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GOING GREEN now available

jmacker — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:19:35 +0000

My kids book on the environment, Hammond Undercover: Going Green, is now available from Amazon. Buy it for Earth Day, birthdays, or because it’s spring. Good for ages 7-12.

Click here to find it on Amazon.

The Common is on Facebook!

jmacker — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:19:55 +0000

The Common, the new sense-of-place literary magazine I founded at Amherst College, now has a Facebook page. Become a fan and stay informed about our issues and events.

The Common on Facebook

Reading at The Rac

jmacker — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:03:22 +0000

Hello, All.

A friend and MFA classmate is hosting a reading featuring yours truly and other Bennington wonders this Saturday at his bookstore The Raconteur in Metuchen, NJ.

Check out the event and Alex’s store.

Radio interview

jmacker — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:45:19 +0000

Tune in tomorrow night, Tuesday, December 1, to listen to me talk about olive oil–Umbrian olive oil, to be precise–with Amy-Louise Pfeffer and the hosts of Farm2Fork. Amy-Louise and her husband Mike Sola’s adventures in producing and importing Italian olive oil are the subject of my recent Edible Pioneer Valley article (to be uploaded to my site in its entirety soon).

Listen to the interview at Valley Free Radio. Farm2Fork airs from 6:30 to 7:30. Our segment starts at 7:10.

The Encyclopedia of Latin Music

jmacker — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:22:39 +0000

Calling all Latin music enthusiasts!

Ilan Stavans and I are editing a four-volume reference work on Latin music in the United States. It will be published by ABC-CLIO next year. We’re looking for music writers and academics to write 1,000-, 3,000-, and 5,000-word entries on musicians/composers, cities, countries, musical rhythms/styles, and important themes. Please send an email to jennifer@jenniferacker.com with a writing sample (3-5 pages) and CV if you’re interested in contributing.

Gracias.

My feature on poet Dan Chiasson

admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:07:55 +0000

A year after The New Yorker named him a “Debut Poet” in 2001, Dan Chiasson published his first book, The Afterlife of Objects. A second collection, Natural History, followed in 2005; One Kind of Everything, a critical work on American poetry and autobiography (an expansion of his Harvard dissertation), was published in 2007; and last fall he succeeded Charles Simic as a poetry editor at The Paris Review.

Click here to read the full article on the Amherst website.