READING

JENDI REITER – MAN MADE

Jendi Reiter will be reading from their new poetry collection, MAN MADE (Little Red Tree Publishing), with Steven Riel, launching his new collection, Edgemere (Lily Poetry Review Books), on Saturday, April 9, at 7:00pm at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York City. Sign up on EventBrite. The event will also be livestreamed on the Bureau’s YouTube channel and recorded for later viewing.

New Website

We are back!

After many years of “stuff happening,”—tribulations, troubles, trauma—without mentioning the pandemic, we apologise for the obvious neglect of this blog. However, we have decided to resume posting new books and events to support the release of our new website: http://www.littleredtree.com. Same name but different!

For those familiar with the original site—it passed away due to “digital senescence”—it will not be too much of a departure, and we hope more user friendly in this “smartphone” age we now live in.

You might be glad to hear that during our absence we have not been completely idle. We have published a number of new books and we will be posting them in the coming weeks.

We look forward to hearing from you if you feel inclined to leave a comment. 

Results: International Poetry Prize 2013

Little Red Tree  International Poetry Prize 2013

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 Prize Winner: JENDI REITER

Poem: “After October Snow”

Runner up: Suzanne Ondrus

Poem: “Inch by Inch, Row by Row”

3rd prize placements:

1. Marie J. Ross – “The Other Side of the Moon”

2. Peter Mansson – “The Flame”

3. Siobhan O’Leary – “Nettle Soup”

4. Lynn Sadler – “What Was Wrong He Did Not Know or Say”

5. Joan Goodreau – “Shapes of Autism”

Book Launch: Under the Potato Moon by Tom Kirlin

BOOK LAUNCH

TOM KIRLIN

“UNDER THE POTATO MOON”

If you are in Washington for an early spring site-seeing tour, shopping, visiting friends or just happen to be walking in the vicinity you are more than welcome to drop in for this special book launch. It will take place at:

Studio Gallery

2108 R St., N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20008

tel: 202-232-8734

web: studiogallerydc.com

map: location of gallery

Time of reading:

Sunday, April 21, 2pm – 4pm

Light refreshments

A ‘Tree’ grows in Boston

A short piece in The Day, by Rick Koster, appeared on Friday, 8 Mar 13… the title is worth the price of admission any day.

“Representatives from Little Red Tree Publishing of New London are making their debut appearance at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Annual Conference and Bookfair in Boston through Saturday.

Also, The Little Red Tree Publishing AWP Poetry Reading takes place at 6 p.m. Friday. Participating Tree authors are Jean-Yves Solinga, W.F. Lantry, Joanie DiMartino, Charles Ipcar, Tamara Martin and Mary Vallas Posner. Conference & Bookfair, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Hynes Convention Center & Sheraton Boston Hotel, 39 Dalton St., Boston. AWP Poetry Reading, 6 p.m. Friday, L’Aroma Cafe, 85 Newbury St., Boston; free. For info, littleredtree.wordpress.com.”

Little Red Tree Publishing

AWP Poetry Reading

Friday, March 8, 6 pm – 8pm

L’Aroma Cafe,  85 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116

Join us at the Newbury Street L’Aroma Cafe for poetry and music featuring Little Red Tree authors: Tamara Martin (Sundays in the South), Joanie DiMartino (Strange Girls), Jean-Yves Solinga (Words Made of Silk), Mary Vallas Possner (Basil, Mountain Laurel and Jazz) and W.F. Lantry (The Structure of Desire), with sea shanty music performed by Charlies Ipcar (The Complete Poetry of Cicely Fox Smith).

Free Buffet of nibbles and fruit, and light refreshments.

GREAT NEWS

LITTLE RED TREE IS GOING TO THE AWP CONFERENCE IN BOSTON

6 – 9 March 2013

I was working away on my latest book and the phone ran.

“Is that Michael Linnard, Little Red Tree.”

“Yes, it is.”

“We have a cancelation. Would you like to take it.”

“YES, ABSOLUTELY.”

I later decided on table S8…

So I’ll see you there.

 

A.D. Winans Performs at The Davis Jazz Festival

A.D. Winans Performs at

The Davis Jazz Festival,

October 19th at 7:30PM

The Davis Jazz Beat Festival is proud to present acclaimed poet A. D. Winans, who will be reading at the Jazz Beat Conference, October 19^th at 7:30.

A native of San Francisco, Allan Davis Winans is a poet, essayist, photographer, and short story writer whose work has appeared in over 2,000 literary magazines and anthologies, including City Lights Journal, Poetry Australia, The New York Quarterly, Beatitude, Beat Scene, and Rattle. In addition, he has written 50 books of poetry and two books of prose. Winans was close friends with Beat poets Charles Bukowski, Bob Kaufman, and Jack Micheline, having participated in the Beat and post-Beat era starting in 1958. From 1972 to 1989 Winans edited and published Second Coming Magazine, which produced a large number of books and anthologies, including the highly acclaimed California Bicentennial Poets Anthology. In 2006, he was awarded a PEN National Josephine Miles Award For Excellence in Literature, and, in 2009, PEN Oakland presented Winans with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2010, Bottle of Smoke Press published a 300-page collection of Winans’ selected poems, and in February 2012 Little Red Tree Press published Winans’ San Francisco Poems.

