Jake Adam York has some great news on his website. With A Murmuration of Starlings on my mind, I’m stoked to hear that a companion volume, titled Persons Unknown, will be released in November ‘10. Now I have at least four books in 2010 I’m anxious to read.
Along with Jake’s announcement, you can find some excellent reflections into marketing, audience, and how we discuss our work in academic and non-academic setting. I, myself, seem to be fearful of speaking about my work appropriately in an academic setting. Wish I could just say, “I go where the poems tell me.” Of course, I’m still getting comfortable inside the skin of the second manuscript.
I saw this on a few other blogs, and I wanted to pass it on…
The editors are pleased to announce a call for submissions for A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry.
We are seeking poems that work within the literary tradition of persona poetry: poems written as dramatic monologues, whose speakers employ masks, or whose character and voice are different from the poet’s own.
Please submit up to 5 unpublished poems. We will also consider poems whose rights have reverted back to the author.
All submissions will be accepted electronically. Please send an email to the editors at facesanthology@gmail.com with the poet’s name and “Submission for Persona Anthology” as the subject line, with the poems as an attachment.
Submissions will be accepted October 1, 2009 through January 1, 2010.
As some may already know, Tony Gorsline, Owner and Publisher of Bedbug Press, passed away this summer on June 17, 2009. Recently in September, there was also a tribute held for him in Brownsville, OR. This is a truly huge loss for the poetry community, and though it may be delayed, I wish to express my condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.
It was a true honor to work with him and I am grateful for having the chance to know him. I corresponded with him a lot via email and was fortunate to have met him during AWP Atlanta, where we spent some time getting to know each other. Meeting him in person showed me why he touched so many lives with his passion, charm, and kindness. He was a true lover of poetry, who shared it with the world, and I know he will continued to be missed.
Bedbug Press has been placed on an indefinite hiatus.
Here’s a bit of great news. Congrats to Gary Jackson on winning the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize! Look for his book, Missing You, Metropolis, in fall 2010. Read more here.
More updates & posts soon…