FunSize&BiteSize

my darling spellcheck machine

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

Ji yoon Lee’s FunSize&BiteSize now available for pre-order!

…and you are dying to read it! I just know it. More information and excerpts here.

Maia Elgin’s ‘The Jennifer’ now available for pre-order

The Jennifer wants to get in on the ecstasy in the sky and ground, amongst the blue devils and pupas, The Cherryhillers and lotsa boys who want to fuck; Jennifer “just wants to sleep until she has been alive for longer, she is so young and she makes so many mistakes.” Sing-songy dirges for the living sung alternately in a scratchy tone akin to screeching or a lullaby coo. An excerpt:

Evil Things

In the Bermuda Triangle they are tall and knock down airplanes. Their feet go splash!splash! in the oceanblue. In townships, they skip through the streets like an anxious breeze, lifting Jennifer’s skirt on the balcony. Honk!Honk!

The Cherryhillers: Baby, show me your ass!
In devil movies there is no god : ( Teenagers self-mutilate and lights go on/off, on/off… The Blue Demon (dripdriping from the ceiling): BOO! 
Jennifer doesn’t blame him. One day he sees her snot-to-the-wall cry!ing.

The Blue Demon: AiiiEEEE!!!

Chugga.Chugga.

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The Jennifer will ship in approximately one week; order here.

Maia Elgin received her BA from Luther College and her MFA from Louisiana State University, studying under Lara Glenum and Lara Mullen. Her poems have been seen in Ghost Town, GlitterPony, and InDigest magazines. Her manuscript, Hullaballoo, was recently selected as a finalist for Switchback Book’s Gatewood Prize. She lives in New Orleans with her husband and her Pàdraig.

 

‘macey [triolets]‘ now available for pre-order

 

Seth Oelbaum’s macey [triolets] is now available for pre-order! Your pre-order comes with an emailed PDF of an original teddy bear lookbook created by Oelbaum. For more information and to order click here.

TWINS now available for pre-order! Plus, half-subscriptions & chance to win a 2013 subscription

Megan Milks’ TWINS is now available for pre-order! In TWINS Megan Milks enlists the Wakefield twins of Sweet Valley fame to participate in a choose-your-own-adventure, slippery and slidey and not quite like the books you read as an adolescent. Jessica or Elizabeth? How will the story end? Try each option on for size and see what happens; twinned blondes in blue eyes never seemed so spooky. Go here to purchase and read an excerpt; TWINS will ship in mid-December.

Additionally, anyone who makes a purchase from our etsy shop this month will be entered to win a 2013 Birds of Lace subscription, which you can use for yourself or gift to someone else! (U.S. folks only- apologies, but international shipping is expensive.) We’ve also added a half-subscription for anyone who wants some of our forthcoming chapbooks, but not all; the half-subscription includes six chapbooks and a copy of Anna Joy Springer’s The Birdwisher.

Last month we tried to raise some money for the Ali Forney center; sadly, we didn’t have any sales last month (sad face.) Hopefully that means that people were just donating directly, which you can still do here.

Pre-Order Carina Finn’s MY LIFE IS A MOVIE

Exteriors, interiors, film sets, sisters, cowboys, government, punching screens, voracious living death instincts, and everything of life or just propelled towards it with a ratty bow in its hair.

Carina Finn is a poet, playwright, and multimedia artist. She is the author of I HEART MARLON BRANDO,which was published in a limited screenprint edition in 2010 by Wheelchair Party Press. Her play, EVERYBODY, LET’S BELIEVE IN THIS IMAGINARY CURRENCY, premiered at The Bowery Poetry Club, and THIRTEEN WAYS OF BREAKING was workshopped and premiered thanks to the generosity of the Film, Television, & Theatre department at The University of Notre Dame. She a graduate of Sweet Briar College, has an MFA in poetry from Notre Dame, lives in New York City, and blogs at http://www.ladyblogblah.wordpress.com

watch the extended trailer for ‘My Life is a Movie’:

Your pre-order gets you a shiny DVD of short films by Carina Finn!

Order here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/102403144/pre-order-my-life-is-a-movie-by-carina

Back detail view of MY LIFE IS A MOVIE feat. a tiny cowboy:

Watch videos of Carina performing at this year’s AWP, including an excerpt from MY LIFE IS A MOVIE:

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

xo

Carrie Murphy’s ‘Meet the Lavenders’ now available for pre-order! + chapbook trailer

You can now pre-order Carrie Murphy’s Meet the Lavenders at the BoL etsy shop! Click here to order and read more about it. Your pre-order includes a handmade ‘I (heart) The Lavender’ brooch, so you can be the most stylin’ groupie of a fictional girl group that ever walked your town. Meet the Lavenders is illustrated by Rhani Lee Remedes and Susanna Troxler, with cover art by Remedes.

Yesterday we shot a trailer for Meet the Lavenders, starring the ever lovely Margaret! View the video below, featuring an excerpt from the chapbook and all that is lavender:

chapbook trailer for Carrie Murphy’s ‘Meet the Lavenders’ from Birds of Lace on Vimeo.

Pre-order Leon Baham’s ‘Ponyboy, Sigh: A Word Problem’

You can now pre-order Leon Baham’s brilliant hybrid-essay chapbook Ponyboy, Sigh: A Word Problem over at the Birds of Lace etsy store. Your pre-order will also get you a limited edition (of 25) linocut poster with red-threaded scars, as shown above.

Ponyboy, Sigh: A Word Problem is a hybrid story-essay by Leon Baham wherein Ponyboy, of The Outsiders fame, is submerged in a queer (un)conciousness that swins through the murky waters of desire, fear, love, brotherhood, race, violence, mothers, tenderness and memory. A complication of faggotry with an inquisitive chorus and echo like a bloody cave.

Leon Baham is from the Inland Empire. He now lives in Seattle. He is currently working on his first long book titled The Book of Imaginary Boys.

Ponyboy, Sigh: A Word Problem will ship 6/16. Go here to order.

Excerpt:
Anything happened when they met. They could have said not a word and pushed their lips together immediately, neither of them knowing really how to kiss another man. They could have seen each other around for three months glancing out of the corners of their eyes. Johnny could have seen Ponyboy in the shower and fled quickly with his half erection. Ponyboy could have followed him. Ponyboy could be Johnny’s father. Johnny could be any age younger than Ponyboy. Ponyboy is 17. Ponyboy could be a space invader and Johnny could be an earthling. Anything was how they met the point is that they were looking from eye to eye on the others face. Ponyboy with a shit eating grin. Johnny looking like a saint as he will be throughout the rest of this story. A plain bored face of ecstasy. Johnny was close to God and Ponyboy was faithless.