NEWS Archive

  • Brenda Iijima’s Glossematics, Thus is just out with Propolis Press’s Least Weasel Chapbooks series and can be purchased here. Jamie Townsend says: “In conversation with Jacques Derrida’s grammatology, Brenda Iijima’s exuberant Glossematics, Thus breaks open personal narrative to unravel the myriad global, political, biological, and economic resonances of any local event. Brimming over with a full presence of speech, the...

    New from Brenda Iijima: Glossematics, Thus

    Brenda Iijima’s Glossematics, Thus is just out with Propolis Press’s Least Weasel Chapbooks series and can be purchased here. Jamie Townsend says: “In conversation with Jacques Derrida’s grammatology, Brenda Iijima’s exuberant Glossematics, Thus breaks open personal narrative to unravel the myriad global, political, biological, and economic resonances of any local event. Brimming over with a full presence of speech, the...

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  • This coming Saturday, July 16th, j/j hastain will read from pleth’s work at Trident Booksellers and Cafe in Boulder, CO (940 Pearl St.). The event, which is hosted by Splitleaves, will begin at 7pm and feature — in addition to j/j hastain — Lark Fox, Julieanne Combest, and Danielle Vogul. The reading will be followed by an open discussion. This...

    j/j hastain in Boulder this Saturday!

    This coming Saturday, July 16th, j/j hastain will read from pleth’s work at Trident Booksellers and Cafe in Boulder, CO (940 Pearl St.). The event, which is hosted by Splitleaves, will begin at 7pm and feature — in addition to j/j hastain — Lark Fox, Julieanne Combest, and Danielle Vogul. The reading will be followed by an open discussion. This...

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  • A Partial Handbook for Navigators — poems & prose One hundred books were assembled and hand bound in-house at Interbirth Books using a traditional Coptic stitch. Fifty books are numbered and signed by the author. This harcover edition includes a removable screen-printed wrap by Clifton Riley and cover art by Amy Trachtenberg. 47 pages — 6 in. x 6 in....

    SOLD OUT!!! ~ Mary Burger’s *A Partial Handbook for Navigators*

    A Partial Handbook for Navigators — poems & prose One hundred books were assembled and hand bound in-house at Interbirth Books using a traditional Coptic stitch. Fifty books are numbered and signed by the author. This harcover edition includes a removable screen-printed wrap by Clifton Riley and cover art by Amy Trachtenberg. 47 pages — 6 in. x 6 in....

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  • The amazingly prolific j/j hastain has a new collection out from Rebel Sotori Press called our bodies are beauty inducers. The book can be purchased here. Reed Bye says: “Study and ceremony: a voyage through the inner and outer rings of eros as way into the depth and intensity of what is called love. First, the orgasmic lift to primordial...

    New from j/j hastain: our bodies are beauty inducers

    The amazingly prolific j/j hastain has a new collection out from Rebel Sotori Press called our bodies are beauty inducers. The book can be purchased here. Reed Bye says: “Study and ceremony: a voyage through the inner and outer rings of eros as way into the depth and intensity of what is called love. First, the orgasmic lift to primordial...

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  • Micah Robbins’s slim collection of poetry Crass Songs of Sand & Brine was recently reviewed by j/j hastain and Benjamin Winkler on their new review site Inherent Fracture. Winkler and hastain have also reviewed Sarah Rose Etter’s Tongue Party and will be reviewing works by Brenda Iijima and David Hadbawnik in the near future. Inherent Fracture is an exciting collaborative...

    Review of Micah Robbins’s Crass Songs of Sand & Brine

    Micah Robbins’s slim collection of poetry Crass Songs of Sand & Brine was recently reviewed by j/j hastain and Benjamin Winkler on their new review site Inherent Fracture. Winkler and hastain have also reviewed Sarah Rose Etter’s Tongue Party and will be reviewing works by Brenda Iijima and David Hadbawnik in the near future. Inherent Fracture is an exciting collaborative...

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  • »SOUS LES PAVÉS« no. 4 is now available & features work by: Brooks Johnson Rodrigo Toscano Emily Critchley William Fuller Linh Dinh Roberto Harrison John Beer Tyrone Williams Tim Atkins j/j hastain Jerome Rothenberg Hoa Nguyen Mary Burger Sotere Torregian The Rejection Group Brenda Iijima Micah Robbins Edmond Caldwell Frances Kruk Warren Craghead »SOUS LES PAVÉS« is a quarterly zine...

    Now Available: »SOUS LES PAVÉS« IV

    »SOUS LES PAVÉS« no. 4 is now available & features work by: Brooks Johnson Rodrigo Toscano Emily Critchley William Fuller Linh Dinh Roberto Harrison John Beer Tyrone Williams Tim Atkins j/j hastain Jerome Rothenberg Hoa Nguyen Mary Burger Sotere Torregian The Rejection Group Brenda Iijima Micah Robbins Edmond Caldwell Frances Kruk Warren Craghead »SOUS LES PAVÉS« is a quarterly zine...

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  • Kristin Prevallet, David Hadbawnik, and Micah Robbins will be reading from their work this Thursday at Unnamable Books (600 Vanderbilt Ave. between Dean St. & St. Marks Ave.) in Brooklyn, NY. The event is hosted by Brenda Iijima and begins at 7:30pm. If you’re in the city or nearby, please join us for what is sure to be a memorable...

    Kristin Prevallet, David Hadbawnik, and Micah Robbins in Brooklyn

    Kristin Prevallet, David Hadbawnik, and Micah Robbins will be reading from their work this Thursday at Unnamable Books (600 Vanderbilt Ave. between Dean St. & St. Marks Ave.) in Brooklyn, NY. The event is hosted by Brenda Iijima and begins at 7:30pm. If you’re in the city or nearby, please join us for what is sure to be a memorable...

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  • A big congratulations to j/j hastain, whose chapbook extant shamanisms has been announced as the winner of Pavement Saw Press’ 2010-2011 Chapbook Award! j/j joins an impressive list of past winners and—in addition to winning a cash prize and a contract from Pavement Saw for a second chapbook—will see the new chap produced in an edition of 400+ copies. This...

    j/j hastain wins the Pavement Saw Chapbook Award!

    A big congratulations to j/j hastain, whose chapbook extant shamanisms has been announced as the winner of Pavement Saw Press’ 2010-2011 Chapbook Award! j/j joins an impressive list of past winners and—in addition to winning a cash prize and a contract from Pavement Saw for a second chapbook—will see the new chap produced in an edition of 400+ copies. This...

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  • David Hadbawnik’s new book, Field Work: Notes, Songs, Poems 1997-2010, has just been released from BlazeVOX [books] and can be purchased here. Field Work is an astonishing book packed with surprises, fresh from start to finish. Well worth getting your hands on, especially at the discounted price of $10.00! Kevin Killian says: “In San Francisco, Austin and Buffalo a chiel’s...

    New from David Hadbawnik: Field Work-Notes, Songs, Poems 1997-2010

    David Hadbawnik’s new book, Field Work: Notes, Songs, Poems 1997-2010, has just been released from BlazeVOX [books] and can be purchased here. Field Work is an astonishing book packed with surprises, fresh from start to finish. Well worth getting your hands on, especially at the discounted price of $10.00! Kevin Killian says: “In San Francisco, Austin and Buffalo a chiel’s...

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  • j/j hastain’s most recent full-length collection of poetry, Prurient Anarchic Omnibus, has just been released by Spuyten Duyvil Press and can be purchased here. Anne Waldman says: “A work of rich clear sensual language, of ‘thermal tremble and juice,’ these poems and photos pull the weaver’s threads together, bring focus to ‘wherein we can be a root to the sea.’...

    New from j/j hastain: Prurient Anarchic Omnibus

    j/j hastain’s most recent full-length collection of poetry, Prurient Anarchic Omnibus, has just been released by Spuyten Duyvil Press and can be purchased here. Anne Waldman says: “A work of rich clear sensual language, of ‘thermal tremble and juice,’ these poems and photos pull the weaver’s threads together, bring focus to ‘wherein we can be a root to the sea.’...

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