Omnidawn is thrilled to formally announce the release of our new fall titles: The Odicy — Cyrus Console Harm — Hillary Gravendyk Last Verses — Jules Laforgue, translated by Donald Revell Spectacle & Pigsty — Kiwao Nomura, translated by Kyoko…
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Announcing the Omnidawn 2011 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest Winner
We are very pleased to announce the winner of Omnidawn’s 2011 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest: fault tree by kathryn l. pringle, selected by C.D. Wright. The finalists of the 2011 contest are (in alphabetical order by the author’s last name):…
Welcome to the new web magazine of Omnidawn Publishing
Omnidawn proudly introduces our new web publication, OmniVerse! The magazine will update every other week with new work from poets, visual artists, and other less genre-specific disciplines, features from our staff including interviews, Bay Area reading reviews, and other essays,…
Reviews of our new fall books by Publishers Weekly and The Quarterly Conversation
Our friend Andrew Wessels has reviewed Cyrus Console’s The Odicy at The Quarterly Conversation: Cyrus Console’s The Odicy begins in a ravaged garden: I returned, and saw that the garden Had not moved from me but that some illness Of…
from unincorporated territory [saina] wins the 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry!
We are honored to announce that Craig Santos Perez’s from unincorporated territory [saina] has won the 2011 Pen Center USA Literary Award for Poetry! To read the official announcement from PEN Center USA, click here. To read the complete list…
Features & Publishers Weekly Review of Spectacle & Pigsty, one of Omnidawn’s new fall books!
We are very excited to announce the first features and review of Kiwao Nomura’s Spectacle & Pigsty (co-translated by Kyoko Yoshida and Forrest Gander), one of Omnidawn’s forthcoming fall titles! Shelf Unbound has published the poem “Barely Hinged” from Spectacle…
San Francisco Chronicle Review & Publishers Weekly Starred Review of Cyrus Console’s The Odicy, one of Omnidawn’s new fall titles!
We are very excited to announce the first reviews of one of our forthcoming titles, The Odicy by Cyrus Console! Stephen Burt has published a special feature for the San Francisco Chronicle which includes a review of The Odicy: If…
Upcoming Omnidawn Book Parties: September 18th & September 22nd
Omnidawn celebrates the release of our new fall books with two Bay Area reading events! Kiwao Nomura with translator Kyoko Yoshida: Spectacle & Pigsty Sunday, September 18th 4pm at The Booksmith 1644 Haight Street San Francisco, CA 94117 Omnidawn will…
Reviews of from unincorporated territory [saina] and The Plot Genie
Our friends at Jacket2 published a review of from unincorporated territory [saina]: In from unincorporated territory [saina], Craig Santos Perez sent me back to the period at which I realized I couldn’t be a historian, to the point where the…
Craig Santos Perez steps down as senior blog editor; introducing our new editor, Gillian Hamel
After many years of curating the Omnidawn blog, Craig Santos Perez will be stepping down from his post as senior blog editor in order to focus on his teaching career. He will continue to serve as Omnidawn’s media advisor, and…