Thursday, October 28, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
New York Book Fair Expo, Sunday 10/10
This Sunday, from 11am to 6pm, Creature Press will be at the Queens Museum of Art, for the New York Book Fair Expo (click for more info). Directions here.
Please stop by if you can---say hello, look at some books, etc. Thanks to Creature Press/Queens Poet Laureate/2nd Ave Poetry personage, Paolo Javier, I will be in rich company, at a table with my elders, as it were: Mark Lamoureux's Cy Gist Press and Eugene Lim's Ellipsis Press.
Please stop by if you can---say hello, look at some books, etc. Thanks to Creature Press/Queens Poet Laureate/2nd Ave Poetry personage, Paolo Javier, I will be in rich company, at a table with my elders, as it were: Mark Lamoureux's Cy Gist Press and Eugene Lim's Ellipsis Press.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Introducing: 'Absolute Hist,' by Cecil Church
Creature Press is proud to announce the publication of its fourth chapbook, ABSOLUTE HIST, an enigmatic pamphlet by the reclusive Cecil Church. The book, produced in an edition of 75, is quarto-size; its cover is made of re-purposed material; and the black text within (14 pt. Garamond) is printed on black paper (30 lb. linen). The words, like scratches on a shard of raw coal, are at first difficult to make out, but with dexterity and devotion they are plainly legible. You are invited to investigate.
ABSOLUTE HIST will be for sale at the upcoming New York Book Fair Expo on October 10th (link for the details); they may also be purchased below.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Another News Flash: Tonya Foster Reading- 8/31, The Katrina Project
New York poet Tonya Foster, whose chapbook "Bibliography" Creature Press boasts as one of its inaugural trio of publications, will be reading in Bryant Park this coming Tuesday, August 31st, as part of an event remembering Hurricane Katrina, which hit 5 years ago. As she hails from New Orleans, Foster has an acute connection to the catastrophe and its ongoing aftermath.
Last-minute notification, but please come by if you're available. It should be an amazing reading, and it doesn't even cost a thin dime. Here are the particulars:
Aug. 31:
Katrina Project Presents Poetry
7:00pm – 8:30pm | Bryant Park Reading Room
FREE
Nicole Cooley
Tonya Foster
Yusef Komunyakaa
Rain Venue(s):
*The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
20 West 44th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)
Tonya Foster's Creature Press chapbook, from which she may read on Tuesday, charts an effort to recover a state where "speech is possible" in the wake of what seems like unspeakable devastation. Foster does this by "taking in her mother / landscape," elaborating a dense abecedarian catalogue of names, things, and phrasings that saturate her experience of that landscape. Read straight through, the book reveals itself as a dizzying litany of the sacred and the mundane, the plain and the obscure, the patently personal and the implicitly political. Its charged act of confrontation---running through alternately poignant, hilarious, and outraged tonal registers---is perfectly channeled by the a priori lexical structure and the small, discrete pages of the book. Come on out to hear Tonya read and to support the Katrina Project.
Last-minute notification, but please come by if you're available. It should be an amazing reading, and it doesn't even cost a thin dime. Here are the particulars:
Aug. 31:
Katrina Project Presents Poetry
7:00pm – 8:30pm | Bryant Park Reading Room
FREE
Nicole Cooley
Tonya Foster
Yusef Komunyakaa
Rain Venue(s):
*The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
20 West 44th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)
Tonya Foster's Creature Press chapbook, from which she may read on Tuesday, charts an effort to recover a state where "speech is possible" in the wake of what seems like unspeakable devastation. Foster does this by "taking in her mother / landscape," elaborating a dense abecedarian catalogue of names, things, and phrasings that saturate her experience of that landscape. Read straight through, the book reveals itself as a dizzying litany of the sacred and the mundane, the plain and the obscure, the patently personal and the implicitly political. Its charged act of confrontation---running through alternately poignant, hilarious, and outraged tonal registers---is perfectly channeled by the a priori lexical structure and the small, discrete pages of the book. Come on out to hear Tonya read and to support the Katrina Project.
