The launch was a festive success! Thanks to everyone for coming. Here are some photographed highlights (click on images to enlarge):
(Book Table at Poets House)
(Burt Kimmelman introduced the readers)
(As the audience started to arrive...)
(Tana Jean Welch, most recent recipient of Marsh Hawk Press Annual Poetry Prize,
reads from LATEST VOLCANO)
(Paul Pines videoed by George Quasha as he reads from CHARLOTTE SONGS)
(Sandy McIntosh reads from A HOLE IN THE OCEAN: A HAMPTONS' APPRENTICESHIP)
(George Quasha reads from THINGS DONE FOR THEMSELVES)
(Stephen Paul Miller reads from ANY LIE YOU TELL WILL BE THE TRUTH)
(Thomas Fink reads from SELECTED POEMS & POETIC SERIES)
(Eileen Tabios also read from her book THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS;
no photograph of her as she served as photographer)
(After the readings, Jane Augustine offered an introduction to the press since it began 17 years ago!)
(In the audience, Paul Pines with artist Marc Shanker)
(Must be a successful launch when even the press' lawyer, Ron Carlin, shows up!)
(Jane Augustine, MHP accountant and office manager Barbara McIntosh & Thomas Fink)