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BIG NEWS!: Lucifer: A Hagiography is being adapted for the stage! The stage version is being written by Syracuse playwright Kyle Bass, and will first be presented in a reading with audience talkback at the Redhouse theater on January 24th, 2010. A production will follow. Watch for more details!

NEWS: Philip Memmer's poem "The Paleontologist's Blind Date" is appearing in Ted Kooser's "American Life in Poetry" column the week of October 26, 2009.

NEWS: Watch the Fall 2009 issues of the journals Tar River Poetry, Los Angeles Review, and NEO for reviews of Lucifer: A Hagiography.

NEWS: Philip Memmer's 2008 collection of poems, Threat of Pleasure, has been named the winner of the 2008 Adirondack Literary Award for Poetry.