Duane Poncy and Patricia J. McLean

January 10th Reading

duane poncy — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:32:20 +0000

Our featured readers for January 10, 2012 will be Jennifer Lesh and David Clarke. They will be followed by an open mic.

Poet Jennifer Lesh

Jennifer Lesh was born in San Bernardino, California and has lived in and around Portland for the past seven years. Her work has previously appeared in Eclectica, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, XConnect, and other places. The poems she read at the 2010 Wordstock festival can be found in the latest VoiceCatcher anthology, available at Powells Books. She’s a founding member of Portland-based writing group, The Guttery (http://theguttery.com), and is a former Pushcart Prize nominee and writer-in-residence for New Light Studios of Beloit, Wisconsin.

Poet David Cooke

David Cooke is one Portland ’s newest poets to be recognized internationally. His debut poem earned the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize and a Pushcart nomination. He was crowned champion of AmeriCymru’s Night of the Living Bards and just won second in the War Poetry Contest. His poems show his love of vivid imagery and colloquial language, his passion for word play and spiritual questioning. He is also a founding member of The Guttery a writing group and can be seen performing with the Moonlit Guttery Team.

Stay for open mic. Bring something to read. Come early to sign up and enjoy a bite or brew from Eat.Art.Theater.

Readings @ Milepost 5
Tuesday, January 10, 7:30 pm
Eat.Art.Theater, 850 NE 81st (enter on Oregon St.)
Portland, Oregon

Sponsored by The Habit of Rainy Nights Press.

Bitten Dust by Ralph Salisbury coming in 2012

duane poncy — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:18:30 +0000

The Habit of Rainy Nights Press
Portland, Oregon

http://rainynightspress.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 17, 2011

The Habit of Rainy Nights Press announced the Fall, 2012 publication of Bitten Dust, a novel by Ralph Salisbury.

Bitten Dust is a powerful anti-war story which follows the life of Lackey York, a mixed-blood Cherokee from his birth at the end of The Great War to the birth of his grandson at the beginning of Desert Storm.

Author Ralph Salisbury

Rockefeller recipient, Ralph Salisbury’s three books of short fiction and ten books of poems evoke his Cherokee-Shawnee-Irish-English-American heritage. His poem “In the Children’s Museum in Nashville” was published in the New Yorker, in 1960, and has attracted some attention as a precursor to the contemporary Native American literary movement.

In selecting his 2000 book RAINBOWS OF STONE as an Oregon Book Award finalist, Maxine Kumin wrote: “Nature in Ralph Salisbury’s conception is a Presence to be addressed… His book deserves a broad audience.”

His most recent books are Blind Pumper at the Well, The Indian Who Bombed Berlin, and Light from a Bullet Hole, poems new and selected, nominated for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize.

The Habit of Rainy Nights Press is an imprint of Elohi Gadugi, an Oregon nonprofit.
The purpose of Elohi Gadugi is promote Indigenous American literature, and to assist new writers who address important social and environmental issues in their work. Founding publishers are Duane Poncy, an enrolled citizen of The Cherokee Nation, and his wife, Patricia J. McLean.

For more information:
Duane Poncy, publisher
tsalagi@elohigadugi.org

503-298-4612

Coming in 2012

duane poncy — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:48:11 +0000

It’s official now. We will be publishing two new books in 2012.

Tentatively scheduled for an April release is Navigation, a book of poetry by Brittney Corrigan which explores themes of family and navigating through life.

Scheduled for the fall is Bitten Dust, by Ralph Salisbury, his first novel-length work. This powerful anti-war story spans much of the twentieth century and follows the life of a mixed-race Cherokee named Lackey York from the end of The Great War to the beginning of Desert Storm.

We will post more detailed information soon.

Readings@Milepost Five

duane poncy — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:47:57 +0000

October Reading and 2012 Publishing Announcements

Join us for an evening of poetry and prose at Eat.Art.Theater, Milepost 5’s fine café and performance venue. Featured readers will be Ralph Salisbury, Brittney Corrigan and Jay Thiemeyer.

Stay for open mic. Bring something to read. Come early to sign up and enjoy a bite or brew from Eat.Art.Theater.

Tuesday. October 11, 7:30 pm
E.A.T., NE 81st and Oregon St.
Portland, Oregon

Author Ralph Salisbury

Ralph Salisbury’s thirteen books evoke his Cherokee-Shawnee-Irish-English-American heritage. “In the Children’s Museum in Nashville” was published in the New Yorker, in 1960, and attracted attention as a precursor to the contemporary Native American literary movement. Rainbows of Stone was a 2000 Oregon Book Award finalist, and his 2009 Light from a Bullet Hole was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Poet Brittney Corrigan

Brittney Corrigan’s poems have appeared in The Texas Observer, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Borderlands, The Blue Mesa Review, Oregon Review, Manzanita Quarterly, and Hip Mama, among others. She is the poetry editor for the online literary journal Hyperlexia. To read more of Brittney’s work, visit her website at http://brittneycorrigan.com.

Jay Thiemeyer

Jay Thiemeyer is the author of Marginal Notes. Jay has been a long-time homeless advocate and co-host to KBOO radio’s “My Buckets Got a Hole In It.” His poems have appeared in Burnside Cadillac, Street Roots, and The Portland Alliance. He will be freshly back from Mondragon Spain and hopes to have some pieces based on his experience there.

The Habit of Rainy Nights Press will announce its 2012 publishing selections tonight.

Ebook, Australia release of The Eye of the Moon

duane poncy — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:01:34 +0000

The Habit of Rainy Nights Press will be releasing The Eye of the Moon as an ebook in late September. An exact date has not been set yet, but it will coincide with a release of the paperback version in Australia. More to come soon. Continue reading →