TYPO 11: http://www.typomag.com/issue11

http://www.typomag.com/issue11

Paige Ackerson-Kiely
Lucy Biederman
Christopher Deweese
Farrah Field
Andrew Grace
Jane Gregory
Kirsten Kaschock
Karla Kelsey
Dorothea Lasky
Kristi Maxwell
Karyna McGlynn
Patrick Morrissey
Michael Robins
Eleni Sikelianos
Matvei Yankelevich

Third Coast

The new issue of Third Coast is out. Details here.

Dear Readers,

I've been reading for my qualifying exams later this summer. I have the usual suspects as far as secondary texts go, but if you have some suggestions for critical works that might be helpful, let me know. I've linked to the reading lists below:

American Literature 1865-1945

Modern British Literature 1900 to 1950

Much obliged,

TYPO

The new issue of TYPO will be out this week. We're awfully proud of it.

Soon,

Update

It's been too long, I know. Cranked out an essay for my last class at Western, read at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Manchester College, visited some family in Cincinnati. All not necessarily in that order. Right now it's the summer semester, and I'm reading for my qualifying exams. What other news? Cannibal Books is publishing a chapbook of mine sometime in the near future. One of our dogs caught a squirrel and let it go. We're probably headed out west some this summer.

I should get back to the books.

To work,

UIUC Reading

I'm reading at Union Bookstore on Friday, April 18, 4:30 p.m at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Details are here.

PLACE

I'm putting together a list of poets who actively engage with place in their work.

Talk to me.

New Kate Greenstreet Chapbook

Available for pre-order at Lame House Press.

CLAY MATTHEWS

Forecast

Tonight: Periods of snow, mainly before 4am. Low around 26. East northeast wind between 13 and 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of around 4 inches.

POETRY MAGAZINE

I'm trying to find the Table of Contents for all of the issues of Poetry Magazine published in 1925. Anyone have some leads? Our library's collection doesn't go back that far, but I'm sure there's some info on the web somewhere.

Now Reading:

Get it here.

TOST--thanks for sharing this some time ago

Hank, Dylan, Chicago, Kansas City, Lincoln

I am listening to Bob Dylan cover Hank Williams' "I Can't Get you Off my Mind." It's perfect for today. The sun is out. We did not get five inches of snow as previously suggested that we might receive. In fact, we had none.

Do you live in Chicago? You should move there. Why? Because of this reading tonight.


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POETRY READING BY KATE GREENSTREET, AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL, & MICHAEL ROBINS

What: A poetry reading by a diverse group of emerging poets--painter and poet, Kate Greenstreet; English professor, Aimee Nezhukumatathil; and Columbia College Chicago adjunct professor, Michael Robins.

These three poets vary in ethnicity, age, and writing style, but as intriguing, promising authors, they meld into the right mixture of dream, wit, and suspense for what is sure to be a captivating reading.

“Kate Greenstreet's first book, case sensitive, from Ahsahta Press, is a wonderful hypnotic interweaving of narrative, dialogue, science, and mystery. The book has garnered positive buzz in the blog world and many positive reviews from places like ForeWord Magazine, and case sensitive doesn't disappoint; as twisty and turning as any good mystery ought to be, it satisfies those looking for subtlety, intelligence, and a deeply embedded sense of speaker as reader.” --Eclectica Magazine

“Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poems are ripe, funny, and fresh as a precious friendship. They're the fullness of days, deliciously woven of heart and verve, rich with sources and elements--animals, insects, sugar, cardamom, legends, countries, relatives, soaps, fruits--taste and touch. I love the nubby layerings of lines, luscious textures and constructions. Aimee writes with a deep resonance of spirit and sight. She's scared of nothing. She knows that many worlds may live in one house. Poems like these revive our souls. Read them, then say her glorious name over and over again like a charm of syllables -- it's a poem of its own.” --Naomi Shihab Nye

“Michael Robins’ prismatic poems open windows, then close them, so we’re always getting glimpses of light that suggest a larger world. With never a syllable to spare, these poems are beautiful and haunting. I know of nothing like them.” --James Tate, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

WHEN: Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Music Center Concert Hall, 1014 S. Michigan Ave
HOW MUCH: Free and Open to the Public
MORE INFO: Becca Klaver, (312) 344-8819

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Kim and I will be there. We're flying out of Chicago later this evening and were lucky enough to schedule our flight for March 5th.





Then we're headed down to Kansas City for a few days before heading up to Lincoln for The Clean Part Reading Series. Come check it out. The Clean Part has all grown up since the last time I saw it. I can't wait to pinch its cheeks and say, "Look at how much you've grown, Clean Part!" Don't tell The Clean Part, but I have a shiny quarter in my coat pocket for The Clean Part too.

