pilot books

2011-04-30T11:45:00.002-04:00

Dear readers and poets,

We've had some queries about our open reading period (Meddling Kids Series) that usually runs in May. At this point, our catalog is full through 2012, so we won't be reading manuscripts this year. We hope you'll keep us on your radar, and consider subscribing to Season Five (3 books, 3 bookplates, free shipping!).

Love,
Pilot

Pilot Season Five and Terrance Hayes "Who Are The Tribes" now on sale!

2011-02-25T13:34:00.002-05:00

Hello Pilot fans far and wide!

We're excited to announce the official release of the first title from Season Five: Terrance Hayes' "Who Are The Tribes". Season Five subscriptions are also now on sale:

Season Five book subscriptions include:

Who Are the Tribes, by Terrance Hayes (available now!)

Terrance Hayes is the author of Wind in a Box (Penguin 2006), Hip Logic (Penguin 2002) and Muscular Music (Tia Chucha Press, 1999). His book Lighthead (2010) won the National Book Award in 2010. His other honors include a Whiting Writers Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a National Poetry Series award, a Pushcart Prize, two Best American Poetry selections, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is a Professor of Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his family.

The Axioms, by Francesca Chabrier (forthcoming in Spring 2011)

Francesca Chabrier is the interviews editor for jubilat. Her work appears or is forthcoming in places like notnostrums, Sixth Finch, Invisible Ear, SIR!, Wolf In A Field and Forklift, Ohio. Her collaborations with Christopher Cheney can be found in GlitterPony. She lives in a valley on a hill.

And our *Meddling Kids Series* pick from our open reading period...The Preservationist Documents, by Megan M. Garr (forthcoming in Summer 2011)

Megan M. Garr is the founder and editor of the Amsterdam-based literary journal Versal. Recent and upcoming publications of her poetry and writings on translocality include Tuesday: An Art Journal, SpringGun, and Corduroy Mtn., and the collection “A Megaphone” edited by Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young. Megan’s chapbook, "The Preservationist Documents," is forthcoming from Pilot Books. She lives in Amsterdam with her partner, artist Shayna Schapp.

PLUS THREE BOOK PLATES AND FREE SHIPPING...for only $40!

You can also check out past seasons of Pilot Chapbooks and more information at our new website!

Love,
Pilot

Breaking Radio Silence

2011-01-11T12:57:00.011-05:00

It's been a long time, y'all. We've been busy with paper, ink, thread, lead type, glue, and other things. But we're back with a brand new invention...Not really, but we are back and making a concerted effort to stay in touch with you, our readers... I'd like to introduce you to the person who will be first-hand in making that contact happen, our new, fabulous intern LEORA FRIDMAN! YAY! We are so grateful to have her on board!

Also, we have announcements: Season Five titles, New Website, and AWP happenings

Our Season Five book lineup:

Who Are the Tribes, by Terrance Hayes (available at AWP, February 2011)
Terrance Hayes is the author of Wind in a Box (Penguin 2006), Hip Logic (Penguin 2002) and Muscular Music (Tia Chucha Press, 1999). His book Lighthead (2010) won the National Book Award in 2010. His other honors include a Whiting Writers Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a National Poetry Series award, a Pushcart Prize, two Best American Poetry selections, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is a Professor of Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his family.

The Axioms, by Francesca Chabrier (forthcoming, Winter/Spring 2011)
Francesca Chabrier is the interviews editor for jubilat. Her work appears or is forthcoming in places like notnostrums, Sixth Finch, Invisible Ear, SIR!, Wolf In A Field and Forklift, Ohio. Her collaborations with Christopher Cheney can be found in GlitterPony. She lives in a valley on a hill.

And our *Meddling Kids Series* pick from our open reading period!!
The Preservationist Documents, by Megan M Garr (forthcoming, Winter/Spring 2011)
Megan M. Garr is the founder and editor of the Amsterdam-based literary journal Versal. Recent and upcoming publications of her poetry and writings on translocality include Tuesday: An Art Journal, SpringGun, and Corduroy Mtn., and the collection “A Megaphone” edited by Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young. Megan’s chapbook The Preservationist Documents is forthcoming from Pilot Books. She lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with her partner, artist Shayna Schapp.

Our new website is up! Designed by our very own Meghan Dewar, graphic designer extraordinaire. She also did the site for our dear pals at Factory Hollow Press AND she is available for hire: meghan@pilotpoetry.com. We are in the process of updating our links page, so if you want to swap links please let us know.

AWP happenings:

We are camping out at Table X this year, please come find us, and find all the other small presses we are keeping good company with!

