News and Events
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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We’re delighted that Toadlily will have a table at the CAPITAL LIT festival in Albany on Saturday, Feb. 20, 12 PM to 6 PM. Representing us will be Noah Kucij, whose chapbook “Burned Papers” appears in The Fifth Voice. Hope to see you there! Details are below:
CAPITAL LIT
CLMP’s First-Ever Albany Lit-Fest
Saturday, Feb 20, 12 PM – 6 PM
The College of Saint Rose
Saint Joseph Auditorium
940 Madison
Albany, NY
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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.
