PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES 2010
BOOK AWARD: 2009 New England Book Festival, Winner of the “Wild Card” category: Satan’s Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and New England 1580-1697 by Lewis Putnam Turco, published by Star Cloud Press of Scottsdale, Arizona. Award Ceremony held at the Omni Parker House, 60 School Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02108 on Saturday, January 16, 2010, from 7:00-9:30 p.m. Contact: Bruce Haring, [email protected]
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Memoir, “Song of the Mower: The Memoir of a Navy Buddy,” The Tower Journal, Winter 2009-2010, Vol. 2, Number 3, http://www.towerjournal.com/winter_09/index.html.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Second Sight,” in Per Contra, Winter 2010 at http://www.percontra.net/17turco.htm .
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Interview, “Poetry & Pop Culture Heroes: Firefly, Sci-Fi, & the Latterday Chronicles of Lewis Turco,” by Mike Chasar in Poetry & Popular Culture at http://mikechasar.blogspot.com/search?q=Lewis+Turco
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Review of When It Happens to You, by Alice L. Teeter, Hollins Critic, xlvii:1, February , 2010, pp. 14-16.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Memoir, “Pookah, The Greatest Cat in the History of the World,” Tower Journal, Vol. 2, Number 4, Spring-Summer 2010 at http://towerjournal.com/spring2010
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Story, “Recognition,” in Nights and Weekends, April 5, 2010, at http://www.nightsandweekends.com/articles/10/NW1000120.php
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: On the weekend of June 19-20, 2010, Lewis Turco was the featured poet at www.TheNervousBreakdown.com/ where he published his double poem titled “John” (from Attic, Shed, and Barn, above) and was interviewed by his alter-ego “Wesli Court,” an anagram pseudonym under which he publishes his traditionally formal poems www.thenervousbreakdown.com/lturco/2010/06/lewis-turco-the-tnb-self-interview/.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: A short story, “The Ferry,” in The Portland Monthly, Maine’s City Magazine, Summerguide issue, 2010.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Essay, “The Gawain Poet,” www.PerContra.com, Summer 2010.
BOOK PUBLICATION: The Gathering of the Elders and Other Poems, by “Wesli Court” a.k.a. Lewis Turco, Scottsdale: Star Cloud Press, September 1, 2010.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: A poem, “Jays,” in Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, at http://connotationpress.com/a-poetry-congeries-with-john-hoppenthaler/september-2010
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: A poem, “Valentine’s Day,” in Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, at http://connotationpress.com/a-poetry-congeries-with-john-hoppenthaler/september-2010
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: A poem, “The Day We Bombed the Moon (and Barack Obama Won the Nobel Peace Prize),” in The Nervous Breakdown at http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/wcourt/2010/09/the-day-we-bombed-the-moon-and-barack-obama-won-the-nobel-peace-prize-a-sestina/
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Interview, in The Nervous Breakdown at http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/wcourt/2010/09/wesli-court-the-tnb-self-interview/
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: A short story, “Sleeping and Waking,” in VIA, 21:1, Spring 2010, pp. 167-172.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Winter Panes,” (by “Wesli Court”), Per Contra, Fall, 2010, http://www,percontra.net/20court.htm
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Jays,” at Connotation Press, November, 2010, at http://connotationpress.com/lewis-turco-poetry
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Valentine’s Day,” at Connotation Press, November, 2010, at http://connotationpress.com/lewis-turco-poetry
PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES 2009
CONTEST JUDGE: “Windmill Poets’ Lewis Turco Blues Sonnet Award” for the Poetry Society of Oklahoma, January 17th.
READING AND CONTEST JUDGE: Lewis Turco judged the morning members contest during the winter meeting of The Maine Poets Society on Saturday, February 21 at the Maine Historical Society in Portland, 489 Congress Street. He read from his manuscript titled The Gathering of the Elders and Other Poems from 11:20 a.m. until noon.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: memoir, “A Nest of In-Laws,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com , February 28, 2009.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: poem, “Parodelle for Billy Collins,” Méasure, Vol. III, Issue 2, 2008 (March 3, 2009), p. 20.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: poem, “After School,” Méasure, Vol. III, Issue 2, 2008 (March 3, 2009), p. 21-2.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: story, “The Great Collapse,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com , March 21, 2009.
READING: Lewis Turco gave a reading of his poetry in Room 1A of the Student Activities Building on the Unity College campus, 90 Quaker Hill Road, Unity, Maine, 04988, at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Contact: Prof. Diane Murphy, [email protected].
