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
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To begin with, since it’s April 1st: Happy National Poetry Month! In honor of the occasion Carrie Murphy and Birds of Lace bring you:
A website where we’ll be posting a poem/poet a day, plus a recommendation from the poet of a book of poems they’ve loved. Check in with us everyday here; Nicole Steinberg kicked us off today!
Did you know that Jeanine Deibel’s In the Grave is out NOW?
Boys boys boys, in the grave and in each other’s faces, pummeling and beating and traversing the land like they once owned it and mean to take it back with bloody fists or at least pretend to, or at least leave it scarred up and sweaty for the meek to inherit.
excerpt:
“After beating those boys after punching their faces with bats until the idea of face became blurry after huffing clouds against the sky doubled over we debated whether to drag them out of sight or bury our boots between slats of rib taking turns until we were forced to stop from the coughing to catch our breath and leave. We would come back for them Ty told me we would clean up our mess but that rarely happened.”
Purchase In the Grave here. Coming later this month: Carrie Hunter’s Inversion Twilight.
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& now for news:
-Birds of Lace participated in a women publishers roundtable at Delirious Hem, curated by Kristina Marie Darling. Also on the panel are dancing girl press, Patasola Press, Noctuary Press, Switchback Books, and Sundress Publications. Read parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
-all BoL poetry chapbooks are $3 for the entirety of April! Get ‘em at the shop
-Judy Berman and Niina Pollari’s awesome It’s Complicated project, which looks at problematic artists/art and the feminists who enjoy them, has just released it’s first zine in the series, Totally Crushed Out. This zine has these rad essays:
Nona Willis Aronowitz on Eminem
Brooklyn Copeland on Marlon Brando
Elisabeth Donnelly on The Afghan Whigs
Nina Mashurova on Charles Bukowski
Tom Ribitzky on the men of Ayn Rand
Judy Berman on Glam Rock
Order it here! And read an interview with the editors here.
-Speaking of Niina Pollari, her excellent/sick/funny translations of Tyitti Heikkinen’s poetry, The Warmth of the Taxidermied Animal, is out now from Action Books. Get your copy here.
-If you didn’t make it to the Dancing Birds Brunch at AWP ’13, JD Scott recaps it for your convenience here.
-Carrie Murphy has a new poem in Big Lucks and another at The Bakery
-Rohin Guha wrote about the Bechdel test as applied to some of your favorite tv shows
-Carina Finn has a poem in the new issue of Coconut
-and finally, Bambi Muse reviewed Anna Joy Springer’s The Birdwisher
xox
From now until midnight tonight EVERYTHING in the shop (except for subscriptions) is 50% off! Use the coupon code “monday” and get to it!
xo
Welcome to 2013, readers! Birds of Lace is ecstatic and maybe even wonderfully hysterical about our 2013 release schedule. Our first release of 2013 will be Seth Oelbaum‘s macey [triolets], for which there will be a pre-order page next week. Pre-orders will come with an emailed PDF from Oelbaum of a teddy bear lookbook that accompanies his texts. Here’s a sample poem from the chapbook:
dragging our holey shop bags on sunny sidewalks,
teddy and i are crazy for cure that reams.
crackers, creams, combs — mommy steams up for price drops.
dragging our holey shop bags on sunny sidewalks,
we ask sunny, “sunny, why are you a cock?”
if you get, a comb you’ll get for unclean mien.
dragging our holey shop bags on sunny sidewalks,
teddy and i are crazy for cure that reams.
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Congratulations to the winner of a free 2013 BoL subscription, Andrea Lawlor! Stay tuned throughout the year for more giveaways and freebie contests. In the meantime, we’ve extended our 20% coupon through 1/15 for 2013 subscriptions; just enter “happynewyear” at checkout for the discount.
xox
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In shocking purple I present to you the cover of TWINS! Copies will begin shipping later this week; if you haven’t ordered yours yet, do so during the month of december and you’ll be entered in a drawing to win a free 2013 subscription!
Speaking of subscriptions, we’re also offering 20% off 2013 subscriptions as a new year’s treat to you; just use the coupon code “happynewyear” from now until 12/31.
Finally, our own Kari Larsen named Carina Finn’s My Life is a Movie one of her favorite small press releases of 2012!
xo
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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.
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To make way for all the new titles being published soon, Birds of Lace is going to be retiring a few of our older titles from physical publication. Niina Pollari’s Fabulous Essential and Christine Vi-Van Nguyen’s blood and jasmine when i dreamed her will, at the end of this month, no longer be in print, though we will make them available as free downloadable PDFs on the website. However, if you’d still like a physical copy before they disappear forever, we are offering both titles for half-price through September. Visit our etsy page to purchase!
I hope this Spring finds you all well and surrounded by florals and faunas. A few bits of news:
-Fabulous Essential author Niina Pollari is reading tomorrow night in NYC as part of the Perfect Sense Reading Series with Kadija Sesay, Margaret Diehl, and Victoria Lynne McCoy. The event takes place at the Cornelia St. Cafe (29 Cornelia Street) at 6pm.
-Birds of Lace will have a table this coming Friday 3/30 at the CUNY Chapbook Festival; if you’re there stop by our table and say hello.
-Submissions for our 2012 chapbookbook reading period end on 3/31! View guidelines here.
-Another things ending 3/31 is our March shop special: free shipping on all U.S. orders. Visit our etsy shop and fill your brain to the brim with words.
-Lauren Spohrer has created a new online journal promoting work by women called Two Serious Ladies. Peruse and adore work by Kate Zambreno, Roxane Gay, Anne Marie Rooney and many others, and submit your work!
-Heels on Wheels in a traveling roadshow, and in their own words, “a dazzling cabaret of performance art works and acts of resistance by queer folks on femme/inine spectrum genders.” They’re raising money for their upcoming tour on kickstarter- contribute if you can!
-Kristen Stone has a new chapbook/zine press called Unthinkable Creatures. Their first release is i love crushes more than the real thing, which I love because it is the real thing: honest, sweet, strange, beautiful. Unthinkable Creatures is open for submissions so send ‘em your work and send ‘em your love.
xox
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For the month of February you can purchase 3 chapbooks for $10 (regularly $13) over here. If you are brave and want a surprise mix of readings, just tell me three of your favorite words in the paypal invoice + I’ll choose three that I suspect may suit your needs.
Additionally, Meet the Lavenders author Carrie Murphy has created a tumblr to document inspirations for her soon-to-be-released full length book Pretty Tilt (Keyhole Press), which you can follow here.
xox
illustration by susanna troxler for carrie murphy’s meet the lavenders
The holidays are nigh and perhaps you want to send someone a bundle of books. Birds of Lace is having two December sales:
-purchase all 7 of our chapbooks + Anna Joy Springer’s The Birdwisher for only $20 here
-purchase a Birds of Lace 2011 subscription, which includes everything released this year, for $18 (was $28) here
I hope you’re staying warm & weird.
xo
