News and Events
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I'll be updating this site with news concerning my work and readings, as well as including features for 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 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.
Go JoeGO Go! Poems for José Gouviea at Oddball Magazine
Oddball Magazine is proud to present a series a poems to be published over the next week dedicated to José Gouveia, poet, editor and WOMR radio host, who is undergoing another treatment for cancer next week. We hope you will not only appreciate the love and support from an array of contributing poets but also consider donating to the Joe Gouveia Recovery Fund, an online effort to help offset the cost of this costly and vital surgery. The fund is already halfway toward it's goal, and with your help we could exceed expectations. Click here to access the latest tributes (updated every day).
December 9: Welcome to Stone Soup, L.U.C.C.I.
A couple of years ago, I came to know the performer local poets have now come to know as L.U.C.C.I. He was new to the scene and very enthusiastic to the point where he even listened to me ramble off my years of alleged knowledge (I'm sure he's found better guidance since those days). In recent months, I've been able to see him work the mic. It's a great feeling to finally give him his Stone Soup Feature tonight. If you can't give see how far he's come like I have, then hopefully I can recreate for you the thrill I had from seeing him on the mic for the first time.
Find My Work in The Anthology Uncommon Core
My poem "He Wants to Be The Lion of Lonely-Hearts" appears in this new tome, which means I appear in a book alongside such dignitaries as Marge Piercy and Patricia Smith(!!!) among others. To understand the unique approach to this book--which explains the circumstances where my work could actually appear with Patricia Smith's--click the link here then order the book.
I'm Now A Contributing Editor for Oddball Magazine (in case you didn't guess)
Those of you who have visited my website and my blog over the past couple of weeks have no doubt noticed my references and links to Oddball Magazine. That's because I am now a contributing editor to this fledgling online journal. Started by Jason Wright, Oddball is now posting five days a week with poetry, columns, artwork and previews for upcoming Stone Soup features. I think with Jason's drive and our growing list of contributors, we are on our way to making Oddball Magazine the most diverse online poetry journal out there. I hope you follow our journey on a regular basis. And if you're a poet or any kind of artist at all, please consider submitting your work at oddballmagazine@gmail.com as soon as you can.
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
