Birds of Lace at AWP + news

Birds of Lace and Dancing Girl Press authors have teamed up to present you with a brunch-time affair (12:12pm) on Saturday March 9th. If you are in Boston and cold and in need of some entertaining & distinctly lacey literary stylings you may want to find yourself in a certain hotel suite to hear readings by:

Lisa Marie Basile
Stephanie Berger
Jeanine Deibel
Carina Finn 
Megan Milks 
Niina Polari
JD Scott
Nicole Steinberg
& Melinda Wilson

More information can be found here; there will be giveaways!  

Additionally, Jeanine Deibel will be giving an early debut for her BoL chapbook In the Grave at AWP (it will be out in our etsy store later this month). She’ll have copies on hand to sell and will be reading at the Queertopia off-site event on Thu. March 7th at Club Cafe in Boston; she will also be on the panel Teaching Mutt Lit: Genre-benders, Hybrids, and other Weirdness in the Creative Writing Classroom Saturday, March 9 in Room 202, Hynes Convention Center from 9:00am – 10:15am. 

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Other news:

-Carrie Murphy wrote this post on Bitch Magazine’s blog about Benjamin Percy and his pregnancy suit

-Niina Pollari’s translations of Tytti Heikkinen’s poems, The Warmth of the Taxidermied Animal, will be out at AWP from Action Books; read Danielle Pafunda’s thoughts on it at Montevidayo as well as some words on it by Joyelle McSweeney

-Megan Milks’ TWINS is now available at Chicago bookshops Quimby’s and Uncharted Books. There are also only 3 more copies left at our etsy store before it’s sold out forever!

-Issue #8 of Requited feats. work from Kristina Marie Darling as well as BoL favorite Gillian Cummings

-A few BoL authors filled out the Next Big Thing interview: Carrie Murphy, Rohin Guha, JD Scott (who writes about his forthcoming BoL chapbooks Funerals & Thrones) and Andrea Quinlan, who writes about her forthcoming BoL chapbook The Mysteries of Laura

-The Dictionary Project interviewed Anna Joy Springer

xo

 

 

Kristina Marie Darling’s ‘Footnotes to a History of the Victorian Novel’ on sale now!

Kristina Marie Darling’s gorgeous broadside/chapbook hybrid, Footnotes to a History of the Victorian Novel, is now available for purchase!

Footnotes to a History of the Victorian Novel is a poem in footnotes, wandering the ghosted halls of Victorian aesthetics in a spooky version of the whole story. This offering uses vintage wallpaper hand-sewn onto the pages with a tiny trinket and antique bobbin lace adorning the cover. All text is typed out on an IBM Selectric II typewriter. Footnotes can also be displayed as a poster on your wall, as it folds out accordian-style.

An excerpt:

5. In a little known version of the myth, Penelope realizes that her household has been usurped by the maids. Each disconcerted by her new posture. A chorus rising from their cool white throats.

Tidbits

Finery (#5) contributor Brooklyn Copeland wrote a lovely review of Adam Strauss’ Perhaps a Girl Elsewhere over at her blog. Thanks Brooklyn! You can purchase Perhaps a Girl Elsewhere here.

Soon I will be posting a call for submissions for Finery #8- finally!

You only have a week left to order Anna Joy Springer’s The Birdwisher at 30% off. Visit our etsy page to order & use the code “vicious” at checkout.

Next month will see the release of Kristina Marie Darling’s Footnotes to a History of the Victorian Novel, a limited-edition chapbook/broadside that makes use not only of elegant wordplay but also vintage wallpaper, tiny ornaments, an IBM Selctric II typewriter, soft pink paper and brightly colored thread. Shortly thereafter we will have two other brilliant releases to kick off summer, with Leon Baham’s spooky poetic essay based on The Outsiders, Ponyboy, Sigh and Carrie Murphy’s ode to ’60s girl groups, Meet the Lavenders, which will feature a cover and illustrations by Rhani Lee Remedes.

An interview w/Kristina Marie Darling

Another interview originally from Freshette; Kristina Marie Darling’s Footnotes to a History of the Victorian Novel is out next month from Birds of Lace:

I love writing prose poems about classical music, which can be found in e-chaps from BlazeVox Books and Gold Wake Press. New work is available or forthcoming in journals like Gargoyle, Cider Press Review, Miller’s Pond, Puffin Circus, and Pear Noir!. I’m also a poetry critic, and have reviews and essays appearing (or soon to appear) in Pleiades, Shenandoah, The Colorado Review, and The Gettysburg Review.

For me, the best part of the creative process is that it brings you into contact with other artistic people, so you’re constantly being exposed to new ideas. While most of the time I write alone, I find that learning about other people’s work is integral to my own process as a poet. There’s nothing more inspiring than seeing other writers flout the rules, revise literary traditions, or modernize old forms (like the sonnet, the ghazal, or the pantoum). For me, it’s great to be reminded of what’s possible in a poem.

I have this fear that every poem I write is going to be my last poem. I think part of that comes from stereotypes about artistic people, who supposedly sit around by themselves waiting for the inspiration to strike. When I start feeling like this, I try to remind myself that the best artists aren’t passive, and they certainly don’t work in isolation. Writing is like a conversation with other creative individuals, and there are as many ways to join in as there are people.

5 Recommendations:
1. Janus Head, a journal of interdisciplinary studies in continental philosophy, literature, phenomenological psychology, and art
2. Futurepoem Books, a fantastic publisher of experimental writing
3. Souvenirs of a Shrunken World, a book of prose poems by Holly Iglesias
4. Friend Among Stones, Maya Pindyck’s first book of poems
5. Night is a Good Child, an album by Crooks and Children

Coming soon: Footnotes to a History of the Victorian Novel