White Violet Press

10/09/2016

Marilyn L. Taylor writes both wickedly delightful and deeply compassionate poems. Known as one of America’s chief formalist poets, Taylor here gives us plenty of traditional forms: villanelle, sestina, sonnet, rhymed quatrains, a sapphic, and even—unexpectedly—a superb prose ...

06/15/2016

coming soon!

03/29/2016

AWP this weekend in Los Angeles, table 309. Come say hello!

01/22/2016

http://www.amazon.com/Love-Sonnets-William-Baer/dp/0692597743/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1453479145&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=%22william+baer+love+sonnets%22

William Baer, a recent Guggenheim fellow, is the author of eighteen books, including five collections of poetry, most recently “Bocage” and Other Sonnets (recipient of the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize). His other books include Luís de Camões: Selected Sonnets; The Ballad Rode...

01/04/2014

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04/07/2013

Picking up a poetry volume titled Bully Pulpit, you might expect a fair amount of sermonizing, given the book's focus on victimization.

03/29/2013

03/25/2013

Myrna Stone, the author of The Casanova Chronicles, a memorable sequence that is one of the best long poems in recent years, has moved from Casanova to her own father—and chronicled the texture of a relationship as well as the texture of a mind gone to ruin. These conversational sonnets de...

03/18/2013

Check it out~

http://kelsaybooks.com/poetry_book_contest/

The Aldrich Press Poetry Book Award 2013 Accepting entries until May 31, 2013. The winner will be announced on October 1st 2013.Winner receives a print publication, 12% royalties off Amazon sales, $200.00 and 50 free books (a retail value of $700.00).F

03/17/2013

Good news! Kelsay books will begin offering 12% royalties on all its new contracts beginning April 1st 2013. If your book has not yet been released, and your contract says otherwise, you will still be eligible for royalties.

02/28/2013

A book of sonnets by Paul Bussan is due to be published this summer.