New Titles by No Tell Poets

The Nanopedia Quick-Reference Pocket Lexicon of Contemporary American Culture by Charles Jensen (MiPOESIAS Chapbook Series)

The World Will Deny It for You by Janaka Stucky (Ahsahta Press)

A Woman Traces the Shoreline by Sheila Squillante (Dancing Girl Press)

Continental Drifts by Cheryl Pallant (BlazeVOX)

Meeting Bone Man by Joseph Ross (Main Street Rag)

Drift by Alan King (Aquarius Press)

The Silhouettes by Lily Ladewig (Springgun Press)

Sinead O'Connor and her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds by Neil de la Flor & Maureen Seaton (Firewheel Editions)

I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody, and Vanessa Place (Les Figues Press)

Fjords Vol.1 by Zachary Schomburg (Black Ocean)

The Bone Folders by T.A. Noonan (Sundress Publications)

O Bon by Brandon Shimoda (Litmus Press)

Thou Sand By Michael Farrell (TinFish Press)

Mother Was a Tragic Girl by Sandra Simonds (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)

COMATOSE by J. A. Tyler (Patasola Press)

I'll Give You Something to Cry about: A Gathering of Stories by Corey Mesler (Queen's Ferry Press)

POD: Poems on Demand by Jordan Davis (Greying Ghost Press)

In Memory of Morgan Lucas Schuldt

Editor's Note: After hearing in December that Morgan underwent a lung transplant, I had been checking his FB page every day for updates from his family and friends. Today I'm very sad to learn that he passed away on January 30th. Morgan was a talented poet and editor. My condolences to his family and friends.


My More Merely

In this surround, above the downs,
are my kind of live.

An mmhmm her
fever-few-&-far-between.

Cherry get, if gotten you be.
Otherhow unhindered by the things

of me. Things like: junk-hold lungs,
bouts with be, the umm-hush & long static of kinda can.

Are twenty-six flavors of -elicious
& what-if ’s head-fuck nagging blood-back for more

cream & rush, heave & shush––
dirt-back glares having some pull over the percentages.

No tut-tut strut, no lapse in gush. Just holier than wow––
an old-fashioned dumb-lovely ah yes! suitable for basking.

Sheer towardness, my raredear, I’d sky-write
a surrender for.

Little red likelihooded
I lust so much.

Morgan Lucas Schuldt
First published in The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor


Books by Morgan:

Verge (Parlor Press)
L=u=N=G=U=A=G=E (Scantily Clad Press)
Otherhow (Kitchen Press)
(as vanish, unespecially) (Flying Guillotine Press, forthcoming)

#TheThePoetics talk with small press publishers & editors

Tuesday, January 24 at 8pm

Hosted by Metta Sáma

Join us when we chat with Reb Livingston (No Tell Books), Matt Bell (Dzanc Books), Heather Buchanan (Aquarius Press), & Katherine Sullivan (YesYes Books & Vinyl Poetry). If you're a small press editor or/and publisher, of a literary journal, series, and/or press, please do add your thoughts and visions!~

To join the conversation, simply type in #thethepoetics as part of your comments! Looking forward to being with you all in this 2012 season~

Low Residency MFA at UCR Palm Springs

Study poetry with Jill Alexander Essbaum and Matthew Zapruder.

Spend your residencies at a resort in Palm Springs.

Pretty awesome.

Deadline: February 1

More information

Split This Rock Poetry Festival

March 22-25, 2012
Washington, DC

Poetry by and for the 99%!

Featured Poets, 2012

Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness invites poets, writers, activists, and dreamers to Washington, DC for four days of poetry, community building, and creative transformation. The festival features readings, workshops, panel discussions, youth programming, parties, activism—opportunities to speak out for justice, build connection and community, and celebrate the many ways poetry can act as an agent for social change.

As people’s movements ignite here at home and throughout the world in response to economic inequality, political repression, and environmental degradation, the festival will consider the relationship of poets and poetry to power and to the challenges to power. We will also celebrate the life and work of poet-essayist-teacher-activist June Jordan on the 10th anniversary of her death.

Split This Rock calls poets to a greater role in public life and fosters a national network of socially engaged poets. Building the audience for poetry of provocation & witness from our home in the nation’s capital, we celebrate poetic diversity and the transformative power of the imagination. Please join us in March!

Bestest Poetry Books of 2011

This year over 400 No Tell Motel, Bedside Guide contributors and other poets were invited to contribute their selections for "best poetry books of 2011" (however they chose to define such a pronouncement). Of those invited, 36 responded with lists.

