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Winner
of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, 2011 Announced
We
are delighted to announce that the winner of the seventh annual
Hecht Prize is Chris Andrews's Lime Green Chair, which
was selected from an entry of 300+ manuscripts by the final
judge, Mark Strand. For more about this year's prize, including
poems by, and biographical notes about, everyone who reached
as far as the semi-finals, please click on the link below.
Hecht Prize 2011
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Forthcoming
publications
Robert
Conquest, Blokelore & Blokesongs (to be published on
July 1, 2012)
In this hilarious and irreverent new collection, Robert Conquest,
now in his ninety-fifth year and still writing poems of the very
highest quality, lets us in on the musings of Old Fred, a man
much given to reflection on the relationship between the sexes,
and wholly impervious to notions of political correctness. The
poems display all of Conquest's customary skills, and give witty
expression to a mind at once resigned and optimistic, baffled
and amused, stoical and exuberant. Anyone currently being tossed
about on the stormy seas of sex, if they are willing to be "guided
by previous wrecks", can expect to find themselves at least
temporarily steered towards calmer waters in these pages.
Further
information about this book, as well as extracts and endorsements
from some oif its admirers will be posted on this site in the
near future.
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Awards
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New
publications
Mark
Kraushaar, The Uncertainty Principle (published
November 8, 2011)
Winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize,
2010
(For
more information click on the cover)
The
Hecht Prize Anthology, 2005-2009, edited by Joseph Harrison
(published November 8, 2011)
(For
more information click on the cover)
Recent
publications
Richard
Wilbur, Anterooms (published in October 2011)
(For
more information, please click on the cover)
Eric
McHenry and Nicholas Garland's
Mommy Daddy Evan Sage (published
in October 2011)
(For
more information, please click on the cover)
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Dora
Malech featured on Poem-A-Day
A new poem by Dora Malech, "Each year", is being featured
on the Academy of American Poets' website. To read the poem, please
click on the link below:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/22498
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Jeffrey
Harrison, "The Generations"
In
the spring of 2008, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia hosted
a three-day celebration of poetry entitled "A Fine Excess".
This featured readings by a dozen or more Waywiser poets, including
W.D. Snodgrass, Mark Strand and Richard Wilbur. On the last night,
a party was held at the home of Ron Schuchard (the Godrich C.
White Professor of English at Emory) and his wife, at which a
number of the poets recited poems that meant something special
to them. The event is commemorated in a new poem by another of
the Waywiser poets present that evening, Jeffrey Harrison. We
should like to thank him for giving us permission to reprint this
poem here. It first appeared in the July 2010 issue of the Yale
Review:
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THE
GENERATIONS
Years from now I may have forgotten all
the details, so I'm trying to get this down
on paper now in order to have it then
when I'm old and looking back on that evening
of the poetry festival's last day when
Wilbur and Snodgrass and Strand were all
in one room for what might be the last time,
with a slew of us likely to be forgotten
sitting around that living room or standing
along its bookshelved walls and in the doorways,
listening to toasts and then to our spirited host
intoning Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium."
Then we heard Wyatt, Herrick, Bishop, Larkin,
and I'm already forgetting who else,
nursery rhymes in English and Hungarian,
all by heart from those in our gathering,
poem after poem called back and delivered
and listened to with the insuppressible pleasure
of poets celebrating the art of those who came
centuries or decades before them.
I can't remember, already, who asked for Wilbur's
"Love Calls Us to the Things of This World."
He said he couldn't do it from memory,
and someone handed him the book. As he read it
from his armchair, I could see Strand, standing
behind him, on the far side of the room,
mouthing the words as if they were a creed –
then he backed away, though I could see him still
from my corner as he bent his head forward
and covered his face with his hands. For a moment
I thought he was overcome with emotion,
and maybe, for a moment, he was – at the poem
itself, and from remembering the time
(from the vantage of now being seventy-three)
he'd memorized those lines by his elder.
And not just those lines, because, moments later,
he stepped forward to recite another poem
by Wilbur, following it with a parody
he'd written in college, then placed his hand
on Wilbur's shoulder to show him it was meant
in further homage. And I felt how rare it was,
this paying tribute, this camaraderie,
this sense of being however small a part
of something much larger than that room.
© Jeffrey Harrison
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Matthew
Ladd interviewed
To
read a two-part interview with Matthew Ladd, whose The Book
of Emblems won the fifth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize,
please click on the links below:
http://hellegood.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/an-edification-a-werd-exclusive-e-interview-with-poet-matthew-ladd-part-i/
http://hellegood.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/an-edification-a-werd-exclusive-e-interview-with-poet-matthew-ladd-part-ii/
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Dora
Malech wins Ruth B. Lilly Fellowship
Our congratulations go to Dora Malech, whose Shore Ordered
Ocean we published in 2009. She is one of the five young poets
to be awarded a 2010 Ruth B. Lilly Fellowship. The official announcement
of this award reads (in part) as follows:: "The Poetry Foundation
and Poetry magazine are pleased to announce the five recipients
of the 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowships: Brooklyn Copeland, Miriam
Bird Greenberg, Nate Klug, Dora Malech, and Christopher Shannon.
Among the largest awards offered to aspiring poets in the United
States, each Lilly Fellowship carries a $15,000 scholarship prize
for fellows to use as they wish in continued study and writing
of poetry." To read the whole announcement, please click
on the link below:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/release_081910.html?id=186236
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Robert
Conquest profiled by Cynthia Haven
To read Cynthia Haven's profile of Robert Conquest, whose Waywiser
collection Penultimata was published in 2009, visit her
Stanford University blog, The Book Haven, at
http://bookhaven.stanford.edu
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Dora
Malech interviewed by Gregory Lawless
If you would like to read "I though I was new here: If You
Are Reading This You Can't Be Nearly Close Enough To Me: An Interview
with Dora Malech", please click on the link below:
http://ithoughtiwasnewhere.blogspot.com/2010/05/if-you-are-reading-this-you-cant-be.html
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Philip
Hoy, Waywiser's Editor-in Chief interviewed by
The Bow-Wow Shop
Issue No 5 of the online literary magazine The Bow-Wow Shop,
edited by Michael Glover, contains interviews with the editors
of a number of small literary presses, who were asked to say how
they choose what they publish. To read Hoy's contribution, and
the others, please click on the link below
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/28180547/source/subject
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