Eileen R. Tabios is a poet working in multiple genres and in-between. She also loves books by writing, reading, publishing, critiquing, romancing and advocating for them. This blog will feature her bibliophilic activities with posts on current book engagements and links to her books and projects related to books.

Saturday, January 30, 2016

FORTHCOMING IN POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE

Marsh Hawk Press has prepared an announcement of its Spring and Fall 2016 releases for the March/April issue of Poets & Writers magazine; this ad below will appear on the back cover! As you can see below, Vince Gotera went over-the-top for his praise for my Spring 2016 book, THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS, but my publisher was happy to receive it.  All I can say is, Thank you, Vince!


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You are also invited to visit Marsh Hawk Press' table at AWP to see these new books!

Of course, I recommend all of Marsh Hawk Press' books. And I also recommend a forthcoming book by Susan Schultz, such that I provided a blurb!  This will be released by the excellent poetry publisher, Talisman, helmed by the excellent poet Ed Foster! (This blurb is first-draft, unedited.)
Blurb for Memory Cards: Thomas Traherne Series by Susan Schultz:  
As each poem by Susan Schultz begins with a line from Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditations, the strengths of her poems honor their source, offering a fresh reason for Traherne’s meditations remaining relevant as centuries unfold. Schultz’s poems are prose poems like Traherne’s paragraphs but are located in her and our (as readers) time. Sadly, this means referencing the homeless, “Kabul,” the Walmart worker’s low wages and even “Trump.” Fortunately, Schultz keeps our attention, even on topics that one might wish to bypass, through resonance (“Lavafall at Pahoa’s transfer station; someone lays red petals on its black”), imagery (“loss, like a rope in my stomach, turning to braid”), even whimsy (“Await the typo for that is where tooth lies”), and finally wisdom (“The weed whackers insure an absence of quiet. Quiet must be made; it’s not a taking away but an addition to.”) With their layers, often combined in pleasingly unexpected ways, these meditations—and poems—offer an immensely satisfying read. 
--Eileen R. Tabios
Relatedly then, here's my latest Relished W(h)ines update of recently imbibed books and wines.  As ever, please note that in the Publications section, if you see an asterisk before the title, that means a review copy is available for Galatea Resurrects!  More info on that HERE

PUBLICATIONS
MEMORY CARDS: THOMAS TRAHERNE SERIES by Susan Schultz (in manuscript; see above blurb)

SELECT POEMS by John M. Bennett (I like to read poets’ COLLECTEDS and SELECTEDS. This book shows not only that John Bennett’s lifetime poetic endeavors are worthwhile but that readers are lucky such a book as his SELECTED exists. His SELECTED allows us to see his trajectory and we see a restless, brilliant mind at work in the service of poetry. LinkedIn to Poetry (LPR) #222) 



THEY AND WE WILL GET INTO TROUBLE FOR THIS, poems by Anna Moschovakis (distinct and pleasurable. LPR #221)



THE UNFOLDING CENTER, poem by Arthur Sze and art by Susan York plus a conversation with John Yau (so resonant. LPR #218)



MY CHOCOLATE SARCOPHAGUS by Claudia Carlson (moving; delicate and steel at the same time. LPR #216)



THE AHA MOMENT, visual poetry by Márton Koppány (E-ratio Editions, 2016)


 (brilliant. LPR #220) 



LOST WAX: TRANSLATION THROUGH THE VOID, poems by Jonathan Stalling with translations by Zhou Yu, Yao Benbiao, Nick Admussen, Jami Proctor-Xu, Jennifer Feeley, Eleanoir Goodman, Lucas Klein and Andrea Lingenfelter and sculpture and photography by Amy Stalling (fabulous example of poetry-in-progress, LPR #219)


GOSSAMER LID by Andrew Brenza (wonderful enough to blurb! LPR #217)


*  A WINGED HORSE IN A PLANE, poems by Salah Faik, translated by Maged Zaher (really enjoyed this; found it moving and more)


