Kitchen Press Chapbooks

On Indefinite Hiatus

2010-02-21T14:12:00.001-08:00

Kitchen Press is on hiatus.

If you have an order that has not been filled, I'll be sure to get it to you.

It's been a great 5 years. Thanks to each and every one of you for your dedication to and support of small press publishing!

Love,
J

HIT WAVE is reviewed in the new issue of NOÖ

2009-08-17T08:47:00.000-07:00

Every moment you're alive, you're sort of not alive, because there is a more alive way you could be living

Micro-Review Monday over at Black Ocean

2009-05-04T11:34:00.000-07:00

Featuring a review of HIT WAVE, by Jon Leon

Ringing Video Contest

2009-05-04T08:20:00.000-07:00

Kitchen Press is now accepting submissions of short home-made videos to accompany individual poems from Rauan Klassnik's on-line chapbook "Ringing"

The six winning videos will be posted on the Ringing website and the six winning authors (video makers) will receive their choice of either one Black Ocean book or two Kitchen Press chapbooks (subject to availability) shipped to a U.S. address.

Deadline: June 15, 2009 (winners to be announced and videos posted to website shortly thereafter).

Rules: there are no rules.

Guidelines and Preferences:

1- send all inquiries and submissions to ringingvideo(at)yahoo.com

2- Three or less videos per submission

3- One Video per email. So, if you're submitting 2 videos please send 2 emails.

4- Each Video should correspond to an individual Ringing poem. (There are 19 of them, including cover poem, Death Poems, End-Page poem)

5- Each Video should incorporate, in some form, the words of its corresponding poem

6- If you would like us to send you the mp3 file(s) of Rauan reading one or more of the poems please send an inquiry. You can listen to these on the Ringing website.

7- Since the Ringing poems are short (and the mp3 files of Rauan reading them range from 5-22 seconds only) we'd prefer short videos.

8- All levels of sophistication are welcome

A Million in Prizes

2009-04-10T13:28:00.000-07:00

is now in stock and available at SPD and Amazon!!!!!!

A Million in Prizes
Justin Marks

Winner of the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize
Carl Phillips, Judge

“‘I wake, my not-yet-self / projecting back on the life I rise into.’ That’s but one example of the kind of logic (and syntax) that informs the poems of A Million in Prizes, a logic that often resists initial sense, only to reward with a clarity and maturity of insight that make these poems more powerful—more persuasive—with each reading. It’s as if Justin Marks had made a sort of Möbius Strip out of sense and an uneasiness with it, where it becomes difficult to know exactly where one begins and the other ends.

Another Möbius Strip here: the one that’s made from a seeming detachment and a fierce compassion for life in all of its ephemeral ordinariness, what can suddenly resonate where least expected. Salinger, O’Hara, Baudelaire all come to mind, but finally the voice and sensibility here, like the poems themselves, are utterly Justin Marks' own. A Million in Prizes seduces in the best way: subtly, with a poignant wit, and a sly charm.”

––Carl Phillips, from the Judge’s Citation

“With A Million in Prizes, Justin Marks dares to amplify his interior voice, broadcasting from ‘inside the megaphone’ the rumblings of a discontented, anxious self who discovers just enough pleasure in his daily routines, domestic scenes, and misfiring memories to admit ‘how glad I am for the orbit I inhabit.’ His poems are by turns philosophical, nostalgic, and subtly humorous, as he insistently disassembles the barriers between himself and his readers in a generous act of intimacy.”

––Shanna Compton

“Here is a rarely expressed self-awareness that accedes as little to words as it does to the pain of the condition itself.”

––Fanny Howe

It is a rare e-book that does not make me want to live off the grid, that does not make me fear and loathe the very coinage itself: "e-book."

2009-04-06T10:40:00.000-07:00

says Christian Peet. Ringing is not one of those e-books

Reviews of Ringing

2009-03-01T13:32:00.000-08:00

They're coming in. Here's one by Rebecca Loudon; and Ron reports some nice words from Blake Butler, as well as some interesting Goodreads reviews.

Ringing, Rauan Klassnik

2009-02-25T16:22:00.001-08:00

I'm very pleased to announce Kitchen Press' first ever venture into online publishing, Ringing, by Rauan Klassnik.

Click this post for a downloadable pdf of Ringing, as well as a flash version illustrated Rauan himself. There is also a section for comments. We encourage you to not only comment and discuss the poems and collection as a whole, but the site itself--everything from thoughts on the experience of reading the chap in the format it's in to more technical concerns about the functionality of the site, problems viewing it, navigability, etc.

From the book:

Like ships leaning together licking each other’s shoulders, we fall down and dig at the earth. Fervently. Like jackals. Fire’s leaping from hill to hill, and my nerves are swaying like seaweed. I have learned to die. And not to. My veins are filled with milk 11.

All Best,

KP

Dan Hoy reviews HIT WAVE

2009-01-26T07:38:00.001-08:00

in Octopus 11

Old With You, Lily Brown

2009-01-12T15:02:00.000-08:00

LEAF AT THE END

I climbed a giant leaf at the end

of my imagination. Across

the spotted water, the hill

fastened its yellow bushels.

The imagination asked for all the cities,

for the canopy to get its machines out

and tile the leaves. My friend Lily

assumes what I want and it's so unfair.

The imagination shoves in and pushes

blithely out, a belt of pelicans, a plank

of hard clouds, bunches of doorknobs

halo the street-blighted hills.

I find a pile of antlers in the woods, assembled

for burning. I crawl beneath them and stay

there when the burners come with their fire.

Up in the canopy I dangle, touching nothing.

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R A I N T A X I o n l i n e Winter 2008/2009

2009-01-09T11:47:00.000-08:00

Chapbook Corner Round-up 2008

The Portable Boog Reader 3 Online PDF Now Available

2009-01-07T06:48:00.000-08:00

Featuring poems by:

Ammiel Alcalay * Betsy Andrews * Ari Banias * Jennifer Bartlett * Martine Bellen * Edmund Berrigan * Kate Broad * Julian Brolaski * Donna Brook * Sommer Browning * Matthew Burgess * David Cameron * Mike Coffey * Jen Coleman * John Coletti * Matt Cozart * Elaine Equi * Jessica Fiorini * Jennifer Firestone * Ed Friedman * Ethan Fugate * Rigoberto González * Nada Gordon * Stephanie Gray * Shafer Hall * Diana Hamilton * Hayley Heaton * Cathy Park Hong * Vanessa Hope * Dan Hoy * Lauren Ireland * Adeena Karasick * Basil King * Martha King * Noelle Kocot-Tomblin * Dorothea Lasky * Jeff Laughlin *Amy Lawless * Walter K. Lew * Tan Lin * Tao Lin * Filip Marinovich * Justin Marks * Chris Martin * Tracey McTague * Stephen Paul Miller * Feliz L. Molina *Ryan Murphy * Elinor Nauen * Uche Nduka * Urayoán Noel * Akilah Oliver *Geoffrey Olsen * Jean-Paul Pecqueur * Greg Purcell * Elizabeth Reddin *Jerome Sala * Tom Savage * David Sewell * David Shapiro * Kimberly Ann Southwick * Eleni Stecopoulos * Christina Strong * Mathias Svalina *Jeremy James Thompson * Susie Timmons * Rodrigo Toscano * Nicole Wallace *Damian Weber * Max Winter * Sara Wintz * Erica Wright

