Congratulations to Lance Larsen (Erasable Walls, New Issues, 1998). His poem "Why do you keep putting animals in your poems?" appeared in Best American Poetry 2009, as did John Rybicki's (Traveling at High Speeds, New Issues, 1996) "This Tape Measure Made of Light," which originally appeared in WMU's Third Coast. Friend of New Issues, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, also had her poem included: "Pickled Heads: St. Petersburg"
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Best American Poetry 2009
Congratulations to Lance Larsen (Erasable Walls, New Issues, 1998). His poem "Why do you keep putting animals in your poems?" appeared in Best American Poetry 2009, as did John Rybicki's (Traveling at High Speeds, New Issues, 1996) "This Tape Measure Made of Light," which originally appeared in WMU's Third Coast. Friend of New Issues, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, also had her poem included: "Pickled Heads: St. Petersburg"
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Green Rose Prize: Sept 30th Deadline
Reminder: The September 30th deadline is a postmark deadline. Please has submissions in the mail to us by Sept. 30th. New & Selected manuscripts are eligible for the award.
Guidelines:
*Eligibility: Poets writing in English who have already published one or more full-length collections of poetry. We will consider individual collections and volumes of new and selected poems. Besides the winner, New Issues may publish as many as three additional manuscripts from this competition.
*Please include a $20 reading fee. Checks should be made payable to New Issues Press.
*Postmark Deadline: September 30, 2009. The winning manuscript will be named in January 2010 and published in the spring of 2011.
Visit our website for complete guidelines.
Guidelines:
*Eligibility: Poets writing in English who have already published one or more full-length collections of poetry. We will consider individual collections and volumes of new and selected poems. Besides the winner, New Issues may publish as many as three additional manuscripts from this competition.
*Please include a $20 reading fee. Checks should be made payable to New Issues Press.
*Postmark Deadline: September 30, 2009. The winning manuscript will be named in January 2010 and published in the spring of 2011.
Visit our website for complete guidelines.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Jericho Brown's PLEASE Wins American Book Award
The Before Columbus Foundation is pleased to announce that Please by Jericho Brown has been selected as a winner of the thirtieth annual American Book Awards for 2009. Other winning poetry collection for 2009 include Linda Gregg's All of It Singing and Jack Spicer's My Vocabulary Did This to Me.
The authors will be presented with the awards at a ceremony and reception on Sunday, October 11th, 7:30, at the Nuyorican Poets Café, 236 East 3rd St., New York, NY. Authors attending will read selections from their works and a reception will follow the ceremony. This event is open to the public. For more information, call (510) 642-7321.
The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America's diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers. The award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There are no quotas for diversity, the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term "multicultural" to be not a description of various categories, groups, or "special interests," but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization, but rather are a writers' award given by other writers.
Please, released in 2008, recently sold through its second printing. A third printing is underway and books will be available again in early October.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
John Gallaher, Wayne Miller and Michael Robins at the KBAC
"Poets in Print" Reading Series at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center
Saturday, Sept. 12, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Poets John Gallaher, Wayne Miller and Michael Robins present readings from their work on Saturday, September 12. Broadsides featuring the poets and other works will be available during the event for sale and signing.
John Gallaher is the author of the books of poetry, Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001), The Little Book of Guesses, winner of the Levis Poetry Prize, from Four Way Books, and Map of the Folded World, from The University of Akron Press, as well as the free online chapbook, Guidebook from Blue Hour Press. He is co-editor of The Laurel Review and GreenTower Press, and recent poems appear in Best American Poetry 2008, Denver Quarterly, Crazyhorse, Field, and The New England Review. Currently he's working on a co-authored manuscript with the poet G.C. Waldrep, titled Your Father on the Train of Ghosts.
Wayne Miller is the author of two poetry collections: The Book of Props (Milkweed, 2009) and Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006), and his chapbook, O City, is forthcoming from Cinematheque Press. He is also co-editor of the anthology New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008) and translator of Moikom Zeqo's I Don't Believe in Ghosts (BOA, 2007). The recipient of six Poetry Society of America awards, Wayne lives in Kansas City and teaches at the University of Central Missouri, where he serves as Editor of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing.
Michael Robins is the author of The Next Settlement (UNT Press, 2007), which was selected for the Vassar Miller Prize. He is a contributing editor at Born Magazine and his work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Crazyhorse, A Handsome Journal, Ploughshares and The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry (Rose Metal Press, 2010). Born in Portland, Oregon, he holds degrees from the University of Oregon and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Three new KBAC broadsides featuring work by each poet are being created by KBAC artists Jeff Abshear, Michael Dunn and Katie Platte. These will be introduced at the reading and for sale.
This event is free and refreshments are served. Doors open at 6:30
Saturday, Sept. 12, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Poets John Gallaher, Wayne Miller and Michael Robins present readings from their work on Saturday, September 12. Broadsides featuring the poets and other works will be available during the event for sale and signing.
