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Celebrate Poetry Month with Lois Roma-Deeley

 CELEBRATE POETRY MONTH with a reading by Lois Roma-Deeley

Listen to Lois Roma-Deeley read her poems and hear her interview.


http://ltdengagementpod.com/romadeeley.html

Limited Engagement is a monthly performance and interview series that takes place on the third Friday of each month at C-MOD Curated Modern Design at 7 pm, Friday, April 16, 2016

 

4604, 4606, 4610 N 7th Avenue,Phoenix

Friday 15 April 2016

Roma-Deeley's poems online, 2016

This has been quite an eventful month with new poetry publications to be found online!

Check out the my poems at:

Helen: A LiteraryMagazine
http://www.helenpresents.com/issues/spring-issue-2016/abduction-lois-roma-deeley/ 
 Abduction 

Abduction

Juked
http://www.juked.com/2016/03/lois-roma-deeley-bodys-prison-tattoo.asp
 Body's Prison Tattoo

 

 

Red Savina Review
http://www.redsavinareview.org/14983-2/

Praise Song for She Who Would Clean the World

 and

Among the Red Rocks of Sedona,
a Soldier’s Wife Leaves No Stone Unturned

Praise Song for She Who Would Clean the World

Among the Red Rocks of Sedona, a Soldier’s Wife Leaves No Stone Unturned
 http://www.redsavinareview.org/14983-2/

 Sonic Boom

http://media.wix.com/ugd/61020d_55bafcf4b072409c940cf2992562a9d0.pdf


Excited to have my poem a recommend read by Change Seven Magazine for National Poetry Month!

7 Reads We Recommend: National Poetry Month

 by Emily Ramser and Laurel Dowswell

https://changesevenmag.com/2016/04/21/7-reads-we-recommend-national-poetry-month-by-emily-ramser-and-laurel-dowswell/ 

Arizona Commission on the Arts

http://azarts.gov/ardg/lois-roma-deeley/

Politics and Poetry

Excited to be included in Sundress Publications' newest anthology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity

$17.00 Regular

 

"In September 2014, NPR writer and critic Juan Vidal wrote an essay whose titular question, "Where Have All the Poets Gone?" provided a platform for various musings regarding the political state of contemporary American poetics. According to Vidal, "For centuries, poets were the mouthpieces railing loudly against injustice. They gave voice to the hardships and evils facing people everywhere... What has happened?" He further suggested that poets writing today have failed to create work that carries the same "weight" as the poems written by their literary forefathers.

Should American poets still be trying to write "Howl"? Are Neruda, Kerouac, Baraka, and the rest of the Beat Generation the only viable prototypes for political literary expression in American culture? How does the influx of identities, voices, and life experiences that are now expressed in mainstream American letters potentially create and communicate new political vision(s) -- vision that may sound or appear different from Ginsberg's poetic/political tour de force, but is no less necessary, compelling, challenging, or iconoclastic? What do we even mean when we talk about the weight of a political work? How is that weight both carried and expressed by poetry today?

To address these questions, Sundress Publications' newest anthology Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity showcases the substantial amount of political writing that is being done today.

Contributors include Kenzie Allen, Jasmine An, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Ahi Baraka, Anne Barngrover, Jennifer Bartlett, Scott Bear Don't Walk, Erin Belieu, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Jennifer Jackson Berry, Callista Buchen, Cortney Larmar Charleston, Sarah A. Chavez, Chen Chen, Alicia Cole, CA Conrad, Oliver De La Paz, Emile DeWeaver, Jennifer Fitzgerald, Amber Flame, Lisa A. Flowers, Yolanda J. Franklin, Jennie Frost, Carmen Gimenez-Smith, Arielle Greenberg , M. Ayodele Heath, Sara Henning, Jeb Herrin, Elizabeth Hoover, Mark Irwin, Allison Joseph, Bhanu Kapil, Vandana Khanna, Ayisha Knight-Shaw, EJ Koh, Kristin LaTour, Kenji C. Liu, Timothy Liu, M. Mack, Shahé Mankerian, Shane McCrae, Freesia McKee, Lynn Melnick, Philip Metres, Hoa Nguyen, Jennifer Perrine, Saba Syed Razvi, Jessica Reidy, Lois Roma-Deeley, Danny A. Romero, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Danielle Sellers, Glenn Shaheen, Raena Shirali, Karen Skolfield, Christopher Soto, aka Loma, Anna B. Sutton, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, Emma Trelles, Donna Vorreyer, Jim Warner, Ginny Wiedhardt, Hanif Willis-Abdurraquib, and Emily Jungmin Yoon!"

Redux: A Literary Journal and Lois Roma-Deeley's poem

http://www.reduxlitjournal.com/…/192-all-she-knew-she-learn…

Here is the link to Redux: A Literary Journal where you can find my poem "All She Knew She Learned at the Movies"--along with my mini-essay about the piece.

Many thanks to editor Leslie Pietrzyk!



An invitation-only literary journal of writers' favorite, previously published stories and poems, not found elsewhere on the web ~~ edited by novelist Leslie Pietrzyk ~~

Lois Roma-Deeley, Arizona Commission on the Arts Grant

 

Thrilled to announce that I have be awarded an Arizona Commission on the Arts Grant!

http://azarts.gov/news-media/

"The Ballad of Downtown Jake" Roma-Deeley & Scinto, nominees, ariZoni Award

I am thrilled to say that"The Ballad of Downtown Jake," a music drama based on my collection of poems High Notes--and for which I wrote the book and lyrics--has two nominations for the 2015 ariZoni Awards.

Nominations:
Original Script--Adult--Play or Musical (Lois Roma-Deeley)
Original Music Composition--Adult--Play or Musical (Christopher Scinto)


http://www.arizoniawards.com/

from website:

The ariZoni Theatre Awards of Excellence

About Us

The ariZoni Theatre Awards is a not-for-profit organization devoted to promoting the visibility and growth of theatre in the Valley of the Sun & Maricopa County. Each year at its annual awards ceremony, the Board bestows an outstanding contribution award and a distinguished service award to deserving individuals or organizations for their contributions to theatre. In addition, the ariZoni Scholarship Committee will award one or more scholarships to selected, qualified students.

Most importantly, after completion of an exhaustive judging process, (involving close to 100 Adjudicators) awards of excellence are presented to those individuals who have excelled in performance and production during the just-completed season.

These awards represent true celebrations of EXCELLENCE IN THEATRE.