Absent Magazine

2008-12-06T07:24:00.000-08:00

is seeking submissions for its next issue

HIT WAVE Gets a Shout-Out

2008-11-26T11:14:00.000-08:00

from Janaka Stucky

R-a-D Reading at The Four-Faced Liar, Thursday, November 20

2008-11-14T08:58:00.000-08:00

Justin Marks, Sampson Starkweather and Chris Tonelli
The Four-Faced Liar, 6:30pm, Thursday November 20
165 West 4th Street
(Between 6th and 7th Avenues)
New York, NY 10014
Phone: (212) 366 0608

Justin Marks' first full length collection, A Million in Prizes, is forthcoming from New Issues Press in spring 2009. His chapbooks include Voir Dire (Rope-a-Dope Press, forthcoming) and [Summer insular] (Horse Less Press, 2007). He is the founder and Editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City.

Sampson Starkweather is the author of City of Moths, forthcoming from Rope-A-Dope Press, and The Photograph from horse less press. He lives in the woods.

Chris Tonelli is the author of three chapbooks: For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press, forthcoming), A Mule-Shaped Cloud (w/ Sarah Bartlett, horse less press, 2008), and WIDE TREE: Short Poems (Kitchen Press, 2006). He teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.

Founded in the spring of 2007 by painter Robert daVies and poet Mary Walker Graham, Rope-a-Dope Press fosters collaborations between artists, writers, and their communities through the publication of handmade, letterpress printed chapbooks, broadsides, and artists' books.

A Poem by Chris Tonelli on Verse Daily

2008-11-13T07:09:00.001-08:00

Every Will Builds Itself a Satellite

Another Review of Jon Leon's Hit Wave

2008-11-07T06:04:00.001-08:00

Bring joy into America

Emerging Writers Network E-Panel - Chapbook Publishers

2008-10-10T13:22:00.000-07:00

featuring Future Tense Press, New Michigan Press, Tameme, Dancing Girl Press, Greying Ghost Press and Kitchen Press.

The First Review of Jon Leon's Hit Wave is in

2008-09-30T15:01:00.000-07:00

and it's a good 'un

Here's a sample:

"Leon’s [Hit Wave] follows the career of a poet, pornographer, and provocateur as he conquers the literary world, indulges in every excess available, founds his own private pleasure palace, yet remains bored and unimpressed with everything. Perhaps it’s the bright yellow cover or his recent legal troubles and penchant for sex-filled advertising, but I found it helpful to picture American Apparel CEO Dov Charney as the speaker."

But you really should read the whole piece.

Jon Leon in The Continental Review

2008-09-26T07:38:00.001-07:00

Order his new chapbook, HIT WAVE, now.

Ana Božičević & Elisa Gabbert

2008-09-22T06:36:00.000-07:00

in TYPO 12

the rest of the issue looks pretty sweet, too. not to be missed with work by:

STEFFEN BROWN
GRACE EGBERT
RYAN FLAHERTY
JENNIFER H. FORTIN
BOB HICOK
KEVIN HOLDEN
SHANE JONES
ELIZABETH SANGER
SAMPSON STARKWEATHER
JOSEPH WOOD

Steal All You Can Hold

2008-09-18T12:38:00.000-07:00

And join us at the So and So Series this Saturday, 9/20

The Forever Video, by Jon Leon

2008-09-11T17:24:00.000-07:00

EARSHOT! Reading this Friday

2008-09-09T08:32:00.001-07:00

Join us for the season's kickoff event at The Lucky Cat, located in sunny (sometimes) Williamsburg, Brooklyn!

*Friday, September 12 @ 8 PM*
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg

Featuring:
Rauan Klassnik (Holy Land)
Justin Marks ([Summer insular], You Being You by Proxy)
Eugene Hwang (The New School)
Jess Sauer (Columbia University)
Anna Carey (Brooklyn College)

Admission is a mere $5 plus one free drink (beer, wine or well drinks)!

The Lucky Cat is located at 245 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Driggs and Roebling. Visit their website for directions: http://www.theluckycat.com.

Hit Wave, Jon Leon

2008-09-03T07:09:00.000-07:00

One of the greatest drugs ever manufactured is cocaine. I love the way it feels. End of story. When riding around in my Audi on the way to Vail Colorado I like to keep a vial of cocaine on the passenger seat next to my compact discs. One of the worst most mesmerizing bummers is when the coke is gone. That is when you're fucked and the world ends. At a time like that do not call anyone on the phone from a Super 8 Motel. Bring the joy into America. Love the market that is second only to diamonds.

Order now.

Alexander Dickow Reviews

2008-08-25T07:39:00.000-07:00

Ana Božičević's Document and Justin Marks' [Summer insular]

Destruction Myths

2008-07-01T12:27:00.000-07:00

by Mathias Svalina will be published byThe Cleveland State University Poetry Center.

Adam Golaski

2008-06-30T12:30:00.000-07:00

This guys writes some pretty dope stories, and you can get them in his new collection, Worse Than Myself.

Now Available: Tentative List (A), by Thomas David Lisk

2008-06-10T18:13:00.000-07:00

Order now!

Prepare to Get STAINED!!!!

2008-05-27T10:21:00.000-07:00

The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series
Friday, May 30, 2008 (7:00 PM)
May 30th @ 7 p.m. - Stain Bar - Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Event Details: (http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/686415/?invitation=c3ab2cdd66)

** Stein, Marks, Edmiston, Klassnik, and Peterson **

Leigh Stein is the author of many chapbooks, including How to Mend a Broken Heart with Vengeance (Dancing Girl Press, June ‘08). Other work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Bat City Review, h-ngm-n, Diagram, No Tell Motel, and MiPOesias. Originally from Chicago and briefly in Albuquerque, she now lives in Brooklyn and works for a comic book publisher.

Justin Marks’ latest chapbook is [Summer insular] (Horse Less Press, 2007). His poems have recently appeared in Cannibal, Soft Targets, Tarpaulin Sky and the Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel – Second Floor, and are forthcoming in Handsome, the New York Quarterly and Wildlife Poetry Magazine. He is the founder and Editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City.

