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Copper Canyon Press

Aug

8

2013

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Attention Poets…

Did you know that Port Townsend’s Copper Canyon Press is open for poetry manuscript submissions through August 31? The non-profit publisher dedicated to poetry has a reading period every summer, and 2013’s window for submissions closes at the end of this month. Poets with a book-length poetry manuscript that you would like them to read …

Jul

24

2012

3

remarks

Not Coming to an E-reader Near You

It surprises me how many of our customers in the store talk fondly about their e-readers, some even producing them so that I might see how wonderful they are. My somewhat theatrical revulsion and thorough unwillingness to touch the critters surprises them. And there we stand, looking at each other across quite a divide. It …

Jan

1

2012

The Book of Hours by Marianne Boruch

“Marianne Boruch’s voice has always been a compelling one, crisp and a bit akilter. Her poems are approachable even as they tilt toward mystery. Unsentimental, they peer fearlessly into emotional life, their power enhanced by their author’s dry eye and acute vision. The natural world often is both setting and protagonist in her work, its …

Jun

3

2011

Reading the "Seasoned" Poets

Thanks to the good folks at 49 Writers in Alaska, we learned about this wonderful article in the New York Times from May 29, proselytizing the joys of catching a poet in “midcareer.” After using a great baseball analogy to describe what it’s like to read a seasoned poet, the Times highlights exactly five recent …

Feb

13

2011

See Me Improving by Travis Nichols (Copper Canyon Press)

I pass my mind over the things of this world as a man passes a stick, thinking it a wand, or a squeegee, thinking it could clean or fundamentally alter the composition of a thing rather than simply and privately acknowledge its puny existence. Yes, Travis Nichols passes his mind, his language, over the things …

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