Celebrating 35 Years of Poetry
1973 - 2008

Congratulations to Ann Killough (Beloved Idea) and Cole Swensen (The Glass Age), first and third place winners of ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award in Poetry!

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	The Usable Field by Jane Mead King Baby by Lia Purpura The Temple Gate Called Beautiful by David Kirby

ajb news

• Congratulations to Brian Turner (Here, Bullet), winner of the 2008 Charity Randall Citation, from the International Poetry Forum

• Alice James Books announces winner of the 2008 Beatrice Hawley Award!

• Cole Swensen's The Glass Age chosen as one of Library Journal's Best Poetry of 2007!

• Congratulations to Jocelyn Emerson, winner of the Poetry Society of America's Robert H. Winner Memorial Award!

• Alice James Books receives Honorable Mention for Cole Swensen's The Glass Age in the 2008 Maine Literary Awards!

• Alice James Books announces the publication of founding member Betsy Sholl’s next collection!

• Donald Revell's A Thief of Strings chosen as one of Slate's Best Books of 2007!

• Stride Magazine chose Ann Killough's Beloved Idea as one of their 2007 Editor's Picks!

• Recent Publicity:
        David Kirby in Library Journal
        Lia Purpura in Library Journal
        Lia Purpura in ForeWord Magazine
        Ann Killough in The Great American Pin-Up
  

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