Broadsides: Kate Greenstreet, John Gallaher, Farrah Field
Monday, November 23, 2009
Purchase A Limited Run Broadside from the So and So Series 11/21 Reading
Broadsides: Kate Greenstreet, John Gallaher, Farrah Field
New from Flying Guillotine!

The Aftermath
But maybe the wolf’s desire
was nothing more
than the want
to be with
someone else.
Maybe he loved
so much
he could only express
through consumption.
And maybe
she needed
rebirth, to destroy
evidence of her past.
Maybe she loved too much
and could only express
through destruction.
And maybe
climbing
out of a wolf’s belly,
our redness
covered by his redness,
is all want:
bodies
breaking free of bodies
consuming bodies.
Angela Veronica Wong was born and raised Texas. She lives in Manhattan and is working on a young adult novel.
All the Little Red Girls is a hand bound book of poems, with a vellum cover and attractive red ribbon to hogtie your dreams. It is printed in an edition of 74.
$9.25 includes shipping.
If you'd like a copy, please use the PayPal button below or send us $9 well concealed bucks. Email flyingguillotinepress [at] gmail [dot] com and we'll give you an address.
Thank you!
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Split Decision
The final collection of Manila Broadsides from Rope-a-Dope Press and The So and So Series.
Poems by: Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Elizabeth Bradfield, Lily Brown, Sommer Browning, Jennifer Firestone, Kevin Gallagher, Rauan Klassnik, Dorothea Lasky, Justin Marks, Hazel McClure, Lisa Olstein, Sarah Rosenthal, Zachary Schomburg, Janaka Stucky, James Tate, Jon Thompson, Aaron Tieger, Besty Wheeler, Dara Wier, and Mark Yakich
Prints by: Bartleby, Thomas Buildmore, Scott Chasse, Mike Dacey, Robert daVies, Tricia Gray, Vanessa Irzyk, and Carrie Siegel
A collaboration between Rope-a-Dope Press and The So and So Series, Split Decision was made by hand in an edition of twelve in the autumn of 2009. The first twelve of each of The Manila Broadsides, Volume Two, published between April and October 2008 in editions of sixty, are collected within its covers. Our thanks to all of the Manila poets and artists--especially Mike Dacey, who lent us his Vandercook.
Curator, The So and So Series: Chris Tonelli
Art Direction, The Manila Broadsides: Robert daVies
Letterpress Printing: Jeremiah Gould & Mary Walker Graham
Book Design & Production: Mary Walker Graham
Cover: Iris bookcloth; screenprint & stencil by Thomas Buildmore
Endpages: Hahnemuhle Bugra; screenprint by Robert daVies
Text: Rives BFK; handset metal type printed on a Vandercook SP20
Binding: handwaxed linen thread
[Photo Credit: Jeremiah Gould. Thanks Jeremiah! You rule.]
If you’re interested in purchasing Split Decision, please email Mary at marywgraham@gmail.com
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Now Available from Brave Men Press - YOUR NAME IS THE ONLY FREEDOM by Janaka Stucky

YOUR NAME IS THE ONLY FREEDOM
by Janaka Stucky
Cover is letterpressed with gold ink on red paper.
Printed in a limited edition of 60.
23 pages.
$9
Janaka Stucky has had poems appear in Cannibal, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Free Verse, No Tell Motel, North American Review, Redivider and VOLT. He is the publisher of Black Ocean and its literary magazine, Handsome.
READ SAMPLE POEMS - http://bravemenpress.com/stuckysample.html
TO BUY - http://bravemenpress.com/yourname.html
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Garth Graeper's Into the Forest Engine

40 pages; hand-stitched binding; printed in a numbered edition of 120 in Chicago and Houston in August 2009.
4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; $6 (shipping included)
Here is a poetry of breath and breadth, crafted with honesty, clarity and grace. Here is a world sensed by more than sight, a wide-ranging sense which seeks out spaces between interior and exterior, organic and mechanical, intimate and foreign, and would be familiar to Whitman or Artaud. In the choked environment of our time, this work is porous, sustaining, vital. Drink it in. — Phil Cordelli
Now available at Projective Industries!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
PERSONATIONSKIN by Karl Parker

