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from When All the World is Old, from Lookout Books

Type treatment by Eric Tran, Lookout intern

Write them a beautiful line, like John Rybicki. (Hey, it won’t cost you anything!)

(Type treatment by Lookout intern Eric Tran)

Lookout Books poet John Rybicki will be doing a reading and workshop at Haverford College next week.

This past week was full to the brim with fantastic Lookout events and guests! John Rybicki flew in to Wilmington on Thursday, April 12, and visited Roland-Grise Middle School the next day as a guest teacher for a class of thirty-seven seventh graders. The class loved him and showed some pretty powerful poetry chops themselves! We got some great video of the lesson.

Lookout celebrated National Poetry Month by releasing John Rybicki’s When All the World is Old last week. The book of raw and wise poetry pays homage to the brave love John and his wife, Julie, shared during her sixteen-year battle with cancer. If we do say so ourselves, it is a collection for every kind of reader. To continue to honor Poetry Month, some of the Lookout interns would like to share the other poetry currently on their nightstands.

“I just finished reading Rocky Dies Yellow by Michael Lally. Fantastic poems, but I may have some kind of a bias because Lally is a Jersey boy, too. Read it through one sitting, and plan to read it again before giving it back to my professor, Mark Cox. A+ for teachers who lend students awesome poetry all the time!”

(Rocky Dies Yellow is out of print. It was published by Blue Wind Press.)

– John Mortara, Lookout Intern

This week we’ve been busy getting ready for Edith Pearlman and John Rybicki to land here in Wilmington, NC for their reading this Sunday and to kick off the Binocular Vision tour of NC. So many pictures to come!

Edith Pearlman

• In case you haven’t heard, Edith’s Binocular Vision won the National Book Critics Circle Award last week.
• She is also nominated for The Story Prize. The winners will be announced tomorrow, March 21!
• Her next reading tour begins April 15 at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, with stops in Charlotte, Durham, and other cities to be announced.

Steve Almond

• This guy writes like it’s his job. Well…you know what we mean. The Newer York
• Steve also continues his “The Week in Greed” articles in The Rumpus.
• His collection of short stories, God Bless America, received an honorable mention from The Story Prize.
• (www.theneweryork.com) just published a flash fiction piece by Steve, as well as a featured quote we’re particularly fond of: “Stay horny for art.”

John Rybicki

• First, you need to know that John’s astounding poetry collection, When All the World Is Old, will be available April 10. Pre-orders get it early, so be sure to visit www.lookout.org.
• He will join Edith at the April 15 reading to celebrate the first year of our little press doing big things.