CALENDAR
Deadlines

Mar 1-3: AWP Chicago, Booth 621

Mar 15: Washington Prize Submission Deadline

Mar 31: Joaquin Miller Poetry Series Application Deadline

Mar 31: Jacklyn Potter Young Poets Competition Deadline

Cafe Muse Literary Series
Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 South Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD. 7:00 pm with open readings after featured readers. Free. Adele Brown, Hailey Leithauser, and Laura Golberg host. Michael Davis plays classical guitar at most programs.

MONDAY 3 /5---Poets Margo Berdeshevsky & Lilah Hegnauer with tribute to Edward Weismiller

THURSDAY 4/05/12 --Angie Hogan & Kevin McFaddin with tribute to Gwendolyn Brooks

MONDAY 5/7 ---Poets Karren Alenier & Yahia Lababidi with tribute to Cicely Angleton

The Iota Poetry Series
Iota Bar and Restaurant,
2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Virginia at 6 pm. Open readings follow. Admission free. Miles David Moore hosts. For more information, call 703-522-8340 or 703-256-9275.

Feb 12: Tarfia Faizullah & Mark Fitzgerald

Mar 11--- Cliff Bernier with musicians Shep Williams and Mike Gillispie

Apr 8: J.H. Beall & Nina Corwin

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WORD WORKS ANNOUNCES

PERPETUAL MOTION ARRIVES

The Word Works is proud to release Perpetual Motion by Marilyn McCabe of Saratoga Springs, NY. Selected by Gray Jacobik for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection, Perpetual Motion is McCabes first full-length book.

McCabes work has been published in Painted Bride Quarterly, Nimrod, Beloit Poetry Journal, Rhino, and other journals, and she has received awards through the New York State Council on the Arts and the Adirondack Center for Writing. Her chapbook Rugged Means of Grace was published by Finishing Line Press in 2010.

McCabe left government work to pursue the arts, training as a jazz singer and poet. She holds an MFA in poetry from New England College.

SCORCHED BY THE SUN ARRIVES

The Word Works is pleased to announce publication of Sorched by the Sun by Israeli poet Moshe Dor as translated in English by Barbara Goldberg with the author. Originally published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011, this book, imbued with things Israeli, concerns love -- love for a woman and love for the motherland.

In December 2011, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature selected Scorched by the Sun for one of their translation awards. This award will provide a handsome purse for translators Barbara Goldberg and Moshe Dor.

With many prestigious awards, Moshe Dor is regarded as one of the most prominent poets in Israel. As the author of 40 books of poetry, essays, interviews and childrens books, he is an influential presence on the Israeli literary scene, actively publishing today. His poems have been translated into some 30 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, Georgian, Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbian-Croatian, Ukrainian and Yiddish. He is also held in high esteem worldwide, having served as President of Israeli P.E.N.; Counselor for Cultural Affairs in London, and Distinguished Writer in Residence at American University, Washington, DC.

Barbara Goldberg has worked with Moshe Dor for more than 20 years. She is a poet in her own right (e.g. Berta Broadfoot and Pepin the Short: A Merovingian Romance) and early in their collaboration received the Armand G. Erpf Award from the Columbia Center for Translation. The Stones Remember: Native Israeli Poetry (The Word Works, 1991) received the prestigious Witter Bynner Foundation Award. Their next anthology of contemporary Israeli poetry, After the First Rain: Israeli Poems on War and Peace (Syracuse University Press, 1998), contains an introduction by then Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Dor and Goldberg also collaborated in translating The Fire Stays in Red: Poems by Ronny Someck (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002).

2011 WASHINGTON PRIZE WINNER

Mike White of Salt Lake City, Utah, has won the 2011 Washington Prize for his manuscript How to Make a Bird with Two Hands.

How to Make a Bird with Two Hands is Whites first published book. His work has appeared in many journals, including Poetry, The New Republic, The Threepenny Review, and The Iowa Review, and has also been featured online at Poetry Daily and Verse Daily.

Raised in Canada, White came to the US to earn his PhD at the University of Utah, where he now teaches literature and creative writing. Previously he was also editor at Quarterly West.

2012 CAPITAL COLLECTION PUBLICATION

Gray Jacobik selected Marilyn McCabe of Saratoga Springs, NY, author of Perpetual Motion for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection for publication in spring 2012.

CAFE MUSE IN 2012

In 2012, The Word Works will continue to honor late poets held dear by the literary community at each of our 12 Cafe Muse programs.

In January, we paid tribute to Barbara Moore , who won the 1990 Word Works Washington Prize for her book Farewell to the Body. Other poets we plan to honor are: Cicely Angleton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edward Cox, John Haines, Mariquita Mullan, John Pauker, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Edward Weismiller.

Please help us with this effort by sending your tax-deductible donation to:

The Word Works Cafe Muse Fund
P.O. Box 42164
Washington DC 20015

Indicate to which poet tribute you would like your donation assigned.

NEW VENUE FOR MILLER CABIN SERIES

The Word Works is pleased to be working collaboratively with the National Park Service for the 2011 Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Series which will take place on Thursdays at 7 PM starting June 9th at the Rock Creek Nature Center's Planetarium. The location is 5200 Glover Road NW, Washington, DC 20015, near the intersection of Military and Glover roads.

The eight-week program was competively selected from over 80 applicants . We thank all who sent in sample poems for consideration and hope those not selected will try again next year. There were many fine submissions for the limited number of program slots.

Fundraising is now underway and we thank all our supporting friends, donors and patrons who make these programs possible.

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