Late Summer...but not too late: News & new releases!

Why yes, this is the aforepromised ginormous post I started before I went on vacation. My apologies for taking so long to complete it. (A few things actually dropped off because they'd already happened or sold out. Whew!) I've got a few more things in the inbox & will try to get those up soon as well. Enjoy!

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Michelle Detorie of WOMB & Hex Presse has been busy making/planning handmade sets of cleromancy dice, poetry puzzles in specimen bottles, & a fresh new blogroll of more than 300 women poets. Stop by the Womb blog and/or the Hex Presse blog for more info. Hex has also been added to the press section of the sidebar.




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E. M. Bertram of Shadowbox Press believes all good things come in threes. So for a limited time, you can get 3 books for 3 bucks off. The set includes Fuel In Vacant Lots: Essays On Queer Existence by Jen Alabiso, Woody Loverude, Zachary Jean Chartkoff, Jaffa Aharonov, Kim Schneidman, & E.M. Bertram, Flood by Woody Loverude & constellations gathered along the ecliptic by Craig Santos Perez. To order, email shadowboxpress [at] gmail [dot] com. (Please include "Order" in the subject line.)




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Jen Tynes of Horseless Press has also been busy. Two new chapbooks are now available: [Summer_insular] by Justin Marks & Fog Quartets by Julie Doxsee.

Each is 5.5 x 8.5, staple bound, with cover art by Conan Kelly, 40 pp. & available for $5 via PayPal or mailorder.




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INCH #4 IS OUT NOW! The smallest magazine around is back with microfiction from Michael McFee & Cynthia Reeves, & poetry from Jeffery Beam, Sebastian Matthews, & Mischa Willett. Order single issues (only a buck!) here or subscribe here. One, two, and three year subscriptions are available.

Also, check out the two latest offerings from the Bull City Poetry Series, The Smallest Talk by Michael McFee & Licorice by Ellen C. Bush. In addition to buying online from Bull City's secure website and/or Amazon.com, you can purchase Bull City Press books from several locations in North Carolina, including the Regulator (Durham), Quail Ridge Books (Raleigh), McIntyre's Fine Books (Pittsboro), and the Bull's Head Bookstore (Chapel Hill).




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Tiny books. Big hearts. Eileen Tabios of Meritage Press has been up to some poetical philanthropy. First, she paired up with Baksheesh (a fair trade retailer) and Heifer International, introducing a new series of Tiny Books. The miniature blank books are handmade by artisans in Guatemala & Eileen handwrites the poems inside. Dan Waber & Tom Beckett are the first two authors in the series. (Photo of Tom Beckett's Tiny Book above by Crag Hill.)

Next, she auctioned off a copy of Ivy Alvarez's limited-edition tinyside from Big Game Books, raising more than $300, which purchased 30 mosquito nets from the Nothing But Nets campaign against malaria (the leading killer of children in Africa).

Tiny Books are still for sale--because they're HOD, handwritten on demand. (Now that's DIY.) Each Tiny Book costs $10 plus $1.00 shipping/handling. To purchase the Tiny Books & donate to Heifer International, send a check for $11.00 (each, please specify title(s)) made out to "Meritage Press" to

Eileen Tabios
Meritage Press
256 North Fork Crystal Springs Rd.
St. Helena, CA 94574

Meritage Press has also recently released William Allegrezza's Fragile Replacements & Allen Bramhall's chunky two volume Days Poem (which I've just started reading). Order Meritage books from SPD, Amazon, or Lulu.




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House Press has many shiny new items avaiable, including Just as Form by Eric Unger, Friend Delighting the Eloquent by Matthew Klane, & some very cool grave rubbings by Barrett Gordon. (Since House Press is a collective, each item has different ordering instructions, so check the links for details.)




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Josh Hanson's got a newish press, kids. It's called End & Shelf Books. Just released is Stuart Greenhouse's beautiful new chapbook, All Architecture. Just like all End & Shelf productions, All Architecture is available as a **FREE** PDF. While you're downloading, also check out Clay Matthews' Western Returns & The Collaborative Poem by the Hundred Day Party.




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Justin Marks' Kitchen Press has recently released Run Down the Emphasis by Erin Elizabeth Burke. Get it for $5 in the Kitchen Press bookstore here. Justin's also been posting some reviews & interviews relating to other Kitchen titles on the main blog, so take a peek at those as well.




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Carrie Hunter's Ypolita Press offers a new bilingual English/German edition of CAConrad's THE FRANK POEMS with translations by Holger, with assistance from Jonas Slonacker and Sigrid Mayer. Available for $5 via PayPal. And Conrad's posted an excerpt here.




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From Paul Chavez's Vértice 1925 comes the Spam Poetry Anthology, described as "the first book compiling the works of spam poetry authors from around the globe." The book is edited by Morton Hurley, with a foreword by K. Silem Mohammad & cover are by Tony Millionaire. Here's a review from 3AM. 60 poems, 76 pp. of spam you actually want to read? Not a bad deal for a mere $10.




