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events, books, independent publishing, and print culture.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-34684745182098793322013-05-21T12:32:00.000-07:002013-05-21T16:47:51.249-07:00"YOU: THE ADVENTUROUS READER..." Join Keith Ekiss in supporting Tavern Books during our mid-year fundraising campaign.<br />
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<b>We're excited to announce our 2013 mid-year fundraising campaign!</b> Starting today, we are reaching out to our readers for support in our mission to publish essential works of poetry from around the world. Our goal is to raise $25,000 during this giving campaign, and we're confident that we can do it. Reaching this goal is easier than it might sound: if all of our readers
make a tax-deductible donation between $10 and $25, not only will we
reach this goal, we will exceed it. Your donation will be used to help
fund these forthcoming titles in beautifully designed paperback and hardcover editions: <i>Winterward </i>by William Stafford; <i>Duino
Elegies</i> by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Gary Miranda); <i>Fire Water
World & Among the Dog Eaters</i> by Adrian C. Louis; <i>Collected
Translations</i> by David Wevill; <i>My Blue Piano</i> by Else Lasker-Schüler
(translated by Eavan Boland); and <i>Skin </i>by Tone Škrjanec (translated by
Matthew Rohrer and Ana Pepelnik).<br />
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Tavern Books author Keith Ekiss has written a personal plea (below) on our behalf. Keith, along with Sonia P. Ticas and Mauricio Espinoza, is currently at work on a four-volume edition of Eunice Odio’s epic masterpiece, <i>The Fire’s Journey</i>. Please join Keith in helping make this campaign a success.<br />
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<b>Dear Reader,</b><br />
<b><br />I’m writing to you with a simple request: please donate to Tavern Books and buy a book or two today.</b><br />
<b><br />Why? Because in an era of corporate publishing, when financial pressures force small, independent<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>publishers to put the bottom line above art, Tavern Books has taken a stand.<br /> </b><br />
<b>Tavern Books has a vision, and they need your support.<br /> </b><br />
<b><i>The Fire’s Journey</i>, my translation of the amazing Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio, wouldn’t exist without Tavern’s vision and you: the adventurous reader. Tavern will publish the entirety of this 450-page epic poem over four volumes. No other publisher would take that risk.</b><br />
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<b>Tavern specializes in rescuing deserving poetry from oblivion, returning to print contemporary masterpieces like Killarney Clary’s <i>Who Whispered Near Me</i> and W. S. Di Piero’s translation of Leonardo Sinisgalli’s <i>Night of Shooting Stars</i>. Tavern publishes the work of poets we should never forget, like Greta Wrolstad, Jo McDougall, and David Wevill.</b><br />
<b><br />Tavern Books is good for you and good for your soul.</b><br />
<b><br />Remember: no one cares what a web page smells like or how it feels to hold a laptop. We remember books. And Tavern Books makes beautiful books.</b><br />
<b><br />I’m proud to have given during this fundraising campaign. I hope you will join me.</b><br />
<b><br />Sincerely,</b><br />
<b><br />Keith Ekiss</b><br />
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Two weeks from today, the Tavern Books team will take a road trip to Grand Ronde, Oregon to accept a generous grant from the <a href="http://www.thecommunityfund.com/" target="_blank">Spirit Mountain Community Fund</a>. With the grant, we'll be launching a new phase of <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/poetry-state" target="_blank">Poetry State</a>, our book donation drive for Oregon libraries.<br />
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Last year, we had the pleasure of donating over 2,500 poetry titles
to libraries serving rural and Tribal populations across Oregon, as well
as to innovative local book lending services like the <a href="https://multcolib.org/jail-services" target="_blank">Multnomah County Library Jails Program</a>, the Multnomah County Shelter Program, and <a href="http://www.streetbooks.org/" target="_blank">Street Books</a>. In some cases, we've been able to double the number of poetry
titles on their shelves! But because we don't have control over the contents of our stock (all books are given to us by publishing
companies, book stores, and an incredible pool of individuals), we haven't yet been able to take requests for specific titles. We were inspired to start purchasing book stock after consistently receiving requests from librarians and program directors for a wide range of material: everything from anthologies of Native American spiritual poetry to foreign language and bilingual works to the collected works of poets like Lucille Clifton, Jack Prelutsky, and Emily Dickinson. <br />
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Now, for the first time since Poetry State's inception, we'll be able to purchase brand new, customized poetry collections for 12 of our partner libraries based on the specific requests of librarians and patrons. We couldn't be more excited, and we're grateful to the Spirit Mountain Community Fund and all Tavern Books supporters for helping us to make it happen! Check back often for ongoing updates on this new phase of Poetry State and for profiles of our partner libraries.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-84182964480761277082013-02-22T19:23:00.002-08:002013-02-22T23:31:28.724-08:00Basil Bunting, lost love, and advocacy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Part of our excitement every day at Tavern Books has to do with the work of bringing
out-of-print books back into a living catalog. Publishers have the
great responsibility—and the great luck—to serve as advocates for
writers, and in our case that means attempting to reintroduce
important, loved poets who have gone under-represented. This week, I've been
listening to an LP of Basil Bunting reading his long poem
“Briggflatts” and thinking about the history of a tremendous poet
who was little known for the majority of his life. As the story goes,
what slight recognition Bunting garnered as a young poet (including the
admiration and very public support of Ezra Pound) couldn't withstand
his long service to the British Military during and following World
War II; when he returned to his native Newcastle in his
fifties, he suffered a long period of painful poverty and obscurity.
