Octopus 13 Is Now Online

1. Octopus 13 is Now Online
2. April Reading Period for Full-Length Manuscripts
3. Heather Christle & Matvei Yankelevich will be reading at AWP
4. Octopus Books at the AWP Book Fair
5. New Octopus Books Site Coming Soon


1. Octopus 13 is now online

http://octopusmagazine.com

Featuring poetry by

Sawako Nakayasu
Daniel Lin
Julie Carr
José Díaz
Chanel Clarke
Cherise Bacalski
Tim Van Dyke
Ayane Kawata
translated by Sawako Nakayasu

Kristin Sanders
Jenny Zhang
Cathy Linh Che
Justin Marks
Jon Leon
Christopher DeWeese
Natalie Lyalin
Alejandra Pizarnik
translated by Jason Stumpf

Bin Ramke
Bhanu Kapil
Lesley Yalen
Jonah Winter
Geoffrey Nutter
Claire Donato
Caroline Knox
Takako Arai
translated by Jeffrey Angles

Recovery Projects

Patrick Dunagan on John Clarke’s From Feathers to Iron: A Concourse of World Poetic
Harry Thorne on Carl Rakosi’s Ex-Cranium, Night
Nate Pritts on Larry Eigner’s Air the Trees
Jesse Lichtenstein on William Dickey’s Rivers of the Pacific Northwest
Nicholas Benson on Aldo Palazzeschi’s Arsonist
Robert Miltner on Haniel Long’s Pittsburgh Memoranda
Carlos Soto Román on George Perec
Joel Bettridge on Robert Service

Reviews

Seth Landman on Natalie Lyalin’s Pink and Hot Pink Habitat
Joshua Butts on Michael Rerick’s In Ways Impossible to Fold
Shane McCrae on Ish Klein’s Union!
Rebecca Farivar on Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip

Song-Reviews

Teal Gardner on Rene Char’s The Brittle Age & Returning Upland
Daniela Gesundheit on Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip
Anderson Reinkordt on Bhanu Kapil’s Humanimal


2. April Reading Period

Octopus Books will be reading full length manuscripts during the month of April. We will select two from this reading period to publish in 2011.

For more information & guidelines please go here: http://www.octopusbooks.net/submit.html.


3. Heather Christle & Matvei Yankelevich will be reading at AWP

With Wave Books, Canarium Books & Ugly Duckling Presse, Octopus Books will be hosting a reading during the AWP festivities on Thursday April 8th, 8-10pm at Benders Tavern, 314 East 13th Ave.

Octopus Books authors Heather Christle & Matvei Yankelevich will be reading, along with Dorothea Lasky, Geoffrey Nutter, John Beer, Paul Killebrew, Alex Stein & Dan Machlin.

You should attend.


4. Octopus Books will be part of the Table X Publishing Commune in the AWP Book Fair

We will be joining the following presses in the Table X Publishing Commune: Belladonna, Canarium Books, The Cupboard, H_NGM_N, Futurepoem, Leon Works, Les Figues Press, Litmus Press / Aufgabe, Lumberyard, Forklift Ohio, Poor Claudia, Sidebrow, Ugly Duckling Presse. You should stop by & say hello.


5. New Octopus Books site coming soon

Soon.

The original site is still up at http://www.octopusbooks.net.

Final Winter Adventure

J & I went to the mountains. To the Williams Fork Reservoir area.

Some of the views from where we were looked like this:





The trees were very good as well. Also, the trees had very good shadows.



D'Count liked the snow. In the car there & back, though, he drooled uncontrollably.




I would like to live in this shack:


We stayed in this cabin:



We drank some of this port:





Then on the way home we saw this:

Julia Cohen (& some other nerds) Tonight at Naropa (by nerds, I mean nice peoples)

Here in the Denver/Boulder/Colorado Springs area the grad programs get together & share grad student readings. One writer repping each school. The winner gets the drink the blood of the loser. The loser gets to drink some Orangina. So it's win-win.

Tonight it's at Naropa. Julia Cohen is reading. She is the most beautiful poet in the world.

4x4 Graduate Student Reading

Poet Alicia Montero will represent CU;
DU, Julia Cohen;
CSU, Adam Lozeau;
Naropa, Kelly Alsup

8pm
in the Performing Arts Center




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In other news 16 Cities Sue Manufacturer Of Atrazine Weed-Killer For Contaminating Drinking Water.

And Joshua Cohen's Bridge & Tunnel (& Tunnel & Bridge) is available from The Cupboard.

Not sure how those fit together.

