2013 New Issues Poetry Prize

New Issues Poetry & Prose

June 2013

About Us New Issues Poetry & Prose was established in 1996 by poet Herbert S. Scott.   Fall 2013 Permission by Katie Peterson  Slip  by Cullen Bailey Burns   Ain't No Grave   by TJ Jarrett Poetry in Michigan / Michigan in Poetry edited by William Olsen & Jack Ridl

Dear Friends, Kerrin McCadden has won the 2013 New Issues Poetry Prize for her manuscript Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes. David St. John judged. Kerrin wins a $2,000 award and publication of her manuscript in the spring of 2014. Kerrin McCadden's poems have appeared recently in Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Green Mountains Review, Failbetter, Rattle and elsewhere. She is the recent recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, as well as support from The Vermont Arts Endowment Fund and The Vermont Studio Center. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Montpelier High School in Montpelier, Vermont and is an MFA degree candidate at Warren Wilson College. She lives in Plainfield, Vermont with her two children. Also accepted for publication: In the Museum of Coming and Going by Laura Stott Dark~Sky Society by Ailish Hopper The New Issues Poetry Prize is selected by a guest judge. Thank you to David St. John for judging our 2013 contest. The 2014 New Issues Poetry Prize will be selected by Fanny Howe, author of more than 20 books of poetry. Guidelines for the 2014 prize are available on our website. Congratulations, Peter Covino!   Peter Covino won the Paterson Award for Literary Excellence  for his collection The Right Place to Jump.

Upcoming Events

New Issues Poetry & Prose

March 2013 

About Us New Issues was established in 1996 by poet Herbert S. Scott.   We are proud to announce we have received a grant from the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs to help support the production of our forthcoming anthology:  Poetry in Michigan / Michigan in Poetry Thank you! Spring 2013 Pinwheel by Marni Ludwig  Phantom Camera  by Jaswinder Bolina  The Most   Natural Thing  by David Keplinger Large White House Speaking by   Mark Irwin  Fall 2013 Poetry in Michigan/Michigan in Poetry edited by Jack Ridl and William Olsen  Ain't No Grave by T.J. Jarrett Permission by Katie Peterson Slip by Cullen Bailey Burns

Dear Friends,   We have some great readings coming up next month--we hope to see you soon! -New Issues  Jean Valentine will read Tuesday, April 2nd at 8:00 p.m. at the Little Theatre. The Town & Gown Reading Series presents Iliana Rocha, Nancy Eimers, Vanni Taing, Joel Newsome, Amy Newday, and Kathleen McGookey. Monday, April 8th at 7:00 p.m. at the Kalamazoo Public Library. The Gwen Frostic Reading Series presents the New Issues Reading. Featuring Mandy Keifietz, winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, and Jaswinder Bolina, winner of the Green Rose Prize for Poetry. Our titles are available online through Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Small Press Distribution.

2013 Green Rose Prize

New Issues Poetry & Prose

January 2013 

About Us New Issues was established in 1996 by poet Herbert S. Scott.   We are proud to announce we have received a grant from the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs to help support the production of our forthcoming anthology:  Poetry in Michigan / Michigan in Poetry Thank you! Spring 2013 Pinwheel by Marni Ludwig  Phantom Camera  by Jaswinder Bolina  The Most   Natural Thing  by David Keplinger Large White House Speaking by   Mark Irwin  Fall 2013 Poetry in Michigan/Michigan in Poetry edited by Jack Ridl and William Olsen  Ain't No Grave by T.J. Jarrett Permission by Katie Peterson Slip by Cullen Bailey Burns

