Poets will find 1,700 listings, including U.S. and international publishers of poetry, a list of Canadian and U.S. arts councils, contests and awards, writing colonies, organizations useful to poets, and publications useful to poets.
In each of the 1,700 listings in Poet's Market, poet/author Judson Jerome meets the special needs of poets by providing detailed analysis of the markets. Jerome also answers the most asked questions about how to get published and offers advice and inspiration to poets.
“The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exercise—the most satisfying, the most archaic, the most elusive of critical control. In hotel rooms and airplanes, on beaches and Sundays, at junctures of personal happiness or its opposite, poetry has comforted me with its hope of permanence, its packaging of flux.” Thus John Updike writes in introducing his Collected Poems. The earliest poems here date from 1953, when Updike was twenty-one, and the last were written after he turned sixty. Almost all of those published in his five previous collections are included, with some revisions. Arranged in chronological order, the poems constitute, as he says, “the thread backside of my life’s fading tapestry.” An ample set of notes at the back of the book discusses some of the hidden threads, and expatiates upon a number of fine points. Nature—tenderly intricate, ruthlessly impervious—is a constant and ambiguous presence in these poems, along with the social observation one would expect in a novelist. No occasion is too modest or too daily to excite metaphysical wonder, or to provoke a lyrical ingenuity of language. Yet even the wittiest of the poems are rooted to the ground of experience and fact. “Seven Odes to Seven Natural Processes” attempt to explicate the physical world with a directness seldom attempted in poetry. Several longer poems—“Leaving Church Early,” “Midpoint”—use autobiography to proclaim the basic strangeness of existence.
In this deft analysis, Vernon Shetley shows how writers and readers of poetry, operating under very different conventions and expectations, have drifted apart, stranding the once-vital poetic enterprise on the distant margins of contemporary culture. Along with a clear understanding of where American poetry stands and how it got there, After the Death of Poetry offers a compelling set of prescriptions for its future, prescriptions that might enable the art to regain its lost stature in our intellectual life. In exemplary case studies, Shetley identifies the very different ways in which three postwar poets--Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill, and John Ashbery--try to restore some of the challenge and risk that characterized modernist poetry's relation to its first readers. Sure to be controversial, this cogent analysis offers poets and readers a clear sense of direction and purpose, and so, the hope of reaching each other again.
Every year writers rely on the new edition of Writer's Market for information vital to their successful writing careers. This edition contains up-to-date information on 4,000 buyers of freelance materials, as well as listings of contests and awards, helpful articles, and interviews with professionals.
Fiction writers turn to this guide each year for marketing information on 1,900 fiction publishers. Helpful articles and interviews with professional writers make this book essential for novel and short story writers.
This poet's directory contains 1,700 listings--U.S. and international publishers, Canadian and U.S. art councils, contests and awards, conferences and workshops, writing colonies, organizations and publications. Poets will also find advice on submission formats, cover letters, record-keeping, and other aspects of submitting.
This annual brings together the two key aspects of children's publishing--the writing and the illustrating--in one handy volume of markets, including book publishers, magazines, audio-visual and audiotape markets and scriptwriting markets. Includes helpful articles.
2009 Poet's Market will give you all the information necessary to research markets and submit your poetry for publication. In addition to market listings, you'll find guidance for preparing and submitting manuscripts, identifying markets, relating to editors, and more. Plus, the book includes additional listings for conferences, workshops, organizations for poets, print and online resources, and the latest trends in poetry writing and publishing.