We are co-hosting an offsite event: WIDE NIGHT Friday, February 4th 6:30-9:30 at Wonderland Ballroom. Francesca and Megan will be reading from their forthcoming chaps, along with Chris Martin, Lily Brown, Mark Horosky, Sasha Steensen, Emily Pettit, Dan Boehl, Sommer Browning, Jessica Young, Farrah Field, Guy Pettit, Kelin Loe, Alex Phillips and Luke Bloomfield.

Betsy will be participating in a panel on DIY and craft culture in small press publishing with Matthias Svalina (Octopus Books), Jennifer Flescher (Tuesday Journal), Timothy Schaffert (Omaha Lit Fest, among other things), Kate Bursick (Rose O'Neill Literary House/Literary House Press), Liz Ahl (Plymouth State University) - all on Thursday, February 3, 9-10:15AM at the Virginia B Room, Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level.

Hope to see you there!

Love,
Pilot

seeing that today, May 31st, is a postal day of rest...

2009-05-31T15:34:00.002-04:00

Zoiks!! We have decided that it's o.k. to post yr Meddlin' manuscripts on June 1st.

More about The Meddling Kids Series

2009-05-03T15:57:00.004-04:00

The Meddling Kids Series is the name of the first-ever open reading period for Pilot Books, and the subsequent manuscript that will choose from those we receive to be published in this semi-annual series.

Poems submitted should be written by poets ages 18 and older (not by kids). The audience for the poems is the same audience for the rest of the books we publish (ie: not really kids, though of course we're not opposed to kids reading our books!).

Short explanation: Pilot Books is reading chapbook manuscripts, and will choose one to be published in The Meddling Kids Series. We have a fondness for Scooby Doo, and sometimes feel like the meddling kids of the poetry world. And we like it that way.

Sorry for any confusion!

Introducing: The Meddling Kids Series

2009-05-01T17:19:00.003-04:00

Just wait'll we get our hands on those books!

Pilot Books will hold our first open reading period in May of 2009 to select a manuscript to be published in our new Meddling Kids Series. Please submit 2 printed copies of your original poetry manuscript (10-25 pages of verse) postmarked between May 1st -May 31st , 2009. Include two cover pages--one with manuscript title, your name, address, email and phone; another with manuscript title only. Manuscripts will be logged in by an impartial third party, read anonymously by the editors and a panel of outside readers. A selection of finalists may be asked to submit their manuscript electronically. No SASE necessary, we will communicate via email. Post your entries, along with a $10 reading fee to the address below. (All entry $$ will fund the production of the selected manuscript.)

Pilot Books
39 Lilly Street
Florence, MA 01020

Please help us spread the word... post this on your blogs, websites, etc.

A Celebration of the Chapbook

2009-04-21T22:29:00.003-04:00

We at Pilot Books are very excited to be a part of this great event in NYC this week. If you are in the area, come on by! We'll have copies of our Season Three titles available for sale:

FOR YOU IN FULL BLOOM by Matthew Zapruder and Chris Uphues
3 MOVEMENTS by Karla Kelsey
DEAFENING LEAFENING by Matt Hart and Ethan Paquin

along with other Pilot Books titles.

Hope to see you there!

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A Celebration of the Chapbook festival calls attention to the rich history of the chapbook and highlights its essential place in poetry publishing today as a vehicle for alternative poetry projects and for emerging authors and editors to gain entry into the literary marketplace. The festival will forge a new platform for the study of the chapbook inside and outside the academy and celebrate the importance of chapbooks to America’s cultural heritage and future.

Thursday, April 23
at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue & 34th St

Chapbook Fair
10:00am-6:00pm, The Elebash Recital Hall Lobby

Brief History of Chapbooks
3:00-4:30pm, The Elebash Recital Hall
With Isaac Gewirtz, Curator of the New York Public Library’s Berg Collection; Eric Lorberer, Editor of Rain Taxi; and Michael Ryan, Director of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Columbia University. Moderated by Richard Kaye, Hunter College, CUNY

Chapbooks in the 20th and 21st Centuries
4:30-6:00pm, The Elebash Recital Hall
With Michael Basinski, Curator of the Poetry/Rare Books Collection of the University Libraries, SUNY at Buffalo; Anne Waldman, Chair and Artistic Director of Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program; and Kevin Young, Emory University. Moderated by Ammiel Alcalay, Queens College, CUNY.

Keynote Reading
6:00pm, The Elebash Recital Hall
Readings by Lytton Smith, Gerald Stern, Judith Vollmer, Kevin Young and others, with an introduction by Kimiko Hahn.

