Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Contest

This just in from our friend Lori Desrosiers (who will be one of the features this coming Saturday at Poets in the Park)

Contest Submission Deadline: September 1st
Judge for 2009 Contest:  Lesléa Newman

Lesléa Newman is the author of over 50 books including Heather Has Two Mommies, A Letter To Harvey Milk, Writing From The Heart, In Every Laugh a Tear, The Femme Mystique, Still Life with Buddy, Fat Chance and Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear. She has received many literary awards including Poetry Fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Highlights for Children Fiction Writing Award, the James Baldwin Award for Cultural Achievement, and two Pushcart Prize Nominations. Nine of her books have been Lambda Literary Award finalists. She is Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA.

First prize is $1000 and publication in Naugatuck River Review
Second prize $250 and publication
Third prize of  $100 and publication

Winners will be published in the Winter 2010 Issue of Naugatuck River Review.
All entrants will receive one issue of Naugatuck River Review.

All poems will be considered for publication in the Winter 2010 Contest issue (Issue 3).

Contest deadline is September 1st, 2009.  Electronic submissions ONLY will be accepted through our Submission Manager.

Contest submission fee of $20 includes an issue of the journal.

Go to www.naugatuckriverreview.com/contest for guidelines and to access our new submission manager.

Poets in the Park 2009

The 2009 season of Poets in the Park begins this coming Saturday, July 11 at the Robert Burns statue in Washington Park.  Here is the schedule of this years readers from host Dan Wilcox:

Poets in the Park 2009

Saturdays in July at the Robert Burns statue, Washington Park, Albany (at Henry Johnson Blvd. & Hudson Ave.)

July 11, 7PM
Mary Kathryn Jablonski and Randall Horton

July 18, 7PM
LisaAnn LoBasso and Tom Nicotera

July 25, 7PM
Lori Desrosiers and George Wallace

Free! & open to the public (just like the park).  Bring chairs, blankets, etc. to sit on.  Rain site: the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave.

sponsored by the Poetry Motel Foundation & the Hudson Valley Writers Guild

This project is made possible in part through COMMUNITY ART$GRANTS, a program funded through the State and Local Partnership Program of the New York State Council on the arts, a State agency and the Arts Center of the Capital Region.

For more information call 482-0262

Poetry at the Bohemian Book Bin, July 9

From our friend Teresa Costa:

Poetry at the Bohemian Book Bin, July 9

Featured   poets:: Frank Boyer and Victoria Sullivan
Thursday   July 9th  7:00 PM
Open Reading/ Refreshments
$3.00- suggested donation
all at an incredibly really cool bookstore with host Teresa M. Costa at the Bohemian Book Bin,  85 Carle Terrace,  Lake  Katrine, NY ( just off route 9W, in back of G&G Leather).

Bring some poems/ bring  some friends
it's summer  & the  livin  is easy.....

Future Featured Poets:
August:  13th Cheryl A. Rice & David Kime
Sept: 10th:  - Barbara Adams & Laurence Carr