*  LEARN TO LOVE EXPLOSIVES, poems by Geoffrey Woolf (deft and pleasingly energetic with enjoyable twists)


SOME NOTES ON MY PROGRAMMING, poems by Anselm Berrigan (fabulous energy)


ONE BIG SELF: AN INVESTIGATION, poetry/poems by C.D. Wright


NEGATIVITY’S KISS, noir poem by Alice Notley


FOX: POEMS 1998-2000 by Adrienne Rich


I MUST BE LIVING TWICE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Eileen Myles


ONE WITH OTHERS [A LITTLE BOOK OF HER DAYS], poetry by C.D. Wright


SKY JOURNAL, poems by Hassen Saker


SOME WORLDS FOR DR. VOGT, poems by Matvei Yankelevich


*  STANZAS ON OZ: POEMS 2011-2014 by David M. Katz


*  LATEST VOLCANO, poems by Tana Jean Welch


*  THINKING SINGING: SELECTED POEMS OF HANK LAZER / PENSANDO CANTANDO: POESIE SCELTE DI HANK LAZER with Italian translations by Anny Ballardini


*  AS FAR AS I KNOW, poems by Joseph Somoza


*  HOW TO BE ANOTHER, poems by Susan Lewis


*  LICHEN LOVES STONE, poems by Jen Crawford


*  AWKWARD HUGGER, poems by Timothy Dyke


*  ORIGINAL SIN, poems by Michael Daley


*  ORPHAN, poems by Joseph Han


*  LORD’S OWN ANNOINTED, poems by Kevin Cutrer with drawings by Rob Fairburn


*  OLD BALLERINA CLUB, poems by Sharon Olinka


*  THE POND IN ROOM 318, poems by Kip Zegers


*  WHERE YOU WANT TO BE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Kevin Pilkington


THE MESHES, poems by Brittany Billmeyer-Finn


HOW WE BECAME HUMAN: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1975-2001 by Joy Harjo


NEW YEAR, TWENTY SIXTEEN, poetry card-broadside by Sheila Murphy


*  OVER HEAR: SIX TYPES OF POETRY EXPERIMENT IN AOTEAROA / NEW ZEALAND, poetics essay by Lisa Samuels


ERATIO#22, literary journal edited by Gregory St. Vincent Thomasino 


*  THE UNBEARABLE CONTACT WITH POETS, prose and interviews by Derek Beaulieu


LIFE IN A TIN CAN: THE REAL PIANOVAN, memoir by Chris Stroffolino 


GIRL DRIVE: CRISS-CROSSING AMERICA, REDEFINING FEMINISM, study/journalism by Nona Willis Aronowitz & Emma Bee Bernstein


THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST LOOKS LIKE (2014) by The Sitting Room writers


BROKEN VERSE, art monograph by Darrell Nettles


RHYTHM FIELD: THE DANCE OF MOLISSA FENLEY, Edited by Ann Murphy and Molissa Fenley


INSIDE THE ARTIST’S STUDIO by Joe Fig


INSIDE THE ART STUDIO: A GUIDED TOUR OF 37 ARTISTS’ CREATIVE SPACES edited by Mary Burzlaff Bostic and the editors of AMERICAN ARTIST magazine


THE ACCORDION FAMILY: BOOMERANG KIDS, ANXIOUS PARENTS AND THE PRIVATE TOLL OF GLOBAL COMPETITION, study by Katherine S. Newman



WINES

2005/6 Peter Michael chardonnay “Point Rouge”

1996 Domaine Leroy Clos de Vougeot

2012 Dancing Hares

2003 Villi Schaefer Spatlese

1990 Ch. D’Yquem

2013 Failla chardonnay Sonoma Coast

1998 Haut Brion

2007 Peter Michael Ma Belle Fille

1991 Vega Sicilia

1993 Araujo Eisele Vineyard

2009 Artadi El Carretil

2010 Les Halos de Jupiter PAR Philippe Cambie Cotes du Rhone

1990 Ch. Haut-Marbuzet

2010 pinot noir Calera Jensen Vineyard





Thursday, January 28, 2016

THE CONNOISSEUR IS IN THE HOUSE!

