News
14 Mar. 2010--Reading in Pittsburgh, July 27
Special thanks to Joan Bauer and Jimmy Cvetic for including me in their Hemingway Reading Series again this year. The reading will take place on Tuesday, July 27, 7 p.m.
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18 Feb. 2010--Carvalho participating in ‘Why Do They Hate Us?’: Teaching 9/11 Literature (Seminar) at NeMLA 2010, Montreal
Program housed here.
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17 Feb. 2010--NEA Big Read 2010 Event at University of Wisconsin
Special thanks to Ben Strand for organizing this event. Review the official press release housed here.
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2 Feb. 2010--Carvalho Poetry Selections in AmeriQuests 7.1 (2010) Vanderbilt University
Special thanks to good friend and camerado Robert Barsky. See Bob's incredible book The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works beyond the Ivory Tower as well as his provocative Works and Days academic freedom essay "Academic in the Era of Homeland Security" (Works and Days 51-54, 26-27.1/4)
Link to Carvalho AmeriQuests poetry selections here.
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19 Jan. 2010--Carvalho manuscript submission receives semifinalist nod in 2009 contest
Special thanks to Codhill Press contest coordinator Pauline Uchmanowicz and editor David Appelbaum for the kind consideration of my work.
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15 Jan. 2010--Carvalho to Offer Poetry Workshops and Readings for NEA Big Read Event at University of Wisconsin
Official press release forthcoming.
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10 Jan. 2010--Carvalho to Visit NCCC for Poetry Reading, April 9, 2010
On Friday, April 9, 2010, North Country Community College in Saranac Lake, NY will host a poetry reading with Edward J. Carvalho. Residents and students in the area may recall Carvalho's prior reading at NCCC in Feb. 2007, where he read selections from his book solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Time and other specifics concerning campus location to be announced. For more information, please contact Associate Professor Stacey Mascia.
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1 June 2009--Interview with Edward Carvalho now available at Quay.
A new interview on the forthcoming book of poetry "If the radiance of a thousand suns: Songs of the American Hiroshima appears in the Summer 2009 edition of Quay.
Special thanks to Mitch James and Quay editor/founder Jennifer Rumford for their support and friendship.
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30 May 2009--Chants from the Seven Cities on Amazon.com and Rhapsody
Download MP3s from Carvalho's latest audiobook from Amazon.com or the Rhapsody music service.
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23 May 2009--IUP-related links in The Penn
See recent press articles here.
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24 Apr. 2009--Chants from the Seven Cities--NOW AVAILABLE--Purchase Today on CD or MP3 format
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26 Mar. 2009--Chants from the Seven Cities audiobook to be released on April 10
Ed's forthcoming audiobook Chants from the Seven Cities (Guerrilla Ignition) will be available for purchase through iTunes and CDBaby.com by mid-April. Check back here and visit the "WRITING" link above for more information.
Many thanks to producer, publisher, and fellow poet Synnika Lofton of Guerrilla Ignition for his support and time spent on this project.
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13 Mar. 2009 (HOT)--Ed's guest-edited collection Academic Freedom and Intellectual Activism in the Post-9/11 University discussed in The New York Times (order your copy here)
Recent Press for the Works and Days special double-issue Academic Freedom and Intellectual Activism in the Post-9/11 University
1. Works and Days articles
discussed in Stanley
Fish's New York Times blog
2. See Henry
Giroux's response to Stanley Fish in CounterPunch (see also Giroux's
note 13 where he says the latest Works and Days collection "may
be the best collection yet published on intellectual activism and academic
freedom.")
3. Works and Days cited
by Marc Bousquet in The Chronicle of Higher Education (Bousquet
proclaims that the volume is "the best value in academic freedom short
of joining the AAUP."
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14 Jan. 2009--Updates on audiobook Chants from the Seven Cities
Ed is currently reviewing the master tracks for Chants from the Seven Cities and should have more information on release, pricing, and other details shorlty--also be sure to check the updated WRITING link above for the most current information related to track listings, etc. In the meantime, enjoy the spectacular CD cover artwork for this project commissioned by Ed from renowned artist Jason Beam (Tracks were recorded in Norfolk, VA July 2008. Forthcoming from Guerrilla Ignition).
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9 Jan. 2009--Ward Churchill's site, Works and Days guest-edited collection updates
Information posted on
Ward Churchill's site
See the following link to Ward Churchill's site (below) for information on
scholarship included in my guest-edited Spec. Issue of David Downing's Works
and Days Academic Freedom and Intellectual Activism in the Post-9/11 University.
See subsection “Many scholarly studies discussing this case include” at:
Our galleys went off to the publisher on 24 Dec. 2008 and we are expecting page proofs in the next couple of weeks. A major academic freedom symposium is planned at IUP with Churchill and AAUP President Cary Nelson as keynote speakers. More information forthcoming.
For more information on this volume and the roster of nationally (and internationally) acclaimed contributors, visit the Works and Days site below and select CURRENT ISSUE.
http://www.english.iup.edu/publications/works&days/
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30 Dec. 2008--Interview with Ed at QuayJournal.org.
Watch for Mitch James's interview with me appearing exclusively in Quay (online in Jan. 2009 and in print Feb. 2009)
PDF of pages 1-2 of James-Carvalho interview available here.
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21 Apr. 2008--Flash animation promo for Ed's next book
Thanks to Landon Garside for his creative vision and hard work in putting together the following flash animation promo for "If the radiance of a thousand suns": Songs of the American Hiroshima
20 Apr. 2008--Reading in Germany
I will be the feature reader at the ekamina/Sissikingkong reading series in Dortmund, Germany on 17 June, 2008. I plan to read selections from solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short as well as "If the radiance of a thousand suns": Songs of the American Hiroshima. Special thanks to Martina Pfeiler (U. of Dormund) and Wolfgang Kienast (host of the series) for making this event possible.
More information to follow here:
