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Tupelo Press
Tupelo Press is an American not-for-profit literary press founded in 1999. It produced its first titles in 2001, publishing poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Originally located in Dorset, Vermont, the press has since moved to North Adams, Massachusetts. History, staff and funding Tupelo Press was founded by Jeffrey Levine, Publisher and Artistic Director, and author of three collections of poetry. The staff includes Kristina Marie Darling Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, David Rossitter, Managing Editor; Cassandra Cleghorn, Associate Editor for Poetry & Nonfiction, and Kirsten Miles, National Director of the 30/30 Project and National Coordinator for Tupelo Press Seminars. Tupelo Press publishes the winners of its national poetry competitions, as well as manuscripts accepted through general submission. Awards given by Tupelo Press include the Dorset Prize, the Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry, and the Snowbound Series Chapbook Award. Tupe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Levine (poet)
Jeffrey Levine is an American poet, publisher, musician, and attorney. He is the author of three poetry collections, including ''The Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered,'' forthcoming from Salmon Press in March 2019. Life Levine earned his B.A. from the University at Albany, SUNY, where he majored in music and English. After graduating, he taught at Skidmore College and played with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, later becoming a member of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. He attended the University at Buffalo Law School, SUNY, and worked briefly as a criminal defense lawyer before beginning his career in corporate law. He was working as a corporate lawyer in New York City and playing clarinet professionally when he began writing poetry. In late 1999 he founded Tupelo Press, an independent poetry press originally located in Dorset, Vermont, and since moved to the Eclipse Mill in North Adams, Massachusetts. Levine also holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College Warren Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aimee Nezhukumatathil (; Malayalam Abugida: നേഴുകുമറ്റത്തിൽ; ; born in 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American poet and essayist. Nezhukumatathil draws upon her Filipina and Malayali Indian background to give her perspective on love, loss, and land. Biography Nezhukumatathil received her BA and MFA from the Ohio State University. In 2016–17 she was the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi's MFA program. She has also taught at the Kundiman Retreat for Asian American writers. She is professor of English in the University of Mississippi's MFA program. She is married to the writer Dustin Parsons. They live in Oxford, Mississippi, with their two sons. Work She is author of four poetry collections. Her first collection, ''Miracle Fruit'', won the 2003 Tupelo Press Prize and the Global Filipino Literary Award in Poetry, was named the ''ForeWord Magazine'' Book of the Year in Poetry, and was a finalist for the As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ForeWord (magazine)
A foreword is a (usually short) piece of writing, sometimes placed at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature. Typically written by someone other than the primary author of the work, it often tells of some interaction between the writer of the foreword and the book's primary author or the story the book tells. Later editions of a book sometimes have a new foreword prepended (appearing before an older foreword if there was one), which might explain in what respects that edition differs from previous ones. When written by the author, the foreword may cover the story of how the book came into being or how the idea for the book was developed, and may include thanks and acknowledgments to people who were helpful to the author during the time of writing. Unlike a preface, a foreword is always signed. Information essential to the main text is generally placed in a set of explanatory notes, or perhaps in an introduction, rather than in the foreword or like preface. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to submit up to six works they have featured. Anthologies of the selected works have been published annually since 1976. It is supported and staffed by volunteers. Editors The founding editors were Anaïs Nin, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Newman, Daniel Halpern, Gordon Lish, Harry Smith, Hugh Fox, Ishmael Reed, Joyce Carol Oates, Len Fulton, Leonard Randolph, Leslie Fiedler, Nona Balakian, Paul Bowles, Paul Engle, Ralph Ellison, Reynolds Price, Rhoda Schwartz, Richard Morris, Ted Wilentz, Tom Montag, Bill Henderson and William Phillips. Many guest editors have served this collection over the years. They are listed in each edition that they edited. Over 200 contributing editors make nominations for each edition. They are li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lannan Literary Fellowship
The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation. Established in 1989, the awards are meant "to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional quality", according to the foundation. The foundation's awards are lucrative relative to most awards in literature: the 2006 awards for poetry, fiction and nonfiction each came with $150,000, making them among the richest literary prizes in the world. The awards reflect the philosophy governing the Lannan Foundation, a family foundation established by J. Patrick Lannan, Sr. in 1960. It describes itself as "dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity and creativity through projects which support exceptional contemporary artists and writers, as well as inspired Native activists in rural indigenous communities." Awards have been made to acclaimed and varied literary figures such as David Foster Wallace, William Gaddis, Lydia Davis, William H. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whiting Writers' Award
The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Mrs. (American English) or Mrs (British English; standard English pronunciation: ) is a commonly used English honorific for women, usually for those who are married and who do not instead use another title (or rank), such as ''Doctor'', ''Profe ... and has been presented since 1985. , winners receive US$50,000. The nominees are chosen through a juried process, and the final winners are selected by a committee of writers, scholars, and editors, selected each year by the Foundation. Writers cannot apply for the prize themselves, and the Foundation does not accept unsolicited nominations. Recipients References External links {{Commons category, Whiting Award winnersCurrent Winners [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Deppe
