Wake: Up to Poetry

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321Wed, 22 May 2013 08:21:32 +0000Irish PoetryPrintLove PoemRimbaudCeltic Reconstructionist PaganismNative AmericansThe Sex PistolsCover ArtWomen's Anthology TourMetaphorCustomersPaula MeehanIn the Light OfLondon Book FairArts and CultureBook ReviewsWomen's AnthologySamhainOn the Night WatchGloucesterOrganizationspringIntern's CornerHalloweenSinéad MorrisseyRachel Giese; The Donegal Pictures; Michael LongleyE-Readersfemale irish artistBelfast BoysCiaran CarsonIntroductionsWake Forest Series of Irish Poetry Volume TwoLouis MacNeiceNo Man's LandbroadsidesNY Times Book ReviewPoem of the WeekMoya CannonMedbh McGuckianPeter SirrJudge a Book by It's Coverelectronic readersNorth CarolinacolourSt. Patrick's DayUGAWake up to Poetry contestOctoberChristmasHarry CliftonAsleigh DePetroAdrian RiceA Hundred DoorsUntil Before AfterIrish Women ArtIrish TimesBrendan KennellyAlien vs. PredatorFahrenheit 451Eiléan Ní ChuilleanáinThe Alexandrine PlanNews of the WorldBelly BandCúirt International Festival of LiteratureIrish Community NewsJustin QuinnnewsletterKerry HardieEasterWake ForestLit. Crit.bloggingSecular EdenIndependent PressestourMichael HartnetttechnologyKindleConor O'CallaghanTwitterWinston-SalemSpeech LessonsPoetry NowÉigse FestivalNational Poetry MonthImagine IrelandMichael RobbinsWake Forest UniversityPhotosTomorrowWake Forest Series Volume OneDigital PublicationsThe Winter Sleep of Captain LemassThe Antioch ReviewE-PublishingNi DhomhaillBiBiAprilChicagoClaire MalrouxMichael LongleyDennis O'DriscollObi BandPoetryIntern ResearchInternsTabletsPoetry ReviewIrish Women's PoetryThe Belfast BoysOur PoetsBoston CollegetsunamiTools of ChangeFacebookMailpoetry readingFlipbackebooksWFU PresspoliticspoppiesVona GroarkeGuardianE-PoetryThe GuardianThe Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry volume 3Interns' CornerPeter FallonMacNeiceThe CloudIndependent PublishersPoetry magazinePoetry CelebrationInterns' Choice of the MonthfoodWorld Poetry DayRed SoxBooker PrizejapanThe Sun-fishSpindriftJohn MontagueCommunity Arts Cafesocial mediaiPadIleana MălăncioiuSleep LessonsE-BooksproofingIrelandWake: Up to Poetryhttp://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/noreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)Blogger223125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-5537700618480749160Fri, 17 May 2013 15:10:00 +00002013-05-17T11:10:29.453-04:00Wake: Up to Poetry Reading and Celebration If you weren't able to make it to our Wake: Up to Poetry reading and celebration last month, you're in luck. Thanks to The Wake Forest Interdisciplinary Performance and Liberal Arts Center (iPLACe) and the Wake Forest Documentary Film Program, we now have this lovely video of highlights from the event. We hope you enjoy these excerpts from the readings along with interviews from the contest http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/05/wake-up-to-poetry-reading-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-7490319971846882270Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:42:00 +00002013-04-26T16:48:52.156-04:00The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry volume 3Poem of the WeekPoem of the WeekDo you have a memory of a childhood trip? "Going Places" by John McAuliffe from the upcoming Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry Volume III, is a tribute to such journeys. As we get older, it is sometimes comforting to remember the times when we got to sit in the backseat and imagine "giant invisible horses", instead of focusing on the reality of adulthood in which one must sit in the front seat http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/04/poem-of-week_26.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-6678067500768941393Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:16:00 +00002013-04-23T14:16:05.100-04:00The Antioch ReviewEiléan Ní ChuilleanáinLit. Crit.Poetry ReviewIrish Women's PoetryIleana Mălăncioiu"Legend of the Walled-up Wife" featured in "The Antioch Review"The spring 2013 issue of The Antioch Review takes a thoughtful look at our recent volume, Legend of the Walled-up Wife, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's translations of Ileana Mălăncioiu's poetry. Written under the Ceaușescu regime, the book has dark, chilling imagery throughout and critic Benjamin S. Grossberg writes: "Mălăncioiu often blurs the line between life and death, creating the sense of http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/04/legend-of-walled-up-wife-featured-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-5574776360492467826Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:31:00 +00002013-04-22T11:31:35.819-04:00WFU PressEiléan Ní ChuilleanáinIrish PoetryThe Sun-fishA Reading by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Our very own Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reads “The Polio Epidemic” from The Sun-fish. Video courtesy of The Gallery Press Visit our website and order your copy of The Sun-fish today! http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/04/a-reading-by-eilean-ni-chuilleanain.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-8547927464471674646Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:03:00 +00002013-04-19T14:03:44.938-04:00Poem of the WeekMedbh McGuckianPoem of the Week Welcome to "The Realm of Nothing Whatever". We have unusual hours. It is only when you are groggy and not quite awake that you can quietly enter this dreamlike space and see striking simliarities between unalike things. Before you can articulate what you have seen, the time of day is gone. You are awake. Careful with the door on the way out. The Realm of Nothing Whatever The http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/04/poem-of-week_19.