But helped by the fierce advocacy of a group of young writers who
were in awe of his poetry, he was able to gain a public presence very
late in life. At the helm of this group was the rogue adolescent poet
Tom Pickard, who organized readings for Bunting in Newcastle and
promoted his work to publishers like Fulcrum Press. It was during
this second wind, at the age of sixty-four, that Bunting began his masterpiece
“Briggflatts”—an intensely musical and guttural
autobiographical poem about a lost love from his youth. To think: one of the first things he did after being rediscovered was to recover for the world something else that had been lost! What strikes
me most when reading it, and especially when hearing Bunting read it
on the recording, is that the very precise and real object of love at
the center of the poem seems almost equally weighted with the
beautiful, boggy layers of personal, local, and national history;
regional mythology; and literary tradition that unfold around her. It's
as if when Bunting resurrected his lost love, he couldn't help but
dredge up all kinds of cultural debris with her. With any hope,
that's the kind of dredging-up that we—the reading public, writers,
literary advocates, and publishers—can accomplish when we help
usher a forgotten but loved poet back into a catalog.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-76726247591462042472013-02-19T22:26:00.000-08:002013-02-19T22:28:20.333-08:00Split editions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Marilyn
Hacker translates from the French into English; that’s really nice of her.
There are many French poets, now and from long ago, I and others can’t read
because we don’t know French. We love poems, yet there are certain poems we
can’t know. In the introduction to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond;">Vénus Khoury-Ghata</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond;"> book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nettles</i> (Graywolf, 2008), Marilyn Hacker
mentions that Vénus says: “My mother is illiterate in two languages.” I don’t
want to even think about the languages I’m illiterate in! I’m just thankful
people translate work they find important. Although, I don’t want to talk about
translation here, and how things are lost, and how the original is so much
better, because, basically, poems translated into English have moved me, have
mattered, and have inspired me in the same fashion poems written in English
have. There are only things to be gained! Translations are little windows
overlooking a culture or a time where there was once no window. What I want to
talk about here is far less important. I want to talk about books I can’t read,
books I have purchased out of the sheer love of design, in languages I don’t
understand. Maybe you, too, have done this? Maybe you have bought a book for its foxing,
or for the way it smells, or because the sides of the pages are blue,
regardless of how you are going to comprehend its meaning. Sometimes, I flip
through their pages and (because I can’t read them) I stare at a poem as if it
were a photograph in a collection of black and white photography, an abstract
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Friend of Tavern Books, poetry advocate, and Portlander Amanda Coplin has recently published the critically acclaimed novel <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/books/review/the-orchardist-by-amanda-coplin-and-more.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_blank"><i>The Orchardist</i></a> (Harper Collins, 2012). <i>The Orchardist</i>, which is forthcoming in numerous translated editions around the world, has been garnering unabashed praise from The Daily Beast, NPR, and <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> (just to name a few). We'd like to congratulate Amanda on being a finalist for the 2012 Barnes and Noble Discover Award for Fiction. This recent news has our office abuzz.<br />
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In the coming months, Coplin will be a contributing author in our Honest Pint series (more info on the Pint <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/honest-pint" target="_blank">here</a>). For those who haven't encountered her prose, you're in for a treat.<br />
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The Honest Pint has taken off, and we couldn't be happier with its trajectory. We're delighted by the Pint's growing subscription list, and we feel its diverse readership reflects the scope of this series. We want the collective Honest Pint publications to truly reflect the way writers interact with poetry; we want a literary venue free of partisan aesthetics, fenced-in ideas, and school-of-thought attitudes; we want to explore a landscape of poetics where Bob Kaufman passes the salt to Theocritus. We have forthcoming Pints written by novelists, film critics, poets, philosophers, story writers, and instillation artists. The subjects of these Pints range from the Concrete poems of Ian Hamilton Finlay to the epics of Robinson Jeffers to the lyric connection between Andrei and Arseny Tarkovsky. Our ultimate goal with the Honest Pint is to collect each of these individual pieces into a grand, sweeping, quirky, and refreshing anthology of poetics...and we couldn't be more pleased with how things have started out.<br />
