December 11, 2006
News from Observable
Two good bits of info from the South Side HQ of Observable Books.
First, the thrid and newest chapbook is out on the press, Cole Swenson's "Ghosts Are Hope." The attractive, little book (designed by Firecracker Press) is available at several local booksellers, specialty art fairs and sales and via the Observable site.
Secondly, the press release for the next Observable Reding has been readied, for an early January, themed reading. (Oh, how Observable loves those themed readings! As do we.) Following is the text:
January 4, 2007, 8 pm
Observable Readings Presents
Four poets named Robin in...
ROCKIN' ROBINS
At the Bottleworks in Maplewood
More info at http://observable.org/readings/
Robin Behn's Horizon Note won the Brittingham Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press in 2001. She has authored two other books of poetry: Paper Bird (Texas Tech, 1988) and The Red Hour (HarperCollins, 1993). She directs the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama .
Robin Ekiss's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast , and elsewhere. Her first book manuscript was a finalist for the 2004 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets .
Robyn Schiff's first collection of poems, Worth, was published in 2002 and appeared on Fence magazine's list of Most Notable Books for that year. Originally from New Jersey , Schiff now lives in Chicago , where she is a visiting professor in the English department at Northwestern University .
Robin Beth Schaer works at the Academy of American Poets and has taught writing at Columbia University and Cooper Union. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and have appeared in Rattapallax, Small Spiral Notebook, Denver Quarterly, and are forthcoming in Spinning Jenny.