The Waywiser Press

Publication: Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems - J. D. McClatchy
2016-10-15
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
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.
