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Endi Bogue Hartigan Wins Omnidawn 2012 Open Poetry Book Prize The winning manuscript, selected by Cole Swenson, is pool [5 choruses].  Five finalists were also selected by Swenson: Emily Abendroth (Philadelphia, PA) for Exclosures, Jenny Drai (Oxnard, CA) for Visitors, Cavaliers, Craig Dworkin (Salt Lake City, UT) for Alkali, Brandon Lussier (Hartford, CT) for Mary Doll Strings, Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer (Saint Louis, MO) for Clarkson St. Polaroids. For more on Omnidawn’s poetry contests, including the current First/ Second Book Contest, judged by Donald Revell, check out our contests page.

Endi Bogue Hartigan Wins Omnidawn 2012 Open Poetry Book Prize

The winning manuscript, selected by Cole Swenson, is pool [5 choruses]. 

Five finalists were also selected by Swenson: Emily Abendroth (Philadelphia, PA) for Exclosures, Jenny Drai (Oxnard, CA) for Visitors, Cavaliers, Craig Dworkin (Salt Lake City, UT) for Alkali, Brandon Lussier (Hartford, CT) for Mary Doll Strings, Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer (Saint Louis, MO) for Clarkson St. Polaroids.


For more on Omnidawn’s poetry contests, including the current First/ Second Book Contest, judged by Donald Revell, check out our contests page.

Richard O. Moore (PARTICULARS OF PLACE, S15) was recently profiled in The Pacific Sun.

“Exile” was published in the 2013 edition of New American Writing. It will also be included in Particulars of Place.

slantedshanty:

My third letterpress broadside from Wolfram Swets’ Tungsten Press in Hilversum, the Netherlands: 

“Joseph Massey: HARBOR — a two-color poecard printed in the Romanée and the Folio on Zerkall paper, December 2012 / May 2013 — Edition of a hundred copies.”

Joseph Massey’s TO KEEP TIME is forthcoming in Fall 2014

Do not let the rat-race lead you astray. Creative work is the work of the spirit, and though the spirit must do its earthly work in its allotted lifetime, remember that its responsibility and conversation is always with a much larger and much more abstract sense of space and time.

—

Lynn Xu (DEBTS & LESSONS) from an interview with Anis Shivani in the Huffington Post

(Source: slantedshanty)

32nd Annual Northern California Book Awards celebrating books published in 2012 by Northern California authorsSunday, May 19, 20131:00-2:30 pm: Awards Ceremony: readings andremarks by this year’s award-winning authors 2:30–4:00 pm: Book signing and Reception follows in the Latino/Hispanic Meeting RoomSan Francisco Main Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin Street, enter on Grove Street, Civic Center, San FranciscoLyn Hejinian’s The Book of a Thousand Eyes is a nominee in poetry. 

32nd Annual Northern California Book Awards

celebrating books published in 2012 by Northern California authors

Sunday, May 19, 2013

1:00-2:30 pm: Awards Ceremony: readings and
remarks by this year’s award-winning authors 

2:30–4:00 pm: Book signing and Reception 
follows in the Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room

San Francisco Main Library, Koret Auditorium, 
100 Larkin Street, enter on Grove Street, Civic Center, San Francisco


Lyn Hejinian’s The Book of a Thousand Eyes is a nominee in poetry. 

from The Book of a Thousand Eyes by Lyn Hejinian “Writing about Lyn Hejinian’s The Book of a Thousand Eyes is like talking about someone else’s dreams. The poems are peculiar and uncanny, full of surprising leaps and linkages that one might expect from a book written in the dark.” -Tim Wood, at Jacket2

from The Book of a Thousand Eyes by Lyn Hejinian

“Writing about Lyn Hejinian’s The Book of a Thousand Eyes is like talking about someone else’s dreams. The poems are peculiar and uncanny, full of surprising leaps and linkages that one might expect from a book written in the dark.”

-Tim Wood, at Jacket2

Sylvain Galais and Cynthia Hogue’s translation of Fortino Sámano (The Overflowing of the Poem) by Virginie Lalucq and philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy was just reviewed in Poetry International: The entire sequence of nearly 40 short poems meditates on a single image from that exhibit [by Augustin Victor Casasola], a photograph in which a little-known Zapatista lieutenant, Fortino Sámano, nonchalantly smokes his last cigar moments before his death by firing squad. How is this frozen moment altered by our knowledge of what proceeds from it? What does the photographic image “say” about the man, Fortino Sámano? How does the image interrogate the viewer—what can she say in response? And can the image be captured by “the long / unwound ink of words,” even as these words dismantle themselves? -Claire McQuerry

Sylvain Galais and Cynthia Hogue’s translation of Fortino Sámano (The Overflowing of the Poem) by Virginie Lalucq and philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy was just reviewed in Poetry International:

The entire sequence of nearly 40 short poems meditates on a single image from that
exhibit [by Augustin Victor Casasola], a photograph in which a little-known Zapatista lieutenant, Fortino Sámano, nonchalantly smokes his last cigar moments before his death by firing squad. How is this frozen moment altered by our knowledge of what proceeds from it? What does the photographic image “say” about the man, Fortino Sámano? How does the image interrogate the viewer—what can she say in response? And can the image be captured by “the long / unwound ink of words,” even as these words dismantle themselves?

-Claire McQuerry

(Source: metmuseum.org)

Giving oneself the permission to explore — to write badly — is a great help, in the short run. In the long run, one can revise, critique, self-analyze, etc. (In the longer run, we die.) -G.C. Waldrep (SUSQUEHANNA), at Blue Mesa Review photo credit: Christopher Bradt

Giving oneself the permission to explore — to write badly — is a great help, in the short run. In the long run, one can revise, critique, self-analyze, etc. (In the longer run, we die.)

-G.C. Waldrep (SUSQUEHANNA), at Blue Mesa Review

photo credit: Christopher Bradt