Last Chance to Submit Yourself to the Wonder Book Prize. . . May 15, 2013: We done told ya and told ya, but will wonders never: Today is the last day to submit to the first-annual Wonder book prize, judged by Macgregor Card: Please send in your submission tonight by Midnight (EST). We are accepting full-length manuscripts of any genre. The author of the selected manuscript will receive a $300 prize and [...] by Harriet Staff

David Bartone Wins Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Poetry Prize May 15, 2013: Ahsahta Press announced the winner of the annual Sawtooth Poetry Prize contest: David Bartone. Bartone, a native of Amherst, Massachusetts, won for his manuscript Practice on Mountains, which will be published next year by Ahsahta. In addition to publication of his manuscript, Bartone wins $1,500. His manuscript was selected by this year's [...] by Harriet Staff

Hey Clay! May 15, 2013: Hey Bay Area! Today is "Say Hey to Clay Day" at Small Press Distribution. If you're local, stop by SPD (1341 Seventh Street in Berkeley) any time from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM to say good-bye to Clay Banes. If you haven't met Clay, you probably know him from his weekly "SPD RECOMMENDS" e-newsletters that documented bestselling small press [...] by Harriet Staff

Jill Magi Has Urge to Hush Anxieties in Rodrigo Toscano’s Deck of Deeds May 15, 2013: Poet and artist Jill Magi writes about Rodrigo Toscano's latest title, Deck of Deeds (Counterpath 2012), at her blog, noting that he "dials in to a wide range of frequencies we use to explain ourselves. It seems Rodrigo has been paying attention and listening for years, gathering the gestures of these anxieties." More about the book from [...] by Harriet Staff

Welcome to Song Cave May 15, 2013: Oh yes, hi, is this thing on? Yes, hello, we're coming to you live from Song Cave: that's S-O-N-G-C-A-V-E. Song Cave, a small press publisher based in Northampton, Massachusetts, is edited by Ben Estes and Alan Felsenthal. In addition to chapbooks by poets and writers among the likes of Lisa Jarnot, Rod Smith, Dana Ward, and Jennifer Moxley, [...] by Harriet Staff

Barry Schwabsky Hits the Ground Running at Hyperallergic May 14, 2013: Hyperallergians, fear not! Barry Schwabsky has reigned-in the poetry for this weekend's installment of the epic arts and culture newsletter. Check this: Ezra Pound said poetry was news that stays news. I thought that in gathering some notes on poetry I’ve read this year I’d bring a bit of news and only after doing so realized to what [...] by Harriet Staff

Jane Freilicher: Painter Among Poets May 14, 2013: If you weren't able to make it out to Chicago this past weekend for our "Sitting Between the Sea and the Buildings" symposium, which celebrated Joan Mitchell's relationship to poets and poetry, our friends at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery are hosting an exhibition that looks at Jane Freilicher, another painter-friend to the New York School [...] by Harriet Staff

The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell Now in English May 14, 2013: The life, death, (and after-life?) of Federico Garcia Lorca continues fascinate readers. Jacket Copy reports that Carlos Rojas's novel The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell, translated by Edith Grossman, is now available for the first time in English. The book was original published shortly after Spain's return [...] by Harriet Staff

New Translations of Experimental Yiddish Poet Celia Dropkin Published at Jacket2 May 14, 2013: Now this is news: A decade of translating work from Samuel Solomon, Jennifer Kronovet, and Faith Jones has led to the publication of new translations of experimental Yiddish poet Celia Dropkin (1887-1956) at Jacket2, with an amazing note from Jerome Rothenberg on the poet: Among the more experimental Yiddish poets in early [...] by Harriet Staff

From the Official Department of Diary Rescue: W. H. Auden’s ‘Lost’ 1939 Journal Discovered! May 13, 2013: The Independent reports that one of the most exceptional diaries kept by W.H. Auden has at long-last been discovered! Auden began the journal in August of 1939 and continued writing in it until November of that very same year. According to Edward Mendelson, an English professor at Columbia University who is also the literary executor of [...] by Harriet Staff