New Issues Poetry & Prose

Frostic Reading, Thursday February 2nd

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January 2012

About Us

New Issues

Poetry & Prose

was established in 1996 by poet Herbert S. Scott.

Congratulations,
Khaled Mattawa!

Tocqueville

winner of

The Poetry Center

Book Award

The Arab American Book Award

Academy of American Poets

Fellowship

Spring 2012

the body | of space| in the shape of the human

Andrew Allport

The Radio Tree

Corey Marks

Two-Headed Nightingale

Shara Lessley

Fall 2012

The Right Place to Jump
by
Peter Covino

The Frame Called Ruin
by
Hadara Bar-Nadav

A Penance
by
CJ Evans

We would be honored if you would join us for the Gwen Frostic Reading Series. The first reading of the series features novelist Kevin Fenton and poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths. It will be held Thursday, February 2nd at 8:00 p.m. in WMU's Bernhard Center, rooms 157 & 159.

This reading series usually draws a large crowd, so we encourage you to arrive early. The reading is free, and last approximately 45 minutes. Books will be available to purchase, and the authors will be happy to sign their works.

Hope you can join us!

Kevin Fenton's first novel, Merit Badges (New Issues), won the AWP Prize for the Novel. Publishers Weekly writes, "An impressive vitality, droll wit, and affecting nostalgia lift Fenton's first novel." His fiction has appeared in the Northwest Review, the Laurel Review, and the Emprise Review. His writing on graphic design has been anthologized in Looking Closer 2 and Emigre No. 70: The Look Back Issue. He holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota and works as an advertising writer and creative director.

www.meritbadgesthenovel.com

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is the author of Mule & Pear (New Issues), Miracle Arrhythmia (Willow Books) and The Requited Distance (Sheep Meadow Press).

Reviewer Roxane Gay (The Rumpus) writes, "Griffiths tackled sex(uality), slavery, the strength of women, the mark of history, and the power of language, in fierce poems that were so memorable I return to them over and over."

A Cave Canem Fellow, she is the recipient of fellowships from Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Vermont Studio Center, New York State Summer Writers Institute, the Cave Canem Foundation and others. A photographer and painter, her visual work has been published widely in both national and international magazines and journals. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York.

www.rachelelizagriffiths.com

February Art Hop at Fire, featuring
Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Mule & Pear

Griffiths will also read her poetry on Friday, February 3rd at Fire Historical and Cultural Arts Collaborative, 1249 Portage Rd., where her artwork will be on display as part of Kalamazoo's February Art Hop.

www.thisisfire.com

Our titles are available online through Amazon.com
and spdbooks.org.

2012 Green Rose Prize

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January 2012

About Us

New Issues was established in 1996 by poet Herbert S. Scott.

Spring 2012

the body | of space| in the shape of the human

Andrew Allport

The Radio Tree

Corey Marks

Two-Headed Nightingale

Shara Lessley

Fall 2012

The Right Place to Jump
by
Peter Covino

The Frame Called Ruin
by
Hadara Bar-Nadav

A Penance
by
CJ Evans

Dear Friends,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2012 Green Rose Prize: Jaswinder Bolina for his manuscript Phantom Camera. Bolina wins a $2,000 award and publication of his manuscript in the spring of 2013.

Jaswinder Bolina

Jaswinder Bolina is the author of Carrier Wave, winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry. His recent work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Columbia Poetry Review, the Offending Adam, and in the Best American Poetry 2011. He currently lives and teaches in Athens, Ohio, as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at Ohio University.

Also accepted for publication:

Slip by Cullen Bailey Burns

to appear in the fall of 2013

The Green Rose Prize is awarded to an author who has previously published at least one full-length book of poems. Winners are chosen by the editors of New Issues Press. Guidelines are available on our website.

Green Rose Prize in Poetry

2011: Corey Marks

The Radio Tree

2010: Seth Abramson

Northerners

2009: Malinda Markham

Having Cut the Sparrow's Heart

2008: Patty Seyburn

Hilarity

2007: Jon Pineda

The Translator's Diary

2006: Noah Eli Gordon

A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow

2005: Joan Houlihan

The Mending Worm

2004: Hugh Seidman

Somebody Stand Up and Sing

2003: Christine Hume

Alaskaphrenia

Gretchen Mattox

Buddha Box

2002: Christopher Bursk

Ovid at Fifteen

2001: Ruth Ellen Kocher

When the Moon Knows You're Wandering

2000: Martha Rhodes

Perfect Disappearance

Now available to order:

Flea Circus

"Keifetz's (Flea Circus) simply dazzles. The novel takes the reader to the dark place where reason and love collide and collapse under the oppressive weight of loss. A tour de force."

--Kirkus Reviews, November 11, 2011

"VERDICT The experience of Keifetz's second novel (after Corrido) is less like reading a book than having a frighteningly intimate conversation over coffee. A must for fans of literary fiction."

--Library Journal, November 15, 2011

Our titles are available online through Amazon.com and spdbooks.org.

AWP 2012

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New Issues Poetry & Prose

November 2011

Fall releases from New Issues by Susanna Childress, Lizzie Hutton, and Rachel Eliza Griffiths are now available.

About Us

New Issues was established in 1996 by poet Herbert S. Scott.

Spring 2012

the body | of space| in the shape of the human

Andrew Allport

The Radio Tree

Corey Marks

Two-Headed Nightingale

Shara Lessley

Dear Friends,

Will you be at AWP? The annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference will be in Chicago, February 29-March 3, 2012. If you plan on attending, please let us know! We'll keep you informed of any off-site readings that may take place, and if you've published with New Issues we'd love to schedule a time for you to sign books at our booth. For your signing to be listed in the conference brochure, please contact me immediately.

Sincerely,

Kimberly Kolbe
New Issues Poetry & Prose

We Agreed to Meet Just Here

Congratulations, Scott Blackwood!

From The Austin Chronicle:

Scott Blackwood Wins Whiting Writer's Award

By Kimberley Jones, 4:00PM, Tue. Nov. 1

"We loved Scott Blackwood's 2009 novel We Agreed to Meet Just Here ... and we weren't the only ones. Last week, Blackwood received a $50,000 Whiting Writers' Award, given annually to emerging writers. The Whiting Selection Committee singled Blackwood's novel out for "its marvelous compression, and the elegiac, ominous yearning, the fugue of loss and love and death that pervades the book." The former Austinite received his MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State; he now directs the Creative Writing Program at Chicago's Roosevelt University. Blackwood was one of four fiction writers recognized by the foundation this year; ten writers from fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and playwriting are recognized annually for their "exceptional talent and promise." Previous recipients include Denis Johnson, David Foster Wallace, Deborah Eisenberg and Padgett Powell - not too shabby company to be keeping."

From www.whitingfoundation.org

Whiting Writers' Awards are "awarded annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. Since 1985, the Foundation has supported creative writing through the Whiting Writers Awards which are given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The awards, of $50,000 each, are based on accomplishment and promise. Candidates are proposed by nominators from across the country whose experience and vocations bring them in contact with individuals of extraordinary talent. Winners are chosen by a selection committee, a small group of recognized writers, literary scholars, and editors, appointed annually by the Foundation."

http://www.whitingfoundation.org/search/writers/scott_blackwood

Coming Soon...

Flea Circus

Mandy Keifetz's Flea Circus

will be released in January 2012. Look for a review in the upcoming issue of Library Journal.

Pascal's Wager and performing fleas. The Haunted Mansion of Long Branch and an old dockside bar. Raceway Park and a pristine 1971 Plymouth Road Runner. A cat named Altamont. These are all that stand between a young mathematician and madness as she attempts to make sense of her lover's suicide. Narrow margins, you say? Not much to place between a slip of a broken-hearted Jersey Girl and the Abyss? Indeed, it is a treacherous twelve seconds on the quarter mile, hilarious and harrowing by turn. Blink and you'll miss it.

Our titles are available online through Amazon.com and spdbooks.org.

Reading Tonight

2011-11-12T11:35:00.001-08:00

Seth Abramson & Matthew Guenette

Kalamazoo Book Arts Center

Poets in Print: Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, 7-9 p.m.
Broadside artists: Elizabeth King and a collaboration between Alta Price and Jonah Koppel

Join us for the Poets in Print reading featuring Seth Abramson and Matthew Guenette. Readings are free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 with time to browse current exhibitions, the broadsides and books by the poets available for purchase and signing.

Seth Abramson is the author of two collections of poetry, Northerners, winner of the 2010 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Poetry & Prose, and The Suburban Ecstasies (Ghost Road Press, 2009). He is also the co-author of the forthcoming third edition of The Creative Writing MFA Handbook (Continuum, 2012). In 2008 he was awarded the J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize for Poetry, and his poems have appeared in such magazines and anthologies as Best New Poets 2008, American Poetry Review, New American Writing, Boston Review, Colorado Review, and New York Quarterly. A regular contributor to Poets & Writers magazine and The Huffington Post, he is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently a doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Matthew Guenette is the author of Sudden Anthem, winner of the 2007 American Poetry Journal Book Prize from Dream Horse Press. His latest book, American Busboy, a Finalist and Editor’s Choice of the 2010 University of Akron Press Poetry Prize, will be published in 2011. His work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Barn Owl Review, DIAGRAM, Cream City Review, The Greensboro Review, Indiana Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Southern Indiana Review, and other publications. He is an English instructor at Madison College in Madison, Wisconsin.

Kalamazoo Book Arts Center

326 W. Kalamazoo Avenue, Suite 103A

Kalamazoo, MI

First Book Submissions

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We are currently accepting submissions for our First Book Prize. This year's judge is Jean Valentine:

Jean Valentine won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965. Her eleventh book of poetry is Break the Glass, just out from Copper Canyon Press. Her previous collection, Little Boat was published by Wesleyan in 2007. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965–2003 was the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry. The recipient of the 2009 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, Valentine has taught at Sarah Lawrence, New York University, and Columbia.

Submissions may be sent to:

New Issues Poetry Prize

New Issues Poetry & Prose

Western Michigan University

1903 W. Michigan Ave.

Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5463

Entries can also be uploaded to submishmash:

http://newissuespoetryprose.submishmash.com/submit.

Fall 2011

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New Issues Poetry & Prose

FALL 2011

Fall releases from New Issues by Susanna Childress, Lizzie Hutton, and Rachel Eliza Griffiths are now available for pre-order.

About Us

New Issues was established in 1996 by poet Herbert S. Scott.

Winner of the 2011 New Issues Poetry Prize

Dear Friends,

Thank you so much for making our anniversary a success! We had a wonderful time, and enjoyed a sampling of Susanna Childress' and Lizzie Hutton's new works, which will be available very soon.

