The Waywiser Press

Reading: Joseph Harrison will read at the University of Evansville, Indiana
2016-09-14 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Indiana/Knox) | Melvin Petersen Gallery, University of Evansville, 1800 Lincoln Ave., Evansville, IN, 47722, United States
Joseph Harrison, author of Shakespeare’s Horse, Identity Theft and Someone Else’s Name, will read at the University of Evansville, Indiana.

Reading: Eric McHenry with William Trowbridge and Erik Campbell
2016-09-16 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, MO, 64111, United States
Waywiser poet Eric McHenry will read with William Trowbridge and Erik Campbell
The Writers Place Reading Series

Reading: Private dinner with a reading by Stephen Yenser
2016-09-16 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Katie McGrath and Helen Bartlett, Pacific Palisades, CA, United States
Stephen Yenser will give a private reading from his latest poetry collection, Stone Fruit.

Stephen Yenser will read from Stone Fruit
2016-10-09 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Craft and Folk Art Museum, 5814 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, CA 90036, United States
Stephen Yenser will read from his new poetry collection, Stone Fruit.

Publication: Pleasures of the Game - Austin Allen
2016-10-15 | DC
Winner of the 11th annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Foreword by the judge, Eavan Boland
Pleasures of the Game, the latest winner of the prestigious annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, is a book of deceptively playful poems, of sparkling surfaces that conceal dark undercurrents. Its subjects include games of all kinds: from schoolyard Double Dutch to the chess match of love, from painters’ illusions to professional ice hockey, from the stratagems of spies to the life-and-death game we play against the universe.

Publication: Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems - J. D. McClatchy
2016-10-15 | DC
At last, a definitive selection of the elegant work by a poet at the forefront of American poetry for more than three decades. With his first several books, J. D. McClatchy established himself as a poet of urbanity, intellect, and prismatic emotion, in the tradition of James Merrill, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop––one who balances an exploration of the underworld of desire with a mastery of poetic form, and whose artistry reveals the riches and ruins of our “plundered hearts.” Now, opening with exquisite new poems––including the stunning “My Hand Collection,” a catalogue of art objects that steals up on the complexity of human touch, and a witty and profound poem entitled “My Robotic Prostatectomy”––this selection is a glorious full tour of McClatchy’s career. It includes excerpts from the powerful book-length sequence Ten Commandments (1998) and his more recent works Hazmat (2002) and Mercury Dressing (2009)—books that explored the body’s melodrama, as well as the heart’s treacheries, grievances, and boundless capacities. All of his poems present a sumptuous weave of impassioned thought and clear-sighted feeling. He has been rightly hailed as a poet of “ferocious alertness,” one who elicits (says The New Leader) “the kind of wonder and joy we experience when the curtain comes down on a dazzling performance.”

Publication: Stone Fruit - Stephen Yenser
2016-10-15 | DC
The locales in Stephen’s Yenser’s new volume are California, Kansas, and Greece, where the titular fruits include respectively the date palm, the blackberry, and the olive. But the sculpted fruit on a grave marker qualifies as well, along with the stone wall that is the yield of hard labor, both of which also figure in this book. Words too may be fleshy and hard at once, may be elegiac and memorial, and may build a structure. To cultivate, to commemorate, and to construct are the poet’s objects, each involved with the others.

US Launch of Austin Allen's Pleasures of the Game at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
2016-10-24 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC, 200003, United States
Winner of the 11th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, Austin Allen will be introduced by the judge who awarded the prize, Eavan Boland, and the two poets will take it in turns to read from their work at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. The event will be introduced by Waywiser’s Editor-in-Chief, Philip Hoy.
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Reading: Austin Allen will read with Cody Walker and Greg Williamson
2016-10-25 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | The Ivy Bookshop, 6080 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
Austin Allen (author of Pleasures of the Game (winner of the 11th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize)) will read with Cody Walker (author of The Self-Styled No-Child and Shuffle and Breakdown) and Greg Williamson (author of The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True, A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck, Errors in the Script, and The Silent Partner)
Please note that there has been a change of venue. This event will now take place at the Ivy Bookshop, not, as previously announced, at the Bird in Hand

Stephen Yenser will read from his new collection of poems, Stone Fruit
2016-11-17 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, CA 90024, United States
Stephen Yenser will read from his new collection of poems, Stone Fruit.

Austin Allen will read from Pleasures of the Game
2016-12-11 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Red Harlem Reader series, Suite Bar, 992 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, NY 10025, United States
Austin Allen will read from his Hecht-Prize winning collection of poems, Pleasures of the Game

Meet The Waywiser-Press at 2017 AWP Conference & Bookfair, in Washington, DC.
2017-02-08 - 2017-02-11 | Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt Vernon Pl NW, Washington, DC, 20001, United States
Waywiser will have a stand at the 2017 AWP Conference & Bookfair, in Washington, DC. Meet some of our staff, and some of our authors, as well as buy some of our books. Further information about the 2017 can be found at AWP-Conference. Our stand will be at Exhibitor Space #217 in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center at 801 Mt. Vernon Place NW, Washington, DC.

