AJB Fall 2012 Newsletter & Catalog by Alice James Books

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INSIDE From the Directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Desk

New Titles 2 Author Interview

Donald Revell

The Alice Fund 8 News and Events

Board Member Spotlight Mihaela Moscaliuc 11 Donors

The 4th Annual Kinereth Gensler Awards Celebration Reading & Book Launch

Alice Asks Roxane Beth Johnson

Celebrating 40 Years of AJB 15

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Volume 17, Number 2 Greetings,

AJB STAFF Carey Salerno

Executive Director Meg Willing

Managing Editor Ellen Marlow

Editorial Assistant Debra Norton

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COOPERATIVE BOARD MEMBERS Stephen Motika, President Matthew Pennock, Vice President Suzanne Parker, Secretary Monica A. Hand, Treasurer Tamiko Beyer, Clerk Catherine Barnett Nicole Cooley Angelo Nikolopoulos Anne Marie Macari, Alice Emeritus Ellen Doré Watson, Alice Emeritus

INTERNS Rebecca Dubois Alison Osborne Taylor McCafferty Connor Lofink Darrian Church

Image credit: Marina Tsvetaeva with Her Dog in Savoy, Fine Art Images

Image of Alice James pf MS Am 1094, Box 3 (44d) By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University

Happy fall and welcome to AJB’s first e-newsletter! As we were printing the newsletter on 100% post-consumer recycled paper this spring, it dawned on us that we can go one step further into the “green” by eliminating our dependency on paper for the news and delivering it to you instead in an equally friendly and efficient format. Voilà! Unfortunately, we do not have email addresses for everyone who used to receive our biannual publication by regular mail, so please help us out by sharing this newsletter with friends and family, and encouraging them to sign up for our mailing list. Joining the mailing list is easy: just direct people to our homepage, and they can scroll down to the “Subscribe” button at the bottom of the page. Speaking of our website, have you noticed we have some new online digs? This new site has been in the works since very early spring, and we have been working with a designer to put together the site’s skeleton. Over the summer, we had AJBers hard at work on our new MACs inputting all of the page content; it was definitely one of the heftiest summer projects we’ve ever taken on, but we were so incredibly pleased to have made our goal of launching the new site right at the beginning of September on Labor Day. If you haven’t already visited the new website, please go and check it out. It’s very userfriendly, and we’ve added a lot of new features we know you’re going to love. Alices, there’s even a special area just for you. At the bottom of the homepage, you’ll notice a “Just for Authors” link, which will bring you to a page designed with you in mind. To gain access, just call or write us; it’s that easy! The changes to our newsletter and catalog format and our website herald the coming of a huge milestone for the press: our 40th anniversary. Alice James Books will turn 40 in 2013, and we are so excited about it that we’re treating ourselves to a little restyling. In 2013, be on the lookout for the release of our highly anticipated anthology Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books, Alices storming our old stomping grounds in the Boston-area during the 2013 AWP conference, and Alices giving celebration readings across the nation. It’s going to be quite a year, and we’re looking forward to relishing it with you! Enjoy browsing this season’s news. Yours in poetry,

Carey Salerno, Executive Director

new titles

Roxane Beth Johnson’s first book of poetry, Jublilee (Anhinga, 2006), was the winner of the 2005 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, judged by Philip Levine himself. She has won an AWP Prize in Poetry and a Pushcart Prize in 2007. She has received scholarships/fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Cave Canem, The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from: The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Image, Callaloo, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea, ZYZZYVA, The Bitter Oleander, Sentence, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco.

Middle Passage

BLACK CROW DRESS January 2013

Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Don’t give me no words on a page to describe my sufferings. Don’t tell me you can speak the stench rising up thick as flies. I’ll tell you my eyes burned with piss and the sun lit on nothing but the bleeding wounds on my back. Don’t worry about me now, packed tight in that slop jar, holding the slippery hip of some woman not mine. I got no lessons from the dying, no peace from the spirits I begged to help us. I tell you none of them came, though I always gave them meat. Don’t look at me with your pity. I don’t cry no tears. Ever. The taste just reminds me of the sea.

