The Waywiser Press

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.

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.

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.

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 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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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.

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.

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.

Publication: The Trumpiad - Cody Walker
2017-04-29 | NC
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.

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)

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

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.

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

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.

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

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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Publication: Stone Fruit - Stephen Yenser
2016-10-15 | NC
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.

Publication: Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems - J. D. McClatchy
2016-10-15 | NC
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: Pleasures of the Game - Austin Allen
2016-10-15 | NC
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.

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.

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.

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: 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 and Maggie Dietz
2016-07-25 15:45 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Sargent College, Room 101, 635 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA, 02215, United States
Waywiser poet Eric McHenry will read with Maggie Dietz.
Faculty Reading, Favorite Poem Project Summer Institute.