No matter how many books I write, the excitement never gets old for seeing for the first time a new book as a finished product!  Here are the newly-arrived author copies of THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS!


Do remember the SPECIAL PRE-RELEASE AND/OR POETRY BOOK TRADE OFFER!  The book should be at SPD, Amazon and other retail outlets soon.





Sunday, January 24, 2016

A FEMINIST SUNDAY

I finally had a chance to finish Emma Bee Bernstein's and Nona Willis Aronowitz's book, Girl Drive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism. Shortly after finishing their 2009 book, I read the This Is What A Feminist Looks Like collection put together in 2014 by Sonoma's The Sitting Room. "Feminism"-- so many facets and still a whole lot yet to unpack.






Thursday, January 21, 2016

PRE-RELEASE SPECIAL AND/OR POETRY BOOK TRADE OFFER!

Book Info at my Website




Dear Friends and Poetry Lovers,


I’m pleased to announce the impending release of my next book, The Connoisseur of Alleys (Marsh Hawk Press, 2016). The poems meld approaches found in constraint-based, computational, lyric, prose poem, abstract, story-telling, collage, transcolonial and indigenous (Kapwa-based) poems, among others. North American Review Editor Vince Gotera says about my 32nd poetry collection:


“A phrase from Comte de Lautréamont’s prose poem Les Chants de Maldoror (1869) has been used by many as a definition of surrealism: ‘the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella.’ Such fanciful and bizarre juxtaposition is one of the many sources of beauty and the sublime in The Connoisseur of Alleys…. //  These poems are, to borrow from Whitman, ‘large and contain multitudes.’ They are a striking tribute to art and to poetry … emphasizing for ourselves our own humanity and grace.”


In gratitude, I’m offering a PRE-RELEASE SPECIAL involving a discounted price, free shipping ($4 value within the U.S.), and signed copies.  This SPECIAL expires Feb. 28, 2016. If interested, please send a $13.50 check (reflecting a 25% price discount) made out to me, as well as a shipping address, to


Eileen Tabios

P.O. Box 361

St. Helena, CA 94574


Alternatively, I am willing to trade for poetry books I don’t already have. If you would like to TRADE POETRY BOOKS, go check out my library at http://galateapoetrylibrary.blogspot.com. If you don’t see your book on the list, feel free to contact me about a trade at galateaten@gmail.com

For those who’d like to request a review copy, feel free to contact me at above email as well.


Thank you for your interest,


Eileen R. Tabios





Friday, January 15, 2016

SUNDRESS PICKS FOR "BEST DRESSED"

These are Sundress' poem picks for highlighting from INVENT(ST)ORY.  I'll update as updates are posted on the Sundress Blog -- it's always interesting to see what different readers highlight from one's books.  Readers often choose poems that I, as a reader, might not have. Keeps it all interesting ...

Jan. 11: "Listing"

Jan. 12: "Filipina Brides"

Jan. 13: Footnote to "Military Goodies"*

Jan. 14: "I Forgot My Skin Was Ruin"

Jan. 15: excerpt from "Letters from the Balikbayan Box"


Thanks so much to curator librecht baker. librecht is new to me but I certainly am appreciative of librecht's attention!  Here's more info about her:
librecht baker. Dembrebrah West African Drum and Dance Ensemble member. Kouman Kele Dance and Drum Ensemble memeber. MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. VONA/Voices & Lambda Literary Fellow. Sundress Publications’ Assistant Editor. Poetry in Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices & CHORUS: A Literary Mixtape. Currently, birthing & manifesting.



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*  Since Sundress highlighted a foonote to the poem, rather than the poem itself, here's an excerpt from the poem "Military Goodies" (like "Filipina Brides," it's a prose poem/list poem mix):





Monday, January 11, 2016

NO IRONY: CALL MOI "BEST DRESSED"!

