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U know ur pitch for a short story/novelette is good when u tell ur mom abt it and she bursts into tears

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FLP POETRY BOOK OF THE DAY: Break Self: Feed by Gabrielle Myers

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Break Self: Feed meditates on eroticism and relationships with searing language play. The #poems sing of our #ecosystems, their human threats, and possible cures based on nourishment and barrier fracture. In #eco-poetic lyrics, borderlands and boundaries evolve in reference to a deep connection with the #natural #world that surrounds us with its seasonal shifts and the impacts of climate change. We never know when abundance and satiation will come. We spend so much time preparing for devastation and desiccation, so much energy we waste planning our ruin. Beak Self: Feed repurposes that drive, energy, and time towards preparing for our proliferation, our unfurling, our living into our potential. Dig into the soil, feel loam and fine-webbed roots working out their networks of nutrient pull and harvest. Let’s mimic the roots motion to gather, see what it can get out of the perfect soil, set ourselves on expansion, lengthening, growth.

Gabrielle is a writer, professor, and chef. Her memoir, Hive-Mind, published in 2015, details her time of love, awakening, and tragic loss on an organic farm. Her first poetry book, Too Many Seeds, was published in 2021 by Finishing Line Press. Her third poetry book, Points in the Network, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Her poetry has been published in the Atlanta Review, The Evergreen Review, The Adirondack Review, San Francisco Public Press, Fourteen Hills, pacificREVIEW, Connecticut River Review, Catamaran, MacQueen’s, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and is forthcoming from The American Poetry Review. Gabrielle is the Farm-to-Fork columnist for Inside Sacramento magazine. Access links to her work through her website at www.gabriellemyers.com

PRAISE FOR Break Self: Feed by Gabrielle Myers

“With Break Self: Feed, Gabrielle Myers asks, ‘what will we make of us, here?’ The question lingers throughout the collection as the verses respond with the lessons of the earth, its cycles of growth and decay, ‘bound by light’s air, uncaged/ humming like wires set in motion.’ This is a collection of longing, becoming, the process of reformation and rebirth, and the search for wholeness as we sing ‘a tune to another narrative/ of us, me, you.’”

–Brian Turner, author of The Wild Delight of Wild Things

“Break Self: Feed is stunningly myriad in its complexities, even as it is searingly direct in its line-by-line depiction of our human struggle to know ourselves and others, and to create a life that will “feed” us. The subject-matters of this text are jigsaw-puzzle pieces that mirror a life broken and yet finding the means to cohere.

It is a book raging against the ways we are bent on destruction, of natural world and of each other. Yet it is a book that honors the preciousness of the least living thing and offers that awareness through exactingly expressed depictions one will not soon forget.

And it is a book that brilliantly uses form to speak its subject matter. Here you will find short poems and long, poems that are in couplets or in thick stanzas, and poems whose stanzas stretch across the page. In each, I sense that the forms reflect the emotional resonance of the work. Whether it is a poem of longing, of anger, of eros, of hope, the form speaks to this, through its shape on the page.

I have found in this work that if one has the courage to follow the imperative ‘Break Self,’ then one may find so much that is freed, and so much that will feed the psyche and soul.”

–Rusty Morrison, Co-Founder & Co-Publisher of Omnidawn, author of After Urgency, the true keeps calm biding its story, Beyond the Chainlink, and Risk, forthcoming in 2024

“The poems in Break Self: Feed make rhythmic leaps that mimic leaves, trees, and hummingbirds. These poems express the sense that, despite our destructive tendencies, we belong to all things. Primarily written in first person plural, this book is an exuberant expression of “we” and what that means in a landscape where we are continually cut off and isolated, but where failure can “make us gentle toward each other.” Myers pays close attention to roots, to smoke, to Sycamore and birch, to sunlight itself and urges us to reach out, not away.”

–Jessica Cuello, author of Pricking, By Fire, Hunt, Lair, and Yours, Creature

Break Self: Feed was selected Finalist for the Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets in 2020 by Zack Rogow: “These poems speak of the most inward thoughts about how people relate when extremely close. The book is a sort of phenomenology of intimacy. Often it feels as if this poet has created a new way to use language that doesn’t follow the rules of everyday speech. The words are almost abstract but highly precise in recounting states of mind, and states of the heart. The reader senses that true feelings are being excavated, and they are both unexpected and breathtakingly familiar. In an extraordinary tour de force, the poet maintains a first-person plural ‘we’ narrator through much of the collection, without losing emotional intensity.”