LECTURE: Lewis Turco discussed “Witchcraft in Maine” during the Old Fort Western Lecture Series in Augusta, Maine, at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 29, 2009, in the Learning Gallery, room 146, Old Fort Western Museum, 1 City Center Plaza, Augusta ME 04330. The focus of the talk was the Rev. George Burroughs who was a minister at Casco before and after he was pastor in Salem Village where he was hanged as a witch in 1692. Mr. Turco’s source was his new book, Satan’s Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and New England 1580-1697, published by Star Cloud Press of Scottsdale AZ.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Bloomsday,” by “Wesli Court” (pseud.) in Per Contra Spring 2009, at www.percontra.net/14courtpc.htm.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “”R.I.P. William Butler Yeats,” by “Wesli Court” (pseud.) in Per Contra Spring 2009, at www.percontra.net/14courtpc.htm.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poems, “A Calendar of Epitaphs,” by “Wesli Court” (pseud.) in Per Contra Spring 2009 Light Verse Supplement at www.percontra.net/14lightverseentry.htm.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “The Universal Leaf,” by “Wesli Court” (pseud.) in Per Contra Spring 2009 Light Verse Supplement at www.percontra.net/14lightverseentry.htm.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Our Little Span,” by “Wesli Court” (pseud.) in Per Contra Spring 2009 Light Verse Supplement at www.percontra.net/14lightverseentry.htm.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Catachresis,” by “Wesli Court” (pseud.) in Per Contra Spring 2009 Light Verse Supplement at www.percontra.net/14lightverseentry.htm.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Gardens,” From East to West: Bicoastal Verse at www.FromEasttoWestBicoastalVerse.net, spring 2009.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Flowers,” From East to West: Bicoastal Verse at www.FromEasttoWestBicoastalVerse.net, Spring 2009.
PANEL: Lewis Turco participated with David Crouse and Andrew McNabb in a panel moderated by Peter Orner, “Stories of Ordinary Lives Told by Extraordinary Writers,” a discussion of the short story form and the characters they have nurtured onto the page, during the 2009 Newburyport Literary Festival on Saturday, April 25th, at 9:00 a.m., the Firehouse Center, Newburyport, MA.
BOOK PUBLICATION: Satan’s Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and New England 1580-1697, Scottsdale: Star Cloud Press, 2 May 2009.
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS: Lewis Turco delivered the commencement address and received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the graduation exercises of the Class of 2009, University of Maine at Fort Kent, 23 University Drive, Fort Kent ME 04743-1292, at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 9, 2009.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “The Shade,” in Poetry Porch, 5 May 2009 at www.poetryporch.com/poetry109.html.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “A Paternal Curse,” in Poetry Porch, 5 May 2009 at www.poetryporch.com/poetry109.html.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Basso Profundo, a Carol” in Poetry Porch, 5 May 2009 at www.poetryporch.com/poetry109.html.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Story, “The Demon in the Tree” in The Tower Journal, Summer Issue 2009 at www.towerjournal.com.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Story, “The Substitute Wife” in The Tower Journal, Summer Issue 2009 at www.towerjournal.com.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Sweet Jean,” in The Tower Journal, Summer Issue 2009 at www.towerjournal.com.
LECTURE: Lewis Turco spoke on “The Wallingford Witchcrafts of Colonial America,” in a lecture derived from his new book, Satan’s Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and New England 1580-1697, at noon on Friday, June 26th, 2009, at the Meriden Public Library, 105 Miller Street, Meriden, Connecticut. Contact: Alexis Burgess, phone (203) 630-6349, email: [email protected]
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Essay, “Reminiscences of Donald Hall,” The Hollins Critic, lvi:3, June 2009, pp. 1-16.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Poem, “A Hollow Rush,” The Midwest Quarterly, A Journal of Contemporary Thought, “100 poems from 50 years…,” l:4, Summer 2009, p. 341.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Essay with poem illustrations, “Reinventing the Wheel, Modern Poems in Classical Meters,” in Trellis Magazine, Summer 2009, at www.trellismagazine.com/files/Reinventing_the_Wheel.pdf.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Choriambic Anacreontics,” printed as part of an essay titled “Reinventing the Wheel, Modern Poems in Classical meters,” on-line in the Summer 2009 issue of Trellis Magazine at www.trellismagazine.com/files/Reinventing_the_Wheel.pdf.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Columbian Ode,” reprinted as part of an essay titled “Reinventing the Wheel, Modern Poems in Classical meters,” on-line in the Summer 2009 issue of Trellis Magazine at Trellis Magazine at www.trellismagazine.com/files/Reinventing_the_Wheel.pdf.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “A Life,” reprinted as part of an essay titled “Reinventing the Wheel, Modern Poems in Classical meters,” on-line in the Summer 2009 issue of Trellis Magazine at www.trellismagazine.com/files/Reinventing_the_Wheel.pdf.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Love’s Dream,” printed as part of an essay titled “Reinventing the Wheel, Modern Poems in Classical meters,” on-line in the Summer 2009 issue of Trellis Magazine at www.trellismagazine.com/files/Reinventing_the_Wheel.pdf
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “A Row of Hedges,” reprinted as part of an essay titled “Reinventing the Wheel, Modern Poems in Classical meters,” on-line in the Summer 2009 issue of Trellis Magazine at Trellis Magazine at www.trellismagazine.com/files/Reinventing_the_Wheel.pdf.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Sapphics for April,” printed as part of an essay titled “Reinventing the Wheel, Modern Poems in Classical meters,” on-line in the Summer 2009 issue of Trellis Magazine at www.trellismagazine.com/files/Reinventing_the_Wheel.pdf
