BRENT AND LAURA OF SPD WILL BE BLOGGING LIVE FROM AWP AND IT'S ALREADY EXCITING BELIEVE IT.

I stand so tall and my eyes are blue (I think).
I'll be at AWP in the Bookfair helping out Omnidawn Press and Small Press Distribution.
I would like to say hello.

S P R I N G 2 0 0 8 I S S U E 2 1

rabbit light movies
episode #6
ana bozicevic-bowling | jason bredle | nicole burgund | julia cohen & mathias svalina | christian hawkey | j.w. marshall | kristi maxwell | joyelle mcsweeney | robyn schiff | dana ward

SPD's December 07 best-sellers in this
Sunday's New York Times Book Review

1. Sleeping and Waking by Michael O’Brien (Flood Editions)
2. This Is What Happened in Our Other Life by Achy Obejas (Midsummer Night’s Press)
3. Necessary Stranger by Graham Foust (Flood Editions)
4. You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am by Tao Lin (Action Books)
5. Eulogies by Amiri Baraka (Agincourt)
6. The Line by Jennifer Moxley (Post-Apollo)
7. Case Sensitive by Kate Greenstreet (Ahsahta)
8. The View From Zero Bridge by Lynn Aarti Chandhok (Anhinga)
9. Newcomer Can’t Swim by Renee Gladman (Kelsey Street)
10. Lip Wolf by Laura Solorzano (Action Books)

(www.spdbooks.org)

RAIN TAXI ONLINE EDITION: WINTER 2007/2008, PART 2

NEW!
Dolores Dorantes
Heidi Lynn Staples
Kerry Shawn Keys
usw.

UNNAMEABLE BOOKS

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THIS SUNDAY AT 5PM ● ALEKSANDER SKIDAN
MATVEI YANKELEVICH reading DANIIL KHARMS

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$119,930

Karen J. Weyant
D. Antwan Stewart
Jay Robinson
Anthony Robinson
Jayne Pupek
Natt Pitts
Gary L. McDowell
Louise Mathias
Joseph Mains
Tim Lockridge
Rose Kelleher
Brent Goodman
Elisa Gabbert
Adam Fieled
Mackenzie Carignan
Jeff Calhoun

My neighbor Kenneth Stanley keeps me from leaving the house earlier today.

Why I can't leave the house.

I'll be at AWP.

LOGAN RYAN SMITH and HILLARY GRAVENDYK TONIGHT.

Watched Baby Doll last night (not here: here).

Whoa.

SEXIEST POEM OF 2007

off-site

coconut eleven

Liz Waldner, Carla Harryman, Dorothea Lasky, Chris Pusateri, Peter Davis, Melissa Benham, Amber Nelson, Kismet Al-Hussaini, Kathleen Rooney & Elisa Gabbert, Anna Fulford, Marco Giovenale, Michael Sikkema, Sun Yung Shin, Maureen Thorson, Jordan Davis, Mara Vahratian, Philip Metres, Janet Holmes, Fritz Ward, Susan Scarlata, Jeni Olin, Jon Link, and Rebecca Hazelton

Simon Plunkett Tost

Ron Silliman talks about Hooke Press's Interview with Robert Creeley this morning.

Vale Tudo
Sommer Browning
Horse Less Press

I may do a Clay's Picks for Your Rebate. Maybe not, as time is pitiless. Also, of course, things said to might happen might not. I feel certain I belong to the spend-it-immediately income group, and I have, I think, a notable record injecting my money. As I tell my students, every breath counts.

Das Artefakt springt wieder!
ARTIFACT RETURNS.

Many friends' old and older birthdays yesterday, today, and tomorrow. I CAKE YOU, YOU GOATS.

Time for a picture!

See this and this: where's Graham Foust?

INTERBIRTH BOOKS

DAISY FRIED

Catching up on John Latta's notes on Mark Scroggins's "ever-terrific and beauteously-writ" The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007).

