Lame House Press

I Live Here Now gets some love!

2012-01-26T10:29:00.000-08:00

Today at FANZINE, the wonderful Amy Herschleb recommends the latest Lame House chapbook, Jackie Clark's I Live Here Now:

Chapbook
I Live Here Now by Jackie Clark
The latest offering from Lame House Press (which "irregularly publishes chapbooks from emerging poets"), Jackie Clark's I Live Here Now, reads like the description of an object that is just out of view, or the description of a feeling about an event, always at one remove. The only commitment to titling pieces is the recurring ( ) which introduces each poem. Maybe there's too much invitation to speculate, and maybe the reader begins to think, "now that's a handsome SWAT team guy" (ahem, awkward), or maybe there is just enough and each of the 15 poems may expand in the brain pan like a Shrinky Dink and take on that encoded form. An incomplete list of obsessions (go on, obsess) found herein: repetition, "counting the moments like counting the moments," lists, "prolongs the anti-effacing, / prolongs the darkness," reversal of the word onto the word, "even without the pay off, / which is the pay off," "all this while someone may or may not be looking over my shoulder," and a romance with the end-stop comma, which may or may not be self-evident. Available for $5 (+$1 shipping) from Lame House Press in a limited edition of 100. Jackie Clark can be found at nohelpforthat.com. Did I mention I'm a fan? –– AH

Check out her other recommendations and all the other great articles at FANZINE here.

Angela Veronica Wong at Redivider

2012-01-11T06:59:00.000-08:00

There's a review with Angela Veronica Wong over at Redivider in which she mentions her forthcoming Lame House chapbook that she collaborated on with Steven Karl. Of the collaboration, she writes:

"I think each collaboration works (and each set of collaborators work) differently. The collaboration I refer to earlier (with Steven Karl) came about simply - I don’t even think we knew it was 'a collaboration' until it was finished. Basically, I sent him a poem just to look over, and he responded with a poem of his own. I wrote one back, and we kept doing that until we stopped.

Ending the series was somewhat intuitive and somewhat situational - we realized we had enough poems for a chapbook and there was a deadline for a contest coming up. Like I said, there was never a structure imposed on this collaboration (other than the back-and-forth), so I suppose we could’ve just kept going, but it did feel like a good endpoint. We then went through and made edits to our own poems, considered the poem order, came up with a title and sent it out."

You can read the full interview here. And look for Veronica and Steven's collaboration, Don't Try This On Your Piano or am i still standing here with my hair down to be released in late February/early March!

Now available: Jackie Clark's I Live Here Now

2011-12-31T06:48:00.000-08:00

Jackie Clark's I Live Here Now is now available!

You can read two selections from I Live Here Now at Sink Review here.

About the author: Jackie Clark is the series editor of Poets off Poetry and Song of the Week for Coldfront and is the author of Office Work (Greying Ghost Press) and Red Fortress (H_MGM_N). She lives in Jersey City and can be found online at nohelpforthat.com.

Cost: $5 (+$1 shipping)

New from Lauren Levin

2011-12-02T11:28:00.001-08:00

The Physiocrats has just released Song, a new poetry pamphlet by Lauren Levin. The Physiocrats has been publishing some of the most exciting contemporary writers. To order, click here.

On another note, we're down to two copies left of Lauren's chapbook Keenan. If you're interested in ordering one, e-mail me directly at gina[dot]myers[at]gmail[dot]com. Thanks!

Ben Somers' Your Sorcerer's Way Reviewed!

2011-11-09T09:19:00.000-08:00

Over at the Slash Pine Projects site, Shea Stripling writes, "Your Sorcerer’s Way is a work of remembering and imagining. It is a piece that centers on the adult’s attempt to understand and escape reality, and, by the end, you feel as though you have flipped through a photo book of pictures you never knew you took." You can read the full review here. Thanks, Shea!

Forthcoming Lame House Titles

2011-10-24T13:41:00.000-07:00

We're pleased to announce two forthcoming publications. Jackie Clark's I Live Here Now will be published in December 2011, and Steven Karl & Angela Veronica Wong's Don't Try This On Your Piano or am i still standing here with my hair down will be out in February 2012. Both books will be available for sale at AWP. You can read excerpts from Jackie Clark's I Live Here Now in the new issue of Sink Review. And you can hear Steven and Veronica read from their collaboration here (click on #25 - Angela Veronica Wong). Lame House Press is super excited to be involved with these two projects!

Now available: Your Sorcerer's Way by Ben Somers

2011-08-31T16:00:00.000-07:00

From Your Sorcerer's Way:

Turbulence
or, The Ocean at Night Looks Quite Black

There is a shuffling
in my

gut. It sounds

like when my dog
chased a rabbit

through the park
and pursued it
into

a river.