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Since our first Honest Pint mail-out in January (<a href="http://tavernbooks.com/books/22" target="_blank">Albert Goldbarth's</a> meditation on the 17th-century poet Margaret Cavendish, Ray Palmer, and the metaphors of 'smallness'), we've been getting emails from subscribers thanking us for doing something different, something new, something outside the halls of institutional thinking. It's not every day that you get an actual art object in the mail that hovers somewhere between the realm of pamphlet and fine printing, between scholarship and whimsey, between writer and reader. Thanks to all of you who have subscribed! We can't wait to send you the next installation.<br />
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Happy reading, and here's to another good mail day!<br />
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Michael McGriff Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-68464080555906528972013-02-10T10:59:00.001-08:002013-02-10T11:07:54.477-08:00Thanks, Paulann!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.paulann.net/index.php" target="_blank">Paulann Petersen</a>, Portlander and Oregon Poet Laureate, is one of our state's most inspiring literacy advocates. We'd like offer up our heartfelt Thanks for a wildly successful Tavern Books fundraiser that she graciously hosted in her home last night. Over the past two years, Paulann has helped us develop and sustain our Poetry State program (follow this <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/poetry-state" target="_blank">link</a> to learn more about PS)--in fact, Paulann is THE reason Poetry State exists.<br />
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Her role as our state poet is not one she takes lightly--she's on the road year round traveling to Oregon's far-flung towns, giving community workshops, hosting events, mentoring writers, and serving as an example for those of us working in the arts. On top of that, Paulann is a member of our Board of Directors. And...she continues to write and publish great books. We can't thank her enough for her efforts.<br />
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Thanks, Paulann, for all you do. Like so many, we've run out of adjectives to describe your commitment to the arts.<br />
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For those looking to support Poetry State or Tavern Books, do be in touch (tavernbooks@gmail.com)! We'd be delighted to have you join us in our efforts to bring books of exceptional poetry to Oregon's public libraries, Tribal libraries, and alternative book-lending programs.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
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Michael McGriff<br />
Founding Editor Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-76608526396015921602013-02-04T22:16:00.000-08:002013-02-05T11:40:52.968-08:00Nelly Sachs<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Nelly
Sachs was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1966. In 1967 America started to see her
poetry translated into English and published in books, most notably the FSG
collections <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">O The Chimneys</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Seeker</i>. Both these collections held
part of Sachs’<i> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glowing Enigmas</span></i>
translated by Michael Hamburger. In those two volumes is where I fell in love
with Nelly Sachs. I found a sensitivity I hadn’t seen anywhere other than in
Rilke, and a compassion I haven’t found anywhere else. Her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glowing Enigmas</i> is a beautiful testimony of persecution and loss
elevated to the highest art. It has had the profoundest effect on me. It has
been a simple instructional on seriousness, and, also, a complex and mysterious
example of being alive. I have always wished (ever since I bought that first
darkly browned paperback) that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glowing
Enigmas</i> would be published in one volume so I could read it as I waited
for the bus. I wanted an ease of understanding. I wanted to be able to refer
back to page one when reading section four without having to lug an additional
volume. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">What
I didn’t know is that it would take Tavern Books to publish <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glowing Enigmas</i> in its entirety. And
Friday was the day. The books showed up packed in boxes stacked on a pallet.
