#Hudson Valley Poetry

[philgennuso]

Days Of Splendor ! #Nature #Haiku #MagicRealism #GraphicArts

By Phil Gennuso Arts the beauty of the valleyon a clear spring day —breathless

[cowboy]

[maryannmccarra-fitzpatrick]

I could not share all the images here….check the HVMOCA website or come see the exhibit at the opening reception on the 17th!!!

[idlejet]

This song concludes the “Wind of Hours Unwinding” album by The Warp/The Weft (2014) - I play guitar in this band 

[gennsoup]

When he saw them all flee, The skunk decided He was the King of Beasts.

Dag Hammarskjöld, Hudson Valley

[vmaddesso]

Poetry…💖

[janicecampbell]

Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant

Landscape—Scene from “Thanatopsis,” painted by Asher Brown Durand, 1850. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain. Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a…

[gingerradiohour]

Ginger Radio Hour #029

Show Notes December 6, 2022

Listen to archived episode.

Theme: Best of Ginger Radio 2022

Highlights from four inspirational moments captured on the show over the past year, including poet Cornelius Eady, an extended interview with the band Florist, the Ginger Collective's first audio experiment, and 75-year-old birds from New York, caught on tape, thanks to Cornell University.

Playlist:

“Cairo, N.Y.” Poem by Cornelius Eady and read aloud March 8, 2022

Florist “Bells Pt. 3” Album: Florist 2022

The Time “The Bird” Album: Ice Cream Castle 1984

American Bird Songs Volume One (Second Issue) Cornell University 1955

[vyl3tpwny]

hi vylet! i come from an area that's. somewhat near the hudson bay, or at least near enough that like. i'm very aware of it. i was wondering, if you're comfortable with answering. what's the significance of the hudson bay clip used across I Was The Loner of Paradise Valley?

i wrote this in the paradise valley digital booklet but i may as well talk about it here!

a lot of the mixtape is dedicated to and mindful of my middle school classmate pedro. i won't go into great detail about him, but he was probably my best and only real irl friend ever until i reunited with sylver.

pedro and i, after becoming friends a year prior, were put into a final project together for our history class. the class groups were instructed to write a song that incorporated the key vocabulary and events of the american revolutionary war into the lyrics.

what was expected of everyone was just like song lyrics and nothing more. but i was rlly deep into music production at that point and pedro was also keen to do a bunch of actual tunes for the project. so along with two other classmates who were also assigned to our group, we made an actually, 'fully produced' ep of music for the class. everybody else in the class had done like covers of other songs or just wrote poetry essentially.

i'm going to brag about this forever, even though the ep was actually terrible, but we impressed the teacher so much with it that — while everyone only had one song they were allowed to present — we were allowed to, and requested to, play the entire ep for the class. of those, was "In the Hudson Bay" which was played SEVERAL times because the class liked that song so much apparently.

the hook of "in the hudson bay, you know how we do it" is a bar that pedro came up with himself. the flow, the attitude, the delivery, and even the phrase itself is extremely hype still lmao. that is pedro himself though. he had a natural talent for rapping. i would have loved to see him keep going ahahah. i don't think he'd really be interested in that, 10 years later.

[incidentalcomics]

Poetry Comics Month Guest Artist: Summer Pierre

@summerpierre is a cartoonist living in the Hudson Valley of New York. She is the author of the Eisner-nominated book ALL THE SAD SONGS and the autobiographical series Paper, Pencil, Life. Her comics and sketchbooks have a personal quality that feels like you’re peeking into her life. She’s also a master of two-panel haiku comics of insight and brevity. Find Summer’s website at summer-pierre.com and follow her on instagram @summer.pierre.

[philgennuso]

Peaceful Day Hudson Valley #Nature #Poem #TurbulentTuesdays #History

Photo by Phil Gennuso Arts Labor Day 2024 Labor Day Hudson Valley everyone out and about A lovely day filled with peace and beauty How I wish our world would be the same Public Domain From UK Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, Sept 3, 1939, Eighty-Five years ago. The day World War II began. Included below is a link to a Twitter post which replays the original broadcast from the…

[finishinglinepress]

FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Lost & Found by Joann Deiudicibus

On SALE: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/lost-found-by-joann-deiudicibus/

Lost & Found maps a path back to the self through blood and chosen #families, scouring the body for answers to #grief and blurred #memory. These #poems ask, who are we if we don’t have a history, and how can we become despite what’s kept in darkness, left unsaid? As a meditation on what we have to lose in finding ourselves, and what’s left to be saved if we can love with resilience, the poems in this debut #chapbook consider ways #home, all that is at once lost and found.

Joann Deiudicibus teaches writing in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her poems and essays about poetry appear in WaterWrites; A Slant of Light; & Reflecting Pool (Codhill Press), Comstock Review, Contemporary Haibun Online, Drifting Sands, Typishly, Stone Poetry Quarterly, as well as Affective Disorder and the Writing Life (Palgrave Macmillan). She is the poetry guest editor for The Shawangunk Review. Ask her about true crime, cats, and confessionalism.

PRAISE FOR Lost & Found by Joann Deiudicibus

The poems in Deiudicibus’ Lost & Found function as lean-tos, offering temporary shelter to stories and narratives needing to be housed, even honored. Whether meditating on her own origins or on the lives of those she feels poetic kinship with, musical artifice and the mundane quotidian combine with a hard edge to salvage a space for what might be otherwise consigned to the dustbin of histories both personal and collective.