It sounded like
chalk

on chalk
board; darts

in a chalk board,
surf on a wake

board.

Your Sorcerer's Way is now available in a limited edition of 100.

About the author: A Michigan native, Ben Somers received his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2010. He currently writes, lives, and works in New York City. He likes his pizza New York and his hotdogs Chicago.The chapbook is available in a limited edition of 100.

Cost: $5 + $1 shipping
Order here using PayPal.

To pay by check or cash, send an e-mail for instructions to thetiny [AT] gmail [dot] com.

Matt Hart's Light-Headed

2011-08-20T19:17:00.001-07:00

Matt Hart has been a machine with two books released in 2011, including Light-Headed (BlazeVOX Books), which includes "Simply Rocket," which was first released as a Lame House chapbook. We're excited to see it included here amongst Matt's other great work. For more information, visit the BlaseVOX website here.

New from Nathan Hauke

2011-08-01T06:29:00.001-07:00

Horse Less Press has just released two new chapbooks, Deseret by Kirsten Jorgenson and Sewn by Nathan Hauke. You can order them here. And if you're interested, a few copies (maybe 5) of Nathan's Lame House chapbook In the Living Room are still available for sale here.

Update

2011-07-23T09:36:00.000-07:00

Lame House Press HQ has recently relocated to Atlanta, GA, and we're preparing to release a couple of titles this fall, including Ben Somers's Your Sorcerer's Way, which will be available September 1st. Stay tuned.

Reviews of Keenan

2011-03-19T09:33:00.001-07:00

Since its release at AWP last month, Lauren Levin's Keenan has made its way into the world, and the responses have been positive. John Coletti wrote me to say it is "diabolically good." And here are some responses from around the internet:

Michael Cross on Keenan. And more thoughts on Keenan.

A thirty word review of Keenan.

And Lauren's book Not Time, which contains Keenan, has been shortlisted for Salt's Crashaw Prize. You can read more about Lauren here. We're pulling for Not Time!

Copies of Keenan are still available for purchase, but in a limited supply. You can order yours here.

Now Available: Lauren Levin's Keenan

2011-01-29T17:44:00.000-08:00

Now available from Lame House Press: Lauren Levin's Keenan. Cover art by Ian Umlauf. (See more of Ian's work here.)

About the author: Lauren Levin grew up in New Orleans and lives in Oakland, CA. Her recent chapbooks include Not Time, published by Boxwood Editions in 2009. New work is forthcoming in Aufgabe and Little Red Leaves. She's been helping out with the Poetic Labor Project and co-edits the magazine Mrs. Maybe with Catherine Meng and Jared Stanley.

To purchase Keenan, use the PayPal button below. If you prefer to use a different payment method, contact Gina Myers at gina[DOT]myers[AT]gmail[DOT]com.

$6.00
(plus $1.00 shipping)

Looking toward 2011

2010-12-12T15:29:00.000-08:00

The past few years Lame House Press has found a way to sneak its titles onto various tables at AWP, and we look forward to attempting to do the same in February in Washington D.C., so we're busy working on a new book. Information coming soon!

Review: This Is Why I Hurt You

2010-09-23T20:21:00.000-07:00

I don't know why it has taken me so long to post, but here it is: Sina Queyras recently reviewed Kate Greenstreet's Lame House chapbook This Is Why I Hurt You. Read the review here.

Now Available: Nathan Hauke's In the Living Room

2010-02-18T16:48:00.000-08:00

In the Living Room investigates the fact that the intimacy of domestic spaces is perforated by wilderness. Full of ragged joy and shot through with terror, Hauke’s poems mark faith and companionship at edges as they attempt to find themselves at home in change. Reaching toward the transformative potential of their circumstances, they face the realization that “love’s echoes everywhere” unmake us.

"Nathan Hauke is a poet to be taken at his word. In the Living Room means exactly what it says: the room is alive; a place has already been prepared for us; and there is no room for death. Hauke's is a visionary architectonic, and he refreshes me." --Donald Revell

"As it is in Flannery O'Connor's short fiction, grace in the world of Nathan Hauke's poetry is hard-edged and hard-won. To experience it is to risk annihilation as well as redemption. Both 'mirror and field guide' to the thorniness, difficulty, and utter radiance of the material world, the poems in this collection bear witness to and transform the way we experience language/dailiness/consciousness/divinity. They challenge us to be wiser, more nuanced readers and writers, and human creatures. This is gorgeous, important work from one of our smartest, most generous, and very best emerging poets. Read it. Read it again." --Donna de la Perriere

“‘The living room is all windows’ and Hauke’s In The Living Room is too. Stained-glass, transparent, bombed-out, or covered in Spring’s pollen, these windows layer into an improvised architecture which includes our hellish and beautiful world the way water does its waves.” --Mike Sikkema

32 PAGES

$7.00 (plus shipping)

To order, send a check or concealed cash to Gina Myers, 1816 Avon Street, Saginaw, MI 48602. Or purchase via PayPal.

