One Last Post Before AWP!!

The new issue of Sink Review is up!!
Artwork by
Joseph Lappie of Peptic Robot Press!!

Poetry by:

Kim Gek Lin Short
Jeremy Hoevenaar
Solmaz Sharif
Mark Bibbins
Sasha Fletcher
Sawako Nakayasu
Franklin Bruno
DJ Dolack
Chris Martin
Brett Price
Tony Mancus
B.C. Edwards
Stephanie Ann Whited
Dustin Luke Nelson
Jess Grover
Brad Liening
Elaine Castillo
Jeremiah Gould
Scott Abels
Travis Macdonald
Andy Fitch
Farrah Field

And reviews of & by:

* Heather Christle’s The Difficult Farm by Angela Veronica Wong
* Chris Tonelli’s The Trees Around by Erika Moya
* Abraham Smith’s Hank by Steven Karl
* Ben Fama’s Aquarius Rising& Natalie Lyalin’s Try A Little Time Travel by J.Mae Barizo
* Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation by Christie Ann Reynolds
* Eléna Rivera’s Remembrance of Things Plastic by Richard Scheiwe

If you'll be at AWP in Washington DC this week, please visit our table, which we are sharing with Flying Guillotine Press and Small Anchor Press. Please also come to our off-site reading we'll be having with Magic Helicopter Press, Agnes Fox Press, Parthenon West Review, and Small Deck Press, which will be on Saturday Feb 5, from 7-9pm at The Black Squirrel, 2427 18th Street NW. More details here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192594154088471. Also, come check out our limited coinsides by Angela Veronica Wong, Matthew Henriksen, Lauren Ireland, and Dottie Lasky made by Peptic Robot Press.

I'll be reading on Friday btwn 7-8 in front of the Washington Memorial. Stop by the H_ngm_n booth to pick up some hand-warmers then step out for some poetry.

Post-AWP, I'll be reading at the Poetry Project on Feb. 11th at 10pm and on Feb 13th at Zinc Bar for the EOAGH launch party.

Please Feed The Robot

Consider helping out my good friend & ever-awesome one-man publishing machine aka Peptic Robot Press!

Dear artists, friends, friendly artists, artist friends and friends of artists.

Hi. How are you? I am well thank you very much. I hope the New Year is treating you super. I’m currently in a hospital waiting for my nephew to be born. 32 minutes until 2011. (addendum. He was born at 11:00 pm… I just didn’t know it.)

So I wanted to talk to you about something. I hope you’ll consider it. As some of you know, and for those who don’t, I am currently the Visiting Asst. Professor in Book Arts and Printmaking at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. It’s a swell place with some pretty topnotch artists running the Department. I was brought in after Kat Anderson petitioned and succeeded in getting a Book Arts Major established. (Super Kudos to that fight!) For the past year and a half I have been working on developing the Program into something to be proud of and worthy of what she envisioned. It’s slowly happening. The presses are all up and running (3 letterpress, 2 litho, 2 etching, screenprinting and non-toxic capabilities) we have a great studio tech – Alison Filley – straight outta Iowa City who has added essential skills to this 7 room space and we have a new curriculum getting ready to pop out.

“That’s great!” you may say, “good job.”

Thanks, but here is the juicy part. We’re pushing farther. We’re bringing back a letterpress imprint – The Black Cat Press – that will start producing broadsides and artist’s books and collaborations with other St. Ambrose departments (starting this winter with “Mazy Mind” an all-letterpress nonfiction lit journal of student work), local and regional art organizations and visiting artists.

“Hey man, that’s alright.”

We’re also developing the space into a community center through St. Ambrose University called “The St. Ambrose Book and Print League” or the SABPL for short (copyright pending) Through this community center we hope to do the basic stuff: provide cheap classes, studio time, community outreach, lectures, presentations and general making of things along with innovative and creative things…that I haven’t thought of yet.

“Ok, that’s a lot of info” you may be starting to think as you check to see what time it is and if you wish to continue reading.

Get to the point Joseph.

