Poets & Writers – July-August 2019

15 POETS & WRITERS

“Of my self-creation is this legend / of my betrayals, my disloyalty to my origins.” Sightseer

in This Killing City (Penguin Books, June 2019) by Eugene Gloria. Fourth book, poetry col-

lection. Agent: None. Editor: Paul Slovak. Publicist: Sara Chuirazzi.

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“He said he could show me my ideal gate.” Vincent and Alice and Alice (Tyrant Books, July

2019) by Shane Jones. Eighth book, fourth novel. Agent: Sarah Bowlin. Editor: Giancarlo

DiTrapano. Publicist: Kieran Danielson.

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“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” The Milk Hours (Milkweed Edi-

tions, June 2019) by John James. First book, poetry collection. Agent: None. Editor: Joey

McGarvey. Publicist: Jordan Bascom.

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“When my mother was a young woman a man used to follow her to work every morning

and masturbate, in step behind her.” Three Women (Avid Reader Press, July 2019) by Lisa

Taddeo. First book, nonfiction. Agent: Jennifer Joel. Editor: Jofie Ferrari-Adler. Publicist:

Meredith Vilarello.

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“Everything has gender / in Arabic: / History is male.” In Her Feminine Sign (New Direc-

tions, July 2019) by Dunya Mikhail. Fifth book, fourth poetry collection. Agent: None. Editor:

Jeffrey Yang. Publicist: Mieke Chew.

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“Mother’s brought them all this time—the entire bin of loons.” Costalegre (Tin House

Books, July 2019) by Courtney Maum. Third book, novel. Agent: Rebecca Gradinger. Editor:

Masie Cochran. Publicist: Molly Templeton.

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For author readings and excerpts from books featured in Page One: Where New and

Noteworthy Books Begin, visit http://www.pw.org

New England College

MFA in Creative Writing

Low-residency

Low Faculty-to-Student Ratio

Teaching Assistantships

FACULTY

PAIGE ACKERSON-KIELY

JENSEN BEACH

SARAH MANGUSO

JENNIFER MILITELLO

ANDREW MORGAN

DAVID RYAN

ALLISON TITUS

RECENT VISITING WRITERS

ALYSIA ABBOTT

LILLIAN-YVONNE BERTRAM

ANDRE DUBUS III

New England College

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Poetry,

Nonfiction,

and Dual-Genre.

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Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing

History Nebraska, formerly known as

the Nebraska State Historical Society.

And in the fall the journals division

at UNP partnered with North Dakota

Quarterly, a literary and public humani-

ties journal, to ex-

pand its regional

reach. These re-

cent partnerships

reflect UNP’s

commitment to

telling the sto-

ries of the Great

Plains, a region

sometimes over-

looked by large

commercial pub-

lishers, and car-

rying on the work

of literary organi-

zations and small

presses that struggle to stay in busi-

ness. “We felt a commitment to keep-

ing the Backwaters Press right here in

the state,” Shear says. –RACHAEL HANEL

the emphasis on publishing quality
poetry and prose from the region and
beyond. Shear says members of the
staff at UNP are currently evaluating
the backlist, and some books likely will
be made avail-
able in electronic
format. In No-
vember the press
will release its
first Backwaters
title, John Sibley
Williams’s poetry
collection S k i n
Memory, winner
of the most recent
Backwaters Prize
i n Poet r y.
The acquisition
of the Backwaters
Press is just one of
several new ventures for UNP, which
publishes about 150 scholarly titles and
trade books every year. In March the
press started to distribute books by

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