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Autumn is just around the corner and our ASP authors have a busy schedule of readings and events!  Please check back as the schedule grows. Here is what we’ve confirmed so far: Sept 14, 2017, 6:30 p.m., Grace Cavalieri & Richard Harteis share poetry and conversation at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 415 Park Ave, Baltimore, MD. Check here for details. Friday, October 6 through Sunday, October 8, Rose Solari is the keynote speaker and a faculty member at the 6th Annual Mariposa Poetry Retreat, at the Capital Retreat Center in Waynesboro, PA. The retreat was founded and is run by poet … [Read more...]

Announcing the publication of Other Voices, Other Lives: A Grace Cavalieri Collection, October 1, 2017 Other Voices, Other Lives is a selection of poems, plays, and interviews drawn from over forty years of work by one of America’s most beloved and influential women of letters. The author of 23 books of poetry and 26 produced plays, and the founder of the legendary radio interview program, The Poet and the Poem, Grace Cavalieri has won multiple national awards for her writing and her service to literature. “The poet Grace Cavalieri is also a truly generous friend of poetry and poets. In … [Read more...]

The Kenyon Review Calls Liz Hazen's Chaos Theories "DAZZLING!" Elizabeth Hazen’s dazzling first book of poems, Chaos Theories, reminds us of the long history of poets who take on science as their subject mattter. Indeed, the main impetus for Greek and Roman poets like Hesiod and Lucretius was nothing less than to reveal how the universe worked, from atomic theory to astronomy. Perhaps one of the most successful mergers between poetry and science came in the hundred years surrounding Darwin’s publication of Origin of the Species. Alfred Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam, for example, is often cited … [Read more...]

Washington Post, Wednesday, May 20th, 2015 Richard Peabody Collection Is A Buffet Of Legendary Editor's Work, by Michael Lindgren PEABODY DELIVERS! A romantic poet of breathtaking tenderness. A keen writer of farce and a master of satire. A political activist whose fierce advocacy manifests itself in allegory. A pop-culture explorer. Richard Peabody is all these and more, as is evident in this collection taken from nearly four decades of writing by a national literary hero. Peabody’s aesthetic is all-embracing. His literary influences — including strands … [Read more...]