Here's a preview of our third fall release, Rachel Eliza Griffiths' Mule & Pear:

Mule & Pear, New Poems by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Sincerely,

Kimberly Kolbe
New Issues Poetry & Prose

Here's a poet whose intelligence and imagination value truth above any of its enemies: comfort, decoration, lovely music, the blurring of the line between the personal and the human. The poems feel emotionally and intellectually spontaneous, as if we were present at their coming-into-being, a genuine writer-reader intimacy that's hard to achieve at any stage, let alone in a first book. The poems about childhood and adolescence are among the most powerful I've ever read. Tough, sexy, probing, tender, devoid of sentimentality, fiercely intelligent, and always a step ahead of the reader, She'd Waited Millennia is an important debut. --Chase Twichell

Susanna Childress writes at the cutting edge of the long tradition of love poetry. Her poems often involve tense negotiations between a sharp cultural intelligence and a body that craves its fulfillment. She writes with grace about love and lust, and she unfailingly delivers rhythmic and linguistic pleasures to her lucky readers as they follow the course of these inquisitive, unpredictable poems. --Billy Collins

Smart, nuanced, lush in their beauty, yetnever unaware of beauty's price, the poems in Mule & Pear meditate on what to do with the ghosts of history by which, as if inevitably, we find ourselves now shaped, now cornered, and now inhabited-each of us, then, an unwitting vessel made to carry the past forward. Griffiths is a master at capturing persona, and uses that gift, especially, to consider the notion of heritage-how much is inherited, how much is imposed? How much of what we believe is what we're told is true? The ambition of these poems dazzles, as does indeed their

achievement.--Carl Phillips

Our titles are available online through Amazon.com and spdbooks.org.

New Issues Event Sunday, August 28

2011-08-24T10:03:00.000-07:00

New Issues Poetry & Prose

SUMMER 2011

In This Issue

About Us

2011 New Issues Poetry Prize

Book of the Year Award

About Us

New Issues was established in 1996 by poet Herbert S. Scott.

Winner of the 2011 New Issues Poetry Prize

Dear Friends,

Can you believe it's been 15 years? By the end of this year New Issues will have published 135 books, and we couldn't have done it without you. Come celebrate this anniversary, and help us show appreciation for all of the hard work and dedication put forth by our departing Managing Editor, Marianne Swierenga.

The event will take place at Bell's Brewery, 355 E. Kalamazoo Ave. on Sunday, August 28 from 2:30 pm-5:00pm. We'll feature readings by novelists Jaimy Gordon & Bonnie Jo Campbell, and poets Susanna Childress & Lizzie Hutton. A $5.00 donation will be requested; as a non-profit we greatly appreciate your generosity!

Sincerely,

Kimberly Kolbe
New Issues Poetry & Prose

Fall releases from New Issues by Susanna Childress andLizzie Hutton will be available for pre-order.

Translation by Jaimy Gordon

It's not just a dog's life-it's a pig-cow-rat's life. In this deftly executed allegorical novel, Beig (Lost Weddings) gives an episodic, animal-centered account of the life of a young woman in rural Germany between the two world wars. Brief chapters-"Horse," "Cat," "Pig," etc.-recount the protagonist's less-than-idyllic encounters with the natural world. At birth, Hermine resembles a mutant horse; at school, she finds herself unable to write the assigned essay "Hurray, We're Slaughtering!" As a young teacher, she inadvertently causes the injury of a pupil during a spirited game based on a bear hunt, and she maims a badger with her motorbike. Disowned by her family for killing their pet goose, she is even scolded by her husband: "No one can have an animal with you around." Granted, "some days Hermine liked well enough," but most days she loses her battle with the bestiary. . . .This earthy, unsentimental novel is the perfect holiday gift for nihilists with a sense of humor. --Publisher's Weekly

It would be too bad if, because of Campbell's realistic style and ferocious attention to her setting, "Once Upon a River" were discounted as merely a fine example of American regionalism. It is, rather, an excellent American parable about the consequences of our favorite ideal, freedom. --Jane Smiley, The New York Times

Our titles are available online through Amazon.com and spdbooks.org.

New Issues Poets and Staff Win Awards

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Congratulations to these New Issues poets on awards for their new works:

Diane Seuss, Cultural Center of Cape Code Poetry Competition
Katie Peterson, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant
Heather Sellers, Friends of American Writers Literary Award
Goldie Goldbloom, Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
AND ForeWord Review's Gold Medal in Literary Fiction
Paul Guest, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Jennifer Perrine, University of Utah Press' Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry

And:

Congrats to New Issues' staffers, Natalie Giarratano & Jonathan Rice for their inclusion in Best New Poets!
http://bestnewpoets.blogspot.com/2011/08/best-new-poets-2011-final-fifty.html

2011-07-29T10:23:00.000-07:00

Last year's event was a success thanks to your support!

Dear colleagues:

I'm happy to announce that New Issues Press will hold its third fundraiser/ party at Bell's Brewery August 28, 2:30-5. We will be celebrating the 15th anniversary of the press. We'll also be showing our gratitude to Marianne Swierenga, who has stepped down as Managing Editor. Readers will include upcoming New Issues authors Susanna Childress and Lizzie Hutton, with special guest Jaimy Gordon. The reading will last 45-50 minutes.

Please mark the date of this auspicious occasion! We look forward to seeing you and bringing in the new school year with good cheer and good writing.

All best,
Bill Olsen

Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders Wins Gold

2011-07-01T12:41:00.000-07:00

Goldie Goldbloom's novel Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders (New Issues, 2010) has won the gold from ForeWord Reviews.

Winners of the Book of the Year Award from ForeWord Reviews represent the best independently published books from 2010 and were selected by a panel of librarian and bookseller judges.

Book of the Year 2010 Winners in Fiction - Literary Category

* Gold: Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders by Goldie Goldbloom
* Silver: Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
* Bronze: John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel by Kenneth Womack
* Honorable Mention: Journey to Virginland: Epistle I by Armen Melikian

Tocqueville wins Arab American Book Award

2011-06-08T14:40:00.000-07:00

Khaled Mattawa's Tocqueville (New Issues, 2010) has been awarded the 2011 Arab American Book Award in the poetry category. The award is administered by the Arab American National Museum.

This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Editions) by Farid Matuk received an an honorable mention.

Established in 2006 by the Arab American National Museum, the Arab American Book Award honors significant literature by and about Arab Americans. It is the only literary competition of its type in the U.S.

Winner of the 2011 New Issues Poetry Prize

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Andrew Allport has won the 2011 New Issues Poetry Prize for his manuscript the body | of space | in the shape of the human. David Wojahn, author of World Tree, judged.

Andrew wins a $2,000 award and publication of his manuscript in the spring of 2012.

Andrew Allport holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California, where he completed a dissertation examining the poetics and politics of the fragment form in nineteenth-century British poetry. His reviews, poems, and essays appear or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of a chapbook, The Ice Ship & Other Vessels, available from Proem Press. He lives in Los Angeles with his family and ghosts.

"Andrew Allport’s debut collection is at once intensely personal and urgently civic. It is brilliantly studied in its lyricality and yet, somehow, almost feral in its sustained ferocity. The tonal confidence, elegiac feeling, and belief in the sustaining (if not the transcendent) properties of the lyric make this collection reminiscent of some of the essential first books of the late century—I’m reminded of Dugan’s Poems, Heaney’s Death of a Naturalist, and Lowell’s Lord Weary’s Castle. This is august company indeed." —David Wojahn, from the Judge’s Citation

Shara Lessley’s Two-Headed Nightingale and CJ Evans’s A Penance will also be published in 2012.

Shara Lessley is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. She other awards include the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship from Colgate University. She currently lives in Amman, Jordan.

CJ Evans is the author of the chapbook The Category of Outcast, selected by Terrance Hayes for the Poetry Society of America's chapbook series. He is the managing editor at Two Lines: World Writing in Translation.

The New Issues Poetry Prize is selected by a guest judge. Thank you to David Wojahn for judging our 2011 contest. The 2012 prize will be selected by Jean Valentine, author of Break the Glass. Guidelines for the 2012 prize are available on our website.

New Books: Journal of American Foreign Policy by Jeff Hoffman

2011-05-23T12:59:00.000-07:00

Journal of American Foreign Policy

$15.00 paper
ISBN: 978-1-930974-97-5
Available Now!
Buy: Amazon.com | spdbooks.org

Winner of the 2010 New Issues Poetry Prize
Selected by Linda Gregerson

"The way memory and grief and love compose the stories that enable us to go on living. The toxic mix of innocence and inadvertence, wishfulness and making-do that comes to look like purpose. Which on the scale of nations we call ‘policy.’ These brilliant poems have leverage on it all: micro- and macro- and the sorry, human mess we too often make of both. They also have so masterful a way with idiom and timing that even the sternest insight is leavened with a measure of joy. Tonic intelligence, exhilarating craftsmanship: Jeff Hoffman’s fine first book is a gift to us all."—Linda Gregerson, from the Judge’s Citation

Jeff Hoffman grew up in western Pennsylvania and was educated at the University of New Hampshire, the University of Texas (where he was a Michener fellow at the Michener Center for Writers), and at Stanford University (where he was a Stegner Fellow in poetry). He has also been a Chesterfield screenwriting fellow with Paramount Pictures. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Spinning Jenny, and elsewhere. His short plays have been performed throughout the United States and can be found in anthologies that are available from Vintage and Samuel French. He currently lives in Pasadena, CA.

More links:

www.wmich.edu/newissues/titles/hoffman-journal.html
"Handshake Histories" on Poem Flow from Poets.org

New Books: Northerners by Seth Abramson

2011-05-23T12:41:00.000-07:00

Northerners

$15.00 paper
ISBN: 978-1-930974-96-8
Available Now!
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Winner of the 2010 Green Rose Prize

Seth Abramson is the author of The Suburban Ecstasies (Ghost Road Press, 2009), and a contributing author to The Creative Writing MFA Handbook (Continuum, 2008). He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and is currently a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"... serious and ambitious, full of torqued proverbs and hard-to-follow advice, Abramson's own work shows a poet uncommonly interested in general statements, in hard questions, and harder answers, about how to live ..." - Publisher's Weekly

"To reckon the currents of muscular energy in Seth Abramson's Northerners is to recognize that poetry may be located in language’s minute particulars and in the local but it penetrates every thought, every atom of one’s daily life." - Peter Gizzi

Elaine Sexton 2011 Readings

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Elaine Sexton, author of Causeway and Sleuth, will be giving the following readings:

May 23, 2011, 1:00
Bach at One
St. Paul's Chapel
Broadway & Fulton Streets
New York, NY

June 26, 2011, 4:30
Elaine Sexton & Eric McHugh
Hudson Valley Writers Center
Sleepy Hollow, NY

September 11th, 7pm
Erika's Salon
Williamsburgh, NY

Oct. 17, 2011
Jennifer Barber, Elaine Sexton & Ron Slate
U. Mass/Boston Bookstore
Boston, MA

New Books: Undone by Maxine Scates

2011-05-17T14:24:00.000-07:00

Undone

Undone
by Maxine Scates

$15.00 paper
ISBN: 978-1-930974-99-9
Available Now
Amazon.com | spdbooks.org

"By brave and honest recognition, coupled with a deft ability to glide between realms of perception tripped open by memory and emotion, Maxine Scates reconstructs a life undone by the brokenness of family, friends, and self. Nuanced, mysterious, intimate. Beautiful poems."
—Dorianne Laux

Maxine Scates is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Toluca Street and Black Loam. She is coeditor, with David Trinidad, of Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Readings by Maxine Scates:

Maxine Scates will be reading with Dorianne Laux at Tsunami Books (2585 Willamette St., Eugene, OR) on Wednesday, June 29, from 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. For more information call (541) 345-8986.