SALTGRASS ISSUE 2

NEW ACTION BOOKS

THAUMATROPE
BRENT HENDRICKS

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PORT TRAKL PUERTO TRAKL
JAMIE LUIS HUENÚN
TRANSLATED BY DANIEL BORZUTZKY

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MOMMY MUST BE A FOUNTAIN OF FEATHERS
KIM HYESOON
TRANSLATED BY DON MEE CHOI

the true keeps calm biding its story

Rusty Morrison

Selected for the 2007 Sawtooth Poetry Prize by Peter Gizzi

AHSAHTA PRESS

open thread

Poets Theater: An Evening of Short Plays

Friday, January 18, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Small Press Traffic

• “The Obituary Show” by CA Conrad
• “Olive Oil from the Notebooks, a radio film” by Arnold J. Kemp
• Hannah Weiner’s “RJ (Romeo and Juliet)” from CODE POEMS, directed by Suzanne Stein
• “Up in Arms: an Oratorio at Tense Borders” by Mary Diaz
• “a fierce vexation of a dream” by sara m. larsen
• “Yoda in His Youth” by Dana Ward
• plus a new play by Mairéad Byrne and more surprises!

Tomaž Šalamun

court green 5

Exists. If not yet virtually, definitely materially.

Pernold Young phones. At first I can't hear her because my phone is blue and it's broken. I cough, which helps. "Yes?"

this saturday

PIRATE PIG PRESS
Readings of prose poems and stories by
Claire Becker, Sarah McKinnon,
Matthew Thomas Russell,
Dan Sanders, Ammon Torrence,
and Just Kibbe

Stunning! We eat our peas!

Linh Dinh newly at PennSound.

A New Quarantine Will Take My Place

To be hoped: Mission Control has Apostrophe Books' website back up and virtually real again soon.

Keep your eyes out for Johannes Göransson's imminent A New Quarantine Will Take My Place.

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UPDATE 1/14: Book is real, page awaits.

While I don't want to alienate any intellectuals, something like what used to be called poetry is happening.

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PEGASUS BOOKS DOWNTOWN'S
BEST-SELLING POETRY BOOKS OF 2007
(DON'T BLAME ME; BLAME YOU.)

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1. Telegraph by Kaya Oakes (Pavement Saw Press)


2. Green and Gray by Geoffrey G. O'Brien (University of California Press)


3. An Architecture by Chad Sweeney (BlazeVOX [books])


4. Necessary Stranger by Graham Foust (Flood Editions)


5. Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing eds. Catherine Wagner & Rebecca Wolff (Fence Books)


6. The Pocket Rumi Reader ed. Kabir Helminski (Shambhala)


7. Hipster Haiku by Siobhan Adcock (Broadway)
   case sensitive by Kate Greenstreet (Ahsahta)
   New and Selected Poems: Volume One by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
   New and Selected Poems: Volume Two by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)


8. Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass (Ecco Press)
   The Record Room by Jeff T. Johnson (privately published)
   Angle of Yaw by Ben Lerner (Copper Canyon Press)
   The Transformation by Juliana Spahr (Atelos)


9. you are a little bit happier than I am by Tao Lin (Action Books)
   The Men by Lisa Robertson (BookThug)


10. Your Time Has Come by Joshua Beckman (Wave Books)
    The Weather by Lisa Robertson (New Star Books)


11. Actual Air by David Berman (Open City)
    Borderless Bodies by Linh Dinh (Factory School)
    The Cry at Zero by Andrew Joron (Counterpath Press)
    AWE by Dorothea Lasky (Wave Books)
    Loveliest Grotesque by Sandra Lim (Kore Press)
    The Line by Jennifer Moxley (The Post-Apollo Press)
    American Poets in the 21st Century eds. Claudia Rankine & Lisa Sewell (Wesleyan University Press)
    The Apothecary by Lisa Robertson (BookThug)
    Hannah Weiner's Open House by Hannah Weiner (Kenning Editions)


12. jam alerts by Linh Dinh (Chax Press)
    The Gift by Hafiz (Penguin)
    Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky (Tupelo Press)
    Bad Bad by Chelsey Minnis (Fence Books)


13. Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen (Ecco Press)
    The Essential Neruda by Pablo Neruda (City Lights Publishers)
    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda (Penguin)


14. Starsdown by Jasper Bernes (In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni)
    Neo-Surrealism; or, the Sun at Night by Andrew Joron (Black Square Editions)
    Broken World by Joseph Lease (Coffee House Press)
    Tonight's the Night by Catherine Meng (Apostrophe Books)
    I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone by Anna Moschovakis (Turtle Point Press)
    The Middle Room by Jennifer Moxley (Subpress)
    Thirst by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
    The Man Suit by Zachary Schomburg (Black Ocean)
    Deed by Rod Smith (University of Iowa Press)

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