Roxane Beth Johnson

Praise for Black Crow Dress:

“These poems move forward like a novel in verse with a real understanding of the differences between the past and history. Or, as Johnson herself says in the opening poem, ‘Each one is hungry for a voice & music to re-bloom.’ This is a poet the best readers will be reading for the rest of their lives.” —Jericho Brown “In Black Crow Dress, Roxane Beth Johnson writes from the ghosted voices of her enslaved ancestors. What underlies this work, what makes it possible and remarkable is the striking presence of the poet, her ability to create a lamplit space to listen, to abide with each character and breathe them onto the contemporary page with her loving attention. The result is a montage of voices so believable the reader feels a startling intimacy with them. I could feel them breathing; I could feel them in my own body. I finished this stunning and important book and then began again.” —Jennifer K. Sweeney

new titles

DARK ELDERBERRY BRANCH:

A Reading by Ilya Kaminsky

Fine Art Images

Marina Tsvetaeva (October 1892–August 1941) was born in Moscow. She lived and wrote during the Russian Revolution and the Moscow famine. At the age of 18, she published her first collection of poems, Evening Album. Throughout her lifetime she wrote poems, verse plays, and prose pieces. Tsvetaeva is considered one of the greatest poets in 20th-century Russian literature.

Max Greenstreet

Katie Farris

Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union in 1977, and arrived in the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. He is the author of Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004) which won the Whiting Writers’ Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship given annually by Poetry magazine. In 2008, Kaminsky was awarded the Lannan Foundation’s Literary Fellowship, and in 2009 poems from his manuscript, Deaf Republic, were awarded Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize. Currently, Kaminsky teaches Contemporary World Poetry, Creative Writing, and Literary Translation in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at San Diego State University.

Jean Valentine won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965. Her eleventh book of poetry is Break the Glass, from Copper Canyon Press. Her previous collection, Little Boat, was published by Wesleyan in 2007. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965–2003 was the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry. The recipient of the 2009 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, Valentine has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Columbia University. She was the New York State Poet Laureate from 2008 until 2010.

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POEMS OF MARINA TSVETAEVA and Jean Valentine November 2012

I am happy living simply I am happy living simply like a clock, or a calendar. Or a woman, thin, lost—as any creature. To know the spirit is my beloved. To arrive on earth—swift as a ray of light, or a look. To live as I write: spare—the way God asks me—and friends do not. 1919

Praise for Dark Elderberry Branch:

“The magnitude of love, exile, loss, desperation and faith is met with a fortitude most of us will never have to muster; a vulnerability most would never expose. We can thank the stoeln paper, quills, red ink; the bells of Moscow, piles of bills an bread from a stranger for a glimpse into the lines and life of Marina Tsvetaeva in a tender ‘reading’ by poets Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine, a collaboration exquisitely suited to deliver these earthly traces.” —C.D. Wright

“This new selection from [Tsvetaeva’s] poems and prose, a ‘homage’ to her by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine brought me a closer and more intimate sense of her and of her voice and presence than I had before. Besides, if we had not had Ilya Kaminsky’s own radiant first book, Dancing in Odessa, and the singular, unfolding, over several decades of Jean Valentine’s haunting poetry, this brief representation of Tsvetaeva’s life, fate, and the poetry that is inseparable from them, would have made their talents and their stature unmistakable. This Dark Elderberry Branch is magic.” —W.S. Merwin

author interview

Donald Revell is the author of eleven previous collections of poetry, including Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems (Alice James Books, 2007). He has also published five volumes of translation from the French (including works by Apollinaire, Laforgue, and Rimbaud) as well as two books of criticism. His honors include three PEN USA Awards and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets (for My Mojave). Born in The Bronx, New York, Revell is now Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and poetry editor of Colorado Review.

Victorians There is snow and there is snow. A young woman, daughter of the eminent physician, Disrobes at her window, and starvation, Like a pack of dogs with jeweled mouths, Pauses a moment, howls, and the young woman Recites a poem to herself.

Francois Camoin

So long ago the words are lost Even as each remains a part of us. Christmas meaning snow out of a broiling sun. Humanity meaning numbers. Childhood meaning children and railings and kisses Never kissed but carved into real trees. Motherless goddamn modernity never grew. Here we are again at Christmas On fire escapes without a fire in view.

TANTIVY

Donald Revell

An Interview with Donald Revell

In a recent dialogue with Donald Revell, AJB asked the author about the inspiration for his profound collection. Here, he speaks to the unique combination of myth and faith within Tantivy, and how his many roles as a writer have been influential to his poetry.

Alice James Books: Tell us about the title of your latest collection, Tantivy—what the word means, how it relates to the poems in the collection, and perhaps the evolution of your overall work.

