Charles Bukowski died sixteen years ago today, March 9. Just a few years before his death, the hyperprolific Buk sent a startup literary journal a small bundle of poems—and a friendly warning, of sorts. In honor of his memory, we here at Sycamore Review have decided to open up the archives and share with you one of those poems, as well as its accompanying “letter to the editor.” Click below on “…MORE” to read Bukowski’s “One More Day” and to see a true Buk artifact. (We’re pretty sure the attached doodle is a “good doggie,” but extra marks to anyone with a more creative interpretation.) …MORE
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BY ANTHONY COOK, Editor-in-Chief The 2010 Wabash Prize for Fiction contest is now closed. Thank you to all who submitted. We’re seeing some exciting work, which we look forward to sending to our guest judge, Peter Ho Davies. Be sure to check back here for updates on the contest. The winner will be announced no later than April 30. This spring Sycamore Review will publish interviews with two poets, Eleanor Wilner and Ted Kooser, in addition to nonfiction writer and novelist Benjamin Percy. I, for one, am chomping at the bit. Editing interviews is in some ways the most exhilarating part of my job as Nonfiction Editor at SR, because it means getting first glance at the raw thoughts of writing giants. I’ve just finished a first round of edits on the Kooser interview, with abundant help from Sycamore Review’s old Poetry Editor, David Blomenberg, who caught up with the former-Poet Laureate way out in Seward, Nebraska. (Dave would say, “it’s a long story, folks”). Here’s a taste of their honest chat: DB: Many writers—maybe you’ve run into this with students in your program—are terrified of getting out in the working world and trying to juggle where the writing goes: not wanting to get into a job that sucks the soul right …MORE BY ANTHONY COOK, Editor-in-Chief Due to some technical glitches, Sycamore Review is extending the deadline for the 2010 Wabash Prize for Fiction. The new deadline is MONDAY, MARCH 8. Submit today for a shot at $1,000. All submissions will be considered for publication and everyone who submits will receive a copy of the Summer/Fall 2010 issue, which will feature the winner, as chosen by guest judge Peter Ho Davies.
The 2010 Wabash Prize for Fiction is entering its final two weeks. We’ve received some strong submissions so far, but we’re hungry for more. Be sure to get your submission to us by the March 1st March 8 deadline for a chance to have Peter Ho Davies select your story. Besides the honor of being chosen by Mr. Davies, the winner will also receive $1,000 and will be published in the Summer/Fall issue of Sycamore Review. All submissions are considered for publication and, for the first time, everyone who submits will receive a copy of the prize issue, which will be packed with amazing fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, interviews, book reviews and art. See the complete contest submission guidelines for details.
Issue 22.1 is here! Subscribers should be receiving the new issue in the mail any day now. This edition is packed with exciting content, including interviews with poets Rita Dove and Carl Phillips, fiction by Patricia Engel, and the winning entry of the 2009 Wabash Prize for Poetry. You’ll also find great creative nonfiction, art and book reviews. Be sure to check out the full table of contents, where you can read excerpts of stories, poems, interviews, and art featured in the journal. Then order your copy today! BY ANTHONY COOK, Editor-in-Chief Patricia Engel’s short story, “Green,” will appear in Sycamore Review’s Winter/Spring 2010 issue, due out sometime next week. But if you just can’t wait, you can check out her story, “The Bridge,” which The Atlantic is featuring this month as part of it’s new Amazon Kindle short story edition. This new effort from The Atlantic is an interesting one, providing a new outlet for short story publishing. Congratulations, Patricia!
New year, new books, new books by the deceased? Right. This year’s theme, at least for fiction, is posthumous publication. Chilean author Roberto Bolaño will have as many as four books published, including Monsieur Pain (about a Peruvian poet with an incurable case of the hiccups) Antwerp, and The Return. David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel, The Pale King, is set to appear at some point on shelves highlighting another trend of 2010’s new fiction: the promotion of unfinished work. Three Days Before the Shooting, Ralph Ellison’s “true” second novel (say some critics) awaits release next week, and in April comes The Microscripts, a book which reproduces the note cards on which Nabokov charted The Original of Laura. Though considered a crime novel, Bolaño’s Antwerp is also rumored to read as an extended prose poem. …MORE
The new issue of Sycamore Review — 22.1-Winter/Spring — is off to the printers! It features some exciting content, including… Interviews with Carl Phillips and Rita Dove. The new …MORE BY DANA BISIGNANI, Wabash Prize Coordinator After careful consideration, Mark Doty selected Lizzie Hutton’s poem “Rose Gold and Poppies” as this year’s winner. Mr. Doty was impressed with the poem’s technique of “jump-cutting between two moments in the speaker’s life, creating a lush field of intersecting terms and building a meditation on the vexed and provocative relationship between things and their names.” Ms. Hutton’s poem will be showcased in our upcoming issue, 22.1, due out in mid-January. In addition to this year’s winner, we would also like to recognize the two finalists selected by our judge. Reflecting on Jude Nutter’s poem “Triptych,” Mr. Doty notes the way in which “the ‘central panel’ of the poem’s three-part sequence enlarges and energizes the poem by turning away from the landscape of parts one and three toward a memory of an encounter with animal life.” Our second finalist was Rita Mae …MORE |
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