tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34745889230479183042024-03-18T20:06:26.586-07:00LVPD PoetryLisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-75062272824450624952016-02-26T13:12:00.000-08:002016-02-26T13:12:01.248-08:00NEW BLOG ADDRESSThanks for visiting! Please click <a href="http://liskenvanpeltduspoetry.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a> to go to my new blog address, where I'll be posting any news from now on.<br />
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Thank you! See you there!Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-15376725224329842042016-02-02T05:30:00.000-08:002016-02-02T09:59:05.642-08:00Updated list of online publications<span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333; line-height: 18.915px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Looks like it's high time I compiled an updated list of my poems available online.... There are new ones to add since I last did this, plus, regrettably, some links listed before that no longer work.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333; line-height: 18.915px;"><a href="http://qarrtsiluni.com/tag/lisken-van-pelt-dus/" target="_blank">Eight Poems (with recordings)</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://mobiuspoetry.org/2015/12/01/mobius-the-poetry-magazine-how-to-become-a-raft-by-lisken-van-pelt-dus/" target="_blank">How to Become a Raft</a><br /><a href="http://www.jendireiter.com/2015/06/10/chapbook-spotlight-two-poems-from-lisken-van-pelt-duss-everywhere-at-once/" target="_blank">Two Poems (plus a review): Becoming Double, & Flight of Starlings</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://masspoetry.org/2012/05/18/in-both-hands-by-lisken-van-pelt-dus/" target="_blank">In Both Hands</a></span><br />
<a href="http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2013/05/06/poetry-monday-april-6-2013/#more-42355" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Three Poems: Cracking Time, And These Are My Fears, My Grown-up Mother</a><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.conduit.org/16/lisken-van-pelt-dus/?rq=van%20pelt" target="_blank">Teleology</a></span><br />
<a href="https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/gloria-story-by-lisken-van-pelt-dus-my-sweet-word-series/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Gloria</a><br />
<a href="http://here-there-poetry.co.uk/web/liskin-van-pelt-dus/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Split-Flap Display</a><br />
<a href="http://ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-16-4/yours-sincerely-loneliness/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Yours Sincerely, Loneliness</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.915px;">(This one was nominated for a Pushcart Prize - my thanks to the editors of </span><em style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.915px;">The Cider Press Review</em><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.915px;">!)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.915px;"><a href="http://www.umbrellajournal.com/winterspring2012-2013/poetry/LiskenVanPeltDus.html" target="_blank">Virginia's Walking Stick</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.umbrellajournal.com/winterspring2012-2013/psych/LiskenVanPeltDus.html" target="_blank">Grief in the Partitive</a></span><br />
<a href="http://centrifugaleye.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Four Postcards (see Postcardese issue in archives)</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.umbrellajournal.com/spring2008/how_divine/LiskenVanPeltDus.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Two Poems: You in this Field, Where I Have Pulled Over my Bike, & The Edge of Everything</a><br />
<a href="http://thepoetrymail.com/lvpd08int/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Four Poems: Disembody, As Yet Unnamed, As If the End Were in Sight, & What Remains (Finalist poems in 2014 Raed Leaf International Poetry Contest)</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is also video of me reading four poems (Taking My Leave, Light, West Stockbridge 1941, and Christmas in Puerto Angel) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZsDdmwS6GxUBI69PVtwhWQ" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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"How to Become a Raft" can be found at http://mobiuspoetry.org/2015/12/01/mobius-the-poetry-magazine-how-to-become-a-raft-by-lisken-van-pelt-dus/<br />
