The Waywiser Press

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)
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)
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/

A bilingual reading of poems from Late Montale, presented by the translator George Bradley and Professor Riccardo Bruscagli
2022-09-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | ZOOM
Zoom Reading
Poet George Bradley, accompanied by Professor Riccardo Bruscagli, will read from his translations of Eugenio Montale, published in Late Montale (Waywiser, 2022). Bradley is the author of six books, most recently A Stroll in the Rain: New & Selected Poems (LSU Press 2021). Among his awards are the Yale Younger Poets Prize, the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Peter I. B. Lavan Award from The Academy of American Poets, an Ingram Merrill prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Riccardo Bruscagli, Emeritus Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Florence, is an expert on poetry from various periods, with special attention to Carducci, Ariosto, Tasso, and Dante, as well as Montale.
The event is free, but you will need to pre-register here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkcuuopz4tGdKhCzZ9beZcvRy1EmTZltsJ

James Davis will read from his prize winning collection, Club Q
2022-10-12 19:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | The Wild Detectives, 314 W. Eighth Street, Dallas, TX, 75208, United States
James Davis will read from his prize-winning poetry collection, Club Q, at The Wild Detective in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday October 12th from 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, so do come along if you can. James will be in conversation with the event’s host, Logen Cure, after the reading, discussing Club Q and new work.

Danielle Blau will read from p e e p, winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
2022-11-07 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | ZOOM
Zoom Reading
Danielle Blau’s debut full-length poetry collection peep was selected by Vijay Seshadri for the 2021 Anthony Hecht Prize. Her nonfiction book Rhyme or Reason: Poets and Philosophers on the Problem of Being Here Now is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. Blau’s mere eye was selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Award and published with an introduction by D.A. Powell, and her poems won first place in the multi-genre Narrative 30 Below Contest. Poetry, short stories, articles, and interviews by Blau appear in The Atlantic, Australian Book Review, The Baffler, The Literary Review, Narrative Magazine, The New Yorker’s book blog, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Saint Ann’s Review, several volumes of the Plume Anthology of Poetry, and elsewhere. Her work has been set to music by composers of various stripes and performed in such venues as Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Carnegie Hall. A graduate of Brown University with an honors degree in philosophy, and of New York University with an MFA in poetry, Blau teaches at Hunter College in Manhattan, and curates and hosts the monthly Gavagai Music + Reading Series in Queens, where she lives with her son Kai.
This event is free, but you must preregister here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/872563677

Henry Walters will read from The Nature Thief, finalist for the 16th annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
2023-02-08 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | ZOOM
Zoom Reading
Henry Walters is a New Hampshire poet, raised in the Midwest. His second book of poems, The Nature Thief, was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and was published by The Waywiser Press in late 2022. His first book of poetry, Field Guide A Tempo, was a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A student of Latin and Greek, he lived as a falconer’s apprentice in Ireland and a beekeeper’s assistant in Sicily before returning to the United States, where he has worked as a seasonal biologist, postal carrier, census-taker, gardener, carpenter, baseball and basketball coach, actor, and birding guide. His poems, translations, reviews, and essays appear in periodicals such as The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, Orion, Literary Imagination, and New Letters. He lives with his young family, a hive of bees, and a hawk.
The event is free but you must register in advance by going to:
Henry_Walters_Reading

The Seventeenth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Reading
2023-03-01 19:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC, 200003, United States
James D’Agostino, whose The Goldfinch Caution Tapes, won the seventeenth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, will read alongside the contest’s judge, acclaimed poet Alice Fulton.
Please note that this event will be presented via ZOOM in Eastern Time (ET). Access links will be included in a performance reminder email closer to the event.
Tickets to this event are Pay What You Will, starting at $5, in order to make them accessible to whoever would like to attend. We appreciate whatever you can afford, which will go toward supporting future programming.
To reserve your ticket(s), please click on this link, which will take you to the Folger Shakespeare Library’s website: https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/anthony-hecht-poetry-prize-alice-fulton-james-dagostino/