Friday, April 24
at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue & 34th St

Chapbook Fair
10:00am-4:00pm, Rooms 8301/8304

Chapbook Now: Producing Chapbooks
A Workshop for Poets
10:00-11:30am, Room 8400
With Rachel Levitsky (Belladonna*); Sharon Dolin (The Center for Book Arts); and Ryan Murphy (North Beach Yacht Club). Moderated by Alice Quinn (Poetry Society of America). WORKSHOP FULL

Chapbook Now: Producing Chapbooks
A Workshop for Publishers
11:30am-1:00pm, Room 8402
With Mark Wagner (Booklyn); Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse); and Brenda Iijima
(Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Moderated by Rob Casper (Poetry Society of America). WORKSHOP FULL

Friday, April 24
at The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor

Bookmaking for Writers: A Studio Workshop
With Susan Mills and Karen Randall
2:00-5:00pm

Bookmaking for Publishers: A Studio Workshop
With Susan Mills and Karen Randall
2:00-5:00pm

To register, call (212) 481-0295 or e-mailinfo@centerforbookarts.org – registration is
offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. There's a $20 materials fee for each workshop.

RECEPTION
at The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor
6:00 pm
All are welcome! Visit the exhibitions at The Center for Book Arts: \’fl \:art, text, new media,
Roni Gross: Zitouna at 20, and Spotlight: 2008 Artists-in-Residence.

Saturday, April 25
at The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A

Collector’s Show-and-Tell:
The Secret History of Asian American Literature
Patricia Wakida
2:00-3:00pm

Publishing from the Margins
4:30-6:00pm
With Tan Lin; Dawn Lundy Martin (Third Wave Foundation, Black Took Collective); and Bushra Rehman. Moderated by Ken Chen (The Asian American Writers’ Workshop). Followed by a brief reading from the Workshop's Postcard Poetry Project.

RECEPTION
at The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A
6:00 pm

Participating Publishers
Achiote Press
Belladonna*
Booklyn
Book Thug
Cuneiform Press
Dancing Girl Press
Diagram/New Michigan Press
dusie chapbook kollektiv
ellectrique press
Finishing Line Press
Flying Guillotine Press
Forklift, Ohio
hand*held*editions
Interlude Editions
NewLights Press
Noemi Press
North Beach Yacht Club
Octopus Books
Pilot Books
Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs
Rain Taxi
Sarabande Books
Slapering Hol
Small Anchor Press
Small Fires Press
TinFish Press
Toadlily Press
Ubu Editions
Ugly Duckling Presse
Web del Sol’s World Voices
X-ing Press
and others

Co-sponsored by The Office of Academic Affairs, The Graduate Center and MFA Programs in Creative Writing of the City University of New York, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, The Center for Book Arts and Poetry Society of America

a shift in flight plan

2009-04-21T22:24:00.003-04:00

Hello, dear readers. As some of you may have heard, we at Pilot Poetry have decided to cease publication of the online magazine so that we can focus our attention on the happenings at Pilot Books. Thanks for your readership, we hope you'll keep checking in on the happenings at the press. We're in the process of revamping our website, so for the time being you can find the most up-to-date info here on the Pilot blog.

Yours in Pilotry,
The eds

not strictly pilot news

2008-02-14T01:17:00.003-05:00

I've decided to pick some of the coldest cities on some of the coldest days of this year to go on a mini tour to celebrate the release of my chapbook, Start Here, published by the fabulous folks (okay, one gal, Jen Hyde, who is a whole team of fabulous) at Small Anchor Press. She did an incredible job with the book and I couldn't be happier with it. If you don't live in one of the colder states in the country (lucky you!), and hence won't have a chance to freeze your ass off to come hang out and hear me read (with a whole slew of fantastic poets, including Pilot Poet Joshua Marie Wilkinson, at the venues listed below), but still want to get a copy of the chap, you can do so here.

TOUR DATES AND PLACES:
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Friday, February 15, 2008
Columbus, OHIO

The OSU Writers' Guild welcomes MFA Poetry alums
Betsy Wheeler and Maggie Smith

The Commons Room, Ohio State campus (Denney Hall 311)
Q & A Session: 4:30 PM (DE311)
Reading: 7:00 PM (DE311)
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Lincoln, NEBRASKA

The Clean Part Reading Series
John Gallaher
Wayne Miller
Betsy Wheeler
7:00 pm. Sheldon Memorial Gallery
www.thecleanpart.blogspot.com
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Tuesday, Febuary 19th, 2008
Chicago, ILLINOIS

Series A:
Betsy Wheeler & Joshua Marie Wilkinson
All the readings will be held
at the Hyde Park Art Center.
7:00-8:00
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL

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Thanks...

