Dear Deer

I recently finished reading Sasha Steensen's chapbook, A History of The Human Family which you can purchase from Flying Guillotine Press here, or if you're in NYC/BK/Queens from Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop.

Although Steensen has out a couple of books with Fence, I did not know her work at all. I fell in love with this chapbook so will have to seek out her books. Here are some excerpts that I liked:

Anyone here know
what animation
what anima
what clod
what erring
what worship
what warship
what book is this
what tender plant, root of the dry ground
what reeds & rushes
what lame man leaps as a hart
what avalanche
what footpath into astonishment

I must bear it


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we lived on the brink of a gorge
that was flat all around

like moon landings
&burdens
&massacres

Munich skin of the book
skin of the deer

like many-yeared
like landward
like me now groping
around
like skin of the buck


a great depth of moss

News You Can Use

New ish of Taiga is out. Winter 2011. 100 copies. Includes poetry by Jen Tynes, Jennifer Denrow, Amber Nelson, Steven Karl, Matthew Klane, Dan Thomas-Glass, erica lewis & Lightsey Darst.

Musical inquiry and observation by Amaranth Borsuk, Helen Renaut, Ruthann Friedman-Carlisle, Steven R Smith, Jana Hunter & Ayla Nereo.

Edited by Brooklyn Copeland. Cover art by Mike Seall. You can purchase it here.

There's also an interview with me about music & the poem excerpted in the issue which you can read here.

Also, Flying Guillotine Press subscriptions!
Receive every book Flying Guillotine publishes in 2011 for the low price of $25!!

That's

Sasha Steensen's
A History of the Human Family
Philip Metres' The Abu Ghraib Arias
Serena Chopra's Penumbra
& Theresa Sotto's Hinge

Go here to get yours!

A'dub & Stuff

(photo thanks to Bianca Stone)

Seems like everyone is blogging about DC's AWP. I was a lot busier at this one in comparison to Denver, so my thoughts are the thoughts of someone working the table, as opposed to, a wander- which is all I did last year. The only panel I attended was Monsters, Mongrels, Writing Across Identity or something to that effect. It was 9am & I was tired, almost too tired to understand smart people talking about smart things. I just wanted a coffee. On Friday night, I read for H_NGM_N on the Lincoln Memorial stairs (pics forthcoming) & that was pretty awesome.

On Saturday night, Dan & I hosted a reading for Sink Review along with a ton of other super-cool presses & the readers, turn-out, & reading itself was great. Dan & I arrived an hour early to maximize the event space, inadvertently ordered the two most expensive beers on the menu, rearranged the entire room, set-up an amp (borrowed from Christie Ann's bf) then ate some damn good Mac & Cheese. Not wanting to lug an amp around, our night ended as many nights did- not on a dance floor or jammed into another reading &/or reading after-party but relaxing at our hotel bar.

I got to see lots of Jared & Farrah, Dan, Sommer, Tony Mancus & Sawako!!, as well as, J.Mae Barizo & Rich Scheiwe. I also got to meet Katherine Sullivan & Jen Hyde. I saw some of Mathias & Julia which was nice. Surprising I saw little of Vee, Carter Edwards, Ben Mirov, Christie Ann Reynolds, & Amy Lawless (all of whom I spent a ton of time with at Denver). I expected to but didn't, not even once see Molly Gaudry.

I'm pretty happy with the books I picked up:

Sommer Browning & Dan Boehl's books on Birds, LLC, Matt Henriksen's book on Black Ocean, Jessica Baran's book on Apostrophe, Jeremy Schmall's book on Xing, & Claire Becker's book on Octopus. Thomas Fink gave me a copy of his new book (which to my surprise has a blurb by me on the back cover-AWESOME!!) & I picked up my contributor copy of the Coldfront Yearbook. My friend Nicole gave me a copy of Rose Hunter's book on adp. I also got a copy of No, Dear.

I picked up the dbl-chapbook by Paige Taggart & Justin Marks on Poor Claudia, Chris Martin & Jennifer Denrow's chapbooks from BMP, Sasha Steensen & Mark Horosky's chapbooks from Flying Guillotine Press, Heather Christle's chapbook, The Seaside, an advance printing of an Eric Baus chapbook from minutes BOOKS,, Genya Turovskaya's chapbook by Octopus & an Amy Wright's chapbook from Apostrophe.

