Rick Marlatt's review of String Parade in Coldfront.

Br. Tom Murphy's review of Doubled Over at Goodreads.

DOUBLED OVER

Doubled Over (BlazeVOX Books)

Two Video/Stories by Ryan MacDonald now at The Continental Review

Read These Now

Tom Beckett: Another Shadow?

Mark Leidner: The Empire

Nada Gordon: Interests

Nate Pritts: All My Poems

Abraham Smith: Take 11 Wolf Teeth and Call Me in the Morning

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts
Thursday, May 28
7PM @ The Raven
6 East 7th Street
Lawrence, KS

Act 1: Elliot Stevens prose
Act 2: Jordan Stempleman poetry
Act 3: Brian Daldorph prose

Saving Salt Publishing: Just One Book

A note from Chris Emery, publisher of Salt in Britain:

As many of you will know, Jen and I have been struggling to keep Salt
moving since June last year when the economic downturn began to affect
our press. Our three year funding ends this year: we've ￡4,000 due from
Arts Council England in a final payment, but cannot apply through
Grants for the Arts for further funding for Salt's operations. Spring
sales were down nearly 80% on the previous year, and despite April's
much improved trading, the past twelve months has left us with a budget
deficit of over ￡55,000. It's proving to be a very big hole and we're
having to take some drastic measures to save our business.

Here's how you can help us to save Salt and all our work with hundreds
of authors around the world. JUST ONE BOOK:

1. Please buy just one book, right now. We don't mind from where, you
can buy it from us or from Amazon, your local shop or megastore, online
or offline. If you buy just one book now, you'll help to save Salt.
Timing is absolutely everything here. We need cash now to stay afloat.
If you love literature, help keep it alive. All it takes is just one
book sale. Go to our online store and help us keep going.

2. Share this note on your profile. Tell your friends. If we can spread
the word about our cash crisis, we can hopefully find more sales and
save our literary publishing. Remember it's just one book, that's all
it takes to save us. Please do it now.

With my best wishes to everyone
Chris Emery
Director, Salt Publishing

Here's the internet site: http://www.saltpublishing.com/

Sprung Formal




from the "make it rain down money" editor Anne Boyer:

Just in time for the most glamorous summer ever, we are proud to announce Sprung Formal 09: A Magazine of International Finance from the Kansas City Art Institute. Fantastic art and literature by Eirikur Orn Norodahl, Mike Hauser, Josef Kaplan, Brandon Brown, Alli Warren, Jasper Bernes, David Perry, Kari Frietag, Todd Colby, Sarah Luther, Linda Lay, Sarah Sarai, Nada Gordon, Sawako Nakayasu, Jordan Stempleman, Ryan Daley, Nathan Logan, Edwin Torres, James Meetze, Sarah Mangold, Alex Savage, Maurice Burford, Jess Rowan, Charlie Mylie, and others. 103 pgs., perfect bound, with 8 full-color postcards. Perfect to read in debtor's prison or by the fountain of youth.

$10 includes shipping for an Internet-only deal. You can get one if you paypal to anne boyer at gmail dot com or send a check made out to Anne Boyer to Kansas City Art Institute, attn: Anne Boyer, 4415 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City Missouri, 64111.

Great new work by Joseph Bradshaw, K. Silem Mohammad, Lars Palm, and Paul Siegell at P.F.S. Post.

(1925-2009)

Otoliths 13

Ink Node

New Textsound

Great audio by Joe Wenderoth, Linh Dinh, Joseph Lease, and many others.

Thanks, B.

Olson documentary now up on the web: Polis Is This

New at P.F.S. Post: Kristen Orser & Big Baby

The positively wonderful work of Emily Pettit now at P.F.S. Post.

Ryan MacDonald's Wakefield



more of Ryan's video stories here.

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Dear friends in Iowa City, please go to this reading tonight, as I went to this reading last night, in a different state, of course, and they were better than great then, and since there's all this talk going around about greatness, why not begin here, tonight, since I've got the gnawing sense these guys only get more great as they pack on the miles.

FRANK'S BRUISED MANDARIN TOUR

CA CONRAD
AARON KUNIN
MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI

SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH
show begins 7pm

SHAMBAUGH HOUSE
(HOME OF THE IWP)
430 N. Clinton St.
Iowa City, Iowa