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California Book Award

Cal Book Award Finalists

The Commonwealth Club of California has just announced their finalists for the 82nd California Book Award, and in the poetry category 4 out of 5 are by SPD publishers!  Congrats to the authors, and especially the publishers: Atelos, Nightboat, Tupelo, and City Lights.  Here's those finalists:

 

   After Urgency  
Sea and Fog
 Citizen    Journey to the Sun

Northern California Book Award

Northern Cal Book Awards!

On Sunday, May 19th, Poetry Flash held their 32nd Annual Northern California Book Awards at the San Francisco Public Library.  There were many SPD publishers and authors among the finalists, all of which are listed here.  Congrats to the writers, the publishers, and to the Flash for running a terrific awards show year in and year out.

 

Finalist in
Poetry:

Citizen, Aaron Shurin

Finalist in
Poetry:

 Plunge, Alice Jones

Finalist in
Poetry:

The Book of a Thousand Eyes, Lyn Hejinian

Finalist in
Poetry:

A Penance, C.J. Evans

Finalist
in Translation:

A Woman With Several Lives, Jean Davie, Trans. Norma Cole

Finalist
in Translation:

Opera Omnia or, A Duet for Sitar and Trombone, Luxorius, Trans. Art Beck

Finalist in
Creative
Nonfiction:

A Simple Revolution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
Poetry Society of America

Norma Farber Book Award

Congratulations to Nick Twemlow, who won this year's Norma Farber First Book Award, judged by Timothy Liu and administered by the The Poetry Society of America.  Nick is also a co-publisher of SPD publisher Canarium Books, so we are doubly proud of him.  Read Palm Trees, you won't regret it!

Palm Trees | Nick Twemlow
 
  
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