BAP 2015 Launch
Join so many great poets… wow, what an evening to come! It’s the launch of The Best American Poetry 2015 — edited by Sherman Alexie and David Lehman — at the New School on September 24. I’ll be there, all giggly.
A new poem published by Tikkun
“Influenza Ode (From a Very Tall Building),” a new poem by AMP, has been published on the Tikkun site, following hard-copy publication in June.
The ideal museum: an essay.
Here’s an essay in Salon on the new Whitney Museum of American Art and ideal museums. Check out the building and the collection when you’re in NY — and make sure to ride that beautiful elevator. Friday nights are “pay what you …
Judging the Marfield Prize…
It was an honor to help judge this year’s Marfield Prize, a $10,000 national award for arts writing given by the Arts Club of Washington, won by Philip Gefter for his book, Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe. What a fabulous exploration of …
National Poetry Month 2015
5writers.com asked AMP to choose a couple of poems — two by other writers, and one by himself — for National Poetry Month. Here they are: Szymborska, Prufer, and AMP.
Was he at Sensoria?
AMP read with the magnificent Morri Creech at this year’s Sensoria, hosted by Professor Amy Bagwell at Central Piedmont Community College. Here’s some press via Charlotte Viewpoint.
7-2, The Committee votes to attend AWP
Hi, sports fans. Academic politics got you down? Fascism a small problem in your Home Owners’s Association? Feeling that the news shows all these people with whom you can’t identify–doing unimaginable things in the name of their horrific, misguided principles? …
Houston! Here I come…
On Thursday, April 2 at 7:00 p.m., with the magnificent Jameelah Lang, AMP will be reading at the Jung Center in Houston. Poems? Sure. Stories? Why not. More fun than humans can have…
“Candying Mint” selected for BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2015
“Candying Mint,” first published in The Carolina Quarterly, has been chosen by Sherman Alexie for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2015. With thanks to Matthew Hotham and the folks at The Carolina Quarterly!
New poems, not old poems, recent poems…
New AMP poems are forthcoming in The Birmingham Review, The Columbia Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, Subtropics, Tikkun, and Tuesday: An Art Project.
Bucolic is a Funny Word
Here’s an interview with AMP and the novelist Jeff Jackson, courtesy of The Fanzine.
Here we come, NY — to Bluestockings!
Says TIME OUT, NY: “A poet, novelist, professor and general beacon of brilliance, Parker celebrates his latest book, a set of linked stories about eerie disappearances in the titular town. Join Parker for a reading, Q&A and some merriment when …
Coming to you, Sarah Lawrence!
Alan Michael Parker will be visiting Sarah Lawrence College on Wednesday, November 12, from 2 until 4 p.m., and giving a lecture/workshop on fiction, poetry, and the ways a writer makes bad news good.
The arrival of 2 poems…
Two new poems by Alan Michael Parker have been published in Hinchas de Poesia‘s fifth anniversary issue. What a powerhouse line-up: Cynthia Hogue, Norman Dubie, Campbell McGrath, et alia. Thank you, Jim Heavily.
Let the words speak!
Here’s The Collagist letting the work speak for itself. Questions from them, answers with bits from The Committee on Town Happiness, and behold, an Interview-in-Excerpts.
Some more love for The Committee
Here’s Sam Slaughter, in a review for the Heavy Feather Review, on The Committee on Town Happiness. “What Alan Michael Parker gives us… is a workshop on how to link flash fiction stories.”
A wicked stunner!
The Charlotte Observer calls Alan Michael Parker’s new novel “a wicked stunner,” in coverage of what books to read this fall. Here’s the article, headlined “These books will warm the days ahead.”
“What a joy to find a novel that’s exactly right.”
Here’s a review of The Committee on Town Happiness by Dannye Romine Powell in The Charlotte Observer, from her “Reading Matters” blog.
Trying to Count Everything
Here’s an interview from 2012, courtesy of The Best American Poetry blog, with the magnificent Jennifer L. Knox, author of one of my favorite collections of poems, A Gringo Like Me. Poems, Rubik’s Cubes, and Art.
7 Novels Starring American Small Towns
Here’s a piece I did for The Huffington Post on small towns that star in fine American novels.