Coming Soon: Nathan Hauke's In the Living Room

2009-12-01T08:33:00.000-08:00

Coming soon from Lame House Press: Nathan Hauke's In the Living Room. Cover art by Andy Chase. Cover Layout by Dietmar Krumrey.

Now available: Broadside by Kate Greenstreet

2009-10-03T12:59:00.001-07:00

This limited edition broadside was printed for a reading at the Court Street Gallery in Saginaw, MI, on Friday, September 18th. It can be purchased for $3.00, including shipping. Measures 4 1/4" x 11". Also available in yellow.

UPDATE 9/1/2011: If you're interested in this item, send an e-mail to thetiny [AT] gmail [DOT] com.

Now available: "This is the Problem" broadside by JodiAnn Stevenson

2009-10-03T12:33:00.000-07:00

This new broadside by JodiAnn Stevenson was printed in a limited edition for a reading at Court Street Gallery in Saginaw, MI on Friday, September 18th. There are some copies still available. The price is $5.00 and includes shipping.

UPDATE 9/1/2011: If you're interested in this item, send an e-mail to thetiny [AT] gmail [DOT] com.

New Reviews of Kate Greenstreet's This is Why I Hurt You

2009-09-04T07:30:00.000-07:00

Although the chapbook is sold-out, reviews of Kate Greenstreet's This is Why I Hurt You have been popping up around the internet. Please check out what Dan Magers had to say about it in the new issue of Sink Review, and see what Caroline Depalma thought about it in Coldfront here.

Also, Kate's second full-length collection of poetry has just been published by Ahsahta Press. Check it out here. Congrats Kate!

Alli Warren's Cousins

2009-07-20T05:22:00.000-07:00

I recently discovered 18 copies remaining of the 2nd printing of Alli Warren's Cousins. This was a very popular chapbook, with the first printing selling out shortly after its release. It also made a couple people's Attention Span lists that year. Copies are available for $6.00. The original announcement (with updated mailing address) is posted below.

Lame House #5, 2nd printing. Cover art by Dietmar Krumrey.

Alli Warren's Cousins was first published in an edition of 100 hand-sewn books with orange endpapers in October 2006. The second edition printing is in an edition of 100. Buy now using PayPal or send a check made out to Gina Myers for $6.00 to 1816 Avon St., Saginaw, MI 48602.

What people have said:
Mike Hauser on Cousins and the Complete Works.
Mathias Svalina on Cousins' intellectual charm.
Clay Banes: "Cousins only sucked when it ended, that it ended, my semaphorical more plea to please not stop thrashing a little bit when I closed it."
Allen Bramhall on the graceful stumbling of Cousins.

UPDATE: SOLD-OUT

Lame House at the 17th Annual Poets House Showcase

2009-04-09T10:49:00.000-07:00

If you haven't checked it out already, time is running out for the 17th Annual Poets House Showcase . Among the over 2,000 titles, you will find recent Lame House chapbooks This is Why I Hurt You by Kate Greenstreet and Policy Instrument by Franklin Bruno.

Here are the official details:

Saturday, April 4 – Saturday, April 11
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 4, 1:00 - 4:00PM

Catch an eyeful of what's happening in poetry today with this inspiring display of all the new poetry and poetry-related books published in the United States in 2008 and the first few months of 2009. From micro-press chapbooks to masterworks from major commercial publishers to DVDS and CDs, over 2,000 titles are gathered together for one week in the landmark Jefferson Market Branch Library.

@ The New York Public Library, Jefferson Market Branch, 425 Sixth Avenue (at West 10th Street). For library hours, call (212) 243-4334. Admission free. For more information, call Poets House at (212) 431-7920 or visit our web site at www.poetshouse.org

New Review of Claire Becker's Untoward!

2009-03-13T09:09:00.000-07:00

In the newly-launched web-based Xantippe, Cristin Bishara reviews Claire Becker's Untoward. You can read the review here. And, if you weren't able to get a copy of Untoward before it sold out, you may still be in luck. Later this year, Lame House hopes to make available again all of its unavailable titles. Stay tuned.

This is Why I Hurt You voted Best Book or Chapbook of 2008

2009-01-24T18:18:00.000-08:00

Black Ocean Press asked small press editors to select the best books of 2008, and Kate Greenstreet's This is Why I Hurt You came in on top. You can see the other results here, and you can order the chapbook (very few copies remaining) here.

Kate Greenstreet's This is Why I Hurt You

2008-12-18T18:36:00.000-08:00

Pamela Hart reviews Kate Greenstreet's This is Why I Hurt You in the new issue of Galatea Resurrects. You can read the review here. There are still a couple of copies left--please scroll down to order.

