Sunday with Words

The new issue of The Chapbook Review came out & it's quite good. It has reviews of Matt Bell, Claire Donato, Nada Gordon, Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman, and Pedro Ponce. Check it out here!

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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

Around the world via the web

Nicole Wong has flash fiction here

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summer 2009 issue of sawbuck is out featuring corey mesler, david sewell, erik anderson, gina abelkop, jennifer h. fortin, joseph p. wood, kate schapira, kristina marie darling,nick demske, & paul hostovsky

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New reviews up at Gently Read Literature

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Brand new Chapbook only review site featuring two reviews of Mathias Svalina's Play which I reviewed on this blog.

I'm pretty excited about this site so if you're a publisher and/or reviewer you should send them chapbooks or offer to do some reviews. Tarpaulin Sky and CutBank also have a ton of books that need reviewers too!

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New E-chapbooks are alive at Scantily Clad Press:

At night: by Lisa Ciccarello

You Are So Pretty by Donald Dunbar

Theater by Drew Kalbach

Prairies by Natalie Knight

Mandolintries by Philip Nikolayev

Taco Truck to Awesometown by Cate Peebles

I've already mentioned this but I'll say it again. I LOVE Cate Peebles' chapbook, but don't take my word for it, take Ben Mirov's

Heat Seeker

Borrowed House: 15 poems by Brooklyn Copeland (Greying Ghost Press, 2009)
Buy it here


I have to admit I'm embarrassed I haven't written a review for this chapbook yet. I've had it since February and have read it a few times already.

In Brooklyn Copeland's Scantily Clad Press chapbook, Northernmost, her poems are cold and spacious like wandering the tundra and having your sight captivated by lichen hue. Her poems are sparse and can send a chill up your spine. Borrowed House finds Copeland operating in a different degree of weather. These poems, while still sparse in language, feel insulated like attic-trapped heat. Copeland's poem are not excessively chatty- every line is measured and necessary. Here's the first three lines of "Weeds," "Under a musty quilt,/ your eyes turn misty,/ your voice creams./"

Another thing to love about this chapbook is the way the poems go from interior to exterior. Here's a three lines from "They Remain Where Breath Left Them,"

These people were packrats. Really, we're the ones

haunting the house, traipsing half-naked, drink-handed,

every warped floorboard announcing our belligerence.

And here is one of my favorite poems, "Eleven O'clock,"

Meanwhile, a sense of needing
to rehabilitate:
the field is there, the trough full
of rainwater, puffed-up bees.
Eleven o'clock I send you
back up that old nag tree
for some more of those
tiny mottled apples. In the branches,
the ghost of tom waits for you
to fail me.

These poems are wrought with expectation, the simplicity of youth, the complexity of adulthood, and each place mentioned is a space for beauty and also a space for hurt. There are failures both large and small and then there are people isolated, a bit broken, but ultimately bandaged and breathing. This chapbook is blood before it boils and shortly after it cools. You should read it and love it like I do.

A Chapbook & A Reading

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