Announcements:
New Poetry

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THE BLOG
With so much happening with the press and our authors, we thought it was time to start a blog:
newissuespress.blogspot.com

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Prize Guidelines:

Now taking submissions

The 2009 New Issues Poetry Prize for first books of Poetry: Postmark Date November 30. 2008

The 2009 Green Rose Prize for a full-length collection of poetry by an established poet. Postmark Date: September 30, 2008.

Would you like to know more about the poetry awards that New Issues offers? Please visit our
Contest Page.

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The 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize Winner Announced

The 2008 New ssues Poetry Prize has been awarded to Justin Marks for his manuscript A Million in Prizes, which will be published in the spring of 2009. Judge: Carl Phillips.

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The 2008 Green Rose Prize Winner Announced

The 2008 Green Rose Prize has been awarded to Patty Seyburn for her manuscript Hilarity, which will be published in the spring of 2009.

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FORTHCOMING
TITLES for 2008/09
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New Issues at the AWP Conference.

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New Issues joins CLMP

 

The Headless Saints
By Myronn Hardy
The Green Rose Series
An Inland Seas Book

“Myronn Hardy has written a collection of quietly combustible poems that remind us of just what a gifted poet’s deftly judicious craft can produce in music and emotion.”
—Kwame Dawes

The Translator's Diary
By Jon Pineda
Winner of the 2007 Green Rose Prize

“In The Translator’s Diary, where truth ‘never survives its translation,’ Jon Pineda composes a haunting elegy. His keen attention journeys through absence and presence, fragmentation and loss in memorable, riveting language.”
—Arthur Sze

Causeway
By Elaine Sexton
The Green Rose Series

“Lodged in various locales, whether urban or rural, earthbound or on the open sea, answering a landscape, a family memory, or the vagaries of love, the poems of Causeway are always informed by an honest buoyancy of spirit.”
—Eamon Grennan

Introducing New Poets

Theories of Falling
Sandra Beasley
Winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize
Judge: Marie Howe

“I kept coming back to these poems—the tough lyric voice that got under my skin. Clear, intent, this poet doesn’t want to fool herself or anybody else.”
—Marie Howe, Judge

Please
Jericho Brown
October, 2008

"Everyone sings in this live-wire, passionate book, in which the poet ventriloquizes a cast of characters’ hurt into music . . . Fresh, deeply felt, formally adventurous, Please is a stunning debut.”
—Mark Doty

The AWP Award Series in the Novel

The Truth
A novel by Geoff Rips
2006 AWP Award Series Winner
Judge: Nicholas Delbanco

“[A] remarkable work . . . and an impossible one to forget.”

—Nicholas Delbanco, Judge

 

Winner of the 2007 AWP Award for the Novel, We Agreed to Meet Just Here by Scott Blackwood, will be released at the 2009 AWP Conference in Chicago.

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