Over the next week, we will be sending Sachs’ book out for review, and it will
be available for purchase in April. Not many things in the book world have made
me as happy as seeing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glowing Enigmas</i>
in a form easy to carry. William Butler Yeats once wrote about Rabindranath
Tagore “I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for
days, reading it in railway trains, or on top of omnibuses and in restaurants,
and I have often had to close it lest some stranger would see how much it
moved me.” Here’s to public transportation and not being afraid to read in
public.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Carl Adamshick</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond;"><i>Nelly Sachs' </i>Glowing Enigmas<i> will be available in paperback and hardcover editions through the <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/books" target="_blank">Tavern Books website</a> April 2, 2013. </i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: small;"><i>Glowing Enigmas</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: small;">by Nelly Sachs</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: small;"> <i> </i>POETRY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Translated f<span style="font-size: small;">ro<span style="font-size: small;">m the Germa<span style="font-size: small;">n </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">by Michael Hamburge<span style="font-size: small;">r</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publicati<span style="font-size: small;">on date: April 2,<span style="font-size: small;"> 2013</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">120 pages / 5.5 <span style="font-size: small;">x 7.5</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">$17.00 (pb) / $30.00 (hc)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">ISBN-13: 978-1-935635-22-2 (pb)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">ISBN-13: 978-1-935635-27-7 (hc)</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nelly Sachs</b>, winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature, was<span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span>born in Berlin on December 10, 1891. She fled the Nazis on<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>May 16, 1940, and took refuge in Sweden,<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>where she was granted asylum. Her career as a poet started only after her emigration,<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>when she was nearly fifty years old. Despite her relatively short writing career and constant struggles with mental illness, Sachs’<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>body of poetry is one of the essential artistic testimonies of the twentieth century. She died in Sweden on May 12, 1970.<br /><b><br />Michael Hamburger</b> was born in Berlin in 1924 to a German-Jewish family that emigrated to England in 1933. He served<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>as an infantryman from 1943 to 1947, and read Modern Languages at Oxford. After an academic career in England and America,<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>he settled in Suffolk. In addition to his international <span style="font-size: small;"></span>renown as a poet and scholar, Hamburger is regarded as one of the great<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>literary translators of his generation. Among the numerous authors he translated into English are Charles Baudelaire, Gottfried<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Benn, Bertolt Brecht, Paul Celan, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Hölderlin, Rainer Maria<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Rilke, W. G. Sebald, and Georg Trakl. His acclaimed critical study The Truth of Poetry was published in 1968. His Collected<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Poems (Anvil, 1995), drawing on some twenty earlier books, has been followed by five more. His final book of poems, Circling the<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Square, was published by Anvil in 2007, the year of his death.</span> </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span> </i></div>
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Back in October, we unveiled plans for The Honest Pint, our subscription series edited by Matthew Dickman. It's now in full swing, with subscriptions available through the updated <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/honest-pint" target="_blank">page
on our website</a>!<br /><br />The Honest Pint is an ongoing series of brief prose pieces written
by contemporary poets about the work of other poets. Each month starting in January 2013, subscribers will receive an envelope containing some form of original printed
matter—an expository essay, a cartoon strip, a review, or an
interview, for example—in which a poet responds to a
poem of his or her choice.</div>
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These epistolary experiments will come to your mailbox from the likes of Albert
Goldbarth, Matthew Zapruder, and Diane Wakoski, among others. But
don't expect this kind of disclosure from us for long—the identity
of each month's sender will remain a mystery until you
break the envelope's seal.<br /> </div>
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We hope you're as excited as we are. Cheers! </div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-76983201410338921482012-12-16T10:24:00.000-08:002012-12-16T10:27:58.075-08:00From the Planet Goldbarthiana<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thanks to <a href="http://www.divisionleap.com/cgi-bin/akd/index.html">Division Leap</a> for hosting our Albert Goldbarth / <i>The End of Space</i> event last night. The standing-room-only reading was a smash, and it was a great way to kick off the release of our latest <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/books">Tavern title</a>. In the next few weeks we'll get the book added to our online catalog, where it will be available for purchase.<br />
