Cannibal Disciples Eating a Finch

The Heart is Green From So Much Waiting by Sampson Starkweather is available for purchase from Immaculate Disciples Press. Go here. I own it & think it's pretty damn good!



I also just finished reading the new Cannibal which you can purchase here. This is what is inside:
Cannibal: Issue 5
112 pages, hand-sewn, silk-screen printed cover
w/ poems Carrie Olivia Adams, Samuel Amadon, Claire Becker, Susan Briante, Lily Brown, Adam Clay, CAConrad, Kate Dougherty, Farrah Field, Laura Goode, Kate Greenstreet, Jane Gregory, Whit Griffin, Melanie Hubbard, Andrew Hughes, MC Hyland, Grant Jenkins, Jeff T. Johnson, Jon Leon, Sam Lohmann, Sara Mumolo, Hoa Nguyen, Danielle Pafunda, Alison Palmer, Kyle Schlesinger, Cedar Sigo, Nate Slawson, Tony Tost, Steven Toussaint, Amish Trivedi, G.C. Waldrep, & Joseph Wood.

Also, there's a new ish of Sixth Finch, which I've only read a quarter of so far, but love the poems by Jackie Clark and Kim Gek Lin Short and Farrah Field. Read it all here.

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?

Boston & Back Again

I spent the last few days in Boston with Lila. It was my first time going to Boston, but Lila did some of her undergrad (Mass. Art) there so it was nice to have someone so familiar with the landscape- which cut down the time spent being lost (which is generally 90% of my time) to nothing. Since the weather was so beautiful I got see a lot of the city by foot- the harbor, the esplanade, the many squares, etc. I had delicious ice cream from Christana's (sp?) drank beer at Cambridge Brewing Company, had a great lunch at Flour (thanks for the recommendation Jared White!) and read almost all my recently obtained Cannibal chapbooks + the new issue of jubilat (which I didn't really like too much-sigh).

Back to work tomorrow & Wednesday then a flight out Wednesday early evening to Denver for AWP. Are you going? What's on your list? Tomorrow I'll blog about what I'm looking forward to seeing &/or buying.

List are for Fridays

Thanks to press-mate, friend, workshopper & New School Alum, V, for the kind words on my FGP chapbook!

Thanks to Ross for giving a shout-out to my other publisher, Peptic Robot Press!

I start Spring Break on Monday so here's a list of things I hope to do:

Go to MOMA
Finish reading the last issue of Forklift, Ohio & the first issue of Maggy. Begin reading the new issue of Jubilat & the new issue of Octopus.
Work on Sink Review review revisions.
Begin writing reviews for Coldfront.
Go see Greenburg.
Clean my room. Sort through the heap of papers & books spilling all around my floor.
Do taxes.
Look at the AWP schedule.
Read a ton of Cannibal Books chapbooks.
Write poems.
Send chapbook(s) to Hong Kong, New Zealand & Japan.
See friends.
Grade papers.
Sleep. Sleep.

This Weeks Best of NYC/BK Readings

Henri Cole, David Gewanter, Eduardo C. Corral
Start Time: Today, March 22 at 7:00pm
End Time: Today, March 22 at 9:00pm
Where: 11th Street Bar (510 East 11th Street, between Avenues A & B)
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Boog City presents


d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press



Cannibal Books
(Fayetteville, Ark.)


Tues., March 23, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free



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

Event will be hosted by
Cannibal Books' editor
Matt Henriksen



Featuring readings from


Kevin Holden
Patrick Morrissey
Allyssa Wolf
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PERFECT SENSE READING SERIES
is proud to invite you to a special evening of poetry with

SHARON DOLIN
ROCCO DE GIACOMO
FLORENCIA VARELA
JACOB SCHEIER


Where: Cornelia Street Café
When: Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 6pm
$7.00 cover includes free drink


SHARON DOLIN’s fourth book, Burn and Dodge (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Her other books include Realm of the Possible (Four Way Books, 2004), Serious Pink (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), and Heart Work (Sheep Meadow Press, 1995). She is Writer-in-Residence at Eugene Lang College, The New School. She also teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y and directs The Center for Book Arts Annual Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition.

