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Subtropics is featured in the Jan./Feb. issue of Poets & Writers magazine.

Subtropics 9, the translation issue, will be published in January 2010. Featuring fiction by J. M. G. Le Clezio, Marco Denevi, Fumiko Enchi, Gyula Krudy, Ervin Lazar, and Bernard Quiriny; a memoir by Mark Girshin; and poems from the French, Catalan, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Tagalog, Russian, Dutch, Spanish, Latin, Romanian, Ukrainian, and Japanese. Translators: Alison Anderson, John Batki, Lawrence Byrne, Robert Carnevale and Carol Ueland, Martha Collins, Nora Delaney, Fred Ellison, Michael Emmerich, Fred Fornoff, Edward Gauvin, J. Kates, Christian Nagle, Susan McLean, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Andrea Nemeth Newhauser, Idra Novey, Wanda Phipps and Virlana Tcakz, Jose Reyes, Marian Schwartz, John Oliver Simon, Adam J. Sorkin, and Lawrence Venuti.

In memoriam: Subtropics 2 contributor James Lord (1922–2009).

We are very pleased to announce that Jennifer K. Sweeney (Subtropics 4) has received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets for her book How to Live on Bread and Music.

We are very pleased to announce that Peter Cameron’s “The End of My Life in New York” (Subtropics 7) has been selected for the O. Henry Prize Stories 2010.

Verse Daily has featured three poems from Subtropics 8: Stephen Kampa’s “The Reclamation of Paradise” on August 7, Kate Angus’s “I Will Begin Tagging ‘Sad Robot Inc.’ on Numerous Surfaces Because I am Sorry I am not Always Good at Certain Emotional Intimacies Shared Between Friends” on August 10, and Heather Hamilton’s “Shark” on August 11.

Subtropics 8, a special all-poetry issue, is now available. Featuring new work by Christopher Bakken, Erinn Batykefer, Billy Collins, T. Zachary Cotler, W. S. Di Piero, Barbara Hamby, Colette Inez, Carrie Jerrell, David Kirby, Richard Lyons, Pablo Medina, Sandra Meek, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Robert Schulz, Heather Sellers, and others.

Verse Daily has featured three poems from Subtropics 7: Randall Mann, “Monday” (April 5); Idra Novey, “A History in Six Couplets” (April 3); and Roberto Juarroz, “Scales of a Little Wisdom,” translated by Mary Crow (April 1). Suzanne Zweizig’s poem, “Bicycling from Todtnauberg,” from Subtropics 6, appeared on December 2, 2008.

Subtropics is featured on Tina Brown’s site The Daily Beast, as one of “Tomorrow’s Literary Superstars Today.”