Samira Negrouche, author of The Olive Trees’ Jazz and Other Poems, and translator Marilyn Hacker discuss their collection with Pleiades Press intern Lauren Logan. In this stunning addition to the Pleiades Press Translation Series, published in February 2020, Samira Negrouche confronts a war-torn Algeria, amidst the Arab Spring, cataloguing, in her luminary genre-bending poetry, grief,…
Penelope Cray won the Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose for her collection Miracles Come on Mondays (Pleiades Press 2020). Here, Cray discusses her new collection with University of Central Missouri student Ashley Herndon. Please visit LSU Press to order a copy of the book, or it will be available for purchase through Pleiades…
Pleiades interns Jessica Carnnahan and Katherine Gill interviewed Angela Voras-Hills, author of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize-winning poetry collection, Louder Birds, just out from Pleiades Press. JC/KG: We really enjoyed reading your new collection, Louder Birds. In poems such as “When All Around Us Sky And One Perpetual Flame” and “In Which I Hoard The Air Escaping,” you…
Pleiades Press is pleased to announce The Best Prey by Paige Quiñones was selected by Tiana Clark as the winner of the 2020 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry, and will be published in 2021. Tiana Clark praised the book, saying, “The Best Prey is a lush collection converging at the vibrating intersection of danger and…
Pleiades Press is pleased to announce Calabash Stories by Jeffrey Higa was selected by C.J. Hauser as the winner of the Robert C. Jones Prize and will be published in 2021. C.J. Hauser praised the book, writing, “I was enchanted by Calabash Stories. This collection is full of small Márquezian marvels: an ice-maker wheeled down a too-narrow Hawaiian road on roller-skates,…
Pleiades Press is pleased to announce that after an open reading period during the summer of 2019, we have selected Rodney Gomez’s Geographic Tongue to be the fifth book published in the Visual Poetry Series. The book will be released in Fall 2020. Rodney Gomez is the author of Citizens of the Mausoleum (Sundress, 2018), a finalist for the…
We are excited to announce the judges for our fall book prizes, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry and the Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose. Both contests will open September 15 and will close November 15. For submission guidelines and more information about the awards, click here. Tiana Clark will judge the Lena-Miles…
We are very pleased to announce The Cipher by Molly Brodak was selected as the winner of the 2019 Pleiades Press Editors Prize and will be published by Pleiades Press in 2020. Molly Brodak is the author of A Little Middle of the Night (University of Iowa Press, 2010) and Bandit: A Daughter’s Memoir (Grove Atlantic, 2016), along with…
Activism, Poetry, and Crip Linguistics: An Interview with the Editors of the New Unsung Masters Collection, Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master. Laura Hershey was a vital, brilliant, and until now, lesser-known American poet, who, during her short life, was a major invigorating force in the movements for disability rights,…