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Cheers, and happy reading.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-60166785839449640742012-12-11T09:41:00.003-08:002012-12-11T09:42:14.847-08:00Tavern recommends: City of Rivers by Zubair Ahmed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/city-of-rivers"><i>City of Rivers</i></a> is hot off the press from McSweeney's (as a title in their McSweeney's Poetry Series), and we can't recommend it enough. Zubair Ahmed (Tavern author of <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/books/7"><i>Ashulia</i></a>) has been receiving rave reviews for <i>City of Rivers</i>, with comparisons being drawn between his inventive and beautiful lyric poems and those penned by James Wright in <i>The Branch Will Not Break</i>. Not shabby.<br />
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Happy Reading!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-25526214250437738262012-12-09T11:30:00.003-08:002012-12-09T11:36:16.945-08:00Albert Goldbarth reads this Saturday! Don't forget!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Howdy, folks. Just a friendly reminder that Tavern Books author Albert Goldbarth will be reading from his new Tavern collection THE END OF SPACE.<br />
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Please join us for this Pylon Reading Society event (FREE and open to the public. Books for sale)<br />
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<b><a href="http://tavernbooks.com/pylon-reading-society">Who: Albert Goldbarth</a></b><br />
<b><a href="http://tavernbooks.com/pylon-reading-society">What: Reading / Book Release Party for <i>The End of Space</i></a></b><br />
<b><a href="http://tavernbooks.com/pylon-reading-society">When: 7:30, Saturday, December 15th</a></b><br />
<b><a href="http://tavernbooks.com/pylon-reading-society">Where: Division Leap / 211 SW 9th Ave / Portland</a></b><br />
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If you haven't been to <a href="http://www.divisionleap.com/cgi-bin/akd/index.html">Division Leap</a>, then you're in for a treat. This is one of the Northwest's finest poetry bookstores and indie galleries. They have an amazing selection of literary ephemera and arts-movement-related poetry goodies. And they go far out of their way to support local publishers--they stock multiple copies of every Tavern Books title and broadside, including signed and hardcover editions.<br />
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Cheers! Hope to see you there!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-1033352134272351812012-10-24T07:31:00.000-07:002012-10-24T07:31:23.217-07:00Tavern Books + Street Books<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We've recently added Portland-based nonprofit Street Books to our list of libraries participating in <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/poetry-state">Poetry State</a>. Street Books is an amazing program that serves Portland's homeless community by offering a mobile library service to those who live outside. Yes, you do see a totally cool, totally mobile bicycle library in the background of this photo. We are delighted to supply Street Books with fine books of poetry, and we wish them the best in their worthwhile endeavors. Click <a href="http://www.streetbooks.org/2012/10/23/1558/">here</a> for more info. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-72944828516668382062012-10-04T23:25:00.001-07:002012-10-04T23:25:35.960-07:00The Honest Pint<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tavern Books is pleased to announce its forthcoming subscription series, <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/honest-pint">The Honest Pint</a>, which will be edited by Matthew Dickman. Here's how it works: each
month, subscribers will receive a brief prose piece written by a
contemporary poet celebrating the work of another poet. Each piece will
be uniquely printed and accompanied by exciting ephemera. Nothing
digital about it. This analog-era throwback is all about paper, ink, and
a poet’s brain. The monthly Honest Pint will take many shapes:
traditional essay, cross-genre experiment, cartoon strip, hand-written
note, a brief interview—you name it! The purpose of this series is to
connect the diverse landscape of contemporary poets to the reading
public in a casual, meaningful, and unexpected way. We'll offer subscriptions starting in December, and will mail out the first honest print in January 2013. We have many exciting authors lined up for this project, including Albert Goldbarth and Diane Wakoski. Also in the works is the Tavern Books iPhone app. Check back soon!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-63705622763777928252012-10-04T08:41:00.000-07:002012-10-04T23:16:50.026-07:00Welcome aboard, Natalie!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We're pleased to announce that Natalie Garyet is the new Managing Editor of Tavern Books. Natalie is a graduate of Lewis & Clark College, is a poet, hails from Boulder, Colorado, and is active in the Portland arts and nonprofit scene. She'll be working on every aspect of the press, from editing to grant writing to taking the lead on our <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/poetry-state">Poetry State</a> program. Tavern Books has really taken off this past year, and we're thrilled that Natalie will be adding her voice and vision to the press.<br />