PERSONATIONSKIN by Karl Parker (No Tell Books)
$17
ISBN: 978-0-578-01872-0
136 Pages
What People are Saying about PERSONATIONSKIN:
Hilarity in the vault! A man without a face and an ever-shifting position on things: sheer terror and comedy follow where "everywhere, divides."
—Fanny Howe
To read Karl Parker's poems is to revel in the tremendous reach of a mind that, more than any other I've read (more than John Clare, more than Khlebnikov or Kharms or Huerta) can render me awed at the realization that we, each of us, have a person inside our skins with us. Parker enacts this phenomenological remembering with such a wit and lyricism, and such a grief, that I believe him likely one of the smartest, saddest, funniest writers alive. He is without doubt one of my favorite writers. I have been following his work for years. And so will people for years to come.
—Gabriel Gudding
Karl Parker’s PERSONATIONSKIN makes for a strange and auspicious debut. The self in these poems tries on and discards one skin after another while Rome burns in the background—his fiddling indistinguishable from the burning. Joyous and agonized bodies dance through the funhouse, leaving sticky-note poems on distorting mirrors to mark their circular progress: “peel back the skin, back to the everything, the pale tenderest fleshpetal, where we are reeling still.” A broken umbrella in the face of major weather, a map of a landscape in which the difference is spreading: poems to make your flesh creep, to make you feel alive.
—Joshua Corey
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Jack Boettcher's THE DEVIANTS now available!

Jack Boettcher
The Deviants
Chapbook
"If James Tate were to somehow mate with the remnants of a demolition derby, The Deviants would eat its baby. Jack Boettcher is a craftsman and reading these poems is like walking into his shoppe and running your fingers over all the sharpened surfaces. Each poem contains a tight suture of wit and brutally evasive humor. The Deviants will read, and re-read and re-re-read until it all just disappears and you, the reader are left "a decommissioned weapon / holding up a lily / in a ceasefire no one respects."
5.5" x 7" Chapbook with hand-ripped,
hand stamped covers with decorative inlay paper!
Printed in an edition of 120.
Click here for images of the cover.
$7.50 postage paid in USA/Canada.
everyone else, email for a shipping quote.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
new from dancing girl press

Deirdre Dore’s poetry and plays have been published and/or produced in journals and on stages in the USA & Canada. Originally from New York, she now lives with her husband alongside a river in British Columbia where she catches horses, pursues an MFA in Creative Writing and works with trees.
sample poem

Jacqueline Lyons is the author of the poetry collection The Way They Say Yes Here (Hanging Loose Press, 2004). Her poetry and essays have appeared in many literary journals as well as the poetry anthology Oh One Arrow (Flim Forum Press, 2007). She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, the Peace Corps Writers Best Poetry Book Award, the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, and a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship. Her nonfiction has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and cited in Best American Essays. She is a certified instructor of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, and teaches creative writing at Washington State University.
sample poem

Sara Tracey is a poet and PhD student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work has recently appeared in Hiram Poetry Review, Keep Going, Harpur Palate, Wicked Alice, Lily, Hobble Creek Review, and FRiGG.
sample poem

Author of How To Study Birds, a chapbook collection in its second run from Dancing Girl Press, Sarah Gardner is a poet and teacher whose work has appeared in many distinguished journals. She has received fellowships for her writing from Blue Mountain Center as well as the Vermont Studio Center. Her recognitions include an International Merit Award from The Atlanta Review and second place honors from the Juniper Creek poetry contest. She has been proudly affiliated with Houston’s Writers in the Schools, a program the brings creative writing instruction to at-risk youth. Currently she lives in Iowa and teaches for St. Ambrose University. Sarah holds an MFA from Syracuse.
sample poem

Jen Blair spends a lot of time personifying vegetation in writing and photography. She also makes books and pamphlets, and writes essays and poems about her social concerns. For a living Jen tells Returning Adult Students what classes to take in college, but she is perfectly happy to give you advice for free. Her work has appeared previously in wicked alice.
sample poem
Monday, October 12, 2009
Ya heard

Scary, No Scary
by Zachary Schomburg
Softcover / 80 p. / Poetry / $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-9777709-9-1
This follow-up to Zachary Schomburg’s acclaimed first collection of poems The Man Suit, is a book of skeleton gloves and skeleton keys—at once dark and playful. With loneliness and levity Schomburg takes the reader on a tour through a liminal world of dream-logic, informed by its own myth and folklore. Here there are new kinds of trees and new ways of naming the ages—jaguars and an abandoned hotel on the horizon. This book will crawl inside your chest and pump lava through your blood.
“Scary, No Scary navigates a post-apocalyptic dreadscape teeming with dazzling mutants—two-hearted wolves, bears with no legs—each poem a makeshift shack in a forest where ‘the trees / are blood-stained / and look like old / gigantic leg bones.’ Here, nature is a diffuse monster, eradicating all our human effort to unyoke ourselves from a horror to which we are woefully fused. Sight and blindness are permanently amalgamated, wed across taught lines that are ‘part-wolf / part farm-accident.’ The souls of these poems have been put into them backwards. They unapologetically wear their wings on their chest, and all your hungry reading will not ‘push / those wings / through / to the other side.’” —Lara Glenum

