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The New Measure Poetry Prize 2012

Parlor Press's poetry series, Free Verse Editions, is pleased to announce the third annual New Measure Poetry Prize, which will carry a cash award of $1,000 and publication of an original, unpublished manuscript of poems. Submissions for the prize must be postmarked in May or June of 2012. The nonrefundable entry fee is $25.00; checks and money orders should be made out to "Parlor Press." Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions will announce the winning manuscript no later than December 1, 2012. The judge for 2012 will be Jon Thompson.

The New Measure Poetry Prize Winners

2009: 13 Ways of Happily by Emily Carr [selected by Cole Swensen]
2010: Country Album by James Capozzi [selected by Jon Thompson]
2011: The Canticle of the Night Path by Jennifer Atkinson [selected by Susan Stewart]

Emily Carr's 13 ways of happily makes "Top 11 Poetry Books of 2011"

Posted 15 January, 2012 - 13:58 by David Blakesley

Rob McLennan chooses Emily Carr's 13 ways of happily for his "Top 11 (Canadian) Poetry Books of 2011:

http://www.dusie.blogspot.com/2012/01/rob-mclennans-top-eleven-canadian....

13 ways of happily was selected in 2010 for the New Measure Poetry Prize in the Free Verse Editions series.

Congratulations, Emily!

Rational Rhetoric wins Olson Award

Cover of Rational RhetoricDavid J. Tietge's Rational Rhetoric: The Role of Science in Popular Discourse has been named the winner of JAC's Gary A. Olson Award for most outstanding book in rhetorical and cultural theory. -- 26 May 2010.

Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize 2009

Posted 9 February, 2010 - 05:54 by David Blakesley

Emily Carr, 13 Ways of Happily

“If ostranenie—‘to make strange’—is the mandate of contemporary poetry, Emily Carr has achieved this both brilliantly and beautifully. Kaleidoscopic in its glimmering slivers, the life she brings us is built of charged familiars slightly and completely changed: the sun turns on its stem; the stallion rolls in a pasture of blue ether. Although she references poetic antecedents from Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams to Joan Retallack and Mary Ruefle, it’s not their voices, but their facility for invention, itself here reinvented, that keeps waking us up into a world sometimes alarming, often unsettling, and always careening until we, too, arrive ‘delirious & shredded, sailing sideways through the greenly ravished vowels.’”

—Cole Swensen

Series Editor Alan Gross Wins Awards

Alan Gross, editor of the Rhetoric of Science and Technology series, has been named the 2009 Distinguished Scholar of the Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division of the National Communication Association and won the 2009 Best Article Award from the Visual Communication Division for his essay "Darwin’s Diagram: Scientific Visions and Scientific Visuals" in Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking: The Integration of Rhetoric and Vision in Constructing the Real, edited by Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Sue Hum, and Linda T.

Review of Molly Bendall's Under the Quick

Molly Bendall's Under the Quick has been reviewed by Carol Muske-Dukes (Poet Laureate of California) in The Huffington Post. Here's an excerpt:

There's an inscrutable, willowy, linguistic élan to the poems -- they come from the world below consciousness -- language released at pure Ophelia-speed from formality and sequence -- their surefootedness and grace is something remarkable.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-muskedukes/confronting-words-poetry_...

Parlor Press at CCCC in San Francisco

Parlor Press will be in Booth 10 in the exhibit area at CCCC in the San Francisco Hilton. Stop by to meet authors and editors and to check out some great deals!

Free Verse Editions Reading at AWP

Posted 2 February, 2009 - 06:14 by admin

Event Information

Host: Parlor Press and Free Verse Editions
Contact: Jon Thompson: freeverse_editor@chass.ncsu.edu or Adam Clay: adam.clay@gmail.com

Time and Place

Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009
Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: The Court in the Columbia College Chicago
Street: 731 South Plymouth Court
City/Town: Chicago, IL

Free Verse Editions Press Release 2009

Parlor Press is pleased to announce the 2008 selections for its Free Verse Editions series, to be published in Fall, 2009.

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