Here’s the link to “Cassiopeia” in Issue 84: https://theinterpretershouse.org/greenhause-84
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Cupping Our Palms, Winner of Meadowlark Press’s 2022 Birdy Poetry Prize!!!
https://www.meadowlark-books.com/2022/04/congratulations-jonathan-greenhause.html
A million thanks to publisher Tracy Million Simmons, publicist Linzi Garcia, and judge Bart Edelman, who has chosen my manuscript Cupping Our Palms as the winner of Meadowlark Press’s 2022 Birdy Poetry Prize!!! Thank you as well to all the finalists and semifinalists and all the poets and readers out there, without whom we’d all just be writing and reading by ourselves.
Here’s the link to the wonderful Birdy Poetry Prize announcement and reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eINqPahAg4
And here’s a breakdown of the event so you can skip right to:
2:21 – 8:55: A reading by Ruth Maus (“Valentine”)
9:30 – 17:47: A reading by Brian Daldorph (“Kansas Poems”) and 17:47 – 22:51: Brian’s reading of poems by the late Antonio Sanchez-Day (“Taking on Life”)
24:09 – 40:23: A reading by Alison Hicks (“Knowing Is a Branching Trail”)
40:40 – 44:30: Announcement of the finalists and semifinalists
45:10 – 46:15: Tracy’s introduction of Bart Edelman (“Whistling to Trick the Wind”)
46:15 – 48:00: Bart’s introduction to “Cupping Our Palms” and subsequent commentary (48:00 to 50:00)
51:55 – 53:48: A few words (or rather, loss of words) from me, followed by 7 of my poems:
53:48: Thanks a lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling
55:30: Beacons of Light
56:33: Damn Our Shortsightedness
57:53: The fire-escape, no longer weighed down
59:30: To Sugarcoat the Truth
1:01:24: A poem written in my past life as a 15th century Georgian monk
1:02:33: Cupping Our Palms
Again, THANK YOU SO MUCH, MEADOWLARK PRESS!!!!
“Consoling The Whims Of The Tiniest, Whiniest Dictators”, highly-commended for the 2021 Welsh Poetry Competition
My tiny whiny dictating children and I would like to thank Kathy Miles for selecting this poem for 10th place — obviously in honor of the greatest soccer player in the world, Lionel Messi — in the Welsh Poetry Competition. Congrats to the winner Estelle Price for her wonderful
ekphrastic poem “iii”.
My “Positively Poetry Reading Series” performance for the Hoboken Public Library’s National Library Week!
Yes, here are those promised cows, daffodils, and the absence of Holocaust poems:
You can almost smell that I-78 highway extension through the thin gloss of YouTube.
And here’s a friendly guide to jump straight to your favorite poems:
00:00 Introduction
01:02 The origin of life
02:28 A small dot appears. A genesis. A thing out of nothing
05:45 Thanks a lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling
07.46 Departing from Sengen Jinja
10:00 Naming Things
11:46 Why My Kid Sobs at the Ice Cream Parlor
14:18 Not a Holocaust Poem
15:53 Cows & Daffodils
17:58 Lakawa a Stat on
20:05 A Single Swallow Doesn’t Signal Spring
20:39 Animal House
22:09 A poem written in my past life as a 15th century Georgian monk
23:32 From Out of the Darkness
26:47 Beacons of Light
28:02 Post 11
29:17 Epilogue
“Dear Mom”, from Paterson Literary Review’s Zoom reading on March 6th, 2021
Thank you, Ms. Mazziotti Gillan and Ms. Desai, for organizing such a wonderful reading today for Issue #48! The following is a link to my reading of “Dear Mom”, which can be heard from 1:06:10 to 1:08:00, right after “Emptyness”, by the Ghanaian poet Geosi Gyasi, and right before “Second Hand Clothes”, by fellow New Jersey poet, Fred Iucci.
“Thanks a Lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling” (which first appeared in “America”) wins the Telluride Institute’s 2020 Fischer Poetry Prize
It’s an extraordinary honor to have “Thanks a Lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling” selected as the winner of the 2020 Fischer Poetry Prize! A special thank you to judge Claire Blotter and the Talking Gourds crew for making my 2020 a little less horrible, and congrats to all the other finalists!
Jonathan Greenhause 