New Poet Series
Lost Horse Press is delighted to announce the annual poetry series titled, Lost Horse Press New Poets Series: New Poets | Short Books, and its collaboration with poet Marvin Bell, who will serve as Series Editor.
Lost Horse Press will publish an annual volume of three new poets, each poet represented by twenty to thirty pages of poetry with a personal prose statement about his or her writing. Edited by Marvin Bell, the series will feature poets who are relatively unknown in literary circles but have strong individual voices and have shown a strong commitment to writing.
This series is not intended to become a contest or a market. Neither Lost Horse Press nor the editor wishes to receive uninvited inquiries or manuscripts. The goal is to foster the unconventional and unknown. The series will introduce poetry that presses the boundaries of language—the sociopolitical, the surreal, the nutty, the extreme, good free verse, and good formalist verse. We prefer lively nonsense to earnest meaninglessness. We do not care for theory-based experiments. Manuscripts will be made up of poems someone can hate and someone can love. Middle-of-the-road doesn’t interest. Anyone who reads the work, whether they love or hate it, should immediately say to herself, “Well, this is different.”
About the Series Editor
Marvin Bell was born in New York City on August 3, 1937, and grew up in Center Moriches, on the south shore of eastern Long Island. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Alfred University, a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa.
Bell’s debut collection of poems, Things We Dreamt We Died For, was published in 1966 by the Stone Wall Press, following a year of service in the U.S. Army. His following two collections were A Probable Volume of Dreams ( Atheneum, 1969), a Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets; and Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See (1977), which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
You can read the rest of his bio at poets.org.