tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50542681648974595442024-02-07T01:16:37.870-05:00No TellsAll things <i>No Tell</i> poetryRLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.comBlogger526125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-38368331478208141332012-09-04T10:11:00.000-04:002012-09-04T10:13:01.762-04:00New Titles by No Tell Poets<i><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780982541685/default.aspx">China Cowboy</a></i> by Kim Gek Lin Short (Tarpaulin Sky Press)<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781938055508/reveal--all-shapes-amp-sizes.aspx?rf=1">Reveal: All Shapes & Sizes</a></i> by Bruce Covey (Bitter Cherry Books)<br />
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<i><a href="http://horselesspress.com/2012/08/17/now-shipping-trism-by-rebecca-loudon/">TRISM</a></i> by Rebecca Loudon (Horseless Press)<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780982989630/default.aspx">cloudfang : : cakedirt</a></i> by Daniela Olszewska (Horseless Press)<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780982989623/the-soft-place.aspx">The Soft Place</a></i> by Kate Schapira (Horseless Press)<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781938055010/desiring-map.aspx">Desiring Map</a></i> by Megan Kaminski (Coconut Books)<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780984462964/default.aspx">Love Rise Up: Poems of Social Justice, Protest and Hope</a></i> edited by Steve Fellner and Phil E. Young, Editors (Benu Press)<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780981980843/default.aspx">Manhater</a></i> by Danielle Pafunda (Dusie Press)<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.blacklawrence.com/JuliaCohen.html">Triggermoon Triggermoon</a></i> by Julia Cohen (Black Lawrence Press)<br />
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<i><a href="http://batcatpress.com/publications/snowmen-losing-weight-by-noah-falck/">Snowmen Losing Weight</a></i> by Noah Falck (BatCat Press)<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/nicholas-manning/homo-sentimentalis/paperback/product-20236652.html">Homo Sentimentalis</a></i> by Nicholas Manning (Otoliths)<br />
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<i><a href="http://whiteskybooks.blogspot.jp/2012/07/jane-joritz-nakagawa-invisible-city.html">Invisible City</a></i> by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa (White Sky eBooks)<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781934851395/default.aspx">The Coldest Winter on Earth</a></i> by David Dodd Lee (Marick Press)<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780982751602/default.aspx">Idylls for a Bare Stage</a></i> by Magus Magnus (twentythreebooks)<br />
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<i><a href="http://home.comcast.net/~jpdancingbear/LDiaQR.html">Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room</a></i> by Betsy Wheeler (National Poetry Review Press)<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/61-9781937746032-0">Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children</a></i> by Dave Newman (Writers Tribe Books)<br />
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RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-44924273731363567242012-09-04T09:33:00.000-04:002012-09-04T09:35:14.312-04:002012 Fall for the Book FestivalOrganized by George Mason University and the City of Fairfax<br />
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September 26th to 30th, 2012<br />
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Poetry Events:<br />
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Wednesday — Rita Dove, <i>Sonata Mulattica</i> — receiving the Busboys and Poets Award<br />
Thursday — Mason MFA Fellows Benjamin Bever, Sheila McMullen, and Mike Walsh; Carmen Giménez Smith, <i>Goodbye, Flicker;</i> Jane Hirshfield, <i>Come, Thief</i>; Tom Pow, <i>In the Becoming</i>.<br />
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Friday — Cathy Park Hong, <i>Engine Empire</i>; Susan Howe, <i>That This</i>.<br />
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Saturday — Elizabeth Arnold, <i>Effacement</i>; Brian Brodeur, <i>Natural Causes</i>; Danielle Cadena Deulen, <i>Lovely Asunder</i>; David Keplinger, <i>The Prayers of Others</i>; Joshua Kryah, <i>We Are Starved</i>; Christopher Nealon, <i>Plummet</i>; Mel Nichols, <i>Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon</i>; Tim Seibles, <i>Fast Animal</i>; Jonathan Stalling, <i>Yingelish</i>; Rod Smith, <i>Deed</i>.<br />
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Sunday — Brian Brodeur, <i>Natural Causes</i>; Danielle Cadena Deulen, <i>Lovely Asunder</i>; Melanie McCabe, <i>History of the Body</i>. Gazing Grain Press, reading by chapbook contest winner.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.fallforthebook.org/events/calendar.php">Click here for the Full Schedule of Events</a></b>RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-21437600588730650622012-05-18T00:25:00.000-04:002012-05-18T00:25:44.687-04:00New Titles by No Tell Poets<i><a href="http://www.upperrubberboot.com/measured-extravagance/">Measured Extravagance</a></i> by Peg Duthie (Upper Rubber Boot Books)<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781934103272/my-love-is-a-dead-arctic-explorer.aspx">My Love Is a Dead Arctic Explorer</a></i> by Paige Ackerson-Kiely (Ahsahta Press)<br />
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<i><a href="http://siblingrivalrypress.com/skin-shift-by-matthew-hittinger/">Skin Shift</a></i> by Matthew Hittinger (Sibling Rivalry)<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.blacklawrence.com/CarolGuess.html">Doll Studies: Forensics</a></i> by Carol Guess (Black Lawrence Press)<br />
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<i><a href="http://marshhawkpress.org/Tabios5.html">the relational elations of ORPHANED ALGEBRA</a></i> by Eileen R. Tabios and j/j hastain (Marsh Hawk Press)<br />
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<i><a href="http://immaculatedisciples.blogspot.com/2012/03/route-by-julia-cohen-and-mathias.html">Route</a></i> by Julia Cohen and Mathias Svalina (Immaculate Disciples Press)<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781880834978/default.aspx">The Hartford Book</a></i> by Samuel Amadon (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-37581517645441990452012-04-12T20:19:00.002-04:002012-04-12T20:23:11.398-04:00The Dark Room Collective Reunion at Folger Shakespeare LibraryThe Dark Room Collective Reunion reading tour, <a href="http://www.folger.edu/woSummary.cfm?cdid=1533&wotypeid=4&season=c&woid=700">NOTHING PERSONAL</a>, is coming to the Folger Shakespeare Library April 30, 2012 as part of the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series.<br /> <br />The Collective was founded in 1987 as an informal community of African American poets supporting each other’s literary artistry. The members of this successful group have gone on to distinguished careers, marking significant achievements and winning many literary awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, several Cave Canem Poetry Prizes, fellowships, and a Woman of the Year award, among others.<br /> <br />The Collective is reuniting this year for a reading tour, including an evening in Washington, DC on Monday, April 30, 2012. The touring group members include Tisa Bryant, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Major Jackson, John Keene, Tracy K. Smith, Sharan Strange, Natasha Trethewey, and Kevin Young, and the event is moderated by Meta DuEwa Jones.