Small Press Points
Small Press Points highlights the innovation and can-do spirit of independent presses. This issue features Off the Grid Press, which publishes books exclusively by poets over the age of sixty.
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From the Magazine
Thunderbird by Jane Miller
Jane Miller reads four poems from her latest collection, Thunderbird, published in July by Copper Canyon Press.EcstasyAs the ancients detail it ecstasy passes over usin a mist of particlesit lives baredies unburiedI finally...
New Directions Revives Poetry Pamphlets
New York City-based independent publisher New Directions recently relaunched its Poetry Pamphlets, a series originally published by founder James Laughlin in the 1940s.
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The Exchange by Sophie Cabot Black
Sophie Cabot Black reads three poems from her third poetry collection, The Exchange, published in May by Graywolf Press.
Afterlife
I could only close my eyes on the blueShirtsleeve of leaving and...
Wreck Me by Sally Ball
Sally Ball reads from her second poetry collection, Wreck Me, published in April by Barrow Street Press.
No Threat, Nuthatch
Tiny presence in the pines,hold still. Upside down—right side up—flock of nervesand...
Natural Takeover of Small Things by Tim Z. Hernandez
Tim Z. Hernandez reads the poems “Home” and “Brown Christ” from his collection, Natural Takeover of Small Things, published in February by the University of Arizona Press. HomeFresno is the inexhaustible nervein...
Poetry for Patients and Their Families
The New Jersey-based publisher CavanKerry Press is helping patients and families awaiting medical attention with The Waiting Room Reader, an anthology of poetry and prose distributed for free to hospitals in select states across the country.
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The Difference Between Nothing and Nothingness: A Profile of Rae Armantrout
The poetry of Rae Armantrout, whose tenth collection, Just Saying, is out in March 2013 from Wesleyan University Press, shines even more brightly in the shadows.
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Jonathan Ames to Adapt Bernard Malamud Stories, Reasons Poetry is Far From Dead, and More
Stephen King has released a Kindle Single; Robert Polito has been named the Poetry Foundation’s new president; Jonathan Ames and actor Jason Schwartzman are working on a film adaptation of Bernard Malamud's Pictures of Fidelman; and other news.
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George Saunders Profile, Most Anticipated Books of 2013, and More
Independent bookstores may now sell Kobo tablets; Joel Lovell profiles master storyteller George Saunders in this weekend's New York Times Magazine; H. P. Lovecraft's advice to young writers; and other news.
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