June 15th, 8 p.m. with Martha Silano at Mountain Writers at the Press Club in Portland, OR
www.mountainwriters.org/events/documents/ScatesSilano.pdf

July 10, workshop from 11-1:30 and reading at 2 p.m. at the Bend Public Library Second Sunday Series in Bend, OR

New Books: The Memory of Water by Jack Myers

2011-04-25T08:21:00.001-07:00

The Memory of Water
by Jack Myers

Foreword by Mark Cox
$15.00 paper
ISBN: 978-1-930974-98-2
Publication Date: April 2011
Buy: Amazon.com | spdbooks.org

The career of Jack Myers (1941-2009) spanned five decades, during which time he authored/edited nineteen books of and about poetry.

"What a wonderful gift to have these last poems by Jack Myers. It is a book I wouldn’t be without. Jack was a quintessentially American poet. He wrote in a distilled American idiom with a wiseguy humor that is truly wise. He honored the past, and the future, too, but knew a poet's work was to strive for the elusive eternal present. Poetry, for Jack, is the art of the elusive, which is where mystery resides. Poetry, for Jack, was making up his prayer. He knew he might never arrive at some all-explaining religion, but, damn, he had a beautiful prayer." —Stuart Dybek

May Day LAUNCH PARTY for Jack Myers's final (and finest) collection of poems The Memory of Water. Poems will be read by family, friends, colleagues, students, and admirers of his work.
May 1, 1-2:30 p.m. at The Writer's Garret
Upstairs at Paperbacks Plus
6115 La Vista Drive, Dallas, TX 75214

Now in Paperback: Merit Badges

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Merit Badges
by Kevin Fenton

AWP Award Series in the Novel
Judge: Jim Shepard

Follow four friends as they move from The Brady Bunch to Seinfeld, from junior high to middle management. There is Quint, whose rebellion frays into self-destruction; Slow, who struggles to become the world's first teenage father figure; Chimes, who fears losing his friends while picking up a 7-10 split; and Barb who escapes the conformity of Minnisapa only to find herself returning by dark of night. You will feel as if you've always lived in Minnisapa, Minnesota. And you will never underestimate nice kids from the Midwest again.

"An impressive vitality, droll wit, and affecting nostalgia lift Fenton's first novel about four high school pals growing up together during the 1970s in the fictional town of Minnisapa, Minn. . . . Eminently readable prose . . ."—Publisher's Weekly

$15.00 paper | 233 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-936970-03-2
Available April 2011
Buy: Amazon.com | spdbooks.org

Also visit:
Merit Badges @ New Issues
www.meritbadgesthenovel.com
Merit Badges the Novel | Facebook Group

KBAC Poets in Print: Nick Demske and Anne Shaw

2011-04-15T05:59:00.000-07:00

On April 16, 2011, 7 to 9 p.m. Nick Demske and Anne Shaw present readings from their work on Saturday, April 16. Broadsides featuring their work created by artists Lauren Scharfenberg and RobE will be for sale and signing along with other works by the poets. This reading is free and open to the public. Refreshments are served. Doors open at 6:30. The reading begins at 7 p.m.

Nick Demske lives in Racine, Wisconsin, and works there at the Racine Public Library. He was awarded the 2010 Fence Modern Poets Series prize for a self-titled manuscript that will be published in November of 2010. His work has appeared in Conduit, Sawbuck, Moria, Pinstripe Fedora, Action Yes and elsewhere. Nick is a curator of the BONK! Performance series and is an editor of the online venue boo: a journal of terrific things. Visit him sometime at http://nickipoo.wordpress.com/

Anne Shaw is the author of Undertow (Persea Books), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Harvard Review, Black Warrior Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Drunken Boat, Green Mountains Review, and New American Writing. She has also been featured in Poetry Daily and From the Fishouse. Her extended experimental poetry project can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/anneshaw.

Kalamazoo Book Arts Center

326 W. Kalamazoo Avenue, Suite 103A

Kalamazoo, MI

Celebrate National Poetry Month

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New Issues Press is a proud sponsor of National Poetry Month.

Visit www.poets.org to see our spring poetry books featured:

Northerners by Seth Abramson
The Memory of Water by Jack Myers
Undone by Maxine Scates
Journal of American Foreign Policy by Jeff Hoffman

Khaled Mattawa's Translation Shortlisted

2011-04-05T07:45:00.000-07:00

Adonis: Selected Poems (Yale University Press), written by Adonis, translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa has made the international shortlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Congratulations to Khaled Mattawa, author of Tocqueville (New Issues, 2010).

Talking Diamonds Reviewed

2011-04-02T06:05:00.000-07:00

Oriana Ivy reviews Linda Nemec Foster's Talking Diamonds on the blog Writing the Polish Diaspora: News and information for Polish Writers and Writers of the Polish Diaspora.

Linda Nemec Foster certainly has the eyes that are always ready for miracles, and the words with which to describe them. Through her, we see that life is indeed a glorious burden - with equal emphasis on "burden" and "glorious."

Intrigued? Read the whole review here: writingpolishdiaspora.blogspot.com

Hadara Bar-Nadav and L.S. Klatt Read at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center

2011-03-11T06:46:00.000-08:00

The Poets in Print Reading Series at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center Welcomes poets Hadara Bar-Nadav and L.S. Klatt on Saturday, March 12, 7 to 9 p.m.

Hadara Bart-Nadav and L.S. Klatt present readings from their work on Saturday, March 12. Broadsides featuring their work created by KBAC artists Ryan Serafin and Beverly Fitzpatrick will be for sale and signing along with other works by the poets. This reading is free and open to the public. Refreshments are served. Doors open at 6:30. The reading begins at 7 p.m.

Hadara Bar-Nadav's first book of poetry A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007) won the Margie Book Prize. Her second book The Frame Called Ruin is due out from New Issues in 2012. Her chapbook Show Me Yours (Laurel Review/Green Tower Press, 2010) won the Midwest Poets Series Award. Recent publications appear in American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
www.hadarabarnadav.com

L. S. Klatt's poetry has appeared recently in the Cincinnati Review, Boston Review, and Drunken Boat. His new collection, Cloud of Ink, was awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize and will be published by the University of Iowa Press this coming March. His first book, Interloper, won the 2008 Juniper Prize.

MLive: Interview: Poet L.S. Klatt discusses his work, crossing the 'frontiers of consciousness'

New Issues Poet Khaled Mattawa Interviewed on PBS NewsHour

2011-03-04T09:53:00.000-08:00

Khaled Mattawa, author of Tocqueville (New Issues, 2010), and professor of the University of Michigan, was interviewed by Jeffrey Brown for PBS NewsHour.

Mattawa, speaking from the University of Michigan:

... to tell you the truth, this country, Libya, is being created anew. People are having a national moment, the moment of themselves as being Libyan, neither western nor eastern.

Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour.

New Issues @ AWP 2011: A Report

2011-02-11T07:22:00.000-08:00

Editor Bill Olsen, Nancy Eimers,
and NIPP Poet Lisa Lewis

Like many of our brethren from the Midwest, we barely made it to Washington DC. Who knew that the storm of the century would dump over a foot of snow on us right before we were supposed to fly out of our little Kalamazoo airport? But we made it, if a little later than anticipated.

AWP was a crazy whirlwind as usual, but we are always excited to see so many of our author face-to-face. We hosted book signings at the New Issues bookfair table for Lisa Lewis, Keith Ekiss, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Judy Halebsky, and Kevin Fenton.

Kevin Fenton @ the AWP
Award Series reading

On Friday Kevin Fenton read from his novel Merit Badges as part of the AWP Award Series reading. Managing Editor Marianne Swierenga introduced him and Kevin read from his chapter titled "Climbing." Bradley Paul also read. His second book was selected by Jean Valentine in the poetry category and published by Pitt, but we still claim him as a New Issues poet since The Obvious won our first book prize. So New Issues was well represented at the Award Series reading.

Peter Covino visits Table A22

The New Issues table was always busy. Situated right next to the Prague Summer Program, another WMU affiliate, our students and staff often couldn't help but talk up the Prague program to perspective students.

On Saturday there was a tribute to the beloved poet Jack Myers, led my Mark Cox, who edited a forthcoming collection by Jack that we are publishing in the spring.

With thousands of poets, writers, publishers, students and faculty attending, we were in great company. Next year, Chicago. Road trip.

New Issues @ AWP 2011

2011-01-28T13:35:00.000-08:00

The Editors of New Issues Press will be at the AWP Conference in Washington DC next week. Come by the bookfair table to check out our new titles and chat to the Editors. Table A22.

Events:

Friday, 1:30 - 2:45 - AWP Award Series Reading (Featuring Kevin Fenton, author of Merit Badges)

Saturday, 3 - 4:15 - Remembering Jack Myers, author of the forthcoming collection The Memory of Water (New Issues, 2011)

Book Signings:

Thursday, 3 - 4 p.m. LISA LEWIS, author of Vivisect
Friday, 10 - 11 a.m. JUDY HALEBSKY, author of Sky=Empty
Saturday, 10 - 11 a.m. KEITH EKISS, author of Pima Road Notebook
Saturday, 12 - 1 p.m. BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG, author of Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems
Saturday, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. KEVIN FENTON, author of the novel Merit Badges

Winner of the 2011 Green Rose Prize

2011-01-21T08:42:00.000-08:00

Winner: Corey Marks

The Editors of New Issues Poetry and Prose are pleased to announce the winner of the 2011 Green Rose Prize: Corey Marks for his manuscript The Radio Tree. Corey wins a $2,000 award and publication of his manuscript in the spring of 2012.

Corey Marks’ Renunciation was a National Poetry Series selection published by the University of Illinois Press. His poems have appeared in New England Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and in the anthology, Legitimate Dangers. He’s received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Natalie Ornish Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review. He holds a Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from University of Houston and an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson. An associate professor and director of creative writing at University of North Texas, he lives in Denton with his wife, Amy, and their daughter, Madeleine.

Also accepted for publication:
The Frame Called Ruin by Hadara Bar-Nadav
to appear in the fall of 2012

The Green Rose Prize is awarded to an author who has previously published at least one full-length book of poems. Winners are chosen by the editors of New Issues Press. Guidelines are available on our website.

The Green Rose Prize in Poetry

2010: Seth Abramson
Northerners

2009: Malinda Markham
Having Cut the Sparrow’s Heart

2008: Patty Seyburn
Hilarity

2007: Jon Pineda
The Translator’s Diary

2006: Noah Eli Gordon
A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow

2005: Joan Houlihan
The Mending Worm

2004: Hugh Seidman
Somebody Stand Up and Sing

2003: Christine Hume
Alaskaphrenia
Gretchen Mattox
Buddha Box

2002: Christopher Bursk
Ovid at Fifteen

2001: Ruth Ellen Kocher
When the Moon Knows You're Wandering

2000: Martha Rhodes
Perfect Disappearance

Goldbloom Wins GLCA New Writers Award

2011-01-10T11:02:00.000-08:00

Goldie Goldbloom's novel Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders has won the 2011 GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction from the Great Lakes Colleges Association. Winning writers receive invitations to visit GLCA member colleges, where they give readings, meet and talk about writing with students and faculty members.

The GLCA judges noted:

This novel includes stunning descriptions of place; it is interestingly grounded in the historical billeting of Italian soldiers in the Australian outback during the Second World War. Its characters are both quirky and well-grounded, and their many eccentricities make the novel both distinctive and compelling.

Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders is part of the AWP Award Series in the Novel, published by New Issues Press. Goldbloom's novel was selected for the series by Joanna Scott.

Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders
Goldie Goldbloom

New Book: Merit Badges by Kevin Fenton

2011-01-03T06:19:00.000-08:00

"An impressive vitality, droll wit, and affecting nostalgia lift Fenton's first novel about four high school pals growing up together during the 1970s in the fictional town of Minnisapa, Minn. . . . Eminently readable prose . . ."—Publisher's Weekly

Launch Party/Reading: Common Good Books (Virginia Street Swedenborgian Church 170 Virgina) St Paul, January 12, 2011: 7:30 P.M

$26.00 cloth | 233 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-930974-95-1
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Buy: Amazon.com | spdbooks.org

Also visit:
Merit Badges @ New Issues
www.meritbadgesthenovel.com
Merit Badges the Novel | Facebook Group

Happy Holidays from New Issues

2010-12-23T11:34:00.000-08:00

The New Issues office will be closed from Friday, December 24th to Monday, January 3rd.
We hope you have a great holiday and receive all the poetry books on your wish list.

New Issues Poets Receive NEA Literature Fellowships

2010-11-24T11:43:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to Jericho Brown (Please, 2008), Lisa Lewis (Vivisect, 2010), and Donald Platt (Dirt Angels, 2009). These poets each were awarded a 2011 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts worth $25,000.

2011 Grant Awards: Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing (Poetry)

Gordon Wins National Book Award for Fiction

2010-11-18T11:38:00.000-08:00

Jaimy Gordon, Advisory Editor at New Issues and creative writing professor here at WMU, has just won the National Book Award for her novel Lord of Misrule. Jaimy translated Marie Beig's Hermine: An Animal Life from the German. Congratulations Jaimy!

Call for Submissions: New Issues Poetry Prize

2010-11-03T11:57:00.000-07:00

Postmark Deadline: November 30, 2010

$2,000 and publication for a first book of poems
Judge: David Wojahn

New Issues Press is taking submissions for the 2011 New Issues Poetry Prize, an award for a first book of poems. The winner is chosen by a guest judge. The 2011 prize will be judged by David Wojahn, author of Interrogation Palace.

Guidelines for the 2011 prize are available on our website.

New Issues also offers publication to manuscripts in addition to the winner.

New Issues Poetry Prize Past Winners:

2010: Jeff Hoffman, Journal of American Foreign Policy (Judge: Linda Gregerson)
2009: Judy Halebsky, Sky=Empty (Judge: Marvin Bell)
2008: Justin Marks, A Million in Prizes (Judge: Carl Phillips)
2007: Sandra Beasley, Theories of Falling (Judge: Marie Howe)
2006: Jason Bredle, Standing in Line for the Beast (Judge: Barbara Hamby)
2005: Katie Peterson, This One Tree (Judge: William Olsen)
2004: Kevin Boyle, A Home for Wayward Girls (Judge: Rodney Jones)
2003: Cynie Cory; Barbara Maloutas; Louise Mathias; Bradley Paul; Heidi Lynn Staples; Ever Saskya; Matthew Thorburn (Judge: Brenda Hillman)
2002: Paul Guest, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World (Judge: Campbell McGrath)
2001: Sarah Mangold, Household Mechanics (Judge: C.D. Wright
2000: Elizabeth Powell, Republic of Self (Judge: C.K. Williams)
1999: Joy Manesiotis, They Sing to Her Bones (Judge: Marianne Boruch)
1998: Malena Mörling, Ocean Avenue (Judge: Philip Levine)
1997: Marsha de la O, Black Hope (Judge: Chase Twichell)

Beckian Fritz Goldberg at WMU

2010-11-02T11:45:00.000-07:00

Beckian Fritz Goldberg will be reading at Western Michigan University on Thursday, November 4th.

When: Thursday, Nov 4 at 8 p.m.

Where: WMU's Bernhard Center, Room 105-107

Who: Beckian Fritz Goldberg, author of Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems Goldberg holds an M.F.A. from Vermont College and is the author of six volumes of poetry. Goldberg is currently Professor of English at Arizona State University.

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Heather Sellers's Memoir

2010-10-22T06:23:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Heather Sellers, author of The Boys I Borrow (New Issues 2007), on the publication of her memoir You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know.

Book Launch Party for You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know
A memoir by Heather Sellers
Washington Square Gallery (next to Pereddies), 453 Washington Ave., Holland MI

For a full listing of events, visit her website: www.heathersellers.com

WMU's THIRD COAST Celebrates 15 Years

2010-10-20T11:44:00.000-07:00

Celebrating 15 years of Third Coast magazine and the release of our Fall 2010 issue with readings, live music, and refreshments!

Date: Saturday, November 6th, from 7-9pm
Location: Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Suite 103A, Park Trades Center, 326 W. Kalamazoo Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI

Featuring readings by Austin Bunn, Monica Berlin, Nancy Eimers, and William Olsen, and original music by Joe Gross:

AUSTIN BUNN – Austin Bunn’s full-length plays and solo pieces have been performed and developed variously, including works at The New Harmony Project, Iowa New Play Festival, University of Oregon EcoDrama Festival, The Lark NYC, Playwrights’ Theatre of NJ, and others. His non-fiction and fiction writing have appeared in Best American Fantasy, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The New York Times Magazine. He teaches at Grand Valley State University.

MONICA BERLIN – Monica Berlin’s recent poems have appeared in DIAGRAM, Rhino, and New Orleans Review, among others. In Spring 2009 she won the Thomas R. Hruska Memorial Nonfiction prize from Passages North. Berlin in an Associate Professor at Knox College.

NANCY EIMERS – Nancy Eimers’ fourth poetry collection, Oz, is forthcoming in winter 2011 from Carnegie Mellon University Press. She teaches creative writing at Western Michigan University and at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

WILLIAM OLSEN - William Olsen has four collections of poetry, including Avenue Of Vanishing. A fifth collection, Sand Theory, will be brought out by Northwestern University Press April 2011. He has won fellowships from Breadloaf, the NEA, and the Guggenheim. He teaches at Western Michigan University, where he edits New Issues Poetry and Prose.

Third Coast, a national literary magazine based at Western Michigan University, is edited entirely by WMU graduate and undergraduate students. Works first published in Third Coast have recently been selected for The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize - Best of the Small Presses series, Best New Poets, and The Best American Poetry Series.

Mörling Wins Lannan Fellowship

2010-10-13T11:24:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Malena Mörling, author of Ocean Avenue (New Issues, 1999), winner of the 1998 New Issues Poetry Prize. She has received a 2010 Lannan Literary Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. "The fellowships recognize writers of distinctive literary merit who demonstrate potential for continued outstanding work."

New Book: Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems by Beckian Fritz Goldberg

2010-10-01T07:00:00.000-07:00

Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems
$18.00 paper | 215 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-930974-94-4
Publication Date: Oct 1, 2010
Buy: Amazon.com | spdbooks.org

Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems gathers the work of Beckian Fritz Goldberg, one of her generation’s premiere voices and its fiercest proponent of a free imagination. From the beginning of her career and in all of her six acclaimed volumes, Goldberg's poetry has rendered labels — narrative, meditative, lyric, experimental — irrelevant. It is quickened instead by the body as it experiences itself in an open environment: un-codified, stranded by longing and love and grief, defiantly caring in the midst of our violent cultural moment, at once creaturely and divine, precisely sensory, and somehow pluralized by every harrowing turn. With artfully conversational intensity her new poems extend her vision of an earthly cosmos that resurrects itself daily.

Beckian Fritz Goldberg holds an M.F.A. from Vermont College and is the author of six volumes of poetry. Her work has appeared widely in anthologies and journals including, The American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry l995, Field, The Gettysburg Review, Harper’s, The Iowa Review, New American Poets of the 90’s and The Massachusetts Review. She has been awardedthe Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize, The Gettysburg Review Annual Poetry Award, The University of Akron Press Poetry Prize, the Field Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. Goldberg is currently Professor of English at Arizona State University.

Beckian Fritz Goldberg will be reading at Western Michigan University on Thursday, November 4th.

New Book: Vivisect by Lisa Lewis

2010-10-01T06:22:00.000-07:00

Vivisect
$15.00 paper | 79 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-930974-92-0
Publication Date: Oct 1, 2010
Buy: Amazon.com | spdbooks.org

"The remarkable dynamism of this book comes partly from the struggle it enacts between the confessional and postmodern modes. As the title Vivisect suggests, Lewis often seems to slice right into the living body, exposing the heart itself still beating with its dark secrets. But if language is the scalpel, it is also the flesh, offering at times a tough or slippery resistance, and revealing, when penetrated, more language that leads in multiple and unexpected directions, yet, like the mind, keeps circling back irresistibly to the troubling subjects it most wants to avoid. The result is rich, powerful, and complex poetry that gathers more weight with each reading." —Jeffrey Harrison

Lisa Lewis’s previous collections are The Unbeliever (Brittingham Prize), Silent Treatment (National Poetry Series), Story Box (Poetry West Chapbook Contest), and Burned House with Swimming Pool (American Poetry Journal Book Prize). Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including the American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, American Literary Review, Fence, Rattle, Missouri Review, Washington Square, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and two editions of Best American Poetry. She directs the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University and serves as poetry editor for the Cimarron Review.

"Knowledge" on Poetry Daily

Keith Ekiss Gets Broadsided

2010-09-27T08:09:00.000-07:00

"Exterpation" from Keith Ekiss's new poetry collection Pima Road Notebook was turned into a beautiful electronic broadside by artist Douglas Culhane.

Judy Halebsky Events

2010-09-27T07:52:00.000-07:00

Language and Migration: Lecture and Poetry Reading by Judy Halebsky, author of Sky=Empty, selected by Marvin Bell for the 2009 New Issues Poetry Prize.

UC Berkeley
October 7th, 12:00-1:30
2223 Fulton St
6th floor conference room

Judy Halebsky is a contributing editor and translator for the bilingual poetry journal Eki Mae. Residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Millay Colony have supported her work. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, she spent five years in Japan studying art and literature on fellowships from the Japanese Ministry of Education. She teaches writing and world literature at Dominican University of California and is artist-in-residence at Theatre of Yugen.

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Grand Valley Writers Series: Khaled Mattawa

2010-09-20T11:34:00.000-07:00

Khaled Mattawa, author of Tocqueville, will be giving a reading at Grand Valley State University on Wednesday, September 22nd.

KHALED MATTAWA, poet and translator
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22
READING, 7PM, KIRKHOF 2263

The Grand Valley Writers Series
1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI 49401-9401

JACK RIDL, author of Losing Season
THURSDAY, SEPT. 23
CRAFT TALK, 4PM KIRKHOF 2216
READING, 5:30PM KIRKHOF 2216

ADAM SCHUITEMA, Author of Freshwater Boys
TUESDAY, SEPT. 28
READING, 7PM, ALUMNI HOUSE

SUZANNE RIVECCA, author of Death is Not An Option
DISTINGUISHED GVSU ALUMNA
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7th
Q&A and READING, 2:30-3:45, KIRKHOF 2216

LAURA KASISCHKE, Author of In a Perfect World and Eden Springs
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3
CRAFT TALK, 3PM, KIRKHOF 2263
READING, 5PM, ALUMNI HOUSE

DINTY MOORE
THURSDAY, APRIL 7
CRAFT TALK, 2:30PM, KIRKHOF 2215
READING, 5PM, ALUMNI HOUSE

Wayne Miller at Hope College

2010-09-20T10:10:00.000-07:00

Wayne Miller
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Jazz begins at 6:30 p.m.; reading begins at 7:00 p.m.