Sundress, a collective whose activities include Best of the Net, has awarded INVENT(ST)ORY a January title of “The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed.” No, that’s not a sub-category of the Miss Universe beauty pageant but a moniker punning off the collective’s name. Well, as a Pin@y, I love puns. And as someone who mostly inhabits Dad’s old shirts, I’m delighted by this particular honor.

So I’m pleased to share my current wardrobe as I thank Sundress and curator lilbrecht baker for giving INVENT(ST)ORY this honor: today I am wearing non-seasonal Christmas socks, Levis, one of Dad’s burgundy shirts hemmed by Mom. Make-Up by No One. Shoes by Who Cares.

This honor, by the way, means that Sundress will be posting a poem from INVENT(ST)ORY once a week in the weeks ahead. The inaugural poem is a poem I crafted from deep poetics aka my sense of humor—thanks to William Allegrezza and his literary journal Moss Trill for first publishing my commentary on the poetry world, “Listing.”  You can see INVENT(ST)ORY’s wardrobe over HERE





R.I.P., DAVID BOWIE

(Some of the Eileen Tabios books at Poets House, New York City)

I didn't become a poet because of David Bowie. But I want each of my books to be significantly different from each other because of David Bowie and artists like him -- My take? They feel physics: the world is an infinite series of parallel universes where overlaps can occur due to curvature and weave. Thus, the artist's work will be multiple and varied and ... prolific. I didn't become a poet because of him, but if I stay one it will also be because of his inspiration. R.I.P.



Here is David Bowie's  "100 FAVORITE BOOKS" -- of course it includes Poetry.






Tuesday, January 5, 2016

I BUY POETRY (2015)

I recently stumbled across an interview with a poet -- let's call her "Ms. A" -- who's fairly well known in the poetry world. Ms. A is well known because her day job provides support to many literary figures. As regards her poetry? She released one book and then apparently stopped. She apparently gave up on the book, not because it would be hard for her to find a publisher but, because she realized so few people -- even with the many writers she supports -- actually "buy" her books. I work in this same environment and, in 2015, I released three books and one chapbook. In 2016, I expect to release four books and one chapbook. 

I understand Ms. A's decision. In the U.S. at least, the bulk of poetry book sales mostly happen if your poetry book is picked up as a textbook. This has both exaggerated the benefits of, as well as exacerbated the constraints created by, academia (I'm not bashing academia; I'm just observing and reporting). As indicated by my publishing activities, I obviously have chosen to respond differently from Ms. A.  One's book sales, if at a low figure, can't be taken personally. People simply are not reading a lot nowadays (across all genres, let alone for poetry). And, as a non-academic I can't play (not, I believe, that I would want to or that all writer-academics do play) the game of "I'll teach your book if you teach mine." So how do I know my faith in the book is warranted?  

Well, this morning, I received a request for seven of my books to help form a new collection at a public library. What was moving to me about this request is that the request-maker identified which books were desired as "a good introduction to your output as author, editor, curator...and conceptualist." This is rare--I'm not that different from Ms. A (or many poets): many people don't pay attention to our works. But this one reader did, and now he becomes a portal through which perhaps others may read my books, one of which is more than ten years old.

And a few months ago, I met a reader who joked with me, "I'm catching up with your output! I'm up now to the year 2007!)"

These are turbulent times for book publishing. Technology affects the ways we read, including the role of print.  And I see a business gap that needs to be reconciled between (a) the unprofitability of many new books and (yet) the (b) growing industry in used book sales/distribution.

But to make (including write) a book is not the same as to sell a book. I choose to be prolific (to the extent others are willing to keep publishing me--thank you!) because I don't confuse making a book with selling a book. I think it's easy for folks to know to castigate someone if that someone tried to tell a writer how or what to write. In those cases, we're usually talking about content or writing styles. But the commercial aspect can be another form of dictator -- why let the limit of commerce dictate how you as a writer should behave?  But it happens. It's not just a case like Ms. A's.  It's, for example, the typical length of a poetry collection (as facilitated, too, by the prevalence of contests which are based on particular page constraints to maximize a contest's profitability to the sponsor). And I recall more than one instance of a teacher telling me certain of my books will rarely be assigned because they're too thick.

