The Steinach Operation

Birds, LLC in Poets & Writers

2010-08-20T13:50:00.001-05:00

Mini Tour w/ Salerno & Gabbert

2010-05-20T08:56:00.003-05:00

It's always great to go back to Boston. Especially the Pierre Menard Gallery. Great to hear Joe Hall read again. Thanks to Chris Marstall for some badass hosting.

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Yardmeter was steamy! Thanks for the great intros from Jared and Farrah...from afar! And to Shelton (Sheldon?) for the great space. I think I ruined Ben Mirov's life. Nice to meet you Sy and Teddy! Thanks for the lift Cotter!

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Philly was the dark horse of the tour. Due to a change of venue, the reading was in Mt. Airy, a little ways outside the city. But the crowd was terrific. And the fooseball dance party after was magic. Thanks especially to Cori and Jon (Lily and Tate). And Luke for the space. And to Dan, Sam, and Paige for being awesome groupies. Nice to meet you...Anthony, Sarah, Levy(i), Hannah, and especially Zach and Andy.

2010-05-20T08:44:00.002-05:00

DC was great, thanks to Joe and Wade. Chris, Elisa, and Julie killed. Thanks Abby and Jay! Great to see you Caryn!

For People Who Like Gravity and Other People

2010-05-19T08:28:00.001-05:00

New chappy out from Rope-A-Dope!

Photograph by Clay Banes

2010-03-05T07:44:00.002-05:00

"My photo-post this morning, taken on my knee, waiting for the train."

Birds, LLC announces the release of Elisa Gabbert's THE FRENCH EXIT and my THE TREES AROUND

2010-03-03T15:51:00.004-05:00

Birds, LLC is a new independent poetry press specializing in close author relationships in order to make the most awesome books in the world.

The first two books published by Birds, LLC are The French Exit by Elisa Gabbert and The Trees Around by Chris Tonelli.

SPECIAL PRE-SALE OFFER: Buy the first two Birds, LLC releases for just $20. Pre-Sale offer lasts until March 31st. Books ship the first week in April.

About The French Exit:
It’s a pleasure to listen to the opinions of the narrator of The French Exit. Clear-eyed imagery and wit control the anxiety: “[A] boy at the counter disappears / or I can see through him.” Likewise, in a fine prose poem: “Do not be afraid of angering the birds. What angers the birds is fear.” The energy throughout Gabbert’s collection has the clip of the French exit itself – allons-y! – self-aware, self-sufficient, in control, in touch.
- Caroline Knox

About The Trees Around:
Full of the will and the weather, that great skeptic Wallace Stevens walked to work and wrote his poems, poems you may well already love and believe. (Good, as they say, for you.) And as for Chris Tonelli, he walks in that integrity: read him, and be merciful unto yourself. His foot standeth in an even place. This book’ll make you bloom.
- Graham Foust

Buy them HERE! One for $12 or both for $20!!!

TOWN

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Kate Schapira asked about a hundred people to describe an imaginary town. She built the contributions of those who responded into poems that explore how we live differently in the same world, who we mean when we say we, what we mean when we say here.

To see: http://www.factoryschool.com/pubs/heretical/vol5/schapira/index.html
To buy: http://www.spdbooks.org/Search/Default.aspx?AuthorName=Schapira

The New England Art Awards

2010-01-18T22:57:00.004-05:00

The nominees are up. Vote for Andi and I here in the "Public exposure" category.

Allison swallowed the other pumpkin!!!

2009-12-09T10:28:00.001-05:00

Uh oh.

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Allison, this is what pumpkins turn into!

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Turns out she knew what pumpkins turn into and made me practice giving CPR to this creepy fake one.

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I guess Allison isn't giving birth to our personal savior...looks like Paul already filled the job. Guess we'll have to get a bigger manger.

SO AND SO #34

2009-11-16T22:40:00.001-05:00

Poetry by Farrah Field * John Gallaher * Kate Greenstreet

Broadsides by Christopher Salerno

Saturday * November 21st * 8pm * Morning Times * 10 E. Hargett Street * Raleigh, NC

Farrah Field's poems have appeared in many publications including the Mississippi Review, Typo, Harp & Altar, La Petite Zine, Eklesographia, Effing Magazine, and are forthcoming in Ploughshares. Rising, her first book of poems won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. She lives in Brooklyn and blogs at adultish.blogspot.com.

John Gallaher is the author of the books of poetry, Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001), The Little Book of Guesses, winner of the Levis Poetry Prize, from Four Way Books, and Map of the Folded World, from The University of Akron Press, as well as the free online chapbook, Guidebook from Blue Hour Press. Other than that, he's co-editor of The Laurel Review and GreenTower Press. Currently he's working on a co-authored manuscript with the poet G.C. Waldrep, titled Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, due out in Spring 2011 from BOA Editions.

Kate Greenstreet's second book, The Last 4 Things, is new from Ahsahta Press and includes a DVD containing two short films based on the two sections of the book. Ahsahta published Greenstreet's case sensitive in 2006. She is also the author of three chapbooks, most recently This is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, 2008). Find her poems in current or forthcoming issues of jubilat, VOLT, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Court Green, and other journals. Visit her online at kickingwind.com.

The Split-Decision Anthology from Rope-A-Dope

2009-11-12T07:04:00.002-05:00

Here!

Mini-Tour

2009-11-01T17:14:00.004-05:00

11/7 Yes, Reading! in Albany, NY w/ Janaka Stucky

11/8 Somewhere in Vermont w/ Janaka Stucky

11/9 Slope Editions Reading Series in Turners Falls, MA w/ Janaka Stucky & Brian Foley

A Review of NO THEATER

2009-10-10T09:14:00.001-05:00

Thanks, Chris!

ZERO LBS.

2009-10-07T08:25:00.001-05:00

Gravitron reviewed at the BIG RED & SHINY

AFFECTS OF GRAVITY: Gravitron at the Topsfield Fair Oct. 2-4

2009-09-16T07:43:00.003-05:00

Experience anti-gravity art at the Topsfield Fair in October 2009!

Affects of Gravity

October 2-4th

Topsfield Agriculture Fair, Topsfield, MA

Join artist Andi Sutton and poet Chris Tonelli for Affects of Gravity a sound installation that will take place on a Gravitron amusement park ride at the Topsfield Fair in Topsfield, MA, on Oct. 2 – 4th.

When: Friday, October 2 (4-10 PM)

Saturday, October 3 & Sunday, October 4th, 2009 (10 AM - 10 PM)

In this collaborative intervention, Sutton and Tonelli present a sound installation of poetry and gravity experienced while riding the centripetal-force-induced anti-gravity amusement park ride, the Gravitron. This project, sponsored by the Council for the Arts at MIT, brings riders into the metaphoric world of the Gravitron through a soundscape of amusement park field recordings and poems narrated by the Gravitron itself – stories of the Midway, its riders, and seasonal cyclical labor. The poems, selections from Tonelli’s forthcoming chapbook For People Who Like Gravity And Other People (Rope-a-Dope Press 2010), draw upon this age-old symbol of American entertainment and consumer distraction. The Gravitron asserts the trapped cycle of its existence and the isolation that occurs when the ride, the amusement, and the distraction, finally stops.

