Blog Entries tagged 'Poetry'

Late Poems of Lu You: The Old Man Who Does As He Pleases

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Available now in North American via Ahadada Books and Small Press Distribution, Late Poems of Lu You: The Old Man Who Does As He Pleases is now available from IMC Books, as well (our Japanese distributor).

Burton Watson...possesses all the qualities which distinguish a master translator. As a craftsman and a poet, he has [...]

Masako's Story; Surviving the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

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Masako's Story; Surviving the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
by Kikuko Otake
Ahadada Books, 96 pages,
Perfect bound Paperback, $12.50
ISBN 978-0-9781414-6-2
Soon to be available from SPD.

For a downloadable PDF of this Press Release, click here.

On August 6, 1945, when the world's first atomic bomb [...]

Foetry closes up shop

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Thanks Alan Cordle and Foetry.com!

If you weren't aware foetry.com (whose dedicated members doggedly pursue cronyism and cheats in the pobiz) has closed up shop. In there three years, foetry.com exposed some major universities, publishers, and well-known poets who were involved in contests and complicit in rigged contests-causing students, friends, and lovers to win.

This caught me off guard. Indeed, while posting seemed to be down on the site, no one thought they [...]

New from Ahadada: The Impossibility of Dreams

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The Impossibility of Dreams is now available for order from Ahadada Books. Click here for more information. Or-go directly to our shop and order.

Copies are on their way to Small Press Distribution - but not available for order yet. We'll keep you updated. For now, order copies directly from us!

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Ted Kooser reads at UC Santa Barbara

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U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser is a major poetic voice for rural and small town America and the award-winning author of ten collections of poetry, most recently 2004's Pulitzer Prize-winning Delights and Shadows. Nebraskan Kooser often draws from his native Great Plains and his poems are acclaimed for their simple, straightforward style. Kooser reads from his poetry before a standing-room only audience in Campbell Hall at UC Santa Barbara.

Here ya go...

Let me know what you t [...]