Will Edmiston’s poems have appeared in The Tiny, Mipo and Lungfull!. Most recently he did a book collaboration entitled “Greetings & Salutations” with a Parsons Communication Design class.

Rauan (Ron) Klassnik was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. After moving to Dallas and then dropping out of college he traded sports and gaming cards, beanie babies, pogs and memorabilia. He now spends most of his time down in Mexico with his wife Edith where, besides writing, he plays around with the family birds and dogs. His poems have appeared in many print and on-line journals including The Mississippi Review, The North American Review, No Tell Motel, MiPoesias, Sentence, Handsome, Pilot Poetry, Sleepingfish and others. His debut book of poems, Holy Land released April 1st from Black Ocean Press.

Tim Peterson is the author of SINCE I MOVED IN, which received the Gil Ott Award from Chax Press. Tim lives in Brooklyn, edits EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts, and curates a portion of the Segue Reading Series in New York.
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stain
766 grand street
brooklyn, ny 11211
(L train to Grand Street,
1 block west)
718/387-7840
open daily @ 5 p.m.

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Hosted by Amy King

Venue Details:
Stain Bar
766 grand street
New York City, New York 11211

For more details about this event, including maps, comments, and other attendees, visit the event page at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/686415/?invitation=c3ab2cdd66

A Million in Prizes

2008-05-20T13:54:00.000-07:00

Justin Marks has won the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize for his manuscript A Million in Prizes.

Minneapolis, Here We Come

2008-04-14T10:56:00.000-07:00

Justin Marks, Matt Rasmussen and Chris Tonelli will be reading at the Imaginary Press Reading Series this Saturday, April 19.

Alexis Orgera reviews Matt Rasmussen's Fingergun

2008-04-04T14:38:00.000-07:00

Alexis

Essays & Fictions Release Party and Reading

2008-04-04T07:08:00.000-07:00

Thursday April 10, 7pm (doors open at 6)
@ Jimmy’s No. 43, NYC
7th St between 2nd and 3rd Ave

Featuring readings by:
Justin Marks
Jessamyn Lee
Abry Montablano
Daniel C. Metz
Jeff Paris
Matt Henriksen

Musical performance by The Acoustic Sprinkle Genies

Boog City presents Outside Voices Anthology of Younger Poets Reading

2008-03-20T08:56:00.000-07:00

Boog City presents

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

Outside Voices
(Brooklyn, N.Y.)

Readings from poets in the forthcoming
The Outside Voices 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets

This Tues. March 25, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free

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

Event will be hosted by
Outside Voices editor Jessica Smith

Featuring readings from

Ellen Baxt
Amy Berkowitz
C.S. Carrier
Lisa Lightsey
j.s. makkos
Justin Marks
Nicole Mauro
Steve McLaughlin
John Most
Marci Nelligan

There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

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**Outside Voices
http://poetry2008.blogspot.com

Outside Voices is a poetry small press located in Brooklyn.

*Performer Bios*

**Ellen Baxt

Ellen Baxt is the author of Analfabeto / An Alphabet from Shearsman Books. A poet and dancer, she teaches English as a Second Language in Brooklyn.

**Amy Berkowitz

Amy Berkowitz lives in Brooklyn. Her poems have appeared in Coconut Poetry, Shampoo Poetry, and [sic] Journal.

**Lisa Lightsey

Lisa Lightsey is a young poet living in Portland, Ore. She is the editor of Four Types, the quarterly journal of collaborative typewritings. Her work has appeared in many places, most recently in CapGun2. She received her B.S. in Sustainable Living from Maharishi University

**j.s. makkos

j.s. makkos in one sense can be defined as an experimental composer of visual and audible design-poetics. While his educational background makes him a writer, his aesthetic is in forward moving art. He resides in Cleveland, where he operates a nexus space called the Language Foundry, which is dedicated to hybrid performance arts and music, as well as a book press that is centered around design and poetics.

**Justin Marks
http://www.kitchenpresschapbooks.blogspot.com

Justin Marks’ latest chapbook is [Summer insular] (Horse Less Press). He is the founder and editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City.

**Nicole Mauro

Nicole Mauro writes poetry and book reviews, and teaches rhetoric and writing at The University of San Francisco.

**John Most
http://www.johnmost.com/

John Most is a poet. He lives in New York City and rural Virginia.

**Marci Nelligan

Marci Nelligan’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Moria, Dusie, eratio, Word For/Word, The Tiny, Chain, syllogism, Foursquare, and other journals.

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Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues

Now Available: Out of Light, by Joseph Massey

2008-02-22T15:46:00.000-08:00

Ledge

By a stalk of
bramble thrust

up from brush
that skirts this

cliff ledge—
a humming-

bird hovers
thorn-level.

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Praise for Out of Light

I read Out of Light straight through (rare for a book of poems) when it arrived late yesterday: and again (rarer still) this morning; focusing different facets of the prisms. The echo I felt was a memory of the pleasure of beginning Merrill Gilfillan's Magpie Rising -- dispassionate language that shares a passionate view. That I was driven to learn more of the history, geography and politics of Humboldt County is a bonus. With this collection Massey has removed the last traces of clutter and lets emotion dance to nature.

--Tom Raworth

For those familiar with Joe Massey’s work, Out of Light should continue to impress with a particular eye, and an equally particular ear, for the sensual or sensate. If it is true that the observer always alters the observed through the very act of measure, then Massey has certainly made an art of such alterations through the singular event of the poem. “No ideas / but in things,” Williams might say, but this no longer suffices. “A thrust of // things— / a world— / words—// crush / against / the margin of you” says Massey, and throughout this collection of exacting poems one is apt to experience a tension between how the poet’s world acts upon him, and how the poet acts upon his world, wherein the consequence of every act is measure itself. In Out of Light, there are no ideas but in such interactivity, an interactivity that bespeaks Joe Massey speaking. For those unfamiliar with his work, you will want to listen. And for those familiar with his work, you will want to listen—again. And again.

--Christopher Rizzo

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Andy Grace Discusses Joe Massey's Poetry

2008-02-13T07:21:00.000-08:00

on the Kenyon Review Blog

Andy Grace Discusses the Rise of Chapbooks and Small Presses

2008-02-13T07:18:00.000-08:00

on the Kenyon Review Blog

Come hear Justin Marks, Ana Bozicevic-Bowling & Ravi Shankar

2008-02-07T06:54:00.001-08:00

Ada Books and The Publicly Complex Reading Series present a new night of poetry! Justin Marks, Ana Bozicevic-Bowling & Ravi Shankar will read this

Saturday, February 9, at 6pm.
330 Dean Street (where it crosses Westminster)
Providence, RI
http://www.ada-books.com/blog.htm
401.432.6222

There will be free wine and snacks for those who like that sort of thing. Do come.