DONALD REVELL: The fourth chapter of Walden, “Sounds,” is a gospel and ars poetica for me and for many. I met the word “tantivy” there— ...the tantivy of wild pigeons, flying by twos and threes athwart my view, or perching restless on the white-pine boughs behind my house, gives a voice to the air… Tantivy, for me, signifies velocity of voice, the careless

author interview September 2012

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urgency of utterance, the need to speak quickly, to rest briefly, and then, perhaps, to speak again. Every poem is the last, until another one begins. AJB: Tantivy opens with an epigraph from Tennyson that reads: “Let me go: take back thy gift . . .” Why did you choose this quote to preface this book?

DR:Tennyson has been very much in my thoughts and ear for several years now. His is the sound of a gorgeous resignation. Too, he had the humility and courage to acknowledge that we, all of us, can never quite live up to gifts we’ve been given by... is it God? Nature? The simple astonishment of birth? In any case, there comes a time to say as much and to lay the gifts aside.

AJB: The first section of Tantivy, “The Last Men,” is a series of eleven “Victorians” poems. What was your inspiration for this series? DR: The last few times I was able to hear and to visit with Robert Creeley, he spoke often of Victorian poets, especially of Matthew Arnold. After Bob died, “Dover Beach” became a talisman to me. That poem really is, in so many ways, the last word. There is no Modernism, no Modern so immediate as the cry of that occasion. The Victorians knew: we are the fossils of ourselves, God help us all. AJB: The book is divided into four distinct sections: “The Last Men,” “Birds and Trees,” “Tithon,” and “The Afterlife.” Could you discuss how this structure came about and how it functions within the collection as a whole? DR: The first section of Tantivy is meant to articulate, personalize, and detail my understanding of the amplitudes of “Dover Beach.” The second section is a sabbatical in Eden after Adam and Eve have gone. “Tithon” is a palimpsest of the hope and hopelessness of Eden without them. And “The Afterlife”... well, “The Afterlife” must be taken on trust.

AJB: The “Tithon” section is unique in that it is one long, flowing poetic sequence featuring a number of different quotations from Trahern, Cezanne, and Aiken, among others. How do you see the role of their voices in this section? DR: Each of the artists cited in “Tithon” saw the world through sacramental eyes. For each, the image was entirely, exactly itself and yet, somehow, endlessly mysterious. Theirs is the perfect vantage upon Eden. Theirs is the knowledgeable innocence I honor above all else. AJB: Throughout the book, you call upon a wealth of biblical imagery while observing the present world with a meditative, modern eye. How has faith influenced your craft? DR: My faith is all that I have, and it was given to me early, in kindness, in beauty, in a church beneath the El in The Bronx. I do not believe that I have the talent to speak to men and to women directly. I’m too awkward and compromised. But sometimes I can speak to God, grateful and, God forgive me, proud to be overheard. Craft is therefore both gratitude (a virtue) and pride (a mortal sin).

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he Victorians knew: we are the fossils of ourselves, God help us all.

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AJB: What can you tell us about the role of myth in your work? DR: We often think of myth as a way of explaining Creation. Yet I begin to suspect that it’s the other way around. Myth is Creation explaining you and me. There is a dignity, the “stark dignity of entrance,” to Myth—a nakedness that needs no garment, no ornamentation.

AJB: As many know, you are not only a renowned poet and essayist, but a translator as well. How would you compare the work of translation to that of writing your own poems? How has translating altered your approach to the creative process?

author interview

DR: Translation is a way to bind certain friends much closer to me. I can only translate poems I’ve been reading, joyfully, for a very long time... for decades at least. And trying to bring the poems over to English teaches me both a good carelessness and good humility. I can never quite succeed and I can never harm the originals—they remain safe as ever in their perfect French.

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Lit from Inside:

40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books January 2013

Edited by Anne Marie Macari & Carey Salerno

AJB: You’ve been an editor of many different literary magazines. How does editing the work of others on a regular basis influence your work? DR: Editing instructs me daily as to my biases, my limits. Not long ago, a young poet told me of some advice he’d gotten from a teacher. “If you’re sending poems to Revell, be sure to use the word ‘basket’ or ‘bird.’ If you do, he’ll publish them.” And sure enough I did. AJB: How do you feel your work has changed over time? Do you feel that your relationship with your audience has also evolved? In what ways? DR: It’s mostly up to posterity to answer such a question, assuming, of course, that posterity considers my work at all. As for me, the audience has ever been the poems themselves. We are intimates for good or ill, in mutual strife and mutual concord.

