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Poets & Writers Magazine • Volume 48 • Issue 1
EDITOR’S Note • INVENTION, INVITATION, INSPIRATION
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Graphic Narrative Workshops
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Page One • Where New And Noteworthy Books Begin
Ahsahta Press Closes Its Doors
The Anthologist
An Indie Alternative to Amazon?
Small Press Points
Literary MagNet
Kelly Link Returns to Bookselling
The Time Is Now • Writing Prompts and Exercises
THE LITERARY Life
THE LITERARY Life
Open the Book • ARTIST DIANE SAMUELS TURNS WORKS OF LITERATURE INSIDE OUT IN A DRAMATIC PROCESS OF CREATIVE REWRITING THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WRITER AND READER IN A PAINSTAKING HOMAGE TO THE ULTIMATE ACT OF CREATIVITY: WRITING.
POETIC LENSES • OUR FIFTEENTH ANNUAL LOOK AT DEBUT POETRY
Patty Crane • BELL I WAKE TO Zone 3 Press (First Book Award for Poetry)
Camonghne Felix • BUILD YOURSELF A BOAT Haymarket Books
Jake Skeets • EYES BOTTLE DARK WITH A MOUTHFUL OF FLOWERS Milkweed Editions (National Poetry Series)
Yanyi • THE YEAR OF BLUE WATER Yale University Press (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
Marwa Helal • INVASIVE SPECIES Nightboat Books
Maya C. Popa • AMERICAN FAITH Sarabande Books
Sara Borjas • HEART LIKE A WINDOW, MOUTH LIKE A CLIFF Noemi Press
Maya Phillips • EROU Four Way Books
Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes • THE INHERITANCE OF HAUNTING University of Notre Dame Press (Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize)
Keith S. Wilson • FIELDNOTES ON ORDINARY LOVE Copper Canyon
WORD BY WORD • REFLECTING ON FIFTEEN YEARS OF DEBUT POETS
The First in a Yearlong Series Inside Publishing
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Submission Calendar
Recent Winners
Conferences & Residencies
A Jubilee Year