Kitchen Press Chapbooks

HIT WAVE is reviewed in the new issue of NOÖ

2009-08-17T08:47:00.000-07:00

Every moment you're alive, you're sort of not alive, because there is a more alive way you could be living

Micro-Review Monday over at Black Ocean

2009-05-04T11:34:00.000-07:00

Featuring a review of HIT WAVE, by Jon Leon

Ringing Video Contest

2009-05-04T08:20:00.000-07:00

Kitchen Press is now accepting submissions of short home-made videos to accompany individual poems from Rauan Klassnik's on-line chapbook "Ringing"

The six winning videos will be posted on the Ringing website and the six winning authors (video makers) will receive their choice of either one Black Ocean book or two Kitchen Press chapbooks (subject to availability) shipped to a U.S. address.

Deadline: June 15, 2009 (winners to be announced and videos posted to website shortly thereafter).

Rules: there are no rules.

Guidelines and Preferences:

1- send all inquiries and submissions to ringingvideo(at)yahoo.com

2- Three or less videos per submission

3- One Video per email. So, if you're submitting 2 videos please send 2 emails.

4- Each Video should correspond to an individual Ringing poem. (There are 19 of them, including cover poem, Death Poems, End-Page poem)

5- Each Video should incorporate, in some form, the words of its corresponding poem

6- If you would like us to send you the mp3 file(s) of Rauan reading one or more of the poems please send an inquiry. You can listen to these on the Ringing website.

7- Since the Ringing poems are short (and the mp3 files of Rauan reading them range from 5-22 seconds only) we'd prefer short videos.

8- All levels of sophistication are welcome

A Million in Prizes

2009-04-10T13:28:00.000-07:00

is now in stock and available at SPD and Amazon!!!!!!

A Million in Prizes
Justin Marks

Winner of the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize
Carl Phillips, Judge

“‘I wake, my not-yet-self / projecting back on the life I rise into.’ That’s but one example of the kind of logic (and syntax) that informs the poems of A Million in Prizes, a logic that often resists initial sense, only to reward with a clarity and maturity of insight that make these poems more powerful—more persuasive—with each reading. It’s as if Justin Marks had made a sort of Möbius Strip out of sense and an uneasiness with it, where it becomes difficult to know exactly where one begins and the other ends.

Another Möbius Strip here: the one that’s made from a seeming detachment and a fierce compassion for life in all of its ephemeral ordinariness, what can suddenly resonate where least expected. Salinger, O’Hara, Baudelaire all come to mind, but finally the voice and sensibility here, like the poems themselves, are utterly Justin Marks' own. A Million in Prizes seduces in the best way: subtly, with a poignant wit, and a sly charm.”

––Carl Phillips, from the Judge’s Citation

“With A Million in Prizes, Justin Marks dares to amplify his interior voice, broadcasting from ‘inside the megaphone’ the rumblings of a discontented, anxious self who discovers just enough pleasure in his daily routines, domestic scenes, and misfiring memories to admit ‘how glad I am for the orbit I inhabit.’ His poems are by turns philosophical, nostalgic, and subtly humorous, as he insistently disassembles the barriers between himself and his readers in a generous act of intimacy.”

––Shanna Compton

“Here is a rarely expressed self-awareness that accedes as little to words as it does to the pain of the condition itself.”

––Fanny Howe

It is a rare e-book that does not make me want to live off the grid, that does not make me fear and loathe the very coinage itself: "e-book."

2009-04-06T10:40:00.000-07:00

says Christian Peet. Ringing is not one of those e-books

Reviews of Ringing

2009-03-01T13:32:00.000-08:00

They're coming in. Here's one by Rebecca Loudon; and Ron reports some nice words from Blake Butler, as well as some interesting Goodreads reviews.

Ringing, Rauan Klassnik

2009-02-25T16:22:00.001-08:00

I'm very pleased to announce Kitchen Press' first ever venture into online publishing, Ringing, by Rauan Klassnik.

