We mourn the passing of our friend Jason Shinder. He is missed.

CODA

And now I know what most deeply connects us

after that summer so many years ago,
and it isn’t poetry, although it is poetry,

and it isn’t illness, although we have that in common,

and it isn’t gratitude for every moment,
even the terrifying ones, even the physical pain,

though we are grateful, and it isn’t even death,

though we are halfway through
it, or even the way you describe the magnificence

of being alive, catching a glimpse,

in the store window, of your blowing hair and chapped lips,
though it is beautiful, it is; but it is

that you’re my friend out here on the far reaches

of what humans can find out about each other.

—Jason Shinder

April 16, 2008--Graywolf Press is pleased to announce that Charles Baxter has won the Minnesota Book Award in the General Nonfiction category for his book THE ART OF SUBTEXT: BEYOND PLOT. The 2008 Minnesota Book Awards, now in its 20th year, were presented in a ceremony on April 12th. Fellow Graywolf author Leslie Adrienne Miller was a finalist in the poetry category for THE RESURRECTION TRADE.

The Book Awards gala will be broadcast on the TPT-MN channel in late May or early June. Check your local listings for the channel, date and time of broadcast.

In other news, Graywolf Press author Robin Hemley (TURING LIFE INTO FICTION, NOLA) has been named a 2008 general nonfiction fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays by Eula Biss has been chosen as the winner of the 2008 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Biss will receive a $12,000 advance, and Graywolf will publish Notes from No Man's Land in February 2009.

Robert Polito served as the outside judge for the contest.

April 3, 2008—Graywolf Press is delighted to announce that poet Tony Hoagland has been selected by Poets & Writers Inc to receive the second annual Jackson Poetry Prize. The $50,000 prize honors an American poet of exceptional talent who has published at least one book of recognized literary merit but has not yet received major national acclaim. The award is designed to provide what all poets need – time and the encouragement to write.
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Graywolf Press is pleased to announce that ELEGY by Mary Jo Bang has been selected as the 2007 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. The winners were announced at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium on March 7th.
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February 29, 2008—Graywolf Press is delighted to announce that THE KITCHEN SINK: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, 1972-2007 by Albert Goldbarth and OUT STEALING HORSES by Per Petterson have been named finalists for the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes in the poetry and fiction categories, respectively. The finalists in the nine categories were revealed last night at a ceremony at the National Arts Club in New York City. The 28th annual presentation of the prizes will take place on Friday, April 25th at the University of California-Los Angeles' Royce Hall. Visit the official Los Angeles Times Book Prizes website for information on tickets and to view a complete list of finalists.

February 25, 2008--Poet Laureate Charles Simic has chosen two new voices in poetry, including Monica Youn, author of BARTER, for the 2008 Witter Bynner Fellowships. Simic will introduce Youn and fellow winner Matthew Thorburn on March 6 at the Library of Congress. Youn and Thorburn each will receive a $10,000 fellowship, provided by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry in conjunction with the Library of Congress.
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Claremont Graduate University’s Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is one of the largest monetary prizes in the nation for a single work of a mid-career poet. Tom Sleigh has been selected as the 2008 winner of the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award for Space Walk. Graywolf Press published Interview with a Ghost, a book on the craft of writing poetry in 2006.
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JANUARY 24, 2008-- Graywolf is headed to New York for the largest ever Annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference and Bookfair. For those of you who are registered for the conference, we hope you'll check out the stellar Graywolf events that are listed after the jump. For those of you in the New York area who weren't planning on attending the sold-out conference but would still like to see what all the fuss is about, we have great news: the AWP Bookfair will be free and open to the public on Saturday, February 2nd. Come by our booth and say hello to our staff, pick up a few discounted Graywolf titles, and meet some Graywolf authors.

GRAYWOLF ON THE PROWL AT AWP:

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Graywolf Press is delighted to announce that Out Stealing Horses has been selected as an ALA Notable Book for 2008.  The Notable Books Council of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division American Library Association (ALA), today released its 2008 list of outstanding books for the general reader. The titles are selected for their significant contribution to the expansion of knowledge and for the pleasure they can provide to adult readers.
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Tracy K. Smith's second collection of poetry, DUENDE, has been named a finalist in the poetry category of the first annual Essence Literary Awards.The other finalists are Acolytes by Nikki Giovanni and Totem by Gregory Pardlo. The winner will be selected by a panel of publishing experts and announced at an awards ceremony in New York City on February 7, 2008.

DUENDE has also been nominated for a 39th annual NAACP Image Award. Other nominees in the category of Outstanding Literary Work (Poetry) include Acolytes by Nikki Giovanni, Eloquence: Rhythm and Renaissance by Usi Ku, Quiver of Arrows by Carl Phillips, and Selected Poems by Derek Walcott. The NAACP Image Awards honors projects and individuals that promote diversity in 44 categories, including the arts in television, recording, literature, and motion pictures. The 39th NAACP Image Awards will air live on Fox on Thursday, February 14.

