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The Practice and Purpose of Poetry Reviewing: NBCC at AWP

April 09, 2010 10:30 am
Colorado Convention Center
Denver, CO

NBCC AT AWP IN DENVER:

Friday, April 9 at 10:30 am

Rooms 401, 402
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level
F140.

National Book Critics Circle: The Practice and Purpose of Poetry
Reviewing. (Kevin Prufer, Matthew Zapruder, Craig Morgan Teicher, Nickole
Brown, Timothy Donnelly.)

Poetry books sell in small numbers, yet the poetry publishing scene is
booming with new books. Readers’ enthusiasm often takes the form of book
reviewing—in literary journals, on blogs, and in the pages of newspapers
and magazines. There’s some debate about what the point of poetry
reviewing really is: to explain esoteric writing? To keep the art form
from getting sloppy? To please the poet under consideration? In this
panel, poetry reviewers, publishers, and poets will debate these
questions.

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How do I break into book reviewing?

There is no one way to break into book reviewing. Joining the National Book Critics Circle provides members with access to several hundred professional reviewers and review editors through our yearly meeting in NYC, and through several panels and conferences involving NBCC members around the country throughout the year. Members also receive our guidelines for pitching publications around the country (a packet that comes complete with contact information for review editors, and an outline of the kinds of reviews they’re looking for), and we are currently compiling a membership directory, which will be available to members soon. Also available to members is former Board Member Rebecca Skloot’s helpful beginner tutorial, “Tips for Successful Reviewing.”