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The tax year…
…is almost over. Donations to Rose Metal Press are tax deductible, and our 2012 subscription and support drive is now under way. Think about it. Then, head over here and contribute; any and all amounts are helpful and welcome. Also? If you partner with us, the “current progress toward our goal” number will go up. [...]
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Last night at the Gage Gallery…
…Christine Sneed and I read to this audience in the Roosevelt University Visiting Writers Series–to my delight, some of them got really into having their picture taken… ….and some of them got meta, taking a picture of me taking their picture: You can’t tell from the photo below, but Christine read from her forthcoming novel [...]
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Purchase your own Louisiana Purchase.
The Louisiana Purchase by Jim Goar, that is, the latest title from Rose Metal Press, pictured here fresh out of the mail–note the French flaps: “Gracefully athletic and soulfully centered, The Louisiana Purchase slides into us bearing an olive branch as its red bird Brock. Always open, ‘never locked,’ Goar’s season on earth contains all the [...]
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Chicago Book Expo: Day One
So the inside of the former Borders location where fifty percent of this weekend’s Chicago Book Expo is taking place looks like an interior from post-apocalyptic zombie movie–if in such a movie the terrified populace raided chain bookstores instead of super-markets. See? The difference between such a movie and real life, of course, is that [...]
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The Chicago Book Expo…
…is happening this weekend in Uptown. The Preface Reading Series begins this Wednesday evening and the Expo itself will take place this Saturday the 19 and Sunday the 20 in the Goldblatt Building, the former location of Borders Books at 4720 N. Broadway. A full list of the over 40 Chicago-based publishers–including Rose Metal Press–who [...]
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Very Moody III
Yesterday the Reading Poetry presentations concluded, and they concluded with moodboards on The Hounds of No by Lara Glenum… ….and Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith… …and last but not least, The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees: Thank you to everyone for doing such good work, and especially to the last presenters for teaching me that [...]
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The People Rule…
…is the state motto of Arkansas, and the people that Abby and I met at Hendrix College in Conway certainly did. We presented on Rose Metal Press and independent publishing in the Murphy House, whose lobby was pretty and had a sort of chandelier with metal birds perched all over it: Please see the Rose [...]
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Very Moody Part II
The Reading Poetry presentations at DePaul continued today, and the moodboards continued to be excellent, including this one on The Dream Songs by John Berryman… …this one on How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic by Peter Jay Shippy… …this one on Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson… …and this one on Nothing Happened [...]
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The first five poems requested today…
…at Poems While You Wait at Dose Market… ….were “about”: 1. Freshness 2. Happy 3. Chocolate 4. Reading, and 5. School. And then we– me, Eric Plattner, and Dave Landsberger (L-R), pictured here on our lunchbreak by the Chicago River–wrote 58 more poems after that. Thanks, Dose Market, for letting Poems While You Wait be today’s [...]
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Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon.