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[10.11.2005]
RMP News Update...
We're
very pleased to announce that we'll be publishing two (count 'em,
two!) new poetry titles in the coming months. The first will
be from Rhode Island poet Jen Tynes, an editor at horse
less press. After that, Red Morning Press goes international with
a book Ivy Alvarez, an Australian poet currently living
in Wales (check out her blog).
[9.9.2005]
RMP News Update...
Volume
1, Issue 2 of 'Notes on a Red Morning,' RMP's quarterly newsletter,
is now available for download (click here;
Acrobat required). In this issue, you'll find an article on the growing
online literary community, our second installment of
a series on the publishing process, and more.
[6.24.2005]
Poetry News Update...
A
poem by Greek poet Sappho was recently published by the Times Literary
Supplement. Researchers discovered the poem on a papyrus wrapped around
an Egyptian mummy.
[6.12.2005]
Poetry News Update...
Poet Richard Eberhart died at the age of 101. Eberhart won the Pulitzer
Prize for Poetry in 1996 for his "Selected Poems: 1930-1965."
He taught at Dartmouth College and served as New Hampshire's Poet Laureate
from 1979-1984.
[6.7.2005]
RMP News Update...
Red Morning Press is now
accepting manuscript submissions via E-mail. Details are available
in our Submissions section. Thanks to the many writers who have sent manuscripts
so far!
[5.20.2005]
Poetry News Update...
(St. Paul) The Minnesota House of Representatives approved
a bill that calls for the creation of a state poet laureate position.
According to an AP report, if the governor signs the bill into law, the
Minnesota Humanities Commission would recommend someone for the job. The
poet laureate's mission would be to promote the state and get students
excited about poetry. Tax dollars will not be allocated to fund the position.
[5.18.2005]
Poetry News Update...
(New York City) Brigid Hughes, former editor of the Paris
Review, plans to launch a quarterly literary magazine near the end of
this year, according to the Associated Press. The magazine, titled A Public
Space, will be based in Brooklyn and focus on poetry and fiction by new
and established writers. Hughes, whose contract with the Paris Review
was not renewed by the board of directors earlier this year, will seek
support for the magazine through "private donors, grants, subscription
revenue and advertising."
[5.13.2005]
Poetry News Update...
(Sacramento) Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger named Al Young California's
poet laureate. Young, 65, has been a poet, writer, teacher and lecturer
throughout his literary career. He has received numerous awards including
the Wallace Stegner, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Endowment for the
Arts Fellowships, the PEN-USA Award for Non-Fiction, and the Pushcart
Prize, as well as two American Book Awards and a New York Times Notable
Book of the Year citation. The position of California Poet Laureate was
created in 2001. This position requires Senate confirmation and the compensation
is $10,000 to be paid over the course of the two-year term.
[5.1.2005]
RMP News Update...
Red Morning Press
exhibited at the Bethesda Small Press Book Fair in Bethesda,
Md. in April. The fair featured local and national publishers of books
and journals. For more information about the Writer's Center, click here.
[4.10.2005]
RMP News Update...
Red Morning Press would like to thank everyone who stopped by our booth
at the 2005 AWP Conference in Vancouver, BC. You may
remember us as the three cheery fellows pictured below. See you in Austin
in 2006!
[3.29.2005]
RMP News Update...
Volume
1, Issue 1 of 'Notes on a Red Morning,' RMP's quarterly newsletter,
is now available for download (click here;
Acrobat required). In this issue, you'll find an interview with
Sean Norton and our first installment of a series on
the publishing process. Also now available is an online exclusive
article to accopany the first newsletter: 'Inside
the Publishing Plant.'
[3.20.2005]
RMP News Update...
Sean
Norton's 'Bad With Faces,'
is now available for purchase in the catalog section
of the site, where you can also preview the first ten pages. 'Bad
With Faces,' Norton's debut collection, has been praised
by Alice Fulton as "spiritual and gorgeous ... infused with a wry
wit that in no ways undermines its high seriousness."
[3.18.2005]
Poetry News Update...
(New York) Philip Gourevitch replaces Brigid Hughes as
editor of The Paris Review, a literary quarterly founded in 1953 by George
Plimpton. After Plimpton's death in September 2003, Brigid Hughes was
appointed interim editor.
[3.16.2005] Poetry News Update...
(Milwaukee) In celebration of National Poetry Month,
OnMilwaukee.com
is soliciting readers' best "cheese haikus" to post on its Web
site. Cheese poems not in the form of haikus will also be accepted. You
can E-mail your work by Friday, April 1 to poetry@staff.onmilwaukee.com
[3.11.2005]
Poetry News Update...
(Seattle) In an interview with The Post-Intelligencer,
U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser explained that his American Life in Poetry
project will offer a free six- to eight-inch column to local newspapers
each week. Each column features a poem by a living American and a brief
introduction, written by Kooser. To read the entire article, visit http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/215400_book11.html
[2.4.2005]
RMP News Update...
Red
Morning Press is pleased to announce that its entry into the world of
poetry publishing, Sean Norton's 'Bad With Faces,' is
currently being printed and will be available for purchase in early March.
[2.3.2005]
Poetry News Update...
(Seattle)
'Voices In Wartime,'
a feature-length documentary that explores how poetry and war have been
intertwined since the beginning of recorded history, debuted at the Palm
Springs International Film Festival in January and opens in theaters nationwide
in April. The film features poets and poems from countries around the
world, including Britain, Colombia, India, Iraq, Nigeria and the United
States. For more information, click here.
[1.23.2005]
Poetry News Update...
(Washington, D.C.) Robert Pinsky now writes the weekly
'Poet's Choice' column in The Washington Post's 'Book World,' an insert
to the newspaper's Sunday edition. The former U.S. Poet Laureate succeeds
Ed Hirsch, who had written the column since January 2002. Pinsky also
serves as poetry editor at online magazine Slate, which The Washington
Post purchased in December 2004.
[1.22.2005]
Poetry News Update...
(New York) The nominees for the National Book Critics
Circle awards for the publishing year 2004 in the poetry category include
Brigit Pegeen Kelly, 'The Orchard' (BOA Editions); D.A. Powell, 'Cocktails'
(Graywolf); Adrienne Rich, 'The School Among the Ruins' (Norton); James
Richardson, 'Interglacial' (Ausable Press); Gary Snyder, 'Danger on Peaks'
(Shoemaker & Hoard); and Richard Howard, 'Paper Trail: Selected Prose
1965-2003' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The winner will be announced this
March at the organization's 31st annual awards ceremony.
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