John Domini on The Committee on Town Happiness
With great thanks to the indomitable Domini, for this marvelous review in Electric Lit. What an honor to have the book so carefully considered, and to have my betters–Calvino! Barthelme!–invoked.
The Committee on Town Happiness Excerpts in The Collagist
The Collagist turns five, and graciously features five excerpts from The Committee on Town Happiness in its latest issue. With thanks to founding Editor Matt Bell, and now to Gabriel Blackwell and Matthew Olzmann.
The Committee on Town Happiness reviewed in The Rumpus
With thanks to Jill Schepmann, who gets it right: how cool to be mentioned in the same breath as Lydia Davis and Parks and Recreation! Here’s the review from The Rumpus.
Shaping a Book of Poems
How to put a book of poems together? What a bother. Here’s some thinking about what goes where, and why, courtesy of Puerto del Sol.
The 2013 & 2014 Randall Jarrell Prize in Poetry
For two years running, AMP has won the Randall Jarrell Prize in Poetry, sponsored by the N.C. Writers’ Network, for an individual poem. In 2013, Gabriel Spera judged; the winning poem, “The Ladder,” will be the title poem of AMP’s …
Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2013
An essay by Alan Michael Parker originally published by The Believer in the fall of 2013, “Beach House as Nostalgia Museum,” was named a “Notable” work by editor Cheryl Strayed (and series editor Robert Atwan) in The Best American Essays 2013.
“A Postcard from Spain”
Here’s “Postcard from Spain,” a poem by Alan Michael Parker first published in Smartish Pace, where it was runner-up in the 2014 Erskine J. Poetry Prize competition, and reprinted on Poetry Daily.
Listen to AMP read “Enough”
Here’s AMP reading his new poem, “Enough,” on The Pinch‘s website.
Home Is Where The Art Is
Here’s a little feature story in The Charlotte Observer about Alan Michael Parker and Felicia van Bork, and their lives together as artists and as a couple.
Valentines
Here’s a feature curated for the Los Angeles Review of Books by Alan Michael Parker, eight Valentines by poets to books they loved in 2013.