Click this post for a downloadable pdf of Ringing, as well as a flash version illustrated Rauan himself. There is also a section for comments. We encourage you to not only comment and discuss the poems and collection as a whole, but the site itself--everything from thoughts on the experience of reading the chap in the format it's in to more technical concerns about the functionality of the site, problems viewing it, navigability, etc.

From the book:

Like ships leaning together licking each other’s shoulders, we fall down and dig at the earth. Fervently. Like jackals. Fire’s leaping from hill to hill, and my nerves are swaying like seaweed. I have learned to die. And not to. My veins are filled with milk 11.

All Best,

KP

Dan Hoy reviews HIT WAVE

2009-01-26T07:38:00.001-08:00

in Octopus 11

Old With You, Lily Brown

2009-01-12T15:02:00.000-08:00

LEAF AT THE END

I climbed a giant leaf at the end

of my imagination. Across

the spotted water, the hill

fastened its yellow bushels.

The imagination asked for all the cities,

for the canopy to get its machines out

and tile the leaves. My friend Lily

assumes what I want and it's so unfair.

The imagination shoves in and pushes

blithely out, a belt of pelicans, a plank

of hard clouds, bunches of doorknobs

halo the street-blighted hills.

I find a pile of antlers in the woods, assembled

for burning. I crawl beneath them and stay

there when the burners come with their fire.

Up in the canopy I dangle, touching nothing.

Order yours now!

R A I N T A X I o n l i n e Winter 2008/2009

2009-01-09T11:47:00.000-08:00

Chapbook Corner Round-up 2008

The Portable Boog Reader 3 Online PDF Now Available

2009-01-07T06:48:00.000-08:00

Featuring poems by:

Ammiel Alcalay * Betsy Andrews * Ari Banias * Jennifer Bartlett * Martine Bellen * Edmund Berrigan * Kate Broad * Julian Brolaski * Donna Brook * Sommer Browning * Matthew Burgess * David Cameron * Mike Coffey * Jen Coleman * John Coletti * Matt Cozart * Elaine Equi * Jessica Fiorini * Jennifer Firestone * Ed Friedman * Ethan Fugate * Rigoberto González * Nada Gordon * Stephanie Gray * Shafer Hall * Diana Hamilton * Hayley Heaton * Cathy Park Hong * Vanessa Hope * Dan Hoy * Lauren Ireland * Adeena Karasick * Basil King * Martha King * Noelle Kocot-Tomblin * Dorothea Lasky * Jeff Laughlin *Amy Lawless * Walter K. Lew * Tan Lin * Tao Lin * Filip Marinovich * Justin Marks * Chris Martin * Tracey McTague * Stephen Paul Miller * Feliz L. Molina *Ryan Murphy * Elinor Nauen * Uche Nduka * Urayoán Noel * Akilah Oliver *Geoffrey Olsen * Jean-Paul Pecqueur * Greg Purcell * Elizabeth Reddin *Jerome Sala * Tom Savage * David Sewell * David Shapiro * Kimberly Ann Southwick * Eleni Stecopoulos * Christina Strong * Mathias Svalina *Jeremy James Thompson * Susie Timmons * Rodrigo Toscano * Nicole Wallace *Damian Weber * Max Winter * Sara Wintz * Erica Wright

Absent Magazine

2008-12-06T07:24:00.000-08:00

is seeking submissions for its next issue

HIT WAVE Gets a Shout-Out

2008-11-26T11:14:00.000-08:00

from Janaka Stucky

R-a-D Reading at The Four-Faced Liar, Thursday, November 20

2008-11-14T08:58:00.000-08:00

Justin Marks, Sampson Starkweather and Chris Tonelli
The Four-Faced Liar, 6:30pm, Thursday November 20
165 West 4th Street
(Between 6th and 7th Avenues)
New York, NY 10014
Phone: (212) 366 0608

Justin Marks' first full length collection, A Million in Prizes, is forthcoming from New Issues Press in spring 2009. His chapbooks include Voir Dire (Rope-a-Dope Press, forthcoming) and [Summer insular] (Horse Less Press, 2007). He is the founder and Editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City.

