Anthony Frame

For No Reason Other Than Because It Makes Me Laugh

2012-01-09T09:25:00.000-08:00

Alright, so the new issue of Blood Orange Review is out. It includes my poem, "Last Day of Childhood, Nearly Thirteen," along with my bio and a requested statement of "Why I Write." I'm honored that the editors published the poem and thrilled they ended their Editor's Notes with my "Why I Write" statement. Many thanks to everyone at Blood Orange Review. Read the rest of the issue because it's awesome. I was going to write a really clever and funny post about New Years and New Years...

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Proofs

2011-12-08T09:38:00.000-08:00

Today, I got the proofs for my two poems that will appear in the new issue of Harpur Palate. I gotta say, I love getting proofs. It's like knowing there's a killer movie coming out and finally seeing the preview. Yeah, the release of the movie is best, but seeing that preview is awesome. And I've been getting a lot of proofs lately. Meadowland Review sent me proofs. Third Coast sent me proofs. Accents Press sent me proofs for Bigger Than They Appear. And Blood Orange is going to...

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The Meadowland Review (And More!)

2011-12-01T12:06:00.000-08:00

The Fall 2011 issue of The Meadowland Review is now available. Go check out the killer poems, including my "Flannel Love Poem With a Touch of Sky." In other news, the Fall 2011 issue of Third Coast (which includes my poem, "Prayers") is also now available (click here to order your own copy). It is phenomenal. Seriously, it is worth three times what the editors are charging for it. Next, I get to announce three upcoming publications: The fabulous Harpur Palate has agreed to...

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For Robert Hass and the Other Protesters at UC Berkley (and around the US)

2011-11-20T16:28:00.000-08:00

Read "The Police Riot at Berkeley: If They'll Beat a Poet Laureate, Will They Kill a Student?"

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This small post...

2011-11-20T12:03:00.000-08:00

... is meant to remind you that you can now order Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems from Accents Publishing. It has two of my poems. And a ton of other great poems by other great poets.

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To Pierce a Heart: Risking Sentimentality in Carey Salerno's Shelter

2011-11-09T11:10:00.000-08:00

A lot of first books of poetry are byline-heavy. Flip to the back cover of nearly any first book and look at the description next to the author's picture. You'll often see a long list of chapbooks, journals, some anthologies, and likely a degree or two. This is, of course, true for most books of poetry, though as a poet becomes more well known, he/she sometimes trims the bio-data down to near minimalist proportions (see Michael Dickman's bio for his James Laughlin Award winning collection,...

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Stop Buying Books by People Named Whitman, Dickinson, Neruda, Billy Collins and Tony Hoagland

2011-11-05T13:51:00.000-07:00

Part 1: BlazeVOX Books So, shortly before Labor Day, I came downstairs from our home office to our living room where my wife was patiently waiting for me to finish checking my email so we could enjoy the last hour or so together before I had to go to bed. To explain why I had taken unusually long on the computer, I told her, “I got an email from a publisher interested in my book. Sort of.” Some background: I have been “shopping” my book-length collection of poems to publishers for...

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News and Blues, Part Two

2011-10-31T11:53:00.000-07:00

News: Go to Accent Publishing's website. Pre-order Bigger Than They Appear: An Anthology of Very Short Poems. Enjoy the anthology when it comes out in December. Thank me once you've finished it. Seriously, I got a chance to check out the anthology when the proofs were sent to me. Yes, my two poems are awesome:) But so are all of the other ones. Here's the full skinny from the publisher: "Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems is a 316-page volume of poems of up to...

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News, Blues & Reviews

2011-09-09T13:19:00.000-07:00

Has it really been four months since I promised "to check in again before winter"? There is much to say but first some important news. If you haven’t yet heard, RockSaw Press temporarily suspended publication. In addition, it cancelled its annual Blue Skunk Poetry Series Contest and returned the submission fees to entrants. From Jorge Evans, the managing editor at RockSaw: “Due to financial limitations, it is not possible at this time to keep producing the high quality chapbooks that we’ve...

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A Review of Paper Guillotines in Emprise Review

2011-05-14T17:48:00.000-07:00

In 2009, Emprise Review published my poem, "Bottle Rockets," a somewhat political narrative that references 9/11, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Challenger explosion and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr and President John F. Kennedy (and all in twenty lines!). It's a poem and a publication I'm intensely proud of. Today, Emprise Review released a sequence of mini-reviews written by Adam Tavel. Tavel Reviews three books: Selected Poems by Mary Ruefle, No...

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Silent Silence

2011-05-01T09:58:00.000-07:00

The busy season has started at my job. I’m working long days and mandatory Saturdays, which leaves me little time for the computer - or anything else. But, to be honest, I live for this time of year. Not only is the money good, but it’s impossible to get bored. Yesterday, I had eight hours worth of bee work in Ann Arbor. Plus an hour and fifteen minute drive from the office to Ann Arbor (repeated on the way back). And it’s quiet. Just me and the road and the spray truck and a bag of books for...

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This Makes Me Feel Like I'm on NPR

2011-04-05T13:02:00.000-07:00

Red Lion Square has just released audio recordings of three of my Deer poems (another was recently published in Stirring). The poems titles are: "Deer's Tattoo" "Deer Tells Me He Hasn't Had Sex in Three Years" and "Deer Hates it When I Call Him 'Boss'." They did an excellent job reading these poems, but it is weird (in the good way) hearing someone else's voice speaking my words. While you're there, check out the archives. They're great and they include poems by my brilliant...