Get on… Lean against the wall…

Ticket information and transportation

RSVP to reserve a free ticket for the Gravitron and discounted entry to the Topsfield Fair ($8) on October 2nd, 3rd, or 4th.

A free, round-trip bus ride, departing from Kendall Square, Cambridge, is available on Saturday, Oct. 3rd along with the Gravitron and discounted Topsfield Fair tickets. Space is limited – RSVP soon to reserve a spot. The last day to RSVP is September 25th.

For tickets and/or a spot on the bus, contact Andi Sutton (andi.sutton@gmail.com)

Collaborative team:

Andi Sutton is an artist whose work explores the ways performance art methodology can be used to create alternative models for community and social engagement. She pursues an interdisciplinary collaborative art practice and is involved in the National Bitter Melon Council (www.bittermelon.org), Platform2: Art and Social Engagmeent (http://www.janemarsching.com/platform2/), among others. Her work has appeared locally and internationally at art centers, museums, public venues, in art and street contexts, on curious tongues and inside hungry bellies.

Chris Tonelli is the author of four chapbooks, most recently No Theater (Brave Men Press, 2009). His first full-length collection, The Trees Around, will be out in April from BIRDS, LLC. He teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC where he lives with his wife Allison.

Special thanks to the Topsfield Fair (http://www.topsfieldfair.org/), running from October 2 – 12th, 2009, and Midway ride distribution company Fiesta Shows (http://www.fiestashows.com/), and Rope-a-Dope press (http://rope-a-dope-press.blogspot.com/) for their collaboration.

Funded by the Council for the Arts at MIT.

Rope-A-Dope at the Boog City Festival

2009-09-07T18:11:00.003-05:00

Join us on Thursday, September 10th at 7PM for the 7th Season Kickoff of d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

ACA Galleries
529 W. 20th St., 5th Floor
NYC

Readings from Mary Walker Graham, Justin Marks, Kate Schapira, Kim Gek Lin Short, Sampson Starkweather, and Chris Tonelli

Music from Erik Schoster of He Can Jog

Please note that there's been a time change. The reading is now at 7PM, not 6.

The complete Welcome to Boog City Festival schedule is available for download here.

A review of Ellen Kennedy's SOMETIMES MY HEART PUSHES MY RIBS

2009-09-07T11:01:00.001-05:00

Here.

A Couple of Tidbits

2009-08-18T20:48:00.002-05:00

Here.

Here.

So and So #33

2009-08-11T17:59:00.010-05:00

Poetry from Emily Kendal Frey * Jim Goar * Zachary Schomburg

Designs by Ryan Cook

Saturday * August 15th * 8pm * Morning Times * 8 E. Hargett Street * Raleigh, NC

Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, Oregon and teaches at Portland Community College. She is the author of AIRPORT (Blue Hour Press, 2009) and, with Zachary Schomburg, TEAM SAD (Cinematheque, forthcoming).

Jim Goar has spent the past few years in Brevard, Bangkok, Seoul, and Norwich. His poetry has been published by Harvard Review, English, LIT, Jacket, Octopus, Typo, Cimarron Review, and others. His chapbook, Whole Milk, is out from Effing Press. A manuscript, Seoul Bus Poems, will be published by Reality Street Editions in 2010. He edits the journal, past simple.

Zachary Schomburg is the author of The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007) and Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009). He co-edits Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. He lives in Portland, OR, where he secretly murders people with his bare werewolf hands.

Ryan Cook is a graphic designer and letterpress printer living in Raleigh, NC. He graduated with a Bachelor of Graphic Design from North Carolina State University (BGD '06). Along with working extensively with letterpress in school he also studied letterpress abroad at the London College of Communication and interned at YeeHaw Industries in Knoxville, TN. He recently opened SomethingPressed (www.somethingpressed.com), a letterpress shop in downtown Raleigh. Recent projects include posters for The Bain Project (www.bainproject.com) and The Rock & Shop Market
(www.rockandshopmarket.com).

NO THEATER

2009-07-24T05:14:00.001-05:00

Now available.

THIS is ALSO happening.

2009-07-08T21:06:00.003-05:00

Allison is 13 1/2 weeks preggers and is feeling great. We're not good at grand announcements, so don't be all mad if we haven't told you. We only told people who directly asked us so as not to lie.

THIS is happening.

2009-07-08T13:03:00.002-05:00

And by "this" I mean this.

2009-05-18T12:24:00.002-05:00

CAROLINA WREN PRESS & COCKEYED PRESS present an evening with four poets
7pm, Friday, May 29th, 2009
Sound Pure, 808 Washington Street Durham, NC 27701

Shirlette Ammons
Karen Leona Anderson
Andrea Selch
Chris Tonelli

Shirlette Ammons is the author of Stumphole Aunthology of Bakwoods Blood (Big Drum Press, 2002) and Matching Skin, featuring the John Anonymous EP (Carolina Wren Press, 2008). Her work recently appeared in The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South and What Your Momma Never Told You: True Stories about Love and Sex. She has received a John Hope Franklin Grant for Documentary Studies, the Ebony-Harlem Award for Literary Talent, as well as Emerging Artist Grants from the Durham Arts Council and the United Arts Council. She was a Cave Canem Fellow in 2008. She is also vocalist and co-bassist for the hip-hop rock band Mosadi Music, whose debut album,
The Window, was released in 2006.

Chris Tonelli co-curates The So and So Series and is the author of No Theater (Brave Men Press, forthcoming), For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press, forthcoming), A Mule-Shaped Cloud (with Sarah Bartlett, horse less press, 2008), and WIDE TREE: Short Poems (Kitchen Press, 2006). He edits the Golden Gloves Chapbook Series for Rope-A-Dope Press and is the On-Line Editor for Blcak Ocean. He teaches at N.C. State in Raleigh.

Andrea Selch has an MFA from the UNC-Greensboro, and a PhD from Duke University. Her poetry has appeared in Calyx, The Greensboro Review, The Asheville Poetry Review, Luna, The MacGuffin, Oyster Boy Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others, as well as on the Best American Poetry Website. She received a 2008 “Hippo” Award from The Monti for her spoken story, "Replacement Child.” Her three collections of poetry are Succory (Carolina Wren Press, 2000), Startling (Turning Point, 2004) and Boy Returning Water to the Sea: Koans for Kelly Fearing (Cockeyed Press, 2009). She has directed the Carolina Wren Press since 2002.

Karen Leona Anderson, author of Punish honey (Carolina Wren Press, 2009), has an MFA from the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, an MA from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and a PhD from Cornell University. Her poems have appeared in jubilat, Verse, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, The New Republic, Fence, Sycamore Review, Pleiades, Third Coast, Columbia, Volt, Colorado Review, Sonora Review, and Poetry Ireland Review. She is an assistant professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

So and So #32

2009-05-12T08:28:00.002-05:00

Justin Marks * kathryn l. pringle * Chris Vitiello

Saturday * May 16th * 8pm * Morning Times * 8 E. Hargett Street * Raleigh, NC

Justin Marks' first book is A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press). He is also the author of several chapbooks, the most recent being Voir Dire (Rope-a-Dope Press). New work can be found in Harp & Altar, Sink Review and Tusculum Review. He is the founder and editor of Kitchen Press Chapsbooks and lives in New York City with his wife and their twin son and daughter.

kathryn l. pringle is an American poet living in Durham, NC. she wrote a book called Right New Biology.

Chris Vitiello’s Irresponsibility came out last year on Ahsahta Press. He is concerned with, among other things: clarification, light, stars, the sky, clouds, wind, trees, birds, deduction, eyes, leaves, people and their observable behaviors, grasses, the soil, flowers and their growth, description and representation, vegetables, skins and peels, seeds, nuts, cross-sections, dictionary definitions, synonyms and antonyms but especially synonyms, utility, analysis, skepticism, kindness, goodness, quantity, measurement, direct commands, questions, and fact statements. He lives in Durham, NC, is dad to 2 terrific daughters, and works on literacy issues in the public schools.

The event will also feature limited edition collaborative artwork designed by AdAm Peele. Email rqpoetry@gmail.com for more information, or visit thesoandsoseries.blogspot.com.

JUSTIN'S BOOK IS OUT, Y'ALL!!!

2009-04-08T12:28:00.004-05:00

A Million in Prizes was selected by Carl Phillips as winner of the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize, an award for a first book of poetry. Phillips, in his judge's citation, writes, "A Million in Prizes seduces in the best possible way: subtly, with a poignant wit, and a sly charm." Marks is the founder and editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks in New York City and author of the chapbook Voir Dire (Rope-a-Dope Press). BUY IT BITCHES!!!

Emily Frey's Airport

2009-04-01T07:15:00.004-05:00

In case you haven't checked it out yet.
Also check out her and her sister's and Zach's films on vimeo.

Poezieweblog DECONTRABAS

2009-03-30T14:29:00.004-05:00

Ton van 't Hof has posted (Theater) again, this time on "the largest and most popular poblog in The Netherlands and Flanders." Thanks, Ton!

Geen Theater

2009-03-29T13:49:00.002-05:00

Ton van 't Hof translates (Theater) into Dutch over at 1hundred1.

Some New Releases

2009-03-26T17:37:00.002-05:00

Kate Schapira's The Love of Freak Milways & Tango Wax

Christian Peet's Big American Trip

Lytton Smith's All-Purpose Magical Tent

Thanks, Mathias!

2009-03-26T17:07:00.002-05:00

A No Theater over at Yes, Starlings! Yes!

The New Sixth Finch is Up

2009-03-26T09:46:00.002-05:00

Here.

Yes Theater

2009-03-25T08:29:00.002-05:00

E.B. Goodale and Brian Foley are going to be putting out my No Theater poems as a letter-pressed chapbook on their brand spanking new Brave Men Press. Stay tuned.

A couple of tidbits:

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VOIR DIRE

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Justin Marks is the author of A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press, April 2009). He is the founder and editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City with his wife and their infant son and daughter.

Rope-a-Dope Press, 2009. Letterpress printed in an edition of 96, with illustrations by Robert daVies. $8 includes shipping.

I've Never Been A Cartoon Before

2009-03-04T10:51:00.003-05:00

A JB Sapienza (Jibberish, JBriggity) creation (his rap, his film). I play bass and make a cameo.

Some No Theaters

2009-03-02T14:09:00.001-05:00

The new SIR! is up.

So and So Broadsides Now Avaliable

2009-02-23T14:07:00.003-05:00

Click here to get your Robin Vuchnich-designed broadsides of Tony Tost, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, and Elisa Gabbert (shown here)!

So and So #31 (our first in Raleigh!!!)

2009-02-18T12:26:00.001-05:00

Rachel Blau DuPlessis * Elisa Gabbert * Tony Tost

Saturday * February 21st * 8pm * Morning Times * 8 E. Hargett Street * Raleigh, NC

The on-going long poem project of Rachel Blau DuPlessis begun in 1986, is collected in Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt Publishing, 2007) as well as in Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan U.P., 2001) and Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnnumbered: Précis (Salt Publishing, 2004). Pitch: Drafts 77-95 is forthcoming. In 2006, two books of her innovative essays were published: Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work on gender and poetics, along with reprinting of the ground-breaking The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice, both from University of Alabama Press. In 2002 she was also awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, in 2007, a residency for poetry at Bellagio, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, and in 2008-09, an appointment to the National Humanities Center in North Carolina.. Her website is http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/duplessis

Elisa Gabbert is the poetry editor of Absent. Her recent poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Diagram, Eleven Eleven, Meridian, Pleiades, Typo and Washington Square. A chapbook, Thanks for Sending the Engine, is available from Kitchen Press. She is also the author, with Kathleen Rooney, of Something Really Wonderful (dancing girl press, 2007) and That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths Books, 2008). Their collaborations can be found in Boston Review, Caketrain, jubilat, No Tell Motel and other journals.

Tony Tost is the author of Complex Sleep (Iowa 2007), World Jelly (Effing 2005) and Invisible Bride (LSU 2004). He lives in Durham, NC with Leigh and Simon.

Broadsides of the poets' work, designed by Robin Vuchnich, will be available.

No Thousands "at" AWP

2009-01-31T10:20:00.004-05:00

Friday, February 13, 2009 at 6:00pm
The Empty Bottle
1035 N. Western Ave.
Chicago, IL

Black Ocean:
From early silent films to early punk rock, Black Ocean brings together a spectrum of influences and combines them with a radical social perspective on the nature of art and humanity. We manifest our aesthetic in the books we print, the shows we produce, and the work we promote. Based out of Boston, New York and Chicago, our intent is to saturate the public with skillful and passionate forms of expression through a wide variety of mediums. In conjunction with our book releases, we stage parties, concerts, exhibitions and other celebrations around the country. We are committed to promoting artists we firmly believe in, and sharing our enthusiasm for their work with a global audience.

