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Winner of Prize Americana, Jenn Blair's poetry collection MALCONTENT takes the reader on a journey through American history that is at once fresh, startling, and epic in its sweep. According to Sara Henning, in these -luminous poems, be prepared to meet a motley crew: the discontented, the rebellious, and the attentive gather to bear witness and unearth epiphany. In poems that range from dramatic monologues to first person confessions, with a historical panorama vacillating from the Civil War to the near contemporaneous, Blair invites us into a world that makes reverence from the gorgeously quotidian.-

Winner of Prize Americana, Howie Good's Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements contains poems that feature a penetrating analysis of contemporary life.

Winner of Prize Americana, Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction exploring the complexities of life. Laying the profound beside the mundane, author Katherine L. Holmes creates rich and complicated characters who search for identity, meaning, and purpose within a world often dangerous and sometimes even cruel. Her readers relate to such struggles and find comfort as they face similar challenges of their own. A fiction writer and native of Minnesota, Katherine. L. Holmes holds an M.A. in Writing from the University of Minnesota. She has won The Loft's Children's Literature Prize as well as Prize Americana.

Winner of Prize Americana for Poetry, THE MYSTERIES OF FISHING AND FLIGHT is a poetry collection, at once rich, evocative, enigmatic. Author Jacqueline K. Powers summons nature imagery and emotional experience to plumb the depths of human existence - ephemeral and difficult, but beautiful just the same. Her work has appeared in such creative writing journals as ARBUTUS, CALIFORNIA QUARTERLY, INNISFREE POETRY JOURNAL, POESIA, and REVIEW AMERICANA among others. She lives in Ithaca, New York, where she works at Cornell University.

Winner of Prize Americana, Americana: Poems from Rich Murphy is a poetry collection featuring work that is intelligent, critical, incisive, and satirical. His poems examine - with unflinching honesty - not only what it means to be human but also what it means to be an American.

NEW WRITING is an anthology featuring some of the best poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama submitted to Americana at http: //www.americanpopularculture.com over the last several years, which includes the work published by Press Americana, Review Americana: A Creative Writing Journal, Hollywood Books International, and The Poetry Press. Other pieces appear here for the first time. Contributors include Alexandra Ashford, Peter Neil Carroll, Darren Demaree, William Doreski, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Howie Good, Richard Hoffman, William Hudson, Donald Levin, Mary MacGowan, Kelly Moffett, Rich Murphy, Jacqueline K. Powers, J.R. Solonche, Ann Walters, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Alan Davis, Roger Real Drouin, Katherine L. Holmes, Eleanor Swanson, Donald Dewey, Richard Thieme, Curtis Smith, David-Matthew Barnes, Timothy Braun, and Jason Visconti.

Winner of Prize Americana, The Mares of Lenin Park is the story of Uli, a fourteen-year-old Cuban boy, who struggles to reconcile his deceased father's heroic past with his mother Graciela's new marriage. Finding it more and more difficult to live in the economic times of Cuba following the fall of the Soviet Union, Uli learns that the Revolutionaries are closer than expected - importing drugs to support the failing economy. These discoveries catapult him into a journey involving work camps, murder, and a voyage at sea.

From the West Indies of her great grandmother's youth to the rural Mississippi South of her own, Alexandria Ashford takes us on a journey through memory, heartbreak, loss, and sometimes joy. Her startling imagery and unique sense of moment combine to bring us to new levels of understanding in terms of what it means to be human. Her work has been published in such journals as Review Americana, Expressionists, Rose & Thorn, South Jersey Underground, and Chopper. DANKE SCHOEN is her first poetry collection.

Reel Histories: Studies in American Film is an essay collection that extends the academic dialogue concerning the "holy trinity" of race, social class, and gender as they are constructed on the screen while also examining aspects of the film industry that are often ignored: the means and politics of film production and distribution, audience reception, the role and influence of film criticism, film's intersections with other media, and many other modes of approach stemming from particularities of historical, sociological, and cultural situation. Nine scholars, analyzing such films as From Here to Eternity, A Raisin in the Sun, Midnight Cowboy, Magnolia, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, The X Files, and Saving Private Ryan, go far beyond close readings approaching the films as matrices of intersecting voices located in particular socio-cultural moments participating in significant historical trajectories. These essays insightfully examine how specific films have functioned in American history, their provenance and their subsequent effects - both actual and potential.