Book-signings on Waywiser's AWP stand
2017-02-11 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt Vernon Pl NW, Washington, DC, 20001, United States
12:00 Austin Allen will sign copies of his Hecht Prize-winning Pleasures of the Game
12:30 Jaimee Hills will sign copies of her Hecht Prize-winning How to Avoid Speaking
1:00 Greg Williamson will sign copies of his The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True
1:30 Hilary S. Jacqmin will sign copies of her Missing Persons

Hecht Prize / Waywiser Press Poetry Reading
2017-02-11 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | The Den at Poltics & Prose Book Store, 5015 Connecticut Avenue N.W., Washington, DC, 20008, United States
To end the 2017 AWP conference on a high, five former Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize winners will read in the first half of this event; then, after a short break, five other poets published by The Waywiser Press will also read. Do join us at DC’s premier independent book store.
Austin Allen (Hecht Prize winner)
Geoffrey Brock (Hecht Prize winner)
Morri Creech (Hecht Prize winner, Pulitzer Prize finalist)
Joseph Harrison (Guggenheim fellow)
Jaimee Hills (Hecht Prize winner)
Dora Malech (Clampitt fellow)
Eric McHenry (Kate Tufts Discovery Award winner)
Penelope Pelizzon (Norma Farber First Book Award winner)
Shelley Puhak (Hecht Prize winner)
Cody Walker (Clampitt fellow)

Publication: The Trumpiad - Cody Walker
2017-04-29 | DC
The new U.S. president doesn’t read books, but for everyone else, there’s Cody Walker’s The Trumpiad, a blistering and hilarious take on America’s political collapse. Key Difference: I wouldn’t lump / Trump / in with Hitler and Mussolini. / Trump’s hands are littler. (They’re teeny.) The Trumpiad will be published on April 29th 2017, which will mark Trump’s 100th day in office.

All proceeds will be donated to the ACLU.

Joseph Harrison will read at the FlowerMart Festival, Baltimore
2017-05-06 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | The Peabody Institute, 1 East Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD, MD21206, United States
Joseph Harrison, author of Someone Else’s Name, Identity Theft, and Shakespeare’s Horse, will read from his work. Reading with him will be former Poet Laureate of the UK, Andrew Motion, whose most recent collection is Peace Talks, and Abdul Ali, whose most recent collection is Trouble Sleeping.

Austin Allen will read from his new collection, Pleasures of the Game
2017-05-07 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Carmine Street Metrics, Otto's Shrunken Head, 538 E. 14th Street, New York, NY, NY 10009, United States
Austin Allen, winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, will read from his prize-winning collection of poems, Pleasures of the Game. Reading with him will be Ernest Hilbert.

Philip Hoy will speak about Waywiser at the Winchester Writers Festival
2017-06-16 19:45 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Stripe Auditorium, University of Winchester, Sparkford Road, Winchester, SO224NR, United Kingdom
Philip Hoy, Editor-in-Chief of The Waywiser Press, and editor of A Bountiful Harvest: The Correspondence of Anthony Hecht and William L. MacDonald (forthcoming in October), will take part in Mslexia Magazine’s Meet the Editors event at this year’s Winchester Writers Festival on Friday 16th June. The event will be chaired by Mslexia editor Debbie Taylor, and the other speakers will be Myriad Editions’s Candida Lacey, Structo’s Euan Monaghan, and Holland House Books’s Robert Peett.

US launch of Mike White's Addendum to a Miracle at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
2017-11-06 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC, 200003, United States
Winner of the 12th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, Mike White, will be introduced by the judge who awarded the prize, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, and the two poets will take it in turns to read from their work at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. The event will be introduced by Waywiser’s Senior American Editor, Joseph Harrison.
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Mike White will read from Addendum to a Miracle
2018-10-17 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | The Printed Garden, 9445 S Union Sq, Ste A,, Sandy, UT, 84070, United States
Mike White will read from Addendum to a Miracle, which won the twelfth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, and was a runner-up for the 15 Bytes Book Award for Poetry.

US launch of Christopher Cessac's The Youngest Ocean at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
2018-11-05 19:30 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC, 200003, United States
Winner of the 13th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, Christopher Cessac, will be introduced by the judge who awarded the prize, Sir Andrew Motion, and the two poets will take it in turns to read from their work at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. The event will be introduced by Waywiser’s Editor in Chief, Philip Hoy.

Audrey Bohanan will read with Joseph Harrison and Dora Malech
2019-04-04 07:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Bird in Hand, 11 E. 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
Please join Waywiser Press for the launch of Audrey Bohanan’s new poetry collection, Any Keep or Contour, a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Joseph Harrison and Dora Malech will read with Ms. Bohanan.

