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Take a close look at the broadside for "turns" by Anca Roncea, winner of the 2016 contest. In addition to the beautiful letterpress printing, the poem is (appropriately to the subject and title) embossed in reverse on the page.

We're stoked for this awesome review of Lyn Hejinian's The Following in Jacket 2. Thank you so much, BK Fischer! / ~ ~ " The seventy-seven numbered poems in the volume gather non sequiturs — observations, utterances, images, and examples that convey no logical relationship or narrative from one to the next — in sets of fourteen, a constraint that inevitably invokes what is perhaps the most closed and logical poetic form of all: the sonnet. To call these poems sonnets, Hejinian writes cannily in the book’s preface, “wouldn’t be inaccurate — or it would be entirely so” (9). “Sonnets are the summit of logicality,” she continues, and unlike “the sonnet proper,” these poems “are intended to be illogical (9). " / http://jacket2.org/reviews/non-sequitur-song-experience https://www.omnidawn.com/product/the-unfollowing/ #omnidawn #poetry #review #lynhejinian #languagepoetry

Very Happy Birthday to Kate Bush & also our beloved @kelpgarden! ‘S 30 but iss Eternal. May all of our days be rosen et aureate.

Great news! So awesome to see two poems from Sara Mumolo’s forth coming Day Counter in the current issue of @ghostproposal! Link below. / ~ ~ Sara Mumolo is the author of Mortar and the Associate Director for the MFA in Creative Writing program at Saint Mary’s College of CA. She created and curated the Studio One Reading Series in Oakland, CA from 2007-2012, and Cannibal Books published her chapbook, March, in 2011. She has received residencies to Vermont Studio Center, Caldera Center for the Arts, and has served as a curatorial resident at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland, CA. Her next book, Day Counter, is forthcoming in 2018 from Omnidawn. / http://www.ghostproposal.com/issue9/saramumolo.php

We’re juiced for this review of LM Rivera’s ‘The Drunkards’ in Ragazine! Many thanks to Emily Vogel! Link below. / # “The settings of these poems seem to occur pervasively during the dark hours, where random images seem to cohere as an entire ambiance. The ideas are also veiled behind an opaque scrim, which provokes the intellect. Of course, this book would have fallen short had the ideas been communicated transparently. All throughout this book, “night” seems to be considered as a centrifugal hole. The intentions by which this collection operates is why it succeeds as a tightly woven and poeticized philosophy." / http://ragazine.cc/2018/07/the-drunkards-book-review/# https://www.omnidawn.com/product/the-drunkardslm-rivera/

We’re juiced for this review of LM Rivera’s ‘The Drunkards’ in Ragazine! Many thanks to Emily Vogel! Link below. / # “The settings of these poems seem to occur pervasively during the dark hours, where random images seem to cohere as an entire ambiance. The ideas are also veiled behind an opaque scrim, which provokes the intellect. Of course, this book would have fallen short had the ideas been communicated transparently. All throughout this book, “night” seems to be considered as a centrifugal hole. The intentions by which this collection operates is why it succeeds as a tightly woven and poeticized philosophy." / http://ragazine.cc/2018/07/the-drunkards-book-review/# https://www.omnidawn.com/product/the-drunkardslm-rivera/

We’re juiced for this review of LM Rivera’s ‘The Drunkards’ in Ragazine! Many thanks to Emily Vogel! Link below. / # “The settings of these poems seem to occur pervasively during the dark hours, where random images seem to cohere as an entire ambiance. The ideas are also veiled behind an opaque scrim, which provokes the intellect. Of course, this book would have fallen short had the ideas been communicated transparently. All throughout this book, “night” seems to be considered as a centrifugal hole. The intentions by which this collection operates is why it succeeds as a tightly woven and poeticized philosophy." / http://ragazine.cc/2018/07/the-drunkards-book-review/# https://www.omnidawn.com/product/the-drunkardslm-rivera/