AWP

2008-01-28T12:06:00.000-08:00

Kitchen Press will be at Table # 21 in the Rhinelander Gallery, 2nd Floor. Come on by for a visit.

Also, don't forget to check out "Steal This Reading" in Brooklyn on Thursday night (details in previous post). You'll thank me for it, I PROMISE.

Steal This Reading:

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a Brooklyn Book Burning

w/

C.D. Wright, Eleni Sikelianos, Graham Foust, Joyelle McSweeney, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Julie Doxsee, Max Winter, Adam Clay, Zachary Schomburg, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Lily Brown, Rauan Klassnik, Cindy Savett, Jon Thompson, Melanie Hubbard

hosted by Black Ocean, Cannibal Books, Free Verse Editions, Kitchen Press, Octopus, Tarpaulin Sky Press & Typo.

Thursday, January 31st
Doors 7 PM, $6 =Admission + Two Drinks
East Coast Aliens
216 Franklin Street
(see directions at the end of message)

Host Websites

Black Ocean: blackocean.com
Cannibal Books: flesheatingpoems.blogspot.com
Free Verse Editions: parlorpress.com/freeverse
Kitchen Press: kitchen-press-book-store.blogspot.com
Octopus: octopusmagazine.com
Tarpaulin Sky Press: tarpaulinsky.com/Press/index.html
Typo: typomag.com

Author Bios

Lily Brown is from the east coast but currently lives on the west coast. She is the author of the chapbook, The Renaissance Sheet, published by Octopus Books in 2007. Her second chapbook, Old with You, is forthcoming from Kitchen Press. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Typo, Octopus, Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, Cannibal, Handsome and 26.

Julie Doxsee was born in London, Ontario. Her poems have appeared in over thirty-five national and international journals, including Aufgabe, Fourteen Hills, and Tarpaulin Sky. Forthcoming publications include two books: Objects for a Fog Death (Black Ocean, 2008/2009) and Undersleep (Octopus Books 2008), and two chapbooks: You Will Build a City Out of Rags (Whole Coconut 2007) and New Body a Seafloor Body (Seeing Eye Books 2008). The Knife-Grasses (Octopus Books), and Fog Quartets (horse less press) are now available. She is full-time faculty at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey.

Graham Foust lives in Oakland, California with his wife Amy and his son Merle. He teaches writing and literature at Saint Mary's College of California, and his most recent book is Necessary Stranger (Flood Editions, 2007).

Rauan Klassnik was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. In his early teens he moved to Dallas, Texas with his family. Much of his time is now spent in Mexico. His poems have appeared in Caesura, Hunger Mountain, Pilot Poetry, No Tell Motel, The Kennesaw Review, Front Porch, The Mississippi Review, The North American Review, MiPoesias, Handsome, and many other journals. His chapbook, Stitches was published by Firewheel Editions in 2002 and his first full-length collection, Holy Land, will be released by Black Ocean in the spring of 2008.

Melanie Hubbard lives in Ruskin, FL, with her family. Recently the recipient of an NEH fellowship, she has spent the past year completing a scholarly book on Emily Dickinson's poems in relation to developments in philosophy and linguistic theory, the invention of photography and the discovery of electricity, and changes in rhetoric, editorial theory, and popular manuscript activity. She also writes personal essays, commentaries, book reviews, and features for the St. Petersburg Times. Poems can be found in Typo, Swink, Fence, Cab/Net, horse less review, and Cannibal.

Joyelle McSweeney is the author of Nylund, The Sarcographer (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007). She is also the author of three titles from Fence Books: Flet, The Red Bird, and The Commandrine and Other Poems. She is a co-founder and co-editor of Action Books and Action, Yes, a press and web quarterly for international writing and hybrid forms. She writes regular reviews for Rain Taxi, The Constant Critic, and other venues and teaches in the MFA Program at Notre Dame.

Cindy Savett teaches poetry workshops at psychiatric institutions in the Philadelphia area to both acute short-term and residential patients. Her first book, Child in the Road, has recently been released. In addition, she is published in numerous print and on-line journals, including Margie, Heliotrope, LIT, The Marlboro Review, 26 Magazine, Cutbank, and Free Verse. She is also at work on a memoir on the death of her daughter. Cindy has served on several school Boards and other non-profit agencies, and spent fifteen years in the retail business, traveling extensively overseas. Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, she currently lives in Merion, Pennsylvania with her husband and children.

Eleni Sikelianos is the author of six books, including The California Poem and The Book of Jon. Du Soleil, de l’histoire, de la vision, a selected poems translated into French appeared this fall. Forthcoming are Body Clock and her translation of Jacques Roubaud’s Exchanges de la lumière.

Zachary Schomburg was born in Omaha, Nebraska, spent his childhood in Iowa, and received his BA from College of the Ozarks. Currently, he's pursuing a doctorate in creative writing from the University of Nebraska. Schomburg edits Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books, and co-curates the Clean Part Reading Series in Lincoln, NE. His poems have appeared in the Canary, CutBank, Diagram, Ducky, Fence, Forklift, Ohio, Good Foot, the Hat, La Petite Zine, Lamination Colony, LIT, Mid-American Review, Mipoesias, No Tell Motel, Northwest Review, Parakeet, Pettycoat Relaxer, Spork, Swink, Tarpaulin Sky, Unpleasant Event Schedule, and Washington Square Review. His debut collection, The Man Suit, was published Black Ocean in 2007.

Morgan Lucas Schuldt is the author of Verge (Free Verse Editions, 2007) and Otherhow (Kitchen Press, 2007), a chapbook. He lives in Tucson where he edits the literary journal CUE and the chapbook series CUE Editions.

Jon Thompson teaches at North Carolina State University where he edits Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics and the new poetry series, Free Verse Editions. His first collection was The Book of the Floating World, which was reissued in a new expanded edition in 2007. His current poetry manuscript is titled Strange Country.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the co-author, with Noah Eli Gordon, of Figures for a Darkroom Voice (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007). He is also the author of Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms (Pinball, 2005), Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk (U of Iowa, 2006), and The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (forthcoming from Tupelo Press). He holds a PhD from University of Denver and lives in Chicago where he teaches at Loyola University. His first film, Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape, is due out in 2008.

Max Winter is the author of The Pictures (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007). He is also the winner of the Fifth Annual Boston Review Poetry Contest, and has published poems in Free Verse, New American Writing, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Colorado Review, The Canary, Denver Quarterly, and Typo. He has published reviews in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, and BOMB, and is a Poetry Editor of Fence.

