Think of this section as a bulletin from KR in which we brag about the accomplishments of the extended KR family and leave out the gall-bladder surgeries.
Marcia Aldrich‘s nonfiction manuscript, Companion to an Untold Story, has been selected by Susan Orlean for the AWP Nonfiction Prize.
David Bottoms’s new book of poems, We Almost Disappear, will be published in October by Copper Canyon Press.
Annah Browning’s work is forthcoming or has appeared recently in DIAGRAM, Southeast Review, Handsome Journal, and Sixth Finch. This fall she is beginning work on her PhD in creative writing at University of Illinois-Chicago.
Nickolas Butler has a short story forthcoming in the newest issue of Ploughshares and a poem forthcoming in Alimentum.
Dan Chelotti has recently been writing articles for the Flying Object website. He writes, “Flying Object is a bookstore / small press collective / gallery / reading space in western Massachusetts that is churning out many wonderful things. Alongside my work, you can find a series of lyrical essays by Dara Wier that are mindblowing, among many other interesting reads. Strongly recommended. Also, I have just learned that I have been named an Assistant Professor of English at Elms College.”
Kelly Cherry has recently published stories in Idaho Review, blackbird, and Commentary.
Sharon Dolin‘s fifth book of poems, Whirlwind, is forthcoming in the Spring of 2012 from the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Jennifer duBois’s first novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, will be published by The Dial Press in March 2012.
Kelly Fordon and Laura Kasischke contributed to the forthcoming book Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them, which will be published by Wayne State University in September.
Gabriel Fried was recently in residence at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbertide, Italy.
Marilyn Hacker received the PEN Voelcker Award in Poetry in 2010. During 2010, she published three books: Unauthorized Voices (essays) with the University of Michigan Press, Treason, translations of poems by H??di Kaddour, with Yale University Press, and He and I, translations of poems by Emmanuel Moses, with Oberlin College Press. This year, she published The Present Tense of the World, translations of poems by Amina Sa??d with Black Widow Press. A paperback edition of her most recent book of poems, Names, has just come out from W.W. Norton & Co.
Cynthia Haven has published An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz with Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. The book was praised in the Times Literary Supplement, World Literature Today and Przeglad, and it was included in Publishers Weekly’s top 10 list for the “belles lettres” category for the spring. She recently spoke on Milosz at Columbia University with Adam Zagajewski, Bogdana Carpenter, and Anna Frajlich, as well as in Krakow in May at the Milosz Festival. She has published a major retrospective on the eminent Polish poet Julia Hartwig in World Literature Today, the only profile of Hartwig currently in English.
Jane Hirshfield‘s seventh poetry collection, Come, Thief, will be published by Knopf on August 25th. It can be ordered through your local independent bookstore via this link. Hirshfield has also just published “The Heart of Haiku” as a Kindle Single, Amazon’s series of works too long for magazines, too short for books–”great concepts expressed at their natural length.” This 99 cent essay on Basho, haiku, and how poems work became Amazon’s #1 poetry book by the second day it was out, and went straight to the Singles bestseller list. (It can be downloaded with a free app from Amazon onto PCs, Macs, iPads, smart phones, etc., as well as to Kindles.) Her readings for the new book can be found here.
John Kinsella has two new books of poetry forthcoming: Armour (Picador, UK) has been selected as the Poetry Book Society winter choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Jam Tree Gully (Norton) will be published in the US in November.
Judy Labensohn, originally from Shaker Heights, OH, whose “Gretel” will appear in the Fall issue of KROnline, celebrates 44 years of living in Israel on Aug. 1, 2011. Her “short takes on the ridiculous in Israeli life” appear at www.WriteInIsrael.com.
Harriet Levin‘s travel essay, A Poetic Argument: Setting the Literary Agenda in South Sudan” appeared in Smart Set and in the Arkansas Democratic Gazette on July 9, 2011. A poem, “Love and Decay” written in collaboration with Ravi Shankar, appears in Issue 11 of Cerise Press.
Amit Majmudar’s first novel, Partitions, was recently published by Holt/Metropolitan. His second volume of poetry, Heaven and Earth, won the Donald Justice Prize, and was recently published by Story Line Press. His poem “Dothead” appeared in the August 1, 2011 issue of The New Yorker.
Rose McLarney’s new book of poems, The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in February 2012.
Matthew Olzmann’s manuscript, Mezzanines, was selected for the 2011 Kundiman Poetry prize and will be published by Alice James Books in April, 2013.
Doug Ramspeck’s poem, “Field Guide with Moon,” appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of The Kenyon Review. That poem is part of his forthcoming collection, Mechanical Firelies, which received the 2010 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize, selected by Mary Ruefle.
Omar Sabbagh‘s first collection, My Only Ever Oedipal Complaint, was published in September 2010 by Cinnamon Press and has recently been reviewed in Poetry Review and the Warwick Review. His second collection, The Square Root of Beirut, is forthcoming from Cinnamon Press in February 2012. He has recently published poems in the Warwick Review and Poetry Review, as well as a ‘Letter to My Unconscious’ in Poetry Review. He writes that he received his PhD in English literature in 2011 and will be commencing a one-year position as visiting assistant professor in English Literature and Creative Writing at the American University of Beirut.
Ira Sadoff’s seventh collection of poems, True Faith, will be out from BOA EDITIONS in the spring of 2012. He has twelve poems coming out in APR, nine from a sequence called “Maybe,” and two poems are forthcoming in Colorado Review.
Martha Silano has won a Seattle 4Culture 2011 Individual Artist Projects grant to continue writing and researching her fourth book of poems, tentatively titled House of Mystery. Martha has new poems forthcoming in Scythe, Redactions, Anti-, and Prairie Schooner; an essay titled “Her Own Woman” appears as a web exclusive at Poetry Northwest.
Raisa Tolchinsky is currently in Costa Rica working on a collection of poetry. She writes, “I am here living with a host family for seven weeks in a rural community teaching organic gardening and reforestation to children and am writing about my experiences the whole time!”
Theodore Wheeler’s story “The Current State of the Universe” won The Cincinnati Review’s Schiff Prize for Prose and was published by TCR in May.
Alexander Yates will read from his first novel, Moondogs (Doubleday) at Word Brooklyn, in Greenpoint, with Stacy Carlson on August 4, and in mid September, he will attend the Manila International Book Fair, with events at the fair and National Bookstore.