News and Events
On Sunday, September 12 from 10-6, Toadlily Press will have a table at the Brooklyn Book Festival. This is a huge, free public event at Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street. We are table #118. www.brooklynbookfestival.org
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On Saturday, November 6 from 5-7pm, Toadlily Press will hold a Fifth Anniversary Reading and Launch of Sightline, the sixth book in the Quartet Series, at Poets House, 10 River Terrace, Battery Park City, New York, NY. Directions and details: www.poetshouse.org
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The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center is sponsoring a Small Press Celebration on Sunday, August 29th at 4:30, featuring books and readers from Inkwell, Slapering Hol Press, The Westchester Review and Toadily Press. Michael Carman and Myrna Goodman will represent Toadlily Press. We hope you can join us at this celebration; as many of you know, the Center is housed in the picturesque Philipse Manor railroad station and is a beautiful setting for literary events.
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Diana Woodcock has a new chapbook published by Finishing Line Press: In the Shade of the Sidra Tree. Planned publication date is October 2010.
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Toadlily author Pam Hart has been selected as one of three inaugural fellows at the new Purchase College Writers Center, starting this fall. We’re excited to learn more about her endeavors at the Center, which the college says is “intended to give the college the same visibility in writing as it has in the visual and performing arts and to give writers what they need—a place to read, write, to do research and to meet other writers.”
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Advance praise for Sightline by Elizabeth Austen, Andrea Bates, Carol Stevens Kner, and Sarah Suzor, available Fall 2010:
Four players and four instruments working four overlapping themes, remarkably cohesive considering that each movement has been created by a different composer. The poets are all impressively deft with their craft. Each of them rejects the oversimplified and embraces—with elegance—her complex interpretation of the world. They are all worth reading and re-reading—or, to keep the musical metaphor in mind, listening to, again and again.
—MOLLY PEACOCK
What I love about this quartet is the fact that, while each poet has her own particular music and driving fascinations, there is a real interconnectedness among them. There is great tonal range here, but it is obvious that these writers own restless minds and expansive hearts. This collection of poets offers the pleasure of hearing fine soloists and compelling four-part harmony.
—TIM SEIBLES
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Congratulations to Emily Carr, whose chapbook the story will fix you it is there outside your & appears in By Way Of and who is enjoying a residency at The Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, FL. Her book directions for flying won the 2009 Furniture Press Poetry Award, and her manuscript 13 ways of happily: books 1 & 2 received the 2009 New Measures Poetry Prize and is due out this year from Parlor Press. For more details: http://kerouacproject.org/author/emily_carr/
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Toadlily author Diana Woodcock will present a paper on “The Poetry Chapbook: Blessing or Curse?” at the 8th International Conference on the Book, St. Gallen, Switzerland, November 6-8. “For many poets, getting a chapbook published is the first step to getting their full-length collection published,” she writes. “New and emerging poets find in the exercise of preparing poems for a chapbook a way to assemble their best work to date and explore the shape of their first full-length book. As a means of presenting more poets to the public and facilitating the careers emerging poets are building, the chapbook cannot be praised highly enough.” For more details on the conference and Diana’s presentation, click here or visit booksandpublishing.com.
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Elizabeth Ganga of The Journal News, a Gannett newspaper in Westchester County, NY, has a charming article about Toadlily Press editors and authors in the paper’s April 25 issue: click here for her article, or visit lohud.com.
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We’re delighted to announce the authors whose work will appear in Toadlily’s 2010 Quartet Series volume:
Elizabeth Austen (Seattle, WA)
Andrea Bates (Wilmington, NC)
Carol Stevens Kner (New York, NY)
Sarah Suzor (Venice, CA)
Our great thanks go to all who submitted work during our January submissions period.
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In the Fall 2008 issue of Whiskey Island Magazine, A. E. Felix reviews Edge by Edge and The Fifth Voice and finds much to like in both.
Edge by Edge “offers the richness of emotion recollected in tranquility but a 21st century format.” Of Gladys Justin Carr’s Augustine’s Brain–A Remix, Felix says, “My favorite of hers is ‘The Bench’ in which two obviously educated middle aged people speak to each other with an ‘arthritis in the syntax / phrases like calculus of mushrooms.’ Top that!” Emma Bolden’s “God Is in the Ceiling” is “a totally enjoyable look at a girl growing up, with such lines as ‘I am sick / with purity’ telling it as it is, of the need to explore, to live.”
In The Fifth Voice, “Pamela Hart’s The End of the Body is a celebration. . . . The bravura effect ‘I fell into a detail of Mitchell’s Untitled 1963′ in ‘To Make a Portrait of the Self’ is worth the price of the book.” Read, and re-read, Victoria Givotovsky’s “Long-married Love,” Felix concludes, “and when you put down the poem, you will realize how much more you have learned about love and life than when you read it the last time. This is poetry.”
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And congratulations to contributing editor Matt Nienow on winning a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize for three poems. Details, including the text of Matt’s winning poems, are at http://www.dorothyprizes.org/2009awards.htm.
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Comings and goings: Toadlily author Matt Nienow has joined the Press as a contributing editor, and editor Pam Hart has left to devote more time to her work at the Katonah Museum. Welcome Matt! and we wish Pam all the best. Visit our blog to read Matt’s posts.
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NOW AVAILABLE: BY WAY OF, the fifth volume of the Quartet Series, FEATURING poets Diana Alvarez of Northhampton, MA; Emily Carr of Quincy, IL; Matthew Nienow of Seattle, WA; and Diana Woodcock of Doha, Qatar.
To order any of our books
BY WAY OF in the poetry section of Books on the Common, Ridgefield, CT
OTHER NEWS
Diana Woodcock’s chapbook Mandala, which is dedicated to the Tibetan people on this 50th year anniversary of the 14th Dalai Lama’s forced flight into exile in India, will be published by Foothills Publishing as the 14th in their Poets on Peace series.
Toadlily Press congratulates Heidi Hart (Edge by Edge) for winning a Pushcart Prize (XXXIII 2009). Her Poem, Door Psalm, appears in 2009 Puschcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses. Read or listen to Door Psalm.
The Fifth Voice and Edge by Edge were both noted by The Montserrat Review on their list of BEST BOOKS OF 2007.
Toadlily Press congratulates Emma Bolden who has had a chapbook accepted for publication by Dancing Girl Press. Look for a review of Emma’s How to Recognize a Lady (Edge by Edge) in the Alabama Writer’s Forum.
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Mindy Kronenberg reviews Edge by Edge in the Winter 2008 edition of Book/Mark Quarterly:
“This is the third volume in Toadlily’s Quartet Series, a collection of four poets with distinctive and vital voices that come together in a surprising and satisfying sampling.”
Julie R. Enszer’s recent review of The Fifth Voice declares the book:
a leap forward for the press; the gorgeously designed cover signifies a finely printed book. The four poets included are well-served by the press and its delivery of poetry into the world.”
Read the complete review at Galatea Resurrection Blog.