C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She is the author of a dozen books. Her most recent titles are One Big Self: An Investigation (Copper Canyon, 2007), Like Something Flying Backwards, New and Selected (Bloodaxe Editions, 2007), Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil (Copper Canyon, 2005). Rising, Falling, Hovering will be out in 2008, also from Copper Canyon Press. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Lannan Foundation. Steal Away: Selected and New Poems was a finalist for the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize. In 2004 she was named a MacArthur Fellow. In 2005 she was given the Robert Creeley Award and elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Wright is the Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English at Brown University. She lives outside of Providence with her husband, poet Forrest Gander.

Directions to East Coast Aliens

by taxi (recommended)

from Midtown Manhattan

Take the upper level of the Queensborough Bridge into Queens & turn left on 21st Street. Cross the Pulaski Bridge, which turns into McGuiness Boulevard on the Brooklyn side. Take the third right after the bridge at Huron St. After two blocks turn right on Franklin St. East Coast Aliens is on the right side. The ride from Midtown (w/ gratuity) should cost between $20-25.

from Lower Manhattan

Take the Williamsburg Bridge to the BQE (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway) north to McGuiness Boulevard (Exit 33). Turn left onto McGuiness Boulevard. After approximately eight blocks turn left on Greenpoint Avenue. After three blocks turn right on Franklin Street. East Coast Aliens is four blocks up on the right side. The ride from Lower Manhattan (w/ gratuity) should range between $20-25.

by train (for the adventuresome & frugal)

from Midtown Manhattan

Take the Queens-bound 7 train from Times Square, Bryant Park or Grand Central to Vernon/Jackson (the first stop after Grand Central). Exit at Jackson Ave. & walk one block east to the B61 bus stop at 11th St and Jackson Ave. Take the B61 two stops to Manhattan Ave. between Freeman and Green. Walk right on Green St. one block to Franklin St. & turn left. East Coast Aliens is on your left.

from Lower Manhattan (simpler than from Midtown)

Take the Brooklyn-bound L train to Lorimer. Transfer at the station to the Metropolitan stop of the G train. Take the Queens-bound G train two stops to Greenpoint Ave. Exit at India St. & walk one block north to Huron St. Turn left on Huron, walk one block to Franklin St. & turn right. East Coast Aliens is on your right.

from Brooklyn and Queens (or ride your bike!)

Take the G train to Greenpoint Ave. Exit at India St. & head north one block to Huron St. Turn left on Huron, walk one block to Franklin St. & turn right. East Coast Aliens is on your right.

Run Down the Emphasis, reviewed by Matt Mullins

2008-01-08T11:16:00.001-08:00

A Kitchen Press November/December, Part 7

Otherhow, reviewed by Matt Mullins

2008-01-08T11:15:00.001-08:00

A Kitchen Press November/December, Part 6

Thanks for Sending the Engine, reviewed by Matt Mullins

2008-01-08T11:13:00.001-08:00

A Kitchen Press November/December, Part 5

WIDE TREE, reviewed by Matt Mullins

2007-12-10T08:31:00.000-08:00

A Kitchen Press November/December, Part 4

Pages Put Together by Six of NYC's Finest Small Presses

2007-12-07T12:58:00.000-08:00

Boog City 46, featuring Belladonna Books, Cuneiform Press, Cy Gist Press, Futurepoem Books, Kitchen Press and Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs

Chris Tonelli in H_NGM_N 7

2007-12-05T07:34:00.000-08:00

Chris

Morning News, reviewed by Matt Mullins

2007-11-30T13:17:00.000-08:00

A Kitchen Press November/December, Part 3

There's a new bear in town

2007-11-27T13:59:00.000-08:00

A Poetry Bear, that is.

Fingergun, Reviewed by Matt Mullins

2007-11-26T11:24:00.000-08:00

A Kitchen Press November/December, Part 2

The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel – Second Floor

2007-11-26T08:38:00.000-08:00

BOOK LAUNCH READING AND RELEASE PARTY!

December 3rd, 2007
7-9 PM
KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street, NYC
FREE!!!

Featuring: Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Ana Bozicevic-Bowling, Bruce Covey, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Kate Greenstreet, Shafer Hall, editor Reb Livingston, Justin Marks, Gina Meyers, Carly Sachs, Allyson Salaza, Evie Shockley, and Nicole Steinberg

It's a November & December to Remember

2007-11-16T08:39:00.000-08:00

as Matt Mullins reviews the entire Kitchen Press catalog

Document, by Ana Bozicevic-Bowling

2007-11-13T06:58:00.000-08:00

Now available from Octopus Books

2007-11-12T07:05:00.000-08:00

The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor, edited by Reb Livingston & Molly Arden
ISBN: 978-0-6151-6437-3
Publication Date: December, 2007
216 pages

Available at Lulu for $16.99

Available Soon at Amazon and B&N for $16.99

Featuring Sexy By:

Eric Abbott * Deborah Ager * Malaika King Albrecht * William Allegrezza * Molly Arden * Cynthia Arrieu-King * Robyn Art * Sandra Beasley * Aaron Belz * Erin M. Bertram * Mary Biddinger * Ana Bozicevic-Bowling * Timothy Bradford * Joseph Bradshaw * Jason Bredle * Jenny Browne * Jenna Cardinale * Bruce Covey * Phil Crippen * Susan Denning * Michelle Detorie * Laurel K. Dodge * Mark DuCharme * Peg Duthie * kari edwards * AnnMarie Eldon * Jill Alexander Essbaum * Julie R. Enszer * Noah Falck * Michael Farrell * Katie Fesuk * Adam Fieled * Alice Fogel * Elisa Gabbert * Eric Gelsinger * Scott Glassman * David B. Goldstein * Dean Gorman * Anne Gorrick * Lea Graham * Kate Greenstreet * Piotr Gwiazda * Shafer Hall * Josh Hanson * Nathan Hoks * Donald Illich * Salwa C. Jabado * Charles Jensen * Jim Kober * Ron Klassnik * Jennifer L. Knox * Dorothee Lang * Sueyeun Juliette Lee * David Lehman * Reb Livingston * Rebecca Loudon * Justin Marks * Clay Matthews * Kristi Maxwell * Gary L. McDowell * Erika Meitner * Didi Menendez * Michael Meyerhofer * Steve Mueske * Gina Myers * Cheryl Pallant * Shann Palmer * Alison Pelegrin * Simon Perchik * Derek Pollard * Andrea Potos * Cati Porter * Laurie Price * Jessy Randall * Kim Roberts * Anthony Robinson * Carly Sachs * John Sakkis * Allyson Salazar * Christine Scanlon * Margot Schilpp * Morgan Lucas Schuldt * Patty Seyburn * Peter Jay Shippy * Evie Shockley * Alex Smith * Hugh Steinberg * Nicole Steinberg * Alison Stine * Mathias Svalina * Erik Sweet * Eileen R. Tabios * Bronwen Tate * Molly Tenenbaum * Chris Tonelli * Letitia Trent * Jen Tynes * Michael Quattrone * Ashley VanDoorn * Fritz Ward * J. Marcus Weekley * Betsy Wheeler * Theodore Worozbyt * Kim Young