Scary, No Scary (limited ed.)
by Zachary Schomburg
Hardcover/ 80p. / Poetry / $30.00
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Two New Full-Lengths from Octopus Books
Perfect-bound
$12 (includes shipping)

Perfect-bound
6" x 7"
$14 (includes shipping)
Well Meaning White Girl by Alli Warren now available from Mitzvah Chaps.
-Michael T. Hauser

Mr. Hauser voices with clarity that which is surely on all of our minds, and though we here at Mitzvah Chaps cannot answer that question anymore than we can afford extra toppings on our pizza, we can safely say that if you order Alli's chapbook Well Meaning White Girl, it will be 'popped in' the mail within a week.
Specs:
19 Poems by Alli Warren
Cover designed by Anne Boyer
Edition of 150
Saddle-stitched in Kansas
$7 (includes shipping if you live in the contiguous US)
Includes this poem:
FERTILE CORRESPONDENT
The looping points like likeness and so forth
asserts that everything happens because
I do not know how to work metal
I am less effective I devote a great part of my time to
the interpretation of signals When signs are slow
in coming I do not hesitate to seek the slightest touch
by water by wheat berry by cotton thread and flintstone
I lick around the perimeter and then I lick under
that other totality to overthrow with a flick of tongue
that I might run to the top of a high hill
without weariness sprout a disc and make bold
claims Aim to come correct come morning
after morning there is full range in weights
and extensive looting Insert two fingers to bring breath
To Order:
Play by Liz Waldner from Lightful Press

In Play are two compelling voices deftly outlined by a lyricism that illuminates their intimate encounters with the actual. Whether lovers, ego/id, or disciple/avatar, these interlocutors assay what is at the heart of being human. Here, all the affliction of an "Argument withal, within" is not solved, nor salved, but permeated with the succor of true acknowledgment: "I heard it with my skin." Waldner does not mollify or diminish the suffering in a world where lost daughters are pictured on milk cartons, and nature is assaulted by commerce, but her grace and humor in enacting the text's deeply compassionate exchanges suggest that, with our senses attuned, we can embrace living, even at its most starkly challenging—"Permission to not know granted/ And inhaled gratefully."
—Rusty Morrison
Play is the first book of Lightful Press.
Liz Waldner is the author of eight books, including Dark Would (the missing person) and A Point Is That Which Has No Part, winner of the James Laughlin Award. She has recent work in Poetry, APR and The New Yorker.
Play is a perfect bound book with letterpress covers.
$14 includes shipping
Buy the book here!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Circus by Michael Robins from Flying Guillotine

Our casualties I hear precede the smoke,
in a bed of snakes. There can be no rain
in America, no grass: trains are angry here
as some are sad, processional for an ear.
Michael Robins is the author of The Next Settlement (UNT Press, 2007). He lives in Chicago.
Circus is a hand bound book of poems, with a photograph mounted on each cover, and printed in an edition of 74.

$7 includes shipping.
If you'd like a copy, please use the PayPal button below or send us 7 well concealed bucks. Email flyingguillotinepress [at] gmail [dot] com and we'll give you an address.
Thank you!
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
The Deviants by Jack Boettcher Pre-Order!
also still available (in very limited quantities) are books by James Iredell, Zachary Schomburg, Kathryn Regina, and many more.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Reunions from Blue Hour Press

The spring of Brooklyn Copeland’s Reunions is of birds and bees, but far from the picture book couplets that conjures; these birds, blind from direct sunlight, loop in disorientation, and the bees, stingers firmly attached, travel in packs. Copeland, in swaying, tangling lineation, pinpoints spring’s inherent seediness, that its green is as much flora as fake jewelry, that its relationships, like plant-life, grow weed-like—ugly, stubbornly, everywhere. Everything that can twist—roots, tongues, limbs—does, making the pleasure of the poem the untangling.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
40 WATTS by CD Wright (Octopus Books)
Monday, September 7, 2009
dancing girl press

