News and Events
I'll be updating this site with news concerning my work and readings, as well as including Stone Soup Poetry, where I host almost every week. For slightly more updated news, more personal material, and occasionally more quirky things, you can visit my regular blog:
chadparenteaupoetforhire.blogspot.com
My Book Patron Emeritus Is Now Available
The book is out. I've posted it all over this website. You can get a little bit more info on this page or even this one. The most important information is where to buy it. Please click here and do so if you haven't already.
June 17th: Michael F. Gill Fishes The Jamaica Pond for Stone Soup
This Monday, we have Michael F. Gill hositng a special feature starring at least five members of a poetry group I'm too busy to go to, even though I'm walking distance from where they regularly meet. I do, however, know many of the individual members, enough of them to say that this will be a feature worth going to. Check out Dorothy Derifeld, Carolyn Gregory, Susana Kittredge, Sandra Storey, and Gary Whited and possibly more as the Jamaica Pond Poets visit Stone Soup.
U.M.Ph.! Prose BOSTON MARATHON POETRY TRIBUTE - Submit May through September 1st, 2013
I'm working on this with Mignon Ariel King over the next couple of months. Fans of Stone Soup can email me at stonesouppoetry@yahoo.com with your work related to the Boston Marathon bombing. I will have at least one poem in there, and I hope you are inspired to send something too. And you can see my poem of mine published there too as of last week.
French Connections Is Available For A Third of The Original Cost!
French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets is an anthology I was accepted into a little over five years ago. Today, they sell it at cost on Amazon, and if you go to Barnes and Noble, a copy is on sale for over twice the amount. But over at Louisiana Literature Press, the people who put out the book in first place, it's available for only eight dollars.
It's sad that the book never sold when it came out, given the aspirations of the project. At least now, more people can easily afford it. I'm still proud of the work that appeared in it. I hope some of you pick up a copy.
I will likely buy some extra copies myself. One for the alumni library at Framingham State University, and another to help prove to someone (beside myself) that I was once published alongside people like Sheryl St. Germaine, Mark Strand, and David R. Surette, who helped me to get into the book.
It's sad that the book never sold when it came out, given the aspirations of the project. At least now, more people can easily afford it. I'm still proud of the work that appeared in it. I hope some of you pick up a copy.
I will likely buy some extra copies myself. One for the alumni library at Framingham State University, and another to help prove to someone (beside myself) that I was once published alongside people like Sheryl St. Germaine, Mark Strand, and David R. Surette, who helped me to get into the book.
My Work In Sounds of Wind
The anthology Sounds of Wind: New American Lyrics debuted as part of the Drini Poetik International Festival of Poetry in Prizren, Kosovo. Albanian poet Lediana Stillo, who has been attending school in Massachusetts, asked me and other American poets to contribute to this volume, including Ian Thal, Dave Brinks, Maggie Cleveland, John Sibley Williams and several others. I am honored to have of my poems appear here both in English and in Albanian as translated by Lediana. As of now, there is no way to obtain this book, but hopefully that will change soon and I will be able to make announcements.
Initial news photo courtesy of Bill Perrault