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Song for a Granddaughter,” printed as part of an essay titled “Reinventing the Wheel, Modern Poems in Classical meters,” on-line in the Summer 2009 issue of Trellis Magazine at www.trellismagazine.com/files/Reinventing_the_Wheel.pdf
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “A Tale of Rivers and a Boy,” reprinted as part of an essay titled “Reinventing the Wheel, Modern Poems in Classical meters,” on-line in the Summer 2009 issue of Trellis Magazine at Trellis Magazine at www.trellismagazine.com/files/Reinventing_the_Wheel.pdf.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “A Talisman,” reprinted as part of an essay titled “Reinventing the Wheel, Modern Poems in Classical meters,” on-line in the Summer 2009 issue of Trellis Magazine at Trellis Magazine at www.trellismagazine.com/files/Reinventing_the_Wheel.pdf
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Time Goes Down in Mirrors,” as part of an essay titled “Reinventing the Wheel, Modern Poems in Classical meters,” on-line in the Summer 2009 issue of Trellis Magazine at www.trellismagazine.com/files/Reinventing_the_Wheel.pdf.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Visitor,” reprinted as part of an essay titled “Reinventing the Wheel, Modern Poems in Classical meters,” on-line in the Summer 2009 issue of Trellis Magazine at Trellis Magazine at www.trellismagazine.com/files/Reinventing_the_Wheel.pdf.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Story, “The Impresario,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine on August 8, 2009, at www.nightsandweekends.com/articles/09/NW0900403.php
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Story, “The Moonlite Café,” in The Aroostook Review, Summer 2009, at http://aroostookreview.umfk.maine.edu/v4su09/fiction/turco.htm
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: “An Ordinary Evening in Cleveland” (reprint), Visiting Wallace: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Wallace Stevens, edited by Dennis Barone and James Finnegan, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Story, “The Ferry,” The Tower Journal, Vol. 2, Num. 2, Fall 2009 at http://www.towerjournal.com/fall_09/index.html
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “The Dame Who Carried Her Cane in Her Coffin,” by “Wesli Court,” pseudo., The Tower Journal, Vol. 2, Num. 2, Fall 2009 at http://www.towerjournal.com/fall_09/index.html
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Story, “Silence,” The Tower Journal, Vol. 2, Num. 2, Fall 2009 at http://www.towerjournal.com/fall_09/index.html
BOOK PUBLICATION: La Famiglia / The Family, Memoirs, New York: Bordighera Press, 2009, VIA Folios 57, ISBN 978-1-59954-006-1Trade paperback, 196 pp., $12.00
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Story, “The Baby in the Carriage,” in Per Contra, Fall 2009 at http://www.percontra.net/16turco.htm
POETRY E-CHAPBOOK PUBLICATION: Attic, Shed, and Barn, at http://www.ahadadabooks.com/content/blogcategory/17/43/, October 2009.
READING: On Monday, November 2nd, 2009, Lewis Turco will give a talk and reading from his most recent books, The Museum of Ordinary People and Other Stories, Satan’s Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and America 1580-1697 2009) (Star Cloud Press, 2008 & 2009 respectively), and La Famiglia / The Family, Memoirs (Bordighera Press, 2009) during the Creative Writing Department’s Living Writers’ Series (CRW 300) on the subject of the fiction genre called “magic realism” at the State University of New York College at Oswego in the Campus Center from 3.00 to 4:20 p.m. Contact: Leigh Wilson ([email protected]). Professor Emeritus Turco was the founding director of the Oswego writing program from 1968 to 1995.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Memoir, “Song of the Mower: The Memoir of a Navy Buddy,” The Tower Journal, Winter 2009-2010, Vol. 2, Number 3, http://www.towerjournal.com/winter_09/index.html.
BOOK PUBLICATION: The Museum of Ordinary People and Other Stories, Scottsdale: Star Cloud Press (www.StarCloudPress.com), September 2008, ISBN 978-1-932842-16-6, quality paperback, 196 pp., $19.95.
AWARD: Lewis Turco received the $500.00 Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award at the West Chester (Pennsylvania) University Poetry Conference, “Exploring Form and Narrative,” at 10:00 a.m. Friday, June 6, 2008. Following the presentation of the award Tom Cable interviewed Mr. Turco who also took questions from the audience during the panel time set aside for the Fitzgerald celebration.
JUDGE: Lewis Turco was judge of the Charles Dickson Chapbook Contest of the Georgia Poetry Society. The winner was Alice L. Teeter for her collection String Theory, published on the Ides of March 2008.
APPOINTMENT: Lewis Turco was appointed Honorary Chancellor, for a two year term beginning this year, of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies.
PARTICIPANT: Lewis Turco was a participant in the Newburyport Literary Festival, Newburyport, MA, on April 25, 26, & 27, 2008. The Festival, which celebrated local poet Rhina Espaillat, commenced on the evening of the 25th with a “Conversation About Poetry” by Rhina Espaillat, Lewis Turco, and X. J. Kennedy, with Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, as moderator. Dr. Turco gave a reading from poems to be found in his The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics in celebration of the 40th anniversary of its publication in 1968. He also took part in the “Polyphonics” presentation on the 26th.
POETRY AWARD ESTABLISHMENT: The first annual undergraduate Lewis Turco Formal Poetry Award, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding, in 1968 by Lewis Turco, of the Creative Writing Program at Oswego State University, took place during Quest Day, at 2:30 p.m. in room 114 of the Campus Center in Oswego, New York, on 23 April 2008. Winner of the first award was Brittany Cali; the judge was Rhina Espaillat. Dr. Turco gave a brief history of the beginning of the Program.