ROCCO DE GIACOMO is the author of the full-length poetry collection Ten Thousand Miles Between Us, published by Quattro Books, and Catching Dawn’s Breath (LyricalMyrical Press, Toronto). His work is forthcoming in Vallum and The Carolina Quarterly and has recently appeared The Antigonish Review and Tower Poetry.

FLORENCIA VARELA has recently completed her MFA at Columbia University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Paterson Literary Review, Diagram, Drunken Boat, Western Humanities Review, and Gulf Coast. She currently teaches at different colleges in New York City, and lives in Brooklyn.

JACOB SCHEIER is a Toronto-born poet and journalist living in Brooklyn. His first poetry collection More to Keep us Warm (ECW Press) won the 2008 Governor General’s Award for best book of poetry in Canada. His poems, articles, and essays have been published in periodicals across North America. Jacob is also the co-winner of a New York Community Media Alliance Award for best feature article in 2009.
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Book Celebration: Lewis Warsh's A Place in the Sun
Friday, March 26, 2010
7:00pm - 9:30pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery Street
New York, NY

Lewis Warsh will be reading from his new novel, A Place In The Sun, just out from Spuyten Duyvil. Also celebrate the publication of the Limited Edition version of A Place In The Sun with prints by Pamela Lawton. Pamela will be exhibiting some of her watercolours in situ. Books for sale and signing, no cover charge.

http://www.spuytenduyvil.net

Flesh Lives

Boog City presents


d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press



Cannibal Books
(Fayetteville, Ark.)


Tues., March 23, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free



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

Event will be hosted by
Cannibal Books' editor
Matt Henriksen



Featuring readings from


Kevin Holden
Patrick Morrissey
Allyssa Wolf

and music from


The Briars of North America

Cannibal books is offering a chance to subscribe for 2010. If you were a subscriber this past year, you would’ve received chapbooks by Claire Donato, Shane Jones, Keith Newton, Carolyn Guinzio, Amish Trivedi, Patrick Morissey, Thomas Hummel, as well as the the mighty NARWAL ( A collection of 7 chapbooks by Kazim Ali, Maureen Alsop, Sommer Browning, Karla Kelsey, Laura Goode, Kate Schapira, and Jared White).

This year, for the low blow of $75, you will get

* Allyssa Wolf’s second full-length collection, Sister.
* Chapbooks by Kevin Holden, Ben Mazer, Tim Van Dyke, Dot Devota, Adam Roberts, and Tom Andes.
* Mini-chapbooks from our Boundless Books Series.
* Cannibal: Issue Five, featuring poems by Carrie Olivia Adams, Samuel Amadon, Susan Briante, Lily Brown, Adam Clay, CAConrad, Kate Dougherty, Farrah Field, Laura Goode, Kate Greenstreet, Jane Gregory, Whit Griffin, Melanie Hubbard, Andrew Hughes, M.C. Hyland, Grant Jenkins, Jeff T. Johnson, Jon Leon, Sam Lohmann, Sara Mumulo, Hoa Nguyen, Danielle Pafunda, Alison Palmer, Kyle Schlesinger, Cedar Sigo, Sandra Simonds, Nate Slawson, Tony Tost, Steven Toussaint, Amish Trivedi, G.C. Waldrep, & Joseph Wood.
* Anything other books and broadsides we make before the New Year.
* The unparalleled sense of supporting one of the most aggressively productive and self-sufficient book arts poetry presses around.

We can handle only a limited number of subscribers and will take this post down once we have enough money to help finance our busiest time of year (the next two months). Immense thanks to everyone who subscribed last year and in advance to our subscribers this year. We could not keep the press running without you.

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!