Salamander Magazine http://salamandermag.org a magazine for poetry, fiction, & memoirs Tue, 15 May 2012 20:14:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Salamander at the Mass Poetry Festival http://salamandermag.org/salamander-at-the-mass-poetry-festival/ http://salamandermag.org/salamander-at-the-mass-poetry-festival/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:16:14 +0000 Katie Sticca http://salamandermag.org/?p=1239 Salamander is excited to participate in the 2012 Mass Poetry Festival: April 20–22, in Salem, MA. Among all the fantastic events and festivities (which can be found at http://masspoetry2012.crowdvine.com/calendar), you’ll be able to find us at:

 

 

The Salamander reading will feature four poets of different generations whose work appears in recent issues of the magazine: Tara Skurtu, Marie Gauthier, Frannie Lindsay, and Alan Feldman. Each poet will read for approximately 12 minutes, allowing time for questions, answers, and discussion at the end of the session. Jennifer Barber, Salamander’s editor in chief, will introduce the poets and serve as moderator.

 

What sort of ode might speak to the questions, needs, and hopes of our time? How might the psalm be relevant to the 21st century? How can one write a praise-song in a time of so much woe, worry, and sorrow? Five poets from Suffolk University, one of them a recent graduate, will discuss odes, psalms, and praise-songs with the Mass. Poetry Festival audience in attendance. Then these poets will read some of their own works that have been inspired by this type of poetry. The goal in both the discussion and the reading will be to show that poems in this tradition can in fact be as fresh, relevant, and meaning-full as ever. Featuring Jennifer Barber, Kristen Bulger, David Ferry, George Kalogeris, and Fred Marchant. 

 

 

]]> http://salamandermag.org/salamander-at-the-mass-poetry-festival/feed/ 0 John Deane to read at Suffolk University April 11th http://salamandermag.org/john-deane-to-read-at-suffolk-university-april-11th/ http://salamandermag.org/john-deane-to-read-at-suffolk-university-april-11th/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:53:44 +0000 Katie Sticca http://salamandermag.org/?p=1196 The CAS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program, the English Department, and the Creative Writing Program are proud to present the following public events with John F. Deane.

   

John F. Deane is an award-winning Irish poet, novelist, translator, editor, and the founding publisher of Dedalus Press and Poetry Ireland Review.

 

 

Wednesday, April 11

Poetry Reading

With Fred Marchant of the English Department

7 PM

Thursday, April 12

A Conversation about Translation

With David Ferry, Distinguished Visiting Scholar

1 PM

  

All events will be held in the Sawyer Library Poetry Center, 3rd Floor: 73 Tremont Street. (Entrance around the corner on Tremont Place; ID required to enter.)

]]> http://salamandermag.org/john-deane-to-read-at-suffolk-university-april-11th/feed/ 0 Will Schutt Named 2012 Winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets http://salamandermag.org/will-schutt-named-2012-winner-of-the-yale-series-of-younger-poets/ http://salamandermag.org/will-schutt-named-2012-winner-of-the-yale-series-of-younger-poets/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:02:02 +0000 Katie Sticca http://salamandermag.org/?p=1182 Congratulations to past contributor Will Schutt (Volume 15, No. 2), who was chosen as the Winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.

From yalepress.wordpress.com:

 

Yale University Press is pleased to announce a winner in the 2012 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. The judge, prize-winning and critically acclaimed poet Carl Phillips, has chosen Will Schutt’s manuscript, Westerly. Yale University Press will publish Schutt’s book in April 2013. The manuscript is Phillips’s second selection as judge.

Poet Will Schutt earned his BA from Oberlin College and his MFA from Hollins University. His poems and translations appear in Agni, FIELD, Harvard Review, The Southern Review and elsewhere. He lives with his wife in Wainscott, New York.

Awarded since 1919, the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize celebrates the most prominent new American poets by bringing the work of these artists to the attention of the larger public. Earlier winners of the prize include such talents as Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, and Robert Hass. It is the longest-running poetry prize in the United States.

]]> http://salamandermag.org/will-schutt-named-2012-winner-of-the-yale-series-of-younger-poets/feed/ 0 Edith Pearlman and Laura Kasischke Win the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award http://salamandermag.org/edith-pearlman-and-laura-kasischke-win-the-2012-national-book-critics-circle-award/ http://salamandermag.org/edith-pearlman-and-laura-kasischke-win-the-2012-national-book-critics-circle-award/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:39:08 +0000 Katie Sticca http://salamandermag.org/?p=1169 Congratulations to Edith Pearlman and Laura Kasischke, winners of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award!

Edith Pearlman, who is featured in Salamander Vol. 11.1 and 12.1, won for her short story collection Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories.

  

Laura Kasischke, who can be found in Salamander 13.2, was awarded for her poetry collection Space, in Chains.

]]> http://salamandermag.org/edith-pearlman-and-laura-kasischke-win-the-2012-national-book-critics-circle-award/feed/ 0 Deb Olin Unferth at Suffolk University http://salamandermag.org/deb-olin-unferth-at-suffolk-university/ http://salamandermag.org/deb-olin-unferth-at-suffolk-university/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:13:34 +0000 Katie Sticca http://salamandermag.org/?p=1140 The English Department and the Creative Writing Program at Suffolk University Present:

    

A Reading by DEB OLIN UNFERTH, the author of the story collection Minor Robberies, the novel Vacation, and the memoir Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the Sandinistas, a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has been featured in Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Believer, and the Boston Review. She teaches at Wesleyan University and currently lives in New York.

 

MONDAY, MARCH 26

7 PM

SAWYER LIBRARY POETRY CENTER

3RD FLOOR

73 TREMONT STREET, BOSTON

(ENTRANCE AROUND THE CORNER ON TREMONT PLACE)

 

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