Lenny DellaRocca and Surya Gemilang
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Lenny DellaRocca
lenny.dellarocca@gmail.com
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Lenny DellaRocca began publishing poems in 1970 but it was in 1980 that most of his work began to appear in literary magazines. As an editorial assistant of the Florida Arts Gazette, DellaRocca joined the board of directors of the South Florida Poetry Institute in 1982.In 1987, he founded The Electric Chair, a poetry reading featuring one poet reading before a hand-picked audience. In 1989, DellaRocca joined the board of the Miami-based Hannah Kahn Poetry Foundation. He was Creator and co-founder of Random Acts in the mid-1990s, an interdisciplinary ensemble of poets, storytellers and musicians who improvised and interacted with audiences. In 1997, DellaRocca became president of the non-profit HKPF and resurrected The Electric Chair reading paying $50 to a local poet and founded Quartetto Poetica, a four-poet reading that paid local poets $25 each. During his tenure as president of HKPF, DellaRocca brought to South Florida Denise Duhamel, Albert Goldbarth, Enid Shomer, Janet Holmes, Carolyn Wright, Lyn Lifshin, Yusef Komanyakka, Nick Carbo and George Wallace. Their readings and workshops were often co-hosted by Florida Atlantic University, Nova Southeastern University, Florida International University and the Miami International Book Fair and The Florida Center for the Book. In 2000, DellaRocca became poetry correspondent for about.com where he gathered and published news about the poetry scene in Florida. He self-published Alphabetical Disorder in 2010. In 2015, NightBallet Press published his chapbook, The Sleep Talker. His poem, The Wonderful Viola Player, was nominated for a Pushcart by Chiron Review.
The following work is Copyright © 2015, and owned by Lenny DellaRocca and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Dear Rattle I should’ve sent this poem to you last time Don’t get me wrong I do want some of my poems here, but not the typical poets in Rattle. Mind you, Rattle poets You’ve heard of Richard Blanco, haven’t you? He’s the gay Cuban for twenty-five bucks years before he was famous. (No shit). But go ahead publish this and place it next to poets I like Lyn and B.Z. but enough already. I want to be on the page
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Surya Gemilang
surya.gemilang69@yahoo.com
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Surya Gemilang was born in 1998. He lives in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. His first short stories anthology, Mengejar Bintang Jatuh, has published on August 2015; and his poetry, Meraba Jejak-jejak Hutan, got the main reward from “Poetry Prairie”.
The following work is Copyright © 2015, and owned by Surya Gemilang and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
My Family in Three Parts |1| another time, my mother became when the new moon cried, my mother today, my mother is a window of
nobody can passed his bridge. the my father is the greatest parade of nobody can passed his bridge. the
several years ago, he was a bee. let me sing a story about my eldest
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