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Enjoy!Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-39747144258278323932015-09-28T14:12:00.002-07:002015-09-28T14:12:29.852-07:00New prose poem online<br />
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Here's a new piece for your reading pleasure! A prose poem, published on the Silver Birch Press site, as part of their "My Sweet Word" series. Enjoy!<br />
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<a href="https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/gloria-story-by-lisken-van-pelt-dus-my-sweet-word-series/" target="_blank">"Gloria"</a><br />
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<br />Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-82300916283783414532015-08-22T11:19:00.001-07:002015-08-22T11:19:23.279-07:00Berkshire Choreography Project collaborationThis has been a new angle on writing poetry for me! For the last two weeks, I've been working with choreographers and dancers in a collaborative project. One of the choreographers has developed dance inspired by my poems, while I've written new poems for four others inspired by their dances - or, more precisely, created as partners for their dances. Two of them wanted poems that would be read before their dances, as introductions and mood-setters; two wanted me to read a poem afterwards, as conclusions and/or "translations." A fascinating kind of commissioned work - writing to others' obsessions, as it were, and finding their intersection with my own....<br />
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The project concludes with two informal showings/readings, Friday 8/21 and Saturday 8/22, at 7:30 PM at the Berkshire Music School, Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield MA.Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-88243370664260078412015-06-10T08:28:00.001-07:002015-06-10T08:28:48.719-07:00Poems spotlighted in Reiter's Block columnThanks to Jendi Reiter for this lovely write-up of my chapbook, <em>Everywhere at Once</em>, with two of the poems reprinted. Both are poems that will also be in my upcoming full-length book, What <em>We're Made Of,</em> due out next summer from the Cherry Grove imprint of Word Tech Publications.<br />
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Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-61414345195657702282015-03-16T15:21:00.000-07:002015-03-16T15:21:23.773-07:00A new online publication - and an exciting announcement!I'm happy to provide a link to a new online poem, in an ezine called <em>here/there</em>. They put a call out for poems with a transatlantic theme - and having grown up transatlantically, I sent them one called "Split-Flap Display." Here's the link:
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Then, in even more exciting news, I just signed a contract for a full-length book with Word Tech, under their Cherry Grove imprint. The book's called <em>What We're Made Of</em>, and is a lyric manuscript. It's made semi-finalist or finalist status in several contests, but now it's finally going to be in print. Tentative publication date is May 2016.Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-18641543297271135542014-10-01T16:14:00.000-07:002014-10-01T16:14:00.216-07:00New PublicationPlease enjoy my poem, "Yours Sincerely, Loneliness," now available at Cider Press Review, in their wonderful new issue online.<br />
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Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-45264163667573306572014-03-31T11:14:00.000-07:002014-03-31T11:14:45.782-07:00New online publicationI'm delighted to have my "Four Postcards," as well as a mini-essay "interview," in the newest edition of <em>Centrifugal Eye</em>. A print version and digital pdf will be available soon, but you can read the work online now.<br />
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Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-25317392005945543272014-02-18T08:56:00.001-08:002014-02-18T08:56:35.206-08:00Videos from 2009 readingPlease 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.<br />
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There are four poems: "Christmas in Puerto Angel," "West Stockbridge, 1942" (In Memoriam Marjorie Dus), "Light," and "Taking My Leave."<br />
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Many thanks to Matti Kiin, who filmed the event and gave me these recordings.<br />