2008-02-07T20:27:00.000-05:00

thanks to all of you who stopped by our bookfair table -- whether to say hello, peruse the books, buy some, or become a subscriber. we love you all. thanks to all of the incredible small (or larger and independently-minded) presses and mags who make the bookfair the best part of the awp conference. and especial thanks to small fires press and factory hollow press for being the best table-mates imaginable. see everyone next year in chicago. xoxo

reading period for Pilot #3 now in session...

2008-02-05T15:46:00.000-05:00

We will be taking submissions for Pilot #3 during the month of February. Please send up to 3 pages of poems (in the case of a longer piece, please query us before sending) to submissionsATpilotpoetry.com. As always we welcome collaborative work, lyric essays, and chapbook reviews.

Thanks everyone!

Ay Dubs (aka AWP)

2008-01-29T22:20:00.000-05:00

Hello fearless and faithful Pilot readers. I hope you are still out there, even though we've left you with naught to read for way too many good morrows. But I'm here now to tell you that Pilot will be at AWP in the massive book fair, table 91 in the Gramercy Room on the 2nd floor. Please come by. We'll be sharing our space with our friends from Factory Hollow Press and Small Fires Press. There will be LIVE BOOKBINDING (read: we're still working on the books). There will be LIVE TYPEWRITING (read: we didn't have time to make actual biz cards). There will be other shennanigans I'm sure, since we're also parked next to our pals at Open City. Please come by, we have so many new books and things to show you...

Mary Ruefle's GO HOME AND GO TO BED! Available Now!!

2008-01-18T11:38:00.001-05:00

We're so happy to announce the release of Mary Ruefle's comic book, GO HOME AND GO TO BED! You can go to the Pilot website to order it singly, or get a Season Two Subscription and get Mary's comic along with Sophie Klahr's _____VERSUS RECOVERY (available now) and Joshua Marie Wilkinson's BOOK OF FLASHLIGHTS, CLOVER & MILK (available soon).

Book Release in Pittsburgh

2007-10-08T19:51:00.000-04:00

Pilot Books is proud to announce the imminent release of Sophie Klahr's chapbook _______ Versus Recovery. Sophie will be reading from the chap along with Anne Marie Rooney and Carolyn Elliott on November 9th, 8 pm at Modern Formations (4919 Penn Ave) in Pittsburgh, PA. A mere 20 copies of her book will be available for sale at the reading (special copies that Sophie designed the covers for herself). The rest of the edition will be available for sale from our website. In fact, we are taking pre-orders now!! (to ship mid-Nov.) Giddyup.

Interview with Joshua Marie Wilkinson

2007-09-11T16:07:00.000-04:00

Read this cool interview with Joshua Marie Wilkinson (click on blog title). It was conducted by Rob McClennan for the 12 or 20 Questions blogspot.

Next Weekend: Lori Shine at So & So

2007-09-07T19:51:00.001-04:00

Lori Shine will be reading in the So & So Series with Michael Carr & C.S. Carrier next Saturday, Sept 15. 8 pm. at the Distillery.

If you are in the Boston area, come on out! I hear there will be letterpressed broadsides there too. And it's free. And there will be poetry. And poets. And Lor & me driving all the way in from the valley boondocks. Come out! Come out! Wherever you are!

New ABSENT

2007-08-28T07:40:00.000-04:00

from the eds:

absent magazine * issue two
now online here

featuring poetry by Jasper Bernes, Charles Bernstein, Regis Bonvicino, Jack Boettcher, Tim Botta, Julia Cohen, Shanna Compton, John Cotter, Shafer
Hall, Lisa Jarnot, Pierre Joris, Joan Kane, Noelle Kocot, Jason Labbe,
Kathleen Ossip, The Pines, Matthew Rohrer, Kate Schapira, Mathias Svalina,
Kathryn Tabb, Allison Titus and Betsy Wheeler.

in translation with Sergei Kitov and Octavo Paz.

musical work by Aaron Einbond.

prose by Joe Amato, Peter Ciccariello, Simon DeDeo, Adam Golaski, Kent
Johnson, Amy Newman, Davis Schneiderman and Tyler Williams.

edited by Elisa Gabbert and Simon DeDeo; with great gratitude to Irwin
Chen and his class at Parsons School of Design in New York City.

work solicited for issue three: please read guidelines here
* letters to the editor
solicited: please read

New Issue of MiPOesias

2007-08-18T11:46:00.000-04:00

just released! you can view it by clicking on the post title, or order a paper copy of your very own for your very hands here. I haven't read the whole issue yet but pretty blown away by Bibbins' poems. check 'em out.

the facts... a poll.