<br /> <br />Below and attached is the press release for this event as well as a promotional flyer. Tickets are $15 adults / $7.50 students and can be purchased at the Folger box office, 202.544.7077, or <a href="http://www.folger.edu/poetry">www.folger.edu/poetry</a>RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-21449840779456720122012-04-12T14:57:00.000-04:002012-04-12T14:58:58.217-04:00Conversations and Connections ConferenceAPRIL 21, 2012<br />JHU- DC CAMPUS<br /><a href="http://www.writersconnectconference.com">www.writersconnectconference.com</a><br /><br />REGISTER NOW!<br />Conversations and Connections is not the same old writer’s conference.<br /><br />Get the real scoop directly from the people who are making decisions about publishing every day. Conversations and Connections features editors from a mix of established and cutting-edge literary magazines and small presses, all of whom will be there to help you take the next step in publishing your work.<br /><br />Face to face.<br /><br />Conversations and Connections provides a comfortable, congenial environment where you can meet other writers, as well as editors and publishers. Our “speed dating with the editors” (one session is included in the registration fee, additional sessions available for $5) is a ten-minute meeting with an editor who will review the first two pages of a story, a novel synopsis, or a few poems, providing feedback on how you might improve your work or where you might consider sending it.<br /><br />Something for everyone.<br /><br />Our participants know the current markets. Whether you’re an experienced writer looking to take the next step, a newcomer looking for the coolest small presses, or anybody else sending your writing out into the world, Conversations and Connections has a panel you need to hear and an editor you need to meet. This year, we’ve updated our format to include more craft lectures and other advanced topics.<br /><br />It’s Cheap! And You’ll Actually Leave with Stuff.<br /><br />For a registration fee of only $65 (same as last year), you get the full-day conference, one ticket to “speed dating with the editors,” a subscription to a participating literary magazine, and a book from one of our speakers.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-58703370152285106182012-04-12T10:29:00.005-04:002012-04-12T12:31:36.625-04:00Helix & Nomads Book Tour<span style="font-weight:bold;">featuring Lea Graham & Timothy Bradford:</span><br /><br />Thursday, April 12, 7:30pm: University of Tulsa, McFarlin's Library Faculty Lounge<br /><br />Friday, April 13, 7pm: <a href="http://www.nightbirdbooks.com/event/poetry-timothy-bradford-lea-graham">Nightbird Books</a>, Dickson Street, Fayetteville, AR<br /><br />Saturday, April 14, 7pm: <a href="http://ravenbookstore.com/events.php#0414">The Raven Book Store</a>, 6 E 7th Street, Lawrence, KS <br /><br />Sunday, April 15, 6pm: <a href="http://www.prosperosbookstore.com/">Prospero’s Books</a>, 1800 W. 39th St., Kansas City, MO<br /><br />Monday, April 16, 4pm: Westminster College, Hermann Room of the Hunter Activity Center, Fulton, MO <br /><br />Tuesday, April 17, 7pm: <a href="http://www.bestofbooksedmond.com/up%20coming%20events.nxg">Best of Books</a>, 1313 E. Danforth Rd., Edmond, OK<br /><br />Thursday, April 19, 7:pm: University of Alabama<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Lea Graham</span> is the author of <span style="font-style:italic;">Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You</span> (No Tell Books, 2011) and the chapbook, <span style="font-style:italic;">Calendar Girls</span> (above ground press, 2006). Her poems, collaborations, reviews and articles have been published in journals and anthologies such as <span style="font-style:italic;">American Letters & Commentary, The City Visible, Notre Dame Review</span> and <span style="font-style:italic;">The Capilano Review</span>. Her translations are forthcoming in <span style="font-style:italic;">The Alteration of Silence: Recent Chilean Poetry</span> through the University of New Orleans Press. She is Assistant Professor of English at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and a native of Northwest Arkansas.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Timothy Bradford</span> is the author of the introduction to <span style="font-style:italic;">Sadhus</span> (Cuerpos Pintados, 2003), a photography book on the ascetics of South Asia, and <span style="font-style:italic;">Nomads with Samsonite</span> (BlazeVOX [books], 2011), a collection of poetry. His writing has appeared in numerous journals including <span style="font-style:italic;">42Opus, DIAGRAM, CrossConnect, No Tell Motel, Mudlark, Upstairs at Duroc, ecopoetics, H_NGM_N</span>, and <span style="font-style:italic;">Drunken Boat</span>. In 2005, he received the Koret Foundation’s Young Writer on Jewish Themes Award for a novel-in-progress based on the history of the Vélodrome d’Hiver. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tulsa.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-74149679991305621912012-03-18T21:11:00.002-04:002012-03-18T21:59:31.730-04:00New Titles by No Tell Poets<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/319188">The Nanopedia Quick-Reference Pocket Lexicon of Contemporary American Culture</a></span> by Charles Jensen (MiPOESIAS Chapbook Series)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781934103333/default.aspx">The World Will Deny It for You</a></span> by Janaka Stucky (Ahsahta Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://dulcetshop.ecrater.com/p/13164528/a-woman-traces-the-shoreline-sheila">A Woman Traces the Shoreline</a></span> by Sheila Squillante (Dancing Girl Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/Poetry/continental-drifts-by-cheryl-pallant-286/">Continental Drifts</a></span> by Cheryl Pallant (BlazeVOX)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.mainstreetrag.com/JRoss.html">Meeting Bone Man</a></span> by Joseph Ross (Main Street Rag)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://stores.aquariuspressbookseller.net/Detail.bok?no=70">Drift</a></span> by Alan King (Aquarius Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.springgunpress.com/the-silhouettes">The Silhouettes</a></span> by Lily Ladewig (Springgun Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://firewheel-editions.org/firewheel/books/sinead/sinead.htm">Sinead O'Connor and her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds</a></span> by Neil de la Flor & Maureen Seaton (Firewheel Editions)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781934254332/ill-drown-my-book-conceptual-writing-by-women.aspx">I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women</a></span> edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody, and Vanessa Place (Les Figues Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.blackocean.org/fjords-vol1/">Fjords Vol.1</a></span> by Zachary Schomburg (Black Ocean)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.sundresspublications.com/tanoonan/bonefolders/">The Bone Folders</a></span> by T.A. Noonan (Sundress Publications)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781933959139/o-bon.aspx">O Bon</a></span> by Brandon Shimoda (Litmus Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://tinfishpress.com/chapbooks.html">Thou Sand</a></span> By Michael Farrell (TinFish Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781880834961/mother-was-a-tragic-girl.aspx">Mother Was a Tragic Girl</a></span> by Sandra Simonds (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.patasolapress.org/print/comatose-by-j-a-tyler/"><span style="font-style:italic;">COMATOSE</span></a> by J. A. Tyler (Patasola Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.queensferrypress.com/books/illgiveyou.html">I'll Give You Something to Cry about: A Gathering of Stories</a></span> by Corey Mesler (Queen's Ferry Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://greyingghost.tumblr.com/post/11301476854/p-o-d-poems-on-demand-by-jordan-davis-jordan">POD: Poems on Demand</a></span> by Jordan Davis (Greying Ghost Press)RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-36123408945416509272012-02-01T10:02:00.004-05:002012-02-01T10:57:38.538-05:00In Memory of Morgan Lucas SchuldtEditor'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. <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">My More Merely</span><br /><br />In this surround, above the downs,<br />are my kind of live.