• Dan Beachy-Quick’s new book, gentlessness, has just been published by Tupelo Press, and received an early review here: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-936797-57-8. It is accompanied by a chapbook, Shields & Shards & Stitches & Songs also just out from Omnidawn.
• Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang just returned from AWP in Minneapolis, where they gave readings for SpringGun/Noemi, and Laurel Review. The latter reading, co-hosted by Colorado Review, featured (for Colorado Review), Julie Carr, Andy S. Nicholson and Janet Sylvester. In addition, Matthew’s poem “Good Day” has just been accepted by Prairie Schooner.”
• A conversation between Camille Dungy and Pulitzer-prize finalist Adrian Matejka is collected in Tracking / Teaching: On Documentary Poetics, which is “up” and available to the world at http: //www.essaypress.org/ep-2
• EJ Levy presented at AWP as part of “Eye on the (Book) Prize.” Her first attempt at poem, inspired by Carl Phillips, has been accepted for publication in The Pinch.
• This year’s judge of our Academy of American Poets Prize, Bin Ramke, has announced his choice of winner and runner-up. Congratulations to Kristin George Bagdanov whose three poems “Calving,” “When First I heard,” & “Lamb Body” have been awarded 1st place; and congratulations to Kylan Rice whose suite of “eve” poems received honorable mention. It’s needful to mention that Mr. Ramke had a very difficult time deciding, and described himself as so impressed with all the entrees that he wanted to drive up here and ask us what is going on.