John Gallaher is the author of the books of poetry, Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001), The Little Book of Guesses, winner of the Levis Poetry Prize, from Four Way Books, and Map of the Folded World, from The University of Akron Press, as well as the free online chapbook, Guidebook from Blue Hour Press. He is co-editor of The Laurel Review and GreenTower Press, and recent poems appear in Best American Poetry 2008, Denver Quarterly, Crazyhorse, Field, and The New England Review. Currently he's working on a co-authored manuscript with the poet G.C. Waldrep, titled Your Father on the Train of Ghosts.
Wayne Miller is the author of two poetry collections: The Book of Props (Milkweed, 2009) and Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006), and his chapbook, O City, is forthcoming from Cinematheque Press. He is also co-editor of the anthology New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008) and translator of Moikom Zeqo's I Don't Believe in Ghosts (BOA, 2007). The recipient of six Poetry Society of America awards, Wayne lives in Kansas City and teaches at the University of Central Missouri, where he serves as Editor of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing.
Michael Robins is the author of The Next Settlement (UNT Press, 2007), which was selected for the Vassar Miller Prize. He is a contributing editor at Born Magazine and his work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Crazyhorse, A Handsome Journal, Ploughshares and The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry (Rose Metal Press, 2010). Born in Portland, Oregon, he holds degrees from the University of Oregon and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Three new KBAC broadsides featuring work by each poet are being created by KBAC artists Jeff Abshear, Michael Dunn and Katie Platte. These will be introduced at the reading and for sale.
This event is free and refreshments are served. Doors open at 6:30
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Justin Marks NYC Readings
Thursday, September 10th, at 7 p.m. for the 7th Season Kickoff of d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press. ACA Galleries, 529 W. 20th St., 5th Floor, NYC. Readings from Mary Walker Graham, Justin Marks, Kate Schapira, Kim Gek Lin Short, Sampson Starkweather, and Chris Tonelli. Music from Erik Schoster of He Can Jog.
Saturday, September 12th, at 2 p.m.
Readings from Tao Lin & Justin Marks
The Grand Central Branch of the New York Public Library: 135 East 46th Street, in the community/program room, which is on the upper level. Elevator available. Phone: (212) 621-0670. blog: grandcentralpoets.blogspot.com
Sunday, September 13th, at 7:45 p.m. at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, 600 Vanderbilt Ave. (between Dean St & St Marks Ave)
Saturday, September 12th, at 2 p.m.
Readings from Tao Lin & Justin Marks
The Grand Central Branch of the New York Public Library: 135 East 46th Street, in the community/program room, which is on the upper level. Elevator available. Phone: (212) 621-0670. blog: grandcentralpoets.blogspot.com
Sunday, September 13th, at 7:45 p.m. at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, 600 Vanderbilt Ave. (between Dean St & St Marks Ave)
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Accepting Submissions: The 2010 Green Rose Prize
New Issues is now taking submissions for the 2010 Green Rose Prize, an award given to a manuscript by a poet who has already published at least one previous collection of poetry (first books should be sent to the New Issues Poetry Prize). The contest is judged by the editors of the press, who often choose additional manuscripts to publish.
Previous winners of the Green Rose Prize include Malinda Markham, Patty Seyburn, Jon Pineda, Noah Eli Gordon, Joan Houlihan, Hugh Seidman, and Christine Hume.
Guidelines:
*Eligibility: Poets writing in English who have already published one or more full-length collections of poetry. We will consider individual collections and volumes of new and selected poems. Besides the winner, New Issues may publish as many as three additional manuscripts from this competition.
*Please include a $20 reading fee. Checks should be made payable to New Issues Press.
*Postmark Deadline: September 30, 2009. The winning manuscript will be named in January 2010 and published in the spring of 2011.
Visit our website for complete guidelines.
Previous winners of the Green Rose Prize include Malinda Markham, Patty Seyburn, Jon Pineda, Noah Eli Gordon, Joan Houlihan, Hugh Seidman, and Christine Hume.
Guidelines:
*Eligibility: Poets writing in English who have already published one or more full-length collections of poetry. We will consider individual collections and volumes of new and selected poems. Besides the winner, New Issues may publish as many as three additional manuscripts from this competition.
*Please include a $20 reading fee. Checks should be made payable to New Issues Press.
*Postmark Deadline: September 30, 2009. The winning manuscript will be named in January 2010 and published in the spring of 2011.
Visit our website for complete guidelines.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
New Issues Fundraiser a Success
New Issues would like to thank everyone involved in making our Summer's End Celebration and Gala Fundraiser a huge success. Whiskey Before Breakfast was a musical hit. Diane Seuss, Jamie D'Agostino, Heather Sellers, David Dodd Lee and John Rybicki gave great readings. Even the weather cooperated: after a week of cold and rainy weather the sky cleared and the sun shone. Bonnie Jo Campbell and crew led the art auction with panache and the bidding was heated. The lucky winners went home with gorgeous pieces of art.
A final shout out to Bell's Eccentric Cafe. Without their fantastic space this event would not have been the same.
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