Our friends at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn share ten of their current fave SPD titles up at Lit Hub! <3 <3

Sam Mcpheeters and Alexander Herbert reading off their books at Book Thug tonight! . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . #sammcpheeters #alexanderherbert #bookthug #bookthugnation #bornagainst https://www.instagram.com/p/B8jSrK6l9nG/?igshid=oeexw1ou79m2

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COLLAGE BOOKS

Alice in Plunderland

by Steve McCaffery with collages by Clelia Scala from Bookthug. Poet and scholar Steve McCaffery reimagines Lewis Carroll’s Alice books in a manner that changes the way readers negotiate Wonderland and its menagerie of characters. Clelia Scala’s collages beautifully annotate McCaffery’s renewed vision of Wonderland. MORE

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How many ways can teenage girl-lives intertwine and break away. Julie and Celine are white teens in New Mexico, they are actors, misfits, try-hards. Their teen lives can feel deadly serious and also feel light and perfect: crushes and parents and lipsticks and joints and blowjobs and school plays and laugh-attack-nonsense. It can also be about the murdered girls around us, the disappeared, the never-come-backs. The text is always reminding us of what is at stake, the violence done to women in the margins in cities like Jaurez and Vancouver, and how that kind of violence looms in the background for every girl. It is girlhood, adulthood, a book on the cusp. Brilliant and breathtaking, #book*hug seems to have an amazing eye for the unconventional novel

Beatriz Hausner’s new collection is now available from Bookthug:

Juxtaposing the diction of surrealism with Ovid, Callimachus, and popular music—punk and new wave—the poems in Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart concern themselves with various aspects of Eros.

From wistful romance to explicit sex, these poems are inspired by the troubadour poets of Provence and Italy, and invoke such historical figures as the Byzantine Empress Theodora and her husband, Emperor Justinian, not to mention the Countess of Dia—Beatriz—a major poet of the troubadour tradition; these are Hausner’s “alter voices,” expressing permutations of presence, absence, conquest, and loss.

Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart reaches back through the millenia to create an unexpected, unconventional, and contemporary exploration of one of humanity’s oldest pleasures.

The Greats

by Sylvain Prudhomme, translated by Jessica Moore (BookThug)

January 4, 2018

PRIZE: If Color Is Fugitive by Sara Mithra (Julian Tirhma)(Nomadic Press, 2018) just announced as a finalist for the Lambda Literary (Lammy) award in the category of Transgender Poetry! Congrats, Julian! Shout out to our publisher friends also listed as finalists for the same category: Timeless, Infinite Light, Nightboat Books, BookThug, and Biyuti Publishing! https://www.lambdaliterary.org/31st-annual-lammy-finalists/ #lammys #nomadicpress (at Lambda Literary) https://www.instagram.com/p/ButnakOHA_r/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18sau01i9cpsk

Donato Mancini

hardours, 2018

Risograph print on French Paper co. "Cotton Candy Pop-tone," 70 lb

12" x 12"

Estimated market value: $200

Are our hard hours dour ardour? Are our hours hard ardours dour? Are hard dour hours our ardour? Are our hard ardours hours dour? Are our dour hours ardours hard? Yes, our dour hours are hard ardours.

Donato Mancini makes visual and procedural poetry, bookworks, and visual art. His books and chapbooks include Snowline (Eth/Punctum 2015), Loitersack (New Star 2014), Buffet World (New Star 2011), Fact ‘N’ Value (Fillip 2011), Hell Passport no.22 (Perro Verlag 2008), Æthel (New Star 2007), 58 Free Coffees (Western Front 2006), and Ligatures (New Star 2005). Notable exhibitions of Mancini’s visual artworks have included exhibitions through Artspeak, The Western Front, Open Space, Gallery Atsui, Malaspina Printmaker’s Society, Unit/Pitt, Decoy Magazine’s BCC: series, and CSA. He performed with Gabriel Saloman in a noise-poetry / noise-comedy / noise-music duo in the 2013 LIVE! Biennale of performance art, and as part of Concrete Scores at Open Space. Mancini’s published critical writing includes work on the archive, time, and memory in Anamnesia: Unforgetting (VIVO Media Arts 2011), and a discourse analysis of poetry reviews in You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence (BookThug 2012). His most recent bookwork, Same Diff (Talonbooks 2017), meets at the intersection of poetry, contemporary art, documentary cinema and social history. Same Diff was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize in 2018. Mancini holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of British Columbia. A longtime resident of Vancouver, where he hopes to return, Mancini is currently a post-doctoral fellow Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Hi Zero #52 - Tuesday 30th May

Hi Zero Number 52, and the last in the current cycle until September, presents a Barque Press Spesh, featuring readings from and by the poets and publishers:

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Andrea Brady

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Keston Sutherland

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Andrea Brady's books of poetry include The Strong Room (Crater, 2016), Dompteuse (Bookthug, 2014), Cut from the Rushes (Reality Street, 2013), Mutability: scripts for infancy (Seagull, 2012), Wildfire: A Verse Essay on Obscurity and Illumination (Krupskaya, 2010), and Vacation of a Lifetime (Salt, 2001). She is Professor of Poetry at Queen Mary University of London, where she runs the Centre for Poetry and directs the Archive of the Now (www.archiveofthenow.org), the UK’s largest digital archive of performances by experimental poets. With Keston Sutherland she is co-publisher of Barque Press (www.barquepress.com).

