Grad Student Journal Opportunity

Call for Graduate Student Peer-Review Readers

Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature is seeking GRADUATE STUDENTS in any discipline, including but not limited to Comparative Literature, World Literature, English, Film Studies, or Cultural Studies to volunteer as peer-review readers.

If you are interested, email a brief cover letter (word doc, max 200 words), including your name, email address, academic affiliation, department, areas of expertise, and languages to inquire@ualberta.ca with "reader" as the subject.

Inquire is a peer-reviewed, open-access online journal of Comparative Literature by graduate students in the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Alberta that serves the intellectual and professional interests of an international community of students, teachers and scholars.

Deadline: September 25, 2012
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New Poetry from New Issues

New Issues announces the publication of two new poetry books: Please, a debut collection by Jericho Brown, and Tall If by Mark Irwin.

Claudia Rankine says this about Please: "To read these poems is to encounter the devastating genius of Jericho Brown." Read more reviews on the New Issues website. Read "Beneath Me" and "Your Body Made Heavy with Gin" from Please.

The American Book Review has called Mark Irwin's poetry “ . . . vibrant and alert, a poetry to contend with . . ." and Publisher's Weekly had this to say about Irwin's earlier work: "Brilliant, Irwin’s intellect and the urgency of his words remain traditionally steadfast." Read "Doors" and "Theory" from Tall If.

Both books are available online from Amazon.com and Spdbooks.org.

March is Small Press Month

March is Small Press Month and as your local small press we wanted to update everyone on all the exciting things happening at New Issues.

This spring we have four new poetry books coming out:
* Theories of Falling by Sandra Beasley, winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize (Marie Howe, Judge)
* The Headless Saints by Myronn Hardy
* The Translator's Diary by Jon Pineda, winner of the 2007 Green Rose Prize in Poetry
* Causeway by Elaine Sexton

"Heaven," a poem from Elaine Sexton's new collection Causeway, will be reprinted in O, The Oprah Magazine, which has a circulation of over two million. "Heaven" will appear in the May issue on spirituality.

Matthew Thorburn Wins Witter Bynner Fellowship:
Poet Laureate Charles Simic has chosen New Issues poet Matthew Thorburn for the 2008 Witter Bynner Fellowship (which carries a $10,000 fellowship) and will introduce him at a reading on March 6 at the Library of Congress. Thorburn, of New York City, is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the MFA program at The New School. He is the author of the New Issues title Subject to Change.

Undid in the Land of Undone by Lee Upton has been named a finalist in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards in the Poetry category. "ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards were established to bring increased attention from librarians and booksellers to the literary achievements of independent publishers and their authors."

The Body is No Machine by Jennifer Perrine has been named a finalist for the The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, a post-publication prize offered by the Publishing Triangle.

Online Reviews:
Visit Rattle's new site for e-reviews to read reviews of two New Issues titles:
Standing in Line for the Beast reviewed by Peter Matera
The Body is No Machine reviewed by Cameron Conaway
Visit the Bookslut website for two great reviews of New Issues titles:
Standing in Line for the Beast by Jason Bredle, reviewed by Jason B. Jones
Undid in the Land of Undone by Lee Upton, reviewed by Olivia Cronk

Don't forget that April is National Poetry Month!

New Issues Titles Win Awards

One Tribe, the first AWP Novel Award Winner published with New Issues, has won the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award for Fiction. One Tribe will be submitted to the Library of Congress and will receive a special catalog number for inclusion in the Global Filipino Literary Awards Collection housed permanently in the Library's Asian Reading Room.

Even more exciting, the book's author, M. Evelina Galang, was named one of the 100 most influential Filipina Women in the US by Filipina Women's Network and will be honored at the Filipina Summit (www.ffwn.org) in Washington D.C. next week. She'll be reading from One Tribe at the Library of Congress on Saturday.

David Keplinger's poetry book, The Prayers of Others, won the 2007 Colorado Book Award for Poetry at a special event last night (Oct. 17). His other book with New Issues, The Clearing, was a finalist for the same award last year.