–Zack Rogow, author of Irreverent Litanies, My Mother and the Ceiling Dancers, The Number Before Infinity, and The Selfsame Planet

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2023 Longlist for the National Book Award for Poetry:

John Lee Clark, How to Communicate W. W. Norton & Company

Oliver de la Paz, The Diaspora Sonnets Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company

Annelyse Gelman, Vexations University of Chicago Press

José Olivarez, Promises of Gold Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan Publishers

Craig Santos Perez, from unincorporated territory [åmot] Omnidawn Publishing

Paisley Rekdal, West: A Translation Copper Canyon Press

Brandon Som, Tripas Georgia Review Books / University of Georgia Press

Charif Shanahan, Trace Evidence Tin House Books

Evie Shockley, suddenly we Wesleyan University Press

Monica Youn, From From Graywolf Press

[wellesleybooks]

The National Book Award finalists have been announced.

2023 Longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction:

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House

Aaliyah Bilal, Temple Folk Simon & Schuster

Eliot Duncan, Ponyboy W. W. Norton & Company

Paul Harding, This Other Eden W. W. Norton & Company

Tania James, Loot Knopf / Penguin Random House

Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch Knopf / Penguin Random House

Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls Mariner Books / HarperCollins Publishers

Hanna Pylväinen, The End of Drum-Time Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan Publishers

Justin Torres, Blackouts Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

LaToya Watkins, Holler, Child Tiny Reparations Books / Penguin Random House

2023 Longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction:

Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History Yale University Press

Jonathan Eig, King: A Life Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

Viet Thanh Nguyen, A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial Grove Press / Grove Atlantic

Prudence Peiffer, The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever Harper / HarperCollins Publishers

Donovan X. Ramsey, When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era One World / Penguin Random House

Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice Hogarth / Penguin Random House

Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

Raja Shehadeh, We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir Other Press

John Vaillant, Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World Knopf / Penguin Random House

Kidada E. Williams, I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction Bloomsbury Publishing

2023 Longlist for the National Book Award for Poetry:

John Lee Clark, How to Communicate W. W. Norton & Company

Oliver de la Paz, The Diaspora Sonnets Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company

Annelyse Gelman, Vexations University of Chicago Press

José Olivarez, Promises of Gold Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan Publishers

Craig Santos Perez, from unincorporated territory [åmot] Omnidawn Publishing

Paisley Rekdal, West: A Translation Copper Canyon Press

Brandon Som, Tripas Georgia Review Books / University of Georgia Press

Charif Shanahan, Trace Evidence Tin House Books

Evie Shockley, suddenly we Wesleyan University Press Monica Youn, From From Graywolf Press

2023 Longlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature:

Juan Cárdenas, The Devil of the Provinces Translated from the Spanish by Lizzie Davis Coffee House Press

Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny Translated from the Korean by Anton Hur Algonquin Books / Hachette Book Group

David Diop, Beyond the Door of No Return Translated from the French by Sam Taylor Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann New Directions Publishing

Stênio Gardel, The Words That Remain Translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato New Vessel Press

Khaled Khalifa, No One Prayed Over Their Graves Translated from the Arabic by Leri Price Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

Fernanda Melchor, This Is Not Miami Translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes New Directions Publishing

Pilar Quintana, Abyss Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman World Editions

Astrid Roemer, On a Woman’s Madness Translated from the Dutch by Lucy Scott Two Lines Press

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, The Most Secret Memory of Men Translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud Other Press

2023 Longlist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature:

Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says Disney-Hyperion Books / Disney Publishing Worldwide

Kenneth M. Cadow, Gather Candlewick Press

Alyson Derrick, Forget Me Not Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers / Simon & Schuster

Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares? Dial Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House

Vashti Harrison, Big Little, Brown Books for Young Readers / Hachette Book Group

Katherine Marsh, The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine Roaring Brook Press / Macmillan Publishers

Dan Nott, Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day Random House Graphic / Penguin Random House

Dan Santat, A First Time for Everything First Second / Macmillan Publishers

Betty C. Tang, Parachute Kids Graphix / Scholastic, Inc.

Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long, More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers / Macmillan Publishers

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Prize: $3000, publication, and 20 copies Fee: $35 Omnidawn is accepting manuscripts for their 2023 Open Poetry Contest. The contest deadline has been extended until Aug 31, at 11pm Pacific.

Guidelines and submission links can be found here: https://omnidawn.submittable.com/login?returnUrl=%2Fsubmit%2F265292%2F2023-omnidawn-poetry-open-book-contest-judged-by-maw-shein-win

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Fresh Off a National Book Award Win, Omnidawn Looks Toward the Holidays

BookJubilee.Com http://dlvr.it/SzhRdK

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Find Me @AWP Seattle: Off-Site Readings & Bookfair Interludes

Hello dear AWP conference goers and Seattle literary friends,

In the supersaturated abundance of exciting literary happenings -- here are some events I’m taking part in and places I’ll be. Hope to see you at some (or all!).

AWP - SEATTLE: On-Site Book Signings & Off-Site Readings

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8TH

* OFF-SITE: 6-7 PM, @National Nordic Museum (Ballard), "Inspired by Iceland Reading" w/ Katy Didden, Sierra Nelson, Katie Prince, & Melanie Noel; All Ages venue, masks highly encouraged; Seattle Times write-up

* OFF-SITE: 8-10pm, @Pine Box (Capitol Hill), PoetryNW & SAL Present, Group Reading Featuring: Kenzie Allen, Laura Da', Lauren Hilger, James Hoch, Sasha LaPointe, Eugenia Leigh, Sierra Nelson, & Paisley Rekdal; 21+ venue 

THURSDAY, MARCH 9th

* OFF-SITE: 5-6pm, @Chop Suey (Capitol Hill), A Dozen Nothing Celebration, Group Reading featuring: Colleen Louise Barry, Mary Biddinger, Bill Carty, Jason Crawford, Nicelle Davis, Rosemarie Dombrowski, Gabriel Dozal, Emily Kendal Frey, Knox Gardner, Charles Jensen, Robert Lashley, Denis Mair, John Marshall, Trey Moody, Sierra Nelson, Shawnte Orion, Rena Priest, Lily Someson, Arianne True, Elizabeth Vignali, Lizabeth Yandel, Jason Whitmarsh; 21+ venue, masks highly encouraged.

* OFF-SITE: 6-7:30pm, @Town Hall Seattle (First Hill; entrance off Seneca), Cascadia Field Guide Book Release Celebration (Not reading, but have work in the anthology!), All Ages event, masks highly encouraged

FRIDAY, MARCH 10th

* AWP BOOKFAIR: 10-11am @ Rose Metal Press table T1328, book signing for I Take Back the Sponge Cake

* OFF-SITE: 9-10pm, @Rendezvous (Jewelbox Theater, Belltown), Vis-a-Vis Society (Rachel Kessler & Sierra Nelson) Entre Rios Press & Friends Multi-Media Reading, 21+ venue, Masks highly encouraged. Grotto stage is not ADA accessible. (Lots of great readings the whole night, 7-11pm, on 2 stages, plus food & drink available): Seattle’s Entre Ríos Books hosts Fence, Fonograf Editions, Omnidawn, and Birds LLC in the Jewel Box Theater & the Grotto. NW presses Blue Cactus and Winter Texts offer conversation and chill in the Red Velvet Lounge.  One of Seattle’s classic old-school bars— food and drink available. Fence #40 West Coast premiere! Performances by Dao Strom and the Vis-à-Vis Society. A short play by Christine Deavel. With readings by Colleen Barry, Bill Carty, Sommer Browning, Peter Burghardt, Julie Carr, Cort Day, Emily Kendal Frey, Annie Guthrie, Robert Lashley, Cameron Martin, Erin McCoy, Joyelle McSweeney, Margaret Meehan, Patrick Milian,  Lucas de Lima, Warren C. Longmire, Sawako Nakayasu, Hilary Plum, Kimberly Reyes, Steven Rood, Jess Stark, Rodrigo Toscanao, Zoe Tuck, Maw Shein Win, Haines Whitacre, and Deborah Woodard w/ Peter Nelson-King.) 

