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NEWSContributor Awards | Recent Books | LOCKSS Awards for Previous Blackbird Contributors Jake Adam York’s second book, A Murmuration of Starlings, was selected as the second-prize winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition. John Hoppenthaler, poetry editor of Kestrel, received a tenure track Assistant Professor position at East Carolina University beginning in the fall of 2007. His book, Anticipate the Coming Reservoir, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in January, 2008. (v1n1) Elizabeth Bradfield , founder and editor of Broadsided, recently won the 2007-08 prestigious Stegner Fellowship to Stanford University. Her book, Interpretive Work, a collection of poetry will appear from Red Hen Press in January, 2008. (v5n2) Susan Settlemyre Williams Ashes in Midair was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as the winner of the 2007 Many Mountains Moving Press poetry book contest and was published in January, 2008. Jon Pineda, VCU MFA alum, has won the 2007 Green Rose Prize for his manuscript, The Translator’s Diary, which will be published in the Spring of 2008. (v3n1) Dan Albergotti full-length manuscript The Boatloads has been selected as the winner of the 2007 A. Poulin Jr. Prize from BOA Editions. (v4n2) Maithias Syalina chapbook Creation Mythos won the 2007 DIAGRAM/NMP chapbook contest published by New Michigan Press. Sean Nevin manuscript Oblivio Gate won the 2007 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. (v3n2) Charles Wright poem Scar Tissue won the Griffin Poetry Prize. (v3n1, v6n2) Sandra Beasley’s manuscript Theories of Falling, was selected by Marie Howe as the winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize. (v5n1) Robin Ekiss received a 2007 Rona Jaffee Foundation Writer’s Award. (v5n2) Sean Nevin’s manuscript Oblivio Gate, won the 2007 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. (v3n2) Natasha Trethewey’s collection Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin) received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. (v5n1, v5n2) David Wojahn’s collection Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems, 1982-2005 (University of Pittsburgh Press) was one of three finalists for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. (v3n2, v4n1, v4n2, v5n2)Leigh Anne Couch’s collection, Houses Fly Away, has won the Zone 3 Press First Book Award and will be published by Austin Peay State University Press. (v1n2) Alison Pelegrin’s manuscript Big Muddy River of Stars was the winner of the Akron Poetry Prize. The book will be published by the University of Akron in the fall of 2007. (v4n1) John Bresland recently won the Tamarack Award in Fiction for his story “The Cooler.” (v4n1) Susan Aizenberg’s “Things That Cannot Be Compared,” a poem first published in Blackbird, has been translated into Mandarin and published in literary journals in China and Macao. (v3n1) Elizabeth King is receiving an Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her work, along with that of the other recipients of art awards, is being featured in an Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards at the Academy’s galleries in New York. (v1n1) Recent Books by Previous Blackbird Contributors 2008 The Shipwreck Dress (Orchises Press, 2008) a collection of poems by Terri Witek. (v2n1, v5n1) Want (Sarabande Press, Feb 2008) is the second collection of poetry from Rick Barot. (v3n1) A compellation of Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007 (Salmon Press, Feb 2008) by Knute Skinner. (v3n1) Ashes in Midair (book review editor, January 2008) a novel by Susan Settlemyre. Susan Settlemyre Williams Ashes in Midair was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as the winner of the 2007 Many Mountains Moving Press poetry book contest and was published in January, 2008.
2007 Holding for the Farrier (Finishing Line Press), a chapbook of poems by Kathy Davis. (v6n1) Eden in the Rearview Mirror (Word Press), a collection of poems by Susan Elbe. (v5n2) Stirring the Mirror (The Bitter Oleander Press) a collection of poems by Christine Boyka Kluge. (v2n1) Old Heart (W. W. North Company) a collection of poems by Stanley Plumly. (v1n2) Moon Road: Poems, 1986-2005 (Louisiana State University Press) a collection of poems by Ron Smith. (v1n2, v2n2, v6n2) Anticipating the Coming Reservoir (Carnegie Mellon, 2007) a novel by John Hoppenthaler. (v1n1) Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) a collection of poems by Hugh Behm- Steinberg’s. (v3n2) Moon Road: Poems, 1986-2005 (Louisiana State University Press) a collection of poems by Ron Smith. (v1n2, v2n2, v6n2) Disclamor (BOA Editions) by G. C. Waldrep was published in 2007. (v2n2) Inkblot and Altar by Laura Van Prooyen, is forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press. (v5n2)
Blackbird and LOCKSS In the summer of 2003, Vicky Reich of Stanford University contacted Blackbird to ask our participation in beta testing of the LOCKSS Program. LOCKSS (short for Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is both a system and a software created to safeguard electronic publications. Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and Sun Microsystems, the LOCKSS Program Team is building a distributed digital archive system for electronic journals and other important web documents. A consortium of participating libraries all over the world will manage their own storehouses for digital material by using the LOCKSS software, which not only preserves electronic journal content, but also constantly compares the copies in these digital "caches" for integrity.
Beta testing has now been concluded. On April 5, 2004, the LOCKSS Program released the first version production of the LOCKSS software.
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Panelists
from Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and four
other universities had gathered on the literary librarian team to select
50 titles based on "intellectual merit." The LOCKSS technical
team further reviewed and narrowed this list based on "publisher
technical competence." Blackbird was one of only two literary
journals selected for inclusion.