News Round Up

Ninth Letter is happy to present WORDHARVEST on Saturday, September 29 starting at 4pm. The official description: Five stellar writers read from their work as the harvest moon rises. Check out this ridiculously fantastic roster:

• Jensen Beach (For Out of the Heart Proceed)
• Roxane Gay (Ayiti)
• Ted Sanders (No Animals We Could Name)
• Amy Sayre (The Widows of Whitechapel)
• Chad Simpson (Tell Everyone I Said Hi)

Wow! I've had the pleasure of hearing each of them read before and it will be a real treat to see them all together. You're going to be there, right? Of course. It's totally worth a trip to Champaign, IL. The reading will be at Cowboy Monkey (6 Taylor Street, Champaign, Illinois 68120). Seriously, it's going to one hell of a good time. Hope to see you there!

Congratulations to LeAnne Howe, U of I creative writing professor and former CNF editor for 9L, on being awarded The Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas.
 
Head over to the A/V section of ninthletter.com for the latest in a series of two handed drawing  videos from Ninth Letter designers, inspired by the stories and essays in our Spring/Summer 2012 issue. This month's videos are for "Picnic Geese," "Something Californian," and "The Scientist." Psst...I can also tell you that I'm working on an interview with "Picnic Geese" author Joseph Gross, so keep an eye out for that in the coming weeks.

Brynn Saito's poem, "Match," from the Spring/Summer 2012 issue was featured on Verse Daily.

Okay, I think that's it for now. Don't forget to enter our contest for Robin Hemley's "Study Questions for the Essay at Hand," if you haven't already. 

Contributors: we love sharing good news, so be sure to let us know if you have a new book coming out or have readings scheduled or any other news we can pass along to our readers via the blog. Contact us at info@ninthletter.com.

Lobster/Verse Daily

We're very happy to report that 9L staffer, Matt Minicucci is featured on Verse Daily today! Head on over to Verse Daily read his poem, "Lobster," which appears in the current issue of Copper Nickel.

Congratulations Matt!

Contributors News

BreadLoaf recently announced the Fellows and Tuition Scholars for 2010 and we're pleased to pass along the news that a number of 9L contributors were on the list! Congratulations everyone!

Fellows:

Matt Bondourant (vol. 4, no. 2) - John Gardner Fellow in fiction

Ashley Butler (vol. 4, no. 2 as Jane Ashley) - William Sloan Fellowship in Nonfiction

Kim Dana Kupperman (vol. 4, no. 1) - Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellow in Nonfiction

Scholars:

Kim Adrian (vol. 6, no. 1) - William Raney Scholar in Nonfiction

Tarfia Faizullah (vol.7, no. 1) - Margaret Bridgman Scholar in Poetry

Also, congratulations to Brandy T. Wilson (vol. 5, no. 1) for being named one of Lambda Literary Foundation's 2010 Emerging LGBT Voices!

And finally for today, "Youths" by Michael Rutherglen from the current issue (vol. 7, no. 1) is featured on Verse Daily today. Thanks Verse Daily!

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Leslie Adrienne Miller's poem "Love Note" from the spring/summer 10 issue of Ninth Letter is featured on Verse Daily today.

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Benjamin Paloff's poem "Maimonides on What is Meant by 'Vision'" from the new issue of Ninth Letter (vol. 6, no. 2) is featured on Verse Daily today. Check it out!

Also, if you haven't already, don't forget to stop by the webstore for the cool new issue of Ninth Letter.

UPDATE: Today (02/03), Verse Daily features Christopher Kennedy's poem, "Waking Up at the Wheel." from the new issue!

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Verse Daily is featuring another poem from the Spring/Summer 09 issue today, Bruce Snider's "A Great Whirring." Thanks, Verse Daily!

The new issue features outstanding poetry and prose from Oliva Bustion, Geri Doran, Bryan Furuness, J. Nicholas Geist, Travis Hessman, Mary Kiolbasa, Brian Oliu, Tomaz Salamun, and many others. In other words, great summer reading!

If you haven't seen our new bus/beach/poolside friendly format, here is a comparison between the new Spring/Summer 09 issue and the Spring/Summer 08 issue.

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Verse Daily is featuring Angie Estes' poem, "It Is Virtually Without Thinkness And Has Almost," from the Spring/Summer 09 issue today.

If you haven't done so already, check out the new, redesigned, Spring/Summer o9 issue of Ninth Letter. In addition to the great poetry, we have wonderful prose from Margot Livesey, Seth Fried, Bodine Schwerin, Kim Adrian, Nicholas Delbanco, Andre Perry, and many others.

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Olivia Clare's poem, "The Widdershins Garden," from the Spring/Summer 09 issue is up at Verse Daily. Check it out!