Dale Going
Codhill Press is pleased to announce the book selection for its Guest Editor Poetry Series: The Beautiful Language of Our Disaster, by Dale Going, has been chosen by Guest Editor Robert Krut for publication.
The Codhill Press Guest Editor Poetry Series invites past press award winners to select one book a year for publication, in an effort to bring new voices to its long literary history. Each year, the series poses a theme for entries—this year, the series looked for books that explored “stillness/motion and motion/stillness.” Speaking of Going’s work, Guest Editor Krut commented that “there is an inherent motion to the context and themes of this wonderful collection, yet when I read it, the world stopped, and everything went still—there was nothing other than these poems, echoing out, in those moments.”
Dale Going’s poetry includes the collections The View They Arrange (Kelsey St. Press) and As/of the Whole (SFSU Award, selected by Brenda Hillman) as well as numerous chapbooks, broadsides and artists’ books. Her work has received support from Fund for Poetry, California Arts Council, Yaddo and Djerassi Fellowships. Her Em Press letterpress editions of poetry by women are archived internationally in prominent library special collections. She co-founded the quarterly ROOMS, which for a decade published formally innovative work of women writers and artists. She lives in Manhattan and the Adirondack Park after a previous lifetime in Northern California, where she received an M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.
In speaking on the submissions received, Krut noted the high quality of manuscripts sent to the press: “Like our first year of the series, I was overwhelmed by the number of wonderful manuscripts we had the chance to read. There is so much incredible poetry being written in this moment, and so much of it made its way to our submissions.”
With that in mind, there were additionally five finalists in the selection process. In alphabetical order, by author name:
Epilogue to Paradise, Ryan Clinesmith Montalvo
Self-Guided Tours Through Intemperate Weather, Will Cordeiro
Driveway, Therese Gleason
La Ruta ed Clara, Gabrielle Myers
Blue Whale, Kenton K. Yee
The Beautiful Language of Our Disaster will be published in 2025. The next Guest Editor Poetry Series theme and call for submissions will be posted in April. Thank you to all the writers who shared their work with the press for this second season.