All Visiting Writers Series readings are free and open to the public.

Readings are held at the Knickerbocker Theatre, 86 East 8th Street, downtown Holland, unless otherwise noted.

The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series
Hope College
Holland, Michigan

Detroit Michigan Writers' Retreat: Sept 17 and 18

2010-09-17T06:49:00.000-07:00

Friday, September 17

6:30 p.m. - Reception
College for Creative Studies, Center Galleries
201 East Kirby, Detroit, MI 48202-4034

7:30 p.m.- Reading (open to the public $10) featuring Thomas Lux, Quincy Troupe, Patricia Smith, Michael Thomas, Meg Kearney and Khaled Mattawa.

College for Creative Studies, Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium
Walter B. Ford II Building (located next door to the Center Galleries on Frederick Douglass between John R. and Brush Streets) Book Sales from The Book Beat

Saturday, September 18

All programs (Must be registered) will take place at

The Arts League of Michigan -Virgil H. Carr Center

311 E. Grand River, Detroit, MI 48226

(313) 965-8430, www.artsleague.com

This is a beautiful recently restored building in the heart of Downtown's Paradise Valley, very near the Detroit Opera House and YMCA.

More info: http://motownwriters.blogspot.com/2010/09/detroit-michigan-writers-retreat-sept.html

Khaled Mattawa Wins Academy Fellowship

2010-09-14T13:38:00.000-07:00

Khaled Mattawa, author of Tocqueville (New Issues, 2010), has been named the recipient of the 2010 Academy Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.

The Fellowship is awarded once a year to a poet for distinguished poetic achievement and provides a stipend of $25,000.

Previous recipients include Li-Young Lee, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. S. Merwin, and James Wright.

Khaled Mattawa will be honored at the fourth annual Poets Forum, October 28-30, in New York City. They will read from their work at the Poets Awards Ceremony and be part of intimate panel discussions on contemporary poetry presented by the Academy of American Poets. (from the press release)

Khaled Mattawa in Big Rapids, MI

2010-09-13T06:07:00.000-07:00

The poet Khaled Mattawa will be giving a reading from his new book Tocqueville on Wednesday, September 15th, 4 o'clock, at Great Lakes Book and Supply.

Khaled Mattawa was born in Libya and immigrated to the U.S. in his teens. He is the author of three previous books of poetry and has translated eight volumes of contemporary Arabic poetry and co-edited two anthologies of Arab American literature. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, an NEA translation grant, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the PEN American Center Poetry Translation Prize, and three Pushcart Prizes. Mattawa teaches in the MFA (Creative Writing) Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Great Lakes Book and Supply
840 Clark St
Big Rapids, MI 49307
(231) 796-1112
greatlakesbook.com

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New Issues at the Kerrytown BookFest Sunday

2010-09-09T14:02:00.000-07:00

On Sunday, September 12th, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., New Issues will be at Booth #109 during the Kerrytown BookFest 2010 (315 Detroit St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104). Talk to the editors, pick up the latest publications, and get some great deals of Michigan poetry.

Book Signings:
1:30 - Khaled Mattawa
2:00 - Josie Kearns
2:30 - Deanne Lundin
3:00 - John Rybicki
3:30 - Linda Nemec Foster
4:00 - Mary Ann Samyn

Poetry Reading
Sunday, September 12th, 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore, 114 South Main St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (www.crazywisdom.net)
Poetry reading by Khaled Mattawa, Mary Ann Samyn, Josie Kearns, John Rybicki, Deanne Lundin and Linda Nemec Foster. Reading sponsored by MCACA.

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Scott Blackwood's Novel Finalist for PEN USA Award

2010-09-09T13:44:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Scott Blackwood, author of We Agreed to Meet Just Here (AWP Award Series in the Novel). His book was named a finalist by PEN USA for the 2010 Literary Award for fiction.

"We Agreed to Meet Just Here is a lyrical mystery about disappearance, told in precise and luminous prose." —Robert Eversz

For further information, visit www.penusa.org or contact awards@penusa.org

Poetry Daily Features New Issues Poets

2010-09-07T14:07:00.000-07:00

"Knowledge" by Lisa Lewis, from Vivisect. Featured on September 5, 2010.

"Ode to the Creosote Bush" by Keith Ekiss, from Pima Road Notebook. Featured on September 3, 2010.

New Book: Pima Road Notebook by Keith Ekiss

2010-09-01T12:15:00.000-07:00

Pima Road Notebook
$15.00 paper | 73 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-930974-93-7
Publication Date: Sept 1, 2010
Buy: Amazon.com | spdbooks.org

"Pima Road Notebook, Keith Ekiss’s remarkable first collection, contrasts the finite imagination of the American dream with the enduring serenity and mystery of the Sonoran Desert, where the ridiculous—fairways and greens—compete with the sublime—saguaros and palo verdes."—Michael Collier

Keith Ekiss is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University and the past recipient of scholarships and residencies from the Bread Loaf and Squaw Valley Writers’ Conferences, Santa Fe Art Institute, Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Petrified Forest National Park. He lives in San Francisco.

Find more information on our website: here
And here: keithekiss.com

Linda Nemec Foster September Events

2010-09-01T09:14:00.000-07:00

Sunday, September 12, 2010
Kerrytown Book Festival in Ann Arbor. Linda Nemec Foster will sign copies of her poetry book, Talking Diamonds, at the New Issues Press booth at 3:30 PM. She will also give a poetry reading with other New Issues authors (Khaled Mattawa, Josie Kearns, John Rybicki, Deanne Lundin, Mary Ann Samyn) at the Crazy Wisdom Bookstore in Ann Arbor from 5:00-6:30 PM.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 from 6:00-9:00 PM
Linda Nemec Foster will conduct a poetry workshop entitled, A Passion for Poetry, based on the current art exhibit at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts. Workshop takes place at the Center, 400 Culver Street, Saugatuck, MI 49453. For more info, contact Krista Reuter, Program Director or go to their website www.sc4a.org

Monday, September, 20, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Linda Nemec Foster will read at the Wellspring Literary Series, which is a partnership between the English Department at Central Michigan University and the Art Reach Center in Mt. Pleasant. The reading will take place at the Art Reach Center, 111 E. Broadway, Mt. Pleasant, MI. 48858, at 7pm on Monday, 9/20. For further information, contact Robert Fanning (seedthievery@gmail.com).

New Issues Fundraiser This Sunday

2010-08-26T09:36:00.001-07:00

Everyone is invited to join us this Sunday, August 29th, 2 to 6 p.m. at Bell's Eccentric Cafe, 355 E. Kalamazoo Ave., for the second annual New Issues Fundraiser, a Celebration of Kalamazoo Poetry. A $5 donation will be requested at the door. Support a small press!

Poetry reading begins at 3 p.m. Poets participating will include Rob Haight, Linda Nemec Foster, Phillip Sterling, Conrad Hilberry, Di Seuss, Adam Clay, Richard Katrovas, Arnie Johnston, Jennifer Sweeney, Chad Sweeney, Denise Miller, Nancy Eimers, Daneen Wardrop, Susan Ramsey, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Denise Miller, John Rybicki, Gail Martin, and Lynn Pattison.

Check out the latest publications from New Issues. Eat cookies. Drink delicious, locally-brewed beer. Listen to Joe Gross play music. See the amazing talent we have here in Kalamazoo.

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Khaled Mattawa: September Events in Michigan

2010-08-17T08:42:00.000-07:00

Khaled Mattawa, author of Tocqueville (New Issues, 2010), will be visiting classrooms, participating in literary events, and giving readings throughout Michigan this September.

This reading series is funded in part by a grant from The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA). For more information about these events, contact new-issues@wmich.edu.

Friday, September 3rd, 8 - 8:30 p.m.
Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI 48202 (www.dia.org) Poetry reading by Khaled Mattawa, author of Tocqueville.

Come and check out the New Issues booth in the Bookfair. Book signings by Michigan Poets Josie Kearns, Khaled Mattawa, Linda Nemec Foster, John Rybicki, and Mary Ann Samyn.

Sunday, September 12th, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Kerrytown BookFest 2010, 315 Detroit St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (www.kerrytownbookfest.org) Book signings by Michigan poets at the New Issues booth.

Sunday, September 12th, 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore, 114 South Main St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (www.crazywisdom.net) Poetry reading by Khaled Mattawa, Mary Ann Samyn, Josie Kearns, John Rybicki, Deanne Lundin and Linda Nemec Foster.

Wednesday, September 15th, 4 p.m.
Great Lakes Book and Supply, 840 Clark St, Big Rapids, MI 49307 (www.greatlakesbook.com) Poetry reading by Khaled Mattawa, author of Tocqueville.

Friday, September 17th, 6:30 p.m. reception, 7:30 p.m. reading
College for Creative Studies, Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium, Walter B Ford II Building, 201 East Kirby, Detroit, MI 48202-4034 (www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu) Poetry reading by Khaled Mattawa, Quincy Troupe, Patricia Smith, Thomas Lux, Michael Thomas, Meg Kearney, and others.

Saturday, September 18th
The Arts League of Michigan, Detroit, MI 48226 (www.artsleague.com) An assortment of literary programs featuring Khaled Mattawa.

Wednesday, September 22nd, 7 p.m.
Grand Valley State University, Kirkoff Center, Room 2263, Allendale, MI, 49401 (www.gvsu.edu) Poetry reading by Khaled Mattawa, author of Tocqueville.

Friday, September 24th, 7 p.m.
Literary Life Bookstore, 758 Wealthy St SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503 (www.literarylifebookstore.com) Poetry reading by Khaled Mattawa, author of Tocqueville.

Wednesday, September 29th, 11 a.m.
Henry Ford Community College, Forfa Auditorium, 5101 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI 48128 (www.hfcc.edu) Poetry reading by Khaled Mattawa, author of Tocqueville.

This reading series is funded by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affiars

Now Accepting Submissions: 2011 Green Rose Prize

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The 2011 Green Rose Prize:

$2,000 and publication for a book of poems by an established poet. Previous winners include Seth Abramson, Malinda Markham, Patty Seyburn, Joan Houlihan, Christine Hume, and Martha Rhodes.

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, 2010. The winning manuscript will be named in January 2011 and published in the spring of 2012.

Additional guidelines available on our website: www.wmich.edu/newissues/sub-guide

Send manuscripts and queries to:

The Green Rose Prize
New Issues Poetry & Prose
Western Michigan University
1903 West Michigan Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5463

News from New Issues' Authors

2010-08-03T09:42:00.000-07:00

Lewis Horton, a contributor to The Art of The One-Act: An Anthology ("Diorama") is happy to report that his travel/memoir Travels in the Land of the One-Eyed King was published on July 1, 2010. It's the sort of book Flannery O'Connor might've written if, as a child, she'd been dragged across America in the back seat of a car driven by A.J. Foyt and his cantankerous wife, Sister Wendy.

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, author of Before The Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa (New Issues, 1998), has published her forth collection Where the Road Turns published by Autumn House Press, July 20, 2010.

"She is without doubt among the most powerful of the younger generation of African poets." – Frank M. Chipasula, editor, Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Poetry

Jon Pineda, author of The Translator's Diary (New Issues, 2008), has a memoir coming out from University of Nebraska Press in September of 2010. Sleep in Me is a heartrending memoir of the coming-of-age of a boy haunted by a family tragedy. Sleep in Me is a 2010 Holiday Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program selection.

