Author News & Events

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An interview with Bruce Weigl was featured on KCRW, Southern California's leading National Public Radio (NPR) on May 22, 2008.

Josh Rathkamp's poem “What's Wrong with Being Human” from Some Nights No Cars At All was featured on the radio show, “The Colors of Jazz” on KSFR-FM, Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 4, 2008.

Garrison Keillor host of The Writer's Almanac read a poem from STEVE ORLEN'S The Elephant's Child on October 15, 2007.

TUNG HUI HU won the $3000 James D. Phelan award from the San Francisco Foundation/Intersection for the Arts for his new manuscript of poems, "Greenhouses, Lighthouses."

LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR won a Pushcart Prize for the poem “Man at the Museum of Modern Art” in A New Hunger.

A major feature on STEVE ORLEN appears on-line in the current issue of H-NGM-N: Thank You, Steve Orlen.

PATRICK DONNELLY will be Faculty Fellow in Creative Writing at Colby College in 2007/2008. He has new poems and translations in Quarterly West, Meridian, The Marlboro Review, and www.thedrunkenboat.com, and audio recordings of poems from The Charge at www.fishousepoems.org.

ADRIAN BLEVINS has poems forthcoming in Triquarterly, Pleiades, and Smartish Pace.

Congratulations to BRUCE WEIGL, winner of the 2006 Lannan Poetry Award. The $150,000 Award recognizes writers "who have made significant contributions to English-language literature."

JAMES RICHARDSON, JEFFREY SKINNER, KAREN WHALLEY and C.K. WILLIAMS have had poems chosen for "The Writer's Almanac," Garrison Keillor's national radio show.

JAMES RICHARDSON's book Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms is the winner of the 2005 Devil's Kitchen Reading Series Prize sponsored by Crab Orchard Review.

JEFFREY SKINNER (Salt Water Amnesia) received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry for 2007. Three Ausable Press poets received NEA Fellowships for 2005: LAURA KASISCHKE (Gardening in the Dark), KATHLEEN PEIRCE (The Ardors), and ERIC PANKEY (Reliquaries).

Time Magazine recently named LAURA KASISCHKE'S book, Gardening in the Dark, one of seven books of poetry "with which to curl up." The book was also reviewed in the New York Times Book Review on November 21st, and was named a New York Times "Editor's Pick."

HAYDEN CARRUTH was nominated for a Pushcart Award.

An interview with HAYDEN CARRUTH appeared in an issue of Rattle.

PATRICK DONNELLY had a major interview in an issue of Puerto del Sol.

ADRIAN BLEVINS' essay "The Language Coming from the Next Room" appears on the Poetry Foundation's web site. To read it, click here.

Forthcoming Books:

Eric Pankey, The Pear as One Example (April 2008)
Gary Lilley, Alpha Zulu (May 2008)
Julie Agoos, Property (June 2008)
Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth (September 2008)
Craig Arnold, Made Flesh (October 2008)
Roger Mitchell, Lemon Peeled the Moment Before: New & Selected Poems (October 2008)
Seido Ray Ronci, The Skeleton of the Crow: New & Selected Poems (November 2008)
Khaled Mattawa, Amorisco (November 2008)
An Ausable Reader: A Decade of Poetry Against the Current (publication date to be announced)

Upcoming Events & Readings:

Saturday, July 19, 2008, AMHERST, MA
PATRICK DONNELLY will participate in a poetry reading to benefit The Frost Place at 2 p.m., Amherst College, Pruyne Lecture Hall (Fayerweather Hall 115). Admission: $5.