fall chapbook sale!!!
Yes kittens, it's that time of year again. The leaves are turning, the air is cooler, and it' about time for a sale.
Through the end of September, get 5 dancing girl chapbooks for a mere $20, your choice from a list of over 50 titles.
details...here
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Let's Collaborate by Jack Christian
Let's Collaborate by Jack Christian5.5x7.5
Saddlestitched
36 pages
Twenty poems by Jack Christian that feature among them an all dog chapel of lost dog souls, hillside belief, humaffalos, cryptozoology, and sciences of imaginary solutions. Christian's poetry and criticism has appeared in Jubilat, Black Warrior Review, Mississippi Review, DIAGRAM and more.
RURAL MANAGEMENT from Let's Collaborate (originally appeared in notnostrums*3)
I managed a grocery 40 minutes west of town.
It was a warehouse. It was a place you could direct
a letter toward. I had an office where I read,
and my office was also full of food. On the outside,
the bottom half of the building was painted.
The top half was a natural white. It resembled
a two-dimensional swimming pool. When our shifts ended,
the staff and I would look back at it and consider it
a thing that could be broken effectively, or folded right.
Then, the union came in and insisted: vests or aprons
over blue jeans. “Or” was policy. They wrote it in the aisles
in a script that approximated my handwriting.
It was summer, and both parties moved in a direction
of interconnectedness. The soup display was allowed to occur
in the dairy section. A narrative ambiguity arose,
and through debate, I was permitted to drop another “I” inside.
I did so, and named her my cousin, Allison.
With the market running so well, we coached each other
in child-rearing because we were self-assured experts
on many things. She would say, “the cheese aisle,”
and I would find a manner in which “the cheese aisle”
could repeat. She was sunburned. She sat long sessions
on the curb waiting for her ride. Together, we pushed
a shopping cart into the cattails at the edge of the lot.
We pushed it on the half-path and on the footbridge
across the Mill River. Ice clung in the eddies
and the current curved the ice. It was a bright summer,
and we were working through it.


NOW AVAILABLE from BRAVE MEN PRESS - CHRIS TONELLI - NO THEATER
Chris Tonelli co-curates The So and So Series and is the author of four chapbooks, most recently For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press, forthcoming). He teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he lives with his wife Allison.
Read a sample poem here.
Cover is letterpressed with black ink on black paper.
Printed in a limited edition of 123.
25 pages.
$9.50
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
New CoinSides from Brave Men Press
The CoinSides available are:
(NAPOLEON) by Chris Tonelli:
PINK JELLYBEANS by Jon Woodward:
and XXIX by Sampson Starkweather:
and as always, the set of three is available for a slight discount:
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
MATCHBOOK VOLUME TWO RELEASE
I'd like to tell you that Matchbook: Volume Two is available from Small Fires Press.

I hope you're as excited about it as I am.
It features the work of Emily Kendal Frey, Zachary Schomburg, Garth Graeper, Susan Briante, Matt Hart, Fred Schmalz, Brenda Iijima, Kyle Schlesinger, David B. Goldstein, Cherie Weaver, Matvei Yankelevich, Hoa Nguyen, Philip Dacey, Megan Gannon, Miles Waggener, anna olivier, Ana Bozicevic, Paul Killebrew, Nate Pritts, BJ Love, Dale Smith, Farid Matuk, Mathias Svalina, and a scratch and sniff gallery of sensory abstractions in glorious letterpressed color.
Each issue is held within a different vintage matchbook cover with the same 58 pages of text within each.
For a limited time you can buy three copies of the issue for only $13.00 if you want to share with friends, or just because.
Or, you can buy one issue for six dollars, which is well worth it, let me tell you.
Buy them online, visit here, or send me some moneys.
Friedrich Kerksieck
1447 Poplar Ave. Apt. 1
Memphis, TN 38104
Thursday, July 2, 2009
The Saint's Notebook by Kate Schapira is out with Flying Guillotine

artist of coathanger girls and mitten girls
girls of the month forked men snakemen
beginning to people beginning to color
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).
The Saint's Notebook is 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.

$7 includes shipping.
If you'd like a copy, please visit Flying Guillotine.
Thank you! You will love these poems.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Cannibal Books Summer Sale
Claire Donato Someone Else's Body
Carolyn Guinzio Untitled Wave
Melanie Hubbard Gilbi Winco Swags
Ben Mazer The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics
Keith Newton Sent Forth to Die in a Happy City
Marvyn Petrucci Pardon Me, Madam
Bronwen Tate Like the Native Tongue the Vanquished
[Note which books you would like us to send in the Paypal order directions.]
Monday, June 15, 2009
GREYING GHOST UPDATE