Now Available - Franklin Bruno's Policy Instrument

2008-10-27T14:00:00.000-07:00

Franklin Bruno's new chapbook Policy Instrument is now available from Lame House Press. Hand-bound and printed in a limited edition of 200 copies. Cover art by Dietmar Krumrey.

To order: send a check made out to Gina Myers to 5063 Maybrook Drive, Saginaw, MI 48603, or use the PayPal button below. $8.00 postpaid.

SOLD OUT 3/30 - New Kate Greenstreet Chapbook!

2008-09-23T14:26:00.001-07:00

After being available for pre-order for several months, Lame House is pleased to finally announce the official publication of Kate Greenstreet's This is Why I Hurt You. This chapbook is hand-bound in a limited edition of 200 copies. Due to a large number of pre-orders, there are very few copies still available for sale so please act now. You can purchase This is Why I Hurt You by using the PayPal below. Or, you can send a check made out to Gina Myers to 5063 Maybrook Drive, Saginaw, MI 48603.

Kate Greenstreet
This is Why I Hurt You
Limited edition chapbook

UPDATE 3/30/09: SOLD OUT

Reminder: Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Fundraiser Tonight!

2008-09-05T05:21:00.000-07:00

Friday, September 5 at 7pm at the KGB Bar in Manhattan's East Village, there will be a poetry reading and fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Readers include David Lehman, Meghan Punschke, Amy King, and Ana Bozicevic. There will be raffles for prizes including books and other publications from small presses. Full details here.

Kate Greenstreet Interview

2008-09-02T15:47:00.000-07:00

The interviewer has become the interviewee. Kate Greenstreet answers her own "first book" questions about the release of case sensitive here.

NYC, Save the Date: Friday, September 5th

2008-08-19T09:17:00.000-07:00

Poetry Reading & Fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Date: September 05, 2008 07:00PM, KGB Bar

David Lehman is a poet, writer, and editor. His seven books of poetry include When a Woman Loves a Man (2005). He is the series editor of The Best American Poetry, which he launched in 1988.

Meghan Punschke is the author of Stratification (BlazeVOX Books, 2008). She resides in New York City, and has an MFA in Poetry from the New School. Please visit www.megpunschke.com for more info.

Amy King is the author of I’m the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi, both from Blazevox Books, and most recently, Kiss Me With the Mouth of Your Country (Dusie Press). She is the moderator for the Poetics List and the Women’s Poetry Listserv, and teaches English and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College. Please visit www.amyking.org for more.

Ana Božičević emigrated to NYC from Croatia in 1997. She’s the author of chapbooks Document (Octopus Books, 2007) and Morning News (Kitchen Press, 2006).

There will be a raffle for prizes, which will include books, anthologies and other poetry related goodies from several small presses including BlazeVOX Books, No Tell Books, Coconut Books, Goss 183, Ahsahta Press and Lame House. The Grand Prize winner will be awarded books from many of the above, plus the 30 x 40 acrylic on canvas painting that appears on the cover of Stratification. Each raffle ticket will be $5 with all of the proceeds going directly to LLS for cancer research and patient care. Half of book sales will go to the charity as well.

Franklin Bruno & Aaron Kunin this Saturday in California

2008-08-12T06:32:00.000-07:00

This Saturday, August 16th at 5pm, Aaron Kunin and Franklin Bruno will be reading at the Poetic Research Bureau (3702 San Fernando Road, Glendale, CA 91206).

The reading is in celebration of the release of Aaron's novel The Mandarin from Fence Books.

Franklin will have some advance copies of his forthcoming Lame House chapbook Policy Instrument available for sale.

Check out the Poetic Research Bureau at www.poeticresearch.com. And if you are a small press or run a journal, you might want to consider sending some books their way to help get the store going.

Independent Female Run Presses

2008-06-06T16:01:00.001-07:00

Lame House Press, Switchback Books, and horse less press are mentioned in Venus Zine. Check out Claire Donato's article here: Independent, female-run presses are getting the word out.

This Wednesday: Lame House at Cup and Pen

2008-05-23T07:51:00.000-07:00

WEDNESDAY, MAY 28th, 8-10pm

LAME HOUSE PRESS will be featured in the Cup and Pen series at Think Coffee. JIM BEHRLE will be wearing his Gina Myers outfit & play host and maybe read some poems too. Other readers include DUSTIN WILLIAMSON, ARLO QUINT, FRANKLIN BRUNO, and GABRIELLA TORRES. (See bios below.)

All currently available LAME HOUSE titles will be available for sale at discounted prices and you will also have the opportunity to pick up two titles in advance of their publication: Franklin Bruno's POLICY INSTRUMENT and Kate Greenstreet's THIS IS WHY I HURT YOU (very limited copies will be available).