–Timothy Liu, author of thirteen books of poems, most recently Down Low and Lowdown: Timothy Liu’sBedside Bottom-Feeder Blues (Barrow Street Press, 2023). He teaches in New York’s Hudson Valley, and is an intuitive reader of occult esoterica.

The poems in Lost & Found by Joann Deiudicibus sparkle with insights and innuendoes. “Salt and sand, star and seaweed, / seed and skeleton,” the images in her poems reverberate and haunt. She reveals hidden, vibrant stories. She repeats “unanswered questions,” searches for the “fingerprints of the invisible infinite.” A time of celebration, her poems leave the reader longing for a memoir. Her work transforms pain into song, forgiveness into laughter.

–Lucia Cherciu, author of six books of poetry, including Immigrant Prodigal Daughter (Kelsay Books, 2023) and Train Ride to Bucharest(Sheep Meadow Press, 2017). She is a professor of English at SUNY Dutchess Community College and served as the 2021–2022 Dutchess County, New York, poet laureate.

Please share/please repost #flpauthor #preorder #AwesomeCoverArt #poetry #chapbook #read #poems #family #grief #memory #home #life

[maryannmccarra-fitzpatrick]

[nedsecondline]

Coral in the Diaspora by Jerrice J. Baptiste – Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

Two months ago, Jerrice J. Baptiste guested here and she’s already got a new book of poetry, Coral in the Diaspora, available for pre-sale! Hearing successes of other authors always makes me optimistic that my books (here’s info about them) will be published soon too! To refresh your memory, Jerrice was born in Haiti, writes for all ages, founded Authentic Poetry workshops in The Hudson Valley,…

[otherpplnation]

883. Wendy Chin-Tanner

Wendy Chin-Tanner is the author of the debut novel King of the Armadillos, available from Flatiron Books.

Chin-Tanner is the author of the poetry collections Turn and Anyone Will Tell You, editor of Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology, and copublisher at A Wave Blue World, an independent publishing company for graphic novels. Born and raised in New York City, she lives in the Hudson Valley with her family. King of the Armadillos is her first novel.

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[wassailin]

Specifications: 

Theme: The Erotics of Plants

Deadline: 12/01/2023 2/14/24

Pages: 20-25 pages

Colors: Black, lime, blue, and fluorescent pink

Size: 8” x 6.5”

-Illustrations, Comics, Picture Guides, Photographs, Mixed-Media

-Photos, Recipes, Hacks, or Maps

-Poems 

-Essays/Critcal Perspectives 500-1,000 WC

-Prose/flash fiction 500-1,000 WC

-Multiple submissions are acceptable but please separate the submissions clearly in the doc or send each submission separately. 

Submissions:

Please consider sending your latest and greatest art submissions to our 2nd issue of Patchwork zine. We welcome essays, musings poems, prose, flash fiction, plant guids, recipes, illustrations, or comics. This list is by no means exhaustive and if you have something that you think would fit in this zine please let us know!

For all of those that wish to submit illustrations, comics, graphics, photographs, prints we will be using a limited color risograph printing process. All of those submitting illustrations, drawings, or photographs please see the section below on preparing and sending your files. 

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT

OR EMAIL:

wassailingcollective@gmail.com

Subject: Patchwork Zine Submission 

Theme: Botanica Erotica

Ever been turned-on by a plant or found yourself horny for nature? Feeling sensual about the weeds? For our second issue of Patchwork we are exploring the theme of eroto-botanics. There are endless possibilities in this theme from love poems to the woods, erotic art, and love potions. Maybe you’ve always wanted to write a little guide on aphrodisiac herbs? Or talk about the strange sexual reproduction of peanuts. We hope this theme inspires a lucious and fertile landscape of ideas for you and your artistry. If you have any questions about your pitch please reach out!

Patchwork Statment: 

With this zine we aim to create a space for landworkers/farm hands in the so-called Hudson Valley that will bring attention and awareness to their dynamic lives as artists---not just laborers. 

        We would like to create a space to discuss and share our artistry/passions for land stewardship without the concern for bottom lines, brands, marketing, or conversations on maximizing worker efficiency. It's also a space for any landworker who would like to submit a piece that perhaps has little to do with their work on the land, except maybe the poem sprang-up in their mind while they were weeding the spinach in July, or the illustration came to them in the dead of winter while dreaming of next season.

Unfortunately, we are unable to pay contributors at this time, but all contibutors will recieve a copy of the zine and we intend to keep this an affordable zine. Our goal is to grow to a point where we can pay contributors, but as it stands, none of the people apart of this project are well versed in publishing and/or fundraising. We are working on it and open to feedback :)

Preparing your files: 

When submitting any writing poetry, fiction, or text please send a file as PDF, DOC, or DOCx

Visual artists please send your files as PNG’s, PSD’s, or TIFF’s scaled to 8” x 6.5” at 300dpi

If you have any questions about this process feel free to message us and we can walk you through the steps. The zine will be printed in the three colors: lime green, black, and pink via a risograph printer. When preparing your images please keep in mind that there will be a green layer, a black layer, and pink layer printed separately.

If you know how, please send your files in three separate layers, indicating corresponding colors in the file name. This will make the job of printing much easier. If you have never color separated your images and are unfamiliar with this process, no worries! Submit your art as is and we will go through the riso file prep process with each artist. 

**Please Note***

Please NO use of graphic violence and the depiction of harmful stereotypes based on age, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and mental/physical disabilities.