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NEWS Contributor Awards | Recent Books | LOCKSS Recent Awards for Current and Previous Blackbird Contributors Alison Stine's first full-length book of poems, Ohio Violence, was selected by Eric Pankey as the winner of the 2008 Vassar Miller Prize and will be publsihed by the University of North Texas Press in April 2009. David Wojahn received the Carol Weinstein Prize in Poetry for 2008. Established in 2005, the prize is awarded each year to a poet with strong connections to central Virginia. The $10,000 annual prize recognizes significant recent contribution to the art of poetry and is awarded on the basis of a range of achievement in the field of poetry. In the eleventh annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards, Janet Peery’s novel What the Thunder Said (St. Martin’s Press) received the prize for fiction. R. T. Smith’s collection Outlaw Style: Poems (University of Arkansas Press) won the Virginia Literary Awards prize for poetry. A poem by Erica Dawson appears in The Best American Poetry 2008, edited by Charles Wright. Anna Journey’s collection If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting was selected by Thomas Lux as a winner of the National Poetry Series awards and will be published by the University of Georgia Press. Ellen Bryant Voigt’s collection Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976–2006 (W.W. Norton, 2007) was one of three finalists for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. G. C. Waldrep’s manuscript Archicembalo has been awarded the 2007 Dorset Prize and will be published by Tupelo Press in 2009. Jake Adam York’s second book, A Murmuration of Starlings (Sourthern Illinois University Press, 2008) was selected as the second-prize winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition. Elizabeth Bradfield, founder and editor of Broadsided, recently won the 2007–08 Stegner Fellowship to Stanford University. Her book, Interpretive Work, a collection of poetry, has been published by Red Hen Press. Recent Books by Current and Previous Blackbird Contributors The Curse of Eve and Other Stories Flight: New and Selected Poems The History of Anonymity Salvinia Molesta Big-Eyed Afraid Figure Studies Hardscrabble Field Folly Snow Glory River All Souls Anticipate the Coming Reservoir The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems The Translator’s Diary The Boatloads A Murmuration of Starlings. The Shipwreck Dress Want Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007 Ashes in Midair
Blackbird and LOCKSS In the summer of 2003, Vicky Reich of Stanford University contacted Blackbird to ask our participation in beta testing of the LOCKSS Program. LOCKSS (short for Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is both a system and a software created to safeguard electronic publications. Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and Sun Microsystems, the LOCKSS Program Team is building a distributed digital archive system for electronic journals and other important web documents. A consortium of participating libraries all over the world will manage their own storehouses for digital material by using the LOCKSS software, which not only preserves electronic journal content, but also constantly compares the copies in these digital "caches" for integrity.
Beta testing has now been concluded. On April 5, 2004, the LOCKSS Program released the first version production of the LOCKSS software.
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Panelists
from Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and four
other universities had gathered on the literary librarian team to select
50 titles based on "intellectual merit." The LOCKSS technical
team further reviewed and narrowed this list based on "publisher
technical competence." Blackbird was one of only two literary
journals selected for inclusion.