<br /><br />An <span style="font-style:italic;">mmhmm</span> her<br />fever-few-&-far-between.<br /><br />Cherry get, if gotten you be.<br />Otherhow unhindered by the things<br /><br />of me. Things like: junk-hold lungs,<br />bouts with <span style="font-style:italic;">be</span>, the <span style="font-style:italic;">umm</span>-hush & long static of kinda can.<br /><br />Are twenty-six flavors of <span style="font-style:italic;">-elicious</span><br />& what-if ’s head-fuck nagging blood-back for more<br /><br />cream & rush, heave & shush––<br />dirt-back glares having some pull over the percentages.<br /><br />No tut-tut strut, no lapse in gush. Just holier than wow––<br />an old-fashioned dumb-lovely <span style="font-style:italic;">ah yes!</span> suitable for basking.<br /><br />Sheer towardness, my raredear, I’d sky-write<br />a surrender for.<br /><br />Little red likelihooded<br />I lust so much.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Morgan Lucas Schuldt</span><br />First published in <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.notellbooks.org/secondfloor">The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor</a></span><br /><br /><br />Books by Morgan:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781602350359/verge.aspx">Verge</a></span> (Parlor Press)<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://issuu.com/andrewlundwall/docs/morganlucasschuldt-lunguage">L=u=N=G=U=A=G=E</a></span> (Scantily Clad Press)<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Otherhow</span> (Kitchen Press)<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">(as vanish, unespecially)</span> (Flying Guillotine Press, forthcoming)RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-45791800865779450902012-01-22T20:01:00.002-05:002012-01-22T20:06:19.159-05:00#TheThePoetics talk with small press publishers & editors<B>Tuesday, January 24 at 8pm</b><br /><br />Hosted by Metta Sáma<br /><br />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!~<br /><br />To join the conversation, simply type in <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23thethepoetics">#thethepoetics</a> as part of your comments! Looking forward to being with you all in this 2012 season~RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-81844347796481696732012-01-08T00:52:00.004-05:002012-01-08T01:11:49.267-05:00Low Residency MFA at UCR Palm SpringsStudy poetry with Jill Alexander Essbaum and Matthew Zapruder. <br /><br />Spend your residencies at a resort in Palm Springs. <br /><br />Pretty awesome.<br /><br />Deadline: February 1<br /><br /><a href="http://palmdesertmfa.ucr.edu/lo-res/">More information</a>RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-436770917485602772012-01-06T09:15:00.001-05:002012-01-06T09:17:34.994-05:00Split This Rock Poetry FestivalMarch 22-25, 2012<br />Washington, DC<br /><br />Poetry by and for the 99%!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.splitthisrock.org/festival2012/poets2012.html">Featured Poets, 2012</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.splitthisrock.org/festival2012/festival2012.html">Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness</a> 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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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!RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-69506990884974188382011-12-30T07:00:00.030-05:002011-12-31T15:49:59.745-05:00Bestest Poetry Books of 2011This year over 400 <span style="font-style:italic;">No Tell Motel, Bedside Guide</span> 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.
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(6 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.blackocean.org/ordinary-sun/">Ordinary Sun</a></span> by Matthew Henriksen (Black Ocean)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(5 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143118930,00.html?Culture_of_One_Alice_Notley">Culture of One</a></span> by Alice Notley (Penguin)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(4 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.birdsllc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85%3Aeither-way-im-celebrating&catid=35%3Abooks&Itemid=18">Either Way I'm Celebrating</a></span> by Sommer Browning (Birds, LLC)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(4 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780980193879/default.aspx">The Trees The Trees</a></span> by Heather Christle (Octopus Books)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(4 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.fourwaybooks.com/books/denrow/index.php">California</a></span> by Jennifer Denrow (Four Way Books)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(4 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780983148012/all-the-garbage-of-the-world-unite.aspx">All the Garbage of the World, Unite!</a></span> by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi (Action Books)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(4 lists)</span> <a href="http://www.upne.com/0984459865.html"><span style="font-style:italic;">Schizophrene</span></a> by Bhanu Kapil (Nightboat)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(4 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://uglyducklingpresse.org/cube/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=169">The Hermit</a></span> by Laura Solomon (Ugly Duckling Presse)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(3 lists) </span><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/104-notes-from-irrelevance">Notes from Irrelevance</a></span> by Anselm Berrigan (Wave Books)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(3 lists) </span><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.octopusbooks.net/main.html">Correct Animal</a></span> by Rebecca Farivar (Octopus Books)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(3 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/AuthorBook/frey.html">The Grief Performance</a></span> by Emily Kendal Frey (Cleveland State University)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(3 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/0819571748.html">Threshold Songs</a></span> by Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(3 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/0819571359.html">Things Come On {an amneoir}</a></span> by Joseph Harrington (Wesleyan)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(3 lists)</span> <a href="http://www.lettermachine.org/thisisa.html"><a href="http://www.lettermachine.org/thisisa.html">This Isa Nice Neighborhood</a></a> by Farid Matuk (Letter Machine Editions)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(3 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.stationhill.org/products-page/all/studying-hunger-journals/"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780964145429/tamura-ryuichi-on-the-life-amp-work-of-a-20th-century-master.aspx">Studying Hunger Journals</a></a></span> by Bernadette Mayer (Station Hill)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(3 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Search/Default.aspx?AuthorName=moschovakis">You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake</a></span> by Anna Moschovakis (Coffee House Press)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(3 