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Chapter One Series

The Chapter One Project from Marsh Hawk Press features the memoirs of outstanding poets from diverse backgrounds, recalling the ways by which they found their start as writers. While creative writing programs seek to develop the talents of maturing writers, essential information about the development of the writing craft will be discovered in the early memoirs—the Chapter One’s—of established poets published in this series. Each month we’ll post a new Chapter.

For more on the Chapter One Series read our Original Project Proposal

 

Series 2023

February: Denise Duhamel: “In Praise of Colette Inez’s ‘Pay Yourself First'”

January: Sandy McIntosh: “Coaxing the Hangman”

Series 2022

December: Patricia Carlin: “At Home”

November: David Lehman: “The Birth of The Best”

October: Tony Trigilio: “The Importance of Being Obstinate”

September: Mary Mackey: “The World Before Words”

August: Steve Fellner: “On Murderers, Anorexia, and the Concept of the Soul”

July: Sandy McIntosh: “A Poet Learns to Drive the Author-Driven Book”

June: Denise Low: “The Fourth Dimension of Writing”

May: Basil King: “My Aunt Ethel’s husband Dicky Graveny was a sculptor”

April: Stephanie Strickland: “Do I contradict myself?”

March: Rafael Jesús González: “The Gasp”

February: Arthur Sze: (Interview) Revealing and Reveling in Complexity

January: Barbara Novack: “Thanking Mr. Cohn”

25 Essays and Interviews from previous years are available in On Becoming a Poet, an anthology 

 

Marsh Hawk Press Artistic Advisory Board

Sandy McIntosh, Publisher

Toi Derricotte
Denise Duhamel
Marilyn Hacker
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
David Lehman
Alicia Ostriker
David Shapiro
Anne Waldman
John Yau

In Memory of Gerald Stern, Marie Ponsot, Robert Creeley, Paul Pines, Allan Kornblum, Rochelle Ratner, Corinne Robins, Claudia Carlson and Harriet Zinnes. 

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Praise for Books

PAUL PINES: Charlotte Songs

The great themes—like Love, Death and Family— have inspired masterpieces and, alas, Hallmark Cards. In Charlotte Songs, Paul Pines celebrates his daughter. But, if you want the Hallmark Card version of fatherhood, you’ve come to the wrong place. Pines gives us the full paradox of living with his child as she grows from toddler to young woman. Inventive, humorous, baffling and poignant.

— Dalt Wonk
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