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ROCK 'N ROLL JIZZ by Doug Draime

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 02:22:00 +0000

Rock 'n Roll Jizz

Poetry by
Doug Draime
$6 (plus shipping)

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Doug Draime is a poet for the ages, whose words of yesteryore are not filled with if-only's and shoulda-woulda-coulda's, but instead are blistered, bleeding, and broken through the skin with pure punk-fucking-rock. This book defines a generation raised on Elvis and Robert Johnson, air guitar and hard nightlife, James Dean and Marlon Brando, with a chug of whiskey, a dirty syringe, a couple of lonesome sighs, and a swift kick to any throat that's lost for words and fumbling for drink.

In Rock 'n Roll Jizz, Draime nails the nostalgia without clinging to the sentimental, makes those moments when rock 'n' roll was young seem accessible to anyone, as if it were the firsthand experience of the whole world, without sounding like an already-overdone spinning record of remember-when. You'll end up wanting to dust off those musty blues 45's, drop one needle on the record and one in your arm, sport that patched-up leather jacket, and walk yourself to Basin Street via Positively 4th Street, not forgetting to hit up Peggy Sue at Heartbreak Hotel and swing by Blueberry Hill on the way.

When rock 'n' roll was young, there was a romantic magic in the wild hearts of the generation's youth that will never be found again. It was a time period on the verge of bridging one of the greatest generation gaps in modern history; and if you weren't there, you weren't there. Until now. Draime's in-depth look at the generation, music, influences, atmosphere, and pop culture that shaped him will take you there. With a side of rocks. And a few stitches.

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $6 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Angstman Arts, and mailed to Alternating Current, PO Box 183, Palo Alto CA 94302 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold.

This book includes:

Cover and inside photos by Beth Weinstein.

Poems by Doug Draime:

Molly's Place
When Rock 'n Roll Was A Teenager
After Buddy & Richie Died Flaming Down From The Sky, Yeah, The Big Bopper Too
1959
Down In The Swallow
Blues 1
Blues 2
Long Gone, Motherfucker In A '55 Olds 45 Years Ago
Warped American Dream
for Bo Diddley
6 Sketches of L.A.
Gracie Slick At 23 And Me On LSD
Walking On The Sky Over East L.A.
Dream
"Jim Dandy To The Rescue"
Cigarette & Booze Ad
Robert Johnson & The One Available Woman Of Horny Blues
Waiting For Further Developments
On The Edge Of Reefer Madness
Former English Lit Teacher Now A Talking Bartender
On Elvis Presley's Birthday
Shamrock Bar
Dean
Dream From Motel 6
Drinking Down The Street From The Radio City Rockettes
We Are The Sons And Daughters And Brothers And Sisters (to all those who came home from Viet Nam)
When I Had Elvis Sideburns

Read the Pushcart Prize-nominated poem, On Elvis Presley's Birthday.

Read a review of the book by Aleathia Drehmer (Durable Goods/In Between Altered States).

Read what John Bennett (Vagabond Press/Hcolom Press) and Misti Rainwater-Lites (eBuLLieNCe Press) said about the book.

Sample poem:

When Rock 'n Roll Was A Teenager

When rock ‘n roll was a teenager,
Great Balls Of Fire
was throwing punches
at a man twice its age
on a gravel parking lot in
Westport, Illinois,
laughing and drinking Jim Beam
straight from
the bottle,
between ducks and jabs.

When rock ‘n roll was a teenager,
Heartbreak Hotel
had its finger up the local car hop
after she closed down A&W for the night,
her hand around its hard dick,
pumping it slowly,
in the back seat at the drive-in movie,
Marlon Brando
in The Wild One
on the screen.

When rock ‘n roll was a teenager,
Only The Lonely
was in the county jail locked up for
drunk and disorderly, reading
Tropic of Cancer and writing poems
of sex, rage, and revolution,
trying to conceive a way
to escape from jail by taking its own life,
but, oh, we all know, rock ‘n roll
can never, will never die!

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Hosho McCreesh Deluxe Package

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:42:00 +0000

Hosho McCreesh Deluxe Package

Poetry by
Hosho McCreesh
Limited edition of 26
$10 (plus shipping)

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Hosho McCreesh is one of the gems of the small press, with words dripping with honesty and integrity, hundreds of slaps in the face and equally as many enjoyable recollections of happiness. McCreesh is a storyteller, focusing on the tiniest of details in aching perfection and necessity, unraveling simple thoughts and teetering on the edge of complexity with just the right amount of coherence and authority. An observer, a thinker, a deep philosopher, a quiet lover -- Hosho's stories are of people's struggles in the everyday, the legacies we pass on to children, the lies in which we allow ourselves to reside, the passage of time and all it carries with it. His words choke to find something beautiful in the mundane, to spring up like dandelions in the dark recesses of anonymity, to find familiarity in the cold stares of strangers, to become at ease with just the thought of being human in the concrete age of technology and silence. For those in search of a fresh voice among the blogs and dime-a-dozen poets of today, McCreesh is the poet we recommend for that breath of fresh air, that look in the mirror, the feeling that we can still connect in an isolated age and find beauty in all the simple imperfections of a world bulging at the seams to hold us all.

PLEASE NOTE that this is a very limited edition of only 26 signed and lettered bundles. The first advanced edition sold out before we could even make the press release, and this limited public edition has only half of the bundles still available for sale. Don't delay! Once they're gone, they're gone forever!

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $10 (plus $3 US shipping; $6 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with several free random books from the archives while we clean house.

This Deluxe Package includes:

Poetry chapbook: An Adamant, Unmitigated Hope Even Amidst The Doom...
Poetry chapbook: 4th Street Vagaries [Pocket Protector 16]
Magnet, one of a series of 26 designs
Poetry broadside: That We Each Fill The World With A Brutal Ugliness One Passed Off As Life...

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An Adamant, Unmitigated Hope
Even Amidst The Doom... includes:

Cover design by Sean Lynch of 10pt. Design

Poems by Hosho McCreesh:

Santa Monica Pier, Early Summer, 1998
Virga
3 to 5...
At the Hands of/Madmen & Drunks,/Fools & Fathers...
Something That/Begs Back The Spirit,/The Flame...
Call It A Battle Cry, Call It Guttural,/Call It A Harbinger, A Prophecy, A Vision,/Call It Begging, Pleading, Call It Last Ditch,/Call It The Knelling Of/The Rusted Bells Of Damnation,/Call It Whatever The Hell/You Need To Call It/To Get Them To Listen...
An Adamant, Unmitigated Hope/Even Amidst The Doom...
I Think Of A Murder Of Crows/Startled From The Cornstalks,/Wings Spattered By van Gogh's Blood...
Gutted By All That Ever Is...
It's Gotta Be The Austrians,/The Germans, The Russians,/Czechs, & Poles--
The Only Choice/Is No Choice At All:
Rapt With Fear, With Insecurity,/This Is How We Stumble Through Centuries,/Through Oceans Of Humanity,/Yet, Somehow,/Remain/Unaffected...
You Will Die, I Will Die, & Everything/We've Ever Known & Loved Will Be Bulldozed,/Wreckingballed, Changed, & Will Disappear/Eventually...
After Years of Fruitless Theory,/Years of Exhaustive, Inconclusive Research,/The New Prevailing Hypothesis/As to Why Stradivarius Violins/Sound So Desperately, Achingly Beautiful/Have the Experts Debating/Wood & Varnish & Climate & Craft...
Sunlight,/Yellow As Dead Cornstalks,/Bleeding Down...
Silence Blisters The Night/While The Dustmites Reign/In Their Filthy Corners/& These Are, Indeed,/Strange Days We/Inhabit...
& The Laughter,/The Fire, The Cackle,/& The Goddamned Life Itself...
Kidnapping The Sun &/Holding It Hostage While All That/Relies On Photosynthesis/Suffocates...
There Is a Way to Do It...
We Teeter, We Totter,/On the Edge of a/Lushfire Doom...
It's a Bolt, a Shot, a Tremor Within--/Dead Glaze of Dead Eyes/Startled Back to Sparkle & Life,/When We Finally Realize...
Why We Stare, Unflinchingly,/At All The Dead Blue Gods,//Why So Many Things, &/So Many People Fail,//& Why We Know So Much Struggle/As Our Weary Hearts Fade...
Following Centuries Of Bloodshed, Centuries Of War/We're No Closer To Solutions & It's Only The/Pyracantha Clawing At The Windows, The/Wind & Sky Punishing Us All For Our/Many & Varied Transgressions...
As The Weight Of An/Insentient World/Smothers Us,/As The Call Of Our/Strangled Spirits/Begs Redemption...
On What We've Been/Charged With,What We've Been/Beckoned By The Seething Cosmos To/Get Done, Right Here, & Right Now/While It Is Ours & Before We/Lose It/For/Good...
The Dead Know Only This...
One For The Poets/Who Know Exactly How Many/Publications/They've Appeared In...
To Truly Be/What You Want To Be,/What You Are/Maybe Even Meant To Be...
The Oaks, The Cedars, & The Pines/Would Scream At Us All To Stop & Listen/If Only We'd Hear Them...
Grab Hold The Scorching Sunflower,/Know It, Embrace It/Even As We/Blister...

