Listen to ‘Fetish’

As a pre-order gift for Jason Helm’s Fetish BoL created a cd of Helm reading the chapbook in its entirety; our friend Brother Bramm added a spooky sonic soundscape. Now you can take a listen too!

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Jason Helm’s ‘Fetish’ now available for pre-order!

Today our first chapbook of 2012, Jason Helm’s Fetish, is available for pre-order!

Fetish is a story about roommates, sex, violence, empathy, fear, desire, hustling, porn, compassion, kindness, disgust, and survival. It is also a story about a fetish. Jason Helm writes beautiful, finely-tuned prose sharpened with the rangy knife of reality, bitten to shards by the sweetnesses we manage to pull from within us in the most gnarled of times.

Your pre-order of Fetish also gets you a CD of Jason Helm reading the entirety of the chapbook, with background spooky soundscapes by Brother Bramm and a one-of-a-kind, collaged slipcover.

Read an excerpt and order from the Birds of Lace etsy shop here

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Giant BoL-related News Update

It has been far too long since I’ve posted, so there is quite a bit of news to share.

First, I’m excited to announce that our first publication of 2012 will be Jason Helm’s chapbook Fetish. I was lucky enough to hear Jason read this story at the release party for Rohin Guha’s Relief Work earlier this year; I loved the story then and can’t wait to unleash it upon the world, soon.

Birds of Lace authors have been up to quite a bit in the past few months. Here are some links to a few of those endeavors:

- Meet the Lavenders author Carrie Murphy had some poems published in NAP Magazine, which can be read here. She also has a poem up over at Story Bought Dress which can be read here. Additionally, Carrie is an excellent cook, and her food blog Plums in the Icebox is full of wonderful recipes, and even more of those recipes are available via Carrie’s posts over at Hello Giggles. In the most exciting C.M.-related news of all, her first full-length book of poems, Pretty Tilt, will be published by Keyhole Press in 2012!

-Relief Work author Rohin Guha has been making videos of his lovely self reading Courtney Stodden’s tweets. (If you are unaware of who Courtney Stodden is, a quick google search will illuminate.) Those videos are compiled here for your viewing pleasure.

-Fabulous Essential author Niina Pollari’s newest & beautiful chapbook, Book Four, is now available from Hyacinth Girl Press here.

-Perhaps a Girl Elsewhere author Adam Strauss has a poem up in the new issue of Smoking Glue Gun here.

-The Birdwisher author Anna Joy Springer has work up at Joyland here.

-BoL is having a holiday sale: seven chapbooks PLUS The Birdwisher for only $20! Available at the etsy shop here.

-Lastly but not leastly, Birds of Lace created a limited-edition (of 30) catalog for Matt Momchilov’s recent show They Really Want You at Unspeakable Projects Gallery in San Francisco, CA. The catalog features writing in response to the pieces in Momchilov’s show by Niina Pollari, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Rohin Guha, Kate Durbin, Mike Kitchell, Leon Baham, and Ben Fama. The catalog also includes a mix cd of music chosen to accompany the art, as well as a one-of-a-kind polaroid of a sculpture from the show; a few copies will be available later in the month for purchase through the Birds of Lace etsy store.

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