Kitchen Press & Cannibal Books invite you to eat from the chopping block w/

2007-10-30T19:38:00.000-07:00

Erin Elizabeth Burke, Run Down the Emphasis (Kitchen)
Thibault Raoult, I’ll Say I’m Only Visiting (Cannibal)
Mathias Svalina, Why I Am White (Kitchen)

Friday, November 2nd, 8 PM
Unnameable Books
456 Bergen Street
btwn. 5th & Flatbush

Refreshments served, but you may also BYOB. Kitchen Press and Cannibal Books products will be available for consumption. Unnameable Books carries an excellent selection of poetry from independent presses. This event is free for all.

Chris Tonelli Dishes on the So and So

2007-10-30T08:17:00.000-07:00

Big Red & Shiny

Ana Bozicevic-Bowling in MiPOesias

2007-10-22T10:25:00.000-07:00

Ana BB

From Kate Schapira at Publicly Complex:

2007-10-19T11:31:00.000-07:00

Dear listeners, crisped up by the wind,

Chris Tonelli

and

Sampson Starkweather

perpetrate their poetry

SATURDAY, October 20th, 6 pm
at Ada Books (Dean Street at Westminster, Providence)

Come hear Julia Cohen, Sampson Starkweather & Ana Bozicevic-Bowling,

2007-10-05T09:11:00.000-07:00

Friday, October 12th, 7pm,
Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer St
Brooklyn, NY

Mike Young digs Elisa Gabbert as Well

2007-10-01T20:00:00.001-07:00

Men of the Web

Jen Tynes Gives a Nod to Elisa Gabbert

2007-09-28T08:17:00.001-07:00

Fringe Matters

This Friday, 9/28 at Pete's Candy Store: Stephanie Balzer, Justin Marks and Matthew Thorburn

2007-09-24T13:58:00.000-07:00

Pete's Candy Store —
September 28, 2007 7:00PM
709 Lorimer St., Brooklyn, NY

Stephanie Balzer earned an MFA from the University of Arizona. Her poems have appeared in Mid-American Review, Chelsea, and CUE: A Journal of Prose Poetry. A chapbook of her prose poetry is forthcoming from Kore Press. She lives in Tucson and works for a nonprofit.

Justin Marks' latest chapbook is [Summer insular] (horse less press, 2007). His poems and reviews appear in recent issues of Absent, La Petite Zine, horse less review, Octopus, Soft Targets, and Word for/ Word; and are forthcoming from Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel – Second Floor, Outside Voices 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets, Cannibal and Tarpaulin Sky. He is the founder and Editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks, and lives in New York City.

Matthew Thorburn's first book is Subject to Change (New Issues, 2004). More recent poems appear in The Paris Review, Barrow Street and Pool. He has also contributed book reviews to Boston Review, Rattle and Octopus, and writes about writing at www.matthewthorburn.blogspot.com.

Thanks for Sending the Engine, reviewed by Mark Wallace

2007-09-16T14:32:00.001-07:00

in Word For/Word #12

Check out Absent #2

2007-08-28T17:30:00.001-07:00

Featuring poetry by Jasper Bernes, Charles Bernstein, Regis Bonvicino, Jack Boettcher, Tim Botta, Julia Cohen, Shanna Compton, John Cotter, Shafer Hall, Lisa Jarnot, Pierre Joris, Joan Kane, Noelle Kocot, Jason Labbe,Kathleen Ossip, The Pines, Matthew Rohrer, Kate Schapira, Mathias Svalina,
Kathryn Tabb, Allison Titus and Betsy Wheeler.

in translation with Sergei Kitov and Octavo Paz.

musical work by Aaron Einbond.

prose by Joe Amato, Peter Ciccariello, Simon DeDeo, Adam Golaski, Kent Johnson, Amy Newman, Davis Schneiderman and Tyler Williams.

edited by Elisa Gabbert and Simon DeDeo; with great gratitude to Irwin Chen and his class at Parsons School of Design in New York City.

New from Kitchen Press: Why I Am White, by Mathias Svalina

2007-08-23T15:39:00.000-07:00

I am a white mineral made of sodium chloride. I have been used for thousands of years as a medium of trade or payment as implied in the word “salary.”

I am a white woman, & I was in Pine Ridge & Wounded Knee.

I am a white woman whose child entered her home through the gift of adoption.

I am a white, heterosexual, conservative Republican evangelical, & I am an environmentalist.

I am a white male. What are you?
I am an artificial intelligence computer program.
Pleased to meet you.

Order yours

An Interview with Elisa Gabbert on Unstable Euphony

2007-08-07T13:49:00.001-07:00

Elisa

Octopus is Kickin' It with some Prose on Poetry

2007-08-01T15:32:00.001-07:00

Octopus 9

Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney in Opium Magazine

2007-08-01T09:57:00.000-07:00

Opium

Elisa Gabbert Is a Poet to Look Out for,

2007-07-31T07:42:00.001-07:00

Says Mark Wallace

An Interview with Chris Tonelli on Unstable Euphony

2007-07-31T07:26:00.000-07:00

Chris

Aeolian Liar, by Chris Tonelli

2007-07-30T18:05:00.001-07:00

Justin Marks & Kitchen Press: the Pshares Interview

2007-07-19T09:07:00.001-07:00

Pshares Blog

TWO NEW CHAPBOOKS FROM HORSE LESS PRESS:

2007-07-14T07:22:00.001-07:00

[Summer_insular] by Justin Marks

Fog Quartets by Julie Doxsee

Buy them both here

Lester Shue Reviews Otherhow

2007-07-03T08:05:00.001-07:00

Lester Shue

Kitchen Press at Vox Pop¹s Declaration of Independence: A Festival of Poetry and Music

2007-07-02T18:15:00.001-07:00

Please join Kitchen Press and many other fine presses this weekend for Vox Pop¹s Declaration of Independence: A Festival of Poetry and Music

Featuring Boog City¹s

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press series in exile

Kitchen Press poets Ana Bozicevic-Bowling and Chris Tonelli will be reading Sun. July 8 from 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

Vox Pop
1022 Cortelyou Rd.
Flatbush, Brooklyn
718-940-2084
www.voxpopnet.net

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

Featured Presses
(with hosts/curators and authors):

(press and author bios and urls follow this schedule)
(complete festival information is at the end of this email)

Sat. July 7

1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
Futurepoem Books
(editor Dan Machlin)

Merry Fortune
Serena Jost
Rachel Levitsky
Machlin
and special guests.