Chapbook Round-up

I have been told that (Ir)Rational Animals is sold-out. Awesome. What a year! Thanks to all those who purchased a copy.

I have recently picked up (but not read) the following chapbooks:
The Archers by Macgregor Card
ATM by Chris Salerno
Office Work by Jackie Clark

Official & Unofficial Reccomendations for (Ir)Rational Animal

InDigest Magazine included (Ir)Rational Animals among their 10 favorite chapbooks for 2010. What an honor especially considering the company I'm included in. Check it out here!

On her blog, Sueyeun Juliette Lee wrote, "And for those of you who haven’t checked out his chapbook, you should check out (Ir)Rational Animals (Flying Guillotine Press), a delirious exploration of human (s/t)exuality."

Thomas Fink (via email) had this to say about the chapbook, "Thank you very much for (IR)RATIONAL ANIMALS. I hope we will get a chance soon to discuss your use of the page, which has ample innovative drive, and what I take to be an interesting doubling gesture about the issue (in both sense of the noun) of pornography--a kind of Bakhtinian double-voiced discourse or, more generally, heteroglossia."

Claire Donato (via a text message) said this about (Ir)Rational Animals, "Yr chapbook is rad! In the awesome sense. And radical! In the innovative sense. I love it! Treat to read yr work."

The Home Video Review of Books reviewed it here.

The chapbook is close to being sold out so if you want a copy go over here & pick one up.

The Apocalypse Anthology

Flying Guillotine Press has officially released the Apocalypse Anthology as an e-book which means you can go here & read it for free. Includes poems by myself & Josh Kleinberg, Thom Donovan, Brennen Wysong, Ben Fama, Leslie Anne Mcilroy, Rob Ostrom, Toni Browning, Brett Price, Gregory Bem, Nathan Logan, Wynelle Bridge, Jefferson Carter, Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney, Matthew Everett, Stephanie Anderson, Francis Raven, Melissa Koosmann, Douglass Piccinnini, Dolan Morgan, Paul Siegell, Mark Terrill, Kate Schapira, Kristi Maxwell, Christine Leclerc, Sommer Browning, Adam Roberts, Lauren Harrison, Tony Mancus, Sarah Heller, Brandon Shimoda, John Ebersole, Vincent Zompa, Thomas Oristaglio, Alex Cuff, Ally Harris, Jeff Hawkinson,Jen Currin, J. Townsend, Elinor Payntor, Dave Carillo, Steven Breyak, Cate Peebles, Nate Pritts, Frank Sherlock, Estela Lamat & Michael Leong, Esther Smith, Emily Brandt, Mathias Svalina, Dan Chelotti, Michael Rerick, Theresa Sotto, Leigh Stein, Joe Fletcher, Martin Rock

Back From Philly

The Philly reading was a blast & lots of people came out. I did a brief write-up about it here.

Flying Guillotine released my most recent chapbook & they were quite good to me. Now it's your chance to bathe in the goodness that the press is: Flying Guillotine Press announces its Open Reading Period! We're accepting poetry chapbook submissions from now until November 15th. We're looking for beautiful, for interesting, for sonically perverse, for arresting.Guidelines:

* Send up to 30 pages of poetry to flyingguillotinepress at gmail dot com.

* Email your chapbook as an attachment with the $5 reading fee paid through PayPal, the button is below.

* The reading fee gets you a copy of one of the handmade chapbooks we publish from the open reading period.

* Please place the transaction number of your reading fee in the body of the email.

* We are looking for two manuscripts, but reserve the right to change this number.

* The reading fee goes directly into making the books.



We look very forward to reading your work!

On Display

Veronica sent me this photo which features both of our chapbooks on display at The Poet House.

Fun stuff.

I Hope To See You On Saturday!

Animals Spinning 'til yer head is dizzy

Home Video Review of Books has a new issue including a review of my chapbook, (Ir)Rational Animals. Check it out here.