Monday, August 16, 2010
News Flash: Paolo Javier, Poet Laureate of Queens!
Even though I'm quite late posting this, I still consider it flashing news. One of Creature Press's very own, author of the BOX chapbook "The Feeling is Actual," has recently received a thrilling commendation and charge. Below is an excerpt from the press release, and check out a link to another article underneath that. Congratulations, 'QPLO'! We know you'll rock this new mantle with verve and swagger and magnanimity.
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A “ONCE-GLOBAL NOMAD” WHO FINDS “THE WORLD IN QUEENS,”
PAOLO JAVIER IS NAMED BOROUGH’S FIFTH POET LAUREATE
FLUSHING, N.Y., June 18, 2010 ― Describing himself as “a once-global nomad” who made Queens his permanent home because he has “no trouble finding the world in it,” Paolo S. Javier has been named the fifth Poet Laureate of Queens. His three-year appointment, following a search launched in March, was announced yesterday at Borough Hall by Queens Borough President Helen Marshall and Queens College President James Muyskens.
Queens’ newest poet laureate is an award-winning author of two poetry collections and four chapbooks (short books of poetry), as well as a playwright, film director, college professor, editor, and publisher. A native of the Philippines who has traveled widely and lived in Asia, the Middle East, and North America, Javier moved to Katonah, NY, in 1986, and has been a resident of Sunnyside, Queens, for over a decade.
“I am delighted to approve my panel of judges’ recommendation of Paolo Javier as the next Poet Laureate of Queens,” said Marshall. “Mr. Javier is an up-and-coming poet as well as a filmmaker who has a clearly articulated vision of how to promote a love of poetry among our diverse youth through multimedia programming. We are very excited to collaborate with him over the next three years.”
“Paolo Javier is truly a 21st century poet who is recreating poetry as a dynamic literary art form that draws from theater, new media, sound art, and international cinema,” said Muyskens. “His unique, multidisciplinary approach will surely engage our diverse communities.”
Javier is the author of the forthcoming The Feeling Is Actual (Creature Press) and Megton Gasgan Krakoom (Cy Gist Press), as well as LMFAO (OMG Press), Goldfish Kisses (Sona Books), 60 lv bo(e)mbs (O Books), and the time at the end of this writing (Ahadada Books), which received a Small Press Traffic Book of the Year Award in 2005.
http://www.leaderobserver.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Paolo+Javier+is+Queens-+poet-+and+he+knows+it%20&id=8014541&instance=home_news_right
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A “ONCE-GLOBAL NOMAD” WHO FINDS “THE WORLD IN QUEENS,”
PAOLO JAVIER IS NAMED BOROUGH’S FIFTH POET LAUREATE
FLUSHING, N.Y., June 18, 2010 ― Describing himself as “a once-global nomad” who made Queens his permanent home because he has “no trouble finding the world in it,” Paolo S. Javier has been named the fifth Poet Laureate of Queens. His three-year appointment, following a search launched in March, was announced yesterday at Borough Hall by Queens Borough President Helen Marshall and Queens College President James Muyskens.
Queens’ newest poet laureate is an award-winning author of two poetry collections and four chapbooks (short books of poetry), as well as a playwright, film director, college professor, editor, and publisher. A native of the Philippines who has traveled widely and lived in Asia, the Middle East, and North America, Javier moved to Katonah, NY, in 1986, and has been a resident of Sunnyside, Queens, for over a decade.
“I am delighted to approve my panel of judges’ recommendation of Paolo Javier as the next Poet Laureate of Queens,” said Marshall. “Mr. Javier is an up-and-coming poet as well as a filmmaker who has a clearly articulated vision of how to promote a love of poetry among our diverse youth through multimedia programming. We are very excited to collaborate with him over the next three years.”
“Paolo Javier is truly a 21st century poet who is recreating poetry as a dynamic literary art form that draws from theater, new media, sound art, and international cinema,” said Muyskens. “His unique, multidisciplinary approach will surely engage our diverse communities.”
