Carolyn Dahl’s Art Preserves What Can’t be Saved was selected as the First Place winner in the Chapbook Division of the National Federation of Press Women Communications’ Contest. It was also the First Place winner in the Chapbook Division of the Press Women of Texas Competition.
Judith Kennedy (To See in the Night) has recently learned that her poem “Longfellow Pine” will be included in the forthcoming anthology Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania.
On April 22, the Fresno, California Arts Council named educator, poet, arts organizer, and Orchard Street writer Megan Anderson Bohigian (Vanishing Point) the fifth Poet Laureate of the City of Fresno. Megan will serve as Laureate until 2023.
In the past three months, Orchard Street has released the following new poetry chap books:
“Almost Happy” by Bob Wickless of Reidsville, NC
“The Diamond Light of an Almost Morning” by Larsen Bowker of Blacksburg, VA
“Sea Changes” by Duane Niatum of Seattle WA
“Joy in the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing” by Craig McVay of Columbus, OH
Information about each of those titles is included in the News > Book Announcements menu.
The Spring is a very busy time for Orchard Street. We are conducting our annual Poetry Contest, and we are completing the publication of chapbooks solicited from some of the entrants to last year’s Contest. We are also announcing the release of books that have just come out.
In the News > Book Announcements menu, you will find full-page announcements for these books which have been released recently, all work that comes from entrants in last year’s Poetry Contest.
Dialogues With Light by Lew Forester of Arvada, Colorado
Midnight Exhibition at the Wheatgrass Saloon by Elizabeth Chapman of Palo Alto, California
Duets: Love Songs & Prayers by Stephanie Baird from Western Massachusetts
Passages by Linda M. Fisher from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Twenty Small Worlds by Mark Louis Lehman of Cincinnati, Ohio
Orchard Street is currently working on the following chapbooks which will be released in the coming weeks: Almost Happy by Bob Wickless of North Carolina; In The Diamond Light of Morning by Larsen Bowker of Virginia; Sea Changes by Duane Niatum of Washington State; and Joy in the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing by Craig McVay of Ohio.
