What's Going on @ Steel Toe Books
- December 14, 2007: We just learned that
Garrison Keillor will be reading John Guzlowski's poem, "What My Father
Believed," on The Writer's Almanac on December 28. Be sure to catch it
on your local NPR affiliate.
- March 28, 2007: Steel Toe Books announces John
Guzlowski's Verse Memoir Lightning and Ashes
- For the last thirty years, John Guzlowski’s primary subject has been the experience of
his parents before, during, and after the Second World War. Both were taken
into Nazi Germany as slave laborers. His father was captured in 1940 outside
of Poznan, Poland. His mother was captured near her home west of Lvov,
Poland, and transported in 1942. They worked in concentration camps and the
associated factories and farms until the end of the war. They met in those
camps.
—Click here to read the entire press release.
- February 26, 2007:
Steel Toe Books Catches Prairie Fever
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Bowling Green, KY—Steel Toe Books is proud to announce the
launch of an exciting new title, Prairie Fever, by Mary Biddinger of
Akron, Ohio. This is Biddinger’s first book, and we consider it an auspicious
debut, as strong as any first book of poems that the poetry world has seen in
years.
—Click here to read the entire press release.
August 23, 2006: Results of the Open Reading Period
Bowling Green, KY—Steel Toe Books has acquired three new titles, which we
plan to publish in 2007. We selected Prairie Fever by Mary Biddinger and
Worthless by John Guzlowski from 111 manuscripts sent to us
during our open reading period in June. Additionally, we solicited Bending
Under the Yellow Police Tapes by James Doyle.
—Click here to read the entire press release.
June 2006: Open reading period:
Steel Toe Books is holding an open reading period during the month of June 2006.
—Click here for more information about the open reading period submission process.
May 4, 2006:
Steel Toe Books is pleased to announce the publication
of Ken Waldman's fifth full-length poetry collection,
Conditions and Cures. "Full of
poems that stand alone as consummate achievements,
Conditions and Cures nevertheless coheres as a book about
life-and-death verities, strategies for survival or triumph or at least
coping gracefully. The comic is one of those strategies, and Ken Waldman is
often at his most hilarious when he's addressing subjects another poet might
murder with solemnity."
—Click here to read the entire press release.
April 8, 2006:
Steel Toe Books selected Becoming the Villainess as
its first solicited manuscript. We at Steel Toe Books agree with Ilya
Kaminsky, winner of the prestigious Whiting Writer's Award and the Dorset
Prize, when he states that “in this splendidly entertaining debut, Jeannine
Hall Gailey offers us a world both familiar and magical.... The wild and
seductive energy in this collection never lets one put the book down... Her
delivery is heart-breaking and refreshing, so the poems seduce us with the
sadness, glory and entertainment of our very own days. Propelled by Jeannine
Hall Gailey’s alert, sensuous and musical gifts, the mythology becomes our
own.”
—Click here to read the entire press release.
March 19, 2006:
Steel Toe Books selected Blue Positive from 115 manuscripts submitted during its open reading period last summer. We at Steel Toe concur with distinguished poet and Virginia Tech professor Bob Hicok, who writes “Martha Silano’s poems are full of sex and birth and food, mind and body. Their richness of detail makes reading this book like entering a home: there is a bustle to her language as she tries to gather everything she loves…. By the end of Blue Positive, I trust both her surprise and her wisdom.’” —Click here to read the entire press release.
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