SATURDAY MARCH 11th

* AWP BOOKFAIR: 12-1pm @ Poetry Northwest table 1311, book signing for The Lachrymose Report

*  AWP BOOKFAIR: 9-11am & 3-5pm @ Seattle Arts & Lectures table 805 

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Wed 3/8 6pm: Inspired by Iceland Reading w/ Katie Prince, Katy Kidden, Melanie Noel, & Sierra Nelson @National Nordic Museum (Ballard)

Wed 3/8 8pm AWP Welcome Party & Reading Hosted by Poetry NW & Seattle Arts & Lectures @The Pine Box (Capitol Hill) 

Thurs 3/9 5pm A Dozen Nothing Reading @Chop Suey (Capitol Hill)

Thurs 3/9 6pm Cascadia Field Guide Launch Party @Town Hall Seattle (First Hill) 

Friday 3/10 7-11pm Rendezvous: a Seattle AWP Offsite @Rendezvous (Belltown) w/ Entre Rios Press, Fence, Fonograf Ed, Omnidawn, Birds LLC, Blue Cactus, Winter Texts readings (Vis-a-Vis Society performs 9-10pm in Jewelbox Theater, w/ some solo Rachel Kesler & Sierra Nelson work as well) 

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In stories we kept reading, wandering was a punishment, and we were instructed to pity the immigrant, the foreigner, the stranger. But what if the absence of a point of reference is not something to be lamented but a structural foundation on which to build a house we fill with water?

Jennifer S. Cheng, “Dear Mao,” from House A

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My Ten Favorite Poetry Books from 2019

My Ten Favorite Poetry Books from 2019

As I mentioned top ten fiction books list, I read 55 books in 2019 — of these 26 were collections of poetry. This large uptick in poetry reading is largely impacted by the spotlight and podcast interviews that I’ve been putting out over the past year.

I’ve read so many amazing poetry books last year and I hate to leave any one out — but sometimes a collection just resonate with where your at in…

[thelonguepuree]

Lynn Xu, from Debts & Lessons (2013)

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New poem in Washington Square Review. 

[omnidawn]

We're stoked for this awesome review of Lyn Hejinian's The Following in Jacket 2. Thank you so much, BK Fischer! / ~ ~ " The seventy-seven numbered poems in the volume gather non sequiturs — observations, utterances, images, and examples that convey no logical relationship or narrative from one to the next — in sets of fourteen, a constraint that inevitably invokes what is perhaps the most closed and logical poetic form of all: the sonnet. To call these poems sonnets, Hejinian writes cannily in the book’s preface, “wouldn’t be inaccurate — or it would be entirely so” (9). “Sonnets are the summit of logicality,” she continues, and unlike “the sonnet proper,” these poems “are intended to be illogical (9). " / http://jacket2.org/reviews/non-sequitur-song-experience https://www.omnidawn.com/product/the-unfollowing/ #omnidawn #poetry #review #lynhejinian #languagepoetry

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NORMA COLE

Photos: KIRBY

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2019 LONGLIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY:

Dan Beachy-Quick, Variations on Dawn and Dusk Omnidawn Publishing

Jericho Brown, The Tradition Copper Canyon Press

Toi Derricotte, “I”: New and Selected Poems University of Pittsburgh Press

Camonghne Felix, Build Yourself a Boat Haymarket Books

Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic Graywolf Press

Ariana Reines, A Sand Book Tin House Books

Mary Ruefle, Dunce Wave Books

Carmen Giménez Smith, Be Recorder Graywolf Press

Arthur Sze, Sight Lines Copper Canyon Press

Brian Teare, Doomstead Days Nightboat Books

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In the autumn of 1991, a very young version of myself had a semester-long course on prosody with Donald Justice. I would not be exaggerating to say it changed my life. Don went on to become a mentor and eventually a friend. I have gone back to my notes and handout from this class so many times over the past 26 years that many of the pieces of paper are falling apart. My classmate, David Koehn, has compiled all of the handouts and examples from that class with Don and edited them into a book. I already ordered it. If you have any interest in prosody, in the ways in which stress/sound is captured and manipulated in a poem, you do not want to miss the chance to get this book!

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2023 Single Poem Broadside Contest

Judge: Nathalie Khankan Prize: $1000 and 20 printed copies Dates: March 5 – April 17 Basic guidelines: See below Fee: Two Options: 1) $35 for up to five poems or 2) $17 for one poem

https://www.omnidawn.com/contests/omnidawn-poetry-contests/