Also, More New Yorkly: Yardmeter Vll hosts Trickhouse.org Volume 8

Yardmeter Vll hosts Trickhouse.org Volume 8

Trickhouse is an on-line quarterly curatorial project and national event series. Our mission is to serve as an environment for visual art, writing, sound, video, interviews, essays, and experiments. We are interested in the generative nature of collaboration and cross-pollination. www.trickhouse.org

Trickhouse vol. 8 and Yardmeter VII present:
A multimedia arts event

Saturday March 6th 7p.m.
Shelton Walsmith’s studio - 267 Douglass Street, Second Floor Brooklyn, NY

A one-night-only screening of a video mash-up of Trickhouse vol. 8 contributors:
- Visual art by Karni Dorell, Chuck Kelton, Dana Matthews and Leslie Sheryll
- Video readings by Julia Cohen, Craig Foltz, David McLendon, Mathias Svalina
- Sound and video composition + compilation by Eric Jordan

Also:
- Musical invention demonstration by Richard Upchurch
- Visual art installation by Karni Dorell, Chuck Kelton and Dana Matthews,
- Artist's book by Jen Bervin
- Musical performance by Anna Perkins

see
http://yardmeter.blogspot.com/

Small Press Festival: UC Boulder, Tomorrow & Saturday

Friday:

9:30-11:00 Publisher's Round Table: Making Culture/Transforming Culture
With publisher's of Verse, Counterpath, Ponzipo, Rain Taxi, The Poetry Foundation
OLD MAIN AUDITORIUM

11:30-1 Restraint/Freedom: The History and Present of Procedural Writing
Warren F. Motte, Carol Snow, Gillian Conoley, Janet Holmes
OLD MAIN AUDITORIUM

2:30-4 Niche Publishing: Why we do what we do
Ugly Duckling, Underland Press, and Dalkey Archive
ATLAS 100

4:30-6 Publishers read from their lists
Tim Roberts (Counterpath), Victoria Blake (Underland), Eric Baus (for Octopus)
ATLAS 100

8-10 READING
Gillian Conoley (poetry), Jeremy M. Davies (fiction), Andrew Zawacki (poetry)


Saturday

10:15-1 Publishing Beyond the Book: Street and Screen
With Christine Hume, Lori Emerson, Mathias Svalina and
Eric Lorberer on John Ashbery
BRITISH AND IRISH STUDIES ROOM NORLIN LIBRARY FIFTH FLOOR

BOOK FAIR!!!! and CATERED LUNCH
1-2:30 (Bring money for books!)
BRITISH AND IRISH STUDIES ROOM NORLIN LIBRARY FIFTH FLOOR

3-4:30 Subito Press Contest Winners
Tracy DiBrincat (fiction), Stan Mir (poetry)
ATLAS 100

5-6:30 READING (poetry and sound)
Christine Hume, Eric Lorberer, Carol Snow, Anna Moschovakis
ATLAS 100

8-10 READING
Janet Holmes (poetry), Brian Henry (poetry), Travis Nichols (poetry and fiction)

Rejected

So I have some new poems coming out in Blackbird in the Fall, not that that is what I'm abloggin' about.

I just found out that they rejected the author photo i sent them.

I'm very sad about this.

This is the photo. I feel like it is me at my finest:

Some Stuff I've Been

Such a lovely week to be a poet. I had a great time in Cleveland, traveling redeyes & getting no sleep, hanging out with peeps I already knew & adored like Simone Muench & Michael Dumanis & meeting new peeps whom I now adore like Jason Koo & Imad Rahman.

I had the pleasure of meeting with some grad students & discussing their work. Hopefully I didn’t totally fuck up their poems. Or their lives, for that matter.




The reading itself was noteworthy not only for the quality of my co-readers but for being the first time that I’ve read to a crowd including about a hundred Korean-Americans of an approximate mean age of 55, most of whom had never attended a reading before. It made for some pretty awesome post-reading conversations, including one that went something like this:

Man in suit, with wife-in-fur in tow: I thought going to a poetry recital meant you had to fall asleep, but you were very entertaining.
Me: Thank you.
Man in suit, with wife-in-fur in tow: You made some funny jokes & made us feel very comfortable.
[Wife nodding vigorously]
Me: Thank you very much.

Maybe that was a bad example. The crowd was awesome, gracious & attentive. They were mostly there to support Jason Koo, who is himself a force. Check out his book Man on Extremely Small Island & also check out Simone’s newest book Orange Crush, which has that devastating series Orange Girls in it.

Read this interview with Jason Koo on Bookslut.






Then I got back into town & gave a reading to support the new online journal The Umbrella Factory, which goes live today. Oren put on a fun event at Fluid Coffee & I had the great honor of reading with total-ninja Julie Carr & reading with & meeting J. Michael Martinez.

If you don’t have Julie’s new book 100 Notes on Violence & you haven’t read it intently then you are not doing you work. Do you work. Order it here.

Michael’s book will be coming out soon from LSU press, so get it then or preorder it or whatever. It’ll make you melt into a better you. I promise.