Welcome to Negative Capability Press, an independent publisher in Alabama.
– John Keats
What’s New at Negative Capability Press?
FORTHCOMING OCTOBER 14
Recently Published Books
"Lindsey Hannahan has covered the entire spectrum of everyday life with her beautiful poetry. Whether writing about nature, cleaning house, sitting in the garden or spending time with loved ones, each line is alive with imagery in a colorful display of her love of family, love of nature, and of her deep spirituality. All these things combine to describe the beauty of life and of a life well lived. Anyone who loves the beautiful images of poetry will love this book."
- Rita Aiken Moritz, author Precious Poems and So, You Love a Prodigal and 2017 Alabama State Poetry Society "Poet of the Year"
Pat Schneider was born in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri where she became intimate with fossils, creek bed grasshoppers and box turtles. After a search for work took her single mother to St. Louis, from age ten Pat lived in tenements and in an orphanage until she was given a scholarship to college. Those early experiences deeply influenced her writing, and fueled her passion for those who have been denied voice through poverty and other misfortunes.
Pat’s books, poetry, plays and libretti have been praised by the most prestigious publications and authors in America: The New York Times, the Library Journal, the Atlanta Journal, Small Press Magazine, St. Louis Dispatch, the North Dakota Review, Oprah Magazine, Vanity Fair, the North Dakota Quarterly, the Kentucky Monthly, the Bellingham Review, the Louisville Times, and many others.
Peter Elbow said that Pat Schneider is “the wisest teacher of writing I know.” Julia Cameron, author of The Right to Write and The Artist’s Way, noted that Pat is “a fuse lighter. Her work is gentle, playful, brilliant, and revolutionary” and Janet Burroway, author of Writing Fiction, notes that Pat’s work is “heartening and practical, a rich variety…that celebrates both difference and difficulty as the gifts they are.
An Archaeology of Days contains new poetry from Vivian Shipley. Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor, Vivian Shipley teaches at Southern Connecticut State University where she was named Faculty Scholar in 2000, 2005 and 2008. Her eleventh book, Perennial, was published in 2015 by Negative Capability Press and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and named the Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist. The Poet, her tenth book, was published in 2015 by Louisiana Literature Press, Southeastern Louisiana University. All of Your Messages Have Been Erased (Louisiana Literature Press, SLU, 2010) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, won the Sheila Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club, the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement and the CT Press Club Award for Best Creative Writing. Her sixth chapbook is Greatest Hits: 1974-2010 (Pudding House Press, Youngstown, Ohio, 2010). She has received the Library of Congress’s Connecticut Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to the Literary Community and a Connecticut Book Award for Poetry two times. Most recently, she won the 2017-18 Steve Kowit Prize for Poetry for “Cargo” from San Diego Arts & Entertainment Guild. In 2015, she won the Hackney Literary Award for Poetry for “Foxfire.”
See Vivian read from An Archaeology of Days by watching the videos below:
Vivian Shipley "Pagurus bernhardus, the Hermit Crab"
Vivian Shipley "Cargo"
Vivian Shipley "Sourdough"
Vivian Shipley Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Sue Walker