2007-08-13T09:04:00.000-04:00

this is a semi-random question... how much do you (you!) feel an obligation toward the "facts" in poems. say, for instance, in a poem that contains an historical figure. how comfortable would you be straying from the details (and if so, how far from the details) of this person's life? how about inventing details about the figure's life to benefit the language/interest of the poem? in other words... do you feel justified in sacrificing truth and historical fact for the sake of the poem's imagination?

just curious.

but also really sincerely want to know. comment below. or email me!

no place like NoHo

2007-08-04T16:35:00.000-04:00

After 3 days of moving -- packing the van, driving the van, and unpacking the van in 95 degree heat (my mother is a saint for helping me), I am finally at rest at "home" in my new digs. I know I owe many people emails and phone calls and packages and yes I will do it soon, I promise. Now is time for unpacking, getting settled, finding a job, and getting the northeastern offices of Pilot Books up and running. Dean's at work in the offices of the northwest, getting together the snazzy new website and working on Mary Ruefle's comic book. It's now safe to say that the second season of Pilot Books is (slightly tardy but) on its way soon.

So now some pics from the last summer in Lewie-b, summer weddings, Seattle, and other amusements. Enjoy.

First wedding of the summer. Kevin and Paula, in the Outer Banks. Mazel tov!

Second wedding of the summer. Chelsea and Tim, just outside of Seattle. Hooray!

Not golfing with Joshua, Monica, Travis and Ross.

(video is too large... will shrink and post later.)
Red eye home, via Detroit. 5 am on this moving sidewalk was otherworldly.

My new home in Northampton, MA.

This is where I would post the group photo we were supposed to take at my going away dinner at Shara's house. But we didn't. So here's a pic of Shara (with Naomi) and the delicious spread she made for us. Goodbye for now, Stadler Center and Staff of the Stad. Thank you for having me. Thank you for being.

Hurrah!

2007-07-18T00:09:00.000-04:00

The lovely Ashley Lamb (Pilot Books' unofficial assistant and officially awesome poet and visual artist) was the winner of the super exciting unjumble the jumble contest race challenge.

Not only did Ashley guess correctly that the letters spell "Tom_y Hilf__er" but she also guessed that those letters are eatable sugar letters and that today was the birthday of my friends (twins) both (unfortunately) named TH. Not really, but her story is better than the story of where those letters really came from.

Fun with letters

2007-07-17T10:03:00.000-04:00

Who likes the jumble? First person to figure this out gets a free copy of BRIEF WEATHER. Bonus copy of COMING DOWN IN WHITE if you can guess why these letters are on my couch or where, specifically, they came from.

CLUE: it's a brand name

HINT: it's the same two words twice. four words; two of the same.

Hot Emu Love

2007-07-13T13:47:00.000-04:00

you simply gotta go here to see the glory that is Hot Emu Love. i recommend (highly) the disco option.

all of a sudden i feel very happy, uncharacteristically jubilant in the sweltering bosom of july. maybe it's emus in kneepads, and Abba. maybe it's i'm reading this book. maybe it's the $90 i just spent on fabulous vintage dresses (which i really can't afford right now). whatever it is, i like it. hope you are liking your own july, wherever and whoever you are.

Big Searchlight from Small Anchor Press

2007-07-11T13:39:00.000-04:00

The newly founded micro-press Small Anchor is now taking submissions for their chapbook series. Checkout their website for more info.

They'll be publishing a chapbook of mine sometime in the near(ish) future; a long poem that I've been working on for a long time. I couldn't be happier that it is in their hands.

mags! books!

2007-07-10T17:32:00.000-04:00

(fairly) new issues of the following mags are now available for your reading pleasure. and they are chock-full of pleasure.

Pebble Lake Review

Pindeldyboz All Poetry Issue!!

Also, news from Pilot author, Julie Doxsee: her new chap, Fog Quartets is available now from Horseless Press. Congrats to poet and press!

Constructing ____VERSUS RECOVERY

2007-06-23T13:33:00.000-04:00

We started at 10 pm. By 3 am, Ashley and I were slightly delirious and giggly over the slightly ridiculous and certainly long-ass process of making the book covers. We made a total of 4 whole books. Needless to say, the release will not happen for at least a few months until I make my move to NoHo and round up another crew of helpers. In the meantime, thanks to Bri and Ashley for all of their help. And especial thanks to Ashley for her creative input and her enthusiasm for book arts and overly-ambitious binding projects. I wish her the sharpest eyes for the coolest finds on her journeys of collecting. It made my night/week/month/summer to hear her and Bri and Zach exclaiming to each other (while sitting amidst the pile of my chapbook collection in the Poet's Cottage) on the last night of poetry camp: "I want to make chapbooks!" Do it!

