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“If you’re ever lost in the beguiling and fractured translation of being Latin@ in America, Sheila Maldonado’s ONE-BEDROOM SOLO is just the book you need. These poems bring you into a conversation that is drop-dead funny and cunningly tragic. Maldonado draws a self-portrait in an active mirror; an x-ray of love, despair, homeland, and good ole’ signifyin’. ONE-BEDROOM SOLO is a memorable first collection.”—Willie Perdomo
Author Hometown: NEW YORK, NY USA
About the author: Sheila Maldonado grew up in Coney Island, New York, across the street from the Atlantic Ocean. Her family hails from Honduras. She teaches creative writing for The City University of New York and Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She holds degrees in English from Brown University and poetry from The City College of New York. Her poems have appeared in Rattapallax, Callaloo and Me No Habla with Acento: Contemporary Latino Poetry. ONE-BEDROOM SOLO (Fly By Night Press, 2011) is her first book of poems. She lives in a one-bedroom in uptown Manhattan.
George Spencer’s third book of poetry, Unpious Pilgrim, published by Fly By Night Press, a subsidiary of A Gathering of the Tribes, has just come out.
12 dollars (includes shipping and handling)
ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO SAVING TRIBES & STEVE CANNONS HOME
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In addition to writing poetry he is the producer of three cable shows: Poetry Thin Air with Mitch Corber, The Arts(Performing)@Tribes with Steve Cannon and a new show, also with Steve Cannon, featuring emerging multi-media artists in the Czech Republic, India, South Africa and Argentina.
Susan Scutti says his “verse cross-dresses as prose yet sometimes not.”
Bill Kushner says “This wonderous unpious book contains wit and wisdom aplenty.”
Michael Graves says “It continues the gentle, but often brilliant satire begun in his second collection.”
Karen Randolph says “Wry, sophisticated with a touch of Rabelais.”
“Dead Birds or Avian Blues” by Howard Pflanzer on sale now
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Howard Pflanzer’s new work “Dead Birds or Avian Blues” is now available for $15 from Fly-by-Night Press. Contact hpflanzer@yahoo.com for details on purchasing the book.
HOWARD PFLANZER is a playwright, poet, lyricist and director. His plays and musicals have been performed at La MaMa ETC, Playwrights Horizons, Symphony Space, Medicine Show Theater, Kraine Theater and The Living Theatre and broadcast over WNYC and WBAI FM.
He has received fellowships and commissioning grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, ASCAP, the Puffin Foundation, the NEA (Media Arts co-winner), the National Foundation for Jewish Culture as well as a Fulbright Scholar award to conduct theatre workshops and direct in India. Playwriting residencies include Fundacion Valparaiso, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) and the Ragdale Foundation. His play, On the Border, was premiered at Medicine Show in 2007 where his new play, Living With History: Camus Sartre De Beauvoir will be presented.
JULIANE PIEPER was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1975 and works as an illustrator, graphic designer and author for newspapers, magazines and publishing houses. She received her degree in Communication Design at the Art and Design School Berlin (KHB) in 2009. She holds a Master’s in Politics and Literature. Her work was also selected and has been featured in 3 x 3 Magazine and American Illustration Magazine. In addition to her freelance-work, she is currently enrolled as a full-time student in the Master’s Program in Illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York. She also received a Fulbright scholarship for 2009/2010. She currently lives in New York. For more information, go to: www.julepi.de
