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Atlas of Negotiable Trajectories
Zosia Rose Wiatr
14pgs
4.5 Inches Wide by 6.75 Inches tall
$6
After a bit of a hiatus, Couch Press is happy to announce its ninth publication by wonderful Portland poet Zosia Wiatr!
Can be ordered straight from [email protected], or at the upcoming Publication Fair in the Cleaners at the Ace Hotel on Dec 13.
Or, if you’d rather, it will be in Portland bookstores soon (Powell’s, Daedalus Books, Reading Frenzy, and probably a few others).
Couch Press books (and CA co-edited Banqueted) on display at the Hawthorne Powell's.
Banqueted Release Reading!! February 14 7pm @ The IPRC
Very excited to announce the release of Issue One of Banqueted, a Portland based poetry magazine that will feature readings from the wonderful and amazing
Stacey Tran, Sam Lohmann, and James Yeary
and music from Dragging an Ox Through Water (dragginganox.bandcamp.com)
Banqueted is edited by Paul Maziar and Chris Ashby, and the first issue is hot off the press!
Would love for you to join us and spend your Valentine's Day evening having a drink while enjoying poetry and music amongst friends.
Here is the magazine in a completed state! The book is perfect bound by hand at the IPRC, the dust jackets are letterpressed, and the book inside the dust jacket is stamped. The stamped versions vary some (most are modest). Very excited for the release reading Saturday night!
Dream Salon Release! January 17, 7pm Mother Foucault's Bookshop
Couch Press is very excited to announce the release of issue 1 of Dream Salon, a journal of poetics featuring longer works from the amazing James Yeary, Allison Cobb, and Jordan Dunn. All three will read and books will be available. Please join us!
Laura Moriarty's Couch Press book just came out today! Amazingly I get to read with her and David Abel in Oakland tonight.
From "Words That" by J.A. Lee Great example of the one line poem from a wonderful book.
Day Use Area
by Sam Lohmann
36 Pages
$10
April 2014
Sam Lohmann’s new chapbook from Couch Press, Day Use Area, gathers poems from the past four years, mostly about movies, music, capitalism, weather, friendship, detectives, and the undead.
 Lohmann’s poems fizz and burn like soda in summer. His images are gauzy and specific as a tack, mood all frisky pastoral under Big Data’s shadow and acid rain sprays. “A wreath of nettles in your hair/To mollify your curls,” a “quattrocento Vespa” to zip down the whorls of the now.
                                        —Rodney Koeneke
Release Day for Sam's book!
MY DAY and Couch Press present a Double Book Release:
My Day #27 Hoyt Arboretum by Nate Orton and Chris Ashby (Abandoned Bike)
Day Use Area by Sam Lohmann (Couch Press)
 April 6
7:30 PM
 Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC)
1001 SE Division St.
 Please join visual artist Nate Orton, and poets Chris Ashby and James Yeary for the recent releases of the long running series MY DAY. This celebration will include a performance of #27 Hoyt Arboretum and #25 East PDX to 82nd, incorporating live drawing and readings of the books.
 MY DAY started with Nate Orton after he moved to Portland from rural Idaho a decade ago. He was frustrated with how large his new city felt to him, as he was familiar with every square inch of his previous town. He figured creating a visual catalog of Xeroxed ink drawings of places and events throughout Portland would help him become acclimated to the city. It worked. MY DAY on the MAX was completed as an edition of 35 copies and sold in local book stores and during his gallery shows.
Later, Idahoan, longtime friend and collaborator, Chris Ashby joined to write for MY DAY on the Burnside Bridge and MY DAY at the Lloyd Center adding a collaborative and specifically place based poetic to the project. Around this time yet another Idaho transplant, friend and writer, James Yeary joined to help create MY DAY at Chopsticks Karaoke Bar.
Later James and Nate decided to walk across the Portland metro in several legs and document the experience in installments. The first walk was across Gresham, the second across Portland, the third across Beaverton, and so on. The two have plans to reach the Pacific Ocean soon.
Nearly 30 issues later, Nate creates MY DAY books solo, with Chris, with James, or with Chris and James together. Over the years MY DAY has successfully evolved yet successfully stayed the same thanks to its core creative family, aesthetics, and ideals.
 Also, please join us for the release of Sam Lohmann's new chapbook from Couch Press, Day Use Area, which gathers poems from the past four years, mostly about movies, music, capitalism, weather, friendship, detectives, and the undead. Other recent publications are Unless As Stone Is (eth press, 2014), The Long Face (Editions Plane, 2013), and Stand on this picnic bench and look north (Publication Studio, 2011). Sam edits the poetry zine Peaches and Bats, and co-edits Airfoil chapbooks with David Abel. He lives in Portland with his family and works as a librarian.
 Nate Orton is a Visual Artist who regularly shows in commercial and university galleries across the West-coast. He is the creator of the long-running self-published book series MY DAY, a visual and literary chronicle of places in and around Portland, OR as well as the greater Northwest. Nate also teaches adult and youth drawing and printmaking at the Multnomah Arts Center.
