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.
Book Release Party for LINDA NEMEC FOSTER, celebrating the release of her new book of poetry, Talking Diamonds.
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.
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'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.
Talking Diamonds by Linda Nemec Foster, part of the Inland Seas Poetry Series funded by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.