Let me pause here to note that in the above, I have not touched on literary quality as a factor even though many pay lip service to that factor as a primary determinant to what becomes published. And of course literary quality matters. But I -- unlike those writers her day job supports -- have actually read Ms. A's poetry. Guess what, she's a damn good poet. But she's decided to ... forego the book.

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Meanwhile, I buy books. Here below is a list of the 146 poetry publications I bought for 2015. I obviously read much more than I buy (I am fortunate to be sent a lot of comp copies). But I do want to buy books for reasons related to the above. I don't think I bought enough in 2015, but at least I know that I bought more than I did the prior year (2014).  

This is one of my book purchases -- the incredibly lovely poet-artist collaboration between Arthur Sze and Susan York, THE UNFOLDING CENTER. Interestingly, I speculate that its fabulous book production (it's a hardback sized at 11.5 x 17") benefited from its association with the visual arts (vs. literary) world. I think there's more money in the visual arts vs literary world. To me, this book is an example of what happens when money and marketing are not such constraining factors (though there must have been marketing constraints; this book was released in 2013 yet I only heard of it recently).


Anyway, I don't have all the answers. So let me just end this by praising this wonderful project, and sharing a list of what I bought last year. FYI.


HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES by Kathy Acker


THE BOOK OF FERAL FLORA by Amanda Ackerman


AMERICAN SUBLIME by Elizabeth Alexander


THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD: A MEMOIR by Elizabeth Alexander


FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza


PORT LIGHT: A HAY(NA)KU COLLECTION by William Allegrezza  


HOLLYWOOD STARLET by Ivy Alvarez


MARTIN & MEDITATIONS ON THE SOUTH VALLEY by Jimmy Santiago Baca


SINGING AT THE GATES: SELECTED POEMS by Jimmy Santiago Baca


MULES OF LOVE by Ellen Bass


KALI’S BLADE by Michelle Bautista


DIAGNOSIS by Alessandra Bava


UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS (1978-2006) by Tom Beckett


JOHN BROWN’S BODY by Stephen Vincent Benet with illustrations by Fritz Kredel and Warren Chappell


SELECT POEMS by John M. Bennett


SOME NOTES ON MY PROGRAMMING by Anselm Berrigan


COLLECTED POEMS 1957-1982 by Wendell Berry


BOUGH BREAKS by Tamiko Beyer  


THE  MESHES by Brittany Billmeyer-Finn


NEW COLLECTED POEMS by Eavan Boland  


POEMS 1959-1975 by Yves Bonnefoy, Trans. by Richard Pevear


OCCUPATIONAL TREATMENT by Taylor Brady


BEYOND LUMPIA, PANSIT and SEVEN MANANGS WILD, edited by Evangeline Canonizado Buell


BURYING THE TYPEWRITER, memoir by Carmen Bugan


THEN GO ON by Mary Burger


THE TRAVEL AGENCY IS ON FIRE by William S. Burroughs


LAST WORDS: THE FINAL JOURNALS OF WILLLIAM S. BURROUGHS


WISTERIA FROM SEED by Jeremy Cantor


HARD LOVE PROVINCE by Marilyn Chin  


MAISON FEMME: A FICTION with text by Teresa Carmody and images by Vanessa Place


KANSOZ by Joel Chace 


LATE RETURNS: A MEMOIR OF TED BERRIGAN by Tom Clark, with 11 LETTERS FROM BERRIGAN TO THE AUTHOR


RED EPIC by Joshua Clover


LAST [TRANS] MISSION, wordless story by E. Steen Comer and art by Trista Musco


RESURRECTION by Nicole Cooley  


EVERYDAY THINGS by Fidelito C. Cortes


CONCEPTUALISMS AND OTHER FICTIONS: THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF EDUARDO COSTA 1965-2015, Edited by Patrick Greaney


