Kindergarde Wins Johns
Hopkins University Press Prize
Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children has been selected as co-winner of the 2014 Lion & Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry
San Francisco,
California, November 24, 2014—Sponsored by Johns
Hopkins University Press, The Lion and the Unicorn Award will
be announced via the publication of an essay discussing the year in children's
literature. Judges for this years’ competition were Lissa Paul, Donelle
Ruwe, and Craig Svonkin; the journal is edited by Joseph Thomas, PhD.
Published by Black
Radish Books and edited by poet, Dana Teen Lomax, Kindergarde includes
the work of internationally known innovative writers including Lyn Hejinian, Robin Blaser, Wanda Coleman, Kenneth Goldsmith, Cathy Park Hong, Harryette
Mullen, Charles Bernstein, Eileen Myles, Christian Bök, Leslie Scalapino, Kevin
Killian, Evie Shockley, Juliana Spahr, Anne Waldman, Juan Felipe Herrera,
Rosmarie Waldrop, and many others. Kindergarde is without a
doubt the hippest Holiday gift around!
Kindergarde is the first anthology to ever be recognized by the
award.
PRAISE FOR KINDERGARDE
...the array of poets stepping up to present avant-garde approaches to writing for young writers is
unprecedented; the anthology is a gift to writers of any age. –Rain Taxi
Kindergarde operates as a kind of
guide for children, a blueprint of creativity written in the chalk
of
the avant-garde, where the inhibiting constraint of technique is
second to innovation and experiment.
Personally, I love this project a lot because kids are smarter and
weirder than many books give them
Kindergarde successfully reaches the anthology’s intended
audience of children as well as a wider
A highly celebrated and joyful collection for children
from ages 3-15, Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and
Songs for Children is available through Small Press Distribution and Amazon Books.