3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs
(editor Brenda Iijima)

Jennifer Firestone
Martha Oatis
Evelyn Reilly
Christina Strong
and
special guest
Cecilia Wu

5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Belladonna* Books
(co-editor Rachel Levitsky)

Corina Copp
Joanna Fuhrman
Nada Gordon
Tim Peterson or Trace

and

Litmus Press/Aufgabe
(poetry editor Paul Foster Johnson)

Brenda Iijima
Idra Novey

6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Ugly Duckling Presse
(collective member Garth Graeper)

Steve Dalachinsky
Edwin Frank
Elizabeth Reddin
Laura Solomon

Sun. July 8

1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
Kitchen Press
(editor Justin Marks)

Ana Bozicevic-Bowling
Chris Tonelli

3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Wilderside Media
(co-editors Ian and Kimberly Wilder)

Ellen Pober Rittberg
Lois Walker
George Wallace
Ian Wilder
Kimberly Wilder

5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Bowery Books
(Bowery Women: Poems co-editor Marjorie Tesser)

Tsaurah Litzky
Amy Ouzoonian
Mary Reilly
Gabriella Santoro
Tesser

Kitchen Press & Essays & Fictions

2007-06-26T10:00:00.000-07:00

Essays & Fictions, a new online journal of literature and criticism, has gone live.

The launch reading at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden in the East Village, 9th St and Ave C - Friday June 29 6 p.m., with a rain date of Sunday July 1, 6 p.m. ... featuring E&F readers David Pollock, Danielle Winterton, Amberly Timperio and Adam Golaski. There will be non-E&F readers as well; we call them "friends of Essays & Fictions" ... they are Greg Sanders, Jeff Paris, and Justin Marks.

Ron Silliman Reviews WIDE TREE, by Chris Tonelli

2007-06-26T09:57:00.000-07:00

Silliman's Blog

New from Kitchen Press: Run Down the Emphasis, by Erin Elizabeth Burke

2007-06-12T07:20:00.002-07:00

Junk the Lament

Indifference, that erratic
hollow ball
buoying up a baited line.

At night I drink and dream of factories.

Got to, love goes on
this once, with no fur lining.

The time change
tests its measures

carting in a processed dawn.
White as deafening flatness.

Introvertable, your absence
is priceless, an overstocked synthetic organ

appealing to no one.

Order now

It's a Late, Wild Bloomer

2007-06-10T07:53:00.000-07:00

Horse Less Review #5

Containing work by Nate Pritts, Noah Falck, Claire Hero, John Duvernoy, Philip Oakes, Seth Perlow, Jay Snodgrass, Mark Cunningham, Annalynn Hammond, Simon DeDeo, Sean Kilpatrick, Paul Siegell, Michael Aird, Thomas Cook, Gina Abelkop, Melanie Hubbard, Justin Marks, Gareth Lee, Emily Abendroth, Conan Kelly.

Enjoy, tell your friends, and send us work for #6.

Coming in the next week: LYRIC, a chapbook by C.S. Carrier.

Coming in the next six weeks: Chapbooks by Justin Marks, Julie Doxsee, Boyd Spahr, and Jack Boettcher.

Kitchen Press & Cannibal Books authors read Friday, June 1st

2007-05-29T14:21:00.000-07:00

The Burning Chair Readings
& Jimmy's No. 43 Stage
welcome you to a night celebrating the poetry
of Kitchen Press & Cannibal Books authors

Chris Tonelli, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Dustin Williamson, and Keith Newton

Friday, June 1st, 8 PM
at Jimmy's No. 43
43 East 7th Street
between 2nd & 3rd Avenues

Ana BB & Cindy King at Stain Bar

2007-05-29T14:15:00.000-07:00

Ana Bozicevic Bowling & Cynthia Arrieu-King read:

June 1st, a Friday, at 7PM
s t a i n
766 grand st.
bklyn, ny 11211
www.stainbar.com
718/387-7840

Sunday May 27 at Zinc Bar: Ana Bozicevic-Bowling & Frank Serlock at Zinc Bar

2007-05-20T09:22:00.000-07:00

All ZINC/Lungfull events begin at 7pm on Sunday.

ZINC is at 90 West Houston between Laguardia & Thompson in New York City's Greenwich Village.
Subway: A/C/E; B/D/F/V to west 4th street. N/R to spring. 1/9 to Houston.
$5 donation goes to the poets.
If you don't have it, don't worry, come anyway--

Cultural Society: Update 5/14/07

2007-05-20T09:16:00.000-07:00

Featuring poems from Dan Beachy-Quick, Jon Curley, Norman Finkelstein, Graham Foust, Michael Heller, Janet Holmes, Justin Marks, Joseph Massey, Gina Myers & Dustin Williamson, Jess Mynes, John Phillips, Michael Prasil, Christopher Rizzo, Shannon Tharp, & Aaron Tieger. In prose we've got Joseph Bradshaw's review of Joseph Massey's Property Line, Robert Arachambeau & Sarah Conner, & Jeremy Biles on William Blake. Images are from Cary Conover & Drew Kunz, & Stacy Szymaszek & Drew Kunz provide the Picks.

Elisa Gabbert in Little Red Leaves

2007-05-11T06:57:00.000-07:00

Little Red Leaves

New from Kitchen Press: Otherhow, by Morgan Lucas Schuldt

2007-04-30T18:06:00.000-07:00

My Merely

Am among.
Am mortal whee,

botched from the very start,
among.

Since then am balsa-breathing through.
Am passage-process, pulse-pace, proof-pink.

My ing-ing—iffy at best.
Am all while-ing given to thrall and god-hurry.

Am x-ratedness & meat-joy & what's-his-name
when lust's skully pull un-seems all others in the kite field.

The only leggy accident for miles
looking good in wool is you. Am romantic

deathscepade. Soothe & should.
Wanna and coulda fort-da-ing daily.

Am why-way, tell-why eyes;
shy-say, quell-why sighs.

Sinew and brink, am doing the breathing different.
Stats so-so and worsting.

That sort.

Order now

Matt Rasmussen has this week's MNARTS poem of the week

2007-04-16T15:00:00.000-07:00

Matt

Julia Cohen gives a little shout out to Elisa Gabbert

2007-04-16T14:54:00.001-07:00

Julia's $650 apt (scroll down some)

Chris Tonelli in Sawbuck 1.3

2007-04-06T06:57:00.000-07:00

Chris

Check Out Press Press Press

2007-04-05T12:50:00.000-07:00

A new micro and small press blog-store featuring chapbooks, books and journals from Kitchen Press, horse less press, No Tell Books, Octopus Books, Dancing Girl Press, Pilot Books, Lame House Press, H_NGM_N Books, Cannibal, The Agricultural Reader, and Effing Press.