Javier is the author of the forthcoming The Feeling Is Actual (Creature Press) and Megton Gasgan Krakoom (Cy Gist Press), as well as LMFAO (OMG Press), Goldfish Kisses (Sona Books), 60 lv bo(e)mbs (O Books), and the time at the end of this writing (Ahadada Books), which received a Small Press Traffic Book of the Year Award in 2005.
http://www.leaderobserver.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Paolo+Javier+is+Queens-+poet-+and+he+knows+it%20&id=8014541&instance=home_news_right
Thursday, April 29, 2010
It is my great pleasure to introduce:
B O X E S: poetry ready-to-hand.
3 new chapbooks, each consisting of 20 loose pages in a small cardboard box:
- Yuko Otomo, "A Voice That Crawls in the Sky"
SOLD OUT!
- Paolo Javier, "The Feeling is Actual"
- Tonya Foster, "Bibliography"
Carry them with you! Mix-and-match the loose leaves! Throw away the ones you don’t like! Save your favorites! Collect all three boxes! Use the pages to jot notes! As tokens to send with letters! To practice origami! To wipe up messes!
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These, we hope, are books that aren’t quite books, that disrupt expectations but in a good-faith manner, that gently dictate a fundamental shift in reading practice, while also inviting/daring more radical, more promiscuous approaches to the object(s): shuffling pages within a box; exchanging pages between different boxes; folding, crumbling, discarding certain pages; using pages for other purposes, practical or capricious.
Here are the specs for each BOX, the dimensional facts of the vehicle each writer worked with and within:
- 20 unbound, unnumbered rectangular pages (4 ¼" x 4 ½").
- Fixed margins on all 4 sides, leaving exactly 15 lines-worth of space for 12 pt. Franklin Gothic Medium, the uniformly employed typeface.
- Office-pink paper, standard 20 lb.
- Thin, brown chip-board box housing [4 ¾ square]; an exoskeleton in place of the standard endoskeletal spine that structures most books.
- Each work’s title is hand-stamped in black capital letters on the exterior face of the box, and the author’s name is stamped in lowercase below the title.
Each chapbook has been produced in an edition of 50. Some of these will be available directly from the authors, and the rest may be purchased via this website or in select bookstores. Details forthcoming; email Felix for more information. OR, if you want a first-hand look-see and a chance to snag one or more books, consider visiting Creature Press at the CUNY chapbook festival, info right underneath these words!
3 new chapbooks, each consisting of 20 loose pages in a small cardboard box:
- Yuko Otomo, "A Voice That Crawls in the Sky"
SOLD OUT!
- Paolo Javier, "The Feeling is Actual"
- Tonya Foster, "Bibliography"
Carry them with you! Mix-and-match the loose leaves! Throw away the ones you don’t like! Save your favorites! Collect all three boxes! Use the pages to jot notes! As tokens to send with letters! To practice origami! To wipe up messes!
………………………………
These, we hope, are books that aren’t quite books, that disrupt expectations but in a good-faith manner, that gently dictate a fundamental shift in reading practice, while also inviting/daring more radical, more promiscuous approaches to the object(s): shuffling pages within a box; exchanging pages between different boxes; folding, crumbling, discarding certain pages; using pages for other purposes, practical or capricious.
Here are the specs for each BOX, the dimensional facts of the vehicle each writer worked with and within:
- 20 unbound, unnumbered rectangular pages (4 ¼" x 4 ½").
- Fixed margins on all 4 sides, leaving exactly 15 lines-worth of space for 12 pt. Franklin Gothic Medium, the uniformly employed typeface.
- Office-pink paper, standard 20 lb.
- Thin, brown chip-board box housing [4 ¾ square]; an exoskeleton in place of the standard endoskeletal spine that structures most books.
- Each work’s title is hand-stamped in black capital letters on the exterior face of the box, and the author’s name is stamped in lowercase below the title.
Each chapbook has been produced in an edition of 50. Some of these will be available directly from the authors, and the rest may be purchased via this website or in select bookstores. Details forthcoming; email Felix for more information. OR, if you want a first-hand look-see and a chance to snag one or more books, consider visiting Creature Press at the CUNY chapbook festival, info right underneath these words!
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