APPOINTMENT: Contributing editorship, Per Contra on-line periodical at http://www.percontra.net, September 7, 2008.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: Poem, “A Butcher” in Poetry as Spiritual Practice, edited by Robert McDowell, New York: Free Press, July 2008, p. 178.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: Translation, “Confessional” by Charles d’Orleans, in Poetry as Spiritual Practice, edited by Robert McDowell, New York: Free Press, July 2008, p. 161.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: Poem, “Jason Potter” in Poetry as Spiritual Practice, edited by Robert McDowell, New York: Free Press, July 2008, pp. 167-68.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: Poem, “Tanka” in Poetry as Spiritual Practice, edited by Robert McDowell, New York: Free Press, July 2008, p. 132.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: Poem, ”Minotaur” in Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana, edited by Carol Bonomo Albright and Joanna Clapps Herman, Bronx NY: Fordham University Press, October 2008.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Poem, “The Old Gray Goose” in Off The Coast, xvi:1, January 2008, p. 14.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Essay, “Recollections of Norman Friedman, Spring: The Journal of the E. E.; Cummings Society, New Series Number 14-15. October 2005-2006 [August 2008], pp. 212-13.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Poem, “Writer’s Block,” Spring: The Journal of the E. E.; Cummings Society, New Series Number 14-15. October 2005-2006 [August 2008], pp. 212-13 and The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Winter, 2008, p. 19.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Poem, “Lines to Be Etched on a Window,” Spring: The Journal of the E. E.; Cummings Society, New Series Number 14-15. October 2005-2006 [August 2008], p. 213.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: “Music,” Spring: The Journal of the E. E.; Cummings Society, New Series Number 14-15. October 2005-2006 [August 2008], p. 213.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: “Mortophobia, The Fear of Death,” The New York Quarterly, No. 64, 2008, p. 128;
NATIONAL ARCHIVE INTERNET PUBLICATION: Poetry: An Introduction through Writing, originally published in 1973 by Reston Publishing Company of Reston, Virginia, in ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U. S. Department of Education.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “Kelly” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, January 5, 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “One Sunday Morning,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, January 16, 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “The Bath,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, January 26, 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “Matinee,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, January 26, 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “Dinny O’Toole’s Fortune,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, March 15, 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Three Moves in a Day,” in www.HotmetalPress.net e-zine, Winter 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Sestina,” in www.FromEasttoWestBicoastalVerse.net e-zine, Spring 2008, pp. 15-16.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Columbian Ode,” in From East to West: Bicoastal Verse e-zine, Spring 2008, pp. 32-33.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: “Passing the Time” by “Wesli Court”
(pseud.) in Per Contra, at www.percontra.net, Summer 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: “Break-In,” in Per Contra, at www.percontra.net, Summer 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: “The Per Contra Interview with Miriam N. Kotzin,” in Per Contra, at www.percontra.net, Summer 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short story, “An Incident at Callahan’s,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, August 9, 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short story, “The Catalogue Idea,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, June 28, 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short story, “The Laugher,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, September 6, 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short story, “Moving Day,” in Per Contra at, http://www.percontra.net/12turcomoving.htm, September 7, 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “The Black Death,” in Trellis, summer, 2008, at www.trellismagazine.com/CurrentIssue.html#Villanelle%20Article
PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES 2007
BOOK PUBLICATION: Fearful Pleasures: The Complete Poems of Lewis Turco 1959-2007, Scottsdale: Star Cloud Press, 2 May 2007.
Review from The UConn Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer 2007:
"Lewis Turco is a poet’s poet. A respected teacher for nearly four decades at Cleveland State University and the State University of New York at Oswego, he wrote The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, which is known as the poet’s Bible. His writing has been honored with the nation’s most respected poetry awards. Fearful Pleasures brings together Turco’s life’s work of rich imagery, captured moments, melancholy thoughts, ghosts, cats, the rooms of a house and much more. In one of his more daring works, Turco takes phrases and entire lines from letters written by Emily Dickinson and weaves them together into poems. Through more than 600 pages, he still is offering lessons on poetry."
FEATURED POET: Interview and five poems, “Attic, Shed and Barn,” “The Harbor,” “Ball Points,” “Reflection,” and “Sleds” with illustration by George O’Connell in Aroostook Review on-line e-zine at http://aroostookreview.umfk.maine.edu/poetry/turco.htm and http://aroostookreview.umfk.maine.edu/nonfiction/turcointerview.htm, July 2007.
ON-LINE ARCHIVE: “The Lewis Turco Collection in Cleveland Memory” at Cleveland State University Library was established on 18 December 2007 at http://www.clevelandmemory.org/turco/.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: Poem, “The Premonition,” in Poetry: A Pocket Anthology, Fifth Edition, ed. R. S. Gwynn, New York: Penguin Academics, 2007, p. 355.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: Poem, “The Winter’s Falls,” in Rhyming Poems: A Contemporary Anthology, ed. William Baer, University of Evansville Press, July 2007.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: Poem, “The Obsession,” in The Practice of Creative Writing, ed. Heather Sellers, Bedford/St. Martin, July, 2007.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Memoir, “The Story of an Italian Protestant,” Italian Americana, xxv:2, Summer 2007, pp. 197-206.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Memoir, “’Little’ Josephine,” VIA: Voices in Italian-Americana, xviii:1, 2007, pp. 95-103.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Epigrams, “Four-in-Hand,” Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Winter 2007, p. 45."
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Review of The Powow River Anthology edited by Alfred Nicol, Flagler Beach FL: Ocean Publishing, 2006, The Hollins Critic, xliv:1, February, 2007, pp. 20-21.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Poem, “The Falcon Carol,” Italian Americana, xxv:1, Winter, 2007, p. 59.
