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April 11, 2014
Poetry Month brings Dos Madres Press Poets to Main Library
As part of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County’s celebration of National Poetry Month, 11
poets from Dos Madres Press will be at the Popular Library Lounge (800 Vine St.) of the Main Library
Monday, April 21, at 7 p.m., to read their verses.
After the featured poets read their work, guests will have an opportunity to mix and mingle, purchase books,
and discover inspirations from the poets themselves. For more information on the Dos Madres Press Poetry
Reading, call (513) 369-6919 or visit www.CincinnatiLibrary.org.
Dos Madres Press Poets Lineup
Grace Curtis wrote a chapbook, The Surly Bonds of Earth, which was selected by Stephen Dunn as the winner
of the Lettre Sauvage 2010 Poetry Contest. She has had work published in several journals including the
Baltimore Review, Scythe Literary Journal, The Chaffin Journal and Waccamaw Literary Journal. Grace writes
about poetry at www.N2Poetry.com. Her first full length book of poems, The Shape of A Box will be available
through Dos Madres Press in May 2014.
Gerry Grubbs has a previous book from Dos Madres Press, The Girls in Bright Dresses Dancing (2010). His
The Hive is a book read for its honey was recently published by Dos Madres Press in September 2013. Another
book of poems, Palaces of the Night, was published by Wordtech in 2011. He has poems published in The
Painted Bride Quarterly, Poet Lore, The Cream City Review, Laughing Dog, Mudfish and other small
magazines. He has developed a unique approach to poetry workshops called Wordshop, which he conducts
through the year all across the country.
Richard Hague is a native of Steubenville, Ohio, and author of 14 collections of poetry, including Lives of the
Poem: Community and Connection in a Writing Life, and During the Recent Extinctions: New & Selected
Poems 1984-2012 (Dos Madres 2012) which received the Weatherford Award from the Appalachian Writers
Association, Berea College. For Ripening, (The Ohio State University Press, l984) he was named Co-Poet of the
Year in Ohio. He is the recipient of four Individual Artists Fellowships in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction from
the Ohio Arts Council, and was a Scholar at Bread Loaf.
Pauletta Hansel is a poet, teacher and author of four poetry collections, most recently The Lives We Live in
Houses (Wind Publications, 2011) and What I Did There (Dos Madres Press, 2011). She leads community
poetry workshops and retreats in the Greater Cincinnati area and beyond, and is Writer-in Residence at Thomas
More College in her native Kentucky. She is co-editor of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, the literary publication
of Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. Hansel received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte.
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Michael Henson is author of Ransack, a novel; A Small Room With Trouble on My Mind, a book of stories; and
the poetry collections Crow Call and The Dead Singing. His poems, stories and essays have appeared in a
number of journals and anthologies. The Tao of Longing (Dos Madres Press 2005), expanded in 2011 to The
Tao of Longing & The Body Geographic. Henson's latest works are the novella Tommy Perdue from Motes
Books and The True Story of the Resurrection and Other Poems from Wind Publications. His column,
“Hammered: Essays on Poverty and Addiction,” appears episodically in StreetVibes, the newspaper of the
Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless.
Ralph La Charity’s book Farewellia a la Aralee (Dos Madres Press 2014) is a cycle of memorial poems for
Aralee Strange and also includes a reproduction of Cinemanuensing (aloud allowed imPress 1998). With poets
Ken Kawaji and Bill Polak, La Charity created the two hour weekly jazz/poetry broadcast, the Skaldric
Cauldron, on WAIF/FM radio Cincinnati in the mid-’90s. Working as poet/percussionist with Cincinnati
jazzmen Ricardo Williams and Jack Walker, he created the village jazz cohort, SàSemblé, a poetry and music
crew that appeared at various venues in Ohio and Pennsylvania from 1996 thru 2001.
Robert Murphy’s, poems have appeared in the literary periodical Smartish-Pace, as well as the Colorado
Review, the Notre Dame Review, The Cultural Society, Marsh Hawk Review and the Chicago based journal
LVNG. He is the author of a chapbook, Not For You Alone (Dos Madres, 2004), Life In The Ordovician Selected Poems (Dos Madres Press 2007) and From Behind the Blind (Dos Madres Press 2013). He is a 2000
winner of the William Bronk Foundation prize for poetry. Murphy is also the executive editor and publisher of
Dos Madres Press. His wife Elizabeth is book designer and illustrator for Dos Madres Press.
Bea Opengart’s poems have appeared in a number of journals, including The American Voice, Folio, The
Journal, The Iowa Review, Louisville Review, Many Mountains Moving, The MacGuffin, Shenandoah, Southern
Humanities Review, Sou’wester and others. Her chapbook, This Day, was published by Finishing Line Press in
2011, and her first book, Erotica, won the book competition sponsored by Owl Creek Press. Opengart has
received grants in support of her work from the Kentucky Arts Council, the Kentucky Foundation for Women
and the Ohio Arts Council. She teaches at the University of Cincinnati. Her collection of poems In the Land was
published by Dos Madres Press in 2011.
David Petreman teaches Spanish and Latin American literature at Wright State University. His La obra
narrative de Francisco Coloane, (The Narrative Work of Francisco Coloane), is a literary analysis of the
legendary Chilean’s work, and was published in Chile in 1988. Petreman has published two editions of a
translation of Coloane’s short stories, Cape Horn and Other Stories from the End of the World. The
English/Spanish bilingual collection of poems, Candlelight in Quintero / Luz de Vela en Quintero are poems of
his time spent in Chile with Francisco Coloane and comes with a CD of the author reading his work, (Dos
Madres Press 2011). His Francisco in the Days of Exile was published by Finishing Line Press in 2008.
He directs an annual poetry series at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center in Troy, Ohio.
David Schloss was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and attended Columbia University 1960-1; University of Southern
California (Cinema School) 1961-2; Brooklyn College, (BA 1965); and the University of Iowa Writers
Workshop (MFA 1967). He taught at the University of Cincinnati (1968-74); Miami University 1974-2014
(semi-retired 2012). Schloss’s previous books include: Group Portrait from Hell (2009), Behind the Eyes (Dos
Madres Press 2006), Greatest Hits (2005), Sex Lives of the Poor and Obscure (2001), Legends (1976) and The
Beloved (1973).
Jean Syed was born in Northwest England and attended Birmingham University. Upon graduation, she became
a social worker in Portsmouth, England. On marriage she went to live in Derby where she studied law, but
America intervened. She has lived in Loveland, Ohio in the same house for 30 plus years. Her collection
Sonnets published by Dos Madres Press in 2009 comes with a CD of Jean Syed reading from her collection.
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About Dos Madres Press
Founded in 2004 by Robert J. Murphy, Dos Madres Press is dedicated to the belief that the small press is
essential to the vitality of contemporary literature as a carrier of the new voice and new works by established
poets, as well as the older, sometimes forgotten voices of the past. And in an ever more virtual world, to the
creation of fine books pleasing to the eye and hand.
Dos Madres is named in honor of Vera Murphy and Libbie Hughes, the “Dos Madres” whose contributions
have made this press possible.
Dos Madres Press, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation and a 501 (c) (3) qualified public charity.
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