We’re juiced to read this except from Lyn Hejinian’s forthcoming book of essays POSITIONS OF THE SUN (Belladonna 2018) in @literaryhub. Author photo by Gloria Graham. / # “What about this: The hills rising at the eastern edge of the urban area provide a perspectival panoply, while to the west the bay offers an endless prospect, a scintillating distance. One wide ugly avenue is the only major street running between them; uninviting squat commercial buildings, cheap motels, copy shops, and then a stretch of Indian restaurants and a cluster of sari shops line it from end to end. Or this: A man approaches, his feet and legs encased in armor made of shining silver scales. The front edges of his armored boots are decorated with curling silver claws much as the prow of a ship might bear a masthead in the form of a nymph whose long curls blow out over the waves. Each element of the work, every particular, exists as a point of encounter, rather than of separability; each particular serves as an intersection, a portal, a source of energy, and a point of departure (rather than terminus).” / Lyn Hejinian teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, where her academic work is addressed principally to modernist, postmodern, and contemporary poetry and poetics, with a particular interest in avant-garde movements and the social practices they entail. She is the author of over 25 volumes of poetry and critical prose, the most recent of which is The Unfollowing (Omnidawn Books, 2016). With Barrett Watten, she is the co-editor of A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998, and the related Poetics Journal Digital Archive (Wesleyan University Press, 2013/2015). She is the co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets, and the co-editor (with Jane Gregory and Claire Marie Stancek) of Nion Editions, a chapbook press. In addition to her other academic work, she has in recent years been involved in anti-privatization activism at the University of California, Berkeley. / https://lithub.com/lyn-hejinian-ever #poetry #lithub #lynhejinian #essay #lyricessay #essayist

We’re juiced to read this except from Lyn Hejinian’s forthcoming book of essays POSITIONS OF THE SUN (Belladonna 2018) in @literaryhub. Author photo by Gloria Graham. / # “What about this: The hills rising at the eastern edge of the urban area provide a perspectival panoply, while to the west the bay offers an endless prospect, a scintillating distance. One wide ugly avenue is the only major street running between them; uninviting squat commercial buildings, cheap motels, copy shops, and then a stretch of Indian restaurants and a cluster of sari shops line it from end to end. Or this: A man approaches, his feet and legs encased in armor made of shining silver scales. The front edges of his armored boots are decorated with curling silver claws much as the prow of a ship might bear a masthead in the form of a nymph whose long curls blow out over the waves. Each element of the work, every particular, exists as a point of encounter, rather than of separability; each particular serves as an intersection, a portal, a source of energy, and a point of departure (rather than terminus).” / Lyn Hejinian teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, where her academic work is addressed principally to modernist, postmodern, and contemporary poetry and poetics, with a particular interest in avant-garde movements and the social practices they entail. She is the author of over 25 volumes of poetry and critical prose, the most recent of which is The Unfollowing (Omnidawn Books, 2016). With Barrett Watten, she is the co-editor of A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998, and the related Poetics Journal Digital Archive (Wesleyan University Press, 2013/2015). She is the co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets, and the co-editor (with Jane Gregory and Claire Marie Stancek) of Nion Editions, a chapbook press. In addition to her other academic work, she has in recent years been involved in anti-privatization activism at the University of California, Berkeley. / https://lithub.com/lyn-hejinian-ever #poetry #lithub #lynhejinian #essay #lyricessay #essayist

