian Castro, Michael Hettich, John Dufresne, and I will be reading from I'm the One With the Blue Cap On, a celebration of the life and work of Jeffrey Knapp and later that afternoon, I will be introducing Marlon James, Da Chen, and Dominic Smith.

To round out my schedule, I'll be reading from Marcus and the Amazons on November 20, 2011. 

It's going to be a busy week of readings and I haven't even mentioned the writers I really want to hear: Harry Belafonte, Cedella Marley, Gerald Stern, Li-Young Lee, and Robert Pinsky. 

If you can make it to any of these events, give me a shout-out, nuh?

"The Measured Breathing" by Michael Hettich

The Measured Breathing

And so I understand, at least for a moment,

how something and nothing can sometimes be reversed,

as I understand nothing: The black in a crow’s wing

works like my own deepest sleep when I wake

beyond mere self, that black like the waves

lifting their shoulders in a sudden swell of memory

or just a sudden swell. If everything we needed

were real, those delicate yellow-bellied birds

might fly through this thicket without brushing anything

and I might come home to a house full of absence

and meet all the people I’ve loved, sitting there

in the bodies they had then, but stuffed now with straw,

propped up and grinning. As my body too

is stuffed with dry grass, which pokes through my clothes.

I was hungry and you fed me—just enough to survive

until I was only what I am now, disappeared

into the music behind all this sound,

as the trees are connected to the trees of their past

through roots and branches and leaves—without thinking

anything we’d ever recognize as thinking,

anything we’d recognize: a place beyond this air.

About Michael Hettich

Michael Hettich’s most recent book of poetry, The Animals Beyond Us, was published in October 2011 by New Rivers Press. Other books include Like Happiness (2010), Flock And Shadow: New and Selected Poems (2005) and Swimmer Dreams (2004). The Measured Breathing, his forthcoming chapbook, won the 2011 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest. His work has appeared in such journals as Orion, Prairie Schooner, Witness, The Bloomsbury Review, Poetry East, and Alaska Quarterly Review. He teaches at Miami Dade College.




For a review of Michael's most recent collection, The Animals Beyond Us, please follow this link: http://geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com/2011/11/book-review-animals-beyond-us-by.html

New Book: The Animals Beyond Us by Michael Hettich

Michael Hettich Wins National Poetry Competition

Miami, September 16, 2011 - Professor Michael Hettich, who teaches creative writing at Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Wolfson Campus, recently won the prestigious 2011 Swan Scythe Press Poetry Chapbook Contest for his manuscript, The Measured Breathing.


Swan Scythe Press is one of the country’s most respected poetry publishers. Prof. Hettich’s manuscript was chosen among 165 entries, from 34 U.S. states and four foreign countries, and will be published by Swan Scythe Press in the fall.


“Michael Hettich’s distinct voice; his work stood out immediately from the large number of competent and interesting poets who entered our contest.  I was particularly impressed by his ability to write a book of lyric poems without using the word ‘I’ and by his startling images of transformation and transcendence,” said James DenBoer, Swan Scythe Press’ editor.


Prof. Hettich has published 12 books and chapbooks of poetry. His work has appeared in Orion, TriQuarterly, Praire Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cake, Hamilton Stone Review, International Literary Quarterly, Poetry East, and many other literary journals. His most recently-published book of poems is Like Happiness, from Anhinga Press; a new book, The Animals Beyond Us, is forthcoming from New Rivers Press. 


A recipient of several State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowships, the Brooklyn native earned a doctorate degree from the University of Miami in 1991, and has taught at MDC for more than 20 years. Prof. Hettich is also co-adviser of the award-winning Metromorphosis, the Wolfson Campus student literary magazine.               


Swan Scythe Press was founded in 2000 by poet Sandra McPherson, and is now edited by James DenBoer, also a poet. For more information on Swan Scythe Press, please visit www.swanscythe.com, email the editor directly at jimzbookz@yahoo.com, or write to 515 P Street, #804, Sacramento CA 95814.

Michael Hettich Wins 2011 Swan Scythe Press Poetry Chapbook Contest

SACRAMENTO, CA, JULY 10, 2011 –- Swan Scythe Press, one of the U.S.’s most respected poetry publishers, today announced the winner of the 2011 Swan Scythe Press Poetry Chapbook Contest. The winning manuscript is The Measured Breathing by Michael Hettich of Miami Shores, Florida.

Mr. Hettich’s manuscript will be published by Swan Scythe Press in Fall 2011, and he will receive a $200 award for his work.  According to Swan Scythe Press’s editor, James DenBoer, his choice of the contest winner was based on “Michael Hettich’s distinct voice; his work stood out immediately from the large number of competent and interesting poets who entered our contest.  I was particularly impressed by his ability to write a book of lyric poems without using the word “I” and by his startling images of transformation and transcendence.”