Americana: Readings in Popular Culture, Revised Edition, is a collection of essays examining American culture from 1900 to present. Dozens of scholars investigates five aspects of our society offering unique and original insights into "What We Hear," "What We Watch," "What We Read," "Where We Go," and "The American Identity."

"'Traveling the land,' poet Peter Neil Carroll observes 'restless people, pulled or pushed, going places they've lost or found, both grieving and hopeful, looking for something. Newcomers settle in all states, revealing tensions both indoors and out, some kept quiet by custom, some easily inflamed by rapid, unwanted change.' His poetry encourages others with this message: 'Keep your eyes open. Be surprised. Strangers live everywhere. So do neighbors'"

Winner of Prize Americana, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee's second award-winning book of poetry, Intersection on Neptune, moves outward from the immigrant experience through first and second generations to unravel a history of American life in New York and New Jersey beginning in the early to mid-1900s. In a sweep of suburban, city, and rural life, this intersection of lives spins off separate journeys to what will become twentieth-century American experiences reaching to the present. Author Donna J. Gelagotis Lee earned a B.A., cum laude, in English and creative writing from Sweet Briar College, where she was a Davison-Foreman scholar. She is the author of On the Altar of Greece (Gival Press, 2006), winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award and recipient of a 2007 Eric Hoffer Book Award: Notable for Art Category. Her poetry has appeared internationally in literary and scholarly journals, including The Bitter Oleander, The Cortland Review, Feminist Studies, Journal of New Jersey Poets, The Massachusetts Review, Review Americana, and Women's Studies Quarterly. Reviewer Charles H. Johnson, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poet, poetry teacher and reviewer states, "The poems in Donna J. Gelagotis Lee's two-section collection Intersection on Neptune transport the reader from New York City to New Jersey. Along the way is a cultural swirl of Yom Kippur, Coney Island, and Cape Cod dwellings in the Jersey suburbs. Ms. Lee's artistry, however, exposes truths on every page. These poems warm us through our shared recognition, appreciation, and sensation of just being alive."

A grandfather reluctantly raising his seven-year-old granddaughter throws her a birthday party to which no one comes-and she's delighted. A former hockey player, about to become a father, suffers flashbacks to times his coach sexually abused him. A one-time Olympic hopeful reveals the heartbreaking reason she failed to land her signature jump-and thereby frees herself to find her next passion. Winner of Prize Americana, The Rink Girl may have a small geographic setting-an ice arena in an unassuming Ohio town-but it's wide in thematic scope: from depression and war to the perils and pleasures of parenting and the thrill (and aching brevity) of first love.

12 Conversations with American Studies Scholars is a collection of interviews featuring some of the most influential professors in the field: Nancy Bentley, Ray B. Browne, Floyd Cheung, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Sam B. Girgus, William A. Gleason, M. Thomas Inge, Matthew Frye Jacobson, E. Ann Kaplan, George Lipsitz, Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, and Peter C. Rollins.

"Winner of Prize Americana, Ryan Harper's poetry collection My Beloved Had a Vineyard travels through America to remind us who we are and where we come from. Filled with midnight and apple orchards and mountain valleys, his poems surprise and delight with magical ease" --

"Asylum Seeker, a poetry collection by Rich Murphy, analyzes the problems, hypocrisies, politics, and media issues in American culture with unflinching force and conviction" --

Winner of Prize Americana, The Avant Garde of Western Civ is the story of one "foot soldier" and his family as they sought to provide salve and transformation within the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in 2003. This memoir by David Holdridge explores how difficult and often complicit "giving" can be.

Winner of Prize Americana, Grant Hier's Untended Garden is a quest narrative set in the suburbs, a long poem in the spirit of "Song of Myself" that weaves personal history, natural history, and American history.