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National Poetry Month 2011!

2011-04-01T09:22:00.001-07:00

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What I'm Reading And Why

2011-03-16T11:23:00.000-07:00

So, I've been thinking a lot about the complaints I've been hearing since Time Magazine put Jonathan Frazen on its cover with the title "Great American Novelist." Essentially, many have complained that Frazen is yet another white male novelist whose face appears on the cover of Time. Fair enough. Time should be putting more non-white, non-male novelists on its covers. Of course, if we're going to be fair, Time should also be putting some poets (male or non, white or non) on its...

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Two Poems Surrounded by Other Great Poems

2011-03-15T08:08:00.000-07:00

Go to these websites. Yes, they include two of my poems. But my poems are accompanied by (or accompany) a number of other great poems you should read. Here is the link for Stirring Volume 13, Edition 3: March 2011, which includes my poem "My First Roach Job" and four other killer poems (plus a great short story). (and here's hoping I remember to update the link when these go into the archives) While you're there, check out the archives, which are overflowing with phenomenal poems....

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Forthcoming

2011-02-27T11:57:00.000-08:00

Goodbye, February. Good riddance. The weather is starting to warm up in Toledo and rain is on its way. Hopefully, this will get rid of the ice and snow that has covered Northwest Ohio for the past week. Bring on March, but let's have no lions. Only lambs. But February hasn't been all bad. In fact, it's been a pretty good month as a writer. I have lots of work in the work, lots forthcoming. Keep your eyes on Red Lion Sq, which has the incredible tag line "Poetry that speaks." This...

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A New Mind: Not a Review of Rane Arroyo’s White as Silver

2011-02-12T10:48:00.000-08:00

This is not a review of White as Silver (Cervena Barva Press, 2010), Rane Arroyo’s first posthumously published book of poems. It can’t be. I haven’t finished reading it yet. Plus, I fear (probably justifiably) my inability to do justice to his work. More so, though, having read through the first section and a half of White as Silver, I find myself, as always when I read Rane’s work, unable to separate myself from the poems from the man. So, this is not a review; it is a reminiscence. I...

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Weird? Cool? Both!

2011-01-30T14:13:00.000-08:00

So, my vacation from work is over. I got quite a bit done, though certainly not everything that was on my to-do list. And I had to shovel a lot of snow, though (thankfully) not as much as my New York friends. I wrote a lot. Revised a lot of poems I'd been wanting for a while to really sit down with and I managed to start five new poems. Plus I got to read a whole bunch (Dan Nowak's new chapbook, Of a Bed Frame, almost finished with Lightsey Darst's book, Find the Girl, Alison Stine's...

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Paper Guillotines Reviewed Again

2011-01-27T10:59:00.000-08:00

Christopher Frost has written a review of Paper Guillotines for Neon Literary Magazine (which published two of my poems back in 2008). Many thanks to Mr. Frost and to Neon's founder and editor, Krishan Coupland. An excerpt: "[N]o amount of labels can define Frame's view of the world. That's what Paper Guillotines is for, and it does the job admirably. So these poems have messages, but they're not message-poems. They stand up for themselves." Read the whole review here:...

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"Prayers" (for Rane Arroyo)

2011-01-16T08:11:00.000-08:00

I'm pleased (and quite shocked) to announce that my poem "Prayers," an elegy (of sorts) for my friend, the brilliant poet Rane Arroyo, has been accepted by Third Coast! Look for it in the Fall 2011 issue. More on this once the issue is released.

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Lewd, Brood and Refined

2011-01-10T07:16:00.000-08:00

Save the date, Toledo. I'll be participating in Lewd: An Erotic Literature Reading. Friday, Feb. 11 8:00PM-10:00PM at Glass City Cafe. Hope to see you there. Here's the official Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=175693855786630

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Review of Paper Guillotines

2010-12-03T08:36:00.000-08:00

Many thanks to reviewer Ryder Collins and editor Gloria Mindock for the fabulous review of Paper Guillotines, which you can read in the December, 2010 issue of Cervena Barva Press Newsletter. A brief excerpt: "If Paper Guillotines were a baby, that baby would have a tattoo and kick your prettyboy/girl ass. If Paper Guillotines were a vice, it'd be something like cloves or menthol cigarettes. If Paper Guillotines were an opera, there'd be three tenors at least. If Paper...

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Bla Bla Bla -- I'm Still Alive

2010-11-06T14:18:00.001-07:00

Working on a new poem and it's killing me. It's long, complicated and a bit more narrative than I've been dealing with lately. I have tons of notes, ideas, lines and images in my notebook -- most of which were written in one of two ways: In the dark, with the aid of a flashlight, in the middle of a park at around 4:00 AM, while walking to work. Somewhere on the streets of Toledo, in between shifting gears and resisting the urge to flick off other drivers (no need for them to associate my...

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Because it Belongs to All of Us. Vote.

2010-11-01T16:54:00.001-07:00

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Nominated!

2010-09-26T09:30:00.000-07:00

I am thrilled to announce that Mobius: The Journal of Social Change has nominated my poem "Thirteen Things My Military Students Tell Me That They Can't Tell Their Parents" for the 2010 Best of the Net from Sundress Publications. I'll let you know once the finalists and winners are announced.

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