A new online publication - and an exciting announcement!

I'm happy to provide a link to a new online poem, in an ezine called here/there.  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: 

http://here-there-poetry.co.uk/web/liskin-van-pelt-dus/

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 What We're Made Of, 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.

New Publication

Please enjoy my poem, "Yours Sincerely, Loneliness," now available at Cider Press Review, in their wonderful new issue online.

http://ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-16-4/yours-sincerely-loneliness/

New online publication

I'm delighted to have my "Four Postcards," as well as a mini-essay "interview," in the newest edition of Centrifugal Eye.  A print version and digital pdf will be available soon, but you can read the work online now.

“Four Postcards” – Centrifugal Eye - Winter/Spring 2014, Volume 8 Issue 3

http://centrifugaleye.com/

 

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.