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Saturnalia Books is proud to announce two poetry readings on May 8, 2008 in celebration of the launch of Jane Miller's Midnights and Catherine Pierce's Famous Last Words.

11 a.m.-noon — Drexel University
MacAllister Hall, 32nd Street and Chestnut
Q&A to follow

6 pm to 8 pm — The Knapp Gallery
162 North 3rd Street (at Race), Philadelphia
Wine, cheese, music, and art before and after the reading

Everyone welcome!

If you live in the Philadelphia area and would like to be an intern with Saturnalia Books, please email info@saturnaliabooks.com and let us know.

Saturnalia Books regrets that we do not longer accept unsolicited submissions.

If you have a manuscript you would like to show us, please submit to the poetry contest during the month of April.

Saturnalia Books is officially disributed by the University Press of New England (UPNE). In 2008, Saturnalia Books will begin publishing four titles a year. Click here to see our home page on UPNE's website.

Great news for Kathleen Graber keeps coming. She has just been named the Amy Lowell fellow for 2008! And if you haven't already, check out her poem in the New Yorker!

 

The first review of Sarah Vap's Dummy Fire is out:

"Dummy Fire is outstanding in its originality, its vividness, and its explosive lyrical esprit. Throughout the dream realm and the domestic, Vap illuminates the strangest of places with her uncompromising spiritual light."
Anna Journey, Blackbird

To read the full review, visit Blackbird: a journal of literature and the arts.

Here's another on Octopus.

Read the latest great review for Stigmata Errata Etcetera from Brooklyn Rail here.

Wow! Great reviews for Kathleen Graber's Correspondence keep rolling out.
Here are the latest:
"The poems in Kathleen Graber's Correspondence advise a wise discomfort with finality and a suspicion of answers that come too easily. Graber's meditations meander purposefully... In her intellectual openness, she invites her readers to share her world more completely."
Painted Bride Quarterly

"In its clarity and embrace, in its articulation of making and maker, in its unmuddled transport of mind into language, Correspondence is a vital, wholly original work of art."
Literary Review

Here's another from the Boston Review:
In these poems, it's the way in which correspondences slip and fail to correspond that generates the beauty and deeply felt intelligence of the whole: "I want it all. Every broken brick: / if not the fruit, the flower, if not this, the rind, whatever it is / that's left over." Here it is the struggle with incongruity that binds each assemblage together.

And another terrific review from Dragonfire.
Also check this one out at SpeakEasy.

Kathleen Graber has been named a Hodder Fellow at Yale University for 2006/2007. The Hodder Fellowship is is "awarded to individuals during that crucial period when they have demonstrated exceptional promise but have not yet received widespread recognition. Typically, Hodder Fellows have published one highly acclaimed book and are undertaking significant new work that might not be possible without the 'studious leisure' afforded by this fellowship."

Ing Grish wins Small Press Traffic's Book of the Year!!!

Read a review of Ing Grish on Dragonfire!

Read rave reviews for Sabrina Orah Mark's The Babies
in The Boston Review & Diagram and Rattle!

"Sabrina Orah Mark's debut collection is uncommonly taut, an achievement made all the more remarkable given that its poems are anything but spare...."
The Boston Review

"In place of poetic epiphany and absolute closure, Orah Mark infuses in The Babies the world's disorder—its chords are those of disruption, confusion, uncertainty. The vividness with which Orah Mark processes such chaos is exacting; however amplified, its pitch almost always feels authentic."
Diagram

Another great review in Constant Critic !

And pick up Traffic, Rain Taxi, Xantippe, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review to read more!

Artist/Poet Collaboration Series Number 5, coming March, 2009.
Polytheogamy
poetry by Timothy Liu and artwork by Greg Drasler

Coming Fall 2008!

Letters to Poets:
Conversations about Poetics, Politics, and Community
Edited by Jennifer Firestone and Dana Teen Lomax

Featuring the writing of:
Anselm Berrigan
John Yau
Wanda Coleman
Eileen Myles
Paul Hoover
Brenda Coultas
Victor Hernandez Cruz
Anne Waldman
Leslie Scalapino
Kathleen Fraser
and many others!

Coming Fall 2008!

Clouds of Unwilling

poetry by Cal Bedient