We have fantastic news! Following hot on the heels of our announcement that Patrick Moran won the Editors Prize for the Book of Lost Things, we are pleased to announce that Augury Books will be publishing two chapbooks this Winter/Spring. Take a moment to meet our attractive new authors B.C. Edwards and Paige Lipari. [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Big News: Chapbooks by B.C. Edwards & Paige Lipari
Posted in Augur, Augury Books, Editors’ Prize, Poetry, Uncategorized, tagged B.C. Edwards, Editors' Prize, Paige Lipari, Poem, Poetry, Promotion, Welcome on September 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Poem by Finalist Mark McKain
Posted in Editors’ Prize, Poetry, Uncategorized, tagged Augury Books, Chameleon, Editors' Prize, Mark McKain, Poem, Poetry on September 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Chameleon puffs its red throat-fan— a warning stolen from the burning cane-fields. My love and I pose beside a wall of wrought iron and hibiscus. I hold a ball of string. A wild dog sniffs the gutter. Kite made of palm ribs hangs on thorns of a lime tree. A hurricane [...]
A Poem by Finalist Carrie Meadows
Posted in Augury Books, Editors’ Prize, Poetry on September 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We might welcome these storms were they not so like glass broken, lingering in slivers lodged in laundry, in the dishes, bits tacked like proclamations to the soles of shoes. Wads of insulation dry in grass, and the elderly brace their necks to look up, just to not look down on this day-after [...]
A Poem by Finalist Rachel Moritz
Posted in Augury Books, Editors’ Prize, Poetry, tagged Augury, Augury Books, Pilot, Poem, Poetry, Rachel Moritz on September 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Pilot Someone who tunnels down and away was other My mother said, you’re going where I can’t be with you As a glass idol fills its own presence with lack The stairs down into each self—how one door opened where the man was let in Public as flame, the self with no interior One hadn’t [...]
Patrick Moran is the Winner of the 2011 Editors’ Prize in Poetry
Posted in Augury Books, Editors’ Prize, Poetry, tagged Andrew Terhune, Carrie Meadows, Frank Montesonti, Gary Hawkins, James Cihlar, Kathleen Rooney, Lily Ladewig, Mark McKain, Maureen Alsop, Michael Edgerton, Patrick Moran, Rachel Moritz, The Book of Lost Things on September 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Thank you so much to everyone who submitted. We were completely overwhelmed by fantastic manuscripts. Congratulations to Patrick Moran for winning the prize for The Book of Lost Things! Patrick Moran’s poems, essays, and translations have appeared in a variety of publications including Crazyhorse, The New Republic, The Iowa Review and The Writer’s Chronicle. He [...]