Please come out and enjoy a night of free readings & support small presses & the Cup and Pen reading series.

Think Coffee
248 Mercer St and 3rd Street, NY 10012BDFV to Broadway Lafayette/6 to Bleeker/ NRW to Prince Street(212) 228-6226
www. thinkcoffeenyc. com

DUSTIN WILLIAMSON is the author of some chapbooks, including Cab Ass'n (Lame House) and Exhausted Grunts (Cannibal Books). He occasionally publishes Rust Buckle books and magazines and curates the Zinc Talk Reading Series.

GABRIELLA TORRES is author of the Lame House chapbook Sister. Her poems have recently appeared in MiPoesias, Sink Review, Cannibal and Past Simple and are forthcoming on Bateau. She currently lives in Brooklyn where she co-edits the tiny with Gina Myers.

ARLO QUINT is the author of Days On End (Open 24 Hours) and Photogenic
Memory (Lame House Press).

FRANKLIN BRUNO is the author of a book of criticism, Armed Forces (Continuum Press) and two chapbooks of poetry, MF/MA (Seeing Eye Press) and Policy Instrument (Lame House). His writing, of various kinds, has appeared in The Hat, Vanitas, Faucheuse, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Village Voice and Slate, and in the collections Intersections - Innovative Poetry in Southern California (Green Integer) and Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music (Duke). Recent musical projects include the theme to the upcoming Adult Swim series Snake 'n' Bacon, and Civics (Tight Ship), the first album by his new band The Human Hearts. He is currently living out of boxes in preparation for a move from the Hudson Valley to Jackson Heights.

Info on the Cup & Pen series here.

Upcoming Kate Greenstreet reading

2008-04-16T11:37:00.000-07:00

Kate Greenstreet will be reading with Frank Sherlock at the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church on Monday, April 21st at 8pm. Full details here.

Kate's Lame House chapbook This is Why I Hurt You is now available for pre-order here.

Matt Hart reading in California

2008-04-16T10:08:00.000-07:00

Matt Hart will be reading (and selling copies of his Lame House chap Simply Rocket) at the following locations:

1.) THURSDAY, April 17th, 9PM
Big Bell Magazine Release Party w/ Marisa Crawford, Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, and Russell Dillon.

Adobe Books, 3166 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

2.) FRIDAY, April 18th, 7:30PM
A New Cadence Poetry Series w/Chad Sweeney and Jason Morris.

Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street (behind Streetlight Records), Santa Cruz, CA 95060.

3.) SUNDAY, April 20th, 7:30PM
Pegasus Books Downtown w/Darcie Dennigan.

Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA 94704.

4.) MONDAY, April 21st, 8PM
On the Cut: New Voices in Poetry w/Major Jackson and Sandra Lim.

Stanford Humanities Center, Standford University, Stanford, CA 94305

If you are unable to make the readings but are interested in obtaining a copy of Simply Rocket, you can still purchase it here for a limited time.

(Photo credit: Kaplan Harris)

Now Available for Pre-Order

2008-04-12T18:15:00.000-07:00

Lame House Press will be releasing Kate Greenstreet's new chapbook This is Why I Hurt You in the coming weeks. To help raise funds for printing costs, we are now offering it for pre-order. Please use the PayPal button below to reserve your copy now, or send a check or concealed cash to Gina Myers, 5063 Maybrook Drive, Saginaw, MI 48603. Please note, checks must be made out to Gina Myers. Any checks made to Lame House Press will be returned.

Kate Greenstreet

This is Why I Hurt You

$7.00 (shipping included)

As always, if you wish to make a financial contribution to Lame House Press, you can send funds through PayPal to thetiny@gmail.com.

Thanks.

UPDATE, 9/23/08: Pre-order is no longer available for this title.

A boomerang, like a rocket

2008-04-07T14:36:00.001-07:00

"A boomerang, like a rocket (ideally), goes into the sky and comes back. Matt Hart has done that with the tastefuly tight and artfully crafted Simply Rocket; it’s secretly inspiring and one of the best sonnet sequences in recent memory."

John Deming on Matt Hart's Simply Rocket. Read full review here.

Order Simply Rocket here.

Upcoming Readings

2007-12-31T13:54:00.000-08:00

Please check out Lame House authors at the following events:

Wednesday, January 2nd at 7PM, KGB Bar, NYC: Forklift, Ohio and Agricultural Reader reading with Matt Hart, Brett Price, Jeremy Schmall, and Justin Taylor.

Saturday, January 12th at 7:30PM, Pegasus Books, Berkeley, CA: PIRATE PIG PRESS Readings of prose poems and stories by Claire Becker, Sarah McKinnon, Matthew Thomas Russell, Dan Sanders, Ammon Torrence, and Just Kibbe.