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y faith is all that I have, and it was given to me early, in kindness, in beauty.

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AJB: People have often described you as a metaphysical poet. What is your reaction to this designation? DR: The word “metaphysical” always brings to mind the happiness and anxiety of graduate school days, as I struggled to remember the seven (was it seven?) characteristics of a Metaphysical Poem as beautifully elaborated by Helen Gardner. I know that I’m no John Donne. I could never manage such cosmic insouciance. George Herbert has been a role model to me, and a touchstone. His tantrums and tenderness ring true.

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Congratulations to our 2012 Kundiman Poetry Prize Winner

Cathy Linh Che for her book

Split forthcoming from AJB in spring 2014

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donors news and events

Kazim Ali’s forthcoming autobiography, Brighton Felon, will be new in paperback in fall 2012, selected by Wesleyan Poetry Series. His newest book of poems, Sky Ward, will be released in spring 2013, also selected by Wesleyan. Fasting For Ramadan, published by HaperCollins India, will also appear this spring season. Jean Valentine: This-World Company, edited by Kazim Ali and John Hoppenthaler, has just been released in the Under Discussion series from the University of Michigan Press. Kazim has also been made coeditor (with Marilyn Hacker) of both Poets on Poetry and Under Discussion, published by the University of Michigan Press. Doug Anderson’s newest poems will appear in Cutthroat, Verdad, Badlands, and The Massachusetts Review. Doug is a Poet in Residence at Fort Juniper, the former home of poet Robert Francis, in Amherst, MA. Robin Becker’s essay on Adrienne Rich’s influence on her work appeared in the September/ October 2012 issue of The Women’s Review of Books. She also participated in the Old Dominion University Literacy Festival by giving a reading in October. Tamiko Beyer has poetry appearing or forthcoming in Octopus, Glitter Tongue, Dangerous Sweetness, Calyx, Another and Another: An Anthology From the Grind Daily Writing Series (Bull City Press), and has upcoming work in several issues of The Volta. In September, she had an interview on Her Circle (www. hercircleezine.com). She will be at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference in March, participating in off-site readings. Deborah DeNicola has an eight poem sequence, “The Month of Slumber,” about psychic healing forthcoming in the anthology of poems on the edge: Reckless Writing; Emerging 21st Century Poets. Her poem “After the Stroke” was published in the latest volume of Healthy Stories and her essay “Emily and Isabel: Literary Heroines in Dreams,” is forthcoming in the South Florida Writers Association newsletter. Xue Di’s works of poetry, Across Borders, debuted in fall 2012 (Green Integer). Amy Dryansky has been awarded a 2012 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her second collection of poems, Grass Whistle, is forthcoming in spring 2013 from Salmon Poetry and should be available in March at the AWP Conference in Boston. She recently read with Jessica Greenbaum, Cecily Parks, and Elizabeth Bradfield for Orion magazine at the Berkshire Festival of Women Poets (and for the Berkshire Wordfest at Edith Wharton’s former home, The Mount, in Lenox, MA). Rebecca Gayle Howell’s collection, Render / An Apocalypse, was selected by Nick Flynn for the CSU Poetry Center’s First Book Prize; it will be released in spring 2013. She had readings and conferences this fall including: The Poetry Center at Smith College in Northampton, MA, and at the Kentucky Women Writers Conference, in Lexington, KY.