we made these to commemorate the down period twixt Corduroy Mtn #1 & Corduroy Mtn #2. clever, no? well, we have three left! so the first three people to spend $20.00 on Greying Ghost back titles will get a lovely medium sized Corduroy Mtn. plush! made from genuine, authentic, made in the usa tan-colored corduroy! huzzah! or you could still just buy the first issue of which our supply is dwindling down.
ALSO
what we got here, is an early bird special. for a limited time, for $10.00 you can have shipped to your mailing locale, a copy of James Iredell's holy modal chapbook When I Moved To Nevada, and two enveloped pamphlets: Hank Williams by Peter Berghoef, and the newly re-minted Naturalistless by the naturally un-listless Christopher Rizzo. also included will be a set of three pins you can either wear on your jacket, put on your backpack, or trade to a crust punk for some OOP 45's! for $10.00!
you can order using this button:
all orders will be shipped once the authors get their copies!
or, if you don't want the books but still want to support the press by buying the button set, you can do so by using this:
either way, your purchases and subsequently your support are much appreciated! thank you!
much love,
carl
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Two New from Patrick Lovelace Editions
Life & Style
by Marie Buck
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Coinsides - Justin Marks & Julia Cohen
Now available from Brave Men Press- the third installment of the Coinside series in conjunction with the Deep Moat
Julia Cohen:
and Justin Marks:
Also available as a pair for a slight discount:
Also introducing our Brave Men Press accordion book specially made to store and display your collection of Coinsides. The accordion is double-sided with a total of 14 slots (enough for all the current Coinsides and room for future ones.)
*UPDATE 6/28*---We are currently sold out of all but three CoinSides, so the book w/full set of CoinSides is temporarily unavailable. We will resume selling the set when the next Coinsides Series is released July 18th.
thanks!
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Two New Small Fires Releases


Live, From the Delay is a beautiful, collaged poem by Ryan Flaherty. The book is designed to be read like a standard codex (with fold down accordions) or folded out and read as a wall hanging (as shown above).
Letterpressed on cotton/abaca textweight sheets, with covers comprised of Alabama Kozo, Abaca, Cotton, Flax, and Linen. Limited edition of 65.
50 Dollars

Abandoned Tales is a collection of screwy, perverted, beautiful folk tales by Michael Lee.
A single pamphlet letterpressed on entirely on three different handmade papers made by Small Fires Press.
Illustrations by Cherie Weaver.
Edition of 65.
45 Dollars.
Please make your purchases now!
Thanks.
Friedrich Kerksieck
Small Fires Press
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Untitled Wave by Carolyn Guinzio
Monday, May 11, 2009
New Coinsides from Brave Men Press
Eric Baus with his poem, Glass Ear...
& Elisa Gabbert with her poem, Dream Missive...
Each CoinSide is 2 3/8" x 4" and contains a printed image along with the poem in hand-set type. Each is printed in a limited edition of 23.
You also may buy the set of all three for a discount....
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
New from Nor By Press
My Cadastre / Mein Flurbucha bilingual, bicolor
series of poems by Uljana Wolf
translated by Nathaniel Otting
printed with a 5x8 Kelsey tabletop press
featuring Century Schoolbook letters
pressed onto Crane Lettra papers
produced in an edition of 200, 26 of which are signed & lettered - buy the former for $10, or the latter for $20
to do so, please visit Schoen Books, the Juniper Literary Festival
or send a request to norbypress@gmail.com
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
The Cupboard Presents: Mathias Svalina's Play
Playby Mathias Svalina
36 pages. Tape-bound.
$5, domestic
Book design by Todd Seabrook.
Cover design by Randy Bright.
Children need preoccupations. Children need supervision and bran in their diets and children need instruction. For you, for your children: Play, a collection of twenty-nine games to issue gentle correctives and urge honing of the child's wayward sense of wonder. For sixteen or more players. For two. For five. For one child left alone to fend for herself.
Order a copy here.
Read excerpts here.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
hand held editions - series 2
Graham Foust
On "Sad Songs and Waltzes"
Kristina Hummel
How Void of Miracles
Joanna Klink
Wonder of Birds
Printed in numbered editions of 75.
$12 (includes post)
Visit us.
Friday, April 17, 2009
They Kissed Their Homes

Sunday, April 5, 2009
PARCEL FIVE
PARCEL FIVE
Featuring poetry by Kristin Abraham, Arda Collins, Jesse Crouse, Kara Dorris, Donald Dunbar, Rebecca Guyon, Joshua Harmon, Rebecca Lehmann, Debrah Morkun, Kristen Orser, and Bin Ramke, and featured visual artists Austin Dodson and Marc Gaba.



