Morri Creech and Joseph Harrison will be reading their poems on ZOOM
2020-06-04 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | ZOOM
Please sit in on a reading by two of Waywiser’s most distinguished poets – Morri Creech (author, most recently, of Blue Rooms) and Joseph Harrison (author, most recently, of Sometimes I Dream That I Am Not Walt Whitman). The reading will be held on ZOOM, and there is room for an audience of up to 100. We hope to see you there.

15th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Reading (the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles)
2021-04-18 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | DC
James Davis, winner of the 15th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize will read from his winning collection, Club Q. He will be introduced by that year’s judge, Edward Hirsch, who will go on to read himself.The event will be introduced by Stephen Yenser, and Joseph Harrison (Waywiser’s Senior American Editor) and Philip Hoy (Waywiser’s founder and Editor-in-Chief) will say something about the press and the prize’s distinguished history. Do join us for the event, which will be broadcast on the Hammer Museum’s website at 2pm PDT and 5pm EST on Sunday April 18th. Here is a link. Clicking on it now will allow you to ask for a reminder of the event on the day:
https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2021/ed-hirsch-james-davis-anthony-hecht-poetry-prize-reading

John Rosenthal will read from his memoir, Searching for Amylu Danzer, and be interviewed by prize-winning poet Alan Shapiro
2021-07-07 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Flyleaf Books, 752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.,, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Photographer and writer John Rosenthal will read from his widely praised memoir, Searching for Amylu Danzer, at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and will be in conversation about the book with the prize-winning poet Alan Shapiro. If you can attend, well and good; if you can’t, the event will be livestreamed by Flyleaf on their Facebook page and you can register for it by going to https://www.flyleafbooks.com/rosenthal-2021. Do join us for what promises to be a memorable event.

John Rosenthal will read from his new book, Searching for Amylu Danzer, and will talk about it with acclaimed poet and essayist Alan Shapiro
2021-08-14 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | PS118 Gallery, 118 West Parrish Street, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
Photographer and writer John Rosenthal will read from his new book, Searching for Amylu Danzer, and will talk about it with acclaimed poet and essayist Alan Shapiro, author most recently of Against Translation and Reel to Reel.
Books will be for sale, and John will sign them after the reading.
Stick around for conversations and to make new friends.
Tickets cost $6.00 and seats can be reserved in advance at https://checkout.square.site/merchant/QDEG6VP4GZMQ6/checkout/SWATUX4EOTTSKGQTGCQFBKAT

John Rosenthal will read from his new book, Searching for Amylu Danzer, at the Frank Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC
2021-12-12 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Frank Gallery, 201 South Estes Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
You are cordially invited to a reading from his recently publish and much-praised memoir, Searching for Amylu Danzer, by photographer and author John Rosenthal. There is limited seating for this event, and admittance is by RSVP using the form featured on the venue’s website, at https://www.frankisart.com/exhibit-events-blog/2021/11/16/john-rosenthal-reading. Vaccination cards and masks will be required.

Launch Party for Danielle Blau's Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize-winning collection, peep
2022-05-15 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Footlight Underground at the Windjammer, 552 Grandview Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens, 11385
You are cordially invited to the launch party for Danielle Blau’s peep, which won the sixteenth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, and was awarded to her by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Vijay Seshadri. Danielle and Vijay will both read, as will Matthew Rohrer, Julia Guez, Maria Wojciechowski, Rohan Padhye, and Kenice Mobley. Full details of this event, including information about the other contributors, can be found by clicking on the Hecht Prize party link.
Please note: proof of vaccination & masks will be required.

Clive Watkins and Chris Preddle will read from their latest collections
2022-05-22 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Choppards Mission, Cote Lane, Holmfirth, Yorkshire, HD9 2RP, United Kingdom
You are cordially invited to a book launch and poetry reading by Clive Watkins and Chris Preddle. Clive will be reading from his latest collection, Pedic’s Dream (‘… maturity of technique and sensibility … a distinctive power’), and Chris will be reading from his latest, The May Figures (‘ … lyrical, diverse in form … ingenious … alliterative, witty’). Entry is free, and drinks and nibbles will be available.

The 18th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize will open for submissions on September 1st, 2022
2022-09-01 00:00 - 2022-12-01 00:00 (America/New_York) | DC
The 18th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize will open for submissions at midnight on September 1st 2022, and will close again at midnight on December 1st, 2022.
Anyone over the age of 18 who has not already published more than one full-length poetry collection may submit.
The winner will receive a purse of $3,000, and his or her collection will be published by Waywiser in the USA and the UK in the spring of 2024. The winner and the judge will give a reading in Washington DC under the auspices of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Past judges include Richard Wilbur, Heather McHugh, Mark Strand, Mary Jo Salter, Charles Simic, Rosanna Warren, J.D. McClatchy, Eavan Boland, Edward Hirsch, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Vijay Seshadri, Charles Wright, and Alice Fulton.
Submit online a manuscript of between 48 and 88 pages with a $29 entry fee by midnight on December 1st, 2022.
For full guidelines and submission portal, please visit our website: https://hechtprize.waywiser-press.com/
