Happy New Years (albeit belatedly so). Great new review of the collab chapbook over on Coldfront Magazine. Check it out here! Thanks so much for the kind words Stephanie! If you haven't read it yet you can head over to Lame House Press and pick up a copy (only a limited number of them left). Also, I've been busy working on the edits for my Coconut book which should come out in October, as well as putting together the new issue of Sink Review and another Immaculate Disciples Press chapbook both will come out by the end of February. If you're attending AWP come see the panel I'm moderating. It will be on Thursday, March 7 at 9:00am. I'll do another post about it as we get closer to the date.

New Review of Collab Chapbook!

Joshua Ware recently reviewed my collaborative chapbook with Angela Veronica Wong, released from Lame House Press earlier this year. Don't Try This On Your Piano, or am i still standing here with my hair down is still available for you to own (but I imagine, not for long!), and you can have one by clicking on over to the Lame House Press site. Thanks, Joshua!

Pre-Order the New Collaborative Chapbook

Soon, soon my collaborative chapbook with Angela Veronica Wong will be out in the world. Pre-order your copy here.

The amazing, clever, & lovely cover art is by Liz Wolf, who has started a stationary/paper goods line called Wolf & Wren. You may peruse and purchase her wonderful cards here.

Sneak Peak

The front cover of the forthcoming collab chapbook with Angela Veronica Wong to be published in February by Lame House Press. Awesome cover art by Liz Wolf!

am i standing here with my hair down or don't try this on the piano

Nice interview with Angela Veronica Wong in which she discusses our collaborative chapbook forthcoming from Lame House Press. You can read the interview with her here.

Awesome Is Awesome

I'm pleased to inform you that LAME HOUSE PRESS will be publishing a collaborative chapbook penned by myself & Angela Veronica Wong! Look for it in Feb. 2012.

Speaking of Angela Veronica Wong, come out on Friday and her read!

Friday, October 28 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm Stain of Poetry

Goodbye Blue Monday

Bruce Covey's fifth book of poetry, Reveal, will be published by Bitter Cherry Books before the end of 2011; his next-most-recent books are Glass Is Really a Liquid (2010) and Elapsing Speedway Organism (2006). He lives in Atlanta, GA, where he edits Coconut Poetry and curates the What's New in Poetry Reading Series. He work has appeared in Best of the Net 2006 (selected by Paul Guest), Online Writing: The Best of the First Te...n Years, The Holiday Album (selected by Elaine Equi), and Wingbeats: Exercises and Practice in Poetry, along with several other anthologies and journals.

Emily Kendal Frey is the author of THE GRIEF PERFORMANCE (published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2011) as well as several chapbooks and chapbook collaborations. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Eléna Rivera’s most recent books are The Perforated Map (Shearsman Books, 2011) and Remembrance of Things Plastic (LRL-e Editions, 2010). She won the 2010 Robert Fagles prize in translation for her translation of The Rest of the Voyage by Bernard Noël published by Graywolf Press (2011). She is the recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation, and a 2009 Fundacíon Valparaíso Poetry Residency in Mojácar, Spain. She currently lives in New York City.


Angela Veronica Wong lives in Manhattan. Her chapbook Dear Johnny, In Your Last Letter was selected by Bob Hicok as a winner of the 2011 Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship. She is also the author of the chapbooks 25 little red poems (dancing girl press 2012), to know this (Cy Gist Press 2009), and All the Little Red Girls (Flying Guillotine Press 2009). An e-chapbook will be released by YesYes Books in Fall 2011. Her first full-length collection of poems, entitled how to survive a hotel fire, is forthcoming from Coconut Books in Spring 2012. Visit www.angelaveronicawong.com


James Yeh is a founding editor of Gigantic. His fiction and nonfiction appears or is forthcoming in McSweeney's, NOON, Vice, PEN America, the anthology 30 Under 30, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and Columbia University, he is a 2011 Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writers Fellow. He lives just down the street from here and is one-half of the DJ party Kings County Society for Fitness, Science & Musical Merriment, which he will be DJing later tonight at Manhattan Inn, in Greenpoint.

Books, Coffee, Readings, Whatevers

Craig Santos Perez has out a chapbook on Corollary Press and a new book on Tinfish Press. I realized I haven't read much of his poetry, but I have read a lot of his reviews. I asked him to send a copy of his new book to Cold Front Magazine. I don't think any books from Tinfish have been reviewed on the site.
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Thursday I went to the Wave Books reading at NYU. It was good and Tao Lin's poem was definitely a stand-out. I hung out with former and present New Schoolers Steve and Ben. We talked about how NYU has much better wine than the New School. What? Did you think we'd talk about saving the world or counting strophes?
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Yesterday I went to Meghan's book release party/fundraiser at KGB. No where near as packed as I expected. It was a good reading with an excellent raffle for which yours truly was (for a change) amongst the winners. Here's the book bounty I won:

Stratification- Meghan Punschke (BlazeVox Books)
The Heart is a Quarter Pounder- Jeffrey Miller (farfalla press/ McMillan & Parrish)
Upon Arrival- Paula Cisewski (Black Ocean)
The Man Suit- Zachary Schomburg (Black Ocean)
Holy Land- Rauan Klassnik (Black Ocean)
Simply Rocket- Matt Hart (lame house press)

Afterwards, Dan, Meghan, Sylvia, and myself went out to dinner for a little Thai and converation. Somehow we were all very very funny. We laughed a lot and saited our collective hungers. Dan went home, Sylvia went home or elsewheres, Meghan & I both living in Chinatown stood on the corner of Hester and Chrsytie talking until the first drops of rain began to fall. Home we went.
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This morning I bought coffee beans from Gimme! Coffee- the roast is entitled Leftist- I'm left-handed so that's an easy bias! I also lived on the Left Coast for a while-- speaking of the Left Coast, I have a poem in Eleven Eleven which is out of California College of the Arts (CCA). I haven't seen issue 5 yet as I just sent my address in to the editors(oops & sorry) but I'm excited to see it when it arrives in the mailbox. I'm also reviewing two books for Dusie so can't wait for those to come too- but I think they are coming from Sweden so I shan't hold my breath.

Lastly, I had a poem accepted in Barrow Street for their 10th anniversary issue. Pretty awesome. Okay I'm hungry and tired of listening to Blonde Redhead. I am now leaving my apartment (again).