New Issues Fundraiser: Save the Date

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Save the afternoon of Sunday, August 29th, for the annual New Issues End of Summer Celebration and Gala Fundraiser, hosted by Bell's Brewery Eccentric Cafe. Music, Poetry, and much more.

New Issues Launches Redesigned Website

2010-07-12T07:45:00.001-07:00

New Issues spent the last year redesigning and updating their large and heavily-visited website. Alex Aivars, Coordinator of the Web for the College of Arts and Sciences provided the design and structure. Laura Zawistowski and Shana Wolstein, Spring 2010 interns, and Marianne Swierenga, Managing Editor, transfered and updated all the information to the new site.

Visit the site for recent contest results or to investigate the new titles for fall. www.wmich.edu/newissues

New Issues listed as one of "15 Feisty Small Presses"

2010-07-05T09:33:00.000-07:00

Anis Shivani, writer for The Huffington Post, featured New Issues Press in his recent article, "Independence Day: 15 Feisty Small Presses And The Books You're Going To Want From Them" Visit the site and vote to put New Issues in the top 5.

Editor William Olsen:

"The mainstream publishing houses can't begin to represent all of the best emerging poetry and literary fiction. Our press looks to find voices uncategorized by pressures of prestige or expectation. There is no other way except through small presses for these voices to be heard and to endure in their initial splendor."

Khaled Mattawa June 9th Reading in Ann Arbor

2010-06-09T08:54:00.000-07:00

Meet poet Khaled Mattawa tonight at Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

June 9, 2010 - 7:00pm

KHALED MATTAWA is the author of four books of poetry, Tocqueville (New Issues Press, 2010) Amorisco (Ausable Press, 2008),Zodiac of Echoes (Ausable Press, 2003) and Ismailia Eclipse (Sheep Meadow Press, 1996).

Nicola's Books - Westgate Shopping Center
2513 Jackson Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48103
734.662.0600
www.nicolasbooks.indiebound.com

This reading series is sponsored by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

Winner of the 2010 New Issues Poetry Prize

2010-06-03T10:16:00.000-07:00

Jeff Hoffman has won the 2010 New Issues Poetry Prize for his manuscript Journal of American Foreign Policy. Linda Gregerson, author of Magnetic North, judged.

Jeff wins a $2,000 award and publication of his manuscript in the spring of 2011.

Jeff Hoffman grew up in western Pennsylvania and was educated at the University of New Hampshire, the University of Texas (where he was a Michener Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers), and at Stanford University (where he was a Stegner Fellow in poetry). He has also been a Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellow with Paramount Pictures. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Spinning Jenny, and elsewhere. His short plays have been performed throughout the United States and can be found in anthologies that are available from Vintage and Samuel French. He currently lives in Pasadena, CA.

"The way memory and grief and love compose the stories that enable us to go on living. The toxic mix of innocence and inadvertence, wishfulness and making-do that comes to look like purpose. Which on the scale of nations we call 'policy.' These brilliant poems have leverage on it all: micro- and macro- and the sorry, human mess we too often make of both. They also have so masterful a way with idiom and timing that even the sternest insight is leavened with a measure of joy. Tonic intelligence, exhilarating craftsmanship: Jeff Hoffman’s fine first book is a gift to us all."

—Linda Gregerson, from the Judge’s Citation

Lizzie Hutton’s manuscript She’d Waited Millennia was named runner-up by the judge and will be published in the fall of 2011.

Lizzie Hutton received her AB from Princeton University and her MFA from the University of Michigan. Her poetry has appeared in the Harvard Review, Yale Review, Antioch Review and Interim, among other journals, and her essays in the New England Review; in 2009 she was awarded the Sycamore Review's Wabash Prize for a single poem. She currently lives in Ann Arbor and teaches at the University of Michigan's Sweetland Writing Center.

The New Issues Poetry Prize is selected by a guest judge. Manuscripts are read blind. Thank you to Linda Gregerson for judging our 2010 prize. The 2011 prize will be judged by David Wojahn, author of Interrogation Palace. Guidelines for the 2011 prize are available on our website.

May/June Poetry Events for Kalamazoo

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Reading by Diane Seuss

Thursday, May 20, 7 p.m.
Stetson Chapel, Kalamazoo College

Diane Seuss will read from her new book, WOLF LAKE, WHITE GOWN BLOWN OPEN, recipient of the 2009 Juniper Prize for Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Press. Books will be available for purchase and for signing. A reception will follow the reading.

Reading Celebrating the publication of Herbert Scott's Selected Poems

Thursday, June 10, 5:30 p.m.
Edwin and Mary Meader Rare Book Room, WMU's Waldo Library

Herbert Scott will be celebrated at a reading from a new selected collection of his work: The Other Life: Selected Poems of Herbert Scott 1974-2005, edited by David Dodd Lee Carnegie Mellon University Press. A reception follows the reading, which is free and open to the public.

“Poets in Print” at the KBAC
Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson

Saturday, June 12, 7 p.m.
The Kalamazoo Book Arts Center

Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson present readings from their work on Saturday, June 12, 2010. A unique broadside will be created for the event. This event is free and refreshments are served. Doors open at 6:30.

Zero at the Bone by Cassarino Wins Audre Lorde Award

2010-05-14T08:20:00.000-07:00

Zero at the Bone (New Issues, 2009), the debut poetry collection by Stacie Cassarino has won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry from the Publishing Triangle. The other finalists were Kristin Naca's Bird Eating Bird (Harper Perennial) and Lee Ann Roripaugh's On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (Southern Illinois University Press).

The winners were announced at the 22nd annual Triangle Awards, April 29, 2010, at the New School in NYC.

In 2009, Elaine Sexton's Causeway (New Issues, 2008) was a finalist for the same award.

Buy Zero at the Bone:
Amazon.com | spdbooks.org

June 10th Event Celebrating the Publication of Herb Scott's Poetry Collection

2010-05-11T15:56:00.001-07:00

The life work of Poet Herbert S. Scott, a 30-year professor in Western Michigan University’s Department of English who died in 2006, will be celebrated at a reading from a new selected collection of his work at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 10, in the Edwin and Mary Meader Rare Book Room, Waldo Library.

The Other Life: Selected Poems of Herbert Scott 1974-2005, edited by David Dodd Lee
Carnegie Mellon University Press

A reception follows the reading, which is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Margaret von Steinen at (269) 387-3993, or via e-mail at: margaret.vonsteinen@wmich.edu.

NewPages.com Reviews Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders

2010-05-03T16:12:00.000-07:00

Visit NewPages.com for a review of Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders, the new novel by Goldie Goldbloom, winner of the 2008 AWP Award for the Novel. Reviewed by Alex Myers.

"Delightful strangeness abounds in this novel, whether it is Mr. Toad’s collection of Victorian corsetry, the foul-mouthed cockatoo that lives on the veranda, or the bright magenta uniforms the Italian POWs are supposed to wear. The characters, too, are not just strange on the surface, but are richly odd, profoundly other."

When the “I” is implied: a review of Sky=Empty, by Judy Halebsky

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When the “I” is implied: a review of Sky=Empty, by Judy Halebsky

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April is National Poetry Month

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New Issues is happy to sponsor National Poetry Month. Check out their website and the New Issues sponsor page.

New Issues Awarded MCACA Grant

2010-04-03T08:02:00.000-07:00

New Issues Press of Western Michigan University has been awarded a grant for $7,500 from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA). The grant will support the promotion of Michigan poets published by New Issues.

The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs serves to encourage, develop and facilitate an enriched environment of artistic, creative, cultural activity in Michigan.

03/31/2010 - The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs Announces Statewide Grants

New Issues at AWP 2010 in Denver

2010-04-03T07:29:00.000-07:00

New Issues will have books for sale at the AWP Conference Bookfair in Denver, from April 8 - 10. On Saturday, April 10, the Bookfair will be open to the public.

Book signings at the New Issues table (D18):

Thursday, April 8
David Keplinger/Prayers of Others 12:20 - 1:30
Claudia Keelan/Missing Her 3:30 - 4:30

Friday, April 9
Patty Seyburn/Hilarity 10:00 - 11:00
Khaled Mattawa/Tocqueville 1:30 - 2:30

Saturday, April 10
Justin Marks/A Million in Prizes 9-10:30
Judy Halebsky/Sky=Empty 10:30-12:00
Mary Ann Samyn/Beauty Breaks In 1:30-2:30

Events:
AWP Award Series Reading, featuring Goldie Goldbloom, author of the award-winning novel Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders. Reading 1:30 - 2:45. Followed by a book signing at the AWP table.

AGNI reviews Beauty Breaks In

2010-04-03T06:56:00.000-07:00

Check out the new review of Mary Ann Saymn's work on AGNI Online: "Shard. Shard. Shard.: Mary Ann Samyn and the Fractured Meditative Lyric," by Anton Vander Zee

"Samyn’s work over her last three books—all published with New Issues in their distinct duo-tone, palimpsestic, muted-matte design that makes their books such a pleasure to look at and hold—might seem, after a cursory reading, consistent to a fault. Certain standard moves and themes persist: reflexivity, strained devotion, materiality of both language and body, colloquialisms and asides, formal attention to white space, a certain reticence, occasional nods to Nancy Drew. But this apparent consistency—to my eye and ear rewarding enough in itself—grounds a subtler range of shifting intensities that emerge in each collection"

Talking Diamonds Finalist for ForeWord's BOTYA

2010-03-20T07:30:00.000-07:00

Talking Diamonds by Linda Nemec Foster is a finalist for ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award in the poetry category. "The finalists, representing 360 publishers, were selected from 1,400 entries in 60 categories. These books are examples of independent publishing at its best." The winners will be announced at a special program at BookExpo America in New York City on May 25.

New Issues Reading at Western Michigan University: March 25

2010-03-17T15:47:00.000-07:00

The Gwen Frostic Reading Series of Western Michigan University proudly presents the New Issues Press Reading, featuring poets Donald Platt and Malinda Markham.

Thursday, March 25th, 8 p.m.

WMU's Bernhard Center, Rooms 105-107

Malinda Markham is the author of Having Cut the Sparrow's Heart, winner of the 2009 Green Rose Prize. She received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a Ph.D. from the University of Denver. After teaching full-time in the Linguistics Department at Daito Bunka University in Tokyo for several years, she won a Blakemore Fellowship to attend Stanford University’s Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama, Japan. Her first book of poems, Ninety-five Nights of Listening, won the Bread Loaf Bakeless Prize and was published by Houghton-Mifflin. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Conjunctions, Colorado Review, American Letters & Commentary, Paris Review, Volt, Fence, and Antioch Review and has been included in The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries and Deep Travel. She has also published translations of post-war and contemporary Japanese women’s poetry. She lives in New York and works as a Japanese-to-English financial translator.

"In a masterful work of startling possibilities, Markham layers gleaming phrases into a testimony to the world’s particularities, which she reveals as also, paradoxically, eternal. Nothing here is limited by history, but instead attains the kind of simultaneity that drives myth. And like myth, her world is populated by creatures that mean, irreducibly, only themselves. Her ready attention to animals and birds is indicative of a compassion that demands of the world an inventive intelligence, and offers it one in return." —Cole Swensen

Donald Platt is a professor of English at Purdue University. He is the author of Dirt Angles (New Issues, 2009). His first two collections, Fresh Peaches, Fireworks, and Guns and Cloud Atlas, were published by Purdue University Press as winners of the Verna Emery Poetry Prize. His third book, My Father Says Grace, was published by the University of Arkansas Press. He is a recipient of the “Discovery”/The Nation Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Center for Book Arts’ Poetry Chapbook Prize, and two Pushcart Prizes. His poems have appeared in many magazines and journals, including The New Republic, Nation, Paris Review, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Field, Iowa Review, Southwest Review, and Southern Review, and have been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2000 and 2006. He lives with his wife, the poet Dana Roeser, and their two daughters in West Lafayette, Indiana.