Johannes Göransson was born in Sweden, but has lived around the US for several years. He is the author of: Dear Ra (Starcherone, 2008), Pilot (Fairy Tale Review Press, 2008) and A New Quarantine Will Take My Place (Apostrophe Books, 2007)—and the chapbook Majakovskij en tragedy (Dos Press, 2008). He is also the translator of: Collobert Orbital by Johan Jonsson, Gingerbread Monuments by Victor Johansson & Klara Kallstrom, Remainland: Selected Poems by Aase Berg and Ideals Clearance by Henry Parland. He is the co-editor of Action Books and the online journal Action, Yes.

Joshua Harmon is the author of Quinnehtukqut, a novel. His fiction, poems, and essays have appeared in many journals, including Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, New England Review, Southern Review, and Verse. A graduate of Marlboro College and Cornell University, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and the Dutchess County Arts Council. He likes rainy days, vinyl records, bicycles, pit bulls, tube amplification, and single malt whisky.

Cannibal Books:
Cannibal Books publishes hand-sewn literary journals and chapbooks which focus on divergent and emerging poetics. While our products fit into the category of book arts, the focus is entirely on presenting daring work from a broad range of styles. An aesthetic definition cannot define the hunger. Founded in Brooklyn, NY in 2004, Cannibal Books currently nests in Fayetteville, AR.

Claire Donato is an MFA Literary Arts candidate at Brown University in Providence, RI. Recent poems have been published in Caketrain, Coconut, Harp & Altar, and Cannibal. A first chapbook, Someone Else's Body, is forthcoming from Cannibal Books in 2009. Her hometown is Pittsburgh, PA.

Kevin Holden is from Rhode Island and lives and teaches in Iowa. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Colorado Review, Ecopoetics, The Harvard Advocate, The Liberal, Parcel and Typo.

Forklift, Ohio:
Eric Appleby and Matt Hart founded Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking and Light Industrial Safety in 1995 (that's 14 years without a lost time accident!), and since then have published 19 issues of the journal, several chapbooks, numerous recipes, and all manner of light industrial effects. Operations-wise, the journal now is pretty much exactly the same as it was in the beginning, except now Hart and Appleby have some help: Brett Price is the Assistant Poetry Editor. Merrill Feitell is the Assistant Fiction Editor. And Tricia Suit is the Test Kitchen Supervisor. Issue 20 of Forklift, Ohio will appear at this year's AWP Conference in Chicago, along with chapbooks by Russell Dillon and Alexis Orgera, and a book-book called 31 Poems by Dean Young. Learn more about Forklift, Ohio at: www.forkliftohio.com.

Russell Dillon was born in New York during the mid 70s and hasn't been able to get over it. However, in an effort to put the past behind him, he's attended a number of schools in various places, learned things at each one of them, and received degrees from Emerson College and the Bennington Writing Seminars. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alligator Juniper, Big Bell, Forklift, Ohio, and Tight, among others. He currently lives in San Francisco, where he does almost everything life asks of him.

Alexis Orgera is freelance writer/editor based in Florida and the Assistant Director of the Writing Resource Center at the New College of Florida. Her work has appeared in Bat City Review, DIAGRAM, Folio, Forklift, Ohio, Green Mountains Review, Gulf Coast, jubilat, storySouth, and The Rialto, among others. Her website is www.alexisorgera.com.

Dean Young has published ten books of poetry, recently Elegy on Toy Piano, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Primitive Mentor. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, two from the National endowment for the Arts as well as an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught in the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College and was on the permanent faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop until becoming the William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. A book on poetics, The Art of Recklessness will be published in 2010.

Octopus Books:
Octopus Magazine was founded in 2003 & through its 11 issues has showcased the best of emerging poets. Additionally the magazine has published the work of such established writers as Paul Muldoon, Barbara Guest & CD Wright. Octopus Books is a small press founded in
2006, which has published hand-made, limited edition chapbooks & full-length books. Their first two full length book releases are Eric Baus' Tuned Droves and Julie Doxsee's Undersleep.

Eric Baus is the author of The To Sound (Verse Press/Wave Books), Tuned Droves (Octopus Books) and several chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Hambone, Web Conjunctions, The Poets On Painters
Anthology, and elsewhere. He edits Minus House chapbooks and lives in Denver.

Shane McCrae went to school at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and Harvard Law. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The American Poetry Review, American Letters & Commentary, African
American Review, Colorado Review, New Orleans Review and others. His chapbook, One Neither One, is forthcoming from Octopus Books. He lives in Iowa City.

Rope-A-Dope Press:
Founded in the spring of 2007 by painter Robert daVies and poet Mary Walker Graham, Rope-a-Dope Press fosters collaborations between artists, writers, and their communities through the publication of handmade, letterpress printed chapbooks, broadsides, and artists' books.

Sampson Starkweather is the author of City of Moths from Rope-A-Dope Press and The Photograph from horse less press. He lives in the woods alone.

Chris Tonelli is the author of three chapbooks: For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press, forthcoming), A Mule-Shaped Cloud (w/ Sarah Bartlett, horse less press, 2008), and WIDE TREE: Short Poems (Kitchen Press, 2006). He teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.

JuCo's new shizz!

2009-01-31T10:14:00.002-05:00

Julia Cohen's new chapbook, The History of a Lake Never Drowns, is now available from Dancing Girl Press for the affordable price of $7.00: http://www.dancinggirlpress.com/history.html.

SALTGRASS 3

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Hi,
I'm pleased to announce that the third issue of Saltgrass is out, featuring these fine poets & writers:

Eric Baus, CAConrad, Jessica deCourcy Hinds, Johannes Goransson, Kate Greenstreet, Brenda Iijima, Kristi Maxwell, Sawako Nakayasu, Keith Newton, Joshua Poteat, Joy Rhoades, Ken Rumble, Matt Sumell, Chris Tonelli, and Mike Young.

It's just waiting for you to read it. The basics:

$5.00 print journal. You can order the issue online & read sample poems at www.saltgrassjournal.blogspot.com.

Please pass on the good word.

Thanks,
Julia

Black Ocean Celebrates Black Friday

2008-11-28T15:08:00.001-05:00

***Buy One Get One Free***

On November 28th, from 12:01am to 11:59pm, buy any Black Ocean book priced $11.95 or more and get a second title of your choice FREE (offer does not apply to issues of Handsome). Just write in a note on the PayPal order page regarding which title you’d like to receive. And, as always: Free Shipping!

Go to www.blackocean.org/catalog to place your orders.

Support independent publishing and have a very handsome holiday.

Love Janaka

New Chapbook Out From Rope-A-Dope Press

2008-11-28T15:06:00.001-05:00

City of Moths, by Sampson Starkweather, Golden Gloves Chapbook Series, 2008/2009. Stab bound, with letterpress printed cover. $10 includes shipping.

Sampson Starkweather was born in Pittsboro, North Carolina. He is the author of The Photograph from horse less press. His work can be found in Typo, Octopus, jubilat, Absent, Tarpaulin Sky, RealPoetik, Absent and Sink Review. He lives in the woods alone.