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.sawakonakayasu.net/mec/">MOUTH: EATS COLOR Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-Translations, & Originals</a></span> by Sawako Nakayasu & Chika Sagawa (Rouge Factorial)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(3 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://switchbackbooks.com/redmissedaches.html">Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes</a></span> by Jennifer Tamayo (Switchback Books)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(3 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/0819570987.html">Address</a></span> by Elizabeth Willis (Wesleyan University Press)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/0819571304.html">Money Shot</a></span> by Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.octopusbooks.net/">People are Tiny in Paintings of China</a></span> by Cynthia Arrieu-King (Octopus Books)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/books/scared-text/">Scared Text</a></span> by Eric Baus (Center for Literary Publishing)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/briante2/briante2.htm">Utopia Minus</a></span> by Susan Briante (Ahsahta Press)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.wordtechweb.com/becker.html">Words Facing East</a></span> by Kimberly L. Becker (WordTech Editions)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.birdsllc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=86%3Athe-kings-of-the-fking-sea&catid=35%3Abooks&Itemid=18">The Kings of the F**king Sea</a></span> by Dan Boehl (Birds, LLC)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <a href="http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/jenny-boully-2.html"><span style="font-style:italic;">not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them</span></a> by Jenny Boully (Tarpaulin Sky)
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<br />(<span style="font-weight:bold;">2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/AuthorBook/Brown.html">Rust or Go Missing</a></span> by Lily Brown (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780981980836/roseate-points-of-gold.aspx">Roseate, Points of Gold</a></span> by Laynie Browne (Dusie Press)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.alicebluereview.org/books/copelandchap.html">Laked, Fielded, Blanked</a></span> by Brooklyn Copeland (alice blue books)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.coffeehousepress.org/2011/02/click-and-clone/">Click and Clone</a></span> by Elaine Equi (Coffee House)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists) </span><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/many-woods-grief">The Many Woods of Grief</a></span> by Lucas Farrell (University of Massachussetts Press)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://horselesspress.com/books-chapbooks/">FABRIC: Preludes to the Last American Book</a></span> by Richard Froude (Horse Less Press)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <a href="http://www.notellbooks.org/hough"><span style="font-style:italic;">Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You</span></a> by Lea Graham (No Tell Books)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://deletepress.org/?page_id=94">Called</a></span> by Kate Greenstreet (Delete Press)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=202">Little Winter Theater</a></span> by Nancy Kuhl (Ugly Duckling Presse)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://belladonnaseries.org/thewideroad.html">The Wide Road</a></span> by Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian (Belladonna*)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.h-ngm-n.com/wolf-face">Wolf Face</a></span> by Matt Hart (H_NGM_N BKS)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.fenceportal.org/?page_id=401">Negro League Baseball</a></span> by Harmony Holiday (Fence Books)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/kaschock/kaschock-bio.htm">A Beautiful Name for a Girl</a></span> by Kirsten Kaschock (Ahsahta)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.mayapplepress.com/">No Eden</a></span> by Sally Rosen Kindred (Mayapple Press)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.factoryhollowpress.com/book.php?id=37">Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me</a></span> by Mark Leidner (Factory Hollow)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/0984459841.html">Discipline</a></span> by Dawn Lundy Martin (Nightboat)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.h-ngm-n.com/storage/white-collar-worker-destiny.pdf">White-Collar Worker: I Am A Destiny</a></span> by Dan Magers (H_NGM_N)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.coffeehousepress.org/2011/02/becoming-weather/">Becoming Weather</a></span> by Chris Martin (Coffee House Press)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <a href="http://www.noemipress.org/queen.html"><span style="font-style:italic;">Black Peculiar</span></a> by Khadijah Queen (Noemi Press)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/Poetry/drizzle-pocket-by-tim-roberts-219/">Drizzle Pocket</a></span> by Tim Roberts (BlazeVOX)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.litmuspress.org/howphenomenaappeartounfold.html">How Phenomena Appear to Unfold</a></span> by Leslie Scalapino (Litmus Press)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <a href="http://www.stockportflats.org/city.htm"><span style="font-style:italic;">How We Saved the City</span></a> by Kate Schapira (Stockport Flats)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.litmuspress.org/obon.html">O Bon</a></span> by Brandon Shimoda (Litmus Press)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/0819571403.html">the new black</a></span> by Evie Shockley (Wesleyan)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.blacksparrowbooks.com/isbn.asp?isbn=1574232177">Well Then There Now</a></span> by Juliana Spahr (Black Sparrow)
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=168">Applies to Oranges</a></span> by Maureen Thorson (Ugly Duckling Presse)</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(2 lists)</span> <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://mudlusciouspress.com/books/svalina/i-am-a-very-productive-entrepreneur/">I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur</a></span> by Mathias Svalina (Mud Luscious Press)RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-30944454804738187132011-12-29T07:02:00.004-05:002011-12-29T10:19:53.026-05:00Best Poetry Books of 2011 - Reb LivingstonReb Livingston's selections:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/jenny-boully-2.html">not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them</a></span> by Jenny Boully (Tarpaulin Sky)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://firewheel-editions.org/firewheel/books/sinead/sinead.htm">Sinead O'Connor and her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds</a></span> by Neil de la Flor & Maureen Seaton (Firewheel Editions)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.marshhawkpress.org/Fellner2.html">The Weary World Rejoices</a></span> by Steve Fellner (Marsh Hawk Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/0819571359.html">Things Come On {an amneoir}</a></span> by Joseph Harrington (Wesleyan) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://pilotpoetry.com/catalog.php?cid=8">WHO ARE THE TRIBES</a></span> by Terrance Hayes (Pilot Books)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780983148012/all-the-garbage-of-the-world-unite.aspx">All the Garbage of the World, Unite!