Upcoming FSG Event

By now you all know Susan Wheeler from the selection of poems we've been sending out in our poem-a-day emails, and from her amazing ringtone.

She'll be reading at Housing Works on May 11, which is actually post-poetry month. You can find the complete details here.

FSG Poets in the News

The Guardian's profile of August Kleinzahler: "Writing in the Realm of Fire" ran last weekend. Read about his adventures with Ginsberg, Gunn, and as a Jersey-boy in San Francisco here.

David Hinton's translation of "Drinking Wine" by T'ao Ch'ien ran in the Washington Post's "Poet's Choice" column. You can also read about him and the art of translating in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

"Perspective Comes in Six Lines," The Boston Globe on Charles Wright's new book Sestets.

Susan Wheeler's Assorted Poems---"a collection that is confounding, stunning, and ultimately affirming in its coherence"---reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail.

 

FSG and Graywolf Poetry Readings April 16-23

Thursday, April 16th; 7pm
Susan Wheeler + Mark Halliday
McNally Jackson, 52 Prince St. NY, NY

Saturday, April 18th; 8pm
Paul Muldoon
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery NY, NY

Monday, April 20th; 7pm
Dobby Gibson (Graywolf) + Fanny Howe (Graywolf)
+ Sarah Manguso (FSG)
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Wednesday, April 22nd; 4:30pm
Adam Zagajewski
Monmouth University Wilson Auditorium, 400 Cedar Avenue,
West Long Branch, NJ

Wednesday, April 22nd; 7pm
Paul Muldoon (FSG) + Robert Pinsky (FSG) + Linda Gregerson
Central Library, 630 W. Fifth St., Los Angeles, CA

Thursday, April 23rd; 7pm
Yusef Komunyakaa
Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY

Today's Poetry Daily Featured Poet

Today's Poetry Daily Featured Poet is our own Susan Wheeler. You can read more about her latest collection Assorted Poems and find her poem "Air Map" here. Susan is a new addition to the FSG poetry list and we're excited to have her. She is the author of four previous books of poetry and the novel Record Palace, which was published by our friends at Graywolf Press in 2005. ---Alyson Sinclair
 

The 2009 FSG Poetry Ringtone

I've got good news for you fans of mobile technology and poetry: the FSG poetry ringtone is back for another year. As in the past two years, we've got an original couplet, composed by one of FSG's award-winning poets, available for download to your cell as a ringtone. Highly recommended for savvy poetry fans who appreciate a little lightness in their verse.

In 2007, Paul Muldoon wrote the ringtone. And last year we heard from Robert Pinsky (who you can listen to this year over at Norton's website Poems Out Loud).

This year's couplet is by Susan Wheeler, who just had a collection of poetry released. You can listen to her ringtone in the box below, or here's the couplet for those of you who like your poetry quiet:

No talk, no text, no tweet --
Next time, let's meet!

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