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Posted by lsbassen on December 22, 2022
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Fiction

December ’22  “Changing the Grade” accepted by The Rumen https://www.therumen.com/ The story will appear in “next couple of weeks.” 

December ’22 The Tenth Muse will be publishing my story Memoirs in early May, ’23, Volume XIII. http://tenth-muse.squarespace.com/ 

November ‘22 Summer John in Woven Tale Press, Issue #7 online edition:

https://online.flipbuilder.com/eovs/oiqf/  pp. 24-29/84. If you wish to purchase a print edition [I did]: https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/2351073

October, ’22 Provenance: ‘Aegean Apparitions’ will appear in the next edition of Shark Reef http://sharkreef.org/

Poetry

August ’22 Gogol’s Nose in Wordpeace https://wordpeace.co/current-issue-7-2-summer-fall-2022/ukraine-in-solidarity/poetry-ua/lois-bassen/  

2022 News

Posted by lsbassen on June 16, 2022
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FICTION

BLUE MONKEYS

Keywords for BLUE MONKEYS: archeology, Atlantis, Bronze Age, copper, Costa Rican, Crete, Dominican, eruption, fiction, Fordham University, human genome, Juilliard, Kenyan, LI, Linear A, manhattan, Mexican-American, Minoan, Moslem-American, Orient Point, pandemic, Phaistos Disk, Rockefeller University, Santorini, Seattle, Shoshone, St. Bart’s, synesthesia, Thera, upmarket, Upper West Side, volcano.

By the end of May, BLUE MONKEYS [72,000 words] was complete! 

The novel begins in Spring, 2019, as NY Times journalist David Rochester and his TV star husband Alan Tapley move from LA with their twin toddler sons & Nanny Mercedes to the ninth floor of a NYC Beaux Arts apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Here, the people and events they encounter include both the autumn arrival of a new tenant who is murdered within a month, translators of Minoan Linear A — and a global pandemic. What begins as a New York story expands over space and Time, from Manhattan to Minoan Crete, from the Hamptons to Yellowstone & Seattle. The ‘first end of the world in Bronze Age Atlantis’ didn’t end it. Blue monkeys still dance on walls.

News

Posted by lsbassen on January 16, 2022
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FICTION

9/7/21 Penelope’s Version – one act play – in Choeofpleirn Press’s literary journal Rushing Thru the Dark. At Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GT8SX25/?coliid=I1EG3YETFNGBI2&colid=1JOIZVEEOIEYD&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

7/3/21 Manufactured Goods online: Manufactured Goods | Unlikely Stories Mark V

I have been sending out – & agents/publishers are now reading the completed 2nd novel NEW MARWA and 3rd short story collection FIRST FIFTH – summaries below!

NEW MARWA

This multicultural/multigendered serio-comic bildungsroman chronicles 5 years + (2000-2005 and coda 2015) in the life of Marwa Al-hal, a Muslim American-born daughter of immigrant Alexandrian Egyptians who lives in Battery Park City in NYC. The novel begins in the fall of 2000, when Marwa is a high school junior and almost concludes in 2005 in her college junior year as a Presidential Scholar at Fordham before a summer internship at a school in Mecca. Light-hearted in tone, substantial in content, this short novel presents an accessible portrait of the scientist as a young woman. The story nearly ends on Marwa’s 21st birthday, April 29, 2005, after the college junior has met with psychiatrist Dr. Rawi; has fallen in love with a Fordham Presidential Scholar, senior African-American James Beekmans; and has been arrested during protests at the Republican National Convention in NYC in the summer of ’04. Spring 2005 arrives after the coldest winter in 10 years, and Marwa unwraps a birthday gift James Beekmans can’t resist sending her, a new translation of DON QUIXOTE, inscribed without his signature, suggesting an enema but also expressing his affection. The CODA chapter takes place in 2015, Marwa in perspective ten years later when she is a researcher in NYC. She attends her younger brother’s college graduation in CA and another classmate’s wedding in upstate NY where, under August’s annual Perseid shower, she answers her best friend Judy’s question “What happened in Mecca?” As an expat New Yorker in Rhode Island, I needed to tell a story of my City over a time arc that would include but prevail beyond 9/11; a coming of age story of a Muslim-American girl who becomes a scientist evolved.

