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  • Tribes and The Aquarian Arts Announce Poetry Contest

    Enter soon! Deadline is July 1st.
    A Gathering of the Tribes and The Aquarian Arts are co-sponsoring a poetry contest.

    First prize will be $150 dollars. Second: $75, Third: $50. Deadline is July 1st. Send up to 3 poems (include SASE) Deadline is July 1st. Send entries to The Aquarian Arts, 502 Plandome Road, Manhasset, NY, 11030

    Finalist Judge will be Yerra Sugarman who received the 2005 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry for her first book, Forms of Gone, published in 2002. Her second book, The Bag of Broken Glass, was published in January 2008, also by Sheep Meadow Press. She is the recipient of a “Discovery”/The Nation Poetry Prize, a Chicago Literary Award, the Poetry Society of America’s George Bogin Memorial Award and its Cecil Hemley Memorial Award. Born in Toronto, she lives in New York City, where she has taught creative writing in undergraduate and MFA programs. She is currently teaching poetry at Rutgers University and is Writer in Residence at Eugene Lang College - The New School for Liberal Arts.

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    June 19, 2008-July 31, 2008
    Venue: Tribes Gallery
    Address: 285 East Third Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10009

    Works by HiCoup
    Curated by Justina Mejias

    Opening reception 6-9pm, Thurs. June 19, 2008

    Racism. Sexism. Alcoholism. Hedonism. Opportunism. Nationalism…

    Deconstructing the different “isms” that pervade society, hip-hop emcee and visual artist HiCoup (Haiku) presents a mixed media abstract impressionist rendering of the societal influences that bombard us since conception in the womb.

    “Izm” is an artistic exploration of the landscape of humanity through it’s conditioning both conscious and subconscious.


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“Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind”

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“Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind”

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“Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind” is a collection of short stories focusing on the formative and tumultuous moments in the lives of two women as children and adults, whose relationship to one another is cast in an ambiguous light, and whose characters are abstracted within the context of each story. Primarily set in rural America and other transient realms, this book combines realism with elements of meta-fiction, magnifying the extraordinary interpersonal worlds created by the circumstances of their outer reality.

“Woods writes about love with a calloused hand, filling the spaces left by others. Her words etch a dotted line across your heart, instructing it precisely in where to break.”

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“Chavisa’s stories are definitely written from an American Outsider perspective. She’s a writer who watches, waits, and thinks for herself, bringing us close to the infernal life of the Americanly Ignorant and the articulate seer who lurks among them.”

—-Jennifer Blowdryer, (author of White Trash Debutante, Good Advice for Young Trendy People of all Ages, and Modern English.)