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Pink Door Event — Philip White & Lisa Williams (March 30 @ 7:30 p.m.)

2009-03-18T15:56:00.000-07:00

Hello, all! On Monday, March 30th @ 7:30 p.m., Danville poets Philip White and Lisa Williams will be reading at the Pink Door (2222 Dundee Road). Both of these poets are outstanding and are sure to give a fantastic performance. The band this month is Old Man.

This is an amazing lineup and I hope to see all of you there!

A bit about Philip and Lisa . . .

Philip White's poems have won a Pushcart Prize and have appeared in the New Republic, Slate, Hudson Review, Southern Review, New England Review, Antioch Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. He teaches Shakespeare and early English literature at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.

Lisa Williams is the author of Woman Reading to the Sea (W.W. Norton 2008), which was selected by Joyce Carol Oates for the 2007 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and The Hammered Dulcimer (Utah State University Press, 1998), which won the May Swenson Poetry Award. Lisa was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. She is an associate professor of English at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Lisa is also a Centre Scholar.

HAPPY 15th BIRTHDAY, SARABANDE!

2009-03-18T15:48:00.000-07:00

Hello, all! Just wanted to let you know that 3 March 2009 officially marked Sarabande's 15th birthday. This is an incredible landmark for an independent nonprofit literary press and we've got a lot to celebrate:

* 139 books in print or under contract,
* 70,000+ readers annually, and
* nearly 1,200 author events scheduled over the past 15 years.

I hope you'll toast our big quinceañera by shopping at an indie bookstore, reading a poem, or attending a literary event.

Here's to another 15 years and a great anniversary year!

Nickole

Sarabande Congratulates Jan Carew

2008-06-16T15:31:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Sarabande author Jan Carew, whose book The Guyanese Wanderer received the bronze medal for Multicultural Fiction in the 2008 IPPY Awards. Each year, the award recognizes excellence in Independent Publishing.

To read more about the awards, click here.

To learn more about Jan Carew, go here and click From the Guyana Coast to Louisville.

Cate Marvin wins Helen C. Smith Memorial Award

2008-04-28T12:16:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Cate Marvin, whose collection of poetry Fragment of the Head of a Queen (Sarabande, 2007) was awarded the 2008 Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters.

Brock Clarke goes to Hollywood

2008-04-28T12:03:00.000-07:00

Warner Independent Pictures has signed executive producers Garrett Lerner and Russel Friend ("House") for a film adaptation of Brock Clarke's best-selling novel An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England. Clarke won Sarabande's 2000 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction for his collection of stories What We Won't Do.

Charles Wright awarded 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize

2008-04-28T11:30:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Charles Wright, author of the 2005 Quarternote Chapbook The Wrong End of the Rainbow, who was awarded the 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for lifetime achievement. The $10,000 prize is donated in memory of the late Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt, sister of former President Lyndon B. Johnson. This year's award honors both Wright and Bob Hicock, for his book This Clumsy Living (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007). Read the full story here.

Last Supper
by Charles Wright

I seem to have come to the end of something, but don't know what,
Full moon blood orange just over the top of the redbud tree.
Maundy Thursday tomorrow,
then Good Friday, then Easter in full drag,
Dogwood blossoms like little crosses
All down the street,
lilies and jonquils bowing their mitred heads.

Perhaps it's a sentimentality about such fey things,
But I don't think so. One knows
There is no end to the other world,
no matter where it is.
In the event, a reliquary evening for sure,
The bones in their tiny boxes, rosettes under glass.

Or maybe it's just the way the snow fell
a couple of days ago,
So white on the white snowdrops.
As our fathers were bold to tell us,
it's either eat or be eaten.
Spring in its starched bib,
Winter's cutlery in its hands. Cold grace. Slice and fork.

Lippman's The New Year of Yellow: 2008 Paterson Poetry Prize finalist

2008-04-11T11:31:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Matthew Lippman, whose poetry collection The New Year of Yellow has just been named a finalist for the 2008 Paterson Poetry Prize. This title was our 2005 Kathryn A. Morton Prize-winner, selected by Tony Hoagland.

Purchase a copy of this award-winning book here.

Nationally renowned poet Gerald Stern reading at the Bingham Poetry Room, Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville

2008-04-02T13:15:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, April 8, 7:30 p.m.

The author of fourteen books of poetry, Gerald Stern has received the National Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Lamont Poetry Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Ruth Lilly Prize. He was the first Poet Laureate of New Jersey, taught for fifteen years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and was named a Chancellor to the Academy of American Poets in 2006. As part of our Quarternote Chapbook Series, Sarabande published Stern's The Preacher last September.

National Book Critic's Circle Award Winner Mary Jo Bang to Read at the Pink Door

2008-04-02T12:23:00.000-07:00

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Mary Jo Bang, the recipient of the 2008 National Book Critic's Circle Award in Poetry, will be reading as part of our series at the Pink Door on Monday, April 28th. Bang's collection of 64 poems, Elegy (Graywolf Press, 2007), which received the award, chronicles the year after the death of her son. Bang is poetry editor of the Boston Review and professor of English at Washington University in Saint Louis. Read more about MJB and Elegy here and here. Reading starts at 7:30 and will be followed by a musical act.

See you there!
Katie

Mark Jarman's Epistles - New Favorites to Celebrate National Poetry Month

2008-03-31T12:19:00.000-07:00

Epistles by Mark Jarman (Sarabande, 2007)
recommended by Tony Hoagland

Epistles is a remarkable fugue of meditations about the spiritual life and the anatomical, temporal one. Nothing I can say about it can quickly capture the subversiveness and sincerity of Jarman's wit, and the grave ingenuity with which he forces us to reconsider the paradoxical human status as a meat-eating angel. "Recently I learned that God no longer delighted in my existence" begins one poem. Another: "We want the operation because we want the cure." This sequence is a marvel of intelligence, feeling and ironic ingenuity -- and even as you try to sprint by, he grabs you by the holy ghost and makes you stop. -- TH

Read the full blog post here

Buy Mark's books here