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Tuesday February 2, 2010

Ronnie McGinn's Poetry Page

If you have a poem you'd like to see published in The Irish Examiner then send it to:

The Poetry Corner
The Irish Examiner USA
1040 Jackson Avenue, Third Floor
Long Island City
NY 11101

or, preferably, you can email it direct to
ronniemcginn@eircom.net.

If possible keep your poem to 20 lines. You may choose any subject you like, in any form you like as long as it's original. We look forward to hearing from you.

Mark February 21st as an important date in your diary. On February 21st Terese Coe will be reading some of her poetry in "The Bar on A" (170 Avenue A, one block east of First Avenue, between East 10th & East 11th Streets) in New York.

It is no secret I'm a big fan of Terese Coe's poetry. Terese holds an M.A. in dramatic literature, and first wrote professionally as a drama critic for The Rocky Mountain Review in Salt Lake City, then as a columnist for The Wood River Journal in Idaho.

She has taught poetry workshops for advanced English students in Kathmandu, Nepal and for children in Idaho; has written several plays about artists and writers in New York; has worked for periodicals in positions which ranged from paste-up to writer to editor-in-chief.

She has traveled widely and given readings in Nepal as well as at St. Mark's Church and The Cedar Tavern in New York, was a 2000 and 2002 recipient of Giorno Poetry Systems grants and a 2003-4 finalist in the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize.

She now lives in downtown Manhattan, where she teaches English composition. Her poems, translations, adaptations and reviews have appeared in publications all over the world.

Reading with Terese on February 21st will be Joshua Mehigan. There will also be an Open and the venue is free of charge.

Terese has been teaching Composition at a small college in Manhattan, and will have some books for sale at the reading.

So make it a date - no excuses - leave that to the politicians; see you there!