4th Street Vagaries includes:

Cover design by Sean Lynch of 10pt. Design

Poems and photographs by Hosho McCreesh:

[54 untitled poems]
[35 photographs]

The broadside includes:

Glued, folded cardstock and laid paper; handmade, signed, and lettered by Hosho McCreesh:
That We Each Fill The World With A Brutal Ugliness One Passed Off As Life...

The magnet includes:

Laser-printed full-color reproduction of original watercolor by Hosho McCreesh, Winter on 4th Street. Set of 26 designs, each unique and featuring a different poem from 4th Street Vagaries.

Sample poem:

After Years of Fruitless Theory,
Years of Exhaustive, Inconclusive Research,
The New Prevailing Hypothesis
As to Why Stradivarius Violins
Sound So Desperately, Achingly Beautiful
Have the Experts Debating
Wood & Varnish & Climate & Craft...

Spruce & maple
dragged from the northern slopes
of Tarvisio Forest,
dark ages wood, with
meat so dense, veins so small
it could survive the
brutal temperatures
of that minor ice age,
yes, the wood,
the age of it;

or some magical recipe of
sandarac and madder root
some concoction
impossible to
decode or repeat;

the immeasurable quality
of the workmanship, the craft,
the carving, shaping, polishing,
the love & the mastery;

300 years of kings & princes,
of wars & slaughters & betrayals,
of bombs & heists & double-crosses,
of resting in the hands of the
finest musicians the world has made
year after year after year after year,
the tremble of fierce, haunting chords,
all that energy added
to the atomic vibration;

Yes, yes, yes, beyond even these
notions & best guesses,
yes, as is with most things,
it's the sruggle
that makes them
beautiful.

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CAMELOT KID'S TRIGGERTOPIA by David S. Pointer

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:35:00 +0000

Camelot Kid's Triggertopia

Poetry by
David S. Pointer
$5 (plus shipping)

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David S. Pointer's latest work from Propaganda Press showcases the sadness and decrepitude of America's trailer parks and projects, the lower middle ground and the sorrowful struggles of the painful politics that keep a man standing there. Pointer's words find the parallels in the global lower class, from the modern sex trades of developing countries to the glass ceilings and corporate ladders that keep us standing on the lower rung to lessons in economics as we try to explain away a war with lies and propaganda. Pointer dissects businesses, corporations, the loaded interviews, and the big-picture of the money-making world as it relates to the little people, from the perspective of a former project kid growing up in a slum called Camelot, the irony ringing out like the loud words making up this politically-charged, yet personal book. Included, as well, are photos from David's past, ranging from photos of his parents -- his father, a bankrobber -- to photos of himself, and then on down to photos of his daughters, wrapping up three generations of Pointer's life as the cycle continues.

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $5 (plus $2 US shipping; $4 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with several free random books from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover art and inside illustrations by leah angstman.

Poems by David S. Pointer:

A Slice of the Modern Sex Trade
Major CEO: Basic Job Description
Banjo Dan
Jocko's
In A Perfect Small Press World
The Patient First?
[untitled haiku 1]
What's Up Economically
The Call of Contemporary Duty
[untitled haiku 2]
Love Has Landed
[untitled haiku 3]
[untitled haiku 4]
WWII Russian Military History
Not Quite Catsville
Destiny and Breanna
[untitled haiku 5]
The Replacements
Triggertopia
Camelot Kid Rides Again (Into the Revisionism of Family History)
One-Minute Manual for Aspiring Political Poets
Destination New Daybreak
[untitled haiku 6]
[untitled haiku 7]
[untitled haiku 8]
[untitled haiku 9]
Another Hard Shift
Breakout
Former Project Kid Still Hears the Boss
Removing Rot in Excessive Riches
Love From Above
Quick Surgery Syndrome
[untitled haiku 10]
Attitudes of a Frequently Absent Party Girl
Wall Street-Washington

A Review: Published on Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene blog and in Wilderness House Literary Review #4, by Mignon Ariel King.

Sample poem:

Love From Above

In Okinawa,
the nights
uncoiled out
of smoky control
like a sex swing
swirling on an
indulgent
stage of
intoxicated
disbelief
as another
hard-charging
Marine
gave his
green pay glob
to a money
box bookie
by a lift chair
lasso strap
before mounting
& becoming the
libido ranger
riding a night
nympho in a
spotlighted
leaking sky.

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THIS ELECTRICAL WEEK (Ending 3/12/10)
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~~New books reviewed on Open A Real Book Reviews: Price Reduced Again by Julie Buffaloe-Yoder HERE; Ko by Aleathia Drehmer HERE; MUST Deviations #5 HERE; Detective Stories by Arthur Winfield Knight HERE; I knew Bukowski like you knew a rare leaf by Harry Calhoun HERE; and Two Torch Singers by Gerald Locklin HERE.

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POEMS FROM THE LEFT BANK: SOMERVILLE, MASS. by Doug Holder

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:19:00 +0000

Poems from the Left Bank: Somerville, Mass.

Poetry by
Doug Holder
$5 (plus shipping)

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Doug Holder's words are of the everyday on the colonial East Coast, breathing the slightest sighs into the women at the checkout counters and putting the sluggish steps into the old folks drudging through the streets of the yet-to-be-gentrified Somerville, a homey-feeling town snuggled against the liberal and youthful hips of Cambridge and well over the bridge from the harshness of Boston. Somerville wants so very much to be its own, as the quiet hipster squares and coffee shops are filled with poets, artists, lovers on computers, the old Portuguese community, and the young lower-to-middle class, each struggling alongside one another for a place in this world. Holder's words paint frames around these individuals, their joys and sadnesses, their static yet cyclic lives each crashing full-throttle into one another without ever realizing the kinetic flow of their buzz and hum. You meet these people on Holder's pages -- the women with their shopping carts; the patrons of the local pet store; the bottle ladies; the modern cafe lovers; the ghosts in the ancient colonial graveyards; the walkers; the bus riders -- portrait after portrait of each delicate individual, handled with detail and humor to come to life between these covers.

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $5 (plus $2 US shipping; $4 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with three free random books from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover art by Richard Wilhelm:
Somerville Yard

Poems by Doug Holder:
OLD WOMEN AT MARKETBASKET
PET STORE
TWO OLD WOMEN
BOTTLE LADY, SCHOOL ST., SOMERVILLE
OLD WOMAN OUTSIDE THE FAMILY DOLLAR STORE
HAMLET ST., SOMERVILLE
ROOMMATE WANTED
MODERN LOVERS
THE GRAVEYARD ON SOMERVILLE AVE.
"DADDY, IS HE A MONSTER?"
SPRING ON SCHOOL STREET
SOMERVILLE: WALKING TO UNION SQUARE
MOTHER LEADING HER BOY TO THE WOMEN'S ROOM
A WEED IN THE CONCRETE
DOZING AT THE GRAND CAFE
LOOKING AT A LONE WOMAN IN A BAR
FALLEN CHERUB OUTSIDE A LIQUOR STORE
DICK'S APARTMENT
I KNOW BERNIE, I CAN GET YOU IN
ON THE LAWN

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THIS ELECTRICAL WEEK (Ending 1/30/10)
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~~Reviews and mentions: Poems from the Left Bank: Somerville, Mass. by Doug Holder got some kind words from Dan Sklar HERE, a review in the upcoming Wilderness House Literary Review HERE, and some exposure on The Word HERE; The Sagging: Spirits & Skin by Jason Fisk was reviewed at Poet Hound HERE; and Alternating Current was mentioned in a Mighty Mercury article HERE.

