We have a winner!
We are pleased to announce the results of The 2011 May Sarton New Hampshire First Book Prize.
Our judge, New Hampshire Poet Laureate Walter Butts, selected The Wreck of Birds by Rebecca Givens Rolland of Boston, Massachusetts. There were more than 100 entries.
As promised, Rebecca will receive a check for $1000 and we will publish her collection in time for the May Sarton Centennial Symposium in York, Maine in May of 2012.
The other two finalists were The Alphabet Years by Rebecca Warren of Greensboro, North Carolina and New to the Lost Coast by Joshua Butts (no relation to Walter) of Columbus, Ohio.
Walter also selected three collections for Honorable Mention: Places and the Absences Therein by Ani Gjika of Framingham, Massachusetts, Bastard Heart by Raphael Dagold of Salt Lake City, Utah, and A Sky Lake Crossing by Lisa Drnec Kerr of Ashfield, Massachusetts.
Congratulations to all who entered. We hope that you will consider submitting your work again next year. The guidelines will be posted in January of 2012 on our website. If you would like notice of when that occurs, please “like ” Bauhan Publishing on Facebook, or check back in January.
New Titles
World Enough & Time On Creativity and Slowing Down
by Christian McEwen
World Enough and Time focuses on the positive effect of deliberately simple living on creativity. McEwen juxtaposes religious traditions of both the East and West, and intertwines words of wisdom from writers ranging from Montaigne to Ralph Waldo Emerson and from Virginia Woolf to Jack Kerouac to Adrienne Rich, artists and musicians from John Ruskin to Meredith Monk, and myriad psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and scholars. In so doing, she creates a unique combination of history, spirituality, and practical advice about how to incorporate slowness and its benefits into everyday living. [more . . .]
Opening the Window: Sabbath Meditations
by Leaf Seligman
Why do we do what we do? What happens as a result? How do we make sense of, and find meaning in, our lives and in the world that contains us? How do we render wholeness out of brokenness, creating mosaics of beauty and functionality from the rent pieces of our lives? This collection of Sabbath meditations invites readers to inhabit the questions with intention and joy. [More]
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Other Recent Titles:
Sharing Housing
A Guidebook to Finding and Keeping Good Housemates
by Annamarie Pluhar
This book maps out the path from the original thought, “Maybe I should find a housemate,” to actually living with one. Like a guidebook for tourism or hiking, this book describes the milestones and choices on the path. Pluhar shows where the traps and snags are, as well as where the well-trodden and proven paths can be found. There are stories about others who are sharing housing and the methods they have found that work for them. [more]
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It’s Not About the Hike
by Nancy Sporborg
In 2006, Nancy Sporborg and Pat Piper, two fifty-something women, set out on a quest to climb the forty-eight highest mountains in New Hampshire – a goal that eventually expanded to include the highest peaks of New England and the Adirondacks as well as a revisit of the original forty-eight in winter conditions. Little did they know the trails would lead them on a journey not just to the heights of the region’s peaks and precipices, but also into the depths of their own beings. [more]
Check out the review from the Keene Sentinel.
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Upcoming Titles
The Adventures of God and Others
by Michael James
Like R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis, The Adventures of God and Others by Michael James fits squarely into the current bibliography of graphic novels and memoirs. As it happens, though, James’s surprisingly contemporary pen, ink, and watercolor illustrations of scenes from both the Old and New Testaments were created in the three years following World War II (1946-1949). After returning from service as a sailor aboard the carrier USS Monterey (which he chronicles in his book, The Adventures of M. James: A Sailor’s Diary), the twenty-three-year-old James studied at the Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs, where he interpreted the Biblical passages in illustration form on the pages of a blank book. [more]