 Chris Ashby is a poet, essayist, and musician. He is also the editor and publisher of Couch Press, which can be found at http://couchpress.tumblr.com. He frequently collaborates with Nate on his My DAY series, occasionally assisting in publishing the books and organizing events. His most recent books are the collaborative serial poem Who Killed My Chicken with James Yeary (Great Fainting Spells, 2013) and After Language: Volume 1 (Couch Press, 2013). Chris lives in Portland and works in the forests and grasslands of the western United States.
 James Yeary is the publisher of c_L books, which recently published Takeaway, a collaboration between Ted Greenwald and Kit Robinson. James is also the editor and distributor of an occasional monthly poetry newsletter, of which record can be found at creepoflight.com. He is a member of the Spare Room Collective. Hanks Loose Gravel published his 10th Spectral Cannon in Spring 2013.
We just got copies of the new chapbook Little Advantages by Paul Maziar, out on Chris Ashby’s Couch Press, and the entire Division Leap staff is reading it. Great stuff, one of my favorite books of Portland poetry this year. The book looks great as well, with wraparound cover art by Will Bruno. One of 90 numbered copies.  It can be ordered at the Division Leap website here. Â
Reading Notes from the Couch Press Release Reading
 by Sam Lohmann
 December 16, 2013
 The best souvenir that poets can get. Unexpected and exciting.
Little Advantages
 by Paul Maziar
 48 Pages
 $8
 December 2013
 Sometimes in Little Advantages it can be hard to tell what’s fact and what’s plausible fiction, and what’s great is that it’s not important to know. Often Paul Maziar gets us pleasantly lost in his ruminations that may begin on the horizon and end in ghosts, or as easily leave us with a doorman celebrating a completely surreal and commonplace evening in the mist, or may even re-introduce us to a melancholy Orpheus. There are “Saturday Nights” you can’t forget even if you wanted to, but of course those are the ones best remembered, as Paul well knows. These poems are universes with complete worlds and in their images the world is finally made strange again. Funny, insightful, and occasionally dark, Paul catches those seemingly normal and routine moments of social life and plants them squarely on the page in remarkable lights. The fold over cover is made with a painting by Will Bruno.
After Language
 Volume 1:
 The Apocalypse Came and No One Noticed
 by Chris Ashby
 46 pages
 $9
 November 2013
 After Language Volume 1 begins a tripartite sequence exploring the possibilities and consequences of reading and living in a tangible and digital world. Composed of fourteen poem sequences each beginning with a question or statement. Epistemological in concern and prompt, Volume 1 is a response in cut, paste, song, and serial. What if the apocalypse had come and we’d missed it? It wouldn’t be that strange. What if poetry came, and we couldn’t recognize it? Cover designed by James Yeary.
The Return
 by Chris Ashby.
 31 pages
 $6
 January 2013
 "Full of discoveries of high intellect, and thoughtful poems comprised of field notes, memoir fragments and para-philosophies, Chris Ashby’s The Return is a serial poem (Volume II of the three volume After Language) that reads like a book of magic cum literary instruction manual. Nay, a re-imagining manual, wherein one learns the ways of sight-by-language, hypnosis-by-trees, how to get lost, the cause of the rib-shake, and slowness. In his lines and colorful chunks of poetry joyously united with his physical environment, Ashby takes us along on turns and returns, with meaningful new views of the world we’re living in today. With a commitment to community and the environment, Chris Ashby’s work is rooted in the Greats, but bravely and artfully remains in the now. The Return’s cover was designed by; with an illustration by Portland artist Nate Orton.”
               -Paul Maziar
Dawn’s Erasure (1)
 by James Yeary
 16 Pages
 $6
 February 2013
 A Rorschach induced re-imagining of Jackson Mac Low’s Words nd Ends From Ez, itself a writing through of Ezra Pound’s The Cantos. Yeary’s first installment of his serial poem is both hallucinatory and rooted in the hyper-real streets of Idaho and forests of Oregon. The cover and back images are by Robert Tomlinson.
What it is
 Couch Press is based out of Portland, OR. The first publication came in January 2012. The second followed in January 2013 when the press was named in celebration of a decision to begin publishing poetry “chapbooks” and future full lengths. To date the press has published four books, whose descriptions will follow. Couch publishes poetry, or work that could fit under the description of poetry, as well as work that engages poetics, or may even be poetics. The books are made in a variety of places in Portland; the Independent Publishing Resource Center, the editor’s home, and various other print oriented businesses. The books are made using as much second hand paper as is possible for sustainable and aesthetic reasons. The covers of the books use work from local Oregon artists, and are designed by the editor, with the artists and poets’ assistance. The books are made in small batches, 60-90 a printing, are hand folded, sewn, numbered, and are sold at many fine Portland independent booksellers. They are also available from the editor, Chris Ashby. You can contact him at [email protected] and request a book or books. Depending on your location, they may be delivered in person, or by mail.