</a></span> by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi (Action Books)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/kaschock/kaschock-bio.htm">A Beautiful Name for a Girl</a></span> by Kirsten Kaschock (Ahsahta)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lettermachine.org/thisisa.html"><a href="http://www.lettermachine.org/thisisa.html"><span style="font-style:italic;">This Isa Nice Neighborhood</span></a></a> by Farid Matuk (Letter Machine Editions)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/AuthorBook/McCrae.html">Mule</a></span> by Shane McCrae (Cleveland State University Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143118930,00.html?Culture_of_One_Alice_Notley">Culture of One</a></span> by Alice Notley (Penguin) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=168">Applies to Oranges</a></span> by Maureen Thorson (Ugly Duckling Presse)<br /><br />* * *<br /><br /><a href="http://www.reblivingston.net">Reb Livingston</a> is the author of <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.notellbooks.org/damsel">God Damsel</a></span> (No Tell Books, 2010) and <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://yourtenfavoritewords.com">Your Ten Favorite Words</a></span> (Coconut Books, 2007).RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-18046941663918810102011-12-29T07:01:00.003-05:002011-12-29T10:22:44.571-05:00Best Poetry Books of 2011 - Daniela OlszewskaDaniela Olszewska's selections:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://belladonnaseries.org/thewideroad.html">The Wide Road</a></span> by Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian (Belladonna*) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/titles/thirteen-designer-vaginas-by-juliet-cook/">Thirteen Designer Vaginas</a></span> by Juliet Cook (Hyacinth Girl Press) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.subitopress.org/bookshelf/2011/doller.html">Man Years</a></span> by Sandra Doller <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.fenceportal.org/?page_id=401">Negro League Baseball</a></span> by Harmony Holiday (Fence Books) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780983148012/all-the-garbage-of-the-world-unite.aspx">All the Garbage of the World, Unite!</a></span> by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi (Action Books)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.upne.com/0984459865.html"><span style="font-style:italic;">Schizophrene</span></a> by Bhanu Kapil (Nightboat)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.litmuspress.org/iwanttomakeyousafe.html">I Want To Make You Safe</a></span> by Amy King (Litmus)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/maxwell2/maxwell2.htm">Re-</a></span> by Kristi Maxwell (Ahsahta)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.noemipress.org/queen.html"><span style="font-style:italic;">Black Peculiar</span></a> by Khadijah Queen (Noemi Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://switchbackbooks.com/redmissedaches.html">Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes</a></span> by Jennifer Tamayo (Switchback Books)<br /><br />* * *<br /><br />Daniela Olszewska is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, <span style="font-style:italic;">Citizen J </span>(Artifice Books, forthcoming) and <span style="font-style:italic;">cloudfang : : cakedirt</span> (Horse Less Press, forthcoming). She sits on Switchback Books' Board of Directors and serves as Associate Poetry Editor of <span style="font-style:italic;">H_NGM_N</span>. Daniela is pursuing her MFA at the University of Alabama, where she teaches creative writing in conjunction with The Alabama Prison Arts & Education Project.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-27682787762795549262011-12-29T07:00:00.003-05:002011-12-29T17:17:03.564-05:00Best Poetry Books of 2011 - Timothy BradfordTimothy Bradford's selections:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/0819571304.html">Money Shot</a></span> by Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/briante2/briante2.htm">Utopia Minus</a></span> by Susan Briante (Ahsahta Press) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/0819571748.html">Threshold Songs</a></span> by Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.notellbooks.org/hough"><span style="font-style:italic;">Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You</span></a> by Lea Graham (No Tell Books) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/0819571359.html">Things Come On {an amneoir}</a></span> by Joseph Harrington (Wesleyan) <br /><br /><a href="http://www.lettermachine.org/thisisa.html"><a href="http://www.lettermachine.org/thisisa.html">This Isa Nice Neighborhood</a></a> by Farid Matuk (Letter Machine Editions)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143118930,00.html?Culture_of_One_Alice_Notley">Culture of One</a></span> by Alice Notley (Penguin) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/0819571403.html">the new black</a></span> by Evie Shockley (Wesleyan)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/Poetry/birds-of-tifft-by-jonathan-skinner-243/">Birds of Tifft</a></span> by Jonathan Skinner (BlazeVOX [books]) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.chainarts.org/saborami.htm">SABORAMI</a></span> by Cecilia Vicuña (ChainLinks)<br /><br />* * *<br /><br />Timothy Bradford’s <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/Poetry/nomads-with-samsonite-by-timothy-bradford-234/">Nomads with Samsonite</a></span> was published by BlazeVOX [books] in 2011. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tulsa and lives with his wife, two sons, and an ever-changing menagerie just outside of Oklahoma City.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-60919723963008119632011-12-28T07:01:00.002-05:002011-12-28T07:01:00.584-05:00Best Poetry Books of 2011 - Michael MeyerhoferMichael Meyerhofer's selections:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.usu.edu/usupress/books/index.cfm?isbn=8268">About the Dead</a></span> by Travis Mossotti (Utah State University Press) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://bloofbooks.com/ppp.html">Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!</a></span> by Peter Davis (Bloof Books)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Book-of-Men/">The Book of Men</a></span> by Dorianne Laux (Norton) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.deerbrookeditions.com">Brushstrokes and Glances</a></span> by Djelloul Marbrook (Deerbrook Editions) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://rocksawpress.com/ima.html">Illinois, My Apologies</a></span> by Justin Hamm (Rocksaw Press) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.palettesnquills.com/palettes__quills_publications_a.htm">Poems for an Empty Church</a></span> by Tom Holmes (Palettes and Quills) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg={E5A261D9-FBE2-4C12-BF12-C3D00D08CD83}">Winter’s Journey</a></span> by Stephen Dobyns (Copper Canyon) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.hmhbooks.com/hmh/site/hmhbooks/bookdetails?isbn=9780547518299&srch=true">Imaginary Logic</a></span> by Rodney Jones (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.blacklawrence.com/Biddinger.html">Saint Monica</a></span> by Mary Biddinger (Black Lawrence Press) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.uakron.edu/uapress/browse-books/book-details/index.dot?id=1731298">American Busboy</a></span> by Matthew Guenette (U. of Akron Press) <br /><br />* * *<br /><br />Michael Meyerhofer’s third book, <span style="font-style:italic;">Damnatio Memoriae</span>, won the Brick Road Poetry Book Contest. His previous books are <span style="font-style:italic;">Blue Collar Eulogies</span> (Steel Toe Books) and Leaving Iowa (winner of the Liam Rector First Book Award). He has also won the James Wright Poetry Award, the Laureate Prize, the Annie Finch Prize for Poetry, the Marjorie J. Wilson Best Poem Contest, and five chapbook prizes. His work has appeared in <span style="font-style:italic;">Ploughshares, North American Review, Arts & Letters, River Styx, Quick Fiction</span> and other journals, and can be read online at <a href="http://www.troublewithhammers.com">www.troublewithhammers.com</a>. He is the Poetry Editor of Atticus Review.