Titles included on multiple lists:

(6 lists) Ordinary Sun by Matthew Henriksen (Black Ocean)

(5 lists) Culture of One by Alice Notley (Penguin)

(4 lists) Either Way I'm Celebrating by Sommer Browning (Birds, LLC)

(4 lists) The Trees The Trees by Heather Christle (Octopus Books)

(4 lists) California by Jennifer Denrow (Four Way Books)

(4 lists) All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi (Action Books)

(4 lists) Schizophrene by Bhanu Kapil (Nightboat)

(4 lists) The Hermit by Laura Solomon (Ugly Duckling Presse)

(3 lists) Notes from Irrelevance by Anselm Berrigan (Wave Books)

(3 lists) Correct Animal by Rebecca Farivar (Octopus Books)

(3 lists) The Grief Performance by Emily Kendal Frey (Cleveland State University)

(3 lists) Threshold Songs by Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan)

(3 lists) Things Come On {an amneoir} by Joseph Harrington (Wesleyan)

(3 lists) This Isa Nice Neighborhood by Farid Matuk (Letter Machine Editions)

(3 lists) Studying Hunger Journals by Bernadette Mayer (Station Hill)

(3 lists) You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake by Anna Moschovakis (Coffee House Press)

(3 lists) MOUTH: EATS COLOR Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-Translations, & Originals by Sawako Nakayasu & Chika Sagawa (Rouge Factorial)

(3 lists) Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes by Jennifer Tamayo (Switchback Books)

(3 lists) Address by Elizabeth Willis (Wesleyan University Press)

(2 lists) Money Shot by Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan)

(2 lists) People are Tiny in Paintings of China by Cynthia Arrieu-King (Octopus Books)

(2 lists) Scared Text by Eric Baus (Center for Literary Publishing)

(2 lists) Utopia Minus by Susan Briante (Ahsahta Press)

(2 lists) Words Facing East by Kimberly L. Becker (WordTech Editions)

(2 lists) The Kings of the F**king Sea by Dan Boehl (Birds, LLC)

(2 lists) not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them by Jenny Boully (Tarpaulin Sky)

(2 lists) Rust or Go Missing by Lily Brown (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)

(2 lists) Roseate, Points of Gold by Laynie Browne (Dusie Press)

(2 lists) Laked, Fielded, Blanked by Brooklyn Copeland (alice blue books)

(2 lists) Click and Clone by Elaine Equi (Coffee House)

(2 lists) The Many Woods of Grief by Lucas Farrell (University of Massachussetts Press)

(2 lists) FABRIC: Preludes to the Last American Book by Richard Froude (Horse Less Press)

(2 lists) Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You by Lea Graham (No Tell Books)

(2 lists) Called by Kate Greenstreet (Delete Press)

(2 lists) Little Winter Theater by Nancy Kuhl (Ugly Duckling Presse)

(2 lists) The Wide Road by Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian (Belladonna*)

(2 lists) Wolf Face by Matt Hart (H_NGM_N BKS)

(2 lists) Negro League Baseball by Harmony Holiday (Fence Books)

(2 lists) A Beautiful Name for a Girl by Kirsten Kaschock (Ahsahta)

(2 lists) No Eden by Sally Rosen Kindred (Mayapple Press)

(2 lists) Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me by Mark Leidner (Factory Hollow)

(2 lists) Discipline by Dawn Lundy Martin (Nightboat)

(2 lists) White-Collar Worker: I Am A Destiny by Dan Magers (H_NGM_N)

(2 lists) Becoming Weather by Chris Martin (Coffee House Press)

(2 lists) Black Peculiar by Khadijah Queen (Noemi Press)

(2 lists) Drizzle Pocket by Tim Roberts (BlazeVOX)

(2 lists) How Phenomena Appear to Unfold by Leslie Scalapino (Litmus Press)

(2 lists) How We Saved the City by Kate Schapira (Stockport Flats)

(2 lists) O Bon by Brandon Shimoda (Litmus Press)

(2 lists) the new black by Evie Shockley (Wesleyan)

(2 lists) Well Then There Now by Juliana Spahr (Black Sparrow)

(2 lists) Applies to Oranges by Maureen Thorson (Ugly Duckling Presse)

(2 lists) I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur by Mathias Svalina (Mud Luscious Press)

Best Poetry Books of 2011 - Reb Livingston

Reb Livingston's selections:

not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them by Jenny Boully (Tarpaulin Sky)

Sinead O'Connor and her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds by Neil de la Flor & Maureen Seaton (Firewheel Editions)

The Weary World Rejoices by Steve Fellner (Marsh Hawk Press)

Things Come On {an amneoir} by Joseph Harrington (Wesleyan)

WHO ARE THE TRIBES by Terrance Hayes (Pilot Books)

All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi (Action Books)

A Beautiful Name for a Girl by Kirsten Kaschock (Ahsahta)

This Isa Nice Neighborhood by Farid Matuk (Letter Machine Editions)

Mule by Shane McCrae (Cleveland State University Press)

Culture of One by Alice Notley (Penguin)

Applies to Oranges by Maureen Thorson (Ugly Duckling Presse)

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Reb Livingston is the author of God Damsel (No Tell Books, 2010) and Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books, 2007).