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-2988202301902220135Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:19:00 +00002013-04-17T12:19:11.214-04:00WFU PressLouis MacNeiceIrish PoetryHistoric Photograph Featuring Louis MacNeice Up for Grabs Literary Giants: From left, Louis MacNeice, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender at Faber and Faber publishing party If you’re looking to be the owner of a rare literary moment in history, look no further! This iconic photograph shows the five men congregating at a party organized by their publisher, Faber and Faber. Taken in 1960 by photographer Mark Gerson, the http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/04/historic-photograph-featuring-louis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-6425048446526789977Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:30:00 +00002013-04-12T15:30:23.327-04:00Poem of the WeekSinéad MorrisseyLove PoemIrish Women's PoetryPoem of the Week What does love look like to you? Love Song I see light everywhere Over the bus driver the woman With her trolley in the street I see dusk I hear the clock at four I hear the silence in cupboards Birdsong Backwater dawn I taste drier than flour I smell the roots of trees Before I see their arms Shrieking On the skyline I feel diamonds pushed into The bloodstream Self-generated, a http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/04/poem-of-week_1915.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-7207812752184135872Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:24:00 +00002013-04-10T12:34:36.063-04:00Adrian RiceWFU PressBelfast BoysPoetry CelebrationWake Forest UniversityCommunity Arts CafeArts and CultureWake Up to Poetry Celebration: A WFU Press' Intern's Reflection This past Saturday night marked Wake Forest University Press' first Wake Up to Poetry Celebration. In honor of National Poetry Month, WFUP collected student submissions, receiving more than 50 poems. The submissions were then evaluated by award-winning poets, Adrian Rice, Rachel Richardson, and David Roderick. At Saturday's event the student winners Baily Pittenger, http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/04/wake-up-to-poetry-celebration-wfu-press.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-8904232118575564040Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:10:00 +00002013-04-08T11:12:17.158-04:00Until Before AfterIn the Light OfOn the Night WatchUGACiaran CarsonOur PoetsCiaran Carson to Read at UGA on April 10th   <!--[if gte mso 10]> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/03/eigse-michael-hartnett-literary-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-7324817194226678194Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:49:00 +00002013-03-22T17:19:49.181-04:00Poem of the WeekPoem of the Week Time ticks routinely: there are always sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour, and twenty-four hours in a day. The speaker in "The Heated Minutes" from our upcoming Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems describes how time feels hot, taut, and dull: the heat of anxiety, the dullness of loneliness, and the tautness of a bond that has been stretched by separation. Although time ticks http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/03/poem-of-week_525.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-6409862553397382946Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:15:00 +00002013-03-21T13:15:36.425-04:00Paula MeehanWorld Poetry DayIrish PoetryIrish Women's PoetryHappy World Poetry Day!! Today, all of us a Wake Forest University Press hope you're enjoying World Poetry Day!! Our internet community has been helping us celebrate in many ways. First, we're excited to see that The Poetry Project for poetry and art from Ireland has recently added a new project inspired by Paula Meehan's "My Father Perceived as a Vision of St Francis." You can find a link to the project on our http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/03/happy-world-poetry-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-2624340800292669138Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:42:00 +00002013-03-18T11:43:55.877-04:00Cúirt International Festival of LiteratureA Hundred DoorsMichael LongleyMichael Longley to Read at Cúirt International Festival of Literature WFUP's esteemed poet, Michael Longley, will be reading selections of his work on the opening night of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature. Longley's most recent publication A Hundred Doors won the 2011 Irish Times Poetry Now Award, and he is also the recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, the Hawthornden Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize, among others. He is known for using http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/03/michael-longley-to-read-at-cuirt.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-4855281277093804055Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:15:00 +00002013-03-07T12:17:33.923-05:00Poem of the WeekBrendan KennellyPoem of the Week This week's poem is A Language from the Essential Brendan Kennelly. A Language I had a language once. I was at home there. Someone murdered it Buried it somewhere. I use different words now Without skill, truly as I can. A man without a language Is half a man, if he's lucky. Sometimes the lost words flare from their grave Why do I think then of angels, http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/03/poem-of-week_5387.