I miss them all, my Junies and, as Mathias so aptly put it, their po-passion. Go on with yr bad selves and do even more great things...

Review of BRIEF WEATHER...

2007-06-23T13:19:00.000-04:00

Noah Eli Gordon reviews BRIEF WEATHER & I GUESS A SORT OF VISION in the Chapbook Corner of the Summer 2007 Print Edition of Rain Taxi. Buy one! Or even better, become a subscriber to RT. Thanks to Noah for writing the review which is, I think, dead-on and v. favorable. Cheers, Robinson!

Pilot #2

2007-06-20T15:07:00.000-04:00

We are delighted to announce the release of Pilot #2.

Pilot #2 features poems from Julie Doxsee, Noah Falck, John Gallaher, Heather Green, Anne Heide, Nathan Hoks, Noelle Kocot, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Clay Matthews, Jennifer Tolo Pierce, Nate Pritts, Brandon Shimoda, and Justin Taylor; collaborative work from Mathias Svalina & Julia Cohen, Matt Hart, and the Typing Explosion; translations of Paul Dermee by Kim Lohse; an interview with Sierra K. Nelson; as well as a number of chapbook reviews.

We hope you enjoy it!

(poets raise their glasses. i'm on the phone with Dean as he hits "send")

Crickets are misleading

2007-06-17T15:52:00.000-04:00

Things have been quiet on this news page, I know. But that doesn't mean that things are quiet in Pilot-land. We are SO CLOSE to going live with Pilot #2 that I can taste it. You can taste it too. In books news: the text blocks of _____ VERSUS RECOVERY are back from the printer and ready to be sewn, just as soon as I finish making the covers -- a long process but you are going to love them, so it will be well worth the wait. I have some helper elves here in Lewisburg with me this month -- the young poets from as far as Portland and near as Pittsburgh and Long Island who've come here to write and talk poetry around us. They're super-talented and a few of them (thanks, Ashley and Ellen!) have been assisting in the book-making in the library of the Stadler Center. but then they drag me kicking and screaming to the pub and what can I do? all of this to say: beautiful things are coming your way...

But for now, some photos:

we went to see the primates in the animal behavior lab. very interesting and also strangely sad and sort of scary, but very very cool. my favorite were the capuchins, but i don't have pics of them. here's matt, zach and brian here with the baboons. zach got some great poems out of the experience.

this one is sad, i know.

from top: sushi with bill olsen (my new favorite person) and matty (one of my all-time favorite persons). ron, right before nancy's reading with the fellows. zach and bri. megan and brian. eric and ryan. ashley and zach.

the june seminar is my favorite. i will miss teaching in it. i will miss hanging with my junies. i will miss Wine in a Box (the song, not the boxwine). hell, i'll miss everything. and everyone.

Announcement from Wave Books

2007-06-01T12:04:00.000-04:00

Wave Books now offers annual subscriptions to their softcover titles (subscriptions were previously only available for hardcovers)

Softcover subscribers will receive all six titles published by Wave in 2007:

Sorry, Tree by Eileen Myles
Rise Up by Matthew Rohrer
Citizen Of by Christian Hawkey
No Real Light by Joe Wenderoth
AWE by Dorothea Lasky
The Scented Fox by Laynie Browne

A softcover subscription is only $60.00 for all six books, plus a very low, one-time shipping charge ($4 in the US)

To find out more about subscribing to Wave Books softcovers or hardcovers, go here.

Later, at the Bar

2007-05-22T13:04:00.000-04:00

if you are looking for a great novel in stories to read these days, i highly recommend LATER, AT THE BAR by Rebecca Barry. the stories are smart, moving, funny, tragic, and altogether meaningful. i'm not much of a reviewer, but here's the rave she got from the NYTBR. she is on book tour right now, the next event in Columbus at Barley's Underground this Thursday night. more tour info here. i wish i could be there...

Absolutely You

2007-05-21T10:08:00.001-04:00

a chapbook of poems by Betsy Wheeler & Dean Gorman... is available now for 5 bucks (free shipping!).

click on the title of this post to read some nice things Julia Cohen said about the book...

NYC report

2007-05-20T14:53:00.000-04:00

Last weekend in NYC is measuring up to be one of my favorite visits to the city in the past couple of years. It felt very much like a reunion of sorts, but pleasantly filled too with the meeting of new folks (Valzhyna! Dottie! Gina!) and of course hearing so many talented poets read their work for two completely varied but engaged and excited audiences. Matthew put something really great and meaningful together with both of the group readings -- I wish I had recorded his intro after the break at the St Mark's reading so you could hear what he had to say about the growing interest and importance of chapbooks for poets -- as something we can make and do ourselves, an additional way of sharing and reaching out with our work. I'm conintuously inspired and impressed by what so many small presses are doing these days (see list gaining applause to the right). I couldn't be happier that Pilot is trying to contribute its own little something to that effort.