Saturday, January 19th at 7PM, Lincoln, Nebraska, The Clean Part Reading Series: Claire Becker, Lily Brown, and Steve Lagnan.

Now Available Claire Becker's Untoward

2007-12-31T11:13:00.001-08:00

Now available: Claire Becker's Untoward

Cover art & design: Lauren Becker

Layout: Kevin Thurston

~~Available for $6.00 via PayPal.~~

~~Or send a check made out to Gina Myers, 5063 Maybrook Drive, Saginaw, MI 48603.~~

Read some poems from the chapbook in Octopus Magazine #8 and in Typo #10.

Please note: Lame House is currently moving. Please allow 1 to 2 weeks for the fulfillment of orders. Thanks.

UPDATE 2/25/08: SOLD-OUT.

2007-11-28T09:28:00.000-08:00

Lame House received four mentions on this year's Attention Span.

Anselm Berrigan included Arlo Quint's Photogenic Memory on his list and Graham Foust included Karl Parker's poem "Afterword" from Harmstorm.

Anne Boyer and Rick Snyder included Alli Warren's Cousins. Rick had this to say:

"This fantastic chapbook starts and ends with tours-de-force and doesn’t really let up in the middle. “My Factless Autobiography” would seem to nod to Ashbery’s “one-size-fits-all” approach, but the results are much edgier, grapevining through the mediated desires and battered bodies that mark this phase of the 'pax Americana.'"

Now Available Arlo Quint's Photogenic Memory

2007-09-18T05:34:00.001-07:00

Arlo Quint's Photogenic Memory is now available for sale from Lame House Press. Printed in a limited edition of 200. Cover art by Andrew Mister.

Buy now using the PayPal button below or send a check made out to Gina Myers, 489 Hart Street #2, Brooklyn, NY 11221.

$6.00 (shipping included)

Now Available Matt Hart's Simply Rocket

2007-09-18T05:25:00.000-07:00

Matt Hart's new sonnet cycle Simply Rocket is now available from Lame House Press. Printed in a limited edition of 200 copies. Cover art by Jane Ortrun Carver. Cover layout by Eric Appleby.

Buy now using PayPal button below or send a check made out to Gina Myers, 489 Hart Street #2, Brooklyn, NY 11221.

$6.00 (shipping included)

lame/narrow/lame/narrow

2007-08-30T14:52:00.001-07:00

(Click on image to enlarge.)

Dan Hoy reading this Friday, 8/3

2007-08-02T07:03:00.000-07:00

Friday August 3rd, 7PM

P.F.S. Post Reading Series presents

Dan Hoy, Adam Fieled, and Rosanna Less

The Fall Cafe
307 Smith Street
Between Union & President
Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
F/G to Carroll Street

http://www.artrecess.blogspot.com/

Noah Eli Gordon on Alli Warren's Cousins

2007-06-28T03:48:00.000-07:00

"Poetry peppered with sly, askance humor often makes one want to sneeze, which is to say trivializing itself by allowing what amounts to elbow-jab after joke to resonate more strongly than the confluence of delivery, content and context which originally formed it. What makes Alli Warren's Cousins (Lame House Press) so oddly endearing is its purposeful deployment of numerous, awkwardly-timed, elbow-jabs; here, one finds a joke-free, intelligent humor in lexical contortions and mashups, in the deft and unexpected vacillation from one mode of speech to another, often within a single phrase. Warren displays a serious commitment to delineating the multifarious registers of communication that collide into what we think of as culture. Moreover, her work exemplifies the way in which constructing an authentic self might be nothing more than an admission of one's inability to do so: "I attempted to write a manifesto / and it blew up in my faces." Smart, fun, and eminently readable, the work here is linked via a continual deepening of content, where an image or phrase from one poem becomes the impetus for a revisionary expansion in the following."

Noah Eli Gordon, Rain Taxi Vol. 12 No. 2, Summer 2007

Copies of the second printing of Alli Warren's Cousins are still available for purchase here.

Now Available - the tiny #3

2007-06-17T13:19:00.001-07:00

Featuring work by Andrea Baker, Ellen Baxt, Edmund Berrigan, Mark Bibbins, Daniel Borzutzky, Kristy Bowen, Joseph Bradshaw, John Coletti, Rachel Conrad, Crystal Curry, Michelle Detorie, Julia Drescher, Will Edmiston, Bonnie Emerick, Betsy Fagin, Paul Fattaruso, Peter Gizzi, Scott Glassman, Sarah Goldstein, Garth Graeper & Jason Sheridan, Eryn Green, Kristen Hanlon, Mike Hauser, Anthony Hawley, Anne Heide, Brenda Iijima, Greg Koehler, Rodney Koeneke, Michael Koshkin, Tim Lantz & Mark Yakich, Lauren Levin, Jill Magi, C.J. Martin, Joseph Massey, Kristi Maxwell, Ange Mlinko, Michael Montlack, Marci Nelligan, Nick Piombino, Billy Ramsell, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Brandon Shimoda, Logan Ryan Smith, Maggie Smith, Chad Sweeney, Derek White, Dustin Williamson, and Devon Wootten.