"Donald Platt’s aptly titled and arresting fourth collection of poems, Dirt Angels, examines how we exist in states of physical disrepair, decay, and disability: the world’s transience exhibited in the slow degradation of our very consciousness and flesh."—Paisley Rekdal

"Poets in Print" Reading Series at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center Featuring David Dodd Lee and Mary Ann Samyn

2010-02-22T15:58:00.000-08:00

New Issues Poets David Dodd Lee and Mary Ann Samyn will present readings from their work on Saturday, March 13,2010 at 7 p.m. Broadsides featuring the poet's work will be created by KBAC artists. The broadsides and other works by the poets will be available during the event for sale and signing. Broadsides from other "Poets in Print" events and other book arts creations are also available for sale.This event is free and refreshments are served. Doors open at 6:30.

David Dodd Lee is the author of The Nervous Filaments (2010, Four Way Books), a book of Ashbery erasure poems, which is forthcoming from Blazevox, and Orphan, Indiana, which is forthcoming from U. of Akron Press. His four other books of poetry include: Downsides of Fish Culture (1997, New Issues), Arrow Pointing North (2002), and Abrupt Rural (2004, New Issues).

Mary Ann Samyn is the author of several collections of poetry, including Beauty Breaks In (New Issues, 2009) and The Boom of a Small Cannon (Dancing Girl Press, 2010). She teaches in the MFA program at West Virginia University where she is also the Bolton Professor for Teaching and Mentoring.

The Poets in Print Reading Series

Kalamazoo Book Arts Center

Suite 103A, Park Trades Center
326 W. Kalamazoo Avenue
Kalamazoo, MI 49007

Detroit's ML Liebler Honored with Award

2010-02-13T09:04:00.000-08:00

ML Liebler, author of The Moon a Box (New Issues, 2004) is the recipient of the 2010 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers Magazine. Other writers honored include Junot Diaz and Maxine Hong Kingston.

Poets & Writers Announces Recipients of 2010 Writers for Writers Award and Editor's Award

Detroit poet M.L. Liebler wins national award for helping other writers | detnews.com | The Detroit News

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Detroit poet M.L. Liebler wins national award for helping other writers | detnews.com | The Detroit News

Goldie Goldbloom Talks POWs, Hasidic Jews, and Hot Italians: The Toads’ Museum Interview

2010-02-10T17:29:00.000-08:00

Goldie Goldbloom Talks POWs, Hasidic Jews, and Hot Italians: The Toads’ Museum Interview Matthue Roth interviews Goldie Goldbloom, author of Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders for myjewishlearning.com

Goldbloom Novel to Debut at Chicago's Women & Children First

2010-02-10T17:13:00.000-08:00

Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders, a novel by Goldie Goldbloom, will debut at Chicago's independent bookstore Women & Children First, Sunday, March 14th, at 4:30 p.m.

Goldbloom's novel was chosen by novelist Joanna Scott to win the 2008 AWP Award Series in the Novel, an award given by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.

In her judge's citation, Joanna Scott called Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders "a strange, mesmerizing tale about characters uncomfortably defined by superficial eccentricities. It is also a wrenching love story."

Visit the New Issues website for more information about Goldbloom's novel. The book will be available February 26.

Happy Birthday Herbert Scott

2010-02-07T11:41:00.000-08:00

Herb Scott, the founding editor of New Issues Press, was known for being an inspiring creative writing professor and a tough editor. In the newly released collection of his work, edited with an introduction by David Dodd Lee, we can once again be reminded that Herb was above all a poet, and one of huge talent.

His friends and family, former colleagues and students, have a tradition of raising a glass to his memory every February 8th, his birthday. This year I intend to not only raise my glass to him, but also read aloud and share his poetry. I encourage others to do the same.

The Other Life: Selected Poems of Herbert Scott 1974-2005
Carnegie Mellon University Press
ISBN: 978-0-88748-521-3
$19.95, 240 pages, paper
Buy it on Amazon.com

"The Other Life is testament to a quiet force in American poetry, to a generous soul who bore witness to the world with goodwill and good humor. While Herbert Scott was a modest man, this collection is not a modest accomplishment. Reading these wonderful, rich poems spanning his entire career gathered together in one book feels like a warm home we enter from the cold. We can take our boots off, sit down and calmly ease into the sustaining light of these poems."

Blackwood Grub Street Finalist

2010-02-07T11:22:00.000-08:00

We Agreed to Meet Just Here by Scott Blackwood, winner of the 2007 AWP Award for the Novel, was named Finalist for the 2010 Grub Street National Book Prize in Fiction. The winner, Vestal McIntyre won the prize for his novel, Lake Overturn, published in 2009 by Harper.

Theories of Falling Reviewed

2010-02-07T11:17:00.000-08:00

Theories of Falling by Sandra Beasley has been reviewed by Andrew Kozma for Zoland Poetry. A taste: "[The first section] embodies a world of deception, where things don’t shift form, they shift interpretation. The poems here show a mastery of metaphorical narrative, all the poems fitting together tightly towards a single goal even though the poems themselves tackle widely varying subjects." Read the whole review here.

Theories of Falling, winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize, was released in the spring of 2008. It just sold out of its first edition and will be reprinted.

Missing Her: Reviewed

2010-01-18T08:43:00.000-08:00

Christina Mengert has reviewed Claudia Keelan's new book, Missing Her, for the Constant Critic website. A taste...

"In a world that is increasingly isolated (communicating more and more at a virtual remove), yet increasingly interconnected via the same technology that removes us, I deeply admire work that insists on the importance—perhaps to our survival as a species—of actively remembering the Whole of which we are a part, allowing that to guide us toward meaningful action (as action without reflection is likely to perpetuate violence—and reflection without action has no capacity to intervene). Whatever the myriad roles a book of poems might assume, to encourage critical reflection on the ideas that help us move away from a selfish destruction of a planet, as well as the oppression and degradation of its people, is a worthy endeavor."

Read the whole review here: www.constantcritic.com/christina_mengert/missing-her

Winner of the 2010 Green Rose Prize

2010-01-11T11:57:00.000-08:00

The Editors of New Issues Poetry & Prose are pleased to announce the winner of the 2010 Green Rose Prize: Seth Abramson for his manuscript Northerners. Seth wins a $2,000 award and publication of his manuscript in the spring of 2011.

Seth Abramson is the author of The Suburban Ecstasies (Ghost Road Press, 2009) and winner of the 2008 J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry. His poems have recently appeared in Best New Poets 2008, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, New American Writing, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a former public defender, he received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2009 and is currently a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Also accepted for publication: Undone by Maxine Scates, to appear in the fall of 2011, and The Memory of Water by Jack Myers, to appear in the spring of 2011.

The Green Rose Prize is awarded to an author who has previously published at least one full-length book of poems. Winners are chosen by the editors of New Issues Press. Guidelines are available on our website.

Stacie Cassarino on Poetry Daily

2010-01-08T08:40:00.000-08:00

"Spoon to the Sky" from Stacie Cassarino's book Zero at the Bone is featured today, January 8, on the Poetry Daily website. Follow this link to read the poem.

360 Main Street Reviews Recent Inland Seas Titles

2010-01-06T09:19:00.000-08:00

360 Main Street has reviewed two New Issues book recently published in our Inland Seas Poetry Series, a series by poets living in Michigan or from Michigan."

Talking Diamonds by Linda Nemec Foster
Review by Jeanne Lesinski

"The numinous appears unexpectedly for the protagonist of "Vision," sunbathing on a Hawaiian beach. It takes the form of a man bearing a tattoo of the Virgin and Child, like a holy card, on his front and back. Suddenly, the incongruousness of this vision overwhelms the protagonist:

And you tell yourself this isn't a miracle,
only a tattoo; this isn't anything
extraordinary, only your life,
the crowded beach, the husband and son
waving impatiently for you to just
come on, come on, dive in.

And yet. And yet, the emotional truth rings out in this as in other poems in the collection. Where else should the miraculous happen but in everyday lives, in moments when humans are graced with the extraordinary through enhanced perception."

Beauty Breaks In by Mary Ann Samyn
Review by Gina Myers

"Beauty Breaks In is Samyn's fifth book of poetry, and like those that proceed it, the poems in this collection are brief lyrics. It's a poetry marked by concise language where each word seems carefully chosen and surgically precise. Nonetheless, there is a bubbling energy beneath the surface, a sense of disquiet."

Happy New Year from New Issues

2010-01-05T12:13:00.000-08:00

2009 was a fantastic year for New Issues and our authors. We started off 2009 by announcing that Malinda Markham won the 2009 Green Rose Prize and that Marvin Bell picked Judy Halebsky's Sky=Empty as the winner of our first book prize. These books are at the printer and will be released this spring, just in time for the 2010 AWP Bookfair in Denver.

We published seven books of poetry and one novel:

Zero at the Bone by Stacie Cassarino
A Million in Prizes by Justin Marks, Winner of the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize
Dirt Angels by Donald Platt
Hilarity by Patty Seyburn, Winner of the 2008 Green Rose Prize
Talking Diamonds by Linda Nemec Foster
Missing Her by Claudia Keelan
Beauty Breaks In by Mary Ann Samyn
We Agreed to Meet Just Here by Scott Blackwood, Winner of the 2007 AWP Award for the Novel

Here are some of the highlights of 2009:

Myronn Hardy’s The Headless Saints won the 2009 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award from the The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation.

Jericho Brown's book Please continues to heap up honors. Most recently, he was named a winner of the 30th Annual American Book Awards, a rare if not exceptional accomplishment for a writer of a first book, placing him this year alongside such national treasures as Jack Spicer and Linda Gregg. Jericho Brown also received the 2009 Whiting Writers’ Award. Please, released in October of 2008, has become a New Issues best seller, needing to be reprinted twice already.

Katie Peterson (This One Tree, 2007) and Jericho Brown (Please, 2008) each were awarded a Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and are spending the 2009/2010 academic year at Harvard working on their poetry.

Justin Mark’s A Million in Prizes (Winner of the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize) was featured in Poets & Writers’ fifth annual Debut Poets Roundup.

Sandra Beasley, whose debut poetry collection Theories of Falling won our 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize, had her second book of poetry (I Was the Jukebox, Norton, April 2010) chosen by Joy Harjo as the winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize and her memoir (Don't Kill the Birthday Girl) purchased by Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, for a 2010 publication.

Our first annual Fundraiser Gala exceed our expectations. The Eccentric Café of Kalamazoo’s own Bell’s Brewery hosted the event, which brought many of our authors, friends, and supporters together for an afternoon of music, poetry, and art auctions.

On Deck for 2010:

In a few weeks we expect to announce the winner of the 2010 Green Rose Prize. In April, judge Linda Gregerson will pick a first book to win our 2010 New Issues Poetry Prize.