TWO NYC READINGS

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1.
Justin Marks, Sam Starkweather and Chris Tonelli
The Four-Faced Liar, 6:30pm, Thursday November 20
165 West 4th Street
(Between 6th and 7th Avenues)
New York, NY 10014
Phone: (212) 366 0608

Justin Marks' first full length collection, A Million in Prizes, is forthcoming from New Issues Press in spring 2009. His chapbooks include Voir Dire (Rope-a-Dope Press, forthcoming) and [Summer insular] (Horse Less Press, 2007). He is the founder and Editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City.

Sampson Starkweather is the author of City of Moths, forthcoming from Rope-A-Dope Press, and The Photograph from horse less press. He lives in the woods.

Chris Tonelli is the author of three chapbooks: For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press, forthcoming), A Mule-Shaped Cloud (w/ Sarah Bartlett, horse less press, 2008), and WIDE TREE: Short Poems (Kitchen Press, 2006). He teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.

Founded in the spring of 2007 by painter Robert daVies and poet Mary Walker Graham, Rope-a-Dope Press fosters collaborations between artists, writers, and their communities through the publication of handmade, letterpress printed chapbooks, broadsides, and artists' books.

AND

2.
CHRIS TONELLI
DOUGLAS HAHN
LISA SEWELL

*Friday November 21st, 7pm*

Pete's Candy Store ( www.petescandystore.com )

709 Lorimer St. (between Frost and Richardson)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Take the G to Metropolitan or the L to Lorimer.

For more information, go to www.multifariousarray.blogspot.com

Hope to see you there!

Gravitron on Verse Daily

2008-11-13T09:51:00.003-05:00

Here.

WHAT I DID THIS SUMMER: I recorded an album in NYC with Ara Vora (our third!),

2008-10-24T07:50:00.004-05:00

went camping and rafting in NJ/PA,

2008-10-24T07:41:00.009-05:00

went to Portland, OR to visit SB, EKF, ZS, and to give a talk at Pacific University about Rope-A-Dope, small press publishing, and book making,

2008-10-24T07:30:00.012-05:00

bought a house and moved to NC,

2008-10-24T07:25:00.000-05:00

went to the beach with the fam,

2008-10-24T07:24:00.002-05:00

and taught WCW to Julie's 5th Graders. Pretty good summer.

2008-10-24T07:17:00.004-05:00

The new Absent

2008-10-20T06:10:00.000-05:00

Here.

Me on Ana (Shut up)

2008-08-07T19:13:00.001-05:00

Here.

Boston Poetry Collective Reading #2: Ugly Duckling Presse

2008-07-16T12:20:00.000-05:00

THIS SATURDAY, 7/19, 7PM

Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow St
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: 617.868.2033
www.pierremenardgallery.com

Kate Colby is the author of Unbecoming Behavior (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) and Fruitlands (Litmus Press, 2006), which received a Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Recent writing has appeared in Aufgabe, New American Writing and NO: a journal of the arts. She lives in Providence, RI, where she works as a copywriter and editor.

Jeffrey Yang works as an editor at New Directions Publishing. He has recently published translations of Su Shi's EAST SLOPE (Ugly Duckling Presse) and a Tang-Song collection of poetry called RHYTHM 226 (Tioronda Books). His poetry collection AN AQUARIUM will be published by Graywolf Press in Fall 2008.

Matvei Yankelevich edited and translated TODAY I WROTE NOTHING: THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF DANIIL KHARMS (Overlook, 2007). His translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "A Cloud in Pants" is included in NIGHT WRAPS THE SKY: WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT MAYAKOVSKY (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) and he is a co-translator of OBERIU: AN ANTHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN ABSURDISM (Northwestern, 2006). His translations of Russian poetry have appeared in several anthologies and in many periodicals including Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, and The New Yorker. His own writing has appeared in Boston Review, Damn The Caesars, Fence, Octopus, Open City, and other literary journals. He is the author of a long poem, THE PRESENT WORK (Palm Press, 2006). He teaches Russian Literature at Hunter College, and edits the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse.

JUSTIN!!!

2008-05-20T15:36:00.001-05:00

The Winner of the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize

Justin Marks has won the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize for his manuscript A Million in Prizes. Carl Phillips, author of Quiver of Arrows, judged the award. Justin wins a $2,000 award and publication of his manuscript in the spring of 2009.

Justin Marks’s latest chapbook is [Summer insular] (Horse Less Press, 2007). His poems have recently appeared in Cannibal, Soft Targets, Tarpaulin Sky and the Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel – Second Floor, and are forthcoming in Handsome, the New York Quarterly and Wildlife Poetry Magazine. He is the founder and Editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City.

From Judge’s Citation:
“‘I wake, my not-yet-self/projecting back on the life I rise into.’ That’s but one example of the kind of logic (and syntax) that informs the poems of A Million in Prizes, a logic that often resists initial sense, only to reward with a clarity and maturity of insight that make these poems more powerful—more persuasive—with each reading.” —Carl Phillips

This Friday Night

2008-04-21T17:42:00.003-05:00

The Burning Chair Readings
present

A Gathering of Cannibals
at The Pierre Menard Gallery & Lame Duck Books
w/ readings from Cannibal: Issue Three poets

Samuel Amadon
Stephanie Anderson
Elisa Gabbert
Erin Lyndal Martin
Ben Mazer
Christopher Rizzo
Thibault Raoult
Chris Tonelli
Jared White

Friday, April 25th, 7:30-10 pm
The Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow Street
Cambridge, MA
pierremenardgallery.com

next to
Lame Duck Books
12 Arrow Street
Cambridge, MA
lameduckbooks.com

FREE – BYOB

Copies of Cannibal: Issue Three, Ben Mazer’s The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics & other Cannibal Books artifacts will be on sale at the reading.

Cannibal Blog: flesheatingpoems.blogspot.com

Samuel Amadon's work has appeared recently in Boston Review, Cannibal,Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Modern Review, and The New Review of Literature. He lived in Boston for several years and does not remember most of it.

Stephanie Anderson's work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Spinning Jenny, and Tin House, among others. Her chapbook, In the Particular Particular, won the 2006 DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press Chapbook Contest. She will live in either Philadelphia or Chicago next year.

Elisa Gabbert's recent work can be found in Colorado Review, Eleven Eleven, Pleiades, Meridian, Washington Square, Cannibal and Diagram. She is the author of two chapbooks from Kitchen Press, Thanks for Sending the Engine (2007) and My Fear of X (forthcoming), as well as a collection of collaborative poems written with Kathleen Rooney, That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths, 2008).

Erin Lyndal Martin recently finished her MFA at the University of Alabama. Her work is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly and Hotel Amerika.

Ben Mazer is the author of The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics (Cannibal Books) and Johanna Poems (Cy Gist Press). He is the editor of Landis Everson's Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005 (Graywolf Press), and a contributing editor to Fulcrum.

Christopher Rizzo is a writer and publisher who lives in New York. Over the years, his work has appeared in Art New England, The Cultural Society, Cannibal, Dusie, H_NGM_N, and Spell among other magazines. Christopher has also authored several chapbooks, such as Claire Obscure (Katalanche Press, 2005), Zing (Carve Editions, 2006), and The Breaks (Fewer & Further Press, 2006). Full on Jabber, a collaborative work written with poet Jess Mynes, was released by Martian Press in 2007. Christopher also edits Anchorite Press, an independent poetry publisher of innovative work. He is a doctoral candidate in English at the University at Albany.

Thibault Raoult was a Dolin Scholar at the University of Chicago, and, for two years, OFF(icial) poet-in-residence at Brown University. I’ll Say I’m Only Visiting emerged from Cannibal Books (Brooklyn) in Nov/07; a second run is now available. A new volume, El p.e. [physical education of the elevated train, emerges from Projective Industries in the coming months. Born in Pithiviers, France, raised in Rochester, NY, Thibault generates the dreams [of the congregation of details—a most real e-(s)tat(e) near 3Coasts.

Chris Tonelli lives in the Boston area where he runs The So and So Series. He has work forthcoming in Saltgrass, Salt Hill, Absent, and Good Foot, and is the author of three chapbooks: For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press, forthcoming), A Mule-Shaped Cloud (w/ Sarah Bartlett, horse less press, 2008), and WIDE TREE: Short Poems (Kitchen Press, 2006).

Jared White grew up near Boston and is currently living in Brooklyn, New York. His poems have appeared in such journals as Barrow Street, Fugue, Harp and Altar, The Modern Review and Sawbuck; they are forthcoming in Fulcrum, Horse Less Review, LVNG and elsewhere. He’s about to finish his MFA at Columbia University, where he received a prize from the Academy of American Poets in 2005. He blogs from time to time about poems and culture at jaredswhite.blogspot.com.

I'll Be Reading With These Two Jokers

2008-04-14T15:37:00.007-05:00

This Saturday, April 19th at The Imaginary Press Reading Series. Just in case you're going to be in Minneapolis.

Justin Marks' latest chapbook is [Summer insular](Horse Less Press, 2007). His poems have recently appeared in Soft Targets, Tarpaulin Sky and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel – Second Floor, and are forthcoming in Handsome and New York Quarterly. He is the founder and Editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City.

Matt Rasmussen’s poetry has been recently published or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Cimmaron Review,Passages North, Dislocate, New York Quarterly, LIT,and What Light: This Week’s Poem at mnartists.org. He currently lives in Robbinsdale and teaches at Gustavus Adolphus College and Rasmussen College. Last year he participated in the Loft Mentor Series and this year he received a SASE/Jerome Grant for Emerging Writers to assist in the writing, editing, and publication of his first full-length manuscript. His chapbook, Fingergun, is available from Kitchen Press.

NaMoWriBLOW

2008-04-12T12:26:00.001-05:00

Me and Sarah canned our project. It sucked.

NaPoWriMo Days 5-7

2008-04-08T14:52:00.002-05:00

Self Portrait as Slow Growth

Posing as La Reine Soleil,
Heffernan's figure grows an entire

globe of gardens (the planet
Versailles), conjures up a cosmic

bouffant of roses from one
of the miniature beds--a bouquet

to landscape her white-hot
head.

NaPoWriMo Days 3 & 4

2008-04-04T12:34:00.002-05:00

SELF PORTRAIT AS SLOW GROWTH

Employing microvilli, Heffernan's
landscape absorbs its color

from the figure of herself, so that
the bouffant bouquet

must be leaching from some
internal source. Perhaps the body

is a prism; perhaps this symbiosis
has a third wheel.

*

Though they spin along the same
axis, each world evolves

separately. Each atmosphere
expands, then contracts,

breathing similar air. They are
unaware that the sun they orbit

is a sun they share.

NaPoWriMo Days 1&2

2008-04-02T11:48:00.002-05:00

Here's the first two "installments" of the long poem Sarah and I will be attempting to write based on the painting below. You will be privy to it as it grows and changes (how lucky are YOU?!?!). I imagine some days will just be spent revising and not adding anything...who knows. Anyway:

SELF PORTRAIT AS SLOW GROWTH

Employing microvilli, Heffernan's
landscape absorbs its color

from the figure of herself, so that
the bouffant bouquet

must be leaching from some
internal source. Perhaps the body

is a prism; perhaps this symbiosis
has a third wheel.

NaPoWriMo '08!!! Woo-hoo! I'm going to Daytona!!!

2008-04-02T06:04:00.004-05:00

Didn't sleep well last night, Poetry Fan? Our apologies. While we are getting a late start on this month's festivities, I can assure you, it will be well worth the wait. In the meantime, feast your eyes on this Julie Heffernan painting we'll be loosely using as our muse (See! It's already working).

Until next time,
Chris and Sarah

The Greatest Poem I Ever Wrote

2008-03-30T11:23:00.001-05:00

I've been watering this damn plant for like 5 friggin' years, and finally...a flower!

Upcoming So and So/Boston Poetry Collective Readings

2008-03-19T00:04:00.003-05:00

Air Jordan, Air Jordan, Air Jordan.

That's right, people...So and So turns 23! Come help us celebrate!

John Mercuri Dooley * Derek Fenner * Ryan Gallagher * John Mulrooney

Saturday * March 22nd * 8pm * The Distillery * 516 East Second Street * South Boston, MA 02127

Feel free to bring booze and snacks.

John Mercuri Dooley lives in Cambridge, Mass., where he and his husband, Andrew Richardson, curate the Demolicious Poetry/Multimedia Series. MuBet, an ongoing online project, can be seen at . Other work has appeared in literary magazines and sites including Blaze Vox, facsicle, Gut Cult, Moria, No Tell Motel, Shampoo and Word For/word, and has been distributed as mail art by Marymark Press. His multimedia work has been presented at the Brickbottom Gallery in Somerville, and Oni Gallery and Atlantic Works Gallery in Boston. He has written book reviews fo Boog City and Jacket.

Derek Fenner is a graduate of the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics MFA Program and currently resides in Lowell, MA above Page’s clock. He is the director of “Unlocking the Light”, a federal grant for a program he helped design to incorporate art in the professional development of the Department of Youth Services in Massachusetts. Previous to this, he began an art mentorship program and taught art to juveniles in a maximum security lock-down facility for the State of Massachusetts. Some of the work he did with these students was chronicled at the Rhys Gallery from February 10th - March 4th, 2006 and called "Temporary Walls: The Visual Voices of Detained Youth." He is the author of My Favorite Color is Red: Experiments with Lines 1999-2005. Derek has also finished his portraiture series: 100 People You Should Know. He also runs the Union Square Poetry Series,a bi-monthly Saturday reading at P.A.'s Lounge in Somerville, MA with Ryan Gallagher.