Dear Friends,    Ralph Angel has won the 2013 Green Rose Prize for his manuscript Your Moon. Angel wins a $2,000 award and publication of his manuscript in the spring of 2014.         Ralph Angel is the author of five books of poetry: Your Moon (forthcoming); Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 (2007 PEN USA Poetry Award); Twice Removed; Neither World (James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets); and Anxious Latitudes; as well as a translation of the Federico García Lorca collection, Poema del cante jondo / Poem of the Deep Song. His poems have appeared in scores of magazines and anthologies, both here and abroad, and recent literary awards include a gift from the Elgin Cox Trust, a Pushcart Prize, a Gertrude Stein Award, the Willis Barnstone Poetry Translation Prize, a Fulbright Foundation fellowship and the Bess Hokin Award of the Modern Poetry Association. Mr. Angel is Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Redlands, and a member of the MFA Program in Writing faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts.  Originally from Seattle, he lives in Los Angeles.   Also accepted for publication:       Gazelle in the House by Lisa Williams     Tree Line by Judy Halebsky   The Green Rose Prize is awarded to an author who has previously published at least one full-length book of poems. Winners are chosen by the editors of New Issues Press. Guidelines for the 2014 prize are available on our website.       Green Rose Prize in Poetry    2012: Jaswinder Bolina Phantom Camera  2011: Corey Marks The Radio Tree    2010: Seth Abramson Northerners    2009: Malinda Markham Having Cut the Sparrow's Heart    2008: Patty Seyburn Hilarity    2007: Jon Pineda The Translator's Diary    2006: Noah Eli Gordon A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow    2005: Joan Houlihan The Mending Worm    2004: Hugh Seidman Somebody Stand Up and Sing    2003: Christine Hume Alaskaphrenia Gretchen Mattox Buddha Box    2002: Christopher Bursk Ovid at Fifteen    2001: Ruth Ellen Kocher When the Moon Knows You're Wandering    2000: Martha Rhodes Perfect Disappearance   Now available to order:  Motherlunge "Impressive...Scott, winner of the AWP Prize in the Novel, renders wonderfully offbeat characters in crisp, polished prose."    -Booklist (starred review) "Funny and smart...in Thea and those around her Scott has created characters we believe in and wish well, characters who feel real -strange and sad and happy, like real people are."   -Publishers Weekly (starred review, "Pick of the Week")      Our titles are available online through Amazon.com and spdbooks.org.

Thank You

About Us New Issues Poetry & Prose was established in 1996 by poet Herbert S. Scott.   Fall 2012 The Right Place to Jump  by Peter Covino  The Frame Called Ruin  by Hadara Bar-Nadav  A Penance  by CJ Evans  Spring 2013 Phantom Camera by Jaswinder Bolina Pinwheel by Marni Ludwig The Most Natural Thing by David Keplinger Large White House Speaking by Mark Irwin  Fall 2013 Ain't No Grave by T.J. Jarrett Slip by Cullen Bailey Burns

Dear Friends, Thank you all so very much for helping us sustain the legacy created by Herb Scott. Our event last Sunday was extraordinary. Thank you to our readers Nancy Eimers, Diane Seuss, Traci Brimhall, Phillip Sterling, Lisa Fishman, Gail Martin, Susan Ramsey, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Deborah Gang, and Elizabyth Hiscox for sharing their poems. Thank you to Whiskey Before Breakfast for providing their celebratory Celtic soundtrack. We are so grateful to Francois Moyet, Becky Capman, Meg Tang, West Michigan Glass Arts Center, Seamus Cooney of Celery City Books, and Shirley Clay Scott for their generous donations of art and books for our silent auction. With such unfailing support from you, our community,  New Issues will continue to bring important and striking work to fruition.

Herbert Scott Legacy Fund

New Issues Poetry & Prose

August 2012

About Us New Issues Poetry & Prose was established in 1996 by poet Herbert S. Scott.   Fall 2012 The Right Place to Jump  by Peter Covino  The Frame Called Ruin  by Hadara Bar-Nadav  A Penance  by CJ Evans  Spring 2013 Phantom Camera by Jaswinder Bolina Pinwheel by Marni Ludwig The Most Natural Thing by David Keplinger Large White House Speaking by Mark Irwin  Fall 2013 Ain't No Grave by T.J. Jarrett Slip by Cullen Bailey Burns

