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Dearest poets, Do you know what I’m looking forward to doing this weekend? Well, other than bourbon and Ethiopian food, the answer is reading your entries to the Wabash Poetry Prize, judged by the one and only Louise Gluck! Tomorrow is the post mark deadline, so make sure you all get your best work together, go buy that ten pack of kraft clasp envelopes, some fancy, or not so fancy stamps, and put your name in the running to win $1,000. Do you know how much hot sauce that can buy? A lot. So send us your finest, because I hope that someday, your poems and I will be together.
by Corey Van Landingham Poetry Co-Editor So remember when I said Jacob and I have big shoes to fill following the departure of Mario Chard and Josh Wild as Poetry Editors? Well, as we all know here at Purdue, their prowess doesn’t stop at putting together stellar issues of Sycamore Review. In a couple of weeks, Mario will begin the first year of his Wallace Stegner Fellowship. California dreaming, indeed! We wish we were there to pack him a lunch on his first big day. And Josh’s poem “Self-Portrait after Paul Morphy’s Stroke” appeared in the May 2011 issue of Poetry. He’s not “all thumbs” at all! Dang. It’s getting hot in here, and it’s not just this dreaded heat wave. We’re all incredibly proud of these guys, though we know that …MORE by Corey Van Landingham Poetry Co-Editor It’s been an exciting year for former Sycamore Review contributors, and we’re sure that more good news will continue to roll in. First off, a belated congratulations to Issue 23.1 contributor Adam Day, whose chapbook, Badger, Apocrypha, was chosen by James Tate as a winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. We were lucky enough to be able to publish two of his poems, “A Polite History” and “To Rights, the Abattoir.” Congratulations, Adam! Secondly, Ryan Teitman, whose haunting poem “Ode To a Hawk with Wings Burning” was featured in Issue 22.2, was a 2011 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship Nominee. What an honor–congratulations, Ryan! Remember, our lovely contributors, we’re watching you. by Joshua Diamond, Nonfiction Co-Editor Sunday afternoon in August. Pleasantly temperate for Indiana this time of year. And 5,500 undergraduates—most of them first-year students at Purdue University—are funneling into Elliot Hall of Music. No, this is not the rescheduled Lady Gaga concert. They’re here to see Rebecca Skloot, whose wildly successful book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, has spent 29 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list with no signs of slowing down. All first-year students at Purdue received Skloot’s book over the summer, free of charge, as part of the University’s Common Reading Program, which offers a different book each year in order to provide “a common first-year experience for Purdue’s newest students.” For the uninitiated, Skloot’s book puts a face to the first immortal cell line. In 1951, doctors took cells from Henrietta Lacks’ cervical tumor without asking, and …MORE
Congratulations to Jim Ray Daniels, contributor in the 23.1 Winter/Spring issue, for his new book Trigger Man: More Tales of the Motor City published by Michigan State University Press. The editors at Sycamore Review have been longtime fans of Mr. Daniels poetry and fiction.You can read an excerpt from “Candy Necklace,” which is one of many great stories in the new collection, and a short interview with Jim Ray Daniels here. Next, be sure to order your own copy issue 23.1 before you go pick up Trigger Man. Easy enough, right? By Jessica Jacobs, Editor-in-Chief If there is a verbal equivalent of a beaming smile, then consider me doing that here. A high bar has been set by former Editor-in-Chief Anthony Cook (thank you, Tony, for all of your amazing work these last two years!), and I am thrilled and honored to be continuing the Sycamore Review legacy. In the time leading up to our next issue, we have some exciting changes in store. Online, in addition to site design upgrades made by Webmaster Ehren Pflugfelder, second-year fiction writer Natalie van Hoose will be bringing you an audio archive in which all Sycamore contributors, past and present, will be invited to share recordings of themselves reading their work, helping us to provide a more immersive environment and letting our writers’ voices truly be heard. Book Review & Blog Editor Rebecah Pulsifer will be guiding our staffers …MORE After its annual summer sabbatical, Sycamore Review’s submissions manager is tan, well-rested, back online, and eager for you to stop by and say hello. Updated submissions guidelines can be found here. We are also still accepting submissions for the 2011 Wabash Prize for Poetry, which will be judged by former United States Poet Laureate Louise Glück. The winner will receive $1,000 and publication in our Winter/Spring issue. All entries will be read by no less than two Sycamore staffers and considered for publication. By Shavonne Clarke, Nonfiction Co-Editor Hi all. I’m Shavonne Clarke, now working with Josh Diamond as one half of the nonfiction contingent here. I grew up in Great Falls, Virginia and received a BA from Sweet Briar College and an MA from Texas A&M University, both in English. Currently I live in Lafayette, Indiana as an MFA student in fiction at Purdue University. I’m very excited to be reading and helping to select this year’s nonfiction pieces. As a fiction reader, I was frequently impressed by the caliber of writing submitted to Sycamore. In this case, I also have the honor of “induction,” in some sense, into other lives and experiences. Because creative nonfiction seems such an expansive genre, I look forward to seeing how those truths find their own expression. If you’d like to read more on the preferred aesthetics of each submission, …MORE by Joshua Diamond, Nonfiction Co-Editor Hello Sycamore fans. My Name is (what?) Josh Diamond. I was born in Akron, Ohio. My Akron stays home on the weekends. Rubber Capitol of the world, but she don’t make tires no more. The Goodyear Blimp used to live here. So did I. I studied English, Sociology, and Writing at nearby Kent State University, and edited the Stark Campus literary journal Canto. While at Kent I met Cindy Kelly, Editor and founder of Amsterdam Press, and worked as her Fiction Editor at Plain Spoke, a quarterly literary magazine project. I also repaired guitars for a living. Now I live in Lafayette, Indiana and am pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Purdue University. Nonfiction is sort of the red-headed stepchild genre. Instead of trying to change that, I embrace it. Sycamore only has room for one or two pieces of creative nonfiction per …MORE |
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