COLLABORATION: Annual Xmas card; poem, “Sorting” by Lewis Turco; original linocut, “Three Men” by George O’Connell, signed by both artist and poet, Oswego: Mitchell Printing, 2007.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: “Burning the News,” poem, podcast reading and animation in Blue’s Cruzio Café at http:// members.cruzio . com/~ cafe, 25 March 2007.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “The Secret Name,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at http://www.nightsandweekends.com, August 18, 2007.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “Erda,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, September 8, 2007.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “Salt,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, October 22, 2007.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “The Prison,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, November 10, 2007.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “The Chair,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, November 17, 2007.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “Matinee,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, December 1, 2007.
RADIO PUBLICATION: four poems for the Maine Radio Poets Project at WRFR-LP 93.3 and 99.3 FM, “Burning the News,” “The Obsession,” “Lorrie,” and “Terzanelle in Thunderweather,” beginning 1 April 2007.
PUBLICATION READING from Fearful Pleasures, Meriden, Connecticut, Public Library, 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, 2 May 2007.
READING: from Fearful Pleasures, Oswego, New York, River’s End Book Store, corner West First and Bridge Streets, 2:00 p.m., Saturday, 12 May 2007.
JUDGE: Founder’s Award of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, May 2007.
JUDGE: Charles Dickson Chapbook Contest of the Georgia Poetry Society, November 2007.
CONCERT: Two songs, “Autumn Lines,” and “Winter,” from “Elegy for a Japanese Garden: Three Songs for Soprano, Alto Flute and Pi-ano” by the Dutch composer Walter Hekster, texts from First Poems by Lewis Turco (1960); world premiere performance by Trio Il Castello: Ilse van de Kasteelen, Jan van der Meer, Koos Verheul, Pro-gramma T+Concert, Cantina Vocaal, Amsterdam, Holland, 19 Janu-ary 2003.
AWARD: Co-winner of the Gretchen Warren Award of the New Eng-land Poetry Club for the best poem published by a member in the previous year; the judge was Rhina Espaillat who chose “Herb Plays with the Blues” from The Formalist, 13:1, 2002, pp. 105-106.
PUBLICATION: A 1989 Christmas card made of a poem, “The Xmas Blues," by Lewis Turco, with accompanying lithograph by print-maker George O'Connell, a part of the Smithsonian Institution Ar-chives of American Art since 2002, was posted on the Archive’s web site at www.AAA.si.edu/exhibits/mullenxmas during the 2003 holi-day season.
PUBLICATION: A poem, “A Medicine for Melancholy,” reprinted from The Compleat Melancholick (Bieler, 1985) in Pipes and Tobaccos, viii:1, Spring 2003, p. 20.
POETRY READING AND PUBLICATION WORKSHOP: Belfast, Maine, Free Library, 10 a.m. Saturday, April 12.
PUBLICATION: A poem, “Wall,” in the “celebrity haiku section” of the SUNY alumni magazine Oswego, xxix:1, 2003, p. 28.
PUBLICATION: A poem, “For Jessica Shanahan Living in Alaskan Woods,” The Formalist, xiv:1, 2003, p. 111.
PUBLICATION: A poem, “The Joint, The Text for George O’Connell’s Series of Monoprints, ‘The Jazz Joint,’” in The New York Quarterly, No. 59, Spring 2003, p. 50.
PUBLICATION: A poem, “Homophobia,” in Antioch Review, Vol. 61, No. 3, Summer, 2003, p. 564.
PUBLICATION: A poem, “Spelling Module,” in The English Record, 54:1, Fall 2003, p. 7.
PUBLICATION: An essay-memoir, “Our Friend, Dan Chaucer,” in The English Record, liii:3, Spring-Summer 2003, pp. 47-54.
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PUBLICATION: A poem, “The Dead Letter Office” in The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Winter, 2003, p. 47.
PUBLICATION: A book, The Book of Dialogue: How to Write Effective Conversation in Fiction, Screenplays, Drama, and Poetry, Lebanon: University Press of New England, February.
PUBLICATION: A book, A Sheaf of Leaves: Literary Memoirs, Scottsdale: Star Cloud Press, April 27th.
READING: Fiction and memoirs, Penfield Café, Penfield Library, SUNY Oswego, 4 p.m., April 27th.
PUBLICATION: Lewis Turco and His Work: A Celebration, edited by Steven E. Swerdfeger, Scottsdale: Star Cloud Press, April 27th.
PUBLICATION: A poem, “Colds in Season,” The Edge City Review, no. 19, vol. 6, no. 3, (3/04), p. 60.
PUBLICATION: "Four Reviews," Portland, Maine, Public Library Guest Picks Internet web page, May.
PUBLICATION: A poem, “Abandophobia: The Fear of Divorce,” The Formalist, Vol. 15, Issue 1, 2004, p. 94.
WORKSHOP: “On Dialogue,” Write Out of the Box, June 3 at 7:00 p.m., Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Crossings at Fox Run, Newington, NH.
PANEL & READING: Tenth Annual West Chester University Poetry Conference, “Exploring Form and Narrative”: A poetry reading and a panel session, “The Achievement of Lewis Turco,” with R. S. Gwynn and Steven E. Swerdfeger, 4:30-5:45 p.m., Thursday, June 10th, West Chester, PA.
