We hope you’ll join us for this upcoming reading , October 8th, 8PM EST.
Please join us for an author conversation with Ginger Eager, author of The Nature of Remains, winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel.
Please join us and Celebrate New Issues!
Sunday, August 25th 2:00pm-4:00pm at Read and Write Kalamazoo
802 S. Westnedge Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49008
The reading and tribute portion of our program will run from 2:30-3:00.
All final bids for the silent auction must be received by 3:45.
Unable to attend, but want to bid? Please contact us at new-issues@wmich.edu.
Ceramics from the collection of Shirley Clay Scott and Herbert Scott
The Gwen Frostic Reading Series Presents Lauren K. Alleyne and Nina Puro
Thursday, April 4, 7 p.m., 157-159 Bernhard Center
New Issues @ AWP
Booth 5013
Author Signings
Please join us for our upcoming reading!
February 28, 2017
On April 13th, poet Myronn Hardy and novelist Carol Zoref will read as part of the Gwen Frostic Reading Series.
February 1, 2017
Come visit New Issues at booth 741 at AWP, Washington, DC!
We’ll be hosting four book signings:
FRIDAY
2:00-3:00 Claire Bateman
3:00-4:00 David Blair
4:00-5:00 Carol Zoref
SATURDAY
11:00-12:00 Chuck Carlise
January 27, 2017
January 13, 2017
Looking forward to this!
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On January 15th at 4pm, multimedia artist Rachel Eliza Griffiths joins publisher Chris Jackson in the first National Sawdust+ Talk for 2017…
January 13, 2017
Enjoy a poem from Katie Peterson today from Poets.org:
January 5, 2017
Congratulations to Charles Boyer, winner of the GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction!
“Boyer reveals what it means to remain a moral human being in the face of totalitarian power and brutality. This is a novel that reminds us of the power of fiction to teach us empathy and to help us understand how precarious freedom truly is. It is a masterful novel, one that is necessary for our times.”
January 4, 2017
Read Jennifer K. Sweeney’s new poem “Poem for My Son in the Car.”
January 3, 2017
“A series of intimate and captivating interviews by Rachel Zucker with poets and artists about quotidian objects, experiences or obsessions, Commonplace conversations explore the recipes, advice, lists, anecdotes, quotes, politics, phobias, spiritual practices, and other non-Literary forms of knowledge that are vital to an artist’s life and work.” Enjoy!
January 2, 2017
October 18, 2016
Thrilled to see Sawnie Morris featured at Poets & Writers:
Monday, June 13, 2016
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Thursday, July 16, 2015
New Issues 20th Anniversary
Please join us for this special gathering of the Kalamazoo community, writers, and Creative Writing and English alumni to celebrate 20 years of New Issues Poetry & Prose. Featuring music, readings, and an art sale. Sunday, August 30th, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. $10 suggested donation / $5 students
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
New Issues Poet Khaled Mattawa Named 2014 MacArthur Fellow
Congratulations, Khaled Mattawa!
From PBS: MacArthur Foundation Announces 21 New Geniuses
From the LA Times:
“The poet, translator and University of Michigan professor won admiration from the MacArthur Foundation for ‘rendering the beauty and meaning of contemporary Arab poetry to an English reader and highlighting the invaluable role of literary translation in bridging cultural divides.'”
Khaled Mattawa’s most recent collection of original poetry, Tocqueville, was published by New Issues Poetry & Prose (2010).
Ecclesiastes
The trick is that you’re willing to help them.
The rule is to sound like you’re doing them a favor.The rule is to create a commission system.
The trick is to get their number.The trick is to make it personal:
No one in the world suffers like you.The trick is that you’re providing a service.
The rule is to keep the conversation going.The rule is their parents were foolish,
their children are greedy or insane.The rule is to make them feel they’ve come too late.
The trick is that you’re willing to make exceptions.The rule is to assume their parents abused them.
The trick is to sound like the one teacher they loved.And when they say “too much,”
give them a plan.And when they say “anger” or “rage” or “love,”
say “give me an example.”The rule is everyone is a gypsy now.
Everyone is searching for his tribe.The rule is you don’t care if they ever find it.
The trick is that they feel they can.
Khaled Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya in 1964 and immigrated to the U.S. in his teens. He is the author of three previous books of poetry, Ismailia Eclipse (Sheep Meadow, 1995),Zodiac of Echoes (Ausable, 2003), andAmorisco (Ausable, 2008). Mattawa has translated eight volumes of contemporary Arabic poetry and co-edited two anthologies of Arab American literature. He is currently a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poetry, and has received a Guggenheim fellowship, an NEA translation grant, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the PEN American Center Poetry Translation Prize, and three Pushcart Prizes. Mattawa teaches in the MFA (Creative Writing) Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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