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SHADES OF GREEN by Jeff Fleming

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:26:00 +0000

Shades of Green

Poetry by Jeff Fleming
$5 (plus shipping)

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Jeff Fleming's latest collection of poems revolves around the before, during, and after years of the Vietnam War, dabbling more with the damaging psychological effects of the sights, sounds, and senses of and around the soldiers than the actual war itself. Fleming doesn't claim to be an historian in these poems, but rather a narrator for those who can no longer speak for themselves, a portal into the minds of the fallen... or those who would rather they had fallen than be thrown back into a society that no longer understands what they'd been through. The voice is there, in a simple and unpretentious way, giving faces and names to those who can no longer tell their stories and paralleling the fears and flickering media images of today's war, reminding us that history repeats itself if we don't learn from it. Fleming -- an editor and publisher, himself, who knows the importance of saying everything in just a few words -- is precise with his pen, clear cut and vocal without the padding, bringing you a collection of poems that are equally as enjoyable and beautiful as they are important and gripping, leaving you knowing the truth about war and its survivors: that only those who have died will ever see the end of it.

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $5 (plus $2 US shipping; $4 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with three free random books from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Poems by Jeff Fleming:

Make It Count
the leaves, the grass
Blame
In The Bush
December 9, 1969
The Good News
Some Guys
Docs
Way Out Here
Today Is
The Machete
The Smallest Rustle
Chico Tells Me
Bird Book
Egg Nog and Something Else
The First Thing
In the Dust
The Little Moments
Over There
The Four Ravens of the Apocalypse
In the Dream

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THIS ELECTRICAL WEEK (Ending 1/23/10)
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~~Reviews and mentions: Poems from the Left Bank: Somerville, Mass. by Doug Holder blogged on Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene HERE and on The Somerville News HERE. Billy and Cindy by Stephanie Hiteshew and Dave Church reviewed on Ragged Edge: Instead-Of-A-Blog HERE.

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MIDNIGHT AT THE SNAKE MOTEL by Jon Tait

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:04:00 +0000

Midnight at the Snake Motel

Prose poetry by Jon Tait
$5 (plus shipping)

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A series of prose poems that reads like short stories or journalistic ramblings of world travels, Jon Tait's latest chapbook hops from place to place, stopping for a moment to catch a breath at this station or that port before flying off to meet old friends or sailing to new landscapes. The poetic prose is sans punctuation in a James Joyce style of storytelling that tumbles one word after another in a waterfall of motion, always rolling forward, with hardly a chance to breathe or think about the rapid moments before another one comes along. The stories are of youth; discovering yourself among friends and lovers; following connections to make the right feelings click at the right time; exploring different cultures and subcultures with new eyes; and recounting tales of all the strangers, blokes, and characters who've shared laughs, beers, hugs, tokes, and tears along the path.

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $5 (plus $2 US shipping; $4 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with three free random books from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover photo courtesy of Gina Adore:
Gina in Vegas

Prose poems by Jon Tait:
Call to prayers
See Naples & Die
Rotor Blades
Midnight at the Snake Motel
Granny Glasses
Broken Spectre
Sunday Morning South of France
Journey into Space
Bad Vibes in Genoa
Birthday Balloons
Night Shift
8 'til 8
Pigeon
Election time in Civitavecchia
The Devil
Have It
Flying Keys
Tartans Flapping
Boom of the Bass
The Sundance Kid
Pedal Power
Cold Steel Trigger
Two Steps Back
Playing with Snakes
March or Die
Dirty Jobs
15 Miles
Blood Kit
Regrets
Picket Line
Cosmic Gratitude
Border Reiver
The Egg Shack
Good Karma
Comparing Tattoos
One Big Win

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THIS ELECTRICAL WEEK (Ending 1/16/10)
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~~New book reviewed on Open A Real Book Reviews: Falling Up by Jeff Fleming HERE.

~~Reviews and mentions: Blurb about Stephanie Hiteshew's and Dave Church's Billy and Cindy by Keith Dersley HERE [scroll down under 12-1-10]; leah angstman and Alternating Current [although misspelled as Alternative Current] mentioned in Word Riot's interview of t. kilgore splake HERE.

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BILLY AND CINDY by Stephanie Hiteshew and Dave Church

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:28:00 +0000

Billy and Cindy

by Stephanie Hiteshew
and Dave Church
$6 (plus shipping)

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On Thanksgiving day, 2008, the small press world lost one of the good ones, Dave Church, to a heart attack. Following the deluge of tributes and collections pouring out of the small press to honor him, here rises a collection truly worthy and far different from the rest: an entire story of desperation, crime, beauty, struggle, kindness, anger, and love, played out in a series of letters between two fictional characters, Billy and Cindy, held expertly in the hands of Dave Church and Stephanie Hiteshew, with eerily similar reflections of their own lives and struggles on multiple metaphorical levels. Two of the small press' greatest come together here to bring to life the last work of the late Dave Church and the continuing excellence of the talented Stephanie Hiteshew, in a tale that showcases their talents while also underlying the true spirit and depth of their personal relationship, their trust for one another's writing ideas, and the blind leap of improvised faith each took in the passing back and forth of an unfolding story in one another's hands. The characters are real and raw, biting and charming in the same breath, sarcastic and sincere, pretty and ugly, empty and full, searching and complete, kind and mean, hopeful and hopeless; each existing in a world of paradoxes as they stumble from problem to problem, losing themselves but finding each other, losing each other but finding themselves. With 100 pages of writing, this collection of letters is a beautiful final tribute to the character and depth of Dave Church and his writing, and a must-have for your small press collection.

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $6 (plus $2 US shipping; $4 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with three free random books from the archives while we clean house.

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THE SAGGING: SPIRITS & SKIN by Jason Fisk

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:39:00 +0000

The Sagging: Spirits & Skin

Poetry by Jason Fisk
$5 (plus shipping)

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The Sagging: Spirits & Skin is a quiet, brooding, reflective, and smart trip through life's hard and funny moments; miscarriages of family members and meeting estranged loves in the aisles of Target, smashing cicadas in anger toward others and peeing outside the car as your friends take off driving away from you, laughing at grandma walking into the closet instead of the bathroom and unraveling quiet love affairs of others. The words are as humorous as they are painful, as dark as they are charming, as sorrowful as they are pleasant; the journey is a real one and an intelligent one and a bleak one and a retrospective one. You will find yourself in the words as surely as you lose yourself in them.

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $5 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with two free random books from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Poetry by Jason Fisk:

The Farm
Spring Trip '94
Drunk, Watching Reruns
Morning Light
Musicology
The Rosebud
Self-Imposed Isolation
Short Lived
My Sister's Miscarriage
Pride
Exoskeletons
Depression
Summer - 1985
Fade
Terry
Atrophy
Discommodious
Tandem Bike
The Details
European Psychic
Dirty Old Smell

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NOVEMBER $1.00 HOLIDAY SALE

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:11:00 +0000

It's November, and the holidays are right around the corner, so what better way to kick them off than with a poetry sale to get some cheap poetry chapbooks for all your friends and family (and of course, for yourself!)!? Spread the love of poetry to anyone and everyone you know for only ONE BUCK!

That's right, for a limited time only, the following books are available to you for only $1.00 each. Last print runs, and once these last few copies are gone, these books are gone forever! We need to make space, so get them before they're gone! Here's how to order:

By mail: Send a note indicating the books you want to purchase and well-concealed cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, and send to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA.

