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Saint Augustine, FL artist Sara Pedigo has created the original painting "Beach Standoff" for the cover of Liz Robbins's upcoming book, "Play Button." "Play Button" won the 2010 Cider Press Review Book Award, selected by Patricia Smith.
About "Robin": "It a bit on the barren side where I was living, and the birds, especially the bright red birds—the robins and the cardinals—gave me a sense of vibrancy in a sometimes dun landscape. And often they were passing through on their way to somewhere else, as was I." - Landon Godfrey
The North Carolina Arts Council has awarded Landon Godfrey a generous 2011-2012 artist fellowship in the amount of ten thousand dollars. She will use the money to make time to begin writing poems for a second book. The Arts Council supports many types of artists and arts endeavors throughout the state, asking grant recipients...
More poems from the archives of Cider Press Review are now available to read online. Enjoy poems originally published in CPR volumes 9, 10, 11, and a peek at poems in our current issue, Volume 12.
The editors are now accepting submissions for the 2011 Cider Press Book Award. The annual Cider Press Review Book Award offers a $1,500 prize (as of 2010), publication, and 25 author's copies of a book length collection of poetry. Author receives a standard publishing contract. Initial print run is not less than 1,000...
Liz Robbins of St. Augustine, Florida won the 2010 Cider Press Review Book Award for Play Button, selected by judge Patricia Smith. Runners-up included My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass by Susan Laughter Meyers, and Permanent Collection by Stefanie Wortman. Ms. Robbins receives an award of $1,500, and her book will be published by Cider Press in...
The editors are pleased to nominate the following works for the Pushcart Prize: Colleen McKee — “Blue Like an Orange” Susan Grimm — “You’ve Got to Excuse the April in Me” Naoko Fujimoto — “June Ink” Christine Hope Starr — “Regarding the Chocolate Beet Cake” Adam Penna — “The Lessons Trees Can Teach” Lindsay...
Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown, by Landon Godfrey won the 2009 Cider Press Review Book Award, selected by final judge David St. John. Runners-up included Entering the House of Awe by Susanna Childress, Ode to the Earth in Translation by George Looney, All Debts Recalled by Emily M. Green, and Violin by Joanne...
The editors are pleased to nominate the following works for the Pushcart Prize: Brenda Yates — “An Invitation on the Idea of Wallace” Elizabeth Barbato — “Mary Shelley” Lynn Pedersen — “Correction” Suzanne Allen — “Free Refills” Keetje Kuipers — “Theory of Lost Things” Ed Madden — “Solace” All nominated poems appeared in Cider...
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