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-17818526838687971652011-12-28T07:00:00.002-05:002011-12-28T07:00:09.843-05:00Best Poetry Books of 2011 - Deborah PoeDeborah Poe's selections:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.litmuspress.org/obon.html">O Bon</a></span> by Brandon Shimoda (Litmus Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.korepress.org/catalog.htm">Territories of Folding</a></span> by TC Tolbert (Kore Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.octopusbooks.net/main.html">People Are Tiny In Paintings of China</a></span> by Cynthia Arrieu-King (Octopus Books)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.lettermachine.org/moreradiantsignal.html">More Radiant Signal</a></span> by Juliana Leslie (Letter Machine Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.stockportflats.org/meander.htm">How We Saved the City</a></span> by Kate Schapira (Stockport Flats)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.stationhill.org/station-hill-books/new-titles">Studying Hunger Journals</a></span> by Bernadette Mayer (Station Hill Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=202">Little Winter Theater</a></span> by Nancy Kuhl (Ugly Duckling Presse)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780981980836/roseate-points-of-gold.aspx">Roseate, Points of Gold</a></span> by Laynie Browne (Dusie Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.stockportflats.org/meander.htm">poem for the house</a></span> by Katie Yates (Stockport Flats)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://argosbooks.org/?p=561">Flood Letters</a></span> by Karin Gottshall (Argos Books)<br /><br />* * *<br /><br />Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.stockportflats.org/elements.htm">Elements</a></span> (Stockport Flats Press 2010), <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.custom-words.com/poe.html">Our Parenthetical Ontology</a></span> (CustomWords 2008), and “the last will be stone, too” as well as a hybrid novella, "Hélène." Her writing is forthcoming or has recently appeared in journals such as <span style="font-style:italic;">Shampoo, Mantis, Horse Less Review, Open Letters Monthly, Peep/Show</span>, and <span style="font-style:italic;">Denver Quarterly.</span> <br /><br />Deborah is assistant professor of English at Pace University, guest curator for <span style="font-style:italic;">Trickhouse</span>, and curator of the annual <a href="http://handhomemade.wordpress.com/">Handmade/Homemade exhibit</a> at Pace University Westchester’s Mortola Library. For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.deborahpoe.com">www.deborahpoe.com</a>.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-36612088439216136902011-12-27T07:01:00.001-05:002011-12-28T23:07:31.189-05:00Best Poetry Books of 2011 - Evie ShockleyEvie Shockley's selections:<br /><br />Best, schmest. : ) Here are 10 (actually, 11 -- but I'm hoping Reb will let me get away with it) terrific books from 2011 that I would want someone to tell me about, if I didn't already know about them. Not included: other terrific books that: (1) I think you've surely (surely!) heard about already, (2) I didn't get to read even part of yet, and so feel sadly unable to recommend personally at this point, (3) I don't know about myself, but will be searching for on the other lists Reb's publishing this month, or (4) I finally just couldn't fit into a list of 10 (well, 11) without turning it into a list of 20. Okay, here goes, in alpha order:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://deletepress.org/?page_id=94">Called</a></span> by Kate Greenstreet (Delete Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="https://www.boaeditions.org/bookstore/kingdom-animalia.html">Kingdom Animalia</a></span> by Aracelis Girmay (BOA Editions) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://redhen.org/book/?uuid=9AB4E0D6-2841-BFB1-FD73-B301093597AE">Vocabulary of Silence</a></span> by Veronica Golos (Red Hen) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/0819571359.html">Things Come On {an amneoir}</a></span> by Joseph Harrington (Wesleyan) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/1933880259.html">Neighborhood Register</a></span> by Marcus Jackson (Cavan Kerry) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/kaschock/kaschock-bio.htm">A Beautiful Name for a Girl</a></span> by Kirsten Kaschock (Ahsahta)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://ndbooks.com/book/nod-house">Nod House</a></span> by Nathaniel Mackey (New Directions) -- <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://uglyducklingpresse.org/cube/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=192">Slot</a></span> by Jill Magi (Ugly Duckling)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/0984459841.html">Discipline</a></span> by Dawn Lundy Martin (Nightboat Books) <br /><br /><a href="http://www.noemipress.org/queen.html"><span style="font-style:italic;">Black Peculiar</span></a> by Khadijah Queen (Noemi Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781891190339/howell-.aspx">Howell</a></span> by Tyrone Williams (Atelos) <br /><br />Have a Happy Poetry Reading Interlude, and a Joyous New Year!<br /><br />* * *<br /><br />Evie Shockley is the author of two books of poetry -- <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/0819571403.html">the new black</a></span> (Wesleyan, 2011) and <span style="font-style:italic;">a half-red sea </span>(Carolina Wren Press, 2006) -- and a book of criticism, <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.uiowapress.org/books/2011-fall/renegade-poetics.htm">Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry</a></span>. She teaches African American literature and creative writing at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-11485569481371920282011-12-27T07:00:00.002-05:002011-12-27T07:00:06.471-05:00Best Poetry Books of 2011 - Bernadette GeyerBernadette Geyer's selections:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=168">Applies to Oranges</a></span> by Maureen Thorson (Ugly Duckling Presse)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.mayapplepress.com/BookPages/Kindred.htm">No Eden</a></span> by Sally Rosen Kindred, (Mayapple Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.nyqbooks.org/title/aftertheark">After the Ark</a></span> by Luke Johnson (NYQ Books)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://saturnaliabooks.com/?q=node/81">The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception</a></span> by Martha Silano (Saturnalia Books)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.perseabooks.com/detail.php?bookID=91">Sightseer</a></span> by Cynthia Marie Hoffman (Persea Books)<br /><br />* * *<br /><br />Bernadette Geyer is the author of the poetry chapbook, <span style="font-style:italic;">What Remains</span> (Argonne House Press), and recipient of a 2010 Strauss Fellowship from the Arts Council of Fairfax County. Her poems have appeared in<span style="font-style:italic;"> No Tell Motel, Oxford American, North American Review, Verse Daily</span>, and elsewhere. Geyer works as a freelance writer and copy editor in the Washington, DC, area, and serves as an instructor at The Writer's Center. Her web site is <a href="http://bernadettegeyer.homestead.com">http://bernadettegeyer.homestead.com</a>RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-85505393727082289852011-12-26T07:00:00.001-05:002011-12-26T07:00:08.159-05:00Best Poetry Books of 2011 - Bruce CoveyBruce Covey's selections:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/104-notes-from-irrelevance">Notes