Discount closing...

Just 28 more hours for the National Poetry Month offer at Mercer--

The Throne of Psyche discount:

In celebration of the new book and National Poetry Month,
Mercer is offering The Throne of Psyche

 at 20% off plus free shipping  Discount code: POETRY

A DEATH AT THE WHITE CAMELLIA ORPHANAGE

Read chapter one at Scribd 

See the book page

See the new facebook page

Goodreads giveaway, April 15-May 15: 

a generous 24 copies from Mercer - please sign up!

Amazon hardcover and ebook

Indie bookstore search

Buy direct from Mercer

UPDATE. On my North Carolina list for readings in May:  City Lights in Sylva (home stomping grounds near Cullowhee); Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh; Flyleaf in Chapel Hill; and McIntyre's in Pittsboro. I may add another, depending on my schedule, which includes a graduation...

Camellia courtesy

Thanks to Oregon poet Dale Favier for his mid-way read and post, in which he has a number of interesting things to say, including this: "People will inevitably call it Faulknerian – it's Deep South, it's hot, it's told through the lens of a boy who's neurologically atypical. And it's got fruit and blood. But if you have any spiritual antennae at all, you'll quickly grasp that it's anti-Faulkner. There's fullness, not emptiness, in back of everything." That comment reminded me of how my father, the sharecropper's boy who became a WWII tail gunner and then a professor of analytical chemistry, detested the very name of Faulkner and thought that he had gotten the deep South and poverty entirely wrong.

Thanks to GalleyCat for "handpicking" A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage and posting a clip and jacket image... and to poet Robbi Nester for telling me about it.

Thanks to the Cooperstown Crier for news about the new book and also about the NBA panel for young people's literature.

Upcoming:  an expansion of readings in North Carolina, tba on the Events page.

Getting my Judge-hat ready--

LITTLE BOXES SINGING MY NAME
Can you imagine how many little boxes of books will be chattering and clamoring at my front door, trying to break in? Our first conference call is at the start of May...

from Publishers Weekly Daily:  NBA Entry Process Now Open to Publishers The National Book Foundation has issued entry forms and guidelines for the 2012 National Book Awards. The organization has also released the names of the 20 judges who will be choosing the award winners of the four prizes: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature.

On the fiction panel, the judges are: Stacey D'Erasmo, Kent Haruf, Dinaw Mengestu, Lorrie Moore and Janet Peer. The nonfiction panel judges are: Brad Gooch, Linda Gordon, Woody Holton, Susan Orlean, Judith Shulevitz. Judging poetry this year are: Laura Kasischke, Dana Levin, Maurice Manning, Patrick Rosal and Tracy K. Smith. And the judges for young people's literature are: Judith Ortiz Cofer, Susan Cooper, Daniel Ehrenhaft, Gary D. Schmidt and Marly Youmans. 

Publishers can contact Amy Gall (agall@nationalbook.org) for award guidelines and, for bios of the judges, users can go to www.nationalbook.org.

A DEATH AT THE WHITE CAMELLIA ORPHANAGE

Read chapter one at Scribd

See the book page

See the new facebook page

Goodreads giveaway, April 15-May 15: 24 copies - please sign up!

Amazon hardcover and ebook

Indie bookstore search

Buy direct from Mercer

Also--The Throne of Psyche discount:

In celebration of the new book and National Poetry Month,
Mercer is offering The Throne of Psyche

 at 20% off plus free shipping  Discount code: POETRY

In memory of baby Theodore

"Jonas at four days"

Years ago, a poet introduced me to the drawings and paintings of Laura Murphy Frankstone through her artlog, Laurelines. Since then, we've corresponded and even spent an evening together in the company of friends in Chapel Hill. Now Laura, who has given pleasure to so many, is asking for support. This weekend she and other family and friends will be the team for a March of Dimes walk in memory of her stillborn grandson, Theodore Mulhollan, child of Kate and Biff. You may read about the effort in Kate's words here.

Please join me in supporting the family team of walkers (you are also welcome to go along on the 3-mile walk in Raleigh, North Carolina) with a donation.

Laura's recent sketch of an 18th-century
German polychrome angel

My Team's Event

April 28, 2012
Imperial Center
4309 Emperor Boulevard
Durham, NC 27703


Walk Distance: 3.1 miles
Registration Time: 8:30 AM
Start Time: 10:00 AM
Chapter: Eastern Carolina Division
Phone: (919) 781-2481