Michael Hettich's poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cake, Hamilton Stone Review, International Literary Quarterly, Poetry East, and many other literary journals. His most recently-published book of poems is Like Happiness, from Anhinga Press; a new book, The Animals Beyond Us, is forthcoming from New Rivers Press.  Born in Brooklyn, NY, he now teaches at Miami Dade College.

Swan Scythe Press was founded in 2000 by poet Sandra McPherson, and is now edited by James DenBoer, also a poet.  The Measured Breathing was chosen as the contest winner from among 165 entries, from 34 U.S. states and 4 foreign countries.  Mr. DenBoer made the final selection of the winner, with the help of a small group of outside readers.  Mr Hettich’s book will be the 32nd book of poetry published by Swan Scythe Press.  Its authors have won many awards and prizes, and have distinguished themselves as artists and educators throughout the U.S. and abroad.

For more information on Swan Scythe Press itself, please see the Press’s website at http://www.swanscythe.com, email the editor directly at jimzbookz@yahoo.com, or write to the press at 515 P Street, #804, Sacramento CA 95814.

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Congratulations, Michael!

15 Miami Poets@ The International Literary Quarterly: Geoffrey Philp

Mangroves (B)
acrylic on canvas
48 inches x 36 inches
2007 
© Xavier Cortada

Sharing space with fellow comrades-in-word @ Interlitq:  Elisa Albo, Howard Camner, Adrian Castro, Denise Duhamel, Corey Ginsburg, Michael Hettich, Miriam Levine, Christopher Louvet, Jesse Millner, Barbra Nightingale, Laura Richardson, Alexis Sellas, Virgil Suárez, and Nick Vagnoni. The artwork was done by Miami-based artist, Xavier Cortada.

Here's the link: http://www.interlitq.org/

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In My Own Words...Michael Hettich

Notes on Like Happiness by Michael Hettich

The title of my new book of poems, Like Happiness, captures the tenor and substance of this collection more accurately than have the titles of any of my other books of poetry. These poems, I think, enact moments of vivid awareness and feeling that in their very manifestation feel, while they last, “like” the state of heart and mind we call happiness. Perhaps such moments of deep feeling—good, bad, confused, ecstatic—are in fact all we can ever know of happiness: flashes of vivid life that fall away in a breath or two—just as poems themselves can sometimes rise up in flashes and then echo back to silence. Thus, moments that feel “like” happiness may be all we can know of that condition, that state of being we yearn all our lives to achieve. In its arc of development, the book moves from the fragile innocence of childhood—which sometimes feels more nearly like confusion—to the very different and far more elusive “innocence” of the adult moving through the worlds of parenthood, obligation, married love and grief.  Here, those moments that feel “like” happiness often result from—and even give rise to—a deep and painful sense of loss. Sometimes, these poems seem to argue, adult happiness itself is at best the condition approaching what Robert Frost called “a momentary stay against confusion”—his definition, in fact, of poetry.

I wrote most of Like Happiness between 2005-2007, though I tinkered with it, adding new poems to the collection and pulling others out, until just a few weeks before the book went to press. Rick Campbell, the Senior Editor at Anhinga Press, had accepted the manuscript for publication as early as 2007, and had told me then that it would be years before it was actually published, so I had the novel and oddly-disconcerting experience of knowing that all the books I’d written had found their homes. This itself felt something like happiness, like being given the permission--so to speak--to move on into new territories in my work, to approach the work of writing poems through new formal and compositional rhythms, to attempt a new angle on my own sensibility. In the months after the book was accepted for publication, I allowed myself to write more quickly and playfully than I had done in years, and I wrote and revised my next book, The Animals Beyond Us, in what felt like one long breath.

Like Happiness confronts the joys and difficulties of family life, the dislocations and contentments of middle age, and the vivid beauty of the natural world at a time of huge environmental, psychological and spiritual stress. The poems here grew out of a time when my children were moving off to college, moving away from home; thus there is a certain sense of dislocation and wistful familial sadness in some of the pieces, even a kind of nostalgia. The book opens with a moment of childhood innocence, travels through various confusions and realizations leading to “experience” and then ends with an understanding of the self and larger world I’m not sure I have a name for. More than any other book I’ve written, Like Happiness represents the end of one period in my life and in my writing, and the beginning of another.

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About Michael Hettich:

Michael Hettich's books of poetry include FLOCK AND SHADOW: New and Selected Poems (New Rivers 2005), SWIMMER DREAMS (Turning Point 2004) and the just-released LIKE HAPPINESS (Anhinga press, 2010). His most recent chapbook, MANY LOVES (2007), won the Yellow Jacket Press Award for Florida Poets. A new book of poems, THE ANIMALS BEYOND US, is forthcoming (in 2011) from New Rivers Press. He teaches at Miami Dade College and lives with his family in Miami Shores, FLA. His website is michaelhettich.com

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Save the Date: Michael Hettich reads from Like Happiness

Friday, October 15, 2010

8 p.m.

