The show recognizes meritorious achievements in the design, production and manufacture of books, jacket, covers, and journals by members of the university press community. It also serves as a focus of discussion and a source of ideas for intelligent, creative, and resourceful book making.

Winner, Scholarly Illustrated category, Fordham University Press

The 2010 show includes books published in 2009 and jacket and covers of books published in 2009. The show was first displayed at the AAUP annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah in June 2010 and has traveled to presses such as Columbia University Press and Cornell University Press, before coming to Fordham University Press.

To view the exhibit, visit the O’Hare Special Collections Exhibit Hall on the 4th floor of Walsh Library on Fordham University’s Rose Hill Campus. The exhibit will run until April 15th and is viewable Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

“Amy Catanzano offers us a poetic vision of multiple orders and multiple forms, of a fluid time set loose from linearity and an open space that is motile and multidimensional.”—Michael Palmer, from the Foreword

For more information, visit PEN Center USA.

Things That No Longer Delight Me by Leslie C. Chang

Leslie  C. Chang, author of Things That No Longer Delight (Fordham/POL prize winner) and Julie Sheehan, author of Thaw (Fordham/POL prize winner) and winner of  the Barnard Women Poets Prize for her second book, Orient Point ( W.W. Norton) will be reading along with poets  Mark Bibbins (Copper Canyon Press) and Terese Svoboda (University of Arkansas Press), in the Poets House Showcase Reading Series on Tuesday, July 13th, at 7 pm.

If the weather permits, the reading will be held outside in Teardrop Park South.

Admission free

Poets House Showcase Readings are held in conjunction with the 18th Annual Poets House Showcase, a display of all the poetry books published in the last year.

The Dance of No Hard feelings

Thaw

Weapons Grade

Orient point

The New York Society Library has chosen The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: New York’s River Festival of1909 and the Making of a Metropolis by Kathleen Eagen Johnson as winner in the 2009-2010 New York City Book Awards. Founded in 1996, these awards are given annually to books that capture the essence of New York City.

“After reading The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: New York’s River Festival of 1909 and the Making of a Metropolis, you’ll be sorry you missed the tercentennial. On that occasion, the city and state produced an extravaganza that remains unrivaled in New York’s historic commemorations.”
—Sam Roberts, The New York Times

The Hudson-Fulton Celebration is also winner of a 2009 AWARD TOWARDS EXCELLENCE FROM THE GREATER HUDSON HERITAGE NETWORK.

To read more about Kathleen Eagen Johnson and The Hudson-Fulton Celebration, visit www.hudsonfultoncelebration.net.