AGNES SIODA, a Berlin-based artist whose Portfolio appeared in Cable Street 2, and whose paintings will be featured again in our summer issue, had recently published a book aimed at children, yet appealing to all ages: Senta und der feuerrote Drache, (Senta and the Ferocious Dragon). It is available via agnes@lmi.net. We look forward to its translation into English, and other languages, especially since in addition to it’s marvelous illustrations, the story’s theme is of a universal, and deeply life-affirming nature.
KAREN GREENSPAN has published an article in Lions Roar, Buddhist Wisdom for Our Time, in which she writes about her journey “to learn the traditional dance of the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd practice of Machig Labdrön. The practice empowers female practitioners in Bhutan, . . . .” https://www.lionsroar.com/dancing-the-dakini-chod-cham-of-machig-labdron/ Greenspan’s article on dance in Bhutan, “A Reason to Dance” was published in Witty Partition Issue 13.
HANS AUGUSTAVE’s new film Nwa (Black) won Best Narrative Short DBFF, Denton Black Filmmakers Festival. “Nwa is a candid, emotional, coming-of-age film about Frantz, a first-generation Haitian-American boy, torn by the decision to get the haircut he knows his strict immigrant father would approve of, or a trendy cut connecting him to the Black American culture he’s warned him not to embrace.” Cable Street Issue 6 published Hans Augustave’s short film, I Held Him and an interview with him.
RILLA ASKEW, a Cable Street contributor, has a new fiction collection, The Hungry and the Haunted, from Arkansas-based publisher Belle Point Press. The book is featured as a Remarkable Read by Hardy Griffin in our current issue. https://bellepointpress.com/collections/books
MARITHELMA COSTA’s new novel La bendición de Rosalía is newly out in Spanish from the Puerto Rico-based Editorial LaCriba. Costa’s contributions to Cable Street include curating two Pocket Anthologies of New York poets writing in Spanish as well as her own fiction.
IRIS APONTE’s novel Borinquen Field was recently published in Spanish by Editoria Educación Emergente. An excerpt of her novel The Happy Death of William Carlos Williams previously appeared in these pages. Marithelma Costa’s critical appreciation of her latest novel can be read here.
ELISSA FAVERO has a book forthcoming from Newfound, to be published on October 15, 2024. Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian weaves natural and family histories of Scotland and south central Montana with Indigenous histories, languages of science and of women, memories of Catholic childhoods, fragments of poetry, and songs of lament and of praise. Proceeding through the alphabet and experimenting with forms that call to mind displacement and settlement, plant growth, taxonomies, and genealogies, Favero reckons with her family’s immigrations West and the burdens and gifts of inheritance as she seeks a place she can call home. Favero has published multiple reviews and essays in Cable Street, like this insightful, three-book analysis. She posts on Instagram @elissacfavero and on Facebook @Elissa Favero.
NAOKO FUJIMOTO’s new chapbook of translations—09/09 : Nine Japanese Female Poets/Nine Heian Waka—forthcoming from Toad Press. FUJIMOTO published a sample of her translations with visual expressions in Cable Street’s Haiku Anthology. Learn more at the author’s website, Fuji Hub.
IMOGENE PRUITT-SPENCE, artist, photographer, writer, and granddaughter of contributing editor CHRISTOPHER SAWYER-LAUÇANNO devotes her Substack column of July 7 to commenting on his book of poems Ten Meditations on Some Words by Antonin Artaud: https://dirtnapprincess.substack.com/p/artaud-my-grandfather-and-me.
DANA DELIBOVI, Cable Street’s consulting poetry editor, has a book forthcoming and available for pre-order. Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila will be published by Monkfish on October 15, 2024. The book contains Delibovi’s translation of 31 extant poems by the 16th-century philosopher and mystic, along with five original essays on Delibovi’s personal journey with Teresa’s poetry. Teresa of Ávila, a well-known author and reformer during her own time, is very much a poet for the present day, with a surprisingly modern style of writing. Learn more at the book’s website: sweethunter.org.
BETHANY BESTEMAN published at Solum Press this June. Her long-form free verse poem, “Elijah”, confronts death with the clear-eyed beauty that marks all of Besteman’s work—like the lyric poems she published here in Cable Street.
KELLY EGAN has published a book-length poem, Millennial, which can be ordered from White Stag Publishing. The poem carries memories both learned and experienced through the kaleidoscopic lens of the speaker, until each layer of time reveals itself to us in the present. Egan travels the terrestrial realm through a multi-dimensional state, which allows the poem to evoke a grounding in reality, through the unknown of ancestors and spirit. Egan published an amazing group of poems here in Cable Street. Learn more at kellyegan.com.
MICHAEL DORGAN recently published an opinion piece in The Mercury News “I respect you, cancer, but you’re killing both of us.” Excerpts from his book No Fight, No Blame: A Journalist’s Life in Martial Arts were published in Cable Street Issue 2.