By credit card: Go to alt-current.com, click on DONATIONS, enter the amount you want to pay, scroll down to the lower left side where it says "Don't have a Paypal account?" and click CONTINUE. BE SURE YOU SEND US AN EMAIL to alt.current@gmail.com letting us know what you want to purchase.

By Paypal: Either go to alt-current.com, click on DONATIONS, enter the amount you want to pay, and login to continue OR got to Paypal.com, login, and send a payment to alt.current@gmail.com. BE SURE YOU SEND US AN EMAIL to alt.current@gmail.com letting us know what you want to purchase.

We are making no money on these; in fact, we are probably going to end up paying more for postage, so feel free to throw in an extra donation if you want, but let the liquidation commence! If you are out of the USA, a couple extra bucks for postage would be nice.

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Just Because I Didn't Leave The Driving To Us, I Got Jailed And Juiced Good by Paul Weinman (poetry) [only 72 left]

The Literature Collection (various authors, poetry) [only 6 left]

Revolution Calling #12 (zine) [only 78 left]

Revolution Calling #13 (zine) [only 37 left]

Crackrock #1 (various authors, poetry) [only 71 left]

Seeds... (various quotes) [only 12 left]

Punctuation (various authors, poetry) [only 85 left]

poem poorly written by leah angstman (poetry) [only 65 left]

fancy that of london by leah angstman (poetry) [only 40 left]

A Crime of Sorts by leah angstman (play script) [only 78 left]

next exit by leah angstman (poetry) [only 28 left]

aftermath by leah angstman (poetry) [only 61 left]

i have seen war today by leah angstman (poetry) [only 60 left]

a thousand ghosts by leah angstman (poetry) [only 47 left]

chicago in winter by leah angstman (poetry) [only 44 left]

helen of troy by leah angstman (poetry) [only 34 left]

there's something about lily by leah angstman (poetry) [only 57 left]

bonnie and clyde by leah angstman (poetry) [only 61 left]

Loose Ends by Ed Galing (poetry) [only 17 left]

Out On A Limb by Ed Galing (poetry) [only 16 left]

Rooftops by Ed Galing (poetry) [only 15 left]

Diner by Ed Galing (poetry) [only 14 left]

Shadows on the Wall by Ed Galing (poetry) [only 17 left]

The Next Voice You Hear... by Ed Galing (poetry) [only 8 left]

Confessions of a White Hat by Ed Galing (poetry) [only 15 left]

Lower east side poems by Ed Galing (poetry) [only 16 left]

Chasing The World never catching up by Ed Galing (poetry) [only 15 left]

Senior Center by Ed Galing (poetry) [only 17 left]

Bargain Basement and other selected poems by Ed Galing (poetry) [only 18 left]

Words Of Wisdom by Ed Galing (poetry) [only 5 left]

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DEATH IS MY SUBJECT by Christopher Cunningham

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:35:00 +0000

Death Is My Subject

Poetry by
Christopher Cunningham

Limited Deluxe Edition
$6 (plus shipping)
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The twelfth book in our Pocket Protector series of mini-chapbooks, Death Is My Subject is Christopher Cunningham's look at beauty in suffering, strength in withering, purity in the wilting of youth and time and passion and life. It is an uplifting look at death, the all-encompassing darkness, fear, straight-forward marching into the blackness; but there is more: Cunningham shows you the light in all of it, the sparks of necessity, the blips of sanity even in the bleakest moments. Instead of focusing on the negativities or finalities of death, this book truly teaches the intricacies and beauty of living. Full of grit and realism, this book, marching us into a graceful death, also symbolizes the laying to rest of all of Cunningham's work up to this point, the close of a chapter, the death of a decade. Truly poignant and moving.

The Limited Deluxe Edition comes with the Pocket Protector chapbook; a supplement chapbook with different previously-unpublished poems continuing the theme; one laminated bookmark in a series of six designs, numbered and signed by the author; and a full-color poetry broadside, numbered and signed by the author, all wrapped in a black crepe paper package with a ribbon and a thin cloth leaf. This is a beautiful limited edition package, and once it's gone, it's gone!

The Limited Deluxe Edition can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $6 (plus $4 US shipping; $6 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with two free random books from the archives while we clean house. You can also purchase just the Pocket Protector book to complete your collection without all the deluxe works for $3 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) online or through the mail to the same address.

The Pocket Protector includes:

the deepest glass
the neighborhood
and the ride home
an uneasy horizon
another, better reason
dust upon the crucifix
the loyalty of a dog
this box of wooden matches
a light worth dying for
North Carolina
the animals
he has time
all night long
good morning, george orwell
a typical destruction
still reaching
springtime
a walk in the desert
song of a cold heart
on a clear night
the tide going out
mice
standing naked in the pouring illusion
metaphor
to the peddlers of jesus at my door
strange eyes
so what's your excuse?
here and now

The supplement chapbook includes:

those who do not dream
yet the dusk comes
an otherwise featureless landscape
one way out
sleeping
a sound I hear in color
waylaid in the desolation, strangely smiling
days of emergency
he won't be riding a pale anything
hope for the future
not really a betting man
not many nights
the curb
to find a way
holiday spirit
black fingertips and ashes
and I should be sleeping

The bookmark series includes (1 of 6 poems/designs):

rage
style
musical
everything beautiful burning to live
clothes of sand
the pistol

The broadside includes:

like some mutual disease

Limited Deluxe Edition
$6 (plus shipping)
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~~New books and mail art in the Indie Zine Library Archive [View them in FULLSCREEN by clicking on the button in the upper left hand corner of each page]:

Revolution Calling Advertisement #1 HERE; The Hours That Matter by Christopher Cunningham HERE; This Is The Day by S.A. Griffin HERE; For Hank by A.D. Winans HERE; Untitled by A.D. Winans HERE; Marymark Press Give-Out Sheet Series May 2009 HERE; Revolution Calling Advertisement #2 HERE; To Be The Fourth Wise Man by Giovanni Malito HERE; TimeLikeToons August 2009 Mailing HERE; Moscow-esque by Mark Sonnenfeld HERE; 2 Year Poems by George Kuntzman and Mark Sonnenfeld HERE; Neal Wilgus August 2009 Reprint Mailing HERE; Beatlick News Volume 2 Issue 27 HERE; Marymark Give-Out Sheet Series 2004 HERE; Meat #7 HERE; and R. Emolo Give-Out Sheet Series August 2005 HERE.

~~Reviews of Befallen by K. Alma Peterson at Poets' Quarterly (Current Issue) HERE and Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene HERE.

~~Review of under the el by David Stone at Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene HERE.

~~Review of All This I See Before Me, All This I Cannot Resist. by Adrian Manning at Poet Hound HERE.

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UNDER THE EL by David Stone

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:51:00 +0000

under the el

Poetry by David Stone
$5 (plus shipping)

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under the el is a journey through the noisy and bustling, lonely yet crowded streets of Chicago, the sketches of the raw characters there, and a breeze of words as blustery as the air of the Windy City. Full of colorful, if abstract, language of setting and time, politics and history, law and ruin, under the el drags you through the tracks of the elevated trains on a sight-seeing discovery of the underworld and the normalcy, alike; one breath for the good, one breath for the bad, but always breathing. The poems weave utopian ideas and concrete figures into one poetic storytelling of Chicago life and how the pace of the Midwest city differs from Stone's current life on the East Coast.