February: Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders by Goldie Goldbloom will be released. This novel, winner of the 2008 AWP Award for the Novel, selected by Joanna Scott, is set in the Australian outback during WWII and introduces us to the character of Gin Toad, a truly original voice.

We'll see everyone in April at the 2010 AWP Conference and Bookfair. Come by our table for book signings and to see three newly released poetry books:

Sky=Empty by Judy Halebsky
Having Cut the Sparrow’s Heart by Malinda Markham
Tocqueville by Khaled Mattawa

In the fall of 2010, New Issues will publish the following poetry collections:

Vivisect by Lisa Lewis
Reliquary Fever: Selected & New Poems by Beckian Fritz Goldberg
Pima Road Notebook by Keith Ekiss

And check our website soon to see a complete redesign. It's almost done, I swear!

Peter Covino 2010 Readings

2010-01-04T10:02:00.000-08:00

Peter Covino, author of Cut Off the Ears of Winter
Winter/ Spring 2010 Reading Schedule

January 25, 2010, Monday, 7:00 PM, Barnes & Noble 82nd & Broadway - It's Not You, It's Me: The Poetry of Breakup with Jerry Williams, Patricia Smith and Peter Covino, Broadway, New York, NY 10024

February 25, 2010, Thursday, 7:00 PM, Cornelia Street Café - It's Not You, It's Me: The Poetry of Breakup with Jerry Williams, David Lehman, Martha Rhodes and Peter Covino, 29 Cornelia Street, New York, NY 10014

March 6 & 7, 2010, Saturday & Sunday - Mi Alma, Italian Cultural Arts Festival, Sunset Junction, Los Angeles, CA—details to follow

March 27, 28, 2010, Saturday & Sunday - Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference, Colrain, MA, with Martha Rhodes, Ellen Dore Watson, and Joan Houlihan.

April 10, 2010, 1:30 – 2:45 - S170. Writing Intimacy, Writing Sex. Mary Cappello, Alexander Chee, Barrie Jean Borich, Peter Covino, James Morrison; part of AWP Conference, Colorado Convention Center, Denver CO—other events to follow.

April 14, 2010, 7pm, Reading, Department of English, St Joseph’s College, W. Hartford, CT—details to follow

PSA's 2009 New American Poets

2009-12-11T06:21:00.000-08:00

Jericho Brown's book PLEASE was among the titles listed by the Poetry Society of America in their list of 2009 debut poetry collections. Check out his page:

Jericho Brown (via Poetry Society of America)

Talking Diamonds Book Release Party

2009-11-10T13:58:00.000-08:00

Book Release Party for LINDA NEMEC FOSTER, celebrating the release of her new book of poetry, Talking Diamonds.
Thursday, November 19 at 7pm

Please join us for a reception for poet Linda Nemec Foster on Thursday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m. Linda will read from Talking Diamonds and sign copies. Please join them for a night of poetry and celebration. For more information please call at 616.458.8418.

Literary Life Bookstore & More, Inc.
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Jericho Brown Wins Whiting Award

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Congratulations to Jericho Brown, author of Please, on receiving a 2009 Whiting Writers' Award, given to recognize emerging writers. "The awards, which are $50,000 each, totaling $500,000, have been given annually since 1985 to writers of exceptional talent and promise in early career." Joan Kane and Jay Hopler also received the award for poetry.

"Jericho Brown and Salvatore Scibona Among Whiting Award Winners" on the Poets & Writers website.

Accepting Submissions: 2010 New Issues Poetry Prize for a first book of poetry

2009-10-19T09:46:00.000-07:00

New Issues is taking submissions for the 2010 New Issues Poetry Prize, an award given to a first book of poems. The winner will be selected by guest judge Linda Gregerson, author of Magnetic North. The winner will receive a $2,000 award and publication. The press often chooses additional manuscripts from the finalists to publish. Manuscripts are read blind.

Previous winners of the New Issues Poetry Prize include Judy Halebsky for Sky=Empty, selected by Marvin Bell; Justin Marks for A Million in Prizes, selected by Carl Phillips; and Sandra Beasley for Theories of Falling, selected by Marie Howe.

Guidelines:
* Eligibility: Poets writing in English who have not previously published or self-published a full-length (48+ pages) collection of poems. Chapbooks are okay.
* Please include a $15 reading fee. Checks should be made payable to New Issues Press.
* Postmark Deadline: November 30, 2009. The winning manuscript will be named in April 2010 and published in the spring of 2011.

Visit our website for complete guidelines.

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Jericho Brown

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Natasha Trethewey interviews Jericho Brown for Southern Spaces: An interdisciplinary journal about the regions, places, and cultures of the American South. This interview was conducted on September 5, 2009, during the Decatur (Georgia) Book Festival.

VPR Reviews PLEASE

2009-10-13T09:15:00.000-07:00

Susanna Childress reviews Jericho Brown's Please for Valparaiso Poetry Review, Vol XI, No. 1. A taste: "The poems are smart and raw, but readers will recognize this as distinct from clever or pitiable, in part because the writer does not ask his readers to recognize them as such. Any insight, any complexity here is the result of intricate tonal and metaphorical maneuvering, crafting, nuance: questioning and requiring all at once, the way the word please is both a desire and a demand." For the complete review, visit www.valpo.edu/vpr

Linda Nemec Foster on Verse Daily

2009-10-09T09:17:00.000-07:00

Linda Nemec's poem "The Field Behind the Dying Father's House" was featured on Verse Daily. The poem is from Foster's recently published collection Talking Diamonds.

New Books: Talking Diamonds by Linda Nemec Foster

2009-10-06T11:54:00.000-07:00

Talking Diamonds by Linda Nemec Foster, part of the Inland Seas Poetry Series funded by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

"A humanist at heart, Linda Nemec Foster has demanded from her poetry an artfulness that engages ordinary life. With each new book her work has continued to mature, deepen, console, surprise, and Talking Diamonds is as wise as it is lovely."
—Stuart Dybek

Linda Nemec Foster received her MFA in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont. She is the author of eight collections of poetry including Living in the Fire Nest, Amber Necklace from Gdańsk, and Listen to the Landscape.

Buy Talking Diamonds from Amazon.com and Spdbooks.org.

Publication Date: Oct 5, 2009
$15.00 paper | 75 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-930974-85-2

New Books: Missing Her by Claudia Keelan

2009-10-01T08:35:00.000-07:00

Missing Her: New poems by Claudia Keelan

In poems performed via scat singing, via documentary, poems devoted to the sui generis, Missing Her redefines the elegy as a seeking statement.

"Keelan's work, always politically engaged, here takes a tender and personal turn. Much of what is mourned in these interwoven elegies is private, close in, but even the larger, more public themes — the Vietnam War, Jesus, the oil industry, September 11 — are brought to an intimate scale. The central long poem 'Everybody's Autobiography' achieves a masterful fusion of political history, personal responsibility, and communal grief. A deep-feeling collection not afraid to look loss in the face."
—Cole Swensen

"Missing Her is Keelan's sixth collection of poems. Parts of it will stay with you long after reading..." Vince Corvaia, NewPages.com

Available through Amazon.com and Small Press Distribution

Publication Date: October 5, 2009
$15.00 paper | 79 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-930974-86-9

Best American Poetry 2009

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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"

Green Rose Prize: Sept 30th Deadline

2009-09-24T10:59:00.000-07:00

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.

Jericho Brown's PLEASE Wins American Book Award

2009-09-18T09:19:00.000-07:00

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.

Hayden's Ferry Review Blog: Book Review: Theories of Falling

2009-09-17T09:09:00.000-07:00

Hayden's Ferry Review Blog: Book Review: Theories of Falling

John Gallaher, Wayne Miller and Michael Robins at the KBAC

2009-09-10T07:59:00.000-07:00

"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

Justin Marks NYC Readings

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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)

New Issues Poetry & Prose

Frostic Reading, Thursday February 2nd

2012 Green Rose Prize

AWP 2012

Reading Tonight

Seth Abramson & Matthew Guenette

First Book Submissions

Fall 2011

New Issues Event Sunday, August 28

New Issues Poets and Staff Win Awards

Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders Wins Gold

Tocqueville wins Arab American Book Award

Winner of the 2011 New Issues Poetry Prize

New Books: Journal of American Foreign Policy by Jeff Hoffman

Journal of American Foreign Policy

New Books: Northerners by Seth Abramson

Northerners

Elaine Sexton 2011 Readings

New Books: Undone by Maxine Scates

New Books: The Memory of Water by Jack Myers

Now in Paperback: Merit Badges

KBAC Poets in Print: Nick Demske and Anne Shaw

Celebrate National Poetry Month

Khaled Mattawa's Translation Shortlisted

Talking Diamonds Reviewed

Hadara Bar-Nadav and L.S. Klatt Read at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center

New Issues Poet Khaled Mattawa Interviewed on PBS NewsHour

New Issues @ AWP 2011: A Report

New Issues @ AWP 2011

Winner of the 2011 Green Rose Prize

Goldbloom Wins GLCA New Writers Award

New Book: Merit Badges by Kevin Fenton

Happy Holidays from New Issues

New Issues Poets Receive NEA Literature Fellowships

Gordon Wins National Book Award for Fiction

Call for Submissions: New Issues Poetry Prize

Beckian Fritz Goldberg at WMU

Heather Sellers's Memoir

WMU's THIRD COAST Celebrates 15 Years

Mörling Wins Lannan Fellowship

New Book: Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems by Beckian Fritz Goldberg

New Book: Vivisect by Lisa Lewis

Keith Ekiss Gets Broadsided

Judy Halebsky Events

Grand Valley Writers Series: Khaled Mattawa

Wayne Miller at Hope College

Detroit Michigan Writers' Retreat: Sept 17 and 18

Khaled Mattawa Wins Academy Fellowship

Khaled Mattawa in Big Rapids, MI

New Issues at the Kerrytown BookFest Sunday

Scott Blackwood's Novel Finalist for PEN USA Award

Poetry Daily Features New Issues Poets

New Book: Pima Road Notebook by Keith Ekiss

Linda Nemec Foster September Events

New Issues Fundraiser This Sunday

Khaled Mattawa: September Events in Michigan

Now Accepting Submissions: 2011 Green Rose Prize

News from New Issues' Authors

New Issues Fundraiser: Save the Date

New Issues Launches Redesigned Website

New Issues listed as one of "15 Feisty Small Presses"

Khaled Mattawa June 9th Reading in Ann Arbor

Winner of the 2010 New Issues Poetry Prize

May/June Poetry Events for Kalamazoo

Reading by Diane Seuss

Reading Celebrating the publication of Herbert Scott's Selected Poems

“Poets in Print” at the KBACJoyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson

Zero at the Bone by Cassarino Wins Audre Lorde Award

June 10th Event Celebrating the Publication of Herb Scott's Poetry Collection

NewPages.com Reviews Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders

When the “I” is implied: a review of Sky=Empty, by Judy Halebsky

April is National Poetry Month

New Issues Awarded MCACA Grant

New Issues at AWP 2010 in Denver

AGNI reviews Beauty Breaks In

Talking Diamonds Finalist for ForeWord's BOTYA

New Issues Reading at Western Michigan University: March 25

"Poets in Print" Reading Series at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center Featuring David Dodd Lee and Mary Ann Samyn

Detroit's ML Liebler Honored with Award

Detroit poet M.L. Liebler wins national award for helping other writers | detnews.com | The Detroit News

“Poets in Print” at the KBAC
Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson