CURRENT NEWS: (updated 7/8/10):
ANNOUNCING THE WEST COAST LAUNCH OF ALAN SQUIRE PUBLISHING: Monday, July 12, 6:00 p.m., at Book Passage, San Francisco. James J. Patterson and Joanna Biggar will read from their 2010 ASP titles — Patterson's collection of essays, Bermuda Shorts, and Biggar's novel, That Paris Year. Book signing and reception to follow.
This event is hosted by the wonderful folks at Left Coast Writers. Visit their site for more information.
ASP is working with other independent presses here and in the U.K., including Left Coast Writers, The Santa Fe Writers Project, and Chris Andrews Publishing, to establish a network for the promotion and distribution of literary small-press titles. Stay tuned for more updates on this exciting venture!
READINGS AND APPEARANCES:
Friday, October 22, at 7:30 p.m. at The Writer's Center. Rose will MC a reading and East Coast launch party for the first two titles from ASP — Bermuda Shorts, a collection of essays by James J. Patterson and That Paris Year, a novel by Joanna Biggar. Patterson and Biggar will read and sign books. Stay tuned for a surprise special guest author!
PUBLICATIONS:
Rose's essay/review, "Wholeness & Variety: Challenges of the Book-Length Poem or Poetic Sequence," appears in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of Poet Lore.
Rose's poem, "Math & the Garden," will appear in Initiate: An Oxford Anthology of New Writing, an anthology from Oxford Unviersity Press and Blackwell Books.
Hear Rose read a poem:
 Achilles on Shore
My Mother's Piano
At right, Rose being interviewed on BBC Radio, along with David Pike, British poet and editor of Pulsar poetry magazine.
Rose Solari is a poet, writer, and teacher. She is the author of two full-length collections of poems, Orpheus in the Park and Difficult Weather, as well as two chapbooks of poems, Selections from Myths & Elegies and The Stolen World. Rose authored and performed in the multi-media play Looking for Guenevere, an Arthurian retelling, and is currently at work on a historical novel.
Rose is a longtime faculty member of the Writer's Center, in Bethesda, Maryland, and recently joined the Board of Directors there. |
