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Saturnalia Updates and News

New Spring Books are OUT!

With fall comes new books and events from Saturnalia! Libby Burton’s Soft Volcano, Ed Pavlic’s Live at the Bitter End and Shayla Lawson’s I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean are now out. Feel free to pick them up at the Bookshop. 

Will We See You at AWP Portland?

We’re so excited to be going to Portland for AWP this year! So many of our poets have called the city home and we can’t wait to see it, but we want to make sure that we will be seeing our friends there too. Let us know if you’ll be attending on Facebook or Twitter.

2018 Saturnalia Poetry Prize Winner Selected!

Congratulations to the winner of the 2018 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize: All the Gay Saints by Kayleb Rae Candrilli, and winner of the Saturnalia Books 2018 Editors Prize: Taking the Homeless Census by Alexis Ivy! Look forward to seeing their books this upcoming year!

Read Up on Recent Blogs

Speaking Louder and Farther than Our Great Social Inertia: Cortney Lamar Charleston’s Telepathologies

Alex Lemon on Jason Zuzga

Bone Maps, Pine Barren & Self Exploration in Robert Ostrom’s Ritual and Bit

Alice Escapes the Rabbit Hole: Liberation in Sandra Simond’s Steal it Back

Toothpaste and a Corvette and Godzilla and a Monkey: The Beauty of the Ordinary and Exceptional in Jay Nebel’s Neighbors