Keston Sutherland is the author of The Odes to TL61P, The Stats on Infinity, Stress Position, Hot White Andy, Neocosis, Antifreeze and other books, and of many essays about poetry, society and politics. He lives and works in Brighton, UK, and is Professor of Poetics at the University of Sussex. With Andrea Brady he is co-publisher of Barque Press (www.barquepress.com).

Taking place, as usual, upstairs at the Hope & Ruin, on Queen's Road, Brighton, on Tuesday, 30th May.

Doors at 7:30pm for an 8:00pm start. £3. Music, books, a bar.

More info soon.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

The Hope & Ruin has a stepped street entrace of approx. 10-15cm, and two flights of stairs from the pub level to the venue on the first floor. There is a wheelchair accessible gender nuetral toilet on the ground floor of the pub in the stairwell, but the m/f toilets on the first floor (the venue) are not wheelchair accessible. There is a bar in the venue, and plenty of seating.

This information is not exhaustive, so If you have any other accessibility inquiries, please contact us (Joe Luna or Eleanor Careless) or the venue.

https://www.facebook.com/events/397816693952134/

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THIS WEEK AT KOLAJ MAGAZINE

Punk, Plunderland, Paper Mosaics, and Artobotic

FROM KOLAJ #20 Artobotic at Edinburgh International Festival

COLLAGE BOOKS Alice in Plunderland by Steve McCaffery with collages by Clelia Scala from Bookthug.

COLLAGE ON VIEW Paper Mosaic: Raven Skye McDonough at Mitchell Gallery in Englewood, Florida, 5 September-4 October 2017.

FROM KOLAJ #20 Afraid of Modern Living: Collage in California's Punk Scene

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY Ashley Parker Owens Richmond, Kentucky, USA

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MIRROR

Sometimes, she told me, liking someone is just a way to pass the time. Each illicit word a loose tooth slipping from the open mouth of our class flirt— the kindest name fourteen-year-olds pinned to a girl infamous through every grade for tucking teachers' names under her tongue as if forbidden candy in place of hunger. See, we hadn’t understood yet where the empty comes from even though we had been told girls were always wanting to be filled. How, across the vast foyer that held only waiting, sunlight launched silver curveballs off the sleek roof of every car rounding the smooth driveway & yet never quite caught our shadows. Her arm, bright with sweat, near enough to radiate dangerous heat. I thought she meant pretending the way every bright carriage becomes a cool hand in an afternoon buzzing with searching bodies so I breathed I understand into the space separating any two mouths. But I didn’t know, then, how waiting turns the waking hours into one long stretch for tomorrow until the makeshift relief of fiction turns into the tenuous thing itself. Once, beyond outflung classroom doors, I saw her touching herself under battered desks with a blacksmith’s hands. The shape of loneliness splintering a body into pathways out of fear. The precarious attempt to know wholeness not as sensation but indescribable matter. Her fingers moving fast & brutal as if mapping blue edges of the unseen sky. This is what it means to really want something. Her open mouth an iris ringed with desperation deeper than shame. You’ll forsake everything if only to be real—

Natalie Wee is the author of Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines (Words Dance Publishing, 2016) and Once in a Blue Moon (BookThug, 2018). She has been published or has work forthcoming in numerous publications, including The Adroit Journal, Drunken Boat, Room Magazine, & more. She has been nominated for the 2016 Best of the Net Anthology and a Pushcart Prize. Find her first book at http://natalieweepoetry.com/.

😭...when you find a nice book in the shop that someone busted all up but didn’t have the guts to admit it. #bookstorelife #bookthugs #bookcrime #sosad #books (at The Green Hand)

Adam Seelig

Adam Seelig is the founder and Artistic Director of One Little Goat Theatre Company. He is the author of Every Day in the Morning (slow) (New Star Books, finalist for the 2011 ReLit Award in poetry) and his plays include Ubu Mayor (BookThug 2014), Talking Masks (BookThug 2009), Antigone:Insurgency (2007) and, for children, PLAY: A (Mini) History of Theatre for Kids (Toronto 2016-18). 

Adam is the writer, director, and composer of MUSIC MUSIC LIFE DEATH MUSIC: An Absurdical, running May 25 - June 10 at Tarragon Extraspace.

Tickets: http://onelittlegoat.org/music-music-life-death-music

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ANDREW McEWAN 

Photos: KIRBY

A case for the asterisk: it's time to stop sweeping Canada's colonial past under the rug The publisher formerly known as BookThug is now Book*hug. http://ift.tt/2HW0PVJ