We’re juiced to read this except from Lyn Hejinian’s forthcoming book of essays POSITIONS OF THE SUN (Belladonna 2018) in @literaryhub. Author photo by Gloria Graham. / # “What about this: The hills rising at the eastern edge of the urban area provide a perspectival panoply, while to the west the bay offers an endless prospect, a scintillating distance. One wide ugly avenue is the only major street running between them; uninviting squat commercial buildings, cheap motels, copy shops, and then a stretch of Indian restaurants and a cluster of sari shops line it from end to end. Or this: A man approaches, his feet and legs encased in armor made of shining silver scales. The front edges of his armored boots are decorated with curling silver claws much as the prow of a ship might bear a masthead in the form of a nymph whose long curls blow out over the waves. Each element of the work, every particular, exists as a point of encounter, rather than of separability; each particular serves as an intersection, a portal, a source of energy, and a point of departure (rather than terminus).” / Lyn Hejinian teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, where her academic work is addressed principally to modernist, postmodern, and contemporary poetry and poetics, with a particular interest in avant-garde movements and the social practices they entail. She is the author of over 25 volumes of poetry and critical prose, the most recent of which is The Unfollowing (Omnidawn Books, 2016). With Barrett Watten, she is the co-editor of A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998, and the related Poetics Journal Digital Archive (Wesleyan University Press, 2013/2015). She is the co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets, and the co-editor (with Jane Gregory and Claire Marie Stancek) of Nion Editions, a chapbook press. In addition to her other academic work, she has in recent years been involved in anti-privatization activism at the University of California, Berkeley. / https://lithub.com/lyn-hejinian-ever #poetry #lithub #lynhejinian #essay #lyricessay #essayist

We’re juiced to read this excerpt from Lyn Hejinian’s forthcoming book of Essays POSITIONS OF THE SUN (Belladonna 2018) in @literaryhub! Author photo by Gloria Graham. @ Lyn will be introducing introducing Claire Marie Stancek and Jane Gregory at Mrs Dalloway’s in Berkeley on 7/11. / “What about this: The hills rising at the eastern edge of the urban area provide a perspectival panoply, while to the west the bay offers an endless prospect, a scintillating distance. One wide ugly avenue is the only major street running between them; uninviting squat commercial buildings, cheap motels, copy shops, and then a stretch of Indian restaurants and a cluster of sari shops line it from end to end. Or this: A man approaches, his feet and legs encased in armor made of shining silver scales. The front edges of his armored boots are decorated with curling silver claws much as the prow of a ship might bear a masthead in the form of a nymph whose long curls blow out over the waves. Each element of the work, every particular, exists as a point of encounter, rather than of separability; each particular serves as an intersection, a portal, a source of energy, and a point of departure (rather than terminus).” / Lyn Hejinian teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, where her academic work is addressed principally to modernist, postmodern, and contemporary poetry and poetics, with a particular interest in avant-garde movements and the social practices they entail. She is the author of over 25 volumes of poetry and critical prose, the most recent of which is The Unfollowing (Omnidawn Books, 2016). With Barrett Watten, she is the co-editor of A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998, and the related Poetics Journal Digital Archive (Wesleyan University Press, 2013/2015). She is the co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets, and the co-editor (with Jane Gregory and Claire Marie Stancek) of Nion Editions, a chapbook press. In addition to her other academic work, she has in recent years been involved in anti-privatization activism at the University of California, Berkeley. /

Such a generative and illuminating experience taking the East Bay Poetry Workshop: Speaking Listening with Claire Marie Stancek, author of Oilspell and one of Berkeley’s literary supernovas. We can’t wait to hear to hear Claire read next Wednesday along with @umjane at Mrs. Dalloway’s ! Event link below. https://www.mrsdalloways.com/events/poets-jane-gregory-claire-marie-stancek https://www.omnidawn.com/product/oil-spellclaire-marie-stancek/

We are now accepting submissions for the Omnidawn Single Poem Broadside Poetry Contest! July 1–Aug 20, 2018 www.omnidawn.com/contest Open to all writers: no expectations or limits regarding the amount of poetry a writer has published. Winner receives $1,000, letterpress publication of broadside, 50 copies, and publication of the winning poem in OmniVerse. Accepting electronic & postal submissions Dean Rader will judge. / Dean Rader’s debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and Landscape Portrait Figure Form (2014) was named by The Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book. His most recent projects, all published in 2017 include Suture, collaborative poems written with Simone Muench, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry and Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence, edited with Brian Clements & Alexandra Teague. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco. / www.omnidawn.com/contest Please note our new online submissions page: www.omnidawn.com/submissions1 #omnidawn #poetrycontest #poetry #poetrypublisher #smallpress