ARCHIVE: The "Lewis Turco and George O'Connell Christmas Card Collection, 1966-2003," Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington, DC, established 2004.
PUBLICATION: Two poems, “Guido the Ice-House Man” and “Tomaso the Baker,” Sweet Lemons: Writings with a Sicilian Accent, ed. Ven-era Fazio and Delia De Santis, Mineola: Legas, 2004, pp. 100-1-1.
PUBLICATION: A memoir, “Great Poets I Almost Met” in Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, New Series Number 11, Octo-ber 2002 [actual publication date, August 2004], pp. 209-221.
ARCHIVE: The “Lewis Turco Archive of American Poetry” at Special Collections, Cleveland State University Library, Cleveland, OH, estab-lished 2004.
PUBLICATION: Three Poems, “Alektrophobia,” “Gamophobia,” “Som-nophobia” in The Café Review, Volume 15, Summer 2004.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Two poems, “Acousticophobia” and “Agora-phobia” in Mipoesias on-line magazine (www.mipoesias.com), The New England Edition, September 2004.
READING: Poetry, with others celebrating publication of the New England Edition of Mipoesias at the Gulf of Maine Bookstore, 134 Maine Street, Brunswick, ME 04011, 4:00 p.m. 11 September 2004, Tel: 207-729-5083.
PUBLICATION: Review of Rules of Hunger by Lois Roma-Deeley, AIHA Newsletter, xxxvii: 3-4, Fall 2004, p. 24.
JUDGE: Second annual Hideo Haiku contest, SUNY Oswego Alumni Association, October 15th.
PUBLICATION: A poem, “Cicadas” in Oswego, xxx:3, Fall/Winter 2004, p. 48.
PUBLICATION: A book, The Collected Lyrics of Lewis Turco / Wesli Court 1953-2004, Scottsdale: Star Cloud Press, November.
PUBLICATION: Two poems, “Avatars” and “A Letter from London” in The Formalist, xv:2, 2004, pp. 57 & 72 respectively.
XMAS CARD PUBLICATION: “Mirrors,” poem, with artwork by George O’Connell, Oswego: Grey Heron Press, 2004.
BOOK PUBLICATION: Fantaseers, A Book of Memories, Scottsdale: Star Cloud Press, August 2005.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: An essay, “Angle of Ascent: The Poetry of Robert Hayden” (reprinted from The Michigan Quarterly Review), in Robert Hayden (Bloom’s Modern Critical Views), ed. Harold Bloom, Broomall: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005, pp. 15-33.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: Poem (as “Wesli Court,” "Ballade of the Weaker Sex," Kiss and Part, Laughing at the End of Romance & Other Entanglements, ed. Gail White, Cupertino: Doggerel Daze, 2005.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Featured essay, “Oswego Poems and Poets: Murabito and Davis,” The Hollins Critic, xlii: 3, June, 2005.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Poem, “Brontophobia, The Fear of Thunder,” Ploughshares, xxxi:1, Spring 2005, p. 144.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Poem, "Caleb Pullen," Off the Coast, xi:3, Sept. 2005, p. 9, reprinted from The Green Maces of Autumn: Voices in an Old Maine House.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Two sonnets, “Nocturne One” and “Winter Blinds,” in Sonnetto Poesia (Canada), iv:4, Autumn 2005, pp. 31-32.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Three poems, “Cautionary Poem,” “An-other Cautionary Poem,” “Yet Another Cautionary Poem” (by “Wesli Court,” pseud), The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Winter 2005, pp. 20-21.
BROADCAST PUBLICATION: “Cover to Cover with Lewis Turco,” an Interview by Jack Foley, KPFA-FM, Berkeley, CA, June 2005.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: “Lewis Turco on the Challenge of Writing Sestinas and Reading as a Form of Magic,” an interview by Daniel Nester in Poets & Writers Online Only, January / February 2005, Di-rect Quotes at www.pw.org/mag/dq_turco.htm.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “The Vision,” Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Sestinas, January 12, 2005.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Brontophobia: The Fear of Thun-der,” in the on-line anthology Enskyment Journal (www.Enskyment.org), September 2005; reprinted from Plough-shares (see above).
XMAS CARD PUBLICATION: “The Harbor,” poem, with artwork by George O’Connell, Oswego: Grey Heron Press, 2005.
READING: Celebrate Writers at the Space Gallery, 538 Congress Street, Portland, Maine, 7 p.m. Monday, April 18th, 2005.
JUDGE & POETRY READING: Tenth Annual Newburyport Art Associa-tion Poetry Contest, Awards Day, Prize announcements and reading, Sunday, May 16th, 2005, Newburyport Art Association Gallery, 65 Water Street, Newburyport, MA.
JUDGE: Firman Houghton Award, New England Poetry Club, Cam-bridge, MA, June 30th, 2005.
MEMOIRS READING: from Fantaseers, A Book of Memories, spon-sored by Powow River Poets, Friday, September 30 at 7:30 PM, New-buryport Art Association, 65 Water Street, Newburyport MA (www.newburyportart.org).
DOUBLE WORKSHOP: “Three Forms: Terza Rima, the Villanelle, and the Terzanelle,” Saturday, October 1, 10 a. m. to 2 p.m., and Satur-day, October 8, 10 a. m. to 2 p.m., Concord Poetry Center, Emerson Umbrella for the Arts, 40 Stow Street, Concord MA 01742.
