Thanks to our authors and readers for making AWP special, year after year. Special thanks to Samuel (Chip) Delany, Kit Reed, Kazim Ali, Rae Aramntrout, Annie Finch, and Jena Osman for participating in readings, and to Dennis Barone for organizing a panel on Connecticut poetry. Thanks to everyone else for stopping by our booth to say hello and visit. It is always wonderful to see so many friends in one location. See you all in Seattle!
Jena Osman, Rae Armantrout, Annie Finch, Kazim Ali.
Check out Tor’s blog here for a chance to win a copy of Kit Reed’s The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories.
Wesleyan UP’s book Making Freedom: The Extraordinary Life of Venture Smith is finding its way into more libraries across Connecticut. 850 copies of the book will be donated to libraries statewide, thanks to co-author Chandler Saint and congresswoman Rosa DeLauro. The distribution project was announced by five members of Connecticut’s congressional delegation, at a press conference held at the state Capitol earlier this week.
Read more about the book here. View a video of an announcement of the project to distribute the book here. Read an article from The Day newspaper here.
Friends spotted Joseph Ceravolo’s Collected Poems on sale at Unnameable Books, in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. We hope you can join us at the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, Manhattan, for a celebratory reading on April 17th, 7PM.
Please enjoy our interactive Influence Map, highlighting our press’s international scope. Click here to learn more about the map.
Samantha Fuller, daughter of Samuel Fuller, is raising funds to support a documentary film on her father, A Fuller Life. Pledge $75 to her Kickstarter Campaign and received a signed copy of Lisa Dombrowski’s “The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I’ll Kill You!”
Al Braden, an environmental and outdoor photographer, and author of The Connecticut River: A Photographic Journey into the Heart of New England, will lead participants on a photographic tour of the Connecticut River (in Vermont), from source to sea. This is your chance to see portions of the river you may not have visited yet. Braden will also be auctioning framed prints to raise money for The Connecticut River Watershed Council.
For more information, and to view the photographs up for auction, visit the website of the The Connecticut River Watershed Council
The Connecticut River Watershed Council invites you and your family or guest to attend an afternoon Annual Meeting & 60th Anniversary Celebration.
Sunday, July 22nd
Paddle – Noon until 1:30p.m.,
Meeting – 2p.m. until 4p.m.
The Wilder Center
2087 Hartford Ave., Wilder, VT 05088
This event is free to attend. Those making a donation of any amount will be entered into a drawing for a lovely gift basket to be awarded at the close of the meeting.
Sam Wasson, author of Paul on Mazursky, will be at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston for two days, and two events! May 10th and 11th. Visit MFA’s website for more details.
“Sam Wasson is a fabulous social historian because he finds meaning in situations and stories that would otherwise be forgotten if he didn’t sleuth them out, lovingly.” – Hilton Als, The New Yorker
Rae Armantrout is participating in an interactive Poet Q&A through Smartish Pace. Questions will be accepted through August 29th. Click here to access the Smartish Pace website.
Courtesy of Rosanne Olson, 2010.