Dear Friends, New Issues Poetry & Prose is happy to announce the creation of The Herbert Scott Legacy Fund. Please join us to commemorate and celebrate! Bell's Eccentric Café 355 E. Kalamazoo Ave. Sunday, August 26 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. $10 donation ($5 for students) is suggested at the door. Silent auction featuring rare books by Herbert Scott Readings by * Nancy Eimers * Diane Seuss * Traci Brimhall * Phillip Sterling * Lisa Fishman * Gail Martin * Susan Ramsey * Elizabeth Kerlikowske * Deborah Gang * Elizabyth Hiscox Music by Whiskey Before Breakfast Please visit our events page for details: www.wmich.edu/newissues/events Our titles are available online through Amazon.com and spdbooks.org.

New Issues Poetry Prize

New Issues Poetry & Prose

April 2012

About Us New Issues Poetry & Prose was established in 1996 by poet Herbert S. Scott.   Fall 2012 The Right Place to Jump  by Peter Covino  The Frame Called Ruin  by Hadara Bar-Nadav  A Penance  by CJ Evans  Spring 2013 Phantom Camera by Jaswinder Bolina Pinwheel by Marni Ludwig The Most Natural Thing by David Keplinger Fall 2013 Ain't No Grave by T.J. Jarrett Large White House Speaking by Mark Irwin Slip by Cullen Bailey Burns

Dear Friends,    We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2012 New Issues Poetry Prize: Marni Ludwig for her manuscript Pinwheel.  Ludwig wins a $2,000 award and publication of her manuscript in the spring of 2013.   Marni Ludwig    Marni Ludwig holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis.  Her poems have appeared in Boulevard, FIELD, Gulf Coast, High Chair, JERRY, Western Humanities Review and other journals. Her chapbook, Little Box of Cotton and Lightning, was selected by Susan Howe for a 2011 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. She lives in St. Louis and Brooklyn. "Marni Ludwig has a vast and original mind and spirit, which along with her quiet, sometimes sharp humor, and her tenderness, implicate everyone.  Her skill is like a good horse, who becomes one with the rider and with her wild, unheard of travels.  Here is the real thing."        -Jean Valentine, from the judge's citation   Also accepted for publication: Ain't No Grave by T.J. Jarrett  to appear in the fall of 2013    The New Issues Poetry Prize is awarded annually for a full-length debut collection of poetry. The judge for the 2013 New Issues Poetry Prize is David St. John. Guidelines are available on our website.  Congratulations, Susanna Childress!   Entering the House of Awe Susanna Childress won the Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry for her collection Entering the House of Awe. Congratulations, Kevin Fenton!   Merit Badges Kevin Fenton won the Friends of American Writers Literary Award for Fiction for his novel Merit Badges. Congratulations, Khaled Mattawa!   Tocqueville Khaled Mattawa won the Poetry Center Book Award for his collection Tocqueville.   Our titles are available online through Amazon.com and spdbooks.org.

New Issues Poetry & Prose

April 2012 

About Us New Issues Poetry & Prose was established in 1996 by poet Herbert S. Scott.

Dear Friends,    We're happy to announce the release of our spring titles. Corey Marks' Radio Tree, Andrew Allport's the body | of space | in the shape of the human, and Shara Lessley's Two-Headed Nightingale are all available to order. Kevin Fenton's Merit Badges has just won the Friends of American Writers Award and is currently a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards. Khaled Mattawa's Tocqueville recently won the 2012 Poetry Center Book Award.  Rachel Eliza Griffiths' Mule & Pear was the first book of poetry to ever be awarded the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's Literary Award. Jeff Hoffman's Journal of American Foreign Policy received an honorable mention from the Drake Emerging Writer Prize, and is currently a finalist for the California Book Awards. Mandy Keifetz's Flea Circus also received an honorable mention from the Grub Street Prize. Congratulations New Issues authors! Kimberly Kolbe  Managing Editor  Spring 2012 Two-Headed Nightingale the body | of space | in the shape of the human The Radio Tree Congratulations, Kevin Fenton! Winner, Friends of American Writers Literary Award Our titles are available online through Amazon.com and spdbooks.org.