The 6^th Annual Davis Jazz Festival: Beyond the Beat Generation takes place this coming weekend, Friday & Saturday, October 19 & 20, 2012, at the John Natsoulas Gallery and at Davis Commons (in front of the new Whole Foods Market). For six years the Davis Jazz Festival has been the premier collaborative conference in the region, offering an eclectic mix of poets, singers, bands and performance painters for people of all ages to enjoy. Featuring music from classical jazz combos to hard-driving big bands, the festival will serve as an educational event for creative youth, and will benefit the Davis High School Band Program. For more information, visit http://www.natsoulas.com/schedule/.

Who: A.D. Winans
When: Friday, October 19^th at 7:30PM
Where: The John Natsoulas Gallery at 521 First Street

Radio Interview: Bill Lantry

StoryCorps: Poet Bill Lantry, On The Moment He Fell In Love With His Wife

By: WAMU Staff // October 8, 2012

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StoryCorps

Bill Lantry, a writer and poet in Silver Spring, Md., with his wife, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, a liturgical soloist and music director.

For some, love is a thing that builds up gradually. For D.C. author and poet Bill Lantry, it happened all at once. He recalls the exact moment that he fell in love with his wife, liturgical singer Kathleen Fitzpatrick.

“I had just taken you to lunch right by the capitol,” recalls Lantry, speaking to his wife. “And I spent two hours telling you every bad thing I had ever done in my entire life so you would know everything, and I would never have to hide anything at all from you. And you didn’t run away screaming.”

Exhausted and elated from this experience, Lantry drove with his future wife back to the campus of Catholic University, where they both attended school. He recalls stopping at a stoplight 400 yards south of the Basilica, as she put Franz Biebl’s version of “Ave Maria” on the CD player and began to sing along.

“I looked around at the trees outside and the sun was shining and you were so beautiful and your voice was so beautiful,” says Lantry. “And I looked at the little clock on your car’s dashboard and it said 1:54 in the afternoon. It was a Friday in late fall, and I completely fell in love with you at that moment. It was over — that was the end of that.”

That moment was transformational for his relationship with Kathleen, but was also the inspiration for some of his written works. He would go on to publish a book of poems called “The Structure of Desire,” published by Little Red Tree Publishing, about his love for her.

As for what the future holds, Lantry is characteristically poetic.

“I just want to feel that energy flowing through you that I feel every day,” he says. “I just wanted that all the time, forever.”

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This interview was recorded in Arlington, Va. at StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share and preserve the stories of our lives. To find out more information and to reserve a timeslot to tell your own story at the StoryCorps MobileBooth, visitStoryCorps.org.

Book Review: Nonnie Augustine’s Review of “The Structure of Desire” by W.F. Lantry

Nonnie Augustine’s

[The Linnet’s Wings]

Review of

The Structure of Desire

by W.F. Lantry

I don’t read poetry collections quickly. I may blast my way through John Sanford’s latest thriller, but it takes me weeks or months to read a poet’s book to completion. This is the first time I’ve read with the promise of a review in mind, but I had to put that pledge on the way-back burner before I could settle down and enjoy Mr. Lantry’s lovely collection. I’m not a poetry critic; I’m a poetry enthusiast. However, here it goes:

This beautifully realized book includes a foreward by Jean-Yves Solinga, a prologue and chapter introductions by Mr. Lantry, over a hundred poems and Pre-Raphealite paintings, printed in black and white, as a frontispiece for each chapter. There is a glossary (I can never keep my gods, goddesses and their stories straight and so I appreciated the helpful reminders about them, the carpentry terms, the translations at the ready, and the obscure references explained in straightforward language. I do, however, know what quotidian means) an index, and Mr. Lantry’s stunning biography. The poems are uniform in structure: four stanzas of six lines each, with ten skillful beats per line. This author takes exquisite care with his work, and there is much in this volume for each of us to enjoy.

The love poems take us on a gentle, sensuous journey through a land of silk and pearls, lace and candlelight, song and mystery. Mr. Lantry’s word choices hark back to pre-Beat literary times; his language is unabashadly civilized. When reading many of these poems I shared with the author a rarified world accompanied by classical or liturgical music, lit softly, peopled by intelligent, graceful beings who resolve conflicts and behave well (except for an impulsive four-year-old, who I think must be a charming boy.)

I like best the poems (“Hinges,” “Stone Cutters,” “Disorder”) in which the author leaves interior rooms and writes about struggles to tame nature for his gardens, walks along riverbanks or through forests, and time spent in his workshop where he fashions wood and teaches his son. I like his storms and his words about aftermaths of storms, natural or human. There is grit, hard work, and striving in this volume, along with the good wine, the fine fabrics.

The line that took my breath away, “I wanted to write paradise,” begins his poem “The Dark Wood.” I love that. I think this poet did and does want to write paradise. I believe him and I empathize with the difficulty he faces, we all face, when we want to help with our words and can only, at best, come close. The poem continues “…I would/create with words, a space where each may dwell who comes to read./A quiet song, small words almost as calming as the wind,light birds/their feathers shadow-flashing, or the swell/breaking into a wave across the sand.” I will keep this collection near me for awhile. I’ll reread favorites, wander worlds with Mr. Lantry, and try not to envy his wife, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, who has had such poetry dedicated to her.