Cynthia Huntington’s fourth book of poetry, Heavenly Bodies, was published in January 2012 by Editor’s Selection, Crab Orchard Poetry Series, University of Southern Illinois Press. Ruth Lepson had a book of poems in fall 2012, along with a CD of musical settings of poems that included an author reading from Pressed Wafer. She was also part of a discussion in August on poet Alberto de Lacerda at Dog Day Poetry Marathon in Cambridge, MA. Margaret Lloyd recently had three art exhibitions which featured watercolor paintings and poems framed together. She gave a poetry reading this July at the International Conference on Welsh Studies at Bangor University in Wales. Suzanne Matson read her fiction at the University of Georgia, sponsored by the Wilson Center for Humanities and Arts in October. Alice Mattison gave readings from her new novel When We Argued All Night at Brooklyn College in New York in early November. On December 10 at 8 p.m., alongside Lesle Lewis, she will give a reading at The Blacksmith House, 42 Barttle Street in Cambridge, MA. Admission to this event will be $3. Angelo Nikolopoulos’s poem “Lupsinka has a Fit” was published in the summer issue of Tin House. He will also be attending the Word for Word reading at Bryant Park Tuesday July 9, 2013 along with Adam Fitzgerald, Saceed Jones, and Michael Klein. Shara McCallum will be appearing at the Poetry Center at Smith College on December 4 2012; at Penn State University on February 21, 2013; and in Boston at the AWP conference in March 2013. Idra Novey’s second collection Exit, Civilian was selected for the National Poetry Series and was released in April. She will also be taking part in the Dodge Poetry Festival, the Brooklyn Book Festival, and the Poety Out Loud Series at Lincoln Center on January 24, 2013. Suzanne Parker had two poems from her upcoming book, Viral (forthcoming September 2013, AJB), in the fall issue of Bloom. She also had eight poems in the fall print issue of Hunger Mountain. Lia Purpura has two poems to be published in the New Yorker and currently has poems in the Georgia Review. She was recently interviewed by Ploughshares (published online), and has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship working on a collection of essays. She is the writer in residence at the University of Maryland Baltimore County as of September 2012, and plans to read at University of Mississippi, Susquehanna University, University of Minnesota, and in Austin, TX.

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Cole Swensen has two books for this year, Gravesend (University of California Press) and Stele (Post-Apollo Press). She will be attending events at Otis College of Arts in Los Angeles on November 14, University of California San Diego on November 15, Ada Books in Providence, RI on December 1, and the Flying Object Reading Series in Northampton, MA on December 2. Mary Szybist’s second book of poems, Incarnadine, will be published by Graywolf Press in February 2013. She read recently at the University of Oregon, and will be reading at Perdue University on February 26, and Portland University on March 12.

Suzanne Wise has a poem published in the spring 2012 issue of Ploughshares and three poems forthcoming in BOMB magazine.

Mezzanines Matthew Olzmann AVAILABLE APRIL 2013

Obscenely Yours Angelo Nikolopoulos AVAILABLE APRIL 2013

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Jean Valentine’s Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, a reading by Jean Valentine and Ilya Kaminsky, is to be published November 2012 by AJB. On November 8 she will read a translation of Tsvetaeva with Ilya Kaminsky at Poets House in New York City, along with Chris Wyman reading his translations of Mandelstam. She will be reading translations again at the Blacksmith House in Cambridge, MA on December 3, and will be partaking in a book launch and reading with Ilya Kaminsky, Catherine Barnett, and Dennis Nurkse at NYU on December 13, 2012. Place and time are not currently known.

COMING SPRING 2013

Michelle Matiyow

Adrienne Su has poetry appearing in The Massachusetts Review, The New Republic, New England Review, Poet Lore, and Southwest Review.

We Come Elemental Tamiko Beyer

Kian Goh

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board member spotlight

MIHAELA MOSCALIUC Alice James Books recently corresponded with former Cooperative Board President, Mihaela Moscaliuc, to discuss her experience serving on the AJB Cooperative Board. Alice James Books: If you could pick just one highlight from your tenure as an AJB board member, what would it be? MIHAELA MOSCALIUC: It is connected to my experience with the two AJB contests—for the Kinereth Gensler Awards and the Beatrice Hawley Award. Over the three years, I learned to approach manuscripts without letting my own aesthetic intervene too much in the evaluation process. I always had favorites, manuscripts I would have published in two minutes if I could, but of course, I couldn’t (because of the cooperative nature of the press), and that turned out to be good—an enriching, eye-opening experience. Listening to other board members make convincing cases for works I may had found impenetrable, engaging in congenial debates about what worked for whom and why, those were all incredibly invaluable experiences. I believe I’ve become a more sophisticated reader and have also learned a good deal about how a manuscript works as an object of art that is aesthetically satisfying and marketable at the same time. AJB: Was there a particular board activity or project that you found especially fulfilling?

Valentin Moscaliuc

MM: Though the manuscript screenings required a huge commitment— in terms of sustained attention, time, and energy—they were also extremely rewarding. I loved discovering poems—and sometimes entire manuscripts—that lodged themselves within me, or unsettled me, or haunted me. I left those screenings exhausted but also recharged, ready to dive into my next poem.