Reviews of
Man's Companions, by Joanna Ruocco
I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, by Karyna McGlynn
Duties of an English Foreign Secretary, by Macgregor Card
The Wild Hawk the Sea, by Seth Landman
Neighbor, by Rachel Levitsky
(Ir)Rational Animals, by Steven Karl
I, the Worst of All, by Estela Lamat, Trans. by Michael Leong
Elegy for a Fabulous World, by Alta Ifland
Life of a Star, by Jane Unrue
Bee-Stung Aviary, by Eric Baus
One Day There Will Be Nothing to Show that We Were Ever Here, by Scott Alexander Jones
The Plot Genie, by Gillian Conoley
Minimum Heroic, by Christopher Salerno
Mr. Worthington's Beautiful Experiments on Splashes, by Genine Lentine

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Also, as of now, I have extremely limited internet access (I'm in the library right now listening to the sound of babies crying) so blog updates &/or any virtual communications will be sporadic at best.

CUNY Chapbook Festival

Flying Guillotine Press is participating in CUNY's Chapbook Festival, which means I'll be reading on Tuesday (May 4th) sometime between 2p-3p along with Angela Veronica Wong. My chapbook, (Ir)Rational Animals will be for sale both days for a measly $6! Flying Guillotine Press will also have cool t-shirts & books for sale. If you can make the reading, I'd love to see you, if not, be sure to support small presses and swing by one of the days and maybe even take a book making class! Everything is free and open to the public.



ANNUAL CHAPBOOK FESTIVAL
www.chapbookfestival.org

Monday May 3 &Tuesday May 4, 2010

The Festival celebrates the chapbook as a work of art and as a medium for alternative and emerging writers and publishers. Now in its second year, the festival features a two-day bookfair with chapbook publishers from around the country, workshops, marathon poetry readings, and a closing-night reading of prize-winning Chapbook Fellows.



Co-sponsored by The Office of Academic Affairs, The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center and MFA Programs in Creative Writing of the City University of New York, The Center for Book Arts, Poets House, Poetry Society of America, and Poets & Writers

Schedule of Events
Chapbook Festival

Bookfair

11:30am to 7pm both days (May 3-4)

in the Proshansky Auditorium Lobby, C Level

Free and open to the public


MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
Workshops

C Level Breakout Rooms

Free registration required. To attend workshops, please register by e-mailing abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu

10 – 11:30am

Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Poets
Brenda Iijima (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), Rachel Levitsky (Belladonna*), and Lonely Christopher (The Corresponding Society)

10 – 11:30am

Do-It-Yourself Chapbooks: Make and Distribute Your Own
Mary Gannon and Jean Hartig (Poets & Writers Magazine), Emily Goodale (Brave Men Press), Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse), and Adam Robinson (Publishing Genius)

11:30am – 1pm

Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Publishers
Jan Heller Levi (Hunter College), Rachel Levitsky (Belladonna*), and Booklyn

11:30am – 1pm

Chapbooks as Art Objects
Roni Gross (Roni Gross Design), and Jeremy Thompson (The Autotypograph), with Sarah Nicholls (Center for Book Arts)
Chapbook Poets: A Marathon Reading

2 – 7pm, C Level Breakout Rooms
Poets from participating presses read. Full lineup to be announced here soon.
Free and open to the public.

Opening Reception

7 – 8pm, Proshansky Auditorum Lobby
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010
Workshops

C Level Breakout Rooms

Free registration required. To attend workshops, please register by e-mailing abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu


10 – 11:30am

Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Poets
Sommer Browning and Tony Mancus (Flying Guillotine Press), Jill Magi (Sona Books), and Daniel Lin (Love Among the Ruins)

10 – 11:30am

Do-It-Yourself Chapbooks: Make and Distribute Your Own
Mary Gannon and Jean Hartig (Poets & Writers Magazine), Emily Goodale (Brave Men Press), and Anna Moschovakis (Ugly Duckling Presse)

11:30am – 1pm

Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Publishers
Jan Heller Levi (Hunter College), Andrew Levy (CRAYON Magazine), Sueyeun Juliette Lee (Corollary Press), and Booklyn

11:30am – 1pm

Chapbooks as Art Objects
Roni Gross (Roni Gross Design) and Jeremy Thompson (The Autotypograph), with Sarah Nicholls (Center for Book Arts)

Chapbook Poets: A Marathon Reading

2 – 7pm, C Level Breakout Rooms
Poets from participating presses read. Full lineup to be announced here soon.

Free and open to the public.

PSA Chapbook Fellowship Reading

7pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre
Alice Quinn with judges Mark Doty, Linda Gregg, and Arthur Sze, and winners Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman, Haines Eason, Heidi Johannesen Poon, and Stephanie Adams-Santos. Followed by reception.

