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Poetry and Education: Carlene M. Gadapee on "Poetry and Perspective"

Poetry and Education: Carlene M. Gadapee on "Poetry and Perspective"

Last year CavanKerry Press donated, as part of its GiftBooks program, copies of Divina Is Divina by Jack Wiler, to Meg Gadapee, an RA at a under-served college in Vermont, who wanted... Read More
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Happy 350th Anniversary to New Jersey!

Happy 350th Anniversary to New Jersey!

CavanKerry Press is pleased to celebrate the 350th anniversary of its home state. For a small state, New Jersey has produced, or been home to, a disproportionate number of poets who shaped, and... Read More
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Angela Santillo in "The Unfelt Wonder"

Angela Santillo in "The Unfelt Wonder"

Next week Angela Santillo, CKP’s Social Media Marketer, will perform in The Unfelt Wonder, a solo performance piece written by Angela. Although Angela considers herself a playwright and not a poet, she... Read More
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Announcing CavanKerry's Spring 2014 Releases

Announcing CavanKerry's Spring 2014 Releases

Same Old Storyby Dawn Potter Release date: March 2014 Even as she reminds us that writing “doesn’t solve anything,” Potter is driven to chronicle “the years murmur[ing] their old tune”... Read More
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The Frost Place Announces 2014 Faculty

The Frost Place Announces 2014 Faculty

The Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching, directed by CKP authors Dawn Potter and Teresa Carson, has announced its 2014 faculty. Held each year in June, the conference is... Read More
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CutBank reviews “door of thin skins”

CutBank reviews “door of thin skins”

"This book shatters […]  It complicates the label of confessional poetry or memoir with its formal agility and its conceptual demands of its reader. It is a welcome addition to... Read More
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Poetry and Education: Jean Kanzinger on "Permission to Teach"

Poetry and Education: Jean Kanzinger on "Permission to Teach"

I have the good fortune to be the associate director of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching which means I spend a week in June talking about poetry... Read More
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Farewell 2013!

Farewell 2013!

CKP at AWP This year has been quite the busy one here at CavanKerry.   Our highlights include: Published six new titles including first Memoir and second edition of The Waiting... Read More
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The Rumpus reviews "door of thin skins"

The Rumpus reviews "door of thin skins"

"The collection successfully creates lyrical holes in the middle of the narrative through which the reader can step, skipping over the more lurid parts of scene-making and character development in... Read More
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