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You know it’s spring in New York with all the amazing artistic events. I hope you enjoy this packed annogram and that this explosive green season releases your creative output too. The Complete Works...
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Wishing you a wonderful 4th of July! Certainly a day to give thanks for our country, one of the most innovative and creative on the planet. We still deliver cutting-edge arts thanks to our...
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Your Olympic annogramI admit only watching the opening ceremonies—except for a moment of fascination with synchronized divers. I thought I heard Jacques Rogge in his opening remarks talk about...
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This fall brings a harvest of acceptances. Thanks to Codhill Presseditors Larry Carrand Jan Schmidt for selecting “Andromeda at Midlife” for their anthology of women poets from the Hudson Valley. My...
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Hurricane Sandy Devastates New YorkI have to start this newsletter with an appeal to help New Yorkers devastated by Hurricane Sandy. The sad truth is that the government has done little to nothing to...
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As we count down to 2013, it’s with less joy and exuberance. We in the Northeast have been decimated first by Sandy and then by the tragedy in Newtown. It’s a time of reflection that instinctively...
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Pulitzer RemixI am excited to be one of 75 poets selected for the Pulitzer Remix. Each Pulitzer Remix poet will create 30 poems from his or her assigned Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. We will post...
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How exciting to be in the Pulitzer Remix sponsored by the Found Poetry Review! The Pulitzer Remix features 85 poets from seven countries who are posting a poem a day in April for National Poetry Month....
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New poetry websiteI am thrilled to announce my new website, www.anncefola.com. If you’re a new poet, interested in translation, or would like to read an essay on Whitman or Millay, take a peek under...
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Thanks for the hundreds of visits to my new poetry website and Now in November Pulitzer Remix blog. More news: Asymptote Journal will excerpt my translation of The Hero by Hélène Sanguinetti; and my...
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Happy August—the air is cooler, sun a touch more gold, sky a richer blue. Or maybe it’s all the good happening. For starters, my new web site attracted more than 11,100 hits in June alone! Be sure...
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What’s cookin’ at Gracie’s Diner?On Thursday, September 12, at 7 pm, it’s poetry! A big thank you to all of you who are planning to attend the Prairie Fire Poetry Reading Series, where I will read....
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Go Cat Go Poetry ReadingAnn with Kevin PilkingtonWhat a pleasure last month to read at Gracie’s Corner Diner on Manhattan’s Upper Eastside! Special thanks to National Poetry Award-winning poet...
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New YouTube poemGiven that Friday, November 22, is the 50thanniversary of the JFK assassination, I am honored to debut my poem “Velocity” in its video version. “Velocity” considers the recently...
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Come hear Ann read SundayI’ll be reading at the Hudson Valley Writers Center in Tarrytown with memoirist Sarah Bracey Whitethis Sunday, December 8, at 4:30 p.m. I’ll have new work to share and Sarah...
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Happy new year! I’d like to express my gratitude to the annogram readership, a collective of extraordinary artists, avid readers, dancers, editors, filmmakers, musicians, poets, translators, and...
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Out of SequenceI’m thrilled that my poem, “Trinity,” has been selected for Out of Sequence, an anthology of poems based on the Shakespearean sonnets, to be published by Parlor Press this summer. Out...
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The wicked winds of March have blown away crusted mounds of snow here in New York, and yet more snow is predicted. In this annogram, we’ll focus on the bounty of poetry that’s happening next month...
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National Poetry Month starts out with a bang—the news that Dos Madres Press will publish my first poetry collection, Face Painting in the Dark, this year. But wait—there’s more! Dancing Girl Press...
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Reading "Andromeda at Midlife"Slant of Light readingI loved reading last month with friends from A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Poets of the Hudson Valley (Codhill Press, 2013). This Hudson...
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