Ryan Gallagher lives in Lowell, MA with his wife and daughter. He is the author of Plum Smash and Other Flashbulbs published in 2005. Ryan has finished translating The Complete Works of Gaius Valerius Catullus, a project he began at the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where he completed his MFA and where he was the recipient of the William Burroughs scholarship. He received his B.A. in Literature from Boston College. He also studied Thangka painting, traditional Tibetan Buddha paintings, for two years and is an accomplished oil painter. Ryan currently teaches high school literature.

John Mulrooney’s chapbook If You See Something, Say Something came out from the Anchorite press in 2006. His poems have appeared in Fulcrum, Pressed Wafer foldemzines and Shampoo, and are forthcoming in Process.

and

The inaugural Boston Poetry Collective reading!

Josh Bell * Ashley Capps * Noah Eli Gordon * Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Monday • March 24th • 7pm • The Lily Pad • 1353 Cambridge Street • Inman Sq. • Cambridge

Josh Bell's first book is No Planets Strike, Zoo Press/University of Nebraska Press, 2005. He received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a Teaching-Writing Fellow and Paul Engle Postgraduate Fellow. He was the Diane Middlebrook Fellow at the University of Wisconsin's Creative Writing Institute, 2003-04, and in the Summer of 2006 was a Walter Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writer's Conference. His poems have appeared in such magazines as 9th Letter, Boston Review, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, Triquarterly, Verse, and Volt. He is currently an instructor at Columbia University and is finishing his doctoral dissertation for the University of Cincinnati, where he was University Distinguished Graduate Fellow.

Ashley Capps received her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2006. Her first book of poems, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, was also published in 2006. New poems appear in the current issues of Granta and Black Warrior Review, and are forthcoming in H_NGM_N and Columbia Poetry Review. She is working on a second collection of poems entitled Then Self.

Noah Eli Gordon is the author of six collections, including Novel Pictorial Noise, selected by John Ashbery for the Nation Poetry Series. He teaches at the University of Colorado at Denver, and worked in Boston for a few years in the '90s selling jewelry from a cart at Downtown Crossing.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of three books, including Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk (Iowa) and Figures for a Darkroom Voice (with Noah Eli Gordon, Tarpaulin Sky). Next Spring two new books are due out: The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (Tupelo) and 12x12: Conversations in Poetry and Poetics, an anthology of younger poets in conversation with their mentors (Iowa). After growing up in Seattle, he lived in Turkey, Slovakia, Arizona, Ireland, and Colorado, and he's recently settled in Chicago to teach at Loyola University.

Breakfast with Pessoa

2008-03-13T06:40:00.003-05:00

from The Book of Disquiet:

"To speak is to have too much consideration for others. Both fish and Oscar Wilde die because they can't keep their mouths shut."

"Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions--the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way." (this one reminds me of Elisa's "prenostalgia for [her] hangover")

"I frequently do not recognize myself--it's something that often happens to people who know themselves...I accompany myself in the various disguises with which I am alive. Of everything that changes, I possess that which is always the same; of all that which makes up everything, I possess that which is nothing [...]

Fatigue. Remembering is a respite, because it is doing nothing. How many times, to get better rest, have I remembered what I never was, and there is no clarity or nostalgia in my memories of the provinces [?] where I was just like those who live board to board with the floor, I oscillate the oscillation of memories, in vast halls where I never dwelt.

I turned myself into a fiction of myself to such an extent that any natural feeling that I have, of course, from the moment it's born, becomes a feeling of imagination--the memory in dreams, the dream of forgetting about the dream, knowing myself by not thinking about myself.

I stripped off my own being to such an extent that existing means dressing up. Only when I'm disguised am I really myself. And around me all unknown sunsets, as they die, gild the landscapes I shall never see."

Hail to the Chiefs

2008-02-18T10:24:00.006-05:00

Thanks to President's Day, I have the day off. It couldn't be drearier here in Cambridge, which is perfect, because I have a luxuriously regimented day planned...all of which takes place indoors. I'm in the writing/procrastination phase of the day. It was preceded by the reading and breakfast phases. They were very successful phases I must say, and the bar has been set pretty high for the rest of the phases. Phases, did you hear that? Yeah you did.

Anyway, I started reading Hejinian's The Language of Inquiry, which reminds me to apologize for my Goodreads behavior...I keep accepting friends w/o posting any books. Perhaps it is more important for me to appear to have friends than it is for me to appear to read a lot. As far as you're concerned I am superior at both having friends and reading voraciously, ok? Good.

Back to Hejinian, in which I came across this sentence:

The air quivers with the qua! qua! of fleeing geese, while the thought of their formation in flight lingers.

I point this our because Sam and Ana both live in towns ending in "qua" (Chappaqua and Massapequa, respectively) and when they get together, they "qua" (like crows rather than Hejinian's geese) as a sort of gang sign, flapping their "wings." Also, Elisa uses the word "qua" more than any poet ever. Seriously, Google it.

This made me think about something I read (all of 15 minutes ago) in Hejinian's intro. She says this of her friends:

For almost thirty years now, I have depended on the friendship and on the challenges they have offered. They have provided a context for my work; they have given it meaning and made the undertaking of it meaningful, at least to me. My gratitude for this is enormous.

This is how I feel about my friends. I think this sort of community building that results from poetry is often confused with nepotism. I used to hate when I could make social connections between the editors of journals/presses and authors in/on those journals/presses. Now I prefer to be published by my friends. The cold, artless anonymity of blind submissions seems like a dangerous lottery of resources. Resources used to reward or create art. Resources for art seem more precious than that, no? For these resources to be given outside the context in which the art was or will be created seems...something...irresponsible?...I don't know. While I'm sure I could easily disprove what I just said (something like art should be judged solely on its merit, etc.), I just wanted to thank my friends for giving my work meaning via context.

Drunken Boat #9

2008-02-15T09:32:00.002-05:00

Go here, then click on "Poetics."

Rare Mule Footage

2008-02-15T09:25:00.001-05:00

A video from the Kitchen Press/horse less press reading at Justin Marks' apartment, 1/30/08:

Go here to see it all.

Welcome to...

2008-02-11T11:08:00.000-05:00

If you got the money, honey, we got your disease.

THE JUNGLE is a bound collection of the Manila Broadsides--a collab between Rope-A-Dope Press and The So and So Series. For more pics, go here.

"It's up to you...New...York......New York!"

2008-01-28T06:48:00.000-05:00

The So and So Series and Rope-A-Dope Press have big plans for AWP. Come visit us at table #285.

A MULE-SHAPED CLOUD

2008-01-20T00:23:00.000-05:00

Now out from horse less press.