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Cheers!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-46710803354023505352012-10-04T08:24:00.000-07:002012-10-04T08:27:47.553-07:00Good for the brain!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just wanted to pass along this great snapshot from one of the Tavern faithful, Dr. Mike Wynn, a neurologist working in Salem, Oregon. Dr. Wynn keeps his waiting room stocked with a rotating selection of Tavern Books titles! Pictured here is <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/books/7"><i>Ashulia</i></a> by Zubair Ahmed, <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/books/15"><i>Casual Ties</i></a> by David Wevill, and <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/books/6"><i>Buson: Haiku</i></a> by Yosa Buson. How cool is that!?<br />
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We have many things cooking at Tavern Books: our <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/">website</a> has been redesigned and expanded (with more features in the works); our <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/poetry-state">Poetry State</a> program is going gangbusters, and our forthcoming series, <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/honest-pint">The Host Pint </a>, is just about to be launched.<br />
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In other news--23 Sandy Gallery and Tavern board member Gabe Boehmer recently hosted a wonderful fundraiser for Tavern Books. Many thanks to 23 Sandy and Gabe for a special event! For you Portlanders, be sure to head down to 23 Sandy Gallery and check out their new exhibit, <a href="http://www.23sandy.com/">INKED</a>. Among the great work there is a piece by Rory Sparks of Em Space. Rory is an insanely talented printer and book artist, and she's also binding a run of Tavern titles into hardcover. Waoh, do they look amazing!<br />
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Stay tuned, and happy reading.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-69897334913605392952012-08-12T21:44:00.001-07:002012-08-12T21:44:37.595-07:00Savage Sunsets by Adrian C. Louis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey Tavern fans--after a bit of a slow summer, we're now headlong into several exciting projects. William Stafford's <i>Winterward</i> and Nelly's Sachs's <i>Glowing Enigmas</i> are currently in the editing stages. Also in the mix are books by <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/books/9">Adrian C. Louis</a>, Eunice Odio, Charles Olson, David Wevill, and Greta Wrolstad, among others. Tavern Books author Adrian C. Louis's new full-length collection, <i>Savage Sunsets</i>, is forthcoming from the good folks at <a href="http://www.westendpress.org/store/?field_1=0&field_2=0&s=Adrian+Louis&submit=Find+Books">West End Press</a>. Here's a <a href="http://vimeo.com/45367747">link to a great video trailer</a> supporting the publication of <i>Savage Sunsets</i>. A handful of poems from Louis's forthcoming book appear in his Tavern title, <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/books/9"><i>Archeology</i></a>. As we've said a thousand times, we think Adrian C. Louis is one of <i>the</i> essential living American poets. Join us in celebrating his new book! Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-37138331469802241282012-06-02T08:33:00.000-07:002012-06-02T08:33:10.810-07:00Six-Minute Reading, George Hitchcock Legacy Project, and more...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey gang, a quick post to let you know that we're headed to Eugene, OR, today to help celebrate the publication of George Hitchcock's (1914-2010) <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/thelivinglibrary/six-minute-poems-hitchcock/"><i>Six-Minute Poems</i></a> at Tsunami Books. We are celebrating All-Things-George at this event, which happens to fall on his birthday. We have many Hitchcock projects in the works, including a chapbook publication of his hearing before the Un-American Activities Committee, which is bar none the best piece of impromptu subversive theater ever recorded. Over the next two years we're publishing George's collected poems in a multi-volume set, which will be housed in a slipcase. We are filled with excitement to be preserving this indelible body of work. <br />
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Today also kicks off the beginning of our George Hitchcock Legacy Project. We will be raising $10,000 to print, promote, and preserve our myriad Hitchcock projects. Individuals making a tax-deductible donation of $300 or more will have the option to be named as a contributor to the George Hitchcock Legacy Project, which will be acknowledged within the books. Click <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/donate/">here</a> to donate. <br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_934609288">George Hitchcock Celebration</a><br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_934609288">Tsunami Books</a><br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_934609288">June 2, 2012</a><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tsunami-Books/136747863022307">3-5 pm</a><br />
