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David Caplan's new book of poems In the World He Created According to His Will will be published in March 2010 by the University of Georgia Press.  In addition to his poems, Caplan's essay on rhyme appeared in the last special all-poetry issue  of the Antioch Review, Winter 2009

Robert S. Fogarty. Antioch Review editor, discusses the Review and reads from the Fall 2009 issue at the Antioch College Reunion in October 2009.  Listen to his talk here.

There will be an reading of four short stories by Alethea Black, including "That of Which We Cannot Speak," which appeared in the Summer 2007 Antioch Review.  The event will be at the Players Club, Gramercy Park South, New York City on January 29, 2010 at 7:30 PM.

Dawn Raffel’s story "Beyond All Blessing and Song, Praise and Consolation," first published in the Antioch Review (Summer 2008), is the closing story in her new collection, Further Adventures in the Restless Universe, out March 2010. The story was also chosen for an anthology called "Show, Don't Tell," which will be published in fall 2010.

Sheila Kohler will be featured in "The Ordinary Evening Reading Series” at the Anchor Bar’s Mermaid Room, 272 College Street, in New Haven, Connecticut on January 19, 2010. Kohler, who has published several pieces in the Antioch Review and received our Distinguished Writer’s Award in 2004, has a new novel Becoming Jane Eyre, out in January 2010 from Viking, Penguin.

Susan Rich will conduct a free poetry workshop on February 13, 2010 at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington. Her poem “The Never Born Comes of Age” appeared in our Fall 2009 issue.

Valerie Laken’s first novel Dream House will be published in February 2010 by Harper. The Pushcart Prize-winning author published a short story “Covenant” in the Winter 2005 Antioch Review.

Best American Poetry 2009, edited by David Wagoner, features two poets recently published in the Antioch Review: James Cummins “Freud” (Summer 2009) and K. A. Hays, “The Way of All the Earth” (Winter 2008).

Benjamin Percy’s article “Go the Distance” in the November-December 2009 Poets & Writer’s discusses his persistence in publishing “In the Rough” which appeared in the Summer 2007 Antioch Review.

Antioch Review editor Robert S. Fogarty and author Maureen McCoy ("Vickie's Pour House: A Soldier's Peace" from the Winter 2008 Review) spoke at the New York Public Library in June 2008. Listen to audio here, starting at 38:00.