Blue Mountain Center

solo exhibition:

"Artificiere"

May 19 - June 2, 2011
opening reception: May 19 6-9 pm

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
547 West 27th Street
NY, NY 10001

http://www.priskajuschkafineart.com/index.php

His first novel, Sugarless (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009) was shortlisted for Lambda Literary Award, the VCU Cabell First Novelists Prize, and the 2010 William Saroyan International Writing Prize. His second book, You've Really Learned How, a novel-in-stories, is due out in the spring of 2012.

www.jamesmagruder.com

Susan Rosenberg's new prison memoir, An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country, enters the world on February 28, 2011. Kensington Press is publishing the book.

http://anamericanradical.com/press.

Kylie has paintings or work on paper in several current/ upcoming Brooklyn group exhibitions including:

"NEW Year, NEW Work, NEW Faces", STOREFRONT Gallery, http://www.storefrontbk.com/ in Bushwick. (Open weekends through January 23, 2011).

Donna Kaz's new musical "Food On the Aisle" (music by Gerald Stockstill) was presented in the developmental reading series of the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Her musical "LIVE! NUDE! GIRL!" (music by Wayne Barker) will be presented as part of the reading series at New York Theatre Workshop in 2011.

A review of Jennifer's exhibition, "In Country: Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan" was in the October 2010/ Issue 134 of Frieze Magazine.

Or check it out online - here's a link:

http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/jennifer-karady/

Kristin has received a Fulbright Scholar grant to research and lecture at the University of Namibia in Africa during the 2011 academic year.

I am a former resident who has just received funding from kickstarter for my graphic (faux) memoir, "AxeMan Who Will be 70 in the Year 2010". AxeMan is a full color, 62 page, fully illustrated book. It will be self-published in December. Spreads are visible (though not the final version) at axeman.info (where it appears with a heading "Grind."). In a way the project began at BMC in 1985 or 1986 (but memory fails me). AxeMan and other projects can also be seen at howardsaunders.org. AxeMan is his second art book. The first was called URmonumental, a satiric photo critique of the opening of the New Museum on the Bowery.

www.axman.info

Kim Roberts has published two new books. "Animal Magnetism", her third book of poems, won the Pearl Poetry Prize and will be published in January 2011. A nonfiction chapbook was released by Beltway Editions in late 2010, called "Lip Smack: A History of Spoken Word Poetry in D.C."

www.kimroberts.org

2010 has been a busy year. The work of my non-profit, 180 Degrees, Inc. continues to expand. This means we are serving more individuals who have contact with the criminal justice system. And, the MN Second Chance Coalition continues to expand its impact and breadth. I am happy to announce that the MN Second Chance Coalition was awarded the Hennepin County Bar foundations advancing justice award and the MN Council of Non-Profits statewide advocacy award. We are actively preparing for the 2011 legislative session and we plan to tackle voting rights and an expansion of "ban-the-box."

I was delighted to be able to spend time with two former BMC residents. Sussane Mason visted St. Paul to show her film in a "school to prison pipeline" course at Macalester College. And, Bruce Reilly came for a visit of law schools.

Patti's story "But Now Am Found" won the Bellevue Literary Review prize for short fiction. It will appear in the Spring 2011 issue.

A drastically revised and greatly expanded edition of the "Historical Dictionary of Eritrea" will be out with Scarecrow Press in November 2010. I did the last scan of the galleys at BMC in August. For those who cannot get enough on this fascinating but obscure East African state—Africa's newest (and now most repressive) nation—this is a must-have. Fort the rest of you, at 688 pages it will make a one-of-a-kind door stop.

I'm happy to report that I have three poems included in -Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry- (University of Arkansas Press, 2010). Here's a link:

http://www.uark.edu/~uaprinfo/titles/sp10/banerjee.html

and new prose (short fiction and nonfiction) is forthcoming in 2010 in The Kenyon Review Online, Drunken Boat, and Denver Quarterly.

Other than that, I'm living in NYC and teaching creative writing at Marymount Manhattan College. I'm grateful to have just spent Memorial Day Weekend (2010) at a mini-residency at BMC.

I'm in a writing group with Nora Maynard and hope to see other BMC folks more often in the city.

I am excited to announce that my composers' collective, Random Access Music (RAM), is nearing the completion of its inaugural season as an independent organization. We have completed our first concert series; we're in the middle of rehearsals for our second concert; and we are now a registered Not-for-Profit, 501c3, organization. Your dedication and support of our music has allowed our cause to grow, and we thank you for your continued support. I am writing to you today to ask you to consider making a donation to support the efforts of RAM to produce new works composed by me and my fellow composers.
http://ram-nyc.org/

My new book, Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution, is out from Scribner. The book takes a critical, on-the-ground look at market-based solutions to climate change and other grave ecological ills.

To mark the book's release I’ll be doing a series of events including June in Chicago and July in the Bay Area.

Check out this review that ran in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/business/energy-environment/04shelf.ht...

I'm excited to share my latest op-ed, in the SF Bay Guardian, calling for a progressive taxation movement and ballot measures, and a real challenge to the defeatist politics of austerity that's so prevalent today. I've been working with great folks in Budget Justice, a coalition of groups across SF who are fighting for greater equity in revenue and budget issues, and social-economic justice.
I hope you can give it a quick read and share with your friends, colleagues, lists, etc. The link and text are below.
Thanks for helping get the word out if you can, we're building a campaign to shift "hearts and minds" as they say, and every bit helps! Revenue for All!
http://www.sfbg.com/2010/04/06/revenue-all

new work new www new video
www.deannebelinoff.com

Frank B. Wilderson, III was invited to join a panel of writers in a discussion of Black literature and political struggle. This was the opening panel of the Natinal Black Writers Conference in NYC. Toni Morrison was the honorary chair of the conference.

This panel discussion was aired on C-SPAN on Saturday May 1st and again on Sunday May 2nd.

My new column in Manhattan Media papers:
http://ourtownny.com/2010/05/05/happy-mom’s-day/#more-6604

Check out the May 5 article in the New York Times on my current photo project and exhibition at SF Camerawork, "In Country: Soldiers'
Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan." There's a slide show in addition to article.

Here's the link.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/arts/design/06veterans.html?hpw