22 APRIL 06
In the mail, contributor's copies of LIT and CutBank, both packed with terrific work; and two beautiful chapbooks, Adam Clay's Canoe (horseless press) and Maureen Thorson's The Spectacle of Meat (Big Game Books). Online, the new Coconut with printable chapbooks by Reb Livingston and Jenna Cardinale, I'm up at MiPOesias, and have you been following Joe Torra's "Up & Down at the Grolier" as it unfolds?
Also in the mailbox: the new journal Practice: New Art + Writing. You really have to look into this. If you send your address to info@practicejournal.com, the editors will mail you a free first issue. Practice publishes "poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and photography, as well as work that defies these genres." See their site for the full list of contributors to Issue One (including poets Janet Holmes, Cole Swensen, Graham Foust, Dan Beachy-Quick, Aaron McCollough, Rod Smith, Susan Tichy, G.C. Waldrep, and visual artists Anne Wilson, Paula McCartney, Karen Barbour) and to read about the goals of Practice Press (one of which is to provide "significant financial assistance annually to writers and artists"). Practice is currently reading for issue Two. And get this: each contributor is paid $200, plus 5 copies, and "fine loose-leaf tea." Oh yeah, simultaneous submissions are okay, and did I mention that the magazine is gorgeous?
If you're in the NYC area, The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel release party is today, Saturday, 2 pm, at the Frequency Series at the Four Faced Liar. And one final evening of inappropriate exploration happens tonight at the Flarf Festival, 8 pm, details here. The launch for Magazine Cypress 4, with readings by Brenda Iijima, Drew Gardner, Karen Weiser, and Matvel Yankelevich, is tomorrow at the Bowery Poetry Club, 5:30 pm.
On Wednesday I'll begin posting some responses to the age-old question: How has your first book changed your life?
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