AJB: What insight gained from being an AJB board member will you be for the fifteen meetings (some weekend-long) as it might seem able to apply to your work, writing, or family life? when you say “yes” to the contract. It’s good to remember that you’re not there to just assist the press, but that you are part MM: I believe I’ve become harder on myself as a writer, more reluctant of the press and therefore responsible, in good part, for its to move on to the next poem before I know that I’ve given my best successes and/or failures. Plus, the experience of being an integral to the one I’ve been working on. Part of it has to do with getting to part of a cooperative press is totally unique and ultimately quite read so much terrific work during the three years, so many poems I gratifying—a realization that might not sink in fully till you wished I had written myself. I also started paying a lot more attention finish your tenure. in my work to elements that elicited passionate discussions during our manuscript screenings. My endings will never be the same [smile], and AJB: What is remarkable and/or special about AJB as a nonprofit certain words I saw occurring with disturbing frequency are banned and publisher of poetry? from my poems, at least for now. MM: Its commitment to finding and publishing poetry (and AJB: What advice do you have for incoming board members? now also poetry in translation) that excites and that contributes to the continuous shaping and reshaping of American poetry MM: Be ready to make a real commitment to the press and to the and of American audiences. Giving authors an opportunity to family of Alices during your tenure. It won’t be as easy to make room be part of the processes is pretty marvelous.

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4th annual kga reading & book launch On April 20, 2012 AJB hosted its 4th Annual Kinereth Gensler Awards Celebration Reading & Book Launch at Poets House in New York City.

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Suzanne Parker

The event featured readings from our 2010 Kinereth Gensler Awards winners Stephen Motika, Matthew Pennock, and Monica A. Hand from their books Western Practice, Sudden Dog, and me and Nina. Afterwards, authors and audience members enjoyed a wine and cheese reception.

Suzanne Parker

Monica A. Hand, Anne Marie Macari, and Joan Larkin enjoy their time together.

Matthew Pennock, author of Sudden Dog, with a fan.

Suzanne Parker

Angelo Nikolopoulos and Catherine Barnett smile for the camera.

Jubilant mingling after the reading.

alice asks

alice asks... Roxane Beth Johnson Alice James Books: If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?

AJB: If you could have dinner with any poet, living or deceased, who would it be and what would you have for dinner? RBJ: I would have dinner with Anne Sexton. For dinner, I’d cook really good rib-eye steak, green beans, new potatoes, and salad. I’d have an ash tray handy for Anne. AJB: What was the last book you read? RBJ: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami. I love Murakami’s insights about writing and running. I run, too, but not like Murakami. He’s a real runner of marathons; I trot along a little faster than I would at a fast walking pace. I am also reading about 5 books of poetry. I just read around in those. Eventually I get to every poem, but in no particular order and by no certain time. AJB: What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? RBJ: In the first grade, I stole my mother’s diamond wedding ring set, wore it to school, and told my teacher I found them in a box of Cracker Jacks. She didn’t believe me. I told my mother my brother stole them and I was just safeguarding them. She didn’t believe me either. AJB: Did you ever have an imaginary friend?

Rachel Eliza Griffiths

ROXANE BETH JOHNSON: I would live at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. I was lucky enough to be there this past spring, and once a few years back. Why would I live there over any other place in the world? You get your own wonderful rent-free place, the surroundings are breathtaking, they deliver your lunch, cook breakfast and dinner for you, and you have nothing to do but write and read all day. You don’t even have to do that if you don’t want to. Another dream residence is my grandparents’ house on their cherry orchard in San Jose, California. That house is occupied by another family now, since both of my grandparents have been gone for a few years, and the orchard was sold off years ago and is now a subdivision. It’s just a fantasy, of course, like living at MacDowell, but if I could live there I would. Once in a while, I have to drive past it on the way to someplace else and I never look. I want to remember it exactly as I do in my memory.

RBJ: Yes. I had a couple of imaginary friends. The main one was Laura Scutter, named after the potato chip company. I liked that her dad was a potato chip maker, which seemed a lot more interesting than what my dad did for a living (firefighter!). AJB: What time of day do you write the most and where? RBJ: I like to write early mornings. 5:30-7:00 is a good time to start, but I’ll take any stretch of an hour or two during the day. I can usually get an hour in the morning and then I try to make time for more writing late afternoons. I prefer to write at my own desk but sometimes my husband is around doing his thing, so I go to a sweet little private library where I am a member. There’s a desk way in the back that hardly anyone knows about. Another woman and I tend to vie for it. She often will give it up for me, which is sweet because I never give it up for anyone once I’ve secured it! I write really well at that desk. There are no distractions. AJB: Do you have a guilty pleasure? If so, what is it? RBJ: iTunes. AJB: Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter? RBJ: Summer in theory because I like the heat, but I prefer winter as a writer. The associations are wonderful: the bare trees, the silent snow, the cold dark sky, the lights of Christmas, everything looks dead but it’s really just transforming very slowly.

celebrating 40 years of AJB

For Alice James Books, 2013 is going to be big. We will be turning 40 years old, a grand achievement for a small press. To celebrate, the press will be releasing an anthology of poetry, Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books, edited by Anne Marie Macari and Carey Salerno. With this collection—and with the many exciting events we have planned in the coming year—we look back on the press’ rich history, excitedly looking forward for what’s to come.

AJB Through the Years 1973

In Cambridge, MA, Patricia Cumming, Majorie Fletcher, Jean Pedrick, Lee Rudolph, Ron Schreiber, Betsy Sholl, and Cornelia Veenendaal create an independant poetry press to give voice to women poets. They name the press Alice James Books after the sister of novelist Henry James and philosopher William James. Alice James had a gift for writing that went unrecognized in her lifetime.

1974

The press invites submissions from poets all over New England, not just authors with easy access to Boston. In September, the press doubles its print runs on titles from one thousand to two thousand copies due to demand.

1975

Alice James Books officially becomes a nonprofit organization.

1986

1994

In September, Alice James Books begins its affiliation with the University of Maine at Farmington.

The Beatrice Hawley Award is established to celebrate beloved cooperative member and author of Making the House Fall Down (1977), who passed away the year before. This allows poets from all over the nation to be published by AJB. Linnea Johnson wins the first award with her book The Chicago Home.

1995

Jane Kenyon, an active member of the Poetry Cooperative and author of From Room to Room (1978), passes away. In her honor, the Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award is created.

2003

Alice James Books celebrates its 30th anniversary. At this point in time, Alice James Books has published around 110 collections of poetry.

2010

Kundiman, a New York City-based organization that promotes Asian American poets, partners with AJB to offer the Kundiman Poetry Prize. Janine Oshiro wins the first award with her book, Pier in 2011.

2013

Alice James Books celebrates its 40-year-long career. AJB has published over 165 volumes of poetry from a diverse array of talented poets. The press continues to seek out and publish the best poetry from both emerging and established poets and will do so far into the future with your continued support.

celebrating 40 years of AJB

Want to take part in the celebration? For starters, AJB will be at Association of Writers & Writing Programs’ 2013 Conference and Book Fair in Boston! Stop by our booth or sit in on one of our many panels. The AWP Conference will be held at the Hynes Convention Center & Sheraton Boston Hotel from March 6 to March 9. Stay up-to-date on the dates and times for events by checking our Twitter and Facebook pages. We hope to see you there!

As a literary partner of the 2013 AWP Conference, AJB is proud to present: Camouflage and Capitalism Tony Hoagland will present an essay on poetry as camouflage and how the poetry community hides behind the overintellectualization of aesthetics. Kathleen Graber, Reginald Dwayne Betts, and Peter Campion respond, offering assessments of the current condition of poetry in this dialogue and debate moderated by Laura McCullough.

40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books Four best-selling authors will read from their work: Brian Turner (Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise), Reginald Dwayne Betts (Shadhid Reads His Own Palm), Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno (Slamming Open the Door), and Shara McCallum (This Strange Land).

Brian Turner

Reginald Dwayne Kathleen Sheeder Shara McCallum Betts Bonanno

Making a Cooperative Press: A Retrospective From the beginnings when author-board members typset books by hand and burned the midnight oil at MIT, to the pennypinching Harvard Square days on Brattle Street, founders Betsy Sholl, Patricia Cumming, and Lee Rudolph and former board members Suzanne Matson and Marie Harris reflect on AJB’s nascent years in Cambridge and how the unlikely cooperative grew to be at the forefront of American poetry publishing.

Opening Her Veins: Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva in Two Voices Poets Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine take turns reading their new variations of poetry and prose by Russian great Marina Tsvetaeva. Dr. Stephenine Sandler from the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University will open with remarks. Ilya Kaminsky

Jean Valentine

Don’t miss our off-site reading at Trident Booksellers and Cafe! On March 8 at 8 p.m., join us for a poetry reading by 2012 authors! Stephen Motika (Western Practice), Matthew Pennock (Sudden Dog), Jane Springer (Murder Ballad), and Donald Revell (Tantivy) will be sharing their work.

