Chapbooks read 2012 that I was too lazy to put up on Goodreads

Nico Peck - Welter
j/j hastain - from female he and correlational femme
Sophia Dahlin - Come On
Michael Cross - Katechon
David Brazil - To Romans
Julia Drescher - Plural Bell
Julia Drescher  - Hands Chalk the Walls
Alison Carter - Sum Total
By the Lightswitch - Thurston Moore
Linty Love - Zack Tuck
Laura - Kendra Grant Malone
The Brilliance of the Sparrow - Matt Mauch
Listen to her Heart - Amy Berkowitz
Collection - Megan Kaminski
The Occupations - Alana Siegel
Funeral sentences - Tinker Greene
Man Going to His Doom - Tinker Greene
Solid Smoke - Tinker Greene
Short Poems Put Stapled Together to Make a Longer Poem - Zack Haber
Slur the Point - Steve Orth

Favorite Chapbooks Read 2012

Mass of the Phoenix

Brazil, David

Merry Hell

larsen, sara

The Blond Notebook

Slosek, Michael

the snow poems

Smith, Janey

E! Entertainment

Durbin, Kate

AS TESTIMONY THE POEM THE SCENE

Duncan, Robert

Tiny People

Woods, Russ

wikipedia says it will pass

Salier, Diana

The Loss Letters

Tate, Bronwen

Stances

Noonan, Erik

AND ypolita press's own:

excerpts from murmur in the inventory

Lewis, Erica

excerpts from murmur in the inventory

by erica lewis, with artwork by mark stephen finein.

Out of Print

Excerpt:

---------------------------------if you repeat the names they disappear

between water and a line of type

a lump in my throat

blows into the tubes located at your shoulders

the hole in your lip is bleeding

you don’t know what to think so i’ll tell you

both are true

there are no neutral storms

memory or loss bores holes into you

here’s what happened here’s what some people say what happened

i can’t separate the two

no distinction between fiction and fact no distinction

it’s not your fault

you can’t see the sutures

so i cross reference the living with someone else’s skin

scene from the door scene from the window scene from the inside

my fingers cast a shadow down the center

supposing we could separate the two

shards on your face account for all those references

in someone else’s words

the pieces spread thin from intention
oh yes

you should definitely use both hands for that speech

Julia Drescher's Birds of Paradise

Out of Print

Excerpt:


Was hewn some

‘Unnatural’ being

Hues blended

Doubtfully begun

& ended the gun

was idle I was

too astonished



to shoot

Julia Cohen's 1 + Scattered=Zero

Out of Print

Cover and inside art by Larry Lorca.


Excerpt:


Everyone I Knew In High School Is Dead


The egg fell onto the flashlight’s head,
a sound colder than outer space. When you
have an accident with an already-dead object
I can’t finish my sentence. I swung a stomach
I wished for one of those strangle bracelets
Grades melted under the radiator like
a doll on behalf of itself. The itch
of washer-dryer tags. We rejected
blood clots, are we tidal waves in the library
I card cataloged you until I could forget
& then find you again in the index
My leaking house, come back out
of the cake basement

and I would open by Jill Stengel

NOW AVAILABLE:

Out of Print

EXCERPT:

having lost
train of thought

train wreck
collision
airbus crash into water

one, two
twenty-three skidoo

A flies twice weekly

force away thoughts
build little houses of brick
huff-puff wolves, stay out

Michael Slosek's Holding Place

I hope you haven't been holding your breath. Please breathe.

Out of Print

Excerpt from the title poem, Holding Place



Held to, the dust in the wall
as a day to introduce.

The lines lean in upon
the ones and twos.

For casks in the blood
before dusk makes purpose.

Moving along the one
square, broken from

a house in cards. The seams
no longer visible.

restitutions for a newer bountiful verb by j/j hastain

Out of Print

Excerpt is hard to replicate as it is all in a beautiful open field style, so I made a jpg of the last page:

Tracks by Logan Ryan Smith

Out of Print

ypolita press is back! Now Available: Logan Ryan Smith's Tracks. Pre-orders (and regular orders) will now be shipped out in the coming week.

Sample Poem:

Inside the car
I can’t see the tracks
or what’s outside
can only feel the shaking
of the lights and mirrored
windows reflecting my
loose jaw and dumb tongue
vibrating ceaselessly
with all the meat
attached to these
spasmodic bones

I can’t hear anything
but the leper’s senseless jabber
and ghosts’ whirring
and Echo
Echo
Echo squealing
outside
ahead
of the headlights

Because You Are Loved

Nicholas Manning's Hi Higher Hyperbole now available!


Pink text pages and bound with pink thread. The red heart is an actual doily! Happy Valentines!

Out of Print

Some of the poems in the book have appeared in Fascicle, Free Verse, Parcel, (right after moi), and check out the podcast.

Metempsychose review

Check out Mark's review of Metempsychose HERE. Ypolita LOVES Ashes, ghosts, and also rubies.

 Nicholas Manning's Hi Higher Hyperbole Out of Print

Some of the poems in the book have appeared in Fascicle, Free Verse, Parcel, (right after moi), and check out the podcast.

Metempychose by Matina Stamatakis

Metempychose by Matina Stamatakis, with artwork by Theoni Tambaki

Out of Print!

Some poems from the book can be seen at Turntable and Blue Light, Milk, and Canopic Jar.

From Here

Kathrin Schaeppi has a short review of Zoë Skoulding's From Here, here. Thanks Kathrin!

From Here

As part of the Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv year 3, Ypolita Press is happy to release Zoë Skoulding's From Here with images by Simonetta Moro.

If you are involved in Dusie 3, you will get yours soon. If you are not but would like one, here it is!
















Paypal button below with a nifty drop down menu. Sample poem below.



I

what I can hold in the eye breaks

at the edges a cluster of paths a zebra

crossing to the other side of the road side-

walks becoming pavements that shadow

pulled across continents the signs point

in all directions at once down

there in the windblown circumference

of light you carry history from a

to b in planetary drifts across a lens

Out of Print

Behind the R by Gina Myers

SOLD OUT

Cover art by Dietmar Krumrey. Find more information about Dietmar at perpetualartmachine.com

Pics of the Insides

Over here at Emma Phillipps' blog. Thanks Emma!

Now available!

The peach is a vellum cover stock, and so a lighter cover stock (67 lb), the blue is a regular cover stock (110 lb). Text paper is a 60 lb text paper. Size is legal size halved.

SOLD OUT

Read some poems from the chapbook here:

http://mtd.celaine.com/barbarajanereyes.htm

You may think that Easter is over, but Easter Sunday is right around the corner!







































It may either be peach or it may be blue, or it may be peach and blue...

Lately, I have been looking for ways to rethink the lyric. Basically, I’ve been trying to reconfigure the lyric for the contemporary mind while retaining some non-commercialized individual presence in the poem. Trying to write new thought constellations has long been important to my process.