MEMOIRS READING: from Fantaseers, A Book of Memories, 2 p.m., 20 November, The River’s End Book Store, West First and Bridge Streets, Oswego, NY.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Poem, “Bikes,” Off the Coast, Vol. XII, No. 3, September 2006, p. 55.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Poem, “Winding” (by “Louise Tar-row,” pseud.), Wolf Moon Press Journal, Issue #23, September / Oc-tober 2006, p. 41.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Poem, “Stile” (by “Wesli Court,” pseud.), Off the Coast, Vol. XII, No. 3, September 2006 p. 50.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Lead essay, “Vern Rutsala’s Surreal World,” The Hollins Critic,” XLIII:4, October 2006, pp. 1-13.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Essay, “Robinson and the Democracy of Form,” The Sewanee Review, CXIV:4, Fall 2006, pp. 587-594.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Review of Sunbathing at the Bottom of the Atlantic by Anthony Taylor Dunn, in Off the Coast, Vol. XII, No. 3, September 2006 pp. 93-95.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Poem, “The Stairwell,” Voices in Ital-ian Americana, xvii:2, 2006, p. 107.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Review of Rules of Hunger and northSight by Lois Roma-Deeley, The Hollins Critic, xliii:5, Decem-ber, 2006, pp. 18-19.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Two poems, “Albums” and “The Shifting Web,” in the on-line anthology Enskyment Journal (www.Ensky-ment.org), reprinted from Cream City Review and The Northwest Review, respectively, April 2006.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Tsunami,” Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Sestinas, April 10, 2006.
XMAS CARD PUBLICATION: “Sleds,” poem, with drawing by George O’Connell, Oswego: Grey Heron Press, 2006.
POETRY READING: “A Continent Apart,” by Lewis Turco and Vern Rutsala, Saturday, April 8, 2006, at 7:00 p.m. in the parlour of the east wing of Tor House, The Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, Monterey CA.
POETRY WORKSHOP: Lewis Turco and Vern Rutsala, at the private home of Earl and Marsha Adams in Santa Cruz CA, sponsored by Po-etry Santa Cruz, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., April 9, 2006. Limited to 12 par-ticipants, $50 members, $60 non-members.
LIVE RADIO INTERVIEW: with Dennis Morton and Morton Marcus for KUSP-FM radio, Lewis Turco and Vern Rutsala in the studio in Santa Cruz, 8:00-9:00 p.m., Sunday, April 9, 2006, sponsored by Po-etry Santa Cruz and the station.
CLASS VISIT: Lewis Turco and Vern Rutsala, Creative Writing class of Gary Young, Social Science 2, Room 221, University of California at Santa Cruz, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 11, 2006.
CLASS VISIT: Lewis Turco and Vern Rutsala, Creative Writing class of Charles Atkinson, Social Science 2, Room 221, University of Cali-fornia at Santa Cruz, 12:30 – 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, 2006.
POETRY READING: Lewis Turco, Morton Marcus, and Vern Rutsala, Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 7:30 p.m., Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz CA 95061. Presented by Poetry Santa Cruz. Contact: Len Anderson, [email protected].
RECEPTION, ART EXHIBIT AND POETRY READING: Lewis Turco, Morton Marcus, Vern Rutsala, and Robert Sward, at the home of Robert and Gloria Sward, April 11, 2006, 9:00 – 10:30 p.m., Santa Cruz CA.
BOOK PUBLICATION: Fearful Pleasures: The Complete Poems of Lewis Turco 1959-2007, Scottsdale: Star Cloud Press, 2 May 2007.
FEATURED POET: Interview and five poems, “Attic, Shed and Barn,” “The Harbor,” “Ball Points,” “Reflection,” and “Sleds” with illustration by George O’Connell in Aroostook Review on-line e-zine at http://aroostookreview.umfk.maine.edu/poetry/turco.htm and http://aroostookreview.umfk.maine.edu/nonfiction/turcointerview.htm, July 2007.
ON-LINE ARCHIVE: “The Lewis Turco Collection in Cleveland Memory” at Cleveland State University Library was established on 18 December 2007 at http://www.clevelandmemory.org/turco/.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: Poem, “The Premonition,” in Poetry: A Pocket Anthology, Fifth Edition, ed. R. S. Gwynn, New York: Pen-guin Academics, 2007, p. 355.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: Poem, “The Winter’s Falls,” in Rhyming Poems: A Contemporary Anthology, ed. William Baer, Evansville: University of Evansville Press, July 2007.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: Poem, “The Obsession,” in The Practice of Creative Writing, ed. Heather Sellers, Bedford/St. Martin, July, 2007.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Memoir, “The Story of an Italian Protestant,” Italian Americana, xxv:2, Summer 2007, pp. 197-206.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Memoir, “’Little’ Josephine,” VIA: Voices in Italian-Americana, xviii:1, 2007, pp. 95-103.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Epigrams, “Four-in-Hand,” Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Winter 2007, p. 45."
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Review of The Powow River Anthology edited by Alfred Nicol, Flagler Beach FL: Ocean Publishing, 2006, The Hollins Critic, xliv:1, February, 2007, pp. 20-21.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Poem, “The Falcon Carol,” Italian Americana, xxv:1, Winter, 2007, p. 59.
