Northern Voices

Forty Years on the Poetry Beat

Mike Pride (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2024
Bauhan (William L.),U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-87233-377-2 (ISBN)

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Northern Voices: Forty Years on the Poetry Beat, tells the story of journalist, Mike Pride’s relationships with several poets who lived and worked in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont from the 1970s through the present. Mike transformed the New Hampshire newspaper The Concord Monitor into a prizewinning paragon of regional journalism, mentoring generations of reporters and editors, defying the trope about the dying small-town newspaper and exerting an outsize impact on his profession. He carved out for himself, “The Poetry Beat,” befriending poets including Charles Simic, Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall, Maxine Cumin, Hayden Carruth, Wes McNair, and Sharon Olds. among many others, whom he wrote about with regularity. Sadly Mike died before his “poetry memoir” Northern Voices was published. But in true Mike-style, he completed the manuscript and readied it for press.

Mike Pride was a distinguished journalist, writer, and historian. For more than thirty years, he ran the newsroom of the Concord Monitor, lifting the newspaper to national prominence. He emerged from retirement to serve as administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, only to retire again when he developed a blood cancer. He wrote, co-wrote, or edited eight previous books and completed the manuscript for this book, his ninth, in the months before his death in April 2023 at the age of seventy-six. His previous books dealt most often with the human experience of war, grounded in the Civil War and World War II. Northern Voices is his most personal book, grounded instead in his love of poetry.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.05.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Reisen ► Bildbände
ISBN-10	0-87233-377-9 / 0872333779
ISBN-13	978-0-87233-377-2 / 9780872333772
Zustand	Neuware