FIRST FIFTH OF THE 21ST

Right up through April, 2021, the stories in the collection FIRST FIFTH OF THE 21ST were accepted/published online/print in the first 20 years of the new century. The character Marwa reappears in four of them, and one [Denatural Selection] was published by the creator of Ploughshares who said it was “Borgesian’ – though I’d never read Borges. In other stories, an archeological artist on a dig at Akrotiri loses a tooth, a comedienne loses her wallet, but a hidden love letter to a major artist is found by her grandson. What Can the Matter Be? is the coda chapter to a third story published in The Kenyon Review. I placed the new How It Began last for depth perspective on the new, struggling century. We could all use at least two whiskey fingers of that FIRST FIFTH now.

POETRY

June – Gogol’s 1836 Nose accepted for Summer/Fall 2022 issue of Wordpeace  https://wordpeace.co/

May –  Well, She Was Just Seventeen in Issue 17 of Panoplyzine https://panoplyzine.com/well-she-was-just-seventeen-you-know-what-i-mean-2022-by-lois-bassen/  

April – Satan Had Always Been in Love With Eve appeared online [http://gyroscopereview.com page 28] and in print Gyroscope Review Spring 2022 https://www.amazon.com/Gyroscope-Review-Issue-22-2-Spring/dp/B09WHNJXZZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16U5LMWMQF704&keywords=gyroscope+review&qid=1648822136&s=books&sprefix=GYroscope+Review%2Cstripbooks%2C65&sr=1-1%C2%A0%20%C2%A0%20%C2%A0%20%C2%A0%20%C2%A0%20%C2%A0%20%C2%A0%20%C2%A0%20%C2%A0%20%C2%A0%20%C2%A0%C2%A0%20%C2%A0

February – Kinky Ink was reprinted by SWWIM EveryDay https://swwimmiami.substack.com/p/kinky-ink?r=bu2o1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwAR0z_4etcBnEHd8yx9gHS29SzDho6rKgcPhFyuDxk8LIsWOhCHaFliiuSxE

December, 2021 “September” on page 5 of beautiful black-covered print copy of DASH Special Edition 2021. Originally appeared in their 2011 Spring issue w/another poem.

September 2021 “Grisaille”accepted again this time by O:JA&L; Open: Journal of Arts & Letters. https://ojalart.com/poetry-all-forms-stylesl-shapley-bassengrisaille/?fbclid=IwAR15ogMLjvLi0QlsmkcUggEY2bvLvTigVBAvUd7GfzG99hXdDQu-Qfb5sLA

New Publication in the UK

Posted by lsbassen on June 10, 2021
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Hillary’s Classmate was published in the May/June 2021 issue of The Writers and Readers’ Magazine. Go to thewritersandreadersmagazine.com/ for details.

You can also order an issue through Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B096LWK95D/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_MMTF450QQ89X4B9WS81K

New fiction accepted and or/published

Posted by lsbassen on April 19, 2021
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Image courtesy of Mike Stanko

April 17th, 2021:
National Poetry Month Promopalooza – L. Shapley Bassen

April, 2021
The Writing Disorder will publish “Annual Rites” in summer 2021 issue. http://writingdisorder.com/l-shapley-bassen-fiction/

March, 2021
New Kansas journal; Choeofpleirn Press published How It Began, in premier journal, Coneflower Cafe. https://www.choeofpleirnpress.com/home
Print copy at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1073421
Also at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08YQMCHMY/?coliid=I1PX7OVEDJ9GB2&colid=1JOIZVEEOIEYD&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

New poetry published since last June 

March, 2021
A Host of Vermillion Poppies from SCENE & SAID by Whispering Prairie Press in Kansas for issue 16 of Kansas City Voices. http://www.wppress.org/kcv16-digital-available/

February, 2021 
Grisaille, 2020 – Physicists at the Beach – Past Life Experience — Salix Babylonica

Four Poems – L. Shapley Bassen

October, 2020
After the Race ‘Best of Kindness’ anthology –  Origami Poems Project
https://www.origamipoems.com/random-acts-of-poetry/origami-contest#after-the-race-l-shapley-bassen
Print copy: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Kindness-Origami-Poems-Project/dp/B08L9PNGVS   

Fortunate Waterfall

Posted by lsbassen on February 26, 2021
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Image courtesy of Mike Stanko

stanko-waterfall

 

PIF Magazine publishes my story “Losing Luster”

Posted by lsbassen on January 5, 2021
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Losing Luster, by L.Shapley Bassen
Published in Issue No. 284 ~ January, 2021

