U.K. Translation Prizes 08

Via Nomadics via the Literary Saloon, two SPD winners:

The Hellenic Foundation for Culture's Literary Translation Prize to Roderick Beaton

The Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for translation from Arabic to Fady Joudah

EARLIER

The many-hatted Juliana Spahr

NEW RAIN TAXI
FALL 08 PRINT EDITION

Essential as ever, as ever chockful of SPD books. Featuring interviews with David Hajdu and Gordon Ball, plus a special feature on Frank Stanford, the VACUM Attachment, and reviews of books by Toni Morrison, James Tate, Bobbie Lousie Hawkins, Lisa Jarnot, Paul Auster, and much more! FULL-PAGE SPECIAL ON SPD BEST-SELLERS

JUST IN

Dear Mr. Johnston by Dave Johnston (Soultheft Records, Inc.)
Better Than Blood by Eric Greenwalt (Soultheft Records, Inc.)
Breaking The Willow: Poems of Parting, Exile, Separation & Reunion by David Lunde (White Pine Press)
An Unmistakable Shade of Red and The Obama Chronicles: Poems by Mary Weems (Bottom Dog Press)
The Steel Veil by Jack Marshall (Coffee House Press)
Moving Targets: On Poets, Poetry & Translation by Stephen Kessler (El Leon Literary Arts)
Nines by Michel Englebert (Printed Matter Press)
Istanbul Noir edited by Mustafa Ziyalan & Amy Spangler (Akashic Books)
Paris Noir edited by Aurélien Masson (Akashic Books)
The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody by Alfred Corn (Copper Canyon Press)

JUST IN

Sleep's Powers by Jacqueline Risset and translated by Jennifer Moxley (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Poker (Second Edition!) by Tomaž Š alamun (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Body Clock by Eleni Sikelianos (Coffee House Press)
New & Selected Poems by Charles O. Hartman (Ahsahta Press)
Border Town by Hillel Wright (Printed Matter Press)
Live from the Tiki Lounge by Angela Williams (Mayapple Press)
Flatmancrooked First Winter: An Anthology of New Short Stories edited by Elijah Jenkins & Kaelan Smith (Flatmancrooked Publishing)

CONGRATULATIONS TO RUSTY MORRISON! Winner of the 2008 James Laughlin Prize for the true keeps calm biding its story published by Ahsahta Press The James Laughlin Award is given by the Acadamy of American Poets to recognize and support a poet's second book. It is the only second-book award for poetry in the United States. Offered since 1954, the award was endowed in 1995 by a gift to the Academy from the Drue Heinz Trust. It is named for the poet and publisher James Laughlin (1914-1997), who founded New Directions in 1936. Judges for the prize this year were poets Rae Armantrout, Claudia Rankine and Bruce Smith. Morrison, whose book received the 2007 Sawtooth Poetry Prize from Ahsahta Press, lives in Richmond, Calif. She receives a $5,000 award from the Academy, which also purchases the book for its members.

PNBA, Portland or bust!

(a blurry photo of Ingrid holding Kevin Killian's new Action Kylie!)


(John perusing the goods)


(Ingrid checking out the SPD table)


(view to the front)

PNBA showcase!

Cherry Hill, NJ

RAIN	SHINE

This morning I fly to Boston.

SPD POETRY BEST-SELLERS!

JULY/AUGUST 08

Former SPD employee and current proprietor of Unnameable Books in Brooklyn Adam Tobin (bearded) talks to Brent.

Elijah Jenkins, Executive Editor of Flatmancrooked Publishing

Sasha Spahr

Leslie Scalapino and Laura

JUST IN

TinFish 18: The Long Poem edited by Susan M. Schultz (Tinfish Press)

Brent, Laura & Lyn Hejinian

Their feet & Stan's

Standard Schaefer

Via Trevor, a pic of the SPD display at Diesel, a Bookstore in Oakland:

YESTERDAY

Dennis Somera	Our Brent Cunninghåm and Christian Bök

Books Just In!
from UNINCORPORATED TERRITORY by Craig Santos Perez (Tinfish Press)
State of the Union: 50 Political Poems edited by Joshua Beckman and Matthew Zapruder (Wave Books)
There Are Birds by John Taggart (Flood Editions)
Another Alley by Mike County (Bootstrap Press / Pressed Wafer)
The Materialist by Rick London (Doorjamb Press)
The Young Man from Savoy by C-F Ramuz (Host Publications)
Why the Long Face? by Ron MacLean (Swank Books)
Chocolate City Latina by Esperanza Malavé Cintrón (Swank Books)
Effects of Sunlight in the Fog by Alan Catlin (Bright Hill Press)
Shaking the Grass for Dew by Richard Lewis (New Native Press)
Metamorphosis Blues by Randy Fitzgerald (Beatitude Press)
Line by Line by Gary Bolstridge with drawings by Anne Marguerite Herbst (Beatitude Press)
Refusing Despair: Selected Poems & Journal Writings by Teresa Anderson (West End Press)
Soul Seeds: Revelations & Drawings by Carolyn Mary Kleefeld (Cross-Cultural Communications)
Contradictions by Alfred Corn (Copper Canyon Press)

New diligent SPD interns Xanna and Liz intern diligently.

Jesse Nathan reads a book in the loft called The Loft.

File under: New Old, Old New, Blast from the Past, From the Vaults

TRAIN RIDE
Ted Berrigan
Vehicle Editions
Letterpress 1971 first edition, cover by Joe Brainard.
A limited number of copies still available.
$12