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We are pleased to announce our Spring Issue devoted to chapbook winner
James Tyner for his manuscript The Ghetto Exorcist. About his work, the
judge of our contest, Terrance Hayes, said:
"I was struck first by the ways this poet built his poems from the
detritus of contemporary life: Cheetos, Hollywood trash, Vaseline.
As I read closer, though, I discovered it was not the things, but the
people he meant to hold up to the light. In nearly every poem you'll
find images of the body and the blood, the abusers and abused, the
loveless and loved. These poems live in the space between violence and
tenderness, elegy and praise. Words like 'grit' and 'vigor' suit this
work, but the best word for what we are given and witness to is
passion."
We hope you enjoy spending time with James Tyner's book as much as we have.
There is also a beautiful print copy available through Autumn
House Press should you want to hold it in your hands.
Come back in September for Charles Bernstein, Chana Bloch, Mark Sullivan, Scott Minar, and many others. We plan on a large Fall Issue of well-known and emerging poets, including translations such as Andrew Zawacki's translation of Aleš Debeljak. We have already made exciting discoveries. We hope you will too.
In the meantime, please visit our archives for work by Alicia Ostriker,
Timothy Donnelly, David Rivard, Tom Lux, Ross Gay, and more!
Anna Catone and Philip Terman
Poetry Editors
Please Note: Coal Hill Review is currently closed for general submissions. We will begin accepting submission for our annual chapbook competition on August 1, 2009. For more information visit our submissions page, here.
Spring 2009 Chapbook Author
James Tyner
 James Tyner is in his final year of the MFA program at Fresno State. He has only been writing for a few years, and still considers himself new to poetry. In that short time, Tyner has won the Andres Montoya Scholarship, the Larry Levis Prize, the Ernesto Trejo Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship as well as for the 2008 Winning Writers War Poetry contest. His writing takes place in Los Angeles and the California Central Valley, the two places that made him who he is. A struggling pacifist, Tyner writes about the violent gang world he came from, his multicultural background, and the effects of violence on the world around him.
© 2009 Autumn House Press
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