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"Admirable!" —The New York Times "Combines scholarly rigor with poetic chutzpah!" — Kenyon Review The Unsung Masters Series brings great unknown writers to new readers. Distributed for free to subscribers of Gulf Coast and Pleiades. unsungmasters.org
Unsung Masters Co-Directors and series editors @kevinprufer.bsky.social and Martin Rock (@infinite-scroll.bsky.social) have a new book coming out with @weslpress.bsky.social later this year.
It's a stunning cover, reflecting a messier and more tangled literary history than is often presented.
We're seeking proposals for future Unsung Masters volumes!
Send your proposal to unsung.masters.series[at]gmail[dot]com by October 15.
For more info, visit unsungmasters.org or reach out to series editors @kevinprufer.bsky.social, @infinite-scroll.bsky.social, or @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social.
Huge congrats to Co-Director and Series Co-Editor, Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social for being selected by Carolyn Forché @carolynforche.bsky.social for the Tupelo Berkshire Prize! @tupelopress.bsky.social
Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism
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A new essay on the late, great, overlooked poet Russell Atkins is now up at #Poetry/#ThePoetryFoundation!
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/163...
Today’s Featured Poet:
Tom Postell, born Thomas Freeman Postell Jr., was a Black American poet born in Cincinnati’s West End in 1927 and closely associated with the Beat Generation, Black Mountain School, and Black Arts Movement in New York City’s Greenwich Village from 1953 to 1969.
Today’s Feature:
Two poems by Tom Postell, from Tom Postell: On the Life and Works of an American Master, published by The Unsung Masters Series.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/two-poe...
This @unsung-masters.bsky.social book on Tom Postell, edited by Michael Peterson and Anthony Sutton, is SO GOOD!
Co-directing this series with @kevinprufer.bsky.social and Wayne Miller continues to be one of the great joys of my literary life.
Thank you @poetrydaily.bsky.social for featuring.
"The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to."
Poets, how’s your retrograde going?
Thank you for helping us find our readers, Erin!
No sale here, just great books from an independent press doing the important work of literary archeology and excavation.
unsungmasters.org
Tom Postell: On the Life and Work of an American Master, Edited by Michael C. Peterson and Anthony Sutton.
You can buy the most recent Unsung Masters volume at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/tom-...
If you are the editor of a literary journal who is interested in partnering with us, of if you want to propose a writer for a future volume, please send a query to unsung.masters.series@gmail.com.
Because we partner on distribution with literary magazines (Gulf Coast, Pleiades, and Copper Nickel, primarily), we are able to get each volume into the hands of thousands of readers, far surpassing the readership typically associated with this kind of literary archaeology.
Our newest volume is Tom Postell: On the Life and Work of an American Master, edited by Michael C. Peterson and Anthony Sutton.
You can buy the book at Asterism:
Each year, The Unsung Masters Series publishes a selected volume from a writer whose work has been unjustly forgotten or neglected, contextualized by critical essays from contemporary writers.
We also curate a reading series where renowned poets introduce little-known poets to a new audience.