from Irrelevance</a></span> by Anselm Berrigan (Wave Books)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/jenny-boully-2.html">not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them</a></span> by Jenny Boully (Tarpaulin Sky)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.octopusbooks.net/main.html">The Trees The Trees</a></span> by Heather Christle (Octopus Books)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.fourwaybooks.com/books/denrow/index.php?PHPSESSID=f586261944e5306410ce0791a1b667ad">California</a></span> by Jennifer Denrow (Four Way Books)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.coffeehousepress.org/2011/02/click-and-clone/">Click and Clone</a></span> by Elaine Equi (Coffee House) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780982573143/herso.aspx">Herso</a></span> by Susana Gardner (Black Radish Books)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/6c24f9c5-c414-4a6c-b07a-1ea76f1c5e32/OfLamb.cfm">Of Lamb</a></span> by Matthea Harvey, Paintings by Amy Jean Porter (McSweeneys)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.sawakonakayasu.net/mec/">MOUTH: EATS COLOR Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-Translations, & Originals</a></span> by Sawako Nakayasu & Chika Sagawa (Rouge Factorial)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143118930,00.html?Culture_of_One_Alice_Notley">Culture of One</a></span> by Alice Notley (Penguin) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.coffeehousepress.org/2011/02/how-long/">How Long</a></span> by Ron Padgett (Coffee House)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://uglyducklingpresse.org/cube/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=169">The Hermit</a></span> by Laura Solomon (Ugly Duckling Presse)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.blacksparrowbooks.com/isbn.asp?isbn=1574232177">Well Then There Now</a></span> by Juliana Spahr (Black Sparrow)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.turtlepointpress.com/catalogue/trinidad-dearprudence.html">Dear Prudence — New and Selected Poems</a></span> by David Trinidad (Turtle Point Press)<br /><br />* * *<br /><br />Bruce Covey's fifth book of poetry, <span style="font-style:italic;">Reveal</span>, will be published by Bitter Cherry Books at the beginning of 2012; his next-most-recent titles are <span style="font-style:italic;">Glass Is Really a Liquid</span> (No Tell Books, 2010) and <span style="font-style:italic;">Elapsing Speedway Organism</span> (No Tell Books, 2006). He lives in Atlanta, GA, where he edits Coconut Poetry and curates the What's New in Poetry Reading Series.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-82839117610639301002011-12-24T01:09:00.001-05:002011-12-24T01:09:47.879-05:00Best Poetry Books of 2011 Lists will Resume on December 26thWe still have more lists to go -- we're posting new ones all the way until the end of the year.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-37512836152083954622011-12-23T07:00:00.000-05:002011-12-23T07:00:04.836-05:00Best Poetry Books of 2011 - Joseph MasseyJoseph Massey's selections:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/0819571304.html">Money Shot</a></span> by Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781880834916/rust-or-go-missing.aspx">Rust or Go Missing</a></span> by Lily Brown (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780983197553/uncertain-time.aspx">Uncertain Time</a></span> by Richard Caddel (Pressed Wafer)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781931824446/motes.aspx">MOTES</a></span> by Craig Dworkin (Roof Books)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/0819571748.html">Threshold Songs</a></span> by Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.culturalsociety.org/publications/the-nineteenth-century-and-other-poems-by-chris-glomski/">The Nineteenth Century and Other Poems</a></span> by Chris Glomski (The Cultural Society)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://horselesspress.com/books-chapbooks/">SEWN</a></span> by Nathan Hauke (Horseless Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://horselesspress.com/books-chapbooks/">Deseret</a></span> by Kirsten Jorgenson (Horseless Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.noemipress.org/morrison.html">Book of the Given</a></span> by Rusty Morrison (Noemi Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://cannotexist.blogspot.com/2011/03/jess-mynes-hows-cows.html">How's the Cows</a></span> by Jess Mynes (Cannot Exist)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520268876">Metropole</a></span> by Geoffrey G. O'Brien (University of California Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780981952086/the-larger-nature.aspx">The Larger Nature</a></span> by Pam Rehm (Flood Editions)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://lineschapbooks.blogspot.com/2011/07/wharf-hypothesis.html">Wharf Hypothesis</a></span> by Ron Silliman (Lines)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://uglyducklingpresse.org/cube/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=169">The Hermit</a></span> by Laura Solomon (Ugly Duckling Presse)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/the_method_rob_stanton_i022293.aspx">The Method</a></span> by Rob Stanton (Penned in the Margins)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://skysillpress.blogspot.com/p/books-2011.html">The Cost of Walking</a></span> by Shannon Tharp (Skysill Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://ndbooks.com/book/the-complete-shorter-poetry">Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry</a></span> by Louis Zukofsky (New Directions)<br /><br />* * *<br /><br />Joseph Massey is the author of <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/massey.html">Areas of Fog</a></span> (Shearsman Books, 2009) and <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2011/massey2011.html">At the Point</a></span> (Shearsman Books, 2011), as well as eleven chapbooks: <span style="font-style:italic;">Minima St.</span> (Range, 2002), <span style="font-style:italic;">Eureka Slough</span> (Effing Press, 2005), <span style="font-style:italic;">Bramble</span> (Hot Whiskey, 2005), <span style="font-style:italic;">Property Line</span> (Fewer & Further Press, 2006), <span style="font-style:italic;">November Graph</span> (Longhouse, 2007), <span style="font-style:italic;">Within Hours</span> (The Fault Line Press, 2008), Out of Light (Kitchen Press, 2008), <span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-style:italic;">The Lack Of</span> (</span>Nasturtium Press, 2009), <span style="font-style:italic;">Exit North</span> (Book Thug, 2010), <span style="font-style:italic;">Mock Orange</span> (Longhouse, 2010) and <span style="font-style:italic;">Another Rehearsal for Morning</span> (Longhouse, 2011). He lives in Arcata, California.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-776275315222341642011-12-22T07:00:00.001-05:002011-12-22T07:00:10.512-05:00Best Poetry Books of 2011 - Brandon ShimodaBrandon Shimoda's selections:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780983148012/all-the-garbage-of-the-world-unite.aspx">All the Garbage of the World, Unite!</a></span> by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi (Action Books)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?