POETRY AND FICTION PUBLICATION UPDATE

Posted by lsbassen on September 24, 2020
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POETRY

June, 2020

“A Host of Vermillion Poppies” from SCENE & SAID by Whispering Prairie Press in Kansas for their next issue 16

“Brain Coral” and “Freckles 55th edition of Welter http://blogs.ubalt.edu/welter/contributors/ Print issue

May, 2020

“Entanglement” and “Ram Dass Is Ready to Die” https://oyedrum.com/were-tied-up-in-knots/

April, 2020 https://issuu.com/themuse_magazine/docs/supplementary_magazine_april_2020 “COVID-19”is the first one in this special issue, page 9

“Physicists at the Beach” https://www.amazon.com/Gyroscope-Review-Spring-poetry-around-ebook/dp/B08692TM4F/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2EA2121KNBYKI&dchild=1&keywords=gyroscope+review&qid=1594656947&sprefix=Gyroscope+Review%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-2

February, 2020

“Higg’s Moment” accepted by The Journal of Undiscovered Poets

November, 2019

“Gertrude’s Letter to Hamlet” is read/audio starting at 23:00 at https://www.patreon.com/posts/story-of-howl-31051538?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=postshare

FICTION 

September, 2020

“The Night Before the Snow Day” will appear in Lunch Ticket Amuse-Bouche. https://lunchticket.org/

June, 2020

“The Rains Down in Africa” https://persimmontree.org/summer-2020/the-rains-down-in-africa/

May, 2020

“A World of Mirrors” [Chi Wing, short]. https://oyedrum.com/?s=Bassen

April, 2020

“St. Anthony, St. Jude, and Deborah Walk into a Bar…” was a contest runner up & appeared at https://jerryjazzmusician.com/2020/04/st-anthony-st-jude-deborah-walk-into-a-bar-a-short-story-by-l-shapley-bassen/

“The Dead Are Always With Us” https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/the-dead-are-always-with-us

March, 2020

“Roger Williams Is an Anthem” in Fiction Friday at

https://manquemagazine.com/2020/03/27/fiction-friday-roger-williams-is-an-anthem/

News!

Posted by lsbassen on February 4, 2020
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I have a new story in the February 2020 issue of thewritersandreadersmagazine.com:

Cabochons, starts on page 94, right hand side .. continues through 98 — last story in the magazine!

You can read the story at:
thewritersmagazine.readmag.online/read/28669/full?page=94
Print is available, payment in pounds.

Denatural Selection from Woven Tale Press, as promised, is online and available for order.

Here is link to the online version – starts at page 43: online.flipbuilder.com/eovs/elkg/
And here’s the print: www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1734033?__r=590004

WHAT SUITS A NUDIST is published!

Posted by lsbassen on June 20, 2019
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whatsuitsanudist

My first poetry collection titled WHAT SUITS A NUDIST is published!

Here is a description from the Clare Songbirds Publishing House:

“To read Lois Bassen’s poetry is to be led by a priestess into a place that is part laboratory, part seraglio, part garden, part observatory and part weapons forge. This learned lady with the nicely turned ankle will show you her intricate and ingenious machines, that contain a bronze and amethyst bird that will sing on the hour. Mistress of metamorphosis, blue-stocking, dangerous mother and wry comedian, she’ll carry you off if you’re not careful.”

~Frederick Turner, Founders Professor, School of Arts & Humanities, UT Dallas

You can order the book by following this link:

www.claresongbirdspub.com/featured-authors/l-shapley-bassen/

Other News:

9/15/19 “Finding Factors of Very Large Prime Numbers” accepted by thricefiction.com and will in late December or early January in 2020.
9/9/19 “Resistance to Decoherence” was accepted by Berlin’s www.thewildword.com
8/30/19 Woven Tale Press accepted “Denatural Selection”. This is especially nice because the fiction editor was a creator of the Ploughshares magazine.

3 pieces of poetry news beyond the book/collection:
9/19/19 “Poet’s Tachycardia” will appear in the British 12/15/2019 Issue 40 of The Blue Nib https://thebluenib.com/
9/13/19 “Ebbtide” was accepted by Gyroscope Review http://gyroscopereview.com
Press nominated “Where the Well Was – 2017” for the 2019 Best of Net http://bit.ly/2k9PElm

 

My short story Thaw was chosen to appear in the 10th anniversary issue of the Westchester Review.

The issue is available through Amazon

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