PERFECT WORDS by Kay Day


WET LAND by Lucas de Lima


DINNERS AND NIGHTMARES by Diane di Prima


REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS by Diane di Prima


LEAVE YOUR BODY BEHIND by Sandra Doller


THE CLOUD CORPORATION by Timothy Donnelly


FACING THE WAVE: A JOURNEY IN THE WAKE OF THE TSUNAMI by Gretel Ehrlich


ANGINA DAYS: SELECTED POEMS by Gunter Eich


SELECTED POEMS OF SALVADOR ESPRIU, Trans. by Magda Bodin


A LILY LILIES, poems by Josey Foo and Notes on Dance by Leah Stein


THE BEAUTY OF GHOSTS by Luis Francia


ROBERT FROST: A One-Volume Edition of the Authorized Biography by Lawrance Thompson and R.H. Winnick, Edited by Edward Connery Lathem


A SUDDEN SKY: SELECTED POEMS BY ULRIKKA S. GERNES, Trans. and Edited by Patrick Friesen and Per Brask


STAGE PRESENCE: CONVERSATIONS WITH FILIPINO AND FILIPINO-AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTISTS edited by Theodore Gonzalves


SWARM by Jorie Graham


I AM THE BEGGAR OF THE WORLD: LANDAYS FROM CONTEMPORARY AFGHANISTAN, Translated by Eliza Griswold with photographs by Seamus Murphy


A LISS by Carolyn Guinzio


POET IN ANDALUCIA by Nathalie Handal


LUCI: A FORBIDDEN SOTERIOLOGY by j/j hastain


LOVE AFTER THE RIOTS by Juan Felipe Herrera


DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION by Cathy Park Hong


LANGSTON HUGHES: POEMS, PHOTOS & NOTEBOOKS FROM TURKESTAN


ORPHAN MACHINES by Carrie Hunter


SECRET WEAPON: SELECTED LATE POEMS by Eugen Jebeleanu, trans. from Romanian by Matthew Zapruder and Radu Ioanid with Intro by Andrei Codrescu


COLLECTED VERSE by Nick Joaquin


GUIDE TO THE TOKYO SUBWAY by Halvard Johnson


JUNKYARD DOG by Halvard Johnson  


BAN EN BANLIEU by Bhanu Kapil


INCUBATION: A SPACE FOR MONSTERS by Bhanu Kapil


SCHIZOPHRENE by Bhanu Kapil


THE ART OF MEMOIR by Mary Karr


THE CONVECTIONS by Robert Kelly


SEVEN FOR BOETTICHER & OTHER POEMS by Rodney Koeneke


BLOOD, SPARROWS AND SPARROWS by Eugenia Leigh


POSES by Genine Lentine with drawings by Richard Diebenkorn


VOYAGE OF THE SABLE VENUS by Robin Coste Lewis


PRIME TIME APPARITIONS by R. Zamora Linmark


BOMBYONDER by Reb Livingston


SPINE STILL HOLDING by Bonnie Long 


IN SEARCH OF DUENDE by Federico Garcia Lorca


HERE COMES THE SUN: A JOURNEY TO ADOPTION IN 8 CHAKRAS, memoir by Leza Lowitz


TWO POEMS by Hugo Garcia Manriquez


ILLOCALITY by Joseph Massey


SCRATCHING THE BEAT SURFACE by Michael McClure


IT’S NO GOOD by Kirill Medvedev


ABU GHRAIB ARIAS by Philip Metres  


TO BEGIN WHERE I AM: SELECTED ESSAYS by Czeslaw Milosz, Edited by Bogdana Carpentier and Madeline G. Levine


CANT by David James Miller


MEDIATED by Carol Mirakove


OCCUPIED by Carol Mirakove


THE LAST INCANTATIONS by David Mura


CANCER ANGEL by Beth Murray


I MUST BE LIVING TWICE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Eileen Myles