Free and open to the public.


On Wednesday, May 5, The Center for Book Arts will host printing and bookbinding workshops, from 10-1 and 2-5. To sign up, call 212-481-0295. For more information, visit their website.


Participating publishers

2nd Ave Poetry
Bateau Press
Belladonna*
BOOK WorksBooklyn
BookThug
Business Press
Cervena Barva Press
Concrete Wolf Chapbook Press
Corollary Press
CRAYON
Creature Press
Cy Gist Press
DoubleCross Press
Dusie Kollektiv
Etched Press
Factory Hollow Press
Finishing Line Press
Five Spice Poetry
Flying Guillotine Press
Forklift, Ohio
Greying Ghost Press
Instance Press
Kissena Park Press
Little Scratch Pad
Love Among the Ruins
Magic Helicopter Books
Minutes Books
Noemi Press
Open Thread Publications
Pen Press
Plan B Press
Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press
Poets Wear Prada
Poinciana Paper Press
Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs
PresShop
Rain Taxi
River Poets Journal/Lilly Press
Sarabande Books
Seven Kitchens Press
Slapering Hol Press
Small Anchor Press
Sona Books
Spire Press
sunnyoutside
Tarpaulin Sky Press
The Physiocrats
Toadlily Press
Ugly Duckling Presse
Upset Press
X-ing Press/Agriculture Reader
and others!

AWP & All That Jazz

I leave for AWP tomorrow so this will probably be my last post until sometime next week. If I can dream aloud & you're hoping to seek me out in print while at AWP you can find my chapbook over at the Flying Guillotine Press table & I have excerpts from a poem,

Birthdays & Other Bouts With Breathing

, in the new issue of
No, Dear Magazine which is actually sharing a table with FGP- now that's one-stop shopping! I also have a review in the Coldfront 2009 which I blogged about yesterday.

If you're trying to find me in person to exchange hellos, beers, coffees, etc I'll probably be lingering around the Immaculate Disciples Press/Sink Review table, the Coldfront table or the Flying Guillotine table.

Some things I'm looking forward to buying:

The new Brave Men Press chapbook by Mathias Svalina
The new ish of Cannibal, Salt Grass, Forklift, Ohio, Agricultural Reader, and picking up my contributor copy of No, Dear. I'm also curious to see what's at Wave Books, Black Ocean, and Litmus Press.

I'm going to try to make readings by Copper Nickel (Thurs 6-7:30) Historic Falcon (6:30-9pm), Table x After party, The Dewclaw Issue 2 reading(Thursday 2-4), The FlatmanCrooked & Mud Luscious Press Reading (Friday, 4pm), Cleveland State University Reading (Friday 6:30) and Possess Nothing (Saturday 7-10)pm

I'll make the AWP Panel: Networked Poetry Classroom (Thursday 9-10:15)
University of Montana Poetry Faculty Reading (Friday 10:30)

Collages & Collisions (Friday 1:30-2:30)

I know there are Gurlesque and Flarf panel/readings too, but I can't find them right now.

What looks good to you? What are you planning on attending/buying?

Animals This Way Come!

I'm thrilled to say that my new chapbook has just been released by Flying Guillotine Press! You can purchase it direct from the press for only $7! Click here.

Also, there are still a limited number of my collab chapbook, State(s) of Flux available from Peptic Robot Press here or if in NYC/BK send me an email.

to know this

In to know this Angela Veronica Wong maps the constellation of the body and its desires. The life of a star is the life of a person. Wong's spare, precise lines chart a firmament that is both celestial and down-to-earth.

Buy here!

Come out on Tuesday and hear Veronica read:

Boog City 60: NYC Small Presses Issue

in conjunction with our New York City Small Presses Night Event
Tues. Dec. 15, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free

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

with pages put together by the participating six presses:

**Flying Guillotine Press, Sommer Browning and Tony Mancus, eds.

**Litmus Press/Aufgabe, E. Tracy Grinnell, ed.

**Mal-o-mar Editions, Ariana Reines, ed.

**Mermaid Tenement Press, Laura Hinton, ed.

**The North Beach Yacht Club, Ryan Murphy, ed.

**3 Sad Tigers Press, Mariana Ruiz Firmat, ed.

featuring work from:

Charles Baudelaire * Abigail Child
Norma Cole * Kari Edwards
Steven Karl * Brenda Borofsky Serpick
Stacy Szymaszek * Angela Veronica Wong


***As well as your usual swell Boog City content***

**From Our Music section, Urban Folk
edited by Jonathan Berger**

All The Little Red Girls

New chapbook by Angela Veronica Wong. Check it out over at Flying Guillotine Press.

