A list of all the finalists and where to get them!
Calenday was just nominated for the Julie Suk Award, an award given by Jacar Press for the best book of poetry published in 2014, and that made so happy! Maybe this means the book isn't a complete disaster, right? (As Kelli Russell Agodon hilariously put it.) It was nominated along with all these other amazing finalists -- and their collections instantly caught my eye. I suddenly wanted all of those books. I imagined a giant package of them arriving at my gate, carried by a dog sled and wrapped in brown-paper; I pictured myself in wool pajamas, petting the huskies and giving the driver a magical tincture in a bronze flask, as payment for the long trek.
But it didn't seem like there was one button I could push to make all that happen. There wasn't, like, an "All These Books By Dog Sled" button. So in lieu of that, I am compiling the list here, of where to get them, for me, for you -- for everyone!
Kelli Russell Agodon – Hourglass Museum
BUY:Â White Pine Press (Amazon) | SPD Books
Zeina Hashem Beck – To Live in Autumn
BUY: Amazon | Small Press Distribution | Author Website
Denise Bergman – The Telling
BUY: Cervana Barva Press | The Lost Bookshelf
Meg Day – Last Psalm at Sea Level
BUY: Barrow Street Press | SPD Books
Renee Emerson – keeping me still
BUY: Winter Goose Publishing | Barnes & Noble | Amazon
John M. Fitzgerald – Favorite Bedtime Stories
BUY:Â Salmon Poetry
Lauren Haldeman – Calenday
BUY: Rescue Press | SPD Books
Chloe Honum – The Tulip-Flame
BUY: Cleveland State University Poetry Center | SPD Books
Lissa Kiernan – Two Faint Lines in the Violet
BUY: Negative Capability Press | SPD Books
Garth Martens – Prologue for the Age of Consequence
BUY:Â Anansi
Heather Ross Miller – Celestial Navigator
BUY:Â Louisiana Literature Press
Joseph Mills – This Miraculous Turning
BUY:Â Press 53
Susan Rich – Cloud Pharmacy
BUY: White Pine Press | SPD Books
David Roderick – The Americans
BUY:Â University of Pittsburgh Press
Anya Silver – I Watched You Disappear
BUY: Louisiana State University Press | Amazon
Diana Whitney – Wanting It
BUY: Harbor Mountain Press | SPD Books
So, go on now -- get them! Maybe the beautiful dog sled will bring them to your door too.