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2020 Highlights
- Continuing to publish its full complement of memoir and poetry in the spring and fall of 2020
- Maintaining its full staff to ensure quality publishing while responding to new challenges
- Distributing over 1,300 gift books to high school students through Poetry Out Loud NJ and to frontline medical staff at 15 hospitals
- Launching virtual programming featuring 16 CKP poets and memoirists
- Collaborating with institutions including Caldwell University and the Poetry Society of New York to present poetry to diverse audiences
- Providing free downloads of both Waiting Room Reader volumes on our website when our living rooms became waiting rooms
- Implementing “Words to Keep You Company”– a biweekly selection of writing in the spirit of the Waiting Room Reader
- Curating “Dispatches from 2020” a special online folio about COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter, featuring work from our authors and staff
- Hosting ongoing blogs on our website from Teresa Carson (“On Poetry” and Joan Cusack Handler (“Birth of a Press“)
- Offering readings of their work at no charge via live venues and various online formats to over 5,000 adults and thousands of students across the country
- Serving as judges for Poetry Out Loud competitions and medical-school student writing contests
- Providing workshops to doctors and nurses at Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital, at Case Western Reserve University, and through the Gold Foundation to address their psychological and emotional responses to the pandemic, as well as to several homebound individuals
- Directing the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching, which fosters effective teaching of poetry in schools
- Leading a group of volunteers to produce and distribute over 30,000 masks to hospitals and community organizations in need
- Mentoring fledgling writers and writers in need through face-to-face sessions in person and online, serving writers with disabilities and illnesses, the elderly, children and teens, college students, and other professional poets
- Developing programs deliberately focused on managing the effects of COVID-19 in schools from elementary to post-doctoral, all online
- Responding in support of Black Lives Matter with a host of online presentations and readings and by participating in demonstrations across the country
- Garrison Keillor selected Tina Kelley as one of the winners of the Pandemic Poetry Contest
- Jack Ridl was named Poet Laureate for life in Douglas, Michigan for his poetry and extraordinary efforts to enrich the lives of those in his community through poetry
- Robert Cording’s Without My Asking was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Connecticut Book Awards
- Brent Newsom received the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers
This September marks 20 years since CavanKerry released its first book, A Day This Lit, by Howard Levy. Throughout our 20 years, we have committed to publishing books of literary art that are accessible to all readers, and we are proud to announce our forthcoming titles:
Fall 2020
- The Snow’s Wife, poetry by Frannie Lindsay
- Rise Wildly, poetry by Tina Kelley
- Places We Return To: A Celebration of Twenty Years Publishing Fine Literature by CavanKerry Press
Spring 2021
- Wonderama, poetry by New Jersey poet Catherine Doty
- Unnatural Selection: A Memoir of Wilderness and Adoption, by Andrea Ross
- Pelted by Flowers, a first book of poetry by Kali Lightfoot
- Deke Dangle Dive, poetry by Gibson Fay-Leblanc
Fall 2021
- Her Kind, poetry by Cindy Veach
- Uncertain Acrobats, a first book of poetry by Rebecca Hart Olander
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CavanKerry Press, 5 Horizon Road, #2403 Fort Lee, NJ 07024
Donors who contribute $250 or more may opt to receive a copy of each of our new books in 2021*