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $5 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with two free random books from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover art and poetry by David Stone:

CENSORED IDEOGRAMMES
THE DISCARDED IDEOGRAMME
KNOTSPHERES
LANGUAGE SAILS
THE SHTETL EXIT
THE FIRE ENGINE
THE SUBWAY GLANCE
THE ENGINEER OF HELL
THE MORNING PACE
REEL 2, PLATE 6
YK
FAULT
GALLANT GALILEO
under the el

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~~New books and mail art in the Indie Zine Library Archive [View them in FULLSCREEN by clicking on the button in the upper left hand corner of each page]:

It's Not Enough Of Elvis by Paul Fericano HERE; Sandragons Mail Art HERE; Tina Scalzone Mail Art HERE; Mosaics 1997 HERE; Homesick Abortion Poster HERE; Friendship Book #2 HERE; The Cult Of Sleepless Nights Poster HERE; Friendship Book #1 HERE; Cokefishing in Alpha Beat Soup July 2009 HERE; Cokefishing in Alpha Beat Soup August 2009 HERE; Behind The Rhododendron by Amanda Oaks HERE; Vishnu: The Train Ride To You by Amanda Oaks HERE; Amanda S. Oaks Mail Art 2006 HERE; R. Emolo Give-Out Sheets August 2009 HERE; R. Emolo Give-Out Sheets July 2009 HERE.

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POIESIS #3 by Various Authors

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:57:00 +0000

Poiesis #3

Poetry by various authors
$4 (plus shipping)

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Issue #3 of our poetry journal is madly brimming with juicy bits of goodness from all walks of life, from young and old, from experienced writers and first-timers. Gary Every called it "one of the deepest quality journals [he has] appeared in for quite a while," and we're not ashamed to take that quote to peddle our wares! The poetry journal is high-quality, thick, and jam-packed with poetry, one poem per author, spanning so many subjects, styles, moods, and emotions that it would take too long to list them all! You really won't be disappointed in the volume of good work presented here. The Featured Writer for this issue is t. kilgore splake, as well, so there in and of itself is a treat for you!

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $4 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover art by Theo Nelson:
Ghost Cloud 2

Poetry by Various Authors:
Roses by Tim Scannell
Age of Uncertainty by Joseph Dorazio
Children Of Memory by Bob Sharkey
THE MURDEROUS TENTACLES OF THE MOON by normal
Between the Silence by Patrice M. Wilson, PhD
TUTTI ASSOLTI PROCESSO PER LE MORTI AL PETROLCHIMICO by Ferruccio Brugnaro
ALL ACQUITTED IN TRIAL OVER PETROCHEMICAL DEAD [English Translation by Jack Hirschman]
* by Simon Perchik
one a.m. by Dan Maneikis
April First by Dave L. Tickel
God Loves Rock by John Berbrich
DAVID by Shane Allison
DANCING WITH WORDS by A.D. Winans
Contagious by Stephanie Hiteshew
Killing Time in a Diner by Paul David Thomas
Sliding on Black Ice by Ashley Gatewood
The Shelley Senryu by Harland Ristau [R.I.P.]
Bad Sign by Bruce McRae
symmetry. by Janice Brabaw
letter to the editor of our small town newspaper by Patrick McKinnon
Gangsta' Style (for Tupac) by Zoe A. Jaimot
Lost in Thought by Giovanni Malito [R.I.P.]
At Fourteen by B.Z. Niditch
III by William Martinez
SANS/WITHOUT by Hugh Fox
Sounds Of Sunlight by Neal Wilgus
[untitled] by Catfish McDaris
The End by Michael Kriesel
Midnight Ride by David S. Pointer
One Person, Many Futures... by R. Emolo
So Alone, abridged by Karl Chamberlain [R.I.P.]
A Long Night Spent Alone in the Castle Library by Jeff Fleming
the same time each day by Timothy Gager
6:41 am by justin.barrett
soap and water by J.J. Campbell
Just Another Word by Pamela Annas
My Fallen Angel by Charles D. Thacker [R.I.P.]
MARATHON by Ed Galing
The Many Bridges by David J. Thompson
summer mad by kevin m. hibshman
Sandrine's Lament by Joseph Verrilli
for Geoffrey Hill, Beckett, and Blake by Robert Schuler
DISEQUILIBRIUM by Arnold Skemer
When I Go by Joe Speer
SILVER BIRCH by Mary Guckian
you fall out in breaths by leah angstman
RIGHT FOOT INTO WINGS by Charles P. Ries
Yardwork by Gary Every
backing up a trailer by Guy R. Beining
United Shiners of Artifice by Justin Rogers
Killer Elites by Alan Catlin
Garage Sale by Lila Goodman

Featured Writer: t. kilgore splake
being
long white musings
becoming

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~~New book reviews on Open A Real Book Reviews: Labour of Love Vol 32 HERE; 37 Psalms from the Badlands by Hosho McCreesh HERE; Vishnu: The Train Ride To You by Amanda Oaks HERE; Behind The Rhododendron by Amanda Oaks HERE; Nothing Unrequited Here by Heather Bell HERE; Beyond The Cliffs by T. Kilgore Splake HERE.

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SNOW IN THE FORECAST by Dave L. Tickel

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:30:00 +0000

Snow In the Forecast

Poetry by Dave L. Tickel
Right Quick series book 1
$1

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Book #1 in our Right Quick series of 1/8-page-sized mini-chaps for a quick blast of poetry at an amazing price. Tickel has been around the small press for quite a while, writing with a beat poet feel, harking back to the days of Kerouac, Micheline, the like. This small book packs a punch, giving the reader a great taste for Tickel's writing if being introduced for the first time, and giving the experienced Tickel reader some new material on which to gnaw. From Bob Dylan to Diogenes and the dissection of classic rock to hippie life and young, wild love in the 70's to the meanings and teachings of writing from the standpoint of those narcissistic academics, this book has a pleasant little slice of Tickel's post-beat brain, still beating out the rhythms of yesteryear in the small press today.

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $1 (plus $1 US shipping; $2 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house. Please note that if you purchase this online, our default cheapest shipping price costs more than the book, since it is lighter than most of the books we ship. In order to get your money's worth, we suggest you pay through the mail, or add it to other purchases in your online shopping cart to get your shipping's worth! :)

This book includes:

Cover art by leah angstman:
Bob Dylan

Poetry by Dave L. Tickel:
Bob Dylan and Diogenes
Playboy Centerfold
Seat Belts
Writers' Conference Deceased
Beans
She's My Best Friend
Snow In the Forecast

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~~Our poetry clearance sale is still going on! Check out our sweet deals! HERE.

~~New book reviews on Open A Real Book Reviews: Cokefishing In Alpha Beat Soup: July 2009 HERE; Falling Forward by Rebecca Schumejda HERE; nibble #8 HERE.

~~New zine added to the Indie Zine Library Archive [View it in FULLSCREEN in the website's top left corner]: Dead Reckoning: the Sailor Poems by Robin Merrill HERE.

~~A poem by leah angstman, salem witch house, was published in Cokefishing In Alpha Beat Soup: July 2009 HERE.

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NEVER TRUST A MAN WEARING PURPLE SHOES by J.J. Campbell

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:12:00 +0000

never trust a man wearing purple shoes

Poetry by J.J. Campbell
Pocket Protector book 11
$3

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Book #11 in our Pocket Protector series of mini-poetry chapbooks, never trust a man wearing purple shoes is the story of a man who's had too much, has dealt with his share of pain, and is coming to terms with the possibility of nearing the end at an age far too young. Over the past few years, Campbell, a 33-year-old veteran of the contemporary small press, has overcome serious health problems, insomnia, a rare blood disease, blood clotting, and obesity to remain standing, one foot on the edge and pen in hand, to tell you about it. This book centers around the psychological and physical aspects of those health problems, genetic defects, hospital stays, heart monitors -- the loneliness, the surrender, and the dark humor that goes with the pain and the knowledge that any day could be your last. The words are dramatic, cautious, hard -- sometimes cold, but always passionate -- reflecting on youth and death in one breath, collapsing into fantasies of love that's hard to find in such conditions, while toying darkly with the idea of suicide and reaching the end. This book takes you on one man's journey of not just coming to terms with the possibility of death, but also with the possibility of survival.

