Videos from 2009 reading

Please enjoy this footage of me reading back in March of 2009, at Rouge Restaurant in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, as part of the Berkshire Women in the Arts Festival, sponsored by the Bookloft, of Great Barrington.  My fellow readers were Irene Willis, Mindy Dow, Michelle Gillett, and Joan Peronto.

There are four poems: "Christmas in Puerto Angel," "West Stockbridge, 1942" (In Memoriam Marjorie Dus), "Light," and "Taking My Leave."

Many thanks to Matti Kiin, who filmed the event and gave me these recordings.

 

Mad River Literary Festival reading

I'm delighted to announce that I'll be reading, with Dennis Barone (and another poet yet to be announced), at the Mad River Literary Festival at Northwestern Connecticut Community College, in Winsted, CT, on Wednesday, April 9.  An open reception will follow.  Hope to see you there!

Featured Poet for Poetry Monday at International Psychoanalysis

With thanks to Irene Willis, I'm happy to be the featured poet for May on her Poetry Monday column, up now at the website of International Psychoanalysis. 

Please take a look:  http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2013/05/06/poetry-monday-april-6-2013/#more-42355

Happy May!

Poem featured on Mass Poetry website

One more online link!  I'm very pleased that my poem, "In Both Hands," has been featured on the Mass Poetry website as one of their "Poems of the Moment":  http://masspoetry.org/2012/05/18/in-both-hands-by-lisken-van-pelt-dus/.  It was originally published in the Warwick Review.

My thanks to Jackie Malone!  Please also take a little time to enjoy some of the other poems on the site - it's a terrific group.

Word Fest at the Mount!

Please join me on Sunday, September 16, at 1:45 PM, as I read with Mark Wunderlich in the final reading of the Berkshire Word Fest at The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts. 

For that matter, please take advantage of the whole three days of the festival - jammed pack with readings, panel discussions, and other celebrations of the literary life.  There's quite a roster:  http://berkshirewordfest.org/.

Updated list of online publications

The online journal qarrtsiluni has published eight of my pieces. They can all be found here: http://qarrtsiluni.com/tag/lisken-van-pelt-dus/

I also recently had the honor of having a poem nominated for a Pushcart Prize. It can be found here: http://ciderpressreview.com/archive/volume-12/the-uses-of-appetite/. My thanks to the editors of The Cider Press Review!

In addition, one or two of my poems can be found at each of the following links:
http://www.umbrellajournal.com/spring2008/how_divine/LiskenVanPeltDus.html
http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/studio/v02n01/studio4.html
http://www.conduit.org/archive/16/dus.html
http://www.westminstercollege.edu/ellipsis/trading_stories.pdf
http://thesoundjournal.org/archives/july-2009-issue/

Reading in Pittsfield, Massachusetts

I'm happy to be reading as part of Pittsfield's 10x10 on North mid-winter arts festival this month - so much dynamic stuff going on!

Come see me at yBar at 391 North Street, on Friday, February 24 at 8 PM. I'll read for about twenty minutes - and then we can enjoy some cheese and wine - or maybe some chocolate covered strawberries! - together.

See you there.