photo: copyright Lois Greenfield 2009

Voice Of The City Ensemble

F. Murray Abraham performed

ELUSIVE THINGS: A Song Cycle

by Eric Shimelonis After Poems by Ilene Starger

on January 15th, 2010

Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC

CONGRATULATIONS ILENE!!!

Ilene Starger is the author of LETHE, POSTPONED.

Some of the poems from LETHE, POSTPONED are included in this performance.

LETHE, POSTPONED is available on amazon.com.

Click on the book title to go to amazon.com.

F. Murray Abraham has narrated and performed with the New York Philharmonic, as well as with
the symphony orchestras of Detroit, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, and Indianapolis. He has
worked with Michael Tilson Thomas, James Levine and Jordi Savall, among others. He
continues to study music, and receives vocal instruction from Janet Aycock. In theatre, he has
acted in ancient and modern classics by Shakespeare, Molière, Giraudoux, Pirandello, Beckett,
Pinter, Miller, Mamet, Kushner, and Coen. He has authored a book on A Midsummer Night's
Dream, published by Faber and Faber, and is the voice of the PBS Nature series. He has
appeared in many films including The Ritz, Scarface, Finding Forrester , and Amadeus, for which
he received the LA Film Critics' Award, the Golden Globe, and the Academy Award.

Eric Shimelonis grew up in Cleveland, Ohio in a family of music lovers. Primarily self-taught, he
learned a number of instruments as a child and began composing in his teens. He moved to
New York City in 1998 where he has built a career in theatre and film, and where he has
continued to compose and to further his studies in music. His classical compositions have been
performed at the Juilliard School and in the Rattlestick New Music Series, where he was a
resident composer. He served as assistant director for Stravinsky’s L’histoire du Soldat with the
Philadelphia and Boston Symphony Orchestras, and he has several conducting engagements
this coming year. He was the recipient of a 2002-2004 NEA grant, an ASCAPlus Awards grant,
and was nominated for a 2007 Lucille Lortel Award for his work in theatre.

Ilene Starger is presently compiling a full-length collection of poems. Her work has been
published in Bayou, Oyez Review, Georgetown Review, Tributaries, Folio, Oberon, Paper Street,
Second Wind, Tar Wolf Review, Erato, Grasslimb, Manzanita, Poesia, Ibbetson Street, Iodine,
Phoenix, The New Renaissance, The Same and online in the Tupelo Press Poetry Project. She
received honorable mentions in the 2004 Ann Stanford Prize sponsored by the Southern
California Anthology (she was a finalist in 2005), in the 2005 NMW competition, in the 2006 Oliver
Browning competition sponsored by Poesia/Indian Bay Press, and in the 2007 Writecorner Press
competition. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook Lethe, Postponed in September 2008.

Voice Of The City Ensemble is a New York City based chamber group dedicated to the
performance of new music. Led by director Christian Hebel, the ensemble maintains a flexible
architecture with a core group of talented and versatile musicians. Instrumentalists for this
concert include Christian Hebel and Matthew Lehmann (violins), Philip Payton (viola), Mairi
Dorman-Phaneuf (cello), and Andy Einhorn (piano).

In this photo:  F. Murray Abraham and FLP Sr. Editor Leah Maines

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Congratulations to Carol Hamilton author of CONTRAPUNTAL

CONTRAPUNTAL has been selected as a finalist in the 21st Annual Oklahoma Book Award Competition, 2010.

http://www.odl.state.ok.us/ocb/10final.htm

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Congratulations to Anna Ross author of FLP chapbook Hawk Weather

for

Winning The Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award.

Judged by: Helen Marie Casey

This award is given by the NEW ENGLAND POETRY CLUB, founded in 1915 by

Amy Lowell, Robert Frost and Conrad Aiken. The Club sponsors the oldest poetry reading series in the country.
http://www.nepoetryclub.org/index.htm

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Cliff Bernier’s NPR interview on “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress” is now posted on the Library of Congress web site. Here’s the link (scroll down to “David Gewanter and Cliff Bernier” – you’ll need to advance your runtime bar halfway through to get to Cliff’s):   http://www.loc.gov/poetry/poetpoem.html  

The interview aired on NPR on January 20th. It can be accessed on the Library of Congress web site at any time.

Cliff is the author of Earth Suite

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Congratulations to Gary Walton for being nominated for

The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award

and

2010 Devil's Kitchen Reading Award

Gary Walton also ranked #3 in City Beat's Best of Cincinnati list for Best Local Author for Prince of Sin City!

http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/best-of-21-best-of-cincinnati-2 010.html

Listen to Gary Walton talk about

his new novel PRINCE OF SIN CITY

on Accents hosted by Katerina Klemer

http://www.katerinaklemer.com/radio

http://www.katerinaklemer.com/audio/accents_081409.mp3

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Congratulations to Maria Lisella!

Amore on Hope St. by Maria Lisella is listed as one of the BEST POETRY CHAPBOOKS in

Montserrat Review's Best Books for Spring Reading, 2010

http://www.themontserratreview.com/BestB ooksforSpring,2010.html

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Congratulations to John Guzlowski author of FLP chapbook Third Winter of War: Buchenwald 

(nominated by the publisher for the Pulitzer)

John Guzlowski received this year’s Cultural Achievement Award from the American Council on

Polish Culture in ceremonies at this organization’s national convention in Hartford, Connecticut. 

The award was given in “recognition of his poetry which has given the Polish Community in America a strong and clear literary voice.” 

Dr. Guzlowski is the author of Third Winter of War: Buchenwald (Finishing Line Press) and Lightning and Ashes (Steel Toe Books).  Both books recount the experiences of his parents who survived the Nazi concentration camps.  

Congratulations to John Z. Guzlowski for being featured on poetrymagazine.com!

The site features poems from John's FLP book Third Winter of War: Buchenwald (FLP nominated John for the Pulitzer.)
http://www.poetrymagazine.com/andrena_za winski/spring09/john_guzlowski_page1.htm

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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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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

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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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 www.katerinaklemer.com/audio/accents_061909.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

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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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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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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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