Books & Books,

265 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables

"Michael Hettich's poems are like grace, like gifts, like the natural world made Technicolor, like Technicolor making the natural world.  He is a master of the simile, and in Like Happiness, he harnesses a specific and collective memory, the power of myth and allusion, like no one else.  His poems give his readers a deep happiness, an earned happiness, a happiness decided upon with clarity and wisdom." ~Denise Duhamel

"Michael Hettich's poems resemble half-remembered fables or lyrical dreams, animistic dramas played out in moonlit meadows, domestic interiors that shimmer like velvet jewelry boxes. Wisdom and enchantment are his calling cards, and he strews them about with purpose, like Hansel and Gretel marking the path home through the forest. Like Happiness is a beautiful and haunting book"

 ~ Campbell McGrath

"Michael Hettich’s persona, vividly alert in a subtropical landscape where the imagination holds it own against the knots and crosses of life, never reduces the world to a formula, poetic or otherwise. Instead, he breaks through, his innocence grounded by experience and with a childlike sense of wonder, into a world 'bigger than we are, like happiness, and full of/ fish that live nowhere else.' Like Happiness is amazing work. I'm filled with gratitude for it."

 ~Alan Davis, author of Alone with the Owl and Rumors from the Lost World.

About Michael Hettich:

Michael Hettich's books of poetry include FLOCK AND SHADOW: New and Selected Poems (New Rivers 2005), SWIMMER DREAMS (Turning Point 2004) and the just-released LIKE HAPPINESS (Anhinga press, 2010). His most recent chapbook, MANY LOVES (2007), won the Yellow Jacket Press Award for Florida Poets. A new book of poems, THE ANIMALS BEYOND US, is forthcoming (in 2011) from New Rivers Press. He teaches at Miami Dade College and lives with his family in Miami Shores, FLA. His website is michaelhettich.com

The Big Read @ Broward South Regional Library With Michael Hettich

Florida Center for the Book at Broward County Library
invites all of Broward County to join us for ....

“All that we see or see is but a dream within a dream.”
~ Edgar Allan Poe

The Big Read
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe September 15 through November 6, 2010

Edgar Allan Poe may have begun his literary career as a poet and found his greatest success with “The Raven,” but his true legacy can be found in his fiction. Without Poe, the genres of horror, adventure, mystery, and, arguably, the short story itself, would have developed very differently. His fiction and poems remain popular with both young and old and are assured a place in the minds of readers… forevermore.

October 19, 
6:30 to 7:45 p.m.

Poetry Reading - Michael Hettich

South Regional/Broward College Library

For more information, please follow this link:

http://www.broward.org/LIBRARY/CLASSESPROGRAMS/Pages/TheBigRead.aspx

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Upcoming Posts!

And the hits just keep on coming!

Last week I received two poems, “Redemption Rain" and "Earthquake 2010" from Jennifer Rahim, author of Approaching Sabbaths, winner of a Casa de las Américas Prize 2010. Both poems are from her manuscript, REDEMPTION RAIN.

Continuing the pattern begun by Pam Mordecai, the title poem of Jennifer's collection, “Redemption Rain,” will be published on Friday, August 27, 2010. The second poem, "Earthquake 2010,”  a meditation on the tragedy in Haiti, will be published in  on September 3, 2010.

On Wednesday, August 25, 2010, I will be publishing an excerpt from Octavio Roca’s Cuban Ballet, which according to the publisher, Gibbs Smith, “explores the history of Cuban ballet starting with the life and career of the indomitable Alicia Alonso, founder of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba.”

I've been in contact with several Caribbean writers who will be reading at the Miami Book Fair International and several have pledged to write guest posts for the In My Own Words series.

Speaking about the MBFI, I hope to be able to write a post about Michael Hettich's  most recent collection of poems, Like Happiness. Michael Hettich will be reading at Books & Books on October 15, 2010.

Finally, give thanks to all who participated in the Marcus Garvey poll. 84% of you agreed that Marcus would have been a blogger. I would even venture to conclude, as Colin Grant did, that he would have been a master of social media. Marcus Garvey on Twitter. I like that!

I’ll be rolling out even more good news over the next few weeks, so stay tuned!

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Just Published: OCHO #26 (The Travel Issue)

OCHO #26 (The Travel Issue), edited by Emma Trelles, has just been published and contains poems by Emma Trelles, Jacob Saenz, Geoffrey Philp, Nikki Moustaki, Jesse Millner, Alexandra Lytton Regalado, Jen Karetnick, Stacey Harwood, Michael Hettich, Susan Elbe, Denise Duhamel, and Didi Menendez.

You can read the poems here(Ocho #26) or you can buy the Print Companion here: CreateSpace--MiPOesias Print Companion

Either way, enjoy the poems and have a great weekend!

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