$12.00, shipping included

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Now Available Dan Hoy's Outtakes

2007-05-13T09:06:00.000-07:00

Outtakes by Dan Hoy
Lame House #7
Cover Design: Jane Lewis
Cover Art: Franke Vogl
(c) 2007 Dan Hoy

$5.00

Some of these poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in Agriculture Reader, Coconut, H_NGM_N, and the tiny. Read "Love Before Talkies" in H_NGM_N #6 here.

UPDATE 8/2: SOLD-OUT

2007-04-26T06:38:00.000-07:00

Alli Warren's Cousins & Dustin Williamson's Cab Ass'n are now available at the following locations:

Pegasus Books Downtown
2349 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94704

Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212

Now Available Alli Warren's Cousins, 2nd printing

2007-04-14T12:27:00.000-07:00

Lame House #5, 2nd printing. Cover art by Dietmar Krumrey.

Alli Warren's Cousins was first published in an edition of 100 hand-sewn books with orange endpapers in October 2006. The second edition printing is in an edition of 100.

Buy now using PayPal or send a check made out to Gina Myers for $6.00 to 95 Verona St. #4, Brooklyn, NY 11231.

What people have said:
Mike Hauser on Cousins and the Complete Works.
Mathias Svalina on Cousins' intellectual charm.
Clay Banes: "Cousins only sucked when it ended, that it ended, my semaphorical more plea to please not stop thrashing a little bit when I closed it."
Allen Bramhall on the graceful stumbling of Cousins.

Tonight

2007-04-09T13:41:00.000-07:00

Monday, April 9, 2006, 8PM
Brandon Brown & Alli Warren
Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church

Lame House will be releasing a second printing of Alli Warren's chapbook Cousins to coincide with the reading. Copies will be available for sale at the reading, and then here later in the week. So if you missed out last time, you have another chance.

Here are the poet bios from the Poetry Project website:

Brandon Brown is a poet and translator from Kansas City, Missouri. He had two chapbooks published in 2006, Memoirs of my Nervous Illness and 908-1078. He has recently published work in magazines edited by his friends. In 2005-2006 he co-curated the Performance Writing series, with Jocelyn Saidenberg, at New Langton Arts in San Francisco. He lives in San Francisco with Alli Warren and their cast iron pans.

Alli Warren was raised in the Valley of San Fernando in Southern California. In 2006, Lame House Press published Cousins, and previous to that, some were Hounds and some were Yoke. She works in Berkeley at Small Press Distribution.

Lame House at AWP

2007-02-28T08:13:00.000-08:00

If you're going to AWP, please look for Lame House books at the Typo/Forklift, Ohio/H_NGM_N/ Octopus table. There you will find the last remaining copies of Karl Parker's Harmstorm & Dustin Williamson's Cab Ass'n at discounted prices.

Sold Out!

2007-02-25T19:11:00.000-08:00

2006-11-30T17:43:00.000-08:00

Now available, Karl Parker's HARMSTORM

Cover art by Andrew Mister.
Printed in a limited edition of 100.
$5.00

Purchase now via PayPal or send a check made out to Gina Myers to 95 Verona St. #4, Brooklyn, NY 11231.

2006-10-14T11:36:00.000-07:00

SOLD OUT - ALLI WARREN'S COUSINS

Lame House #5
Released Friday October 13, 2006.
Printed in a limited edition of 100.

TWO NEW RELEASES - FRIDAY OCTOBER 13TH

2006-09-30T14:32:00.000-07:00

Pending any unforeseeable delays, Lame House will release two new chapbooks on Friday October 13th:

Karl Parker's HARMSTORM (Lame House #4)

&

Alli Warren's Cousins (Lame House #5)

***

from HARMSTORM

Reflects

This is not the news, not to say
you didn't already know that

but as you said it's hard to know how
and exactly who to trust with such

information as does not become us
necessarily normally anyway.

Some procedures don't grow old.
Include those who died today.

Literally everything that happened
to bend your vectored view

suffusing red. Make all allowances
you like and need to move through.

Across the way they see things there
we are.

***

from Cousins

The Contents of the Handbag

My little legs were working
My numbers kept increasing
I was coming on like gangbangers
I was slated for major redevelopment

Something rising up warm on my right
Something trustworthy dipped in honey

Gradually the little ones in their ambulances
Goats galloping and or cajoling home
Nevermind the heart murmur
I too am a rabbit

***

Also, please scroll down to see Karl Parker's "Incident," also from HARMSTORM.