See you there.

Zach? Mathias?

World's first six-legged octopus discovered

In other Octopus-related news:



Octopus #10. Please, pace yourselves.

80 Poets

Claire Hero
Jane Wong
CD Wright
Phil Cordelli
Demosthenes Agrafiotis
translated by John Sakkis and Angelos Sakkis
Paul Fattaruso
Cecily Parks
Laura Sims

Ada Limon
Anthony Hawley
Karyna Mcglynn
Jessica Bozek
David Goldstein
Hillary Gravendyk
Christopher Salerno
Martha Ronk

Lewis Warsh
Geoff Bouvier
Jeff Downey
Matvei Yankelevich
Juliet Cook
Dorothea Lasky
Linh Dinh
Julie Doxsee

Greta Wrolstad
GC Waldrep
Vincent Zompa
Cesar Vallejo
translated by Rachel Galvin
Jordan Davis
Sandra Simonds
Emily Kendal Frey
Will Oldham

Hiraide Takashi
translated by Sawako Nakayasu
Caroline Knox
Bronwen Tate
Allison Titus
Erica Ehrenberg
Cynthia Cruz
Lara Glenum
Brett Price

Karen Volkman
Laura Mullen
Rob Schlegel
Sara Veglahn
Adam Clay
Nathan Bartel
Sandra Miller
Brenda Hillman

Robyn Schiff
Tomaz Salamon
trans Brian Henry
Steve Langan
Cate Peebles
Chad Reynolds
Sandy Florian
Dave Carillo
DA Powell

Dan Hoy
Daniel Coudriet
Craig Foltz
Laura Solomon
Eugen Jebeleanu
translated by Matthew Zapruder & Radu Ioanid
Claire Becker
Jason Bredle
Jen Tynes

Cynthia Arrieu King
Peter Jay Shippy
KC Trommer
Stephanie Strickland
Susan Cronin
Stephanie Anderson
Michael Ives
Bethany Wright

Anne Marie Rooney
Shane MacRae
Michael Loughran
Karla Kelsey & Peter Yumi
Raymond Queneau
translated by Rachel Galvin
Heather Green
Grace Egbert
Brenda Iijima

Reviews of

Gabriel Gudding’s Rhode Island Notebook
Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis’ Intaglio
John Keene and Christopher Stackhouse’s Seismosis
Shin Yu Pai’s Sightings: Selected Works (2000-2005).
Max Winter’s The Pictures
Cate Marvin’s Fragment of the Head of a Queen
Richard Meier’s Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar
Matias Viegener and Christine Wertheim’s The noulipian Analects
Lisa Robertson’s The Men

By

Robbie Q. Telfer
Lesley Jenike
Karla Kelsey
Joshua Butts
Kathleen Rooney
Stan Apps
Michael Flatt
Lucy Ives

And an Interview
with Dorothea Lasky By Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Editors: Zachary Schomburg & Mathias Svalina
Contributing Editor: Brandon Shimoda
Website Design: Denny Schmickle
Editorial Assistant: Alisa Heinzman
Intern: Chelsea Dappen

THAT JUST HAPPENED

Interview with Matt at No. 43 Stage.

OPPEN

CARPENTER'S BOAT

The new wood as old as carpentry

Rounding the far buoy, wild
Steel fighting in the sea, carpenter,

Carpenter,
Carpenter and other things, the monstrous welded seams

Plunge and drip in the seas, carpenter,
Carpenter, how wild the planet is.

Update -- bullet style

Hello--

There's a bit of sun out there at last. At last.

Saw Heather Sellers and David Keplinger read last night on campus. Carl Phillips read on Monday. And a fiction candidate read on Tuesday. It's been quite a week.

Oh, thanks to Verse Daily and to Barn Owl Review--my poem was up there yesterday.

What else? We've been reading TYPO submissions and have the lineup for the next issue (#11) all set. Fifteen poets. Shooting for a release near the end of March. Planning some exciting stuff for #12 too.

Heading down to Kansas City in March for a few days and then up to Lincoln for The Clean Part Reading Series. You should come down there too and hang out. You might win a pie, I hear.

A day of meetings. Third Coast this morning. New Issues this afternoon.

Which reminds me: you never sent your poetry or nonfiction submission to Third Coast for our contests. You know who you are. That's okay. You can still send your work through Feb 29th (postmark deadline). Details are here. Entry fee is $15. You get a one-year subscription with the entry. A normal one-year subscription is $16. A bargain! James Tate and Patricia Hampl are judging the contests, respectively.