AUGUSTMENT (TRANSLATION WITHOUT LANGUAGE) by Nathanael


DAKOTA, memoir by Kathleen Norris


BENEDICTION by Alice Notley


NEGATIVITY’S KISS by Alice  Notley


NEW COLLECTED POEMS by George Oppen, Edited by Michael Davidson


ALL HAT, NO CATTLE by lars palm


WHEN YOU SAID NO, DID YOU MEAN NEVER? By Fani Papageorgiou


LITTLE ANODYNES by Jon Pineda


APOLOGY: a novel by Jon Pineda


THE GATES by Vanessa Place


PAIN, PARTIES, WORK: SYLVIA PLATH IN NEW YORK, SUMMER 1953 by Elizabeth Winder


(AL)MOST DELICIOUS by Cati Porter


TO LOVE AS ASWANG by Barbara Jane Reyes


FOX: Poems 1998-2000 by Adrienne Rich


NOT SO, SEA by Mg Roberts


SIMPLIFIED HOLY PASSAGE by Elizabeth Robinson


COOL DON’T LIVE HERE NO MORE: A LETTER TO SAN FRANCISCO by Tony Robles


VIOLET ISLAND AND OTHER POEMS by Reina Maria Rodriguez


FLOATING LANTERNS by Mercedes Roffe, Trans. by Anne Deeny


ON THE CUSP OF A DANGEROUS YEAR by Lee Ann Roripaugh


THE VALISE by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino


MAGNETIC REFRAIN by Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut  


LE SOLEIL SOUS LES ARMES [THE SUN UNDER THE WEAPONS] by Jean Senac


ALGERIAN DIARY by Vittorio Sereni


MY TRANQUIL WAR AND OTHER POEMS by Anis Shivani


WAR OF THE FOXES by Richard Siken


ELEMENTAL TANKA by Gary Silva


M TRAIN, memoir by Patti Smith


ORDINARY LIGHT: A MEMOIR by Tracy K. Smith


SPARSE ANATOMIES OF SINGLE ANTECEDENTS by Felino A. Soriano


THAT WINTER THE WOLF CAME by Juliana Spahr


FLIPS 2015: A FILIPINO AMERICAN ANTHOLOGY (a reprint) edited by Serafin Syquia and Bayani Mariano w/ new introduction by Juanita Tamayo Lott


THE UNFOLDING CENTER, poet-artist collaboration by Arthur Sze and Susan York


147 MILLION ORPHANS (MMXI-MML) by Eileen R. Tabios


AGAINST MISANTHROPY: A LIFE IN POETRY (2015-1995) by Eileen R. Tabios  


I FORGOT LIGHT BURNS by Eileen R. Tabios  


INVENT(ST)ORY: SELECTED CATALOG POEMS AND NEW by Eileen R. Tabios


YOU DA ONE by Jennifer Tamayo


ALL-PURPOSE VISPO by Nico Vassilakis


FANTASTIC VOYAGE TO THE ORDINARY PLANET by Erin Virgil  


SPAR by Karen Volkman


MANDARIN PRIMER by Rosmarie Waldrop


SOME VERSIONS OF THE ICE by Adam Tipps Weinstein


THE TAPEWORM FOUNDRY: AND OR THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION by Darren Wershler-Henry


“SOMETHING URGENT I HAVE TO SAY TO YOU”: THE LIFE AND WORKS OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS by Herbert Leibowitz


WINTER FRUIT by Beclee Newcomer Wilson


EVERLASTING QUAIL by Sam Witt


THE HISTORY OF MINING by Valerie Witte


25 LITTLE RED POEMS by Angela Veronica Wong


BREAKFAST LUNCH DINNER by Nellie Wong


TALKING BACK: VOICES OF COLOR, Edited by Nellie Wong


THE FACE BEHIND THE FACE by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Trans. by Arthur Boyars and Simon Franklin 


HOTUS POTUS by Mark Young


URSULA OR UNIVERSITY by Stephanie Young


100 CHINESE SILENCES by Timothy Yu

THE PAJAMAIST by Matthew Zapruder