Longleaf Press Announces the Release of its First Full-Length Publication

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JANUARY 2, 2007
MARIA SIKORYAK-ROBINS
DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS

Weingarten

FAYETTEVILLE, NC—Longleaf Press at Methodist University recently published its first full-length publication by Roger Weingarten titled Premature Elegy by Firelight.

Weingarten is the author of ten collections of poetry including Ghost Wrestling (Godine, 1997), Infant Bonds of Joy (Godine, 1990), and Shadow Shadow (Godine, 1986). He is the co-editor of six poetry anthologies including Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience (Iowa, 2006), New American Poets (Godine, 2005), and New American Poets of the '90s (Godine, 1991). He edited and contributed to Ghost Writing: Haunted Tales by Contemporary Writers (Invisible Cities Press, ‘00). Weingarten also co-edited Open Book: Essays from the Postgraduate Writers' Conference (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006).

His poems have appeared in magazines around the country including The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, Antaeus and The Sewanee Review. He has received an Ingram Merrill Award, a Pushcart Prize, fellowships from the Dana Foundation, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, and three Vermont Council on the Arts Individual Artist grants. Weingarten edits the Invisible Cities Press poetry series, and has been contributing editor to Interpoezia—an international online and print journal—since 2004. He guest-edited the spring 2006 “Reincarnated Forms” issue of Hunger Mountain. He teaches in and directs the Vermont College Postgraduate Writers' Conference.

The book is available for purchase on amazon.com. For more details, contact Robin Greene, associate professor of English, at (910) 630-7110, or visit www.methodist.edu/longleaf.