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Cheers, and stay tuned!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-89971687869255995112012-04-27T09:29:00.002-07:002012-04-27T09:32:06.928-07:00Tavern author Di Piero on News Hour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Click <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2012/04/conversation-w-s-di-piero-winner-of-the-2012-ruth-lilly-poetry-prize.html">here</a> to read / hear an interview with Tavern Books author <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/thelivinglibrary/night-of-shooting-stars-sinisgalli/">W. S. Di Piero </a>on PBS New Hour.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-70505929323938923602012-04-26T10:19:00.004-07:002012-04-27T07:59:57.043-07:00The death of books, or the death of the death of books?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey Folks, here's a link to a thought-provoking article about print culture produced by <a href="http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/apr/20/">On The Media</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-88217756319630322062012-04-22T11:25:00.000-07:002012-04-22T11:31:51.179-07:00Skins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's no secret that we're huge <a href="http://www.adrian-c-louis.com/">Adrian C. Louis</a> fans (for our money, he's absolutely one of the finest and most important North American poets now writing). And we know many of you are, too. We're soon to start his two-books-in-one <i>Fire Water World & Among the Dog Eaters</i> into production. To tide ourselves over, we've been watching the movie adaptation of Louis's heartbreaking novel, <i>Skins</i> (kept in print by the good folks at <a href="http://www.ellispress.com/louis.htm">Ellis Press</a>). We recommend both the novel and film...each looks straight into the fire, unflinchingly taking the vital signs of a country happy to glance away from those toiling at the margins. <br />
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To borrow Sherman Alexie's words: <span style="font-family: Book Antiqua;"><span style="font-family: Book Antiqua; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> "Louis
has written a violent and dangerous book about twentieth-century Sioux
Indians. This novel is a complex portrait of racism and brotherhood, sexism
and affection, murder and redemption, alcoholism and laughter. These are
not the simple Sioux of <i>Dances with Wolves</i>. These are not ‘Native’
Americans. These are Indians (yes, Indians) living, dying, and loving
on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. <i>Skins</i> is about
the love between brothers, men and women, parents and children. Believe
me, despite all the pain and because of the pain, this is a love story.”</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Book Antiqua;"><span style="font-family: Book Antiqua; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Happy reading (or viewing)! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Book Antiqua;"><span style="font-family: Book Antiqua; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">For further reading: <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/thelivinglibrary/archaeology-louis/"><i>Archeology</i></a> </span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-20799133115825877842012-04-19T09:17:00.000-07:002012-04-19T09:19:48.945-07:00Ann Patchett's NY Times article on the Pulitzer Prize<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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WHAT goes on during a deliberation is a private matter for the jurors
alone; the rest of us are privy only to the verdict. That holds true for
book awards as well as murder cases. So when the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/business/media/2012-pulitzer-prize-winners-announced.html?_r=2&hp">Pulitzer Prize Board announced</a>
on Monday that there were three finalists for the fiction prize and no
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So far I’ve been able to come up with two: either the board was unable
to reach a consensus, or at the end of the day the board members decided
that none of the finalists, and none of the other books that were not
finalists, were worthy of a Pulitzer Prize. </div>
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What I am sure of is this: Most readers hearing the news will not assume
it was a deadlock. They’ll just figure it was a bum year for fiction. As a novelist and the author of an eligible book, I do not love this.
It’s fine to lose to someone, and galling to lose to no one. </div>
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Still, it is infinitely more galling to me as a reader, because there
were so many good books published this year. I put Edith Pearlman’s
“Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories” at the top of that list,
and so did many others. She was the winner of the National Book Critics
Circle Award and a finalist for the National Book Award and the Story
Prize. Her collection would have stood among the best winners in <a href="http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Fiction">the Pulitzer’s history</a>. </div>
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My other favorite was Denis Johnson’s “Train Dreams,” which did make it
onto the Pulitzer Prize shortlist. I don’t think there is a sentence in
that book that isn’t perfectly made, and its deeply American story fits
with the Pulitzer’s criteria. </div>
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On that count, the prize could rightly have gone to two other books with
important takes on the American condition: Russell Banks’s “Lost Memory
of Skin” or Jesmyn Ward’s “Salvage the Bones,” the winner of the <a href="http://www.nationalbook.org/index.html">National Book Award</a>.
It could have taken a turn for the strange and highly imaginative and
gone to another of the three finalists, Karen Russell’s “Swamplandia!”
or to Kevin Wilson’s beautifully weird “The Family Fang.” </div>
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And while no one has ever won for two consecutive books, couldn’t this
have been the year? I have no doubt that Jeffrey Eugenides would have
won for “The Marriage Plot” if he hadn’t already won for “Middlesex.”
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If I feel disappointment as a writer and indignation as a reader, I manage to get all the way to rage as a bookseller. </div>
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In November of last year, along with my business partner, Karen Hayes, I opened <a href="http://www.parnassusbooks.net/">Parnassus Books</a>
in Nashville. The brick-and-mortar bookstore, as people seem to point
out to us hourly, is not exactly a thriving business model (though we
are doing fine), and the publishing industry, especially since the
Department of Justice has decided to be Amazon’s bodyguard, is
struggling as well. </div>
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So while it’s true that the Pulitzer committee has, since its inception
in 1917, declined to award the prize on 10 previous occasions, I can’t
imagine there was ever a year we were so in need of the excitement it
creates in readers. </div>
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The winners are written up in papers and talked about on the radio, and
sometimes, at least on PBS stations, they make it onto television. This
in turn gives the buzz that is so often lacking in our industry — <i>Did you hear about that book? </i> </div>
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With book coverage in the media split evenly between “Fifty Shades of
Grey” and “The Hunger Games,” wouldn’t it have been something to have
people talking about “The Pale King,” David Foster Wallace’s posthumous
masterwork about a toiling tax collector (and this year’s third Pulitzer
finalist)? Wallace is not going to have another shot at a win, which
makes the fact that no one could make up their minds as to whether or
not he deserved it all the more heartbreaking. </div>
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Let me underscore the obvious here: Reading fiction is important. It is a
vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes
us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our
brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying
within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone,
two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps. </div>
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Unfortunately, the world of literature lacks the scandal, hype and
pretty dresses that draw people to the Academy Awards, which, by the
way, is not an institution devoted to choosing the best movie every year
as much as it is an institution designed to get people excited about
going to the movies. The Pulitzer Prize is our best chance as writers
and readers and booksellers to celebrate fiction. This was the year we
all lost. </div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/opinion/and-the-winner-of-the-pulitzer-isnt.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general">--Ann Patchett, NY Times op ed </a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-21399711581065370802012-04-19T08:54:00.003-07:002012-04-19T08:54:50.539-07:00Let's celebrate W. S. Di Piero!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tavern Books author <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/thelivinglibrary/night-of-shooting-stars-sinisgalli/">W. S. Di Piero</a> got some great and well-deserved news the other day! He's been named the 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner by the Poetry Foundation, one of the nation's most prestigious awards honoring the life and work of a living poet. Di Piero's had many irons in the fire over his career. He's been publishing a steady stream of thoughtful art criticism for decades, he's been publishing a wide array of essays (both personal and cultural) for decades, he's been publishing amazing volumes of Italian poetry in translation for decades, and, of course, he's the author of numerous collections of poetry. The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is a lifetime achievement award, which may seem a bit odd, given that Di Piero is a young buck. But, if you stand back and admire the Di Piero corpus, you can easily see that his lifetime of admiring, loving, making, and writing about art is an accomplishment and a way of life that few have the talent or courage to take part in.<br />
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When Di Piero gave us his blessing to publish his translation of Leonardo Sinisgalli's selected poems, <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/thelivinglibrary/night-of-shooting-stars-sinisgalli/"><i>Night of Shooting Stars</i></a>, we knew we had something special. This book is one that we constantly talk about, and it's a title that Tavern Books fans often rave about. Really, it's one of the finest books we've published, and it's a volume that has come, and will continue, to define Tavern Books. For further reading, check out his recently released <a href="https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7B17109A5A-1A6E-49EA-BA11-3A83BCB26E81%7D"><i>Nitro Nights</i></a> from Copper Canyon Press.<br />
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Our hats off to W. S. Di Piero! <br />
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Here's a<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/w-s-di-piero"> link</a> to the Poetry Foundation's announcement of the Ruth Lilly Prize.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-88071111842429453202012-04-14T23:00:00.003-07:002012-04-15T05:31:55.867-07:00The eagle has landed!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dear Tavern Books fans,<br />
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It's official! Tavern Books is now a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization!<br />
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Lots of big changes are now in the works...so stay tuned.<br />
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Cheers, and happy reading!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-476213703131889261.post-30620563166086090682012-04-12T13:31:00.000-07:002012-04-12T13:37:27.310-07:00Congrats Tavern author Joseph Millar!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyTqfMwUALBIoHct3oa92RBjXsrbEa3pDz9B73_5n42d6l-CAWmK0idfPoI2UDo2GK8RwwvoOv-EEXhQuIznoGxuU_gAtsz5C-NvjhZFevr8I4990cK-nRDl_BQ7l6SvddvmoJ3C-_vSTO/s1600/OceanCover+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyTqfMwUALBIoHct3oa92RBjXsrbEa3pDz9B73_5n42d6l-CAWmK0idfPoI2UDo2GK8RwwvoOv-EEXhQuIznoGxuU_gAtsz5C-NvjhZFevr8I4990cK-nRDl_BQ7l6SvddvmoJ3C-_vSTO/s400/OceanCover+copy.jpg" width="286" /></a>Congrats are in order for Tavern Books author<a href="http://www.gf.org/fellows/17267-joseph-millar"> Joseph Millar</a>--it was announced today that he's one of 10 North American poets to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship this year. Joseph's Tavern title, <a href="http://tavernbooks.com/thelivinglibrary/ocean-millar/"><i>Ocean</i></a>, is simply remarkable. Carnegie Mellon University Press just released his new full-length collection,<a href="http://www.cmu.edu/universitypress/pages/2012/millar549-7.html"><i> Blue Rust</i></a>.<br />
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Cheers!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com