NightBallet Press is an independent small press, interested in the musicality of language and the originality of expression in poetry, with a commitment to excellence.
Ohio poet Jennifer Hambrick emerges Unscathed, and NightBallet Press is there to see it happen!
NightBallet Press is enormously pleased to present Unscathed, the brand new debut chapbook by Jennifer Hambrick!
Unscathed is a 32 page chapbook of 26 poems, and features a simply beautiful color photo by local artist-photographer Chandra Alderman. The text is printed on thick, creamy soft white paper, and the covers are brilliant white cardstock with a seafoam-blue cardstock insert. The poems, delicate yet profound vignettes of childhood and mortality, nature and family, loss and triumph, are sketched with a deft hand by Hambrick.
(bio photo by Barb Schwartz, used with permission)
Jennifer Hambrick's poetry has been published in Pudding Magazine, WestWard Quarterly, Common Threads, A Narrow Fellow,the 2013 Ohio Poetry Association anthology Everything Stops and Listens, the Columbus Creative Cooperative’s Ides of March anthology, and the Ohio Poetry Day Best of 2011 prizewinners’ collection.Jennifer won the Ohio Poetry Association’s 2013 Ides of March contest, was a prize winner in The Poetry Forum’s 2011 William Redding Memorial Poetry Contest (Columbus), and received multiple recognitions in the 2011 Ohio Poetry Day contests.By day, Jennifer Hambrick is a classical musician and public radio broadcaster, producer, and blogger.
Watch for Jennifer to be reading from her new chapbook around her stomping grounds, the Columbus, Ohio area, soon!
Unscathed is available beginning today, for only $10 plus $3 shipping/handling, right here on this website...also available on Amazon!
NightBallet Press announces, with great pride and excitement, the six nominees for The Pushcart Prize XXXIX Best of the Small Presses:
J. E. Stanley—“Random Facts About Halley’s Comet”—from Selected Regions of the Moon Christopher Franke—“Knot Final Words”—from As the Caffeine Kicks In James Valvis—“My Mother’s Pills”—from What Exactly Is a Valvis? Lyn Lifshin—“Chora Church Daze”—from Tangled as the Alphabet—The Istanbul Poems Chansonette Buck—“test pattern”—from talisman Alex Gildzen—“Sea Salt on Green Pepper”—from Blossoms—a collection of poems (1955 to 2013)in celebration of the poet's 70th birthday
Congratulations to the nominees! As was the case the past two years, the decision about who to nominate was an incredibly difficult one. This editor struggled with making the final choices right up to the deadline of "postmarked by December 1st". There were so many outstanding poems from so many superb manuscripts this past season we found it to be almost impossible to narrow down the chaps and the poems to only six nominations. But in keeping with the NBP tradition that it's important to recognize achievement and promote excellence even if we can't be all-encompassing, we have once again participated in the nomination process.
I sincerely wish I could have nominated a poem from every book published by NBP this past year. Each one of the NightBallet Press poets deserves to be recognized. You are all winners IMHO. I am extremely honored and humbled to have had the opportunity to publish a book for you. For those of you unfamiliar with the process, the Pushcart Prize nominations will be reviewed by the Pushcart editors and the final selections will be made by April of 2014. At that time, the small presses selected will be notified. If NBP doesn't hear from them by the end of April, we'll know our nominees won't be reprinted in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XXXIX in November. You can read more and check out the Pushcart website here.
Once again, please join the NightBallet Press family in congratulating these six outstanding poets!
