The BIG Poetry Giveaway 2013

If you don’t know it already, April is National Poetry Month!  To celebrate NPM, I will be blogging about all things poetry such as ideas for students, NaPoWriMo (God help me), favorite poetry books, and more!  You can read The NPM FAQs from the Academy of American Poets website here.

To kickoff National Poetry Month 2013, I’m following the lovely poet Bernadette Geyer’s lead and participating in the Big Poetry Giveaway!

 

Let the BIG Poetry Giveaway 2013 begin!

 

Details: The Big Poetry Giveaway is a giveaway of free poetry books, one of our own and one of our favorite poetry books.  More details and how to participate can be found on the poet Susan Rich’s blog here.

I’ll be giving away one signed copy of my newest book, The Wishing Tomb, which was awarded the 2012 Perugia Press Award.  Patricia Smith of this book, “in these textured, deftly-crafted stanzas, Amanda Auchter romances the grit, the rampant spice, the twang, the mystery, the brick, the swelter, and the insistent hallelujah conjured by the Crescent City. This sparkling, defiant love story pays tribute to NOLA on the upswing, while remembering how often it has teetered on the edge of descent.”

 

 

I will also give away a copy of one of my favorite books of poetry of all time, Katie Ford’s first collection, Deposition.   Jorie Graham writes that, “Here is a poetry of witnessing—theological, emotional, intellectual—a private end to a century’s horrors, a reminder that not all things begin again, and that from some reaches of experience instruction shines far less than the beauty of the survivor’s report.”  This book was a great inspiration in the writing of my first book, The Glass Crib, and is something I return to again and again.

 

Graywolf Press, 2002

 

To Enter:  leave your name in the COMMENT section of this post and I’ll choose a winner for each book on May 1st or 2nd.  In your comment, please include your first name and email (or some way to get in touch with you).  The giveaway ends April 30th, 2013 at midnight.  Happy Poetry Month!