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $3 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover art by leah angstman

Poetry by J.J. Campbell:
welcome to the small press kid
last morning of 2008
the wonderful unknown
5 pm in ohio and it suddenly all makes sense
twisting
safety first
forever a romantic
unemployment
the sadness
this stoic insane face
on god forgetting i exist
the spark of my youth
a bedtime story
somehow it still gets hard
yet fruitless
4818
sunshine on a cloudy day
plastic made perfect
more relief than fear
birthdays
the empty promise of potential
another nail in my coffin
from my empty bed
prey
piss poor aim
suicide watch
an endless trail of pain

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DIVERTIMIENTO by Julian Gallo

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:28:00 +0000

Divertimiento

Poetry by Julian Gallo
Pocket Protector book 10
$3

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Divertimiento, the latest book from Julian Gallo, is book 10 in the Pocket Protector series of mini-poetry-chaps. Don't get us wrong -- mini in size does not mean mini in poetry, as this chap weighs in at a hefty 33 poems packed into a 1/16th sized book. These poems weave music, past loves, present loves, life experiences, city tales, Sicilian heritage, and politics into an interesting varied life story. Full of emotion, sarcasm, questioning, and longing, Gallo's words are honest, story-like, easy to understand while remaining mysterious; comprehensible and relatable while staying poetic. Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $3 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover art by Julian Gallo:
3:30am

Poetry by Julian Gallo:
Repulsion
Dead Leaves
Gulag
Bound For Glory
Santa Ana
Cracks In The Paint
Leonard Cohen Missed
Pebbles And Bricks
Dogma
Hoboken Sunrise
Patterns
Salt
Auteur
The Joke
Footsteps
Horizon
Finger Puppets Suffering Under My Gaze
Barriers
One Late Night
Abstractions
Beautiful Cronopio
Saturday Afternoon
Illumination for the rare few
This Is How It Is
Your Voice
Humpty Dumpty Incident
Le Beaupre
A Sort Of Mirage
Armistice
Dark Windows
Venga qui!
Revolution
Pulling The Thread

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~~Our poetry clearance sale is still going on! Check out our sweet deals! HERE.

~~New book reviews on Open A Real Book Reviews: For Dave Church, Poet: A Tribute #3 In Memoriam HERE; R. Emolo Give-Out Sheets June 2009 HERE; From The Marrow #74 HERE.

~~New zines added to the Indie Zine Library Archive [View them in FULLSCREEN in the website's top left corner]: Revolution Calling #14 HERE; For Dave Church, Poet: A Tribute #3 In Memoriam HERE; R. Emolo Give-Out Sheets June 2009 HERE; From The Marrow #74 HERE.

~~A letter by leah angstman was included in the new broadside For Dave Church, Poet: A Tribute #3 In Memoriam HERE.

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POUGHKEEPSIE ICEHOUSE by Anthony G. Herles

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:25:00 +0000

Poughkeepsie Icehouse
Short stories
by Anthony G. Herles
$5

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Poughkeepsie Icehouse is Herles' tales of life in the old New York icehouse, lifting ice cakes, witnessing murder, operating machinery, working with some real characters. Herles' book contains four short stories of his time in the now-defunct icehouse and all the adventures that went along with it. Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $5 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Short stories and cover art by Anthony G. Herles:
SCRAPS
THE INDIAN
STEVE
THE MAN IN THE CAKE

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BODY ENGLISH by Joseph Verrilli

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:23:00 +0000

Body English
Poetry and prose
by Joseph Verrilli
$5

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The third in a series of chapbooks largely dedicated to the author's deceased wife, Body English is about journeys, momentum, movement, questioning all that exists around you and moving with that into a new direction. The story toys with the idea of reincarnation, spirituality, spirits moving from one body into another, childhoods relived through the souls of other children. Joseph Verrilli's late wife, Janet, was fascinated with her own childhood, revealing it to her husband as she was 19 years his senior, trying to convey and share the differences of the time, growing up just after the turn of the century, how contrasting their childhoods were, almost 20 years apart. This book brings to life Janet's story of growing up, almost as a poetic commentary of Betty Smith's A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, a book Janet often said described her life as a child. In Body English, Joseph, working as a teacher's aide, observes, follows, and becomes entwined with the lives of some of the young girls whose spirits and childish freedoms match Janet's, questioning the possibility of Janet breathing life into them, contemplating fate, what's meant to be, who's to say, and how do we know? This book, containing both poetry and prose, is an excellent emotional journey and a must-have for your collection. Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $5 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Poems and prose by Joseph Verrilli:
Story
Portrait of Two Young Women (Certainties)
One Child in Particular
The Rhythm of a Saturday
TALL TALES and wind chimes
ENIGMATIC CHILD
Innocuous
BEFORE THE DANCE (for Francoise)
The Young Girl As Protagonist
ADAGIO
MEMORY AS QUICKSAND for Mrs. Lucille Overby
MALAISE: MELANCHOLY for Marie Kazalia
Woman in Various Stages of Redress
Pre-Conceived Notion
CHOREOGRAPHY
LEGACY
A Face Almost Forgotten

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POETRY CLEARANCE SALE!

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:08:00 +0000

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In our efforts to liquidate all older titles, but still see that they get to good homes, we are having a big old poetry sale on all of our older titles! To make way for new publications, new formats, new styles, and updated addresses (!), we are getting rid of all of our old publications at tremendous prices. The catch is that you MUST HURRY because ALL of these publications are in limited quantity, and once they're gone, they're gone! This is your ONLY CHANCE to get these books this cheap, or to get these books EVER AGAIN!! First come, First served. These prices include the shipping, but we will gladly take some extra bucks, if you feel like chipping in anything extra. If you are out of country, please throw in a few extra bucks for postage, as well. :)

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Just Because I Didn't Leave The Driving To Us I Got Jailed And Juiced Good by Paul Weinman (only 6 left) $1.50

Words Of Wisdom by Ed Galing (only 5 left) $2.75

Crackrock #1 by Various Authors (only 24 left) $1.50

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Loose Ends by Ed Galing (only 17 left) $3.75

Real-Life Poet by Various Authors (only 6 left) $2

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fancy that of london by leah angstman (only 43 left) $2

The Next Voice You Hear... by Ed Galing (only 9 left) $2.75

next exit by leah angstman (only 54 left) $2

Beer & Cookies... And Other Morbid Tales by Michael J. McCallum (only 8 left) $4

A Crime of Sorts by leah angstman (only 76 left) $1

Bargain Basement and other selected poems by Ed Galing (only 18 left) $2

Senior Center by Ed Galing (only 19 left) $2.75

aftermath by leah angstman (only 11 left) $3.50

Punctuation by Various Authors (only 85 left) $1.50

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there's something about lily by leah angstman (only 58 left) $1.75

bonnie and clyde by leah angstman (only 63 left) $1.75

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temperance in moderation by leah angstman - SOLD OUT!

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Shadows on the Wall by Ed Galing (only 17 left) $2

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Chasing The World Never Catching Up by Ed Galing (only 17 left) $2

Lower East Side Poems by Ed Galing (only 17 left) $2.75

Sweet & Sour by Ed Galing - SOLD OUT!

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WITHIN THE GRAND SCHEME by Joseph Veronneau

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:52:00 +0000

Within The Grand Scheme
Poetry by Joseph Veronneau
$5

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Joseph Veronneau is a master of moments. He captures people and mundane situations with a flair for making those situations necessary, real, and important. In this chapbook of his latest poems, Veronneau touches on the trenches of the everyday; people in their respective places with their respective tasks; the intricacies of awkward love; the modern day society; politics and what it means to be an American in this time; memories of his hometown and individual moments with young friends of childhood, and so many more situations to which any human can relate in some facet. Veronneau's poems tell the truth, coherently, to-the-point, with very few unnecessary or padded words; and they give you a glimpse into the author's life that is real, touching, objective, and emotional, all in the same breath. Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $5 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover art:
from Dream From Mona Lisa by Zlatko Krstevski

Poems by Joseph Veronneau:
No More Time
Ignoring the Goodbyes
Paperwork
Great Time To Be An American
State of the Nation
Station Clerk/Owner
Deer
Protest?
Vocation
Birthmark
Workload
What's In A Name
Doors
Genes
Outnumbered
Play-by-Play
Memories Sold Cheap
She Hadn't Been Lying
Tid Bit
Warnings
Just Before Massachusetts

