I’m not sure where to start, so I will send you to the Kenyon Review blog, where I say a few things about my editorial home since 2008, the University of Akron Press.
Month: July 2015
f art. We engaged deeply with the books, pondering the intersection of text and design, and corresponded extensively with the authors regarding all aspects of publication. In many ways it felt like we were a pair of midwives, offering support and encouragement and wisdom to ease something miraculous into the world.A beginning.
What’s the best way to celebrate the arrival of a new book? Maybe by thinking about the past? Here’s how I welcomed A Sunny Place With Adequate Water. It feels like just yesterday!
In the spirit of nostalgia, here’s a throwback to February 2007, and the birth of Prairie Fever, my first collection.
Contrary to early predictions, July has not been The Month of New Poems. That’s okay, however. It’s bound to happen soon, and when the poems are back, there’s no suppressing them.
I am starting to feel itchy for the new academic year. Itchy, but by no means ready.
Full Cover Reveal: Small Enterprise
It’s starting to feel very, very real.
Take a peek inside with Black Lawrence Press
My love for Black Lawrence Press is eternal, and what’s even more awesome? They’ve now added the “peek inside” feature for titles over at SPD. Try a free sample of A Sunny Place with Adequate Water (or O Holy Insurgency, or Saint Monica), over at the SPD site.
Learn more about BLP over here. I’ve got a freshly updated BLP author page here, too.
Small Enterprise, Small Price
Black Lawrence Press has cooked up an excellent pre-order deal on my fourth full-length collection of poems, Small Enterprise. It’s only $11.95! Here are the details.
Here’s the title poem, from Verse Daily by way of Gulf Coast. Here’s another poem (historical mattress factory included) from Ampersand Review. There’s one at interrupture, too. And one for the road, thanks to Kettle Blue Review.
July: The Month of New Poems
Perhaps this is a bit of wishful thinking. Could July be the month of new poems?
We had an amazing response to this year’s Akron Poetry Prize submission window (509 manuscripts!) which left little time for poems of one’s own. Submittable also makes it much easier to read in odd segments of time, but then the manuscripts also cross not just the UA Press transom, but end up in my dining room.
So I’m hoping to sequester myself in the poetry equivalent of this photograph for the month of July.
For me, the hardest part is getting disciplined about taking notes when ideas strike.
Note to self: notes.
Mary Biddinger 