Theodore "Ted" Deppe (born in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American poet and professor, author of books of poetry. His most well-known collection is ''Orpheus on the Red Line'' (Tupelo Press, 2009), and he has had his poems published in many literary journals and magazines including ''The Kenyon Review, Harper’s Magazine, Poetry, The Southern Review, Ploughshares,'' and ''Poetry Ireland Review.'' He was the Director of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing’s Stonecoast in Ireland program. He worked previously as a nurse for more than two decades in coronary care units and psychiatric hospitals. He received an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has taught creative writing in graduate programs in the U.S., Ireland, and England. He was raised in Indiana. He and his wife, poet Annie Deppe, lived in Ireland from 2000 to 2003, and returned in July 2006 so Ted could direct the then new Stonecoast in Ireland program. Awards His honors include two fellowships from the Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Camp
Lauren Camp is an Arab American poet anNew Mexico Poet Laureate Her most recent book, ''Took House'', was awarded the 2021 American Fiction Award in Poetry. ''One Hundred Hungers'' (Tupelo Press, 2016) was selected by David Wojahn for the Dorset Prize, and went on to win finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, the Housatonic Book Award and the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. In reviewing the book, ''World Literature Today'' describes "the oddity of diaspora within diaspora through evocative imagery and diction…and direct interrogation of political (and personal) drama.” Work According to Jacqueline Kolosov, "One of Camp’s gifts is her ability to conjure both the historical and the mythic past and the joint terrain they inhabit, with a vividness that, at its best, captures moments infused with both sorrow and joy." Writing in ''Poet Lore'', Margaret Randall said, "Camp pulls together and makes full sense of the questions that have nudged and troubled her…t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Smith (poet)
Maggie Smith is an American poet, freelance writer, and editor who lives in Bexley, Ohio. Smith's poem "Good Bones," originally published in the journal ''Waxwing'' in June 2016, has been widely circulated on social media and read by an estimated one million people. A ''Wall Street Journal'' story in May 2020 described it as "keeping the realities of life's ugliness from young innocents," citing that the poem has gone viral after catastrophes such as the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, the May 2017 suicide bombing at a concert in Manchester, U.K., the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, and the coronavirus pandemic. PRI called it "the official poem of 2016". Early life Smith was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1977.Maggie Smith Extended Bio retrieved February 2015 She received her Bachelor of Arts from |
Thomas Centolella
Thomas Centolella is an American poet and educator. He has published four books of poetry and has had many poems published in periodicals including American Poetry Review. He has received awards for his poetry including those from the National Poetry Series, the American Book Award, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry and the Dorset Prize. In 2019, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Life Centolella has published four books of poetry: ''Terra Firma'', ''Lights & Mysteries'', ''Views from along the Middle Way'', and ''Almost Human''. His poetry has appeared in ''Alaska Quarterly Review'', ''American Poetry Review'', ''Parthenon West Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, and The Los Angeles Times, ''among many other periodicals''. ''His poem "View #45", was read at the United Nations as a part of Poets Against the War.'' ''"In the evening we shall be examined on love" and "Lines of Force" were featured on Garrison Keillor's ''Writers' Almanac'' on NPR. He has been a visitin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Houlihan
Joan Houlihan is an American poet. She is the author of six books, most recently ''It Isn't a Ghost if it Lives in Your Chest'' (Four Way Books), winner of the 2021 Julia Ward Howe Award. Her other books are ''Shadow-feast'' (Four Way Books, 2018), described by the Los Angeles Review as "...a tour de force sheared of excess, breathtaking in its leaps, and thrilling in its sonic resonances"; ''The Us'' (Tupelo Press, 2009) described by Lucie Brock-Broido as: "...like nothing I have ever read or seen...wildly hewn, classically construed and skewed by an imagined lexicon.…both syntactically inventive and radically simple"; ''Ay'' (Tupelo Press, 2014), the sequel to ''The Us,'' described by Ilya Kaminsky as "breathtakingly inventive and yet deeply humane...a narrative and song at once; it is talismanic"; ''The Mending Worm'' ( New Issues Press), winner of the 2005 Green Rose Prize in Poetry, and ''Hand-Held Executions: Poems & Essays'' (Del Sol Press, 2003; Room 204 Press, 2009) whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Sajé
Natasha Sajé (born June 6, 1955, in Munich, Germany) is an American poet. Life She grew up in New York City, and New Jersey. She graduated from the University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Maryland, College Park. She teaches at Westminster College. and Vermont College. Her work appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''The Gettysburg Review'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''New Republic'', ''Parnassus'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Shenandoah'', and ''The Writers Chronicle''. Awards * 2020 Pushcart Prize XLIV * 2015 15 Bytes Award, ''Vivarium'' * 2008 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award * 2004 Utah Poetry Book of the Year, ''Bend'' * 1993 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major United States, American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language. This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Penn ..., ''Red Under the Skin'' * Towson State Prize in Literature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