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Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva A Reading by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine

Black Crow Dress Roxane Beth Johnson

Murder Ballad Jane Springer

Western Practice Stephen Motika

Tantivy Donald Revell

Sudden Dog Matthew Pennock

When you choose to be an Alice James Books subscriber, AJB will automatically mail you each new book we publish (6 books a year), so you’re guaranteed not to miss a title. The cost is $65/year (two seasons of books, including shipping)—that’s about 50% off the cover price! Take advantage of this great offer now. Call us at 207-778-7071, email ajb@alicejamesbooks.org, or visit our website to enroll. www

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ALICE JAMES BOOKS

has been publishing poetry since 1973 and remains one of the few presses in the country that is run collectively. The cooperative selects manuscripts for publication primarily through regional and national annual competitions. Authors who win a Kinereth Gensler Award become active members of the cooperative board and participate in the editorial decisions of the press. The press, which historically has placed an emphasis on publishing women poets, was named for Alice James, sister of William and Henry, whose fine journal and gift for writing went unrecognized during her lifetime.

FALL 2012 Catalog NEW titles

Tantivy

Donald Revell Praise for Tantivy:

“Every word counts in Donald Revell. You must read him carefully— not because he’s difficult but because he’s profound. But that’s too inappropriate, that word; let me say sun-worthy, Sophoclean, Goddrenched. Let me say grave, trust-worthy, loving, faithful, shocking, brilliant, honest. Let me say for dear life. One of America’s best poets.” —Gerald Stern “Revell is one of American poetry’s quiet masters, an aesthetically daring poet who, late in his career, took up religious themes and has created a kind of edgy wisdom poetry. . . The best of these poems are transcendent.” ―Publishers Weekly Praise for Donald Revell:

September 2012 ISNB: 978-1-882295-97-5 paper • $15.95

“Revell is a post-Romantic, his natural imagery clear and immediate, his feelings never very far from his sleeve, his tone approaching a prayerful devotion.” —Library Journal

Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva

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November 2012 ISBN: 978-1-882295-94-4 paper with flaps and CD • $15.00

Marina Tsvetaeva “This new selection from her poems and prose, a ‘homage’ to her by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine, brought me a closer and more intimate sense of her and her voice and presence than I had before. . . . This Dark Elderberry Branch is magic.” — W.S. Merwin “For a non-Russian reader, Tsvetaeva’s poetry has always been a house with neither doors nor windows. This is the first time when the translators do not claim to inhabit this house, but choose to stand outside—most importantly outside of themselves, as when in ecstasy, in love with Tsvetaeva’s genius. With these brilliantly introduced and delivered poems, Kaminsky and Valentine offer no less than the first real welcome of Marina Tsvetaeva into English. To turn to Tsvetaeva’s own words (I can eat—with dirty hands, sleep—with dirty hands, write with dirty hands I cannot), these two American poets wrote this Russian book with sparkling clean hands.” — Valzhyna Mort

Black Crow Dress Roxane Beth Johnson

NEW Titles

Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books Edited by Anne Marie Macari and Carey Salerno Praise for Lit from Inside:

—Plough-

“…I can’t forget the example of those early gatherings, the orderly procedures and professional force, all triggered by an idea of liberation and poetry.” —Fanny Howe “The founding members of Alice James Books welcomed me, in 1975, to a crew of feisty individuals committed to poetry. Unfettered by demands of market or profit, the press published—for forty years— tantalizing collections. Culture; family; feminism; friendship; history; passion; racism; war: it’s all in this anthology, a rewarding testimony to the independent spirit.” —Robin Becker

January 2013 ISBN: 978-1-882295-96-8 paper • $19.95

“The history of American poetry is the history of the small press, and Alice James Books, true to its origins in the Seventies as a collective operation, is a large and very distinctive chapter in that history, well deserving of this anthology showcasing its poets and work, both experimental and traditional, that ranks among the most important of the past four decades. The next time a student poet asks me for an anthology that will teach her the art in its most exemplary and current state, this is the one I will hand her.” —B.H. Fairchild Praise for Alice James Books: “Alice James Books has become one of the significant poetry presses of America. I am delighted and a little amazed watching it grow.” —Gerald Stern “Alice James aims at eclecticism in the best sense. It is committed to no particular school, tradition or style; it is open to the variousness of contemporary poetry.” —Ploughshares “Alice James continues to discover first-rate poets.” —Beloit Poetry Journal

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