NOW AVAILABLE MICHAEL SIKKEMA'S CODE OVER CODE

2006-08-16T17:00:00.000-07:00

"'That music // could have numbers.' Yes, it can and does. Music, colors, body parts, earth, air, fire and water, CODE OVER CODE. You think oh it’s a few lines on a page and then it turns out to be a whole rhythmic life, then another life, or a part, of an elemental past, present and future you want to read, 'because division is how one gets here.' Michael Sikkema is a sophisticated and straightforward poet." --Norma Cole

"In the spirng of 1971, the American poet Lew Welch walked out of the mountain cabin he’d borrowed and never came back, his body presumably dissolved into the frightening California forest he so loved and feared. Michael Sikkema takes up Welch’s struggle, the drive for a permanent home, and rings changes on his forebear’s remarkable prosody in the new sequence Code Over Code. California doesn’t fit everyone, and COC is one man’s chart of discovering ways to push through, ways to surrender. Inside this voyage, a return to the circus of childhood, its lonesome night light. Radar blips send messages; paper clips do too. It’s a book of questions, if only one question mark. 'Is there one truly human act left?' I take this to mean, is there an act untouched by the grand natural surround? 'One is oversized/ or one is under.' Everything is binary, thus incomplete, in the teeming world we have made as bad citizens. 'Just outside, two quail feathers against gold weeds.'" --Kevin Killian

UPDATE: 10.21.2006 Michael Sikkema's Code Over Code is no longer available.

COMING SOON

2006-07-22T10:59:00.000-07:00

Forthcoming in August, two titles from Lame House Press:

Code Over Code by Michael Sikkema
HARMSTORM by Karl Parker

Sneak Previews:

from Code Over Code

I wanted everything with you to be nicely round in a square of berry patch,

dirt and sky.

Or the taqueria.

Deplorable neighbors with phones, those faces. Will this ache heal or stop?

I ask for a working fear of white cars and loud noises as the rain stretches a lake sideways.

Everything is––

––is the light better there?

The chime takes the toll gets worse,

time rakes the coals then sets curse, a mime with a mole and jest sores.

The first whorls come easiest without a map

because division is how one gets here.

***

from HARMSTORM

INCIDENT (FURNACE OF DOUBT)

The bodies were blown back from the tankard.

Drilling was hard going but at least it made work.

Someone was making a comeback. Come home!

Boys and girls turned green and were gone.

Times was when there wasn't anymore of this.

That was soon or barely lasted.

Day came hard across the pointed tents; dawn veined.

Someone was making a come back. Come home.

Boys and girls turned green and were gone.

PAST TITLES

2006-07-22T10:35:00.000-07:00

Sister by Gabriella Torres - Sold Out

Lame House #1
Launched October 4, 2005.
Printed in a limited edition of 75.

"Whatever illusions of loveliness these poems offer their uneasy titles dispel, & leave us the wobbling balance of finding a warped, separate presence alive in the words. Torres writes "You were a tragedy long before you were a girl", & such devastation is real in these poems, enacted & queasily pretty." -- Dana Ward

"gabriella torres' chapbook, sister, is full of poems that take faulkner as their base and then take off into their own genius lyric exploration of thought. these poems make me want to read the sound and the fury , but more importantly, they make me hope that torres will publish more and more poems. with lines like, "i have reinvented you in translation," "spent the whole day as a ghost," and "you were a tragedy long before you were a girl," readers are left with a sense of a new rurality. a poet who is able to create a new visual field, without losing originality in both language and thought. bravo!" -- erica kaufman

Nothing Moving by Hazel McClure - Sold Out

Lame House #2
Released on May 20, 2006.
Printed in a limited edition of 75.

"Blue in pools, the little houses with little addresses, ice in patterns, mud at the bottom, I'm a body in a singing column, words arranged in a briefcase: Hazel McClure's brilliant poems carry the grace of origin. She speaks a primary language, and she teaches us where the sources are, where the meanings are. She invents a marvelous poetics of silence and precision, gaps and courage: you must read this." --Joseph Lease

"How we come to see ourselves. Glass, ice, sun, lines of water on a steamed-over window. 'The child sees a story in the lines, sings this word, that name.' How we come to say ourselves and where we are. 'Noun echoes pine.' The chest and the heart inside it, 'chest cracks open / as a seed.' I recognize home in this book of poems: the comings and goings of meaning (as if through the window that we keep returning to), the contast translation of body to spirit to world to body to word. The person speaking is someone I believe. And 'she looks straight / into the camera / as if she knows me'." --Kate Greenstreet