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Effing Night w/ Chris Vitiello

Please join us at 12th Street Books this Friday at 7pm to mark the release of the seventh issue of Effing Magazine and some new effing book titles . Our featured guest will be Effing Magazine editor, North Carolina poet Chris Vitiello.

Effing Magazine #7 contributors include

Nicholas Manning (France)
Mary Burger (Oakland, CA)
Brent Cunningham (Oakland, CA)
sueyeun juliette lee (Philadelphia, PA)
David Need (Durham, NC)
kathryn l. pringle (Chapel Hill, NC)
Mike Gubser (Virginia)
Orhan Velhi (Turkey, 1914-1950)
Jordan Davis (New York City)
Joseph Donahue (Durham, NC)
Chall Gray (Asheville, NC)
Guillermo Parra (Durham, NC)

effing magazine #7
80 pages
thread-bound
$8.00

***(the new issue will be shipped to subscribers and made available on the effing website next week)

our featured reader:

CHRIS VITIELLO lives in Durham, NC. His first book, NOUNS SWARM A VERB, was published by Xurban Books in 1999, and his latest, IRRESPONSIBILITY, is just out on Ahsahta Press. A former editor of Proliferation magazine, he makes a blog at attentionwithoutame.blogspot.com. He is concerned with, among other things: clarification, light, stars, the sky, clouds, wind, trees, birds, deduction, eyes, leaves, people and their observable behaviors, grasses, the soil, flowers and their growth, description and representation, vegetables, skins and peels, seeds, nuts, cross-sections, dictionary definitions, synonyms and antonyms but especially synonyms, utility, analysis, skepticism, kindness, goodness, quantity, measurement, direct commands, questions, and fact statements. He has recently edited the latest issue of effing magazine.


We'll also be showcasing the latest Effing book BE SOMEBODY by Lester.

Copies of effing magazine and Be Somebody will be available as well as several other great effing titles. Other readers for the evening may or not be Scott Pierce, publisher of Effing Press.

Beer and wine will be available for a donation.

Please come out and bask in the glow of our latest literary labors and hear Chris Vitiello read from his new work.


This event is sponsored by Skanky Possum Press and 12th Street Books.


12th Street Books, purveyors of used, rare, and out of print books, 

is located at 827 W. 12th Street (2.5 blocks east from 12th and Lamar)

 

Buffalo lookin' even better

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SKANKY POSSUM READING SERIES AT 12TH STREET BOOKS

MICHAEL ANANIA & JOE AHEARN

Friday, June 6th, at 7pm

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Michael Anania is a poet, essayist and fiction writer.  His published work includes numerous collections poetry, among them Selected Poems (l994), In Natural Light (1999) and Heat Lines (2006).  His poetry is widely anthologized and has been translated into Italian, German, French, Spanish and Czech. He was poetry editor of Audit, a quarterly, founder and co-editor of Audit/Poetry, poetry and literary editor of The Swallow Press, poetry editor of Partisan Review and a contributing editor to Tri-Quarterly. Anania taught at SUNY at Buffalo, Northwestern, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago.  He lives in Austin, Texas and on Lake Michigan.

Joe Ahearn is the author of Five Fictions (poetry, Sulphur River Review Press) and sin-thét-ik (poetry, Firewheel Editions Press). He has recently published poetry, essays, and criticism in Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, Flashpoint and the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry. Ahearn's poetry has been included in a number of anthologies, including CrossConnect: Writers of the Information Age (CrossConnect Press), Best Texas Writing (Firewheel Editions Press) and the forthcoming An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel Editions). Ahearn currently holds a James A. Michener Fellowship in poetry and fiction at the University of Texas at Austin.

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12th Street Books in Austin TX, purveyors of used, rare and out of print books, is located at 827 West 12th Street, 2.5 blocks east of 12th & Lamar, between Shoal Creek and West.

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Skanky Possum @ 12th St. Books Presents: Steve McCaffery & Karen Mac Cormack

Tuesday, May 20 at 7 PM, 12th St. Books


*About the Poets*



Steve McCaffery is the author of more than 25 volumes of poetry and critical prose. He was a founding member of both the text-sound ensemble The Four Horsemen and (with bp Nichol) of the Toronto research Group.  His most recent books of poetry are The Basho Variations (Book Thug 2007) and Slightly Left of Thinking (Chax Press 2008).  He lives and teaches in Buffalo where he is David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters.





Born in Luanshya, Zambia, Karen Mac Cormack is the author of more than a dozen  books of poetry. Titles include Nothing by Mouth, Quill Driver, Quirks &  Quillets, At Issue and Vanity Release. Her poetry appears in a number of anthologies, among them: Another Language: Poetic Experiments in the USA and the UK,  Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK, Moving Borders (Three Decades of Innovative  Writing by Women),  The Art of Practice, and has been translated into  French, Portuguese, Swedish, and Norwegian. Of dual British/Canadian citizenship she currently lives in the USA and teaches at the State University of New York at Buffalo.





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12th Street Books in Austin TX, purveyors of used, rare and out of print books, is located at 827 West 12th Street, 2.5 blocks east of 12th & Lamar, between Shoal Creek and West.

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that's what I'm talkin about

Can't wait to get my hands on this new mag.

Mimeo Mimeo is a forum for critical and cultural perspectives on the Mimeograph Revolution, Artists’ Books and the Literary Fine Press. Edited by Jed Birmingham and Kyle Schlesinger, this periodical features essays, interviews, images, correspondence, artifacts, manifestos, poems, and reflections on the graphic and material conditions of contemporary poetry and language arts.

review copies of BE SOMEBODY by Lester available

Review copies of Lester's Be Somebody are available to persons and parties with serious intent. Email your request por favor.

one year ago

carving out a block in the old place about a year ago. pic courtesy of jaybird.

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Dale reading from Clark's Threnody

The spot color is red...

"The spot color is red.

Red is the color of the ink that affixes the typographical ornament, the only typographical flourish of this book, to the cover. Red is the color of the thread that ties this tiny palmbook together...."

fine way to write about a book. I always enjoy whatever Geof Huth writes and how he writes it and the colors in which he writes it.