The pile of books I came home with is so high, it's toppling over on my coffee table, balancing on top of the other pile of books I still have not made it through since AWP. So much to look forward to. Thanks to everyone who bought, traded, looked at, read from, listened to, or picked up and played with Pilot chaps and all the other small press chaps. Julia and Mathias have been writing about many of these over at their houses.

And now for some photos...

Kate, Joanna, & me at Grassroots after St Mark's reading

Dottie & her friend in the orange dress -- mz: "that dress is from the future!" -- at the texan bbq place late Friday. note the size of the margaritas. that's "texas size"... made our legs not work any more.

Valzhyna in the chocolate bar after shopping St Mark's.

new haircut in chocolate bar.

aw, Cindy. nice realaxing evening at MZ's

dear MZ

for Joanna

until next time, all! ... keep reading. keep writing. keep sewing & stapling poems together on paper.

on Robinson's BRIEF WEATHER...

2007-05-19T20:14:00.000-04:00

Sandra Simonds discusses her pleasureable personal reading experience with Robinson's BRIEF WEATHER & I GUESS A SORT OF VISION (click on heading for link). which, by the way, you can buy with Lori Shine's COMING DOWN IN WHITE for only $12 plus shipping at presspresspress. what a steal!

Poetry Readings in NYC this weekend

2007-05-09T18:22:00.000-04:00

I'm heading out tomorrow for a long weekend in NYC. It will take a car, a ferry, a taxi, and a subway ride for me to get there, but I will get there. If any of you in the NYC area will be around this weekend lookin' for something to do, here are two readings you can come to. I'd love to see/meet/drink and/or eat with you! I'll be reading some new poems and from the collaborative chapbook Dean and I wrote together (and apart) called ABSOLUTELY YOU, which you will be able to purchase on this website soon. And as you can see from the list below, I will be reading in great company. And then there will be revelry.
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St. Mark's Poetry Project -- Friday, May 11th -- 6:00 pm

A Glorious Celebratory Festival Of Brief Readings From Some Recently Published & Highly Awesome Chapbooks To be Followed By Revelry

A group reading curated by Matthew Zapruder (author of American Linden (Tupelo Press, 2002) and The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon, 2006), celebrating poetry from recently released award-winning and self-published chapbooks, featuring:

Dottie Lasky, Valzhyna Mort, Dan Chelotti, Kate Hall, Cindy King, Betsy Wheeler, Travis Nichols, Monica Fambrough, Lori Shine, Kathy Ossip, Cole Heinowitz and Stephanie Ruth Anderson. Note the early start time of this Friday night event!

The St. Mark's Poetry Project is located at 131 E. 10th St., at 2nd Avenue.

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KGB Monday Night Poetry Series: May 14th -- 7:30 pm

Chapbooks Night: a group reading of poets with recently released chapbooks, featuring Kate Hall, Cindy King, Ish Klein, Tonya Foster, Gina Myers, Dan Hoy, Betsy Wheeler, Travis Nichols, Monica Fambrough, Karen Wieser, Rebecca Hoogs, Valzhyna Mort.

KGB is located just west of 2nd Avenue in the East Village, at 85 E. 4th Street. All readings are on Monday nights, and start at 7:30 pm

The Seattle weekend: some late edition photos from Queen Anne and Capital Hill

2007-05-02T17:54:00.000-04:00

Introducing, the Vermont College crew. From left (at restaurant): Karen, Ali, Ron, Michelle, Nate, yours truly, and Jamal.

for Kismet

2007-05-01T00:32:00.000-04:00

thank you.

I'm gonna eat the outta that _

2007-04-30T22:47:00.000-04:00

So, Dean and I have another blog with some other poets who love to cook (and/or eat), including two Pilot authors, LS and AR. It's called Table and it's been a somewhat quiet table as of late. I am vowing once again to post recipes there more often. (link in title)

Travel Roundup: Seattle to Massachusetts

2007-04-29T21:34:00.000-04:00

Finally home from a long week of traveling about, all in the name of poetry and our Pilot. two of my favorite things about returning from travels: 1) awesome excuse to order pizza for dinner 2) mail pileup. i can't even tell you all the unbelievable goodies in my mailbox. oh wait, i can (in no particular order)...

