The airconditioning is killing me but im learning how to love you spellcheck machine; is it ok to cut you into cute curtlets of bitesize according to/appropriate for my baby mouth bc I’m cold & sad & at loss what to say & fun size is bitesize & im aroused & you are a size zero

-Ji yoon Lee, from FunSize&BiteSize

Photos from the wonderful JD Scott, who along w/ Carina Finn ran our table at chapfest today. The festival continues tomorrow so stop by for chapbooks, readings and panels!

Tomorrow begins two days of chapbook madness at the CUNY Chapbook Festival! BoL authors present and forthcoming will be hustling at the Birds of Lace table on Friday and Saturday, so be sure to stop by and say hello and maybe buy a chapbook. More info on the festival here.

JD Scott, whose Funerals & Thrones is forthcoming from BoL, is reading in NYC twice in the next week: Saturday night at Warhol Factory Poetry Brothel event (more info here) and Monday evening at d.b.a. East Village (more info here).

You read and loved Carina Finn’s My Life is a Movie so you probably want to back the Kickstarter that Coimpress has going which will publish her first full-length, Lemonworld, as well as Holms Troelstrup’s Within Mutiny. 

Carrie Murphy has poems in the new issue of H_NGM_AN!

Sam Cohen, author of the forthcoming BoL chapbook Gossip, has work in the new issue of outward from nothingness!

30 x Lace is over and it was SO FUN. You can read all 30 poems here for all eternity or until the internet breaks.

The last two days of 30 x Lace feature none other than forthcoming BoL chapbook authors Anne Marie Rooney & JD Scott! Curating with Carrie Murphy has been a truly wonderful time- thank you to everyone who let us feature their poetry as well as all enthusiastic readers!

Today is also the last day to order any BoL poetry title for only $3- visit the shop.

If you’re in NYC this weekend, do visit BoL at the annual CUNY Chapbook Festival! JD Scott and Carina Finn will be tabling for us, and there are readings and panels throughout the day as well; visit the website for more information.

Who did the past five days behold for you at 30 x Lace? Well: Mark Cugini, Becca Klaver, Adam Robinson, Yael Kropsky, Debbie Hu and today, Joseph Donahue.

Much to my dismay, there are only 2 days left of National Poetry Month, but it’s a good time to go back and read all these wildly varying yet roundly excellent poems as we dive into our final two!

xo

Carrie Hunter’s Inversion Twilight is now available for purchase! Buy during the month of April for only $3!

Have you ever met a poem that was staccato and smooth all at once? Inversion Twilight is a whole collection of that, as if science were measured by daydreams or the abstract waft of ether. Like Carrie writes: “Naked process, a divided intensity.” 

Carrie Hunter received her MFA/MA in the Poetics program at New College of California, and edits the chapbook press, ypolita press. She has published chapbooks with Cy Gist Press, Dusie, Arrow as Aarow, and Lew Gallery Editions. Her full-length collection, The Incompossible, was published in 2011 by Black Radish Books. Other work has recently appeared in NAP, Metazen, Delirious Hem, and Amerarcana. She lives in San Francisco.

an excerpt:

protoclasses’ permeability

Earth decoded 
installs tangential 
Zarathustra. 

Sour chance in a billion, it
would have been seedier. 

Don’t eat what hurts you. 

Vertigo specters gesture darkness. 
Where the piano takes us. 
Thought I was escaping but I didn’t. 

Equivocal grotesque. Canvas 
penetrates the secret. 

Nativity’s fascism.

But Santa. Avalanches. Bloated 
pile of worms. Coat the banners 
blithely. 

Bliss enmeshed 
              in compost.

I want to abandon writing to look at maps. 

Tokens reverse structure. 
Feeling shame on Christopher Street.

Not the right point on the dial, 
but maybe a better point.

April 19-22 at 30 x Lace featured Fred Moten, Robert Allen Wendeborn, Kimberly Ann Southwick and Niina Pollari. There are eight more days of poetry month and they will be filled with as many more most excellent poems & poetry recommendations <3

Over at 30 x Lace we have been thrilled to feature Magdalena Zurawski, Lightsey Darst and Carina Finn over the past three days, respectively. Twelve more days of poets ahead! & don’t forget that we’re selling all poetry titles at $3 (instead of regular $5) for the entirety of April at the shop. Next week Carrie Hunter’s Inversion Twilight will go on sale and that too will be $3! So keep ‘em peeled.

xo

April 10-15 at 30 x Lace featured Jason Fritz Michael, Kima Jones, Kristen Stone, Lisa Marie Basile, Ken Taylor and Ocean Vuong- yes!  And still 15 more days of poetry to come!

Don’t forget: for the whole month of April all our poetry titles are only $3. And coming in the last week of April will be Carrie Hunter‘s Inversion Twilight!

Carrie Murphy is reading in DC on 4/29; more details here.

Carina Finn covers Fleetwood Mac here and is featured at VIDA here.

The final installment of Delirious Hem’s Women Publishers roundtable, featuring BoL as well as presses we love, is here.

xox