Ingrid Wendt has had three poems published in an online anthology:  Health and Illness, edited by Annie Ballardini and Obododimma Oha, under the masthead Fieralingue. My poems are “Pilgrim,” “Give Us This Day,” and “Meningioma.”  The URL is http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content&pa=list_pages_categories&cid=361.  Two poems, “After a Class in Seaweed” and “Benediction” are forthcoming in the anthology Poets of the American West, edited by Lowell Jaeger.  Also, my poem “Love in Venice,” has just appeared in  Love Over 60: an anthology of women’s poems, edited by Robin Chapman and Jeri McCormick, Mayapple Press.  I’ll be reading that poem with other anthology contributors at the AWP meeting in Denver in April.

She has also had several prose pieces accepted for publication.  1) “The Poet as Celebrant,” a review of Robert Dana’s The Other, forthcoming in New Letters.  2) “Poetry in the Age of Anxiety,” forthcoming in Oregon English.  3) “New Doors:  Lessons from Bill,” in a collection of essays on William Stafford, edited by Denise Low, forthcoming from Mammoth Publications.

Feb. 28th, Jean Marie Purcell read her poems at the Groundwaters Live program held at the Veneta Library.

Sandy Jensen feels like she hit the jackpot in February–she had two essays from her memoir Special, Gifted, Divine: Twenty Years in Emissary of Divine Light Community accepted by peer reviewed journals:

• “‘I’ve Seen It Raining Fire In the Sky’: Sunrise Ranch, Eden Valley, Loveland, Colorado, 1973″ will appear in the Spring issue of Community College Moment.
  
• “Bearers of the Sun: The Emissary Myth System as a Unifying Community Force,” will appear in the Fall issue of Communal Societies, the journal of the Communal Studies Association.

Howard W. Robertson’s fifth book of poems, TWO ODES OF QUIDDITY AND NIL, was published by Publication Studio in January, 2010 (http://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/31).  Howard will be signing copies of his fourth book, THE GAIAN ODES (Evening Street Press, 2009: http://eveningstreetpress.com/sinclair_poetry_prize.html) on April 8, 2010, in Denver at the Annual Conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.  Howard is a Eugene poet and has been a Guild member since 1987.  Recordings of his latest two odes, “Cape Perpetua” and “This ancient spot near home”, can be reached via his blog: “Odes to Gaia” (http://odestogaia.blogspot.com/).

Michael Hanner and Toni Van Deusen have each had poems accepted by Cloudbank.

*Laura LeHew’s* poem “Killing Your Mother” was published in the Rattlesnake Review, poems “When We Were Robots” and “Pancakes” were accepted to Poetry Now, “Season to Taste” was accepted by Perceptions. She received a Montana Artists Refuge Residency and scholarship, for March 2010.

Toni Van Deusen was a finalist in Calyx’ Sarah Lantz Memorial Poetry Manuscript contest. She, along with other finalists, will read at the Corvallis Art Center on March 13 at 7 p.m.

Michael Hanner’s poem, “in the fog by the river”, has been accepted by Crab Creek Review.