~~SOME BRIDGES MIGRATE, poem by Scott Pierce, images by Cherie Weaver. completely gorgeous book, letterpress printed and handstiched by our own Pilot author Friedrich Kerksieck. this book is incredible--the poem is ominous but beautiful in its strange comfort; the artifact itself is so stunning i am a little jealous of it, so i just keep reading it and turning it over and over in my hand. it's so hot off the press that a faint whiff of letterpress ink still wafts off the page. get one. seriously.

~~a selected grab-bag of H_ANGM_N chaps: flip/chap #1: ART by Dorothea Lasky and ADVICE FOR YOUNG COUPLES by Samuel Amadon, BETWEEN THE ROOM AND THE CITY by Erica Bernheim, and Elisa Gabbert's issue of COMBATIVES. i thought i ordered Andy Mister's COMBATIVES too, but alas. next time.

~~ the first issue of Saltgrass!! (thanks, Jules!) have you seen this? see a little bit here, now: then be tempted to order the whole shebang.

~~isn't this already a great mail pileup? i'm not even done yet

~~ a lovely care package of chapbooks from this lady. all of them signed to me! (thank you, C!) in the pack: THE AMPUTEE'S GUIDE TO SEX by Jillian Weise, A THING AND ITS GHOST by Evan Commander, and THE SMALL ANYTHING CITY by hers truly.

~~and last but entirely the opposite of least: one of the few remaining copies of the incomprable Matt Hart's SONNET which i can hardly wait to read. hardly wait. and tucked inside, a tiny collage/erasure showing me that "colors marked with a dagger may require multiple finish"... and a graph that measures the automatic natures of the machine called the moon. only from that Matt. he's one of my favorites.

i guess that means that i have a lot of books to keep me occupied until the next week of travel in may. hooray.

so, the jublilat/Juniper festival in amherst, mass was a mess of good times. i didn't make it to all of the readings and panels i had planned to make it to, partly because of timing but occasionally to do with whiskey. oops. but there was a LOT of excellent reading and chatting going on. Liz Hughey, Paul Fattaruso, Eric Baus, Timothy Donnelly and Sabrina Orah Mark were exceptionally amazing. fun time chatting (on a panel) about chapbook publishing/reading from those chapbooks with Matvei, Lori, Dan, and Alex to an incredibly engaged and kind crowd at Amherst Books---though i forgot to mention presspresspress. have you been there? go shopping!

all in all a fantastic weekend with dear friends, and met some new fantastic people too. huge applause in the direction of lisa olstein and dara and all the juniper folks for putting together such a great weekend po fest. many thanks to jj and Lori for putting me up as always. i love that part of the country and i can't wait to move there. i'm trying to convince Joanna to move there too. then all we need is Dean to move out of that rainy hippie city of his and join us on THIS coast. i can so see Open City and Pilot sharing a roomy office space, with windows all around, a swimming hole just down the road.

all of this makes the Seattle weekend feel like ages ago. but it too was memorable and full of poetry and dear ones. not as much whiksey though (surprisingly enough). Joshua took Matt and I to the friends of the library sale on friday (then went back twice on sat). just a few my great finds: the hardcover collected Stevens, Holmes' SHELLEY:THE PURSUIT, Gustov Dore's illustrated copy of the RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, and a hardcover of Jim Tate's RETURN TO THE CITY OF WHITE DONKEYS that i gave to Dean (i'm such a sweet and giving co-editor) and which has subsequently inspired a future Pilot project to be revealed at a later date. heard Richard Siken (mezmerizing) read, and (measured, patient)GC Waldrep, and my lovely bus buddy Mary Jo Bang, and the often heart-breaking, and funny and smart and talented Vis a Vis Society... we made a feast. we made lots of popcorn in the whirlypop. we ate piroshkis. we Lebowski'd. we played poker. we poetried. the boys played music. on our last evening of Fun Camp, Joshua and Matt read aloud to me and Anthony the entirety of Oscar Wilde's "the Decay of Lying"... well, Matt read most of it, which was quite a feat. alternately frustrating and fascinating in all of its meanderings, i faded in and out (it was very late and much wine) but i think that was a fine and maybe fitting way to interact with it. many thanks to Joshua for putting me up as always, on either coast.

and now, my friends, i have talked long enough. now i sleep. (dean, move out east).

Seattle Poetry Fest this weekend!

2007-04-18T16:12:00.000-04:00

Hey, Seattleites!! Are you going to the Poetry Festival? You should! Dean and I will both be roaming around, doing poetry things. There will be many poetry happenings happening... but just a few highlights:

SATURDAY, APR 21
Richard Siken reads at 3:15
G.