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Book publication — April 29, 2017
March 15, 2017:
— Publication of Cody Walker’s The Trumpiad.
Book publication – March 15, 2017
March 15, 2017:
— Publication of Hilary S. Jacqmin’s Missing Persons.
12th Annual Hecht Poetry Prize – Closed
December 1, 2016, midnight: The 12th Annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize is now closed for submissions.
12th Annual Hecht Poetry Prize – Closing
December 1, 2016, midnight EST: The 12th Annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize will shorly be closing for submissions.
There is still time to apply, and please click for further information.
Cody Walker featured in the New York Times Magazine
Cradle Song,
one of the many fine poems included in Cody Walker’s latest collection, The Self-Styled No-Child, is featured in the New York Times Magazine. To read the poem, please click on the link: New York Times Magazine
OED Online Word of the Day
The Oxford English Dictionary‘s Online Word of the Day for September 8th 2016 is Waywiser
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A poem by V. Penelope Pelizzon attracts in-depth study
Dr M.W. Rowe, Honorary Researcher in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia has written an in-depth article about Ms Pelizzon’s poem “Nulla Dies Sine Linea”, which he describes early on as “unshowy, nimble, personal, and expertly crafted,” and concludes, 32 pages later, saying “it could become a minor classic”.
To read the whole of this article, please click on Read Full Review
Book publications – Oct 2016
October 15, 2016:
— Publication of Austin Allen’s Pleasures of the Game, winner of the 11th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
— Publication of J. D. McClatchy’s Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems
— Publication of Stephen Yenser’s Stone Fruit
Greg Williamson’s The Hole Story – Kirkus Review Indie Book of the Month
September 15, 2016: Greg Williamson’s The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True is a Kirkus Review Indie Book of the Month. To read their review (which describes The Hole Story as a “brilliantly comic, pleasingly discursive, admirably dexterous … tour de force”) please click: Review
Greg Williamson’s The Hole Story – Hopkins Review Notice
August 2, 2016: Greg Williamson’s The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True positively reviewed by X. J. Kennedy in The Hopkins Review. Non-subscribers can read the first part of this review by clicking the following link: Review