Sampson Starkweather is the author of City of Moths, forthcoming from Rope-A-Dope Press, and The Photograph from horse less press. He lives in the woods.

Chris Tonelli is the author of three chapbooks: For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press, forthcoming), A Mule-Shaped Cloud (w/ Sarah Bartlett, horse less press, 2008), and WIDE TREE: Short Poems (Kitchen Press, 2006). He teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.

Founded in the spring of 2007 by painter Robert daVies and poet Mary Walker Graham, Rope-a-Dope Press fosters collaborations between artists, writers, and their communities through the publication of handmade, letterpress printed chapbooks, broadsides, and artists' books.

A Poem by Chris Tonelli on Verse Daily

2008-11-13T07:09:00.001-08:00

Every Will Builds Itself a Satellite

Another Review of Jon Leon's Hit Wave

2008-11-07T06:04:00.001-08:00

Bring joy into America

Emerging Writers Network E-Panel - Chapbook Publishers

2008-10-10T13:22:00.000-07:00

featuring Future Tense Press, New Michigan Press, Tameme, Dancing Girl Press, Greying Ghost Press and Kitchen Press.

The First Review of Jon Leon's Hit Wave is in

2008-09-30T15:01:00.000-07:00

and it's a good 'un

Here's a sample:

"Leon’s [Hit Wave] follows the career of a poet, pornographer, and provocateur as he conquers the literary world, indulges in every excess available, founds his own private pleasure palace, yet remains bored and unimpressed with everything. Perhaps it’s the bright yellow cover or his recent legal troubles and penchant for sex-filled advertising, but I found it helpful to picture American Apparel CEO Dov Charney as the speaker."

But you really should read the whole piece.

Jon Leon in The Continental Review

2008-09-26T07:38:00.001-07:00

Order his new chapbook, HIT WAVE, now.

Ana Božičević & Elisa Gabbert

2008-09-22T06:36:00.000-07:00

in TYPO 12

the rest of the issue looks pretty sweet, too. not to be missed with work by:

STEFFEN BROWN
GRACE EGBERT
RYAN FLAHERTY
JENNIFER H. FORTIN
BOB HICOK
KEVIN HOLDEN
SHANE JONES
ELIZABETH SANGER
SAMPSON STARKWEATHER
JOSEPH WOOD

Steal All You Can Hold

2008-09-18T12:38:00.000-07:00

And join us at the So and So Series this Saturday, 9/20

The Forever Video, by Jon Leon

2008-09-11T17:24:00.000-07:00

EARSHOT! Reading this Friday

2008-09-09T08:32:00.001-07:00

Join us for the season's kickoff event at The Lucky Cat, located in sunny (sometimes) Williamsburg, Brooklyn!

*Friday, September 12 @ 8 PM*
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg

Featuring:
Rauan Klassnik (Holy Land)
Justin Marks ([Summer insular], You Being You by Proxy)
Eugene Hwang (The New School)
Jess Sauer (Columbia University)
Anna Carey (Brooklyn College)

Admission is a mere $5 plus one free drink (beer, wine or well drinks)!

The Lucky Cat is located at 245 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Driggs and Roebling. Visit their website for directions: http://www.theluckycat.com.

Hit Wave, Jon Leon

2008-09-03T07:09:00.000-07:00

One of the greatest drugs ever manufactured is cocaine. I love the way it feels. End of story. When riding around in my Audi on the way to Vail Colorado I like to keep a vial of cocaine on the passenger seat next to my compact discs. One of the worst most mesmerizing bummers is when the coke is gone. That is when you're fucked and the world ends. At a time like that do not call anyone on the phone from a Super 8 Motel. Bring the joy into America. Love the market that is second only to diamonds.

Order now.

Alexander Dickow Reviews

2008-08-25T07:39:00.000-07:00

Ana Božičević's Document and Justin Marks' [Summer insular]