The premier issue of Ranger Magazine is out and it looks great! And I am pleased to be part of it. You can see my visual poems by click here.
Enjoy!
Marion Cohen has done a review of my short story collection, Letters from Inside, which is posted on her web site. Thank you Marion.
Copies of the book are available on Amazon or you can buy a signed copy directly from me by clicking here.
Thanks, and stay tuned for 30 for 30, right here on www.mikemaggio.net, beginning April 1.
The tenth annual 30 for 30 Poetry Celebration, sponsored by Potomac Review, will once again take place this year on mikemaggio.net
This year’s challenge is as follows:
Write a poem in which everything you want to say is expressed solely through the use of images. Be sure that there are no abstractions (e.g. love, want, etc.) and, if there are, try to turn the abstractions into images. For examples, read some of the poems on this page:
https://poets.org/poets?school=446&field_school_movement_tid=446
Your poem should be no longer than 10 lines.
To participate, please follow these rules:
This year’s judge is Derek Kannemeyer, winner of last year’s 30 for 30. His recent books include The Memory Addicts (a novel, 2022), A Betabestiary (light verse and prose commentaries, 2022), and Mutt Spirituals (poetry, 2021). Kirkus Reviews named his photography and non-fiction work Unsay Their Names one of its 100 Best Indie Books of 2022.
If you have any questions, please email mikemaggio@mikemaggio.net. I look forward to your participation.
And thanks to Albert Kapikian and Katherine Smith, the editors at Potomac Review,for once again sponsoring 30 for 30.
Born and raised in the Linthicum neighborhood, just south of the home of the storied Baltimore Orioles, Rafael Alvarez has spent most of his life living and working in the heart of Charm City (Alvarez calls it Crabtown USA): roaming its rough-and-tumble streets and witnessing the lives of the down-and-out, all of which would become fodder for his life’s work as a writer. For more, read her on DCTrending.
Here’s my review of Rita Zoiey Chin’s The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern, a novel I highly recommend.
Happy holidays.
On October 12, I had the pleasure of reading with Jenna Villforth Veazey as part of the Virginia Voices series, one of the Centennial activities of the Poetry Society of Virginia. Here is a video recording of all the readings that have occurred so far in the series, including ours.
Thanks to Cathy Hailey and Angela Dribbens for hosting all the wonderful poets and to Bill Glose for curating the videos. Stay tuned for more.
On Thursday, October 20th, I had the pleasure of reading at Germanna Community College with Jenna Villforth Veazey and Beth Spragins.
Here is a link to the recorded reading:
Thanks to David Anthony Sam and the Poetry Society of Virginia for inviting us.
Workshop and reading. Hope to see you there.
Travel Directions from…
Northern Virginia Area:
Take Interstate 95 South toward Richmond. Take exit 126. Turn south onto Rt. 1 toward Richmond. Turn left onto Rt. 17 South at Cosner’s Corner. Cross over Interstate 95 and take second left onto Germanna Point Drive. Go straight to GCC at end of road.
Culpeper/Madison/Orange Area:
Take Rt. 3 east toward Fredericksburg. Take Interstate 95 toward Richmond. Take exit 126. Turn onto Rt. 1 south toward Richmond. Turn left onto Rt. 17 South at Cosner’s Corner. Cross over Interstate 95 and take second left onto Germanna Point Drive. Go straight to GCC at end of road.
Richmond and Other South/West Areas:
Take Interstate 95 North toward Washington, DC. Take exit 126B. Turn south onto Rt. 1 toward Richmond. Turn left onto Rt. 17 South at Cosner’s Corner. Cross over Interstate 95 and take second left onto Germanna Point Drive. Go straight to GCC at end of road.
Please join me, Jenna Villforth Veazey and David Anthony Sam for a night of poetry at Germana Community College sponsored by the North Central Region of the Poetry Society of Virginia. I will be conducing a workshop on collage poetry (please bring a magazine or text with you) which will be followed by a reading by all three poets and then an open mic.
Pr-registration for the workshop and the open mic is required:
For the workshop. register at https://fb.me/e/2846Lm5lu
For the open mic, register at https://fb.me/e/3S3jKvA1S
Here are directions to the college.
Hope to see you there.
Angelo Colella, one of our poets, positioned his camera so that we could get a video of the full performance of “La Guerra è Pace / La Guerra e Pace.”
Editing by Pina Panico Salemme.
Here is the YouTube video:
Thanks once again to our performers, and to Antonella Manganelli, Grazia Montalto and to all at Art4Us and L’Asilo Filangieri for making this possible.