We’re stoked 🔥 for David Koehn’s forthcoming “Scatterplot” (Omnidawn 2020)! If you’re like us an can’t wait, please check out his poem “Delta 2” in the Spring 2018 issue of The Midnight Oil. Link below. / “ A path walks away from the neighborhood. If they are fishermen, I know the rocky point Where they have cast their lines. If they are teenagers I know the altitude they ascend to and the distance They will fall. Night fishing here is illegal.” / David Koehn’s first full-length manuscript, Twine (Bauhan Publishing), won the 2013 May Sarton Poetry Prize. His second full-length collection, Scatterplot, is due out from Omnidawn Publishing in 2020, and he is the co-editor of Compendium, a collection of Donald Justice’s thoughts on prosody. Koehn’s poems appear in Kenyon Review, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. / http://www.midnightlit.com/archive/vol1/delta-2-at-night-we-walk%e2%80%8b-%e2%80%8b-talk-to-the-far-edge-of-the-subdivision/

It’s always an immense honor when Craig Santos Perez comes to town. Here he is reading his poem “America” in honor of Allen Ginsberg at the historic @citylightsbooks in North Beach. His words speak to what perhaps many of us have been grappling with. / “Are you being unjust or is this a national allegory? I’m trying to Google the point. I refuse to give up my high-speed internet. America stop surveilling me I’m doing something private. America the honey bees are falling. I’ve been reading the newspapers for months, everyday a cop is not indicted for murder. America black lives matter to me. America I refused to enlist in the Army after high school and I’m not sorry” / Craig Santos Perez, a native Chamorro from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam), co-edited three anthologies of Pacific literature and authored three poetry books: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (2008), from unincorporated territory [saina] (2010, PEN Center USA/Poetry Society of America Literary Prize recipient), and from unincorporated territory [guma’] (2014, American Book Award recipient). He holds an MFA from the U of San Francisco and a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. He is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa. / https://www.omnidawn.com/product/from-unincorporated-territory-lukao/ #omnidawn #citylights #craigsantosperez #nortbeach

Reposting from @shehaslayers. Check out Omnidawn’s own fierce glam goddess Robert Andrew Perez, author of The Field (Omnidawn 2016), gagging the children at Dark Room SF! It gives us so much life to see all the sickening things our authors are up to! It’s a joy to experience and witness all of the artistry and glory and power of our community. Robert will be reading next week at @litquake’s Poetic Tuesday at the Yerba Buena Gardens. Event and book links below. / Robert Andrew Perez lives in Oakland and is an associate editor & book designer for speCt! in Oakland, where he also curates readings. He is an alum of the Lambda Literary fellowship & a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. His first collection, the field, was published with Omnidawn in their pocket book series and is a finalist for the 2017 Northern California Book Award. His debut film, Stone|Fruit, is in post-production and expected to premiere early 2019 / https://www.facebook.com/events/2019084105012825/ https://www.omnidawn.com/product/the-field/ #omnidawn #queerpoets #dragqueen #dragpoets #oaklanddragqueen #localqueen #pride #oaklandpoets #californiawriters

Monday keeps getting better! Check out “autochthonous: or, so goes the logic” by José Felipe Alvergue, author of ‘precis’ (Omnidawn 2017), in the @bostonreview. Link and bio below. / “The crisis of change and human impact exposes actuarial typification. A problem. A tide. A storm. An invasive species of thought, description, and body. Is the democratic paradox itself––to care from a universal necessity” / josé felipe alvergue was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, and grew up on the Mexico/US border. He is a graduate of both the Buffalo Poetics and CalArts Writing programs. As a grain of the Central American diaspora he works between text, performance, and archive in mapping the transnationalisms that shape residential identity. josé also teaches transnational and contemporary literature in Wisconsin, and is the author of gist : rift : drift : bloom (Further Other Book Works, 2015). / http://bostonreview.net/poetry/alvergue-autochthony #poetry #bostonreview #omnidawn #litjournal #poets