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-9204864714251279765Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:08:00 +00002013-03-05T13:08:14.533-05:00TomorrowPoetry magazineDennis O'DriscollPoetry Magazine Honors Dennis O'DriscollThe February issue of Poetry magazine, commemorates Dennis O'Driscoll, who passed away in December. The inside cover features the first stanza of his poem "Tomorrow." Tomorrow Tomorrow I will start to be happy. The morning will light up like a celebratory cigar. Sunbeams sprawling on the lawn will set dew sparkling like a cut-glass tumbler of champagne. Today will end the worst http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/03/poetry-magazine-honors-dennis-odriscoll.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-655353735585065068Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:01:00 +00002013-03-01T17:01:22.770-05:00Poem of the WeekKerry HardieIrish Women's PoetryPoem of the Week This poem by Kerry Hardie is from the Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry. The best part of Winter is knowing that Spring must come "again," and the bad weather and cold temperatures must come to an end. Today on March 1st, we say, "Here's to Spring!" Again Spring comes roundly, as the round calls of pigeons in the early morning. March is starry with celandines. Catkins hang in http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/03/poem-of-week.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-7540766880810874891Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:12:00 +00002013-02-27T19:15:59.173-05:00social mediabloggingIndependent PublishersIndependent PressesPoetryArts and CultureGeneration: Blogger Boomers Here at WFUP we are actively working to expand our use of social media and blogging as a means to connect, share our thoughts, and listen to others. A recent study by NM Incite tracked over 181 million blogs worldwide in 2011, a drastic increase from the recorded 36 million blogs in 2006. Blogs have exploded, becoming one of the top modes of communication, advertisement, and instruction. Our http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/02/generation-blogger-boomers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-1673688523608745208Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:12:00 +00002013-02-22T15:18:42.710-05:00The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry volume 3Poem of the WeekConor O'CallaghanPoem of the Week This poem is from Conor O'Callaghan's Fiction. O'Callaghan is the editor of our upcoming The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry Volume Three, which will be released this coming summer. As you pause between chapters, take a look around and enjoy the sights and sounds that surround you. You will always be able to find your place on the page again. The Narrator, during the break in chapterhttp://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/02/poem-of-week.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-2680498014195654460Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:08:00 +00002013-02-21T12:08:58.631-05:00Lit. Crit.MacNeiceFrom Rolling Wheels to Menacing Seas: The Turns and Returns of Louis MacNeice Of all the collected editions we have published, the lifetime work of Louis MacNeice stands out in our catalogue for two reasons. First, his far-reaching legacy has been a transformative influence upon many of our poets, in particular Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, and Derek Mahon. But more importantly, few collected editions formally convey the transitions within a poet’s lifetime like that of http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/02/from-rolling-wheels-to-menacing-seas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-855077294252830709Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:42:00 +00002013-02-15T16:39:18.374-05:00Poem of the WeekCiaran CarsonWake Forest UniversityWake up to Poetry contestPoem of the Week/"Wake Up to Poetry" Contest The poem N, from Opera Et Cetera by Ciaran Carson, implores the reader to "Wake up" to listen to the poem. Wake Forest University Press is also also asking you to wake up, but we want to listen to your poetry. We are now taking submissions to the Wake Up to Poetry contest! This event is in celebration of National Poetry Month (April). Three winners will be chosen and there are fabulous http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/02/poem-of-weekwake-up-to-poetry-contest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-6487115170655171149Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:40:00 +00002013-02-08T23:22:21.785-05:00The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry volume 3Poem of the WeekWake Forest Series Volume OneHarry CliftonPoem of the WeekWhatever tides you are swimming against this week, we hope you take time to read this and allow things to "resolve themselves." The poem of the week is "The River" by Harry Clifton, from the Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry Volume One (2005). We are looking forward to releasing Volume Three later this year. The River When I was angry, I went to the river— New water on old stones, the http://blog.wfupress.wfu.edu/2013/02/whatever-tides-you-are-swimming-against.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-8142813128381938195Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:21:00 +00002013-02-04T23:51:45.599-05:00WFU PressIrish PoetryWake Forest University<atom:summary>Yesterday, February 3rd, marked the 179th birthday of Wake Forest University. On February 3rd, 1834, Wake Forest opened its doors and admitted its first students. Back then, a student's education focused on two subjects: agriculture and Baptist ministry. Students were taught the importance of dedication, hard work and ambition. 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