DoomsDayYouNow!

Doomsday Film Festival & Symposium
Sunday, October 25, 2009
12:30pm - 2:00pm
DCTV
87 Lafayette St. (between Walker & White)
New York, NY

• Selections from The Animatrix | Shinichiro Watanabe & Mahiro Maeda, U.S., 2003 (feat. The Second Renaissance Parts 1 & 2, A Detective Story, Kid's Story)

Panelists:
• Bob Fingerman, author and comic artist
• Hilary Florido, comic artist
• Matt Hawkins, journalist
• Justin Taylor, author
• John Joseph Adams, editor of Wastelands, The Living Dead and Seeds of Change
• Jonathan Maberry, author of Patient Zero, They Bite and Doomwar

Readers:
• Jeremy Schmall, poet
• Sommer Browning, poet
• Emily Brandt, poet
• Alex Cuff, poet
• Martin Rock, poet

Limited Edition copies of The Apocalypse Anthology of Poetry edited by Sommer Browning will be available for sale from Flying Guillotine Press.


About the festival:
The 2009 Doomsday Film Festival explores our collective obsession with the Apocalypse in film, art, and culture.

From raptures, plagues, meteorites, nuclear holocausts, aliens, zombie attacks, ecological catastrophe, and cybernetic revolt to the 2012 doomsday predictions, the Festival will touch upon all possible permutations of our collective demise.

We'll be screening films from across the board, with works ranging from premieres to established classics to rediscovered gems. On the schedule for the 2009 Festival are nuclear fallout cartoons, early '60s atomic parables, '80s zombie punk, award-winning independent shorts, and much more.

The event will incorporate a panel-based symposium featuring authors, artists, and all manner of experts on the End of Days. We plan to tackle the Apocalypse in all its forms, and hope you'll join us for the ride!

http://www.doomsdayfilmfest.com
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A Canadian Invasion!

Nick Thran (Insomniac Press)
J. Mae Barizo (Fields Press)
Moez Surani (Wolsak & Wynn)


8PM, Oct. 26
Unnameable Books
Neighborhood: Prospect Heights
600 Vanderbilt Ave
(between Dean St & St Marks Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(718) 789-1534


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Join us for a wonderful reading by Myung Mi Kim (author of Penury, Commons, DURA, The Bounty, and Under Flag), Jena Osman (author of Essay In Asterisks and The Character) and Tony Tost (author of Complex Sleep and Invisible Bride). We are also celebrating the publication of Myung Mi Kim's new book, Penury.



MONDAY, OCT 26, 2009 7:00 PM
Triptych Readings
(pairing established and emerging writers)

MYUNG MI KIM
JENA OSMAN
TONY TOST

11th Street Bar

510 East 11th Street (between Avenues A & B)
Closest subway stop is the L at 1st Ave.
other close stops include L at 3rd Ave and Union Square (N, R, W, Q, 4, 5, 6).

Admission is FREE.

Visit our website for poems, more about our readers,
and upcoming readings: www.triptychreading.com

Bio for the readers:

Myung Mi Kim is Professor of English and a core faculty member of the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the author of Penury, Commons, DURA, The Bounty, and Under Flag. Kim was awarded The Multicultural Publisher's Exchange Award of Merit for Under Flag. She also received a fellowship at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, awards from the Fund for Poetry, a Daesan Foundation Translation Grant, and the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity. The anthologies in which her work has appeared include American Poets in the 21st century: The New American Poetics, Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, Premonitions: Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women.

Jena Osman's books of poetry include The Character, An Essay in Asterisks, and the forthcoming The Network (winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series). An excerpt from "Public Figures," her continuing project on statuary in Philadelphia, can be found in the online journal HOW2 (vol. 3, issue 1). She co-edits the ChainLinks book series with Juliana Spahr and teaches in the Creative Writing program at Temple University.

Tony Tost is the author of Complex Sleep (Iowa 2007), World Jelly (Effing 2005) and Invisible Bride (LSU 2004). He is currently writing a book on Johnny Cash's first American Recordings album for Continuum's 33 1/3 series of books on classic record albums, and is also completing a new poetry manuscript called Consequence. Poems and prose have recently appeared in Hambone, Open Letter, Mandorla, Talisman, American Literature, Colorado Review and Effing Magazine, and are forthcoming in Cannibal, Ping Pong and The Yale Anthology of Younger Poets. He lives with Leigh and Simon in Durham, NC, where he is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Duke University.

Some Goods & Then Some More Goods

The Brooklyn Bookfest happens on Sunday, September 13th and this discussion which takes place at St. Francis College looks pretty good:

12:00 p.m. Poetry, Pop, and Hip-Hop. A panel discussing how poets, songwriters and rappers push language in new and essential ways. Featuring Lupe Fiasco, musician and poet Thurston Moore, Tracie Morris and Matthew Zapruder (The Pajamaist). Moderated by Touré.

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The 13th is also the final day of the Boog City Festival with a day long reading at Unnameable Books featuring friend and soon-to-be-press mates, Veronica Wong. I'll post the complete schedule sometime next week.

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The other day I was reading Nicolle Elizabeth's blog and discovered this pizza blog. Awesome, you know I always look at the artist, Stella Hultberg's blog to see what she & often her husband, Matthew, have been eating. My favorite cat, Ethan, also has a guest appearance on the blog. I don't know Vanessa but she and I share friends in common and I often look at her blog for food. Although the more recent post haven't been as food-centric.
Does anyone know of any good coffee &/or beer blogs?

Speaking of Nicolle Elizabeth she has poems in the new ish of Sawbuck

please redirect your browsers to witness fantastical meanderings from the likes of:

(Edith Södergran translated by Christian Ward)
(George Moore)(Jeff Harrison)
(Jessica Wickens)(Lee Norton)
(Nicolle Elizabeth)(Philip Byron Oakes)
(Steven Breyak)(Susan Lewis)(Zach Buscher)
you will not regret this
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A new ish of Softblow is up & eagerly awaiting you.

Press Action

scantily clad update!

new titles:

Interests by Nada Gordon

The Empire by Mark Leidner

Last New Death by Rob MacDonald

The Sin Sonnets (A Redouble) by Amy Newman

All My Poems by Nate Pritts

The Execution of Little Maude by Jeffrey Skinner

Take 11 Wolf Teeth and Call Me in the Morning by Abraham Smith

A Series of Ad Hoc Permutations, or RUBY Love-Songs by Joshua Ware
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Dear Friends of Flying Guillotine,



artist of coathanger girls and mitten girls




girls of the month forked men snakemen

beginning to people beginning to color



--from The Saint's Notebook, a hand stitched book of poems, covered in burlap, and printed in an edition of 74. Every cover is unique, every poem is a bursting canyon.


Kate Schapira lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches writing to college and elementary school students and makes chapbooks. She's the author of several chapbooks, including The Love of Freak Millways and Tango Wax (Cy Gist Press), Case Fbdy. (Rope-A-Dope Press) and Heroes & Monsters (forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs).

Pick one up here


Good summer wishes!

Flying Guillotine Press

Queens Stand Up

Jackson Heights Poetry Festival

Saturday, June 20, All Day: Outdoor Festival


10:30-11:40

Sommer Browning (Flying Guillotine)
3rd Place Middle School Student
Roger Sedarat
Ivy Johnson (Portable Press at YoYo Labs)


11:40 - 12:50

Tony Mancus (Flying Guillotine Press).

2nd Place Middle School Student
Laren MccCLung
Alex Cuff (No, Dear)


12:50-2:00

Jackie Clark (LIT Magazine)
1st Place Middle School Student
Richard Newman
Esther Smith (Purgatory Pie Press)


2:00-2:30 band, Jon Sandler

2:30-3:40

Katie Fowley (Lightful Press)

3rd Place High School Student
Ocean Vaung
Emily Brandt (No, Dear)

3:40-4:50

Georgia Luna (Purgatory Pie Press)
2nd Place High School Student
Julio Marzan
Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse)

4:50-6:00

Steve Dalachinsky (Ugly Duckling Presse)


1st Place High School Student
Nicole Cooley
Regan Good (Ugly Duckling Presse)

6:00-6:30 Closing band, Jon Sandler
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