The Waywiser Press

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
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
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.