I have been reading Frank Stanford, Graham Foust, and Kristi Maxwell. I have been listening to Bob Dylan, The Mountain Goats, Cat Power, and Andrew Bird.

Ok. To work,

Onward!

Hallelujah!

The Mountain Goats

This Weekend:

Books I Brought Back from AWP that I'm Currently Reading and Highly Recommend

Kristi Maxwell's Realm Sixty-Four





Henry Parland's Ideals Clearance (Translated by Johannes Göransson)



Jake Adam York's A Murmuration of Starlings



Michael Burkard's Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems 1966-1990

And there are others. I need to get to them. But in the meantime, get yr paws on these. Lost Roads reissued two Frank Stanford books at last, The Singing Knives and You. I don't have a link to these for now, but they should be available online soon.

Third Coast Poetry / Nonfiction Contest

Do you write poetry? Do you write nonfiction?

I thought you did.

Send yr work on to Third Coast for the upcoming contests. Postmark deadline: Feb 29th.

Judges: James Tate and Patricia Hampl, respectively.

$15 to enter and includes a one year subscription (a regular subscription is $16).

Details: here.

TYPO

We're accepting submissions for the next issue of TYPO.

Send us some poems.

"I guess over time we became ducks..."

Hey hey:
congrats to Tony and Leigh!
Can't wait to meet Simon--

A day for writing, at last--

Single Digits!

Saturday night: Lo 3°F

What I am Reading Today

Get it.

STEAL THIS READING

AWP / WEATHER / SCHOOL

Plane ticket to NYC? Check.

BIG off-site reading for Thursday, January 31st in Brooklyn.
Keep yer calender open. Trust me.

It snowed. It melted.

School starts today. My final semester of course-work.

Are you going to AWP? I assume you are. Everyone seems to be.

Been reading the new Grossman.

CYCLONE

YES

LEMON

You probably already know this, but Alex Lemon's new chapbook,
At Last Unfolding Congo, is available from horse less press.

Subscribe to their 6 book or 12 book subscription here. You won't be disappointed. They do not disappoint. No disappointment on the horizon.

Postcards of Billy the Kid

"I ain't the judge, you don't have to be nice to me..."

Half awake in a fake empire--

Back from NYC and in finals-week land. More soon--

ATTENTION: NYC

If you're in the city, come on out:

Matt Henriksen, Oni Buchanan, and Adam Clay
Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(718) 203-3770
Friday, December 7, 7pm

Details/Bios: here.

In other news, we had our first decent snow here last night.
Our snow shovel still works.

NEW H_NGM_N

From the eds:

+++++

Dear Yes Dear:

Please allow me to say hello to you with my voice! I am EDITOR NATE PRITTS writing with a special proposition only for someone with your name because of how it was uncovered in a secret document. About money! Yes, please read on. I would like to transfer to you, at no charge and for all of your own use, the new issue of H_NGM_N. Please respond to me by clicking this link here in the next word – http://www.h-ngm-n.com - & you will be transported immediately to the secret trove of literature that was left to you by your dearly beloved dead relative you do not know.

What’s more is that there is even more! If you were to considering sending me the sum of $6 US, I would surely then find myself putting in the mail to you a copy of the last will and testament of your dearly beloved dead relative you do not know. The title of this tome is WHO COULD FORGET THE SENSATIONAL FIRST EVENING OF THE NIGHT by Julia Cohen and she is even not dead as I write this! And it is not even a will but really a chapbook of really terrific & ultimately edifying poems!

You could do worse than this and I’m not only kidding about that but also I am telling a quiet kind of truth that makes you want to spend money on things. Things like this! Even if they are free.

http://www.h-ngm-n.com

Please act now before the government of England claims all of this money & prize. Please exercise your right and use the finger on your hand to manipulate the computer clicking device and bring yourself to the new issue of H_NGM_N that you need.

Yours most sincerely,

Nate Pritts, Editor in Chief.

http://www.h-ngm-n.com

IN THE MAIL

I would like to recommend the new issue
of Gulf Coast, which arrived yesterday.

I have a poem in there.
Many other people do too.

It has flags on it.
It has many flags on it.

I also want to recommend Cat Power covering
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again.

It did not arrive in the mail
yesterday, but it's awfully nice

nonetheless,
nevertheless.

FRAGMENT

An illiterate sun caught in a bottle-cap glare.

SIREN 5

SIREN 5

Parlor Press Free Verse Editions

I wanted to direct your attention to two fine books by two fine poets:





Go to the FVE page for more info. Visit the Parlor Press Store to order. And there's another one from the 2007 series on the way from Dawn-Michelle Baude.

WORDS

words now.