The point. I’m trying to raise some money for the B&P League by providing an Open House in the Shop on February 12th (possibly the 26th). This Open House is mainly geared at introducing the community to the idea of the Shop and trying to raise its public awareness as well as the public awareness of the Program itself. This includes a student at every press printing take-away art, a public presentation, a new subscription series of “Baby Broadsides” by great writers and poets (Jami Attenberg, Aaron Burch, Natalie Edwards, Farrah Field, Sarah Gardner, Carl Herzig, Steven Karl, Jonathan Messinger, Audrey Niffenegger, Owen Rogel, and Kevin Sampsell), music, food and a silent auction.

Ahhhh…. So this is it. This is what I am requesting. I am asking you and anyone you can think of who may be supportive of this idea to donate a small work (preferably book, print or paper related, but not required) for the Silent Auction to raise money for the St. Ambrose Book and Print League.

The money raised from the auction will be used for:

Development of a functional bindery
Expansion of supplies and equipment for letterpress and basic print
Creation of a space and supplies for papermaking
Promotional material
Payment for Visiting Artists or Instructors

There are very few rules.

Rule #1: I would need the piece of art shipped by February 4th.
Rule #2: It would be shipped to St Ambrose University, attn: Joseph Lappie, 518 W.
Locust St. Davenport, Ia 52803
Rule #3: Confirmation of interest as soon as possible at
pepticrobot@pepticrobotpress.com
Rule #4: A price point you’d like to start at (if desired)
Rule #5: Any questions or concerns please ask.

In return for your charity I will make everyone who participates a small editioned Artist’s Book for their trouble. It’s not much, but a token of appreciation.

Thank you for slogging through this chunk of text. Thank you for thinking about participating even if it is something you choose not to do. Have a good day and a good year.

Until then,

Joseph the Lappie

pepticrobot@pepticrobotpress.com
www.pepticrobotpress.com
www.thebakerygallery.blogspot.com

The Robot Wants What The Robot Wants

An Afternoon Inside The (Peptic) Robot

Such An Object (Lovely)

Okay, so The Sorrow Sea of Shallows by Joseph Lappie isn't exactly a chapbook, but it's a beautiful art book & one of many I got to drool over this weekend in Philly, as Peptic Robot Press represented at the SGC.

If you haven't seen the images for The Artificer Arisen, The Artificer Fallen click here, be sure to move your mouse over the colored circles.

You can contact Peptic Robot Press here for purchases & inquiry.

From The Sorrow Sea of Shallows*:


If you are still breathing in 2050, most of us will
not be. Our parents, our lovers, the tiniest of
hands on our arms will all be buried or burnt or
left for the pigeons. Our country, our world our
universe will capture that energy and move on.



Just as if nothing had ever happened.

The cruelest, as
well as the kindest,
moment will remain
only that...



a moment.


* spacing drastically different than orignal

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.

Peptic Robot Press Comes To NYC

Monday Catch-Up

Sorry for the long silence. My friend, Joseph, the artist & publisher behind State(s) of Flux was in town so we did exciting things which didn't include sitting around staring at the computer.

We went to Central Booking (in DUMBO), Booklyn (in Greenpoint) Center for Book Arts and Printed Matter (both in Chelsea). Booklyn will have a gallery opening on Feb. 4th & I think it will definitely be worth checking out.

We also had some whiskey nights, conversations at a bar, pizza, thai, some citrus juice and an all night book-making session. Joseph is already missed by many, maybe even you.

I attempted to buy a copy of Maggy today, but didn't see it at St. Mark's Book Store, luckily as I was going through my emails I realized there is a new ish of diode up. Check it out.

Release, Release, Release

Just a quick note to say that State(s) of Flux has been officially released, check it out &/or buy it here

State(s) of Flux

I'm thrilled to say my chapbook has arrived. You can purchase it from Peptic Robot Press for $15.00. The book doesn't have its own page yet but you can send them an email here for the deets.

I'll be reading from it tomorrow at Cakeshop so come on out and say hi.

