Dryad Press

09/28/2024

Here is designer Matt Bessel's interpretation of "The Tyger" when he was a student at Montgomery College, Takoma Park Campus.

09/28/2024

Here is one of William Bllake's engravings of "The Tyger" in his Songs of Experience.

09/26/2024

Vermont's great paper Seven Days reviews Reuben Jackson's MY SPECIFIC AWE AND WONDER. Reuben's Friday Night Jazz on VPR for six years was just the best!

The late poet wrote about the juxtaposition between Vermont's natural beauty and feeling alienated because he was Black.

09/25/2024

And here is a second poster, "The Wind Grinds" by the late Israeli poet, Eytan Eytan.

09/25/2024

The Spring for Poetry in Takoma Park poster series was a long-term collaborative project of the Friends of the Takoma Park Maryland Library and design students in the Visual and Performing Arts Dept, Montgomery College, Takoma Park campus. To see scores of other posters, visit the Friends website: https://ftpml.org/activities/spring-for-poetry/

08/28/2024

https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/quiet-the-collected-poems-by-sauci-s-churchill-1940-2021/
From comments on QUIET. . . The Complete Poems of Sauci S. Churchill (1940-2011)
ROSE SOLARI: Sauci Churchill "finds miracles in the smallest things — a tiny harmonica, a white lace collar, even the blink of an eye — and builds exquisite shrines of poetry round them."
JEAN NORDHAUS: "Her poems have long been marked by a unique combination of delicacy and toughness, reticence and candor. The poems she wrote between her diagnosis with ALS and her death in 2011 add moments of angry humor and astonishing beauty."
MERRILL LEFFLER: "Sauci Churchill’s poems are quiet marvels. . . Her seemingly simple diction and concreteness of line, whether writing of childhood memories in Chicago (Running Down Division Street) or traveling in Jamaica and Croatia, or in meditations on sorrow and pain — which 'like the night sky, is vast / Twinkling, it seems to come and go / but is steadfast like the north Star' — or in comic self-deprecation, the poems from one to the next have a luminesce about them."

This elegant, intelligent, and deeply moving collection of poems is aptly named. Sauci Churchill’s lyricism is indeed, quiet, and all the more powerful for it. She finds miracles in the smallest things — a tiny harmonica, a white lace collar, even the blink of an eye — and builds exquisite shr...

05/08/2024

Ron Slate's ON THE SEAWALL has an introduction to Eva Umlauf's memoir, THE NUMBER ON YOUR FOREARM IS BLUE LIKE YOUR EYES, by Shelley Frisch, who translated the book from the German — an excerpt follows.

“That his rage was in a painting did not suffice to appease his rage against the painting. He kept taking back his works from those who had bought them, to destroy them.”

05/04/2024

Eva Umlauf will discuss her memoir — from being a toddler in Auschwitz to navigating life under communism in Slovakia and becoming a successful pediatrician and psychotherapist in Germany — with Daniel Mendelsohn, author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. The conversation will be moderated by the distinguished translator of Eva’s memoir, Shelley Frisch. Hybrid (In-person and Virtual). Hosted by 92NY.

Online and in-person. Join us for a conversation between Eva Umlauf and Daniel Mendelsohn moderated by Shelley Frisch.

05/04/2024

Monday is the publication date of Eva Umlauf's memoir, THE NUMBER ON YOUR FOREARM IS BLUE LIKE YOUR EYES, trans. from the German by Shelley Frisch and co-published by Mandel Vilar Press and Dryad Press .

Translated from the German by Shelley Frisch Foreword by Michael Brenner; afterword by Naomi Umlauf A co-publication of Mandel Vilar Press and Dryad Press Paperback with French Flaps / photographs …

04/15/2024

The Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska has the most engaging conversational voice — MAP, Collected and Last Poems are translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak.

04/13/2024

Many Facebook readers will know Lucille Clifton's "good times" — it is the title poem to her first book of poetry (969). Among her many gifts as a poet, she made simple words sing — Robert Frost said that as a poet he wanted “to lodge a few poems where they will be hard to get rid of ” Lucille Clifton did that over and over again.

04/11/2024

For fans of Frank O'Hara's "Why I Am Not a Painter," you'll want to see the poem performed in the middle of Old Town, Takoma Park, by city staff. Great delight! Thanks to Alavaro Calabia, TP's head of video production - Superman!

The City TV crew celebrates Spring For Poetry during the Halloween festivities in Takoma Park