-Nelly-Sachs-Collected-Poems-I-1944-1949-&BookID=272">Collected Poems, 1944-1949</a></span> by Nelly Sachs, translated from the German by Michael Hamburger, Ruth and Matthew Mead, and Michael Roloff, introduction by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Green Integer Books)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://flesheatingpoems.blogspot.com/2011/05/eternal-wall-by-dot-devota.html">The Eternal Wall</a></span> by Dot Devota (Cannibal Books)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780982212073/the-hole.aspx">The Hole</a></span> by Thom Donovan (Displaced Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.litmuspress.org/howphenomenaappeartounfold.html">How Phenomena Appear to Unfold</a></span> by Leslie Scalapino (Litmus Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/108-into-the-snow">Into the Snow</a></span> by Gennady Aygi, translated from the Chuvash and Russian by Sarah Valentine. (Wave Books)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/many-woods-grief">The Many Woods of Grief</a></span> by Lucas Farrell (University of Massachussetts Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://tavernbooks.com/catalog/notes-on-sea-wrolstad/">Notes on Sea & Shore</a></span> by Greta Wrolstad (Tavern Books)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.blackocean.org/ordinary-sun/">Ordinary Sun</a></span> by Matthew Henriksen (Black Ocean)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://ndbooks.com/book/spring-and-all">Spring and All</a></span> by William Carlos Williams, introduction by C.D. Wright (New Directions)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.stationhill.org/products-page/all/studying-hunger-journals/">Studying Hunger Journals</a></span> and <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://monk-books.com/the-formal-field-of-kissing-by-bernadette-mayer/">The Formal Field of Kissing</a></span> by Bernadette Mayer (Station Hill and Monk Books, respectively). <span style="font-style:italic;">The Formal Field</span> of Kissing including an introduction by Dorothea Lasky.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780964145429/tamura-ryuichi-on-the-life-amp-work-of-a-20th-century-master.aspx">Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master</a> </span>Edited by Takako Lento and Wayne Miller (Pleiades Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.sigliopress.com/books/tantra-song.htm">Tantra Song: Tantric Paintings from Rajasthan</a></span> Selected and with writings by Franck André Jamme, translated from the French by Michael Tweed. Introduction by Lawrence Rinder, interview by Bill Berkson, essay by André Padoux (Siglio Press)<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780983330905/a-wiser-more-beautiful-death.aspx">A Wiser, More Beautiful Death</a></span> by Miklós Radnóti, translated from the Hungarian by Solomon Rino (Editions Michel Eyquem)<br /><br />* * *<br /><br />Brandon Shimoda's most recent publications include <span style="font-style:italic;">O Bon</span> (Litmus Press) and the limited edition <span style="font-style:italic;">The Pines: Bubble</span>, with Phil Cordelli & friends.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-1079142668121816112011-12-21T07:01:00.001-05:002011-12-21T07:01:00.098-05:00Best Poetry Books of 2011 - Alice FogelAlice Fogel's selections:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://alicejamesbooks.org/pages/book_page.php?bookID=157">lie down too</a></span> by Lesle Lewis (Alice James Books) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.echrusciel.net/strata.htm">Strata</a></span> by Ewa Chrusciel (Emergency Press) <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg={FE295D92-02A7-44F9-95CB-DE7E7F2A098C}">Flies</a></span> by Michael Dickman (Copper Canyon) <br /><br />* * *<br /><br />Alice Fogel's third book of poems, <span style="font-style:italic;">Be That Empty</span>, was a national poetry bestseller in 2008, and in 2009 <span style="font-style:italic;">Strange Terrain</span> (a guide for nonpoet readers and teachers, as well as for poets) came out. A recipient of a fellowship from the NEA and five-time Pushcart nominee, her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including <span style="font-style:italic;">Best American Poetry</span>, former Poet Laureate Robert Hass’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Poet’s Choice</span>, <span style="font-style:italic;">TriQuarterly, Third Coast, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika</span>, and <span style="font-style:italic;">No Tell Motel</span>. A freelance proof reader and copy editor, she teaches writing for all ages and levels, and is a passionate hiker and backpacker. She is also an award-winning designer and creator of custom clothing, particularly from “upcycled” materials (<a href="http://www.lyriccouture.com">www.lyriccouture.com</a>). Alice will be the 2012 Writer in Residence at the Carl Sandburg homestead in Flat Rock, NC.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054268164897459544.post-19081178373109982602011-12-21T07:00:00.001-05:002011-12-21T07:00:00.573-05:00Holiday Buying Guide - Alice FogelAlice Fogel's suggestions:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.tebotbach.org/spillway.html">Spillway #17</a></span> editor Susan Terris (Tebot Bach Press) is loosely on the theme of "Crossing Borders." This magazine shows the hand and eye of its editor (as opposed to journals that are arranged merely alphabetically, and whose poems could interchange their authors without anyone noticing) with a truly varied range of works that have depth and gravitas, and are genuinely interesting in craft and thought. Without being on some kind of poetic acid trip, these poems still wake you up to that elusive experience of being touched by something beyond the wall. <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.harbormountainpress.org/Books/robinson-trumpeters.html">Inaudible Trumpeters</a></span> by Elizabeth Robinson (Harbor Mountain Press, 2008). In this lovely book of poems, with her matching initials and last name, Elizabeth Robinson takes the titles and end words from works of the famous E. A. Robinson (1869-1935) and fills in her own original lines to make new, moving poems. They are totally worth it whether you find this structural relationship cool or not. <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Cold Pluto</span> by Mary Ruefle (Carnegie-Mellon, 1996). Pretty much all of Mary Ruefle's books are interesting, but this one just won't let go. Figures that it is not available, but you can get her new <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/86-selected-poems]">Selected</a></span> from Wave Books. <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/Search/QuickSearchProc/1,,paradise%20lost,00.html?id=paradise%20lost">Paradise Lost</a></span> by John Milton (Penguin Classics). Even though this is basically 17th century soap opera, it is mind-blowing how accurately Milton gets men and women, sex and marriage, desire and fear. Lots of fun to read aloud at parties. <br /><br />* * *<br /><br />Alice Fogel's third book of poems, <span style="font-style:italic;">Be That Empty</span>, was a national poetry bestseller in 2008, and in 2009 <span style="font-style:italic;">Strange Terrain</span> (a guide for nonpoet readers and teachers, as well as for poets) came out. A recipient of a fellowship from the NEA and five-time Pushcart nominee, her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including <span style="font-style:italic;">Best American Poetry</span>, former Poet Laureate Robert Hass’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Poet’s Choice</span>, <span style="font-style:italic;">TriQuarterly, Third Coast, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika</span>, and <span style="font-style:italic;">No Tell Motel</span>. A freelance proof reader and copy editor, she teaches writing for all ages and levels, and is a passionate hiker and backpacker. She is also an award-winning designer and creator of custom clothing, particularly from “upcycled” materials (<a href="http://www.lyriccouture.com">www.lyriccouture.com</a>). Alice will be the 2012 Writer in Residence at the Carl Sandburg homestead in Flat Rock, NC.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0