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Organized by Three Percent at the University of Rochester, the Best Translated Book Award is the only prize of its kind to honor the best original works of international literature and poetry published in the U.S. over the previous year. Omnidawn’s Spectacle & Pigsty by Japanese poet, Kiwao Nomura won for poetry. The book was translated by Kyoko Yoshida and Forrest Gander. There is an award of $20,000 which is split between the authors and translators for the winning fiction and poetry titles.

Kiwao Nomura is one of …

Atlanta’s Coconut Books and Coconut Magazine are back in full effect. Publisher and founding editor Bruce Covey is now accepting submissions for the magazine, one of the first web-based literary journals. Covey has brought on board Gina Myers, Kim Gek Lin Short, Danielle Pafunda, and Laura Solomon as editors. They hope to launch the first new issue this summer.

Coconut Books will offer eight new titles in 2012. Four titles currently available are Molly Brodak’s chapbook The Flood and the following full-length collections–how to survive a hotel fire by Angela Veronica …

Seattle poet Jane Wong is interviewed in The Collagist.

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Poetry Northwest launches their new issue at 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 9 at The Liberty Bar (517 15th Ave. E.). Readers include Katherine Larson & Richard Kenney, w/Vis-a-Vis Society.

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Seattle Poetry Watch: Farmers market poetry cheese installment.

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“Two if by sea.”

–Crystal Curry

In lieu of any Ohio poetry news, here’s a partial, excessively awesome list of poems, etc from contemporary poets who live in/are from Ohio. Enjoy.

Catherine Wagner at The Awl

Dana Ward at PennSound

Noah Falck at H_NGM_N

Alexis Pope at >kill author

Jeremy Schmall at The Faster Times

Joshua Kleinberg at Ilk

Matt Hart at Toad

Mary Biddinger at Anti-

Phil Metres at DIAGRAM

Kazim Ali at The Poetry Foundation

Nat Otting, who is at the helm of Minutes …

A riddle: a woman who does not exist burns a song onto a disc. At the same time, a woman who does exist—say, the woman who created the woman who does not exist—burns the same song onto the same disc. The song is full of longing, lush with strings, brimming with hope and despair, with such a romantic ache it casts a glance at parody. The song is for a man, a man who is in love with the woman who does not exist. The woman who does not exist, …

Between Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens there are readings happening every night. Each Sunday, Coldfront will feature five upcoming readings.

The Poetry Project
Monday, May 14, 2012  8pm 

Chris Alexander is the author of Panda. You can follow (read/buy) his ongoing experiments and derivative works at his private imprint, United_Plastics. You can find him on Twitter @hedorah55.

Kristen Gallagher co-edits Truck Books with Christopher Alexander. Her book We Are Here was published by Truck in 2011. Two books are forthcoming: Grand Central and Things in Marx. She has recently published essays on the work …

On Tuesday, May 8th, the Madwomen in the Attic, a contemporary group of poets, read in the backroom of Hemingway’s cafe which was packed to the wood grain walls with clapping hands.

Jimmy Cvetic, the host and founder of the Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series, told stories of his days as a heavy weight boxer and his days in Vietnam.  He introduced each of the Madwomen: Tess Barry, Doralee Brooks, Angela J. Cornelius, Caley Ferguson, Celeste Gainey, Emily Mohn and Maritza Mosquera.

Tess Barry’s work has appeared in Carlow University Press’s Voices from The …

Curated by three poet/editors–Drew Swenhaugen of Poor Claudia, Joseph Mains, and Zachary Schomburg of Octopus Books–Portland OR’s Bad Blood series is always a good time, and this Thursday will feature Jenny Boully (with poems forthcoming from Coconut), Jesse Lichtenstein (host of the equally lovely Loggernaut Series), and Portland poet-painter-art advocate Amy Bernstein. The series is housed in a beautiful wood and metalwork cooperative called ADX, where the poets and fans share space with CNC routers, boats-in-progress, and craftspeople at work.

See you on 5.10.12 @ 7 …

Friday, May 11th, at 7pm Counterpath hosts an evening of Coffee House Press authors. Joseph Lease, Lightsey Darst, Maureen Owen, and Laird Hunt will read from their work.

Saturday, May 12th, SpringGun Press and Mudluscious Press are hosting Joe Hall, Mathias Svalina, Joanna Ruocco, Todd Seabrook, and Lily Ladewig at Leon Gallery at 7pm. The readings at Leon are the work of the magnanimous Derrick Mund….

The Poetry Society of America annual awards ceremony is tonight and Seattle is represented by poet Jennifer Maier, who won the Emily Dickinson award for her villanelle, “Fly,” which supposes the point of view of the “fly” (the one that’s buzzing) in Dickinson’s #465. Judge Phillis Levin writes of the poem, “‘Fly’ dwells in a realm where “will,” “desire,” and “fate” are words that remain unspoken while their meanings continue to haunt, provoke, and ramify.”

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This week’s Living Room gathering at SPLAB, 7 p.m. tonight, 3651 S. Edmunds, …