#gray wolf press

[theblackestofsuns]

Milkman (2018)

Anna Burns

Gray Wolf Press

[artforafuture]

On January 20, 2017, the day I began this project, the day President Trump took office, I learned via Maria Popova of Brainpickings that Gray Wolf Press was giving away copies of Elizabeth Alexander's poem for Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009. I emailed them, thanked them for such a generous gesture, and Tuesday got my own chapbook! Spirits lifted again that day as it was one month earlier.

[thebookwars]

Bestiary: Poems by Donika Kelly

Bestiary: Poems by Donika Kelly

Paperback, 80 pages Published October 11th 2016 by Graywolf Press Source: Raincoast Books You are flesh, and you are water, though of the flesh, you are only muscle, and of the water, you are saltless and clean. Be a caution, a reckoning, be a thing that breaks before it bends. Donika Kelly’s poetry is startlingly beautiful. The poems are an act of discovery about a person, about a life, about a…

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[thebookwars]

Review: Rapture: Poems - Sjohnna McCray

Review: Rapture: Poems – Sjohnna McCray

Paperback, 72 pages Published April 5th 2016 by Graywolf Press Source: Raincoast Books

Sjohnna McCray’s father was an American soldier deployed to Korea where he met McCray’s Korean mother. In this volume of poetry, Rapture, McCray deals with the complicated nature of his identity, his parents, his lover, and all the beautiful and ugly things that make up life.

McCray’s turn of phrase is often…

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[universitybookstore]

STAYCATION!!!

Summer has arrived and vacation season is upon us. Time to start planning for some time off from the old job. Of course, you might not have the funds this year to venture far from the homestead, in which case here’s a few book recommendations to read that will take you to far off climes without having to make (or, more importantly, spend money on) airline & hotel reservations.

Blackass, A. Igoni Barrett

Bangkok 8, John Burdett

Lafcadio Hearn’s Japan

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe

Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schlansky

Gulliver’s Travels, Johnathan Swift

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Carsick, John Waters

[translatable]

Great interview with Fiona McCrae, publisher at Gray Wolf Press.

Check out their amazing international list here. Their Spanish-English translation titles and translators feature the best of the best--Daniel Sada translated by Kate Silver, Forrest Gander's innovative bilingual presentation of his translations of the poetry of Mexican poet Pura López Colomé, Margaret Jull-Costa's translating of Bernard Atxaga. . . . 

[millionsmillions]

"The art of rejection, like the art of writing, requires submission, discipline, patience, failure," executive editor Jeff Shotts writes on Graywolf Press's blog about rejection. Pair with: Our "Ask A Writing Teacher" column about tiers of rejections at literary journals.

[billchengwrites]

I'm partial to the en-dash myself.