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[garadinervi]

Will Alexander, Singing in the Magnetic Hoofbeat, Edited and with an introduction by Taylor Brady, Afterword by Andrew Joron, Essay Press, Ithaca, NY, 2012

[bostonpoetryslam]

If you’re going to speak, speak well. If you’re going to write, write well. Say something important.

Ruben Quesada, for On Poetics, Identity and Latinidad: CantoMundo Poets Speak Out

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IT'S YOUR NEW POETRY AND NONFICTION BESTSELLERS!!! Featuring Tupelo Press, Tres Chicas Books, Noemi Press, The Song Cave, The Operating System, Essay Press, A Midsummer Night's Press, A Strange Object, Aunt Lute Books, Black Lawrence Press, and many more! <3

[christineshanshanhou]

The Big Flawed Heart Poems after MiddlemarchKrystal Languell Hover your cursor over the embedded chapbook and press “Click to Read” to vie

I made the cover art for Krystal Languell’s chapbook, The Big Flawed Heart: Poems After Middlemarch, now available from Essay Press.

[carrieabigstick]

Last year the poet Brandon Shimoda sent me an email asking if there were any corpses in my poems / Last year I was a thief or a guest in a classroom @ FSU reading + being haunted by Virginia Woolf Djuna Barnes Famous Men / Last year I went on tour with my first book and it was painful / full of love / violence / Last year I wrote / touched the ghost + blood / I wrote "The Book of Repulsive Women" / which was selected by Lily Hoang for Essay Press' Chapbook Contest series / Thank you Essay Press for bringing my blooddevilflower to life / You can read it for free for free / Thank you Lily for the kind words I'm going to put below / Thank you Bob Lorig / my photographer father for taking and developing the photo of my mother which is the screaming Cover The Incredible Look I inherited and that burns + burns through me / because I am a luminous bitch / because I am here and unforgiving and writing and writing / a life.

"In the first incarnation of The Book of Repulsive Women, Djuna Barnes writes “[Her lips] bloom vivid and repulsive / As the truth.” 101 years later, Carrie Lorig has usurped Barnes’s title to expose the contemporary repulsive woman: she is a thinker, a feeler, a poet. She is intellectual emotion, relentlessly inquisitive and just plain brutal. She exclaims, “All reading is blood,” and the literature she reads is “So Polluted.” This text is blood, polluted with punctuation and form and accusative words that may as well be curses. And we are all accountable. Harkening to Barnes, Lorig declares “There is a Devil inside me / There is a Flower inside me,” and so we watch them both bloom and wilt and decay. We twist our faces in disgust at revelation; we squint against all that beauty." -Lily Hoang

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[catapultbooks]

Thursday, March 17 at 7 PM

Essay Press, Fence / Fence Books, Futurepoem, Nightboat Books, and Ugly Duckling Presse present a launch party in celebration of new books by: E. Tracy Grinnell Laura Sims Misha Pam Dick Simone White Stacy Szymaszek Free drinks and snacks will be served. Hosted by our friends at A Public Space. 323 Dean St, Brooklyn, NY 11217

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OCCUPY POETICS

Occupy Poetics click above to read this free chapbook curated by Thom Donovan for Essay Press!

In Occupy Poetics, Thom Donovan collects a series of responses to the Occupy movement to observe how aesthetics and politics might intersect—

with Brian Ang, Steve Benson, Ana Božičević, David Brazil, Brandon Brown, David Buuck, Anelise Chen, Stephen Collis, Lara Durback, Jackqueline Frost, Dan Thomas Glass, Evan Kennedy, Ben Kimnont, Lauren Levin, Richard Owens, Jennifer Scappettone, Suzanne Stein, Anna Vitale, Jeanine Webb, Kathy Westwater and Brian Whitener

Excerpt from Introduction from the Vital Forms (Poetics of Healing) Symposium:

“If formatting determines not just content, but how we gather, then exploring new modalities for participation is absolutely essential for change. Poets have complained ceaselessly about the fourth wall of the poetry reading as a genre. Certainly the People’s Mic offers one solution to this problem.”

OCCUPY POETICS was originally published on oikost