Sneak Peak

a rough-draft of Concertina from Joseph Lappie & a poem by me (previously published in Sawbuck) equals a forthcoming collaboration chapbook by Mr. Lappie & Mr. Me

Respite (while eating a sandwich) in the park

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I am covered in mosquito bites

*

there are Finches
everywhere hopping on
the red bricks
rubbing their
bellies between
gray stone
crevices

*
Saturday/ in the park/ little chest/ puffed/ in song/

*

Once,
I shared
in sound

Chicago: All That Jazz And Then Some

If you find yourself in Chicago definitely check out Joseph Lappie's solo art exhibition.

Believe Inn is proud to present "Before There Was Us And Them There Was We," the solo exhibition of Joseph Lappie.

"Before There Was Us And Them There Was We" is a collection of new drawing prints and paintings continuing the theme of relationships between the self and others, communicative constipation in word and deed, and the necessity of factual fictions in order to move forward day to day. The anthropomorphic qualities of certain figures suggest the true character of each individual. One that often remains hidden under the skin. It is not meant to be a mythological character, merely an aspect of us.

Before There Was Us And Them There Was We

Solo Exhibition by Joseph Lappie

Believe Inn

2043 N Winchester

Chicago, IL 60614

http://BelieveInn.org/

Peptic Robot Press Interview

My forthcoming chapbook, State(s) of Flux is a collaboration with the artist, Joseph Lappie. Peptic Robot Press is Joseph's one-person publishing press which focuses on art books, so it's a distinct pleasure to have Joseph designing, laying-out, creating, and illustrating the book. Here's an interview with Joseph.

It's better if you just leave it

Get Art/Give Art

Fa-la-la-la-la I know you're jinglingly right along this time of year heavy-headed in getting and giving gifted & since you, my dear readers, live such poetic-ness lives maybe keep your step fresh and give the gift that keeps on giving i.e. art!

Peptic Robot Press (publishers of my chapbook, Lovers' Last Go Around and forthcoming chapbook poetry/art collaboration) has a nifty little mail-art gift idea.

It's as such:

What better gift then a year subscription to the 12 x 20 x 12 mail art campaign?

Contact Joseph Lappie at pepticrobotpress@hotmail.com and let him know who it is for and in what quantity. Give him the address & send him a check for 20 dollars (now holla if that aint on the real cheap!)

Here's what you get for your twenty bones:

12 months of art- 1 peice of art every month + for every person you sign up you get a "thank you" piece of art sent your way fa free!

PRP will ship via mail until the 20th and if there are any late buyers PRP will FedEx until the 22nd ($5 FedEx fee).

I've been getting his art since forever and I'm constantly impressed so yep I'm signing some peeps up myself!

Get an eyeful of prints, books, illustrations, etc at www.pepticrobotpress.com

If You Find Yourself in Chicago on Friday November 16th

This Friday the 16th from 7pm - 11pm sponsored by Allegoric Space and hosted at the Chicago Country Club Gallery I will have a literal hunk of my work on display Along with 20+ other artists from across the nation. I think 12 or so will be at the actual event for libations and canoodling. Artwork from $20-$1500 so a little bit for everyone.

This is a one night only gig. On Saturday the 17th I'll be gone. Where is this gallery at you ask?

1100 N. Damen Ave Chicago, Il 60622

That is one block south of the Division and Damen intersection. Easily accessible by the Blue Line and getting off at either the
Division or Damen stop then walking (or bussing) 5-6 blocks on either street until you hit the intersection. One block South and Voila!

What will be there? Glad you asked. Prints, Drawings, and Books by me...Paintings, Drawings, Textual sculptures, by others. Check out www.allegoricspace.com for the list and examples of artists.

Hey, while you're at it check out www.pepticrobotpress.com for over 70 new images (mainly in the drawing and print section) The website is in a constant state of flux so excuse the dispirate background images on some of the pages.

Any ?s I'll be happy and speedy in my reply.

Bring your dancing feet, bring your drinking belly, and bring your pocket book because the art is affordable.

Joseph

p.s. I know, logistically, that it is an impossibilty for many of you to attend this event. Nonetheless I wanted to send an invitation.

Thanks.





www.pepticrobotpress.com

Get Art; Get Lit

My good friend and esteemed colleague has revamped his website. He's an amazing artist and a special talent when it comes to book arts so take a look for yerself,

http://pepticrobotpress.com/