Belated VICTOR Pictures

2008-01-12T10:14:00.000-05:00

Our boy Chad Reynolds (known to his sensei as Reywads) had his chapbook launch at The Distillery a couple Thursdays ago. VICTOR IN THE NEW WORLD is now out on Rope-A-Dope Press (the press behind the So and So Series broadsides).
He was nice enough to have Elisa Gabbert, Rope-A-Dope's own Mary Graham, and I open up for him. And then Ara Vora (Chad, TJ Weihing, Colin Tracy, and I) played afterwards.

MC Loc Chanler

Elisa Gabbert

Mary Graham

Yours truly

The star of the evening, Chad Reynolds

w/ musical guest, Ara Vora

For better pics of the evening, go here.

Pt. 2

2008-01-07T20:20:00.000-05:00

An interview with Peter Jay Shippy.

How To Build The Ghost In Your Attic

2007-12-25T18:05:00.000-05:00

An interview with Peter Jay Shippy. His new book is out on Rose Metal Press.

Pull Out the Train

2007-12-09T14:14:00.000-05:00

Matt Mullins on WIDE TREE. Thanks, Matt.

Boog City

2007-12-07T14:26:00.000-05:00

46

Boog City 46, New York City Small Presses Issue

The issue features pages put together by six of New York City's finest small
presses. It is in conjunction with a Tues. Dec. 18, 6:00 p.m. levy lives
event at ACA Galleries, 529 W.20th St., 5th Flr., featuring readers from
each of the presses' authors.

Inside the issue are pages from the below presses with work from some of
their authors:

**Belladonna Books
--Latasha N. Nevada Diggs
--R. Erica Doyle

**Cuneiform Press
--Ted Greenwald

**Cy Gist Press
--Scott Glassman
--Carrie Hunter
--Ben Mazer
--Guillermo Parra
--Sandra Simonds

**Futurepoem Books
--Jill Magi

**Kitchen Press
--Ana Bozicevic-Bowling
--Lily Brown
--Elisa Gabbert
--Mathias Svalina
--Chris Tonelli

**Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs
--Sueyeun Juliette Lee
--Nathaniel Siegel
--Christopher Stackhouse

H_NGM_N

2007-12-05T07:00:00.000-05:00

ISSUE #7

POEMS: Gavin Adair • Claire Becker • Daniel Becker • Julia Cohen • Simon DeDeo • Eric Elliott • Charley Foster • Noah Eli Gordon • Eryn Green • Timothy Green • Matt Hart • MC Hyland • Becca Klaver • Robert Krut • Brad Liening • Chris Martin • Lauren McCollum • David Sewell • Lori Shine • Peter Jay Shippy • Brenda Sieczkowski • Leigh Stein • Chris Tonelli

INTRODUCING RIC CADDEL: A Preferatory Note by Aaron Tieger

FROM: Joseph Bienvenu • John Hyland • Clay Matthews • Ben Mirov • Amber Nelson • Craig Morgan Teicher

EP POETRY: Sean Thomas Dougherty • Dobby Gibson

FICTION: Charles Israel Jr • Michael Piafsky • Darrin Doyle

Artist’s Portfolio: Fumiko Amano

COMIX: Gabrielle Bell • Jessica Hagy

ESSAYS & REVIEWS: David Saffo on Charles Olson & Antonio Damasio • Gina Myers on some chapbooks • Jen Tynes on some chapbooks • Matt Dube on Gabrielle Bell • Monica McFawn on Rachel M Simon • Timothy Bradford on Paige Ackerson-Kiely • Tom Dvorske on Adam Clay • Zackary Sholem Berger on Sean Thomas Dougherty

Interviewed

2007-10-30T09:15:00.000-05:00

At Big Red & Shiny.

Providunces

2007-10-21T23:03:00.000-05:00

I am Sam's opening band.

Sam gives the audience my home address.

Thanks to Kate and James and Brent for hosting, and Elisa, Julia, Heather, and Mike for coming along.

I and Sam

2007-10-19T06:14:00.000-05:00

Come see us read at Ada Books in Providence, RI this Saturday (tomorrow!) at 6pm. Shout out to Publicly Complex's Kate Schapira.

Christopher Columbus vs. Christopher Tonelli

2007-10-11T13:14:00.000-05:00

He didn't make it to India. I eventually made it to New Hampshire, but not before this happened.

He drove three boats with names like Nina, Pinta, and Santa Marie. I drove this sweet canoe named Old Towne or something like that.

I bet he didn't get to drive this while his wrecked boat was in the junkyard ('73 Dodge Charger, btw).

And my guess is he used, like, a map...complete with serpenty sea monsters. I used this.

And he prolly wore tights and a shirt with a big ruffled collar. Not me.

WINNER: Christopher Tonelli

Camp Starkweather

2007-09-25T10:10:00.000-05:00

Pics here, here, here, and here.

2007-09-24T19:01:00.000-05:00

It was great meeting Dottie Lasky and hearing her work. She guessed my birthday within two days. Thanks to John and Michael for having us.

I'm reading. You should come witness the meltdown.

2007-09-19T12:45:00.000-05:00

Come hear me and Dottie Lasky read at The Plough & Stars this Sunday, 9/23, @ 7pm-ish.

THE MULES' Revenge

2007-09-17T13:40:00.000-05:00

Me and Sarah's A Mule-Shaped Cloud will be out on horse less press in January some time. Good thing it isn't mule less press.

So and So in The Dig

2007-09-12T13:09:00.001-05:00

Read all about it.

A's B-day Dinner

2007-09-11T05:57:00.000-05:00

First. Radicchio, endive, and arugula salad w/mandarin oranges, raisins, and pecans served over a chick pea, kalamata olive, mustard vinaigrette.

2007-09-11T05:56:00.000-05:00

Second. Poached artichoke heart and whole garlic w/ crispy onion...nest-like thingy. Dollop of basil soy sour cream.

2007-09-11T05:55:00.000-05:00

Third. Marinated tofu, shitake mushroom, and sweet potato medallion stack over tahini and spicey nayo w/ brussel sprouts in sesame lemon "butter."

2007-09-11T05:53:00.000-05:00

Ooo la la...tres romantique.

2007-09-11T05:52:00.000-05:00

A-train, showin' her brussel sprouts.

2007-09-11T05:47:00.000-05:00

Dessert. Finally. A chocolate raspberry mint mousse cup.

Get your hands on the latest Manila Broadsides

2007-08-26T19:07:00.000-05:00

Here.

Happy Anniversary to us!

2007-08-20T06:36:00.000-05:00

Allison and I had our 5th anniversary recently...we went kayaking on the Charles and then to a Sox game. Sox lost. I love when that happens.

So and So Updates

2007-08-11T15:32:00.000-05:00

Check it. So and So is audible. And info on the next reading is up.