New from Harbor Mountain Press: Jay Mead’s A Little Farm Story

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Jay Mead
A Little Farm Story
ISBN: 9780981556048
Children, illustrated.
Full-color, 9"x8", 28 pages

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Harbor Mountain Press’s first intergenerational picture story about the life of a farm, complete with local v. industrial end notes, A Little Farm Story by Jay Mead. A Little Farm Story celebrates the hard work that goes into small family farms. It is an intergenerational guide through the seasons of a year in the life of a family farm. The originals are painted on canvas pages 35”x40.” Jay created it as a “flippy book,” which refers to a giant puppet technique of story telling that is commonly used by Bread and Puppet. A Little Farm Story has been featured in Farm Fests, at open mics, and at the Hartland elementary school.

About Jay Mead

Jay W. Mead was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, 1960. His creative projects have ranged from Europe to Canada and the United States. He has had one-person shows and performances at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (Exploration City Site), the Henry Gifford Hardy Gallery at the University Club of San Francisco, the Holderness School and Suzanne’s Kitchen in Plymouth New Hampshire. In addition to participating three years in ArtSpan Open Studios, Mead’s work has been featured in several group shows including the Ariel Gallery—Soho New York, SoMarts Gallery—San Francisco, Imago Gallery—San Francisco, Del Bello Gallery—Toronto Canada, and the O.U.I. Gallery—Boston Massachusetts. Mead is especially recognized for his extensive list of indoor and outdoor sculptural installations in San Francisco, the Czech Republic, Brunswick New Jersey, Chicago and New Hampshire, to name just a few.

In 2002, Mead moved with his wife and 2 boys to Cobb Hill, a cohousing community in Hartland, Vermont. “While a big part of this move was about exploring sustainability in a more intentional way,” says Mead, “I continued to make art and to teach. The instructing part of my career has increasingly moved outside of the classroom as is reflected in the residencies and workshops I have lead at the University of Chicago and Vassar College as part of the ‘Big Art’ project, the 2006 performance residency at Visao Futuro, Purangaba, Brazil, and multiple residencies with the Dana Meadows fellowships in Hartland. This work is as much about empowering people of all ages to create as it is about seeking transformation through art.” Visit Jay Mead’s website at www.jaymead.net

New from HMP: Elena Georgiou's _ Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants _

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Elena Georgiou
Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants

ISBN 9780981556024
Poetry | 5x8 | 80 pages
September 2009

Harbor Mountain Press is pleased to announce the release of

Award-winning poet Elena Georgiou’s second collection prompts us to look beyond the question, “Where are you from?” to a more complicated array of questions regarding multiple migrations, invasions, post-colonial freedom, and the ability to board international flights. As the child of Cypriot immigrants, as a British immigrant herself, and as an ex-dancer, Georgiou is an expert in the art of moving—the choreography of words is the hallmark of this collection. Her poems invite us to consider what it is we are looking for, hoping for, and what we expect to find in the ever-changing landscape of our lives.

Early responses to Rhapsody

Elena Georgiou has the unbordered tongue of an immigrant. Her poems travel through the public and private geographies of citizenship, building homes made of bodies and language. Her work is an alphabet, a Greek chorus, a praise poem for the English language and its many tongues. It is your visa to the poetry of immigration.
—Lisa Birman, author of For That Return Passage: A Valentine for the United States of America, and co-editor (with Anne Waldman) of Civil Disobediences Poetics and Politics in Action

Elena Georgiou comes to us beautifully and unabashedly exposed. She reminds us, through the eyes of “immigrant” experiences, that we too must be our own “Expatriate Cartographer” if we are to navigate and survive the losses and gains of living through change and eruption. In writing that is remarkably brave, she sends us her “enclosed everything.”
—Jenny Boully, author of The Book of Beginnings and Endings, One Love Affair, and The Body

Immigrant questions become questions of how to love, how to adhere to an “earth . . . cut in half.” Elena Georgiou’s beautiful book of poems is the “blossom” that falls to the train floor, it’s the “ocean floor,” it’s a “map…of silk countries,” folded and unfolding.
—Bhanu Kapil, author of Humanimal, Incubation: A Space for Monsters, and The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers

Elena Georgiou is the author of Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants and mercy mercy me, which won a Lambda Literary Award for poetry, was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award, and was reissued by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2003. She is also co-editor (with Michael Lassell) of the poetry anthology, The World In Us (St. Martin’s Press). Georgiou has won an Astraea Emerging Writers Award, a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, and was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, BOMB, MiPoesia, Lumina, Spoon River Review, Cream City Review, and Gargoyle. A member of the faculty in the MFA program at Goddard College, Elena lives in Vermont. Please visit her blog, Under a Public Skin.

Upcoming Readings & Events
(in reverse chronological order)

October 23, 2009: Albany, NY
w/James Belflower and Christian Peet
Yes! Reading Series
Hosted by Colie Collen
7PM@ The Social Justice Center
33 Central Avenue

October 6, 2009: Waltham, MA
with Rebecca Brown
7:30PM @ Back Pages Books
289 Moody Street

September 12, 2009: New York, NY
Elena Georgiou
Book Release/Party for Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants
3pm - 4:30pm. (Reading at 3:30)
The Four-Faced Liar
165 West 4th Street (Between 6th and 7th Avenues)
New York, NY 10014
Phone: (212) 366 0608

By Subway: 1, 9 to Christopher Street. Walk down West 4th towards 6th Avenue.
F, V, A, C, E, F, V, B, D to West 4th Street. Walk up Sixth Avenue to West 4th.

HMP News and Notes

New from Harbor Mountain Press: Jay Mead’s A Little Farm Story

New from HMP: Elena Georgiou's _ Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants _