Pushcart Prize Nominations!

The Pushcart Prize Nominations for 2009 from Naugatuck River Review are:

Oonagh Doherty for “Longest Night” (Issue 2, Summer 2009)

Howard Faerstein for “One Day at the Junction” (Issue 2, Summer 2009)

Ellen LaFlèche for “Joe Boudreau Gets Ready for the Banquet Celebrating his Retirement after 30 Years at the Sawmill” (Issue 1, Winter 2009)

Will Nixon for “My Mother’s Codfish” (Issue 2, Summer 2009)

Octavio Quintanilla for “A Man and His Dogs” (Issue 2, Summer 2009)

Pam Uschuk for “House Cleaning” (Issue 2, Summer 2009)

Congratulations to all!

Lori Desrosiers
Publisher, Naugatuck River Review

Narrative Poetry Contest Winners!

Our first narrative poetry contest has concluded. Lesléa Newman chose the winners from what turned out to be a very competitive field of poets. Congratulations to all the winners, finalists and semi-finalists, all of whom will be published in Naugatuck River Review’s winter 2010 issue.  All poets who submitted to the contest will receive a copy of the winter 2010 issue.

First Place ($1000)  – Thomas Moore for “Calving in Te Awamutu”

Second Place ($250)  -  Jeanne Julian for “The Lucky Spoon”

Third Place ($100) – Kathryn Neel for “Resume”
Finalists (in alphabetical order):

Carol Bachofner – “Mother is Transformed By Cancer and I Need To Know Details” and “Homestead”
Lynne Frances  -  “Recipes for the Sick”
David Giannini  -  “A Grandson Remembers a Scene when he was Seven at His Grandparents’ House”
Jose Gonzalez  -  “At the Obituary Interview” and “Dirtied Gauzes”
Constance Hall  – “Pneumonia 1945″
Rebecca Howell  -  “How to Build a Root Cellar”
Dane Kuttler  -  “Shifra the Midwife Speaks to the Protesters Outside Planned Parenthood”
Sharon Fagan McDermott  -  “Split Level”
Allegra Mira  -  “Upon Finding My Sister’s Barbie Dolls on the Floor of the Shower, 1999″
Kathryn Neel  -  “The Day They Marched On Selma”
Georgia Pearle  -  “Grandma and the Grasshopper”
Doug Ramspeck  -  “Moon Mud”
Jon Seaman  -  “Big Mike”
M.E. Silverman  -  “Begins With No”
Robin Solit  -  “When Men Were All Amiss”
Ellen Waterston  -  “Mothering-Up”

Semi-Finalists:

Janet Barry – “Destination”
Nina Bayer – “Jack’s Bar”
Barbara Benoit – “Making Love After Illness, After Argument”
Jeff Bernstein – “A Short Guide to the Proper Treatment of Maryland Blue Crabs”
Sharon Charde – “Mother of Dead Son Gets His Bones Back After Twenty Years”
Angie Chuang – “Tet Lion Dance”
Gineen Cooper – “Late Words to my Sister”
Andrea Cousins – “Dressing”
Pat Daneman  – “Another Story”
Lorene Delaney-Ullman – “Itinerary”
Jenny Doughty – “Wreckage”
Ed Frankel – “Farbende”
Kearvelle Friedman – “The Flying Tomato”
Genevieve Goffman – “Alligator Girl”
Jessica Greenbaum – “Marriage Made in Brooklyn”
Pat Hale – “The Man in the Basement”
Monica Hand – “Door of No Return: African-American Burial Ground…”
Maryanne Hannan – “Sail On, Silver Girl”
Anne Hasenstab – “Southernmost Sunset”
Mary-Catherine Jones – “20 Minutes Too Late”
Christina Lovin – “Cry Babies”
Donald Lowe – “Short Story”
Terry Lowe – “Cowboy, Five Years Old”
Shanna Miller-McNair – “Dreaming of Mr. Rojas”
Joel Moscowitz – “My Cousin’s Baseball Bat Accident”
Sam Rasnake – “ A Certainty and Not the Poem I Meant to Write”
Jendi Reiter – “Barbie at 50″
Victoria Rivas – “Doing Laundry”
Martina Robinson – “Gemini”
Laura Rodley – “Rebel”
Paula Sayword – “What of Us”
Penelope Schott – “How I Scare Myself”
Wendy Green Simpson – “Carefully”
Katherine Solomon – “Sweet Basil”
Christina Svane – “Angelo’s Truckstop Café”
Ruth Thompson – “In My Grandmother’s Garden”
Dianalee Velie – “Kissing Marilyn Monroe’s Crypt”
Jason Venner – “Bisbee AZ”
Margaret Walther – “Green Shingles”
Susan Wolbarst – “Trust”
Andy Young – “Winter Solstice”

Congratulations to All!

Lori Desrosiers and Editors
Oonagh Doherty, Ellen LaFleche, Sally Bellerose

Naugatuck River Review on the Road!

Readings and other opportunities for Naugatuck River Review poets:

March 2, 2010 at Broad Street Books, Middletown, CT

Wednesday, April 7, 2010,  8pm Mercury Cafe, Denver, CO. NRR Poets Reading – an AWP off-site event. NRR will also have a table at the AWP book fair.

Sunday, May 16, 2010, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY. NRR Poets Reading and open mic – 3pm!

Contest Closed

The Narrative Poetry Contest is now CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS

Thank you to all who sent their poems in. We will be getting back to everyone as soon as possible. Please be patient, as there are many poems to go through initially,  and then our guest judge needs time to review the final poems as well. We will let you know if you are picked as a finalist (which means your poem is being sent to Leslea Newman for final determination).

Summer 2009 Issue of Naugatuck River Review is here!

Announcing the release of Issue 2, Summer 2009 Naugatuck River Review!

Naugatuck River Review Summer 2009

This is a double issue, featuring poems by Oonagh Doherty, Ellen LaFleche, Kimberley Ann Rogers, Lea Rogers-Rich, Michelle Galo, Martin Willitts Jr., Graham Burchell, Jose Gouveia, Laurie Junkins, Elizabeth Oakes, Kristin Berkey-Abbott, Kim Mahler, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Patrick Chapman, Jessica Bane-Robert, Kathleen Tyler, Ruth Foley, Jules Gibbs, Lana Hechtman-Ayers, Taylor Mali, Keith Leonard, Jessie Carty, Jane Rosenberg LaForge, Erika Lutzner, James D. Autio, Maude Larke, Caleb Barber, Mary Alexandra Agner, Jill Wickham, Steven Riel, Roderick Bates, Terry Lucas, Maggie Schwed, Jesse S. Fourmy, Melinda Palacio, Jeff Friedman, Daniel Lockhart, Douglas Piccinnini, Kevin Cutrer, John Minczeski, Truth Thomas, Laura Cherry, James Penha, Anita Gallers, Suzy Lamson, Carol Dorf, William Doreski, Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Steven A. Rozwenc, Octavio Quintanilla, April Nicotera, Monica Hand, Danny Ross, Randolyn Zinn, Lou Amyx, Katherine Solomon, Tommy Twilite, Michael Shorb, Jeff Streeby, Diane Lockward, Leslea Newman, Will Nixon, Alex Cigale, Milton Ehrlich, Davide Trame, Lynnie Gobeille, Laura Newton, Ira Sukrungruang, Joseph Hutchison, Ashley Jenkins, Nellie Hill, Naomi Neal, Jack Powers, Christina Lovin, Lance Le Grys, Howard Faerstein, Jenn Blair, John Byrne, M.K. Meder, Amy Unsworth, Kenneth Markee, Darla Himeles, Pamela Uschuk, KH Solomon, Christine Stark, Renata McCormish, Jendi Reiter, Michael Meyerhofer, Terry Ann Thaxton, Alan King, Joanne Lowery, Floyd Cheung, Mark J. Mitchell, Martina Robinson, Melanie Faith, Lisa J. Cihlar, Deb Baker, KB Ballentine, Jeanne Julian, Anne Britting Oleson, Ray Liversidge, Jeanann Verlee, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Shaindel Beers, Jim Koger, Maggie Greene, and Sally Bellerose.

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Inaugural Issue of Naugatuck River Review Is Here!

The Winter 2008 issue of Naugatuck River Review features the following poets (in no particular order):

Jenn Monroe, Edward Byrne, Dane Kuttler, Kimberley Ann Rogers, Bonnie Enes, Jay Udall, Issa M. Lewis, Ernie Wormwood, Stephen Lindow, Monica Hand, Earl J. Wilcox, Louis E. Bourgeois, Stephan Delbos, Jenny Doughty, David M. Harris, Michael Lee Johnson, Suzy Lamson, Anne Britting Oleson, Tim Mayo, Dorine Jennette, Jacob Uitti, Danielle Martello, Roderick Bates, Renee K. Nicholson, Michael Fisher, Frederick Lord, Beverly R. Titus, Martha Hayes, Christine Hamm, Karen G. Johnston, Sheila Nickerson, Allen Braden, Derek Sheffield, Tayve Neese, John Flynn, Adam Grabowski, Ellen LaFleche, N.C. Haiduck, Jason Venner, Roberta Burnett, Christel Warren, Laura Rodley, Roy Scheele, Tommy Twilite and Oonagh Doherty.