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DAYS IN HEAVEN NIGHTS IN HELL by A.D. Winans

noreply@blogger.com (open your mind.) — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:54:00 +0000

Days in Heaven
Nights in Hell
Poetry by A.D. Winans
Pocket Protector book 9
$3

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The latest in our series of teeny-tiny mini-poetry chapbooks, book 9 in the Pocket Protector series is a telling of veteran poet A.D. Winans' life, spanning many years of observing the world and dissecting the streets of San Francisco. This collection runs the gamut of A.D.'s life, from war memories and military life in Panama; to Jazz and the roots of American music; to random worldly events, such as the United airplane crash of July 1989. Many poems deal with the revelations of death, reflections of the past, and coming to terms with getting older, approaching 68, then 70, then 72, weaving the tales of those years and what comes with them. A.D. is also an expert at catching the feelings of San Francisco, writing about the streets he loves, the people who inhabit them, the clashing backgrounds of so many cultures meeting together in one place, from the fighting of street gangs to the old Italians of Aquatic Park to the yuppies in North Beach. A.D. is truly the voice of this fine city and paints it with a rollercoaster blend of poetic romanticism and brutal realism. A must-have for your collection! Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $3 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover art:
from Dream From Mona Lisa by Zlatko Krstevski

Poems by A. D. Winans:
ON MY WAY TO BECOMING A MAN
PANAMA MEMORIES
PANAMA TEN
CITY POET
SAN FRANCISCO STREETS
CITY HAPPENINGS
NORTH BEACH YUPPIE BAR
DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO
MIDNIGHT POEM
GOING BACK IN TIME
68
APPROACHING 70
UNTITLED
71 Going On 72
WORDS
DEATH ON THE MIND
THE OLD ITALIANS OF AQUATIC PARK
WINTER POEM
BLUE CAFE
SUNDAY MORNING BLUES
UNITED AIRPLANE CRASH IN IOWA, July 1989.
LETTING GO
AUDIENCE OF ONE
POEM FOR CHARLIE MINGUS
JAZZ IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE
FOR LOUIS ARMSTRONG
OLD WARRIOR OF NORTH BEACH
ROAD RAGE
WINDING DOWN THE HOURS
HOW I WANT TO BE REMEMBERED

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SHORTS SHOTS by Alan Catlin

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:16:00 +0000

Short Shots
Poetry by Alan Catlin
Pocket Protector book 8
$3

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The latest in our series of teeny-tiny mini-poetry chapbooks, book 8 in the Pocket Protector series is no small or short feat! This tiny book is jam-packed with tons of poems about Catlin's bar life, broken into two sections: Short and Shots. The section of shorts are quick swigs of observations about patrons, sketches of random moments at the bar, painted in the same hazy way as a drunk would be thinking, the abstract blips coming together to create a larger story. The section of shots are full character profiles of different patrons who fit the names and types of various drinks and shots that Catlin, a now-retired bartender, has made a thousand times in his life. These are the people onto whom one stumbles in any bar, able to be pinned to their drinks easily, the stereotypes and inner monologues revealed as fists are pounded on the bar for one more round; or the batting of an eyelash requests a free treat; or the stubborn martini drinker needs his drink extra extra dry, stirred not shaken over light ice, slightly dirty, straight up, with three olives... and then sends it back because it's too watery, of course, after he drank over half of it. This little gem is a tale of bar life, a life most of us have encountered at least once, and of which many can so easily or shamefully relate. A must-have for your collection! Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $3 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover art:
leah angstman

Poems by Alan Catlin:
Part one: short:

[Blue flame on]
[Bar with no name]
[Inside sleazy dive]
[Waking drunk after]
[Old men silently drinking]
After reading Eileen Myles
[Low cut t-shirt]
[She was so hot]
After hours
[In dim tavern light]
Tequila Sunset
[One ski pole broken off at]
An American Werewolf in London
[In neon bar light,]
Sick Shit
[Drunk young woman]
[Power failure in the bar]
[Lights up after]
almost
Signed sealed delivered
[She sd.]
[First light through]

Part two: shots:

Flying Dutchman
Golden Cadillac
Irish Bastard
Sex on the Beach (without sand)
It was hard to explain
Pink Lady
Brave Bull
Kamikaze
Velvet Hammer
Mind Eraser
Dead Head
Between the Sheets
T.K.O.
Aggravation
Italian Stallion
Silk Panties
Primal Kamikaze
French Connection
Screaming Orgasm
Belfast Bomber
L.I.T.
Sicilian Kiss
Monster Shot
Buckshot
The Big Chill

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THE BONES OF SAINTS UNDER GLASS by Jeff Fleming

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:23:00 +0000

The Bones of Saints
Under Glass
Poetry by Jeff Fleming
$5

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The second poetry chapbook by the talented writer and editor of the short-poetry mag nibble, featuring all-new, never-before-seen or printed poems, collected here for the first time. The poems take the reader on a journey of the self, through fatherhood; the loss of the closest of loved ones; observations in seasons and natural settings; the remembrance of place and time and what it does to the body, the mind; the introspection of the self, tapping into the analysis of emotions, the often trivial nature of questioning, realizing the unimportance of so much of what we consider vital, how fleeting and vain it all is. Fleming controls his past with an honest pen, telling of being an orphan and grieving the loss of parents and loved ones, then heads straight into the future with the eyes of a child, weaving tales of his own fatherhood and the teachings of children like a timeless bedtime story passed down through the generations. Fleming's latest effort is a touching, endearing commentary on the cycle of life and nature and a must-have for your collection. Also features a wrap-around cover of all-new artwork, created just for this book, by the ever-talented writer and artist Hosho McCreesh. Both poet and cover artist will receive royalties for the sale of each of these books, so buy in confidence that you are supporting the small press with all your little might! Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $5 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Wrap-around cover art:
Hosho McCreesh

Poems by Jeff Fleming:
Robots and Rivers
Swimming in Beauty and Light
Sudden Zephyr
The Bones of Saints Under Glass
I am alone
Shake Loose the Dirt of Ages
Something Important
You Have to Find the Light
Mokelumne Hill
The Youngest One Stopped
Orphan Poem One
Orphan Poem Two
Ratchet
Every Saturday Night
A Few Feet
a vast, blue sparkle
My Only Companion
Pink Hued Clouds
Little Boys Turned Giant
I'm going back to Waukesha
There was that time we camped by the lake and you went for a walk at night
Empty Farmhouse

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TAXI CAB POET CONFESSIONS: A Small Press Tribute to Dave Church

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:34:00 +0000

Taxi Cab Poet Confessions
A Small Press Tribute to Dave Church
(1947-2008)
~various authors~
$6

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On Thanksgiving Day, 2008, the small press world lost one of its own -- the gruff, moody, sobering mind and voice of Dave Church. On these pages, writers, artists, and family members recount the memories, anecdotes, inspiration, and passion of this small press legend through poetry, tributes, photos, artwork, interviews, collaborative efforts with Church, and archives of old poems and letters dug up by friends and admirers over the decades. If you didn't know the work of Dave Church, this book will not only show you the impact he had on others, the inspiration and legacy he left behind in the small press world, but it will also give you an introduction to his work, with Church poems and collaborative pieces between Church and other authors scattered throughout the pages. This is a perfect blend of getting to know Church and getting to know Church better, bringing together new readers wishing to understand the man, while showcasing veteran writers in a platform where all writers can shine: honoring one of their own. Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $6 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover art:
Henry Denander

