Zounds, what a review!
Here’s David Epstein writing in Heavy Feather Review on AMP’s new book of poems, The Age of Discovery. May all of the poets be so carefully and thoughtfully reviewed.
A rave for The Age of Discovery
Here’s Jamie O’Halloran writing on The Age of Discovery: “The deeper I read this collection, the deeper I wanted to go.” Read the full review on Lit Pub.
The story’s title is =
Here’s a new story by Alan Michael Parker, entitled =, courtesy of LITRO’s “Friday Flash” series. With thanks to the kindness of editors who care, and the work being done by art-brains in this time of horror and hope.
It’s a winner!
Alan Michael Parker’s flash fiction, “Unemployment Benefits,” has won the Lunate 500 contest. A new literary journal based in the UK, Lunate publishes terrific writing by a broad selection of international authors. The award comes with a cash prize, and AMP will …
Flash, flash —
Here are two new flash fictions by AMP, in the New Flash Fiction Review, from their themed issue, “Disneyland is Closed.” Both stories are from the super-duper secret project he’s writing, i = i – 1. Shhhh….
How We Spend Our Days
With thanks to Cynthia Newberry Martin for the invitation and the smart edits, here’s a little essay by Alan Michael Parker on the writing process in the “How We Spend Our Day “series. With pictures! Words and pictures!
A flash prize! Flash!
Alan Michael Parker’s flash fiction, “Independent Survey,” took Third Place in Lunate magazine’s Lunate 500 competition. Here’s the story, and the remarks of the judge, Helen McClory. (Congratulations to the First and Second Place winners, Rosie Garland and Lance Mason.)
“Psalm” drops
Here’s “Psalm,” AMP’s poem that won the 2019 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize from the North Carolina Writers Network. With thanks to storySouth and with gratitude to the late, great poet Yehuda Amichai, who’s quoted in this poem and whose presence …
Poem-a-Day
Here’s a new poem by Alan Michael Parker, “When I Am a Hummingbird,” courtesy of the Academy of American Poets’ “Poem-a-Day” program, and editor for February Clint Smith.
DAYS LIKE PROSE is back
Alan Michael Parker’s first collection of poems, Days Like Prose, has been reissued by WordFarm Press. First published in 1997, the new edition includes an introduction by the poet.
“Virtual Villanelle” wins
AMP’s poem, “Virtual Villanelle,” won the Joanna Catherine Scott Award, a contest judged by Marjory Wentworth, Poet Laureate of South Carolina. The competition is sponsored by the North Carolina Poetry Society, and the award includes publication in their journal as …
“Ornithology” flies…
Here’s a new Alan Michael Parker poem, “Ornithology,” in the Michigan Quarterly Review. With thanks to Khaled Mattawa for publishing the work.
New AMP poems
Look for new poems by Alan Michael Parker in forthcoming issues of American Poetry Review, The James Dickey Review, Manoa, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Most if not all of these works will be included in The Age of Discovery, AMP’s ninth collection of …
AMP in the Bechtler
… and a poet who gets to stand in front of a REALLY BIG WALL on which his poem has been mounted. Thanks to the Bechtler Museum, and curator Jen Sudul Edwards.
A generous review!
A generous review of Christmas in July… “the action of this book shows Parker’s genius for subtlety,” says Amanda Moger Rettig in The Colorado Review.
AMP on Tulsa NPR
What a treat when an interviewer has done his or her homework. Here’s Rich Fisher, the host of Tulsa Stories, with a great series of questions for Alan Michael Parker, about Christmas in July. With thanks to Tulsa Public Radio. (Yes, …
AMP at Bluestockings
Come play! On January 29 at 7 p.m., Dzanc Books and the Bluestockings Cooperative Bookstore will present an evening with Alan Michael Parker, to celebrate the publication of Christmas in July. New Yorkers, near-New Yorkers, and people who happen to be in …
A playlist for Christmas in July
Here’s a Book Notes project: AMP has prepared a playlist for Christmas in July, courtesy of the fabulous Largehearted Boy. Song the characters love, songs the writer wrote to, songs that fit the scene… starring Otis Redding, Kill v. Maim, Judy Garland, Dark …
They asked, so I answered…
Here’s a new interview with Alan Michael Parker and the editors of Superstition Review–with sympathies, especially, for those of you who get the kit shicked out of your poems in a workshop.
Called to Action
In this article on the Davidson College website, the new book by coeditors Alan Michael Parker and Rebecca Hazelton, The Manifesto Project, is loved up. Thanks to John Syme and the Davidson Communications folks for the coverage.