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Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-17254141526887688752014-02-18T06:40:00.000-08:002014-02-18T06:40:28.361-08:00Mad River Literary Festival readingI'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!Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-31122437771002357062013-05-09T03:34:00.000-07:002013-05-09T03:34:05.663-07:00Featured Poet for Poetry Monday at International PsychoanalysisWith 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 <em>International Psychoanalysis</em>. <br />
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Happy May!Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-11742206528250408202012-09-06T14:15:00.001-07:002012-09-06T14:15:57.765-07:00Poem featured on Mass Poetry websiteOne 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": <a href="http://masspoetry.org/2012/05/18/in-both-hands-by-lisken-van-pelt-dus/">http://masspoetry.org/2012/05/18/in-both-hands-by-lisken-van-pelt-dus/</a>. It was originally published in the Warwick Review.<br />
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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.Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-82815386693437219342012-08-22T11:39:00.000-07:002012-08-22T11:39:38.783-07:00Word 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. <br />
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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: <a href="http://berkshirewordfest.org/">http://berkshirewordfest.org/</a>.<br />
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Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-21472700331882074652012-02-25T13:15:00.002-08:002012-02-25T13:30:18.171-08:00Updated list of online publicationsThe online journal <em>qarrtsiluni</em> has published eight of my pieces. They can all be found here: <a href="http://qarrtsiluni.com/tag/lisken-van-pelt-dus/">http://qarrtsiluni.com/tag/lisken-van-pelt-dus/</a> <br /><br />I also recently had the honor of having a poem nominated for a Pushcart Prize. It can be found here: <a href="http://ciderpressreview.com/archive/volume-12/the-uses-of-appetite/">http://ciderpressreview.com/archive/volume-12/the-uses-of-appetite/</a>. My thanks to the editors of <em>The Cider Press Review</em>!<br /><br />In addition, one or two of my poems can be found at each of the following links:<br /><a href="http://www.umbrellajournal.com/spring2008/how_divine/LiskenVanPeltDus.html">http://www.umbrellajournal.com/spring2008/how_divine/LiskenVanPeltDus.html</a><br /><a href="http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/studio/v02n01/studio4.html">http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/studio/v02n01/studio4.html</a><br /><a href="http://www.conduit.org/archive/16/dus.html">http://www.conduit.org/archive/16/dus.html</a><br /><a href="http://www.westminstercollege.edu/ellipsis/trading_stories.pdf">http://www.westminstercollege.edu/ellipsis/trading_stories.pdf</a><br /><a href="http://thesoundjournal.org/archives/july-2009-issue/">http://thesoundjournal.org/archives/july-2009-issue/</a>Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-34352894302225792412012-02-18T11:10:00.001-08:002012-02-18T11:14:45.103-08:00Reading in Pittsfield, MassachusettsI'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!<br /><br />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. <br /><br />See you there.Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-73981540881831038162010-03-30T17:52:00.000-07:002010-03-30T17:54:59.127-07:00Upcoming Reading and WorkshopFor anyone in the Berkshires or nearby, I have both a reading and a workshop coming up:<br /><br /><strong>Reading</strong> (group reading, sponsored by upstreet and the Pittsfield Poetry Week), at Chapters Bookstore, 78 North Street, Pittsfield, at 6 PM on <strong>Friday, April 16</strong>.<br /><br /><strong>Workshop</strong>, in conjunction with both the Pittsfield Poetry Week and the Big Read, also at Chapters Bookstore, at 2 PM on <strong>Saturday, April 17</strong>. This will be a poetry-writing workshop for adult poets of all levels, building on themes in <em>The Things They Carried</em>. The workshop is free, but pre-registration is required (limited enrollment); e-mail workshops@upstreet-mag.org or call (413) 443-2665 to register.Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-23666947119818848342009-12-06T16:36:00.000-08:002009-12-06T16:38:53.035-08:00Online links to my workOnline links to LVPD work: <br /><br />http://qarrtsiluni.com/tag/lisken-van-pelt-dus/<br />http://www.umbrellajournal.com/spring2008/how_divine/LiskenVanPeltDus.html<br />http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/studio/v02n01/studio4.html<br />http://www.conduit.org/archive/16/dus.html<br />http://www.westminstercollege.edu/ellipsis/trading_stories.pdf<br />http://thesoundjournal.org/archives/july-2009-issue/<br /><br />Three more poems have been accepted by qarrtsiluni recently, to be published in their Health issue, which begins in January. All my qarrtsiluni poems also have MP3 recordings published with them. Enjoy!Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-38787518861904143752009-08-12T05:49:00.000-07:002009-12-05T13:13:41.821-08:00Reading Schedule<strong>Upcoming readings:</strong><br /><br /><br />December Wordplay featuring Two Upstreet Poets:<br />Lisken Van Pelt Dus and Cynthia Saunders <br /><br /><br />Papyri Books, 45 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA<br />Saturday, December 12, at 7:00 p.m.<br /><br />Free<br /><br /><br />WordPlay, the monthly reading series co-sponsored by Inkberry and Papyri Books, will be presented Saturday, December 12, 7:00 p.m. at Papyri Books , 45 Eagle Street. Featured writers will read from their work, which has recently appeared in upstreet number five, a nationally distributed literary anthology published by Ledgetop Publishing, which is based in Western Massachusetts. <br /><br />Vivian Dorsel, editor/publisher of upstreet, will introduce Lisken Van Pelt Dus and Cynthia Saunders, both poets whose work appears in upstreet number five. Ms. Dorsel will also read an excerpt from the Robin Hemley interview, which appears in the same issue of upstreet.<br /><br />Lisken Van Pelt Dus teaches English and other languages in Great Barrington. Her poetry can be found in upstreet number one and two, Conduit, Main Street Rag, Ellipsis, and other journals. She has earned awards from The Comstock Review, Atlanta Review, and Writing the River: the 2004 Word Street Writing Contest. Her chapbook, Everywhere at Once, has just been released by Pudding House Press. She lives in Pittsfield with her husband.<br /><br />Cynthia Saunders Quiñones has been an English teacher in Dalton and writing instructor and advisory board member for Word Street in Pittsfield. She is now Director of Education for the Barrington Stage Company.. Her work has appeared in The Berkshire Review and upstreet number one. She lives in North Adams with her husband.<br /><br />Gail Burns of Williamstown will host the event for Inkberry. After the reading, there will be a brief intermission, followed by the popular WordPlay open mic. Refreshments will be available, and admission is free and open to the public. <br /><br /><br />For additional information, contact Papyri Books at (413) 662-2099 or visit Inkberry's website at www.inkberry.orgLisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474588923047918304.post-29505200733498222402009-03-16T14:46:00.001-07:002009-03-23T16:48:30.927-07:00Everywhere at Once<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6G_Gw2rTTAEP4IXW3XrEu0bfTDIN7jkXwB42c_Owkhgjwv9ipCXps3Qx3lAEziE6ro0AKTfM_Z3qeTbQU01bwf3Qb6K1uGy25esIs_mKZF4ewaMCr8nUj3VpjvqMhH8JxjOTOx-Jybw/s1600-h/IMG_0159.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313917712775319154" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6G_Gw2rTTAEP4IXW3XrEu0bfTDIN7jkXwB42c_Owkhgjwv9ipCXps3Qx3lAEziE6ro0AKTfM_Z3qeTbQU01bwf3Qb6K1uGy25esIs_mKZF4ewaMCr8nUj3VpjvqMhH8JxjOTOx-Jybw/s320/IMG_0159.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Breaking news!<br /><br />My chapbook,<em> Everywhere at Once</em>, has just been released by Pudding House Press, and is now available for purchase.<br /><div><div><br />It's a collection of twenty poems, unified by bird imagery. In poems that travel the globe, the book deals with themes of immanence, identity, the human condition, and, of course, love.<br /><br />A sample poem - in fact, the first one in the book, from which the title is taken - can be read at <a href="http://www.umbrellajournal.com/spring2008/how_divine/LiskenVanPeltDus.html">http://www.umbrellajournal.com/spring2008/how_divine/LiskenVanPeltDus.html</a>.</div></div></div><br />The cover art is by my brother, artist John Van Pelt.<br /><br />The book costs $10 plus shipping. Copies are available from me (in person, or e-mail me at <a href="mailto:lisken@verizon.net">lisken@verizon.net</a>) or from Pudding House Press (<a href="http://www.puddinghouse.com/">http://www.puddinghouse.com/</a> - scroll down the left side of the page to "Order Form"). If you order from me, let me know if you'd like your copy signed and/or dedicated. I'm also hoping to have copies in Berkshire bookstores soon.Lisken Van Pelt Dushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04993000758655180765noreply@blogger.com2