COLLABORATION: Annual Xmas card; poem, “Sorting” by Lewis Turco; original woodcut, “Three Men” by George O’Connell, signed by both artist and poet, Oswego: Mitchell Printing, 2007.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: “Burning the News,” poem, podcast reading and animation in Blue’s Cruzio Café at http:// members.cruzio . com/~ cafe, 25 March 2007.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “The Secret Name,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at http://www.nightsandweekends.com, August 18, 2007.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “Erda,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, September 8, 2007.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “Salt,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, October 22, 2007.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “The Prison,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, November 10, 2007.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “The Chair,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, November 17, 2007.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “Matinee,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, December 1, 2007.
RADIO PUBLICATION: four poems for the Maine Radio Poets Pro-ject at WRFR-LP 93.3 and 99.3 FM, “Burning the News,” “The Obsession,” “Lorrie,” and “Terzanelle in Thunderweather,” beginning 1 April 2007.
PUBLICATION READING from Fearful Pleasures, Meriden, Connecticut, Public Library, 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, 2 May 2007.
READING: from Fearful Pleasures, Oswego, New York, River’s End Book Store, corner West First and Bridge Streets, 2:00 p.m., Satur-day, 12 May 2007.
JUDGE: Founder’s Award of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, May 2007.
JUDGE: Charles Dickson Chapbook Contest of the Georgia Poetry Society, November 2007.
NATIONAL ARCHIVE INTERNET PUBLICATION: Poetry: An In-troduction through Writing, originally published in 1973 by Reston Publishing Company of Reston, Virginia, in ERIC (Educational Re-sources Information Center) of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U. S. Department of Education.
JUDGE: Lewis Turco was judge of the Charles Dickson Chapbook Contest of the Georgia Poetry Society. The winner was Alice L. Teeter for her collection String Theory, published on the Ides of March 2008.
APPOINTMENT: Lewis Turco has been appointed Honorary Chancellor, for a two year term beginning this year, of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies.
PARTICIPANT: Lewis Turco was a participant in the Newburyport Literary Festival, Newburyport, MA, on April 25, 26, & 27, 2008. The Festival, which celebrated local poet Rhina Espaillat, commenced on the evening of the 25th with a “Conversation About Poetry” by Rhina Espaillat, Lewis Turco, and X. J. Kennedy, with Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, as moderator. Dr. Turco gave a reading from poems to be found in his The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics in celebration of the 40th anniversary of its publication in 1968. He also took part in the “Polyphonics” presentation on the 26th.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATION: Poem, “The Old Gray Goose” in Off The Coast, xvi:1, January 2008, p. 14.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “Kelly” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, January 5, 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “One Sunday Morning,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, January 16, 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “The Bath,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, January 26, 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “Matinee,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, January 26, 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short-short story, “Dinny O’Toole’s For-tune,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, March 15, 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Three Moves in a Day,” in www.HotmetalPress.net e-zine, Winter 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Sestina,” in www.From East to West:BicoastalVerse.net e-zine, Spring 2008, pp. 15-16.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Poem, “Columbian Ode,” in From East to West: Bicoastal Verse e-zine, Spring 2008, pp. 32-33.
POETRY AWARD ESTABLISHMENT: The first annual undergraduate Lewis Turco Formal Poetry Award, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding, in 1968 by Lewis Turco, of the Creative Writing Program at Oswego State University, took place during Quest Day, at 2:30 p.m. in room 114 of the Campus Center in Oswego, New York, on 23 April 2008. Winner of the first award was Brittany Cali; the judge was Rhina Espaillat. Dr. Turco gave a brief history of the beginning of the Program.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: “Passing the Time” by “Wesli Court”
(pseud.) in Per Contra, at www.percontra.net, Summer 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: “Break-In,” in Per Contra, at www.percontra.net, Summer 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: “The Per Contra Interview with Miriam N. Kotzin,” in Per Contra, at www.percontra.net, Summer 2008.
AWARD: Lewis Turco received the $500.00 Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award at the West Chester (Pennsylvania) University Poetry Conference, “Exploring Form and Narrative,” at 10:00 a.m. Friday, June 6, 2008. Following the presentation of the award Tom Cable interviewed Mr. Turco who also took questions from the audience during the panel time set aside for the Fitzgerald celebration.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short story, “The Catalogue Idea,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, June 28, 2008.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: Poem, “A Butcher” in Poetry as Spiritual Practice, by Robert McDowell, New York: Free Press, July 2008, p. 178.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: Translation, “Confessional” by Charles d’Orleans, in Poetry as Spiritual Practice, by Robert McDowell, New York: Free Press, July 2008, p. 161.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: Poem, “Jason Potter” in Poetry as Spiritual Practice, by Robert McDowell, New York: Free Press, July 2008, pp. 167-68.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATION: Poem, “Tanka” in Poetry as Spiritual Practice, by Robert McDowell, New York: Free Press, July 2008, p. 132.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short story, “An Incident at Callahan’s,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, August 9, 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short story, “The Laugher,” in Nights and Weekends e-zine at www.nightsandweekends.com, September 6, 2008.
ON-LINE PUBLICATION: Short story, "Moving Day" in Per Contra e-zine at www.percontra.net, September 7, 2008.
BOOK PUBLICATION: The Museum of Ordinary People and Other Stories, Scottsdale: Star Cloud Press (www.StarCloudPress.com), September 2008, ISBN 978-1-932842-16-6, quality paperback, 196 pp., $19.95.