Mary Jo Bang, author of ELEGY and Matthea Harvey, author of MODERN LIFE have been selected as finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other finalists are Michael O'Brien for Sleeping and Waking (Flood), Tom Pickard for The Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood), Tadeusz Rozewicz for New Poems (Archipelago)

Book award winners will be announced in New York City on Thursday, March 6, 2008, at the New School University’s Tishman Auditorium.

OUT STEALING HORSES by Per Petterson

•Time Magazine Best Books of the Year
•New York Times Book Review Top Ten Books of 2007
•Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Books of 2007
•Amazon.com Top 50 of 2007
•Star Tribune Top Titles of 2007
•Cleveland Plain Dealer Top 20 of 2007
•National Book Critics Circle Best Recommended List
•ALA Notable Books Council Finalist

ELEGY by Mary Jo Bang
•National Book Critics Circle Best Recommended List
•St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Books of 2007
•Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2007

THE WATER CURE by Percival Everett
•Kirkus Best Books of 2007

REFRESH, REFRESH by Benjamin Percy
•Chicago Tribune Best Books of 2007

THE NEXT RODEO by William Kittredge
•National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" Winter Pick

MODERN LIFE by Matthea Harvey
•St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Books of 2007

THE KITCHEN SINK by Albert Goldbarth
•Kansas City Star Best Books of 2007
•Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2007

FINDINGS by Kathleen Jamie
•Kirkus Best Books of 2007

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Charles Wright has chosen “cosmos, late blooming” from the journal Subtropics for The Best American Poetry 2008. Wright is the guest editor for the anthology.

 

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November 28th, 2007—Graywolf Press is delighted to announce that OUT STEALING HORSES by Per Petterson has been selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2007. OUT STEALING HORSES has been a breakout success for Graywolf Press this year with over 25,000 copies in print, contributing to a record year of sales for the publisher. Graywolf Press will publish TO SIBERIA by Per Petterson in September 2008.

This is the latest triumph for a novel that has enjoyed a string of outstanding successes. OUT STEALING HORSES was selected from finalists Salman Rushdie, Cormac McCarthy, J. M. Coetzee, Jonathan Safran Foer, and others to win the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award on June 14th, 2007. It is also the recipient of the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize and the Critics’ Award for Best Novel, and won Britain’s prestigious Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. The novel has been translated into 24 languages, and has been a surprise bestseller in Norway and Germany. Published by Graywolf Press in June 2006, the novel received accolades from reviewers and writers alike, from the New York Review of Books to Newsweek.
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Landis Everson, award-winning poet of Everything Preserved, passed away in California this weekend. He was 81.

“Real poets never vanish, their language is reborn to thrill us ‘in the wild zone’. Direct, intimate, magical, ‘honey washed’, Landis Everson’s words ‘purr’ before us. Verbs blush and run around naked. His skills are astutely dressed up, bones become poems. Which are constant and fulfilling, honestly shining in the unity time.”
—Joanne Kyger

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October 5, 2007 - Graywolf Press is pleased to announce that Brian Culhane has been named this year's winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award, one of four Pegasus Awards given by the Poetry Foundation. The award, which carries a $10,000 prize, recognizes an American poet over the age of 50 who has yet to publish a first book of poetry. Culhane's book, The King's Question, will be published by Graywolf in Fall 2008. Landis Everson, author of Everything Preserved, Poems: 1955-2005, was the previous winner of this award.

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JUNE 14, 2007—Graywolf Press is delighted to announce that OUT STEALING HORSES by Per Petterson is the winner of the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. This annual award for fiction comes with a cash prize of 100,000 Euro, the largest international prize for a work of fiction written in any language and published in English. The award was announced in Dublin at 11:00 AM (GMT) by the mayor of Dublin, and is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries. IMPAC (Improved Management Productivity and Control) is an international productivity and management company with headquarters in Florida and operations in 50 countries.

The shortlist for this year’s award included Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, and Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie. Previous winners include The Master by Colm Tóibín (2006), The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2005), This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun (2004), and My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (2003).

This is the latest triumph for a novel that has enjoyed a string of outstanding successes.
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Graywolf Press is pleased to announce that Harryette Mullen is the recipient of a 2007 PEN "Beyond Margins" Award for her poetry anthology, Recyclopedia. The award is given to emergent authors of color and carries a $1,000 prize. PEN American Center President Francine Prose and PEN Board member Michael Cunningham co-hosted the 2007 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony at the Lincoln Center on May 21, 2007.

The poetry collection Theater of Night by Alberto Rios also received the award. The nonfiction "Beyond Margins" award went to Ernest Hardy for Blood Beats, Vol. 1. Judges for the award were Sarah Gambito, Marlon James, Achy Obejas, Max Rodriguez, and Thaddeus Rutkowski. Harryette Mullen and her fellow award-winners will be honored in October.

Click here to listen to the "Beyond Margins" Award presentation and to see a complete list of the 2007 PEN Literary Award winners. Read more...