Thursday, March 13, 2014

Creature Press at ETERNiDAY: Books, Broadsides, a Reading, a Panel

In case you're able to make it to the Queens Museum in Flushing this Saturday, Creature Press will be part of the ETERNiDAY event in three ways: 1) books and new broadsides for sale as part of the book fair, 2)  a reading that includes Cassandra Gillig, whose work appears on the new CP broadsides, and 3) a panel discussion on "alternative forms" of publication for poets, writers, and artists. 
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1)
Book Fair
12:00 - 6:00 pm

2)
Reading: Small Press Spotlight
1:15 - 2:00 pm
Nightboat Books (John Keene, Gracie Leavitt), Creature Press (Cassandra Gillig), Futurepoem (Mina Pam Dick)

3)
Alternative Publishing and Literary Curating 
3:30 - 4:30 pm
John Harkey (Creature Press), Stephen Motika (Nightboat Books), Sol Aramendi (Project Luz), Christopher Stackhouse (This Red Door Series). This panel will explore independent publishing and literary events. Presenting a variety of perspectives, the panel hopes to inspire poets, writers and artists to search for alternative forms of distribution for their work.

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For more info, exact locations, and all other details on the loaded, eclectic, dynamic line-up of people and events, jump over to the day's full schedule: http://eterniday2014.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/full-schedule/

Preview of Cassandra Gillig Broadsides

(chalk on heavy, linen-textured, midnight-blue paper, 11x17)


These will be for sale on Saturday as part of the "ETERNiDAY" festival of the language arts at the Queens Museum in NYC: http://eterniday2014.wordpress.com/ Come by if you can!

Thursday, March 6, 2014

March 5: ETERNiDAY, The Queens Poet Lore Festival!

I can't believe that I get to be a part of this insane event (browse the schedule/roster via the link below!). Please come visit if you can. Look for Creature Press as part of the book fair, and look for a couple CP poets to read, too.

Queens Museum (in Flushing)
Sat, 3/15
12 - 8 pm

I'll have some Box-books, some copies of Absolute Hist, some ephemera, and some brand new broadsides! Official announcement on those very soon, but here's a peek at one of the sheets in its lovely-raw state:

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Forthcoming, 2015: Fel Santos, All Convulsions

Creature Press is thrilled to announce its first venture into full-length projects. Sometime next year, we will be publishing Fel Santos' book All Convulsions. Santos is a dynamic sound poet from Woodside, NYC (a neighborhood in Queens), so it will be exciting to see how he "translates" his work into page-based book-form.

Here is a sample of Santos' work, a recent collaboration with electronic artist David Mason:



The Slumbering Creature Stirs, Cracks an Eye

Creature Press has been hibernating, but the weather's giving way, and there are things that need to be foraged for and also fashioned. Please stay tuned for news and new projects, all coming soon but in staggered, staggering steps. "Keep your ears peeled," as they say around these parts.