Jusitn Marks is Sharkforum's Featured Poet of the Week

2007-03-19T14:05:00.000-07:00

Sharkforum

Justin Marks Reviews Is Holy, by Matthew Henriksen

2007-03-06T16:41:00.000-08:00

in Word for/ Word

Justin Marks in La Petite Zine

2007-03-06T16:34:00.001-08:00

La Petite Zine

LIT in Atlanta

2007-03-06T16:00:00.001-08:00

LIT

Elisa Gabbert Reviewed on Lamonitor.com

2007-03-06T15:55:00.000-08:00

Lamonitor

Reviews of 4 Kitchen Press Chapbooks

2007-02-25T11:14:00.000-08:00

by Alexander Dickow

Mathias Svalina on Thanks for Sending the Engine

2007-02-19T09:16:00.001-08:00

Mathias

Now Available: Thanks for Sending the Engine, by Elisa Gabbert

2007-02-02T16:13:00.000-08:00

BLOGPOEM FOR APRIL

You can’t invent a color, only name it,
like how I just named those contrails Benjamin
and then the sky behind them Benjamin II.
Now, retronymically, I refer to Ben as Ben I.
If he becomes famous, they’ll stop calling
clouds “clouds” and call them “nonlinear
clouds” or “pre-Benjamin” for clarity.
I can think about fame all day, and
compose apologies for my friends’ friends
who I’ve variously snubbed, write them
into emails with personalized P.S.’s:
P.S. My love for you extends forever
in all directions, or sometimes seems to.
P.S. I include a swatch of Yves Klein blue.
P.S. If the sky is a piano store and clouds
are baby grands, we just hang out in the back
and listen to a Casiotone’s preprogrammeds.
P.S. This P.S. is my email’s last will
and testament. It’s leaving everything
to you. P.S. Like my love for you,
like the infinite crystalline watchface of
God of the sky, my email will never die.

Order now

Recording for RealPoetik

2007-01-31T16:22:00.001-08:00

Chris Tonelli recording poems from WIDE TREE at Josh and Ana's, for RealPoetik. (That's Josh doing the recording.)

Can You Hear Me Now?

2007-01-31T16:10:00.000-08:00

Chris goes to the bathroom...to get a better sound

The New Issue of VERSE Is Out

2007-01-31T12:45:00.000-08:00

and Chris Tonelli is in it!

Kitchen Press Chapbooks

On Indefinite Hiatus

HIT WAVE is reviewed in the new issue of NOÖ

Micro-Review Monday over at Black Ocean

Ringing Video Contest

A Million in Prizes

It is a rare e-book that does not make me want to live off the grid, that does not make me fear and loathe the very coinage itself: "e-book."

Reviews of Ringing

Ringing, Rauan Klassnik

Dan Hoy reviews HIT WAVE

Old With You, Lily Brown

R A I N T A X I o n l i n e Winter 2008/2009

The Portable Boog Reader 3 Online PDF Now Available

Absent Magazine

HIT WAVE Gets a Shout-Out

R-a-D Reading at The Four-Faced Liar, Thursday, November 20

A Poem by Chris Tonelli on Verse Daily

Another Review of Jon Leon's Hit Wave

Emerging Writers Network E-Panel - Chapbook Publishers

The First Review of Jon Leon's Hit Wave is in

Jon Leon in The Continental Review

Ana Božičević & Elisa Gabbert

Steal All You Can Hold

The Forever Video, by Jon Leon

EARSHOT! Reading this Friday

Hit Wave, Jon Leon

Alexander Dickow Reviews

Destruction Myths

Adam Golaski

Now Available: Tentative List (A), by Thomas David Lisk

Prepare to Get STAINED!!!!

A Million in Prizes

Minneapolis, Here We Come

Alexis Orgera reviews Matt Rasmussen's Fingergun

Essays & Fictions Release Party and Reading

Boog City presents Outside Voices Anthology of Younger Poets Reading

Now Available: Out of Light, by Joseph Massey

Andy Grace Discusses Joe Massey's Poetry

Andy Grace Discusses the Rise of Chapbooks and Small Presses

Come hear Justin Marks, Ana Bozicevic-Bowling & Ravi Shankar

AWP

Steal This Reading:

Run Down the Emphasis, reviewed by Matt Mullins

Otherhow, reviewed by Matt Mullins

Thanks for Sending the Engine, reviewed by Matt Mullins

WIDE TREE, reviewed by Matt Mullins

Pages Put Together by Six of NYC's Finest Small Presses

Chris Tonelli in H_NGM_N 7

Morning News, reviewed by Matt Mullins

There's a new bear in town

Fingergun, Reviewed by Matt Mullins

The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel – Second Floor

It's a November & December to Remember

Document, by Ana Bozicevic-Bowling

Kitchen Press & Cannibal Books invite you to eat from the chopping block w/

Chris Tonelli Dishes on the So and So

Ana Bozicevic-Bowling in MiPOesias

From Kate Schapira at Publicly Complex:

Come hear Julia Cohen, Sampson Starkweather & Ana Bozicevic-Bowling,

Mike Young digs Elisa Gabbert as Well

Jen Tynes Gives a Nod to Elisa Gabbert

This Friday, 9/28 at Pete's Candy Store: Stephanie Balzer, Justin Marks and Matthew Thorburn

Thanks for Sending the Engine, reviewed by Mark Wallace

Check out Absent #2

New from Kitchen Press: Why I Am White, by Mathias Svalina

An Interview with Elisa Gabbert on Unstable Euphony

Octopus is Kickin' It with some Prose on Poetry

Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney in Opium Magazine

Elisa Gabbert Is a Poet to Look Out for,

An Interview with Chris Tonelli on Unstable Euphony

Aeolian Liar, by Chris Tonelli

Justin Marks & Kitchen Press: the Pshares Interview

TWO NEW CHAPBOOKS FROM HORSE LESS PRESS:

Lester Shue Reviews *Otherhow*

Kitchen Press at Vox Pop¹s Declaration of Independence: A Festival of Poetry and Music

Kitchen Press & Essays & Fictions

Ron Silliman Reviews WIDE TREE, by Chris Tonelli

New from Kitchen Press: Run Down the Emphasis, by Erin Elizabeth Burke

It's a Late, Wild Bloomer

Kitchen Press & Cannibal Books authors read Friday, June 1st

Lester Shue Reviews Otherhow

Justin Marks Reviews Is Holy, by Matthew Henriksen