Discussion → Cervena Barva Press Announces A New Chapbook, "All This Dark 24 Tanka Sequences" by John Elsberg and Eric Greinke

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  Gloria Mindock

  Jun 16, 11:21pm

  
  

  Cervena Barva Press Announces a New Chapbook
  "All This Dark 24 Tanka Sequences"
  by John Elsberg & Eric Greinke
  
  This chapbook is a companion piece to Catching The Light: 12 Haiku Sequences by John Elsberg and Eric Greinke, which Cervena Barva Press published in 2009.

  Eric Greinke has been active on the literary scene for nearly fifty years. He has been a bookseller, a publisher, an editor, a creative writing teacher, a book reviewer and a social worker for special needs children. His published work includes poetry, fiction, translation, social criticism and poetics, and has appeared in many books and chapbooks and in journals such as The Hurricane Review, Abraxas, Chiron Review, New York Quarterly, Wilderness House Literary Review, Main St. Rag, The South Carolina Review, California Quarterly, Mad Poets Review, Home Planet News, The University of Tampa Review, and the Paterson Literary Review. He has won several prizes, most recently a 2012 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award from the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. His most recent books are Traveling Music (2011), Beyond Our Control - Two Collaborative Poems (with Hugh Fox, 2012) and Conversation Pieces - Selected Interviews (2012), all from Presa Press. He is known for his collaborations with other poets, including Ronnie Lane, Brian Adam, Mark Sonnenfeld, Harry Smith, Richard Kostelanetz, Marine Robert Warden and Hugh Fox. All This Dark is his second collaboration with John Elsberg. They are working on a third. Website: www.ericgreinke.com.

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  John Elsberg is a poet, reviewer, editor, and historian. He is the author of over a dozen books and chapbooks of poetry, and his work has been in a number of anthologies. He was the host of open poetry readings at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland, for almost twenty-five years. He has also has led various writing workshops, including explorations of experimental poetry with high school students. In the late 1970's he was the fiction editor of Gargoyle. He has since been the editor or poetry editor of several other literary magazines, ranging from Bogg to The Delmarva Review on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where he and his wife Connie now spend a good part of their time. As a young man he taught for the University of Maryland, and then he spent many years as an editor/publisher of history books. His poems have appeared in a wide range of journals, such as Hanging Loose, the New Orleans Review, Lost & Found Times, Edgz, RAW NerVZ (Canada), American Tanka, and the Lilliput Review.
  boggmag@aol.com

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  All This Dark

  all this dark
  stubble in winter sun
  but I know
  beyond the next turn
  the wheat is neon green

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  cardinals
  stay with us through
  the winter
  an oriental bush
  that blooms in fall

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  late geese
  across a rising moon
  long trumpets
  playing in a royal court
  they exit left on cue

  32 pages
  

  Order online at http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/cervenabooks.html

  All This Dark 24 Tanka Sequences
  $7.00
  
  Shipping
  $3.00
  
  Total
  $10.00
  
  
  Send check or money order payable to:
  Cervena Barva Press
  P.O. Box 440357,
  W. Somerville, MA 02144-3222
  e-mail: editor@cervenabarvapress.com
  

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