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:

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

The 2008 New ssues Poetry Prize will be announced shortly. 2008 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
April 15, 2008

“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

Standing in Line for the Beast
Jason Bredle
Winner of the 2006 New Issues Poetry Prize
Judge: Barbara Hamby

"Reading Standing in Line for the Beast is like eating a rich, complex dessert, where hints of acidity and underlying bitterness make the sweetness rare and delightful.”
—Richard Cecil

The AWP Award Series in the Novel

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

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

—Nicholas Delbanco, Judge

Hear Geoff Rips read from his novel at the Book People in Austin, Texas on Thursday,March 27, 2008

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