We are very pleased to announce Landscape with Headless Mama by Jennifer Givhan was selected as the winner of the 2015 Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry contest and will be published next year. We also would like to commend the other finalists and semifinalists, whose manuscripts in our opinion were all outstanding and publishable.…
Alessandra Lynch has a poem up at Poetry Daily. You can read Alessandra’s “Epidemic” here or get a copy of her book, It was a terrible cloud at twilight, here. Katie Bickham’s “Back Porch, 1862” was up at Verse Daily. You can get her book, The Belle Mar here. We’re excited to be publishing Nance Van…
Check out what we’re about to send to the printer! Unsung Masters Volume 6 is coming your way in a few short weeks. This one is on Catherine Breese Davis and edited by Martha Collins, Kevin Prufer, and Martin Rock.
By Luke McKiddy Recently Pleiades Press had the opportunity to talk with Phong Nguyen, contributor and editor for the third volume of the Unsung Masters Series, Nancy Hale: On the Life & Work of a Lost American Master. The contributors’ essays make it clear they have a great appreciation for Nancy Hale and her work. What…
By Julia Landrum & Rory McGraw Recently Pleiades Press interns had the opportunity to chat with Ben Johnson, contributor to the most recent volume of the Unsung Masters Series, Francis Jammes: On the Life & Work of a Modern Master. Q. Like a good literary historian, you stayed objective in your essay “Francis Jammes and…
by M. J. Chrisman Bruce Snider’s Paradise, Indiana tells pieces of Indiana history through vivid imagery and detail, often through the eyes of characters and perspectives the reader wouldn’t normally expect. Throughout the book, he describes elements of life after death through several interspersed poems titled “Afterlife,” each one displaying a new viewpoint and containing its own…
by Rebeccah Ferbezar Bruce Whiteman is a poet and writer living in Toronto. Among his books are the collections Intimate Letter (ECW, 2014), Tablature (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2014), and The Invisible World Is in Decline, Books I-VI (ECW, 2006), as well as a translation of Tiberianus’ Pervigilium Veneris (Russell Maret, 2009). His literary criticism appears in…
Here’s something new we are working on. The selected poetry comics of Bianca Stone will be in the bookstore next fall. You can find glimpses here. BIANCA STONE is a poet and visual artist. Her books include the poetry collection Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Tin House/Octopus Books 2014), Antigonick, a hybrid collaboration with Anne Carson (New Directions 2012),…
Congratulations to Adrian C. Louis! His collection of poetry, Random Exorcisms was selected by judge Adrian Matejka as the winner for 2014. We also would like to applaud the other finalists, whose manuscripts in our opinion were all outstanding and publishable: Denise Bergman, Three Hands None Darin Ciccotelli, A Number of Dead Birds in Our Neighborhood, and…