California Institute of Arts and Letters (CIAL) is a nonprofit publishing organization specializing in contemporary poetry, poetry in translation, and writers' cooperatives.
Announcements
- Tequel Poetry Film Festival has been cancelled due to too few entries. For more information, e-mail: info@calartsandletters.org. Entry fees collected will be returned. Thanks to those who submitted!
- Marcia Popp wins Robert G. Cohn Prose Poetry Award. Read More
- Reginald Shepherd to judge Black Zinnias First Book Award. Read More
Coming Soon
What the Embrace Embraces by Argentine author Hugo Mujica
Collected Poems by Iris Maahs
Recent Titles
The Dazzling Land by Brigitte Byrd has been selected for publication in 2007. Ms. Byrd's manuscript was chosen first from many submissions over the last 12 months. Several other submissions are also being considered. Read More Buy Now
In a City You Will Never Visit by Young Smith has been selected for publication. Smith is a recipient of a James Michener Fellowship in poetry, a Krakow Poetry Seminar Scholarship, and a Donald Barthelme Fellowship for fiction. Read More Buy Now
The 2007 Robert G. Cohn Prose Poetry Award was awarded to Carine Topal for her prose poem, “The Favourite Poet, 1888.” The award included a cash prize and publication of her chapbook, Bed of Want. Carine's winning poem will be also be featured in Black Zinnias No. 3.
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Mallarmé's Prose Poems by Robert G. Cohn is a critical study of Mallarmé's prose poems, a crucial but neglected aspect of his oeuvre. These texts represent a vital stage in Mallarmé's evolution as a poet, and exerted a deep influence on a range of twentieth-century artists. The author, an internationally distinguished Mallarmé scholar, discusses each poem in the order of its composition and develops his own striking critical interpretation of the sequence as a whole. Read More Buy Now
Vision, Jeff Munnis' latest book of poetry, contains intimate poems and prayers about love, memory, and spirituality. In addition, two series of poems on death and revelation explore both the process and experience of inner transformation.
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