The first winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award, a
volume of Landis Everson's new and collected poems,
Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005, ed. by Ben Mazer, will
soon be published by Graywolf Press. In addition, Everson
received a cash prize of $10,000.
Everson was a member of the Berkeley Renaissance of the late
1940s, and participated in a weekly writing group with Jack
Spicer and Robin Blaser in San Francisco in 1960. Since his
rediscovery last year in Fulcrum 3 (The Berkeley Renaissance,
edited by Ben Mazer), he has written a great deal of new
poetry, which is now appearing or forthcoming in American
Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Fence, Fulcrum, Harvard
Review, Jacket, LIT, New Republic, PN Review, Poetry, Seneca
Review, Washington Square, and many other journals.
Read more about Everson and the Award at
http://poetryfoundation.org/release_100705.html
and watch the New York Times for more extensive coverage.
Copies of Fulcrum 3 (including Ben Mazer's feature on the
Berkeley Renaissance, where Landis Everson was rediscovered)
are still available to individuals at $15 ($25 abroad).
Fulcrum 4, similarly priced and forthcoming in exactly one
week, contains a special feature on Everson, including his
letters to Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, a range of new
poems, and an essay by Ben Mazer, "The Landis Everson Story."
Send a check or money order payable to Fulcrum to the
editorial address below.
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