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Three new books from Mark Young's Otoliths Press are now available: Nick Piombino's by now legendary "visual collage novel" Free Fall, Sheila E. Murphy's first integrated linear & visual collection The Case of the Lost Objective (Case) & Rochelle Ratner's memoir / found text / poetry journal Leads. All are available via Otolith's Lulu.com storefront here.

Playing ketchup: New release roundup

Oh, what happened to January? February? Yeah, well, things have been in flux 'round here. I can't possibly catch up with everything I missed, & many ephemeral chaps have already come & gone in that time, but here are buncha things with noting. After this, I'll try to keep up better! (Keep sending me yr announcements, links, etc., please.)

In no particular order:

Zachary Schomburg's The Man Suit is available for preorder from Black Ocean Press. (& they've been added to the resource links.) I haven't seen the book yet, but I like Zach's work a lot & have been looking forward to this. It'll be shipping April 2. 112pp. $12.95. They take PayPal. Get it here.

Jen Tynes has a new chapbook, from Dancing Girl Press, called See Also Electric Light, for a mere $5. I think this might be the one with Jen's poems riffing on a vintage book about boys and electricity, yes? She told me about it in Cambridge, but didn't read from it, so I'm curious about this one too. Get it here.

Speaking of both Zach Schomburg & Jen Tynes, lookie what they've done now: Horseless Press just published Zach's chapbook Abraham Lincoln's Death Scene. (I have read an earlier version of this, when it appeared in LIT a while back. Good stuff.) 22 pp. $5 via PayPal. Sorry, no cover image up yet. Get that here

Octopus #8 has also been released. (Gee, Zach has been really busy.) This boxed chapbook issue includes The Knife Grasses by Julie Doxsee, The Ohio System by Jen Tynes & Erika Howsare, Perfect Villagers by Sueyeun Juliette Lee, DJ Spinoza's Dozen by Eugene Ostashevsky, The Tides by Genya Turovskaya, The Continuing Misadventures of Andrew, the Headless Talking Bear by Jonah Winter, & Goodnight Lung by Samuel Amadon. You can also get the chaps individually ($6 each), but it's a much better deal (& idea) to collect all eight ($28) here.

Apostrophe Books has just released their first title, Catherine Meng's Tonight's the Night. At 80 pp at $13.50, it can be had via SPD (though maybe not quite yet), Amazon, or directly from Apostrophe (checks only, no online store yet). Details here. (Looks like they've got some other interesting things coming up too, including books from Elizabeth Robinson & Johannes Göransson.)

Mairéad Byrne has a new e-book, SOS, in PDF format from UBU Web's Ubu Editions here. [Link goes direct to PDF. For a complete index of UBU Editions titles, click here.] It's FREE to browse, print or save to your computer these 88 terrific pages. So you've no excuse. (& incidentally, Mairéad published all of the poems first on her blog Heaven, which you should really be reading, if you're not already. It's all poems, prose poems & poem-essays, all the time.)

Brian Kim Stefans has a new book, It's Not Time: Early Poems & Translations, which he's published through Lulu.com. It's available as a 151pp. paperback for $12 or a PDF download for $4. He talks about using Lulu a bit on his blog. Get it here.

Dusie entices us all to preorder Logan Ryan Smith's forthcoming book, The Singers. Here's more info.

Joe Massey has been busy too. A recent sequence of his (twelve short form works) called November Graph has been published by Bob Arnold's Longhouse Press in Guilford, Vermont, as an accordion-style fold-out booklet with wrap-around band. Only 50 copies were printed, & honestly, I may be too late. (Curses & apologies, if so.) But the website doesn't say sold out.) The chap is 7.95 and can be obtained directly from the press by check only. Checks should be made out to "Longhouse" & sent to LONGHOUSE, 1604 River Road, Guilford, Vermont 05301. (Sorry, no cover art to show ya.)

Also from Mr. Massey (as guest editor) comes the latest issue of Effing Magazine, with work by Zach Barocas, Christopher Rizzo, Mairéad Byrne, Andrew Mister, Rae Armantrout, Shannon Tharp, Aaron Tieger, Thomas Devaney, Julie Doxsee, Sandra Simonds, Jess Mynes & John Phillips. It's got a very beautiful letterpress cover featuring linocut lilies by Jared Faulkner. $6 for 64pp. Get it here.

Finally, if you're near Buffalo or in the lucky position to make the trip, the Buffalo Small Press Fair is coming up in a few weeks. Scheduled for March 31, the event schedule includes readings by DIYers Aaron Tieger, Jess Mynes, & others, plus music by I Feel Tractor & more. It's FREE to attend. (Wish I could.) Rocking.

OK, that's it for this update. I know, I know. I missed stuff. Pretend your fave missed project is that much cooler for being underappreciated. (It probably is.)