Poems:
DAVE: The Poet by B.Z. Niditch
A CONCEALED HOUR by B.Z. Niditch
TWO GUYS BUILDING A POEM by Rod Weston and Dave Church
COLD ISLAND by B.Z. Niditch
Good Times by Stephanie Hiteshew
when the pen is the needle and the paper is the spoon by Robert M. Zoschke
Churchman by Alan Catlin
THE STREETS CRY by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
FOR DAVE CHURCH by R. Emolo
POEM FOR DAVE CHURCH by A.D. Winans
Indian Giver by Dave Church
Papa Dave by Kevin M. Hibshman
Poem by Glenn W. Cooper
The Truth by Nathan Graziano
UNDER STARS by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Editors: Wants And Needs Update 2009 by David S. Pointer
Remember the Time by Jonathan Church
Before You Let Go by Dave Church
GOD is in the CAB by steve dalachinsky
TO CONSTRUCT A BLUES by Herschel Silverman
And I'm The Star by Dave Church
Dave Church: A Providence Poet by B.Z. Niditch
Searching for Parts by Dave Church and steve dalachinsky
blizzard by t. kilgore splake
By Life by Stephanie Hiteshew
GIVING THANKS by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
News That Burns On by David S. Pointer
I am Water by Dave Church and steve dalachinsky
Under a Dark Sky by Dave Church
GILBERT by Dave Church
god's lonely man by leah angstman

Photos/Art:
Michaela Pommells
Henry Denander

Short Stories/Anecdotes/Tributes:
The Barbaric Yawp Interview by John Berbrich and Dave Church
Tribute: by Jonathan Church
Dave Church, R.I.P. by Nathan Graziano
Dave Church (1947-2008) by George Held

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A SYMPHONY OF OLIVES BY JULIAN GALLO

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:30:00 +0000

A Symphony Of Olives
poetry by
Julian Gallo
$5

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Julian Gallo's new poetry chapbook now available from Propaganda Press. It's a journey of finding one's self, jumping the hurdles and learning the path; the setting is left mostly to the reader's imagination, while the descriptions delight and intrigue. Poems about love, dissecting ethnic backgrounds and cultures passed down through the centuries; trying to come up with ideas and inspiration for writing and life, even through the rains and the mundane mendacity of everyday living; an anatomizing of the self, the assertion, the dichotomy of being, developing the ability to know your own next move, to put the puzzle together, even if it reveals nothing. The words are searching, questioning, sometimes answering (but only subtly), and introspective - revealing the small bits of madness that make us who we are and make the author pen these words. Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $5 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Poems by Julian Gallo:
Labyrinths
Clubfoot Tango
Afternoon Delight
Today The Rains Came
Blood and Sand
Rules Of The Game
Naderia
Mediterranean Homesick Blues
A Symphony Of Olives
Somewhere Between Golgotha and The Slaughterhouse
Java Cabana
By Way Of The Trinacria
Michelangelo
Quixotic
Symbiotic Yet Counterclockwise
10:22pm
Muse
Fallible Gods
The Divine Bursts Out Laughing
A Cemetery Beneath The Moon
Silence Over A Bridge

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This Electrical Week: Ending February 21, 2009

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:14:00 +0000

Weekly Update for Alternating Current Arts Co-op

*All items can be purchased through our website at alt-current.com via credit / debit card / Paypal; via Paypal directly using the email alt.current@gmail.com; or via snail mail with cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, and mailed to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA. All authors receive royalties on our press, and each purchase comes with a free random chapbook from the archives while we clean house.*

Pocket Protector News:

The Light Of Fields by Michael Kriesel, the February Pocket Protector, is now available. $3 (plus $2 US shipping, $3 out-of-US shipping).

The proofs have been completed and mailed out for the March Pocket Protector, Short Shots by Alan Catlin, and the April Pocket Protector by A.D. Winans. Both can be advanced-purchased for $3 each (plus $2 US shipping, $3 out-of-US shipping) and will be mailed out upon printing.

Subscriptions are available for the Pocket Protector series, a series of mini-chapbooks jam-packed with poetry from a different author each month, chosen by invitation-only. Starting with the February issue: $30 in the US for one year, $45 in the US for two years. $45 out-of-US for one year. Currently only available through the mail, but subscriptions will be available online soon.

Chapbook News:

Proofs have been returned for A Symphony Of Olives by Julian Gallo and Body English by Joseph Verrilli. A Symphony Of Olives is available for advanced-purchase through the mail for $6 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping); more details to follow for both books.

We are currently working on the proofs for The Bones Of Saints Under Glass by Jeff Fleming (complete with an awesome cover by Hosho McCreesh!); Staying Alive: Essays on living by Ed Galing; and Poughkeepsie Icehouse by Anthony G. Herles. More details to follow.

no one gains weight in the shoulders by leah angstman is now available. $6 (plus $2 US shipping, $3 out-of-US shipping).

Poiesis #2 by various authors is now available. $4 (plus $2 US shipping, $3 out-of-US shipping).

We are still accepting submissions for the Dave Church tribute book, Taxi Cab Poet Confessions, through the end of February 2009. If you have a poem, anecdote, story, eulogy for Dave, send it this way.

We have also paired up with Marie Kazalia to begin work on the Clara Venus Rebirth project, piecing older submissions together into the next poetry collection. More information for that as it unfolds.

Distro/Store/Library News:

The Pocket Protector series of mini-chapbooks is now being carried through City Lights Books in San Francisco. Yum.

We Need Your Help:

Publishing Poiesis always sets us back a bit with funding. This last issue has 54 poets, and each poet gets a complimentary copy. While we love to do it, you can see that racks up quite a bill. So we are asking that, if you are in Poiesis #2, or if you have read it, please let people know about it. If each person in the issue can sell three copies, then we can make our money back. You can sell three copies, can't you? We are asking that, if you have a website, blog, zine, mailing list, or other sort of communication device, you send out a notice to everyone to let them know about Poiesis #2, whether you are in it, or whether you just love it. Any help is always appreciated. Link and images you can use are here: http://alt-current.com/pp/pp_item.html#poiesis_issue_2 .

We need reviewers for some of our publications. Looking for regular reviewers who would like to do ongoing reviews for each of our publications. What this entails: we send you a copy of each book that comes out with all its information, and you do a review somewhere, either on a blog or a website, in a magazine, etc. If you would like to do this, and you have a review outlet, let us know. In addition, we always look for people interested in reviewing just a single book that captures individual interests. If you have a review outlet and are interested in reviewing one or more of the following books, please drop us a line for consideration: an alien here by leah angstman; Sweet & Sour by Ed Galing; [untitled] by justin.barrett; Ice Age by David S. Pointer. All we ask is that you let us know when the review has taken place/been published either via a link or by sending us a copy of a printed review.

And last but not least, if you are able, please donate to the press to keep these great works of writing flowing: H E R E . [Click on the DONATE button. You do not need to have a Paypal account, any credit/debit card works fine.]

Technical:

Feedburner has moved all of its accounts over to Google, so there have been some changes in the email mailing list transfer. If you are having any problems receiving your weekly email, let us know. Everything should be smoothed out after all the transfers this week.

Reviews/Exposure News:

no one gains weight in the shoulders by leah angstman has been reviewed by Irene Koronas for Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene; and mentioned by Jeff Fleming of nibble.

Poiesis #2 was mentioned by Douglas Manson of Little Scratch Pad; mentioned by Jeff Fleming of nibble; reviewed by Doug Holder for Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene; and reviewed by Jeff Fleming of nibble.

These Poems Are Not Pink Clouds by Timothy Gager was reviewed by John Berbrich for the St. Lawrence Area Poets; and reviewed by Jeff Fleming of nibble.

Portraits by B.Z. Niditch was reviewed by John Berbrich for the St. Lawrence Area Poets.

A Sound To Drive Away The Coming Darkness by Christopher Cunningham was mentioned various times on Cunningham's blog.

Weekly Deal:

We are starting a new section of the mailing list, available only to people who are on the email list, with a weekly deal on material from the archives. We are hoping to have all of our archived material gone by the time we make our next big cross-country move in August, so we are discounting and pushing it. Sometimes free, sometimes for pennies, the weekly deal is only available to YOU. The only catch is you can't purchase it off the website, as the prices online are full-price. You can purchase through the mail or via Paypal directly using the email address alt.current@gmail.com.

This week's deal: Just Because I Didn't Leave The Driving To Us, I Got Jailed And Juiced Good by Paul Weinman for only $1.50 (plus $1 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping). Check it out online, and then purchase it through the mail or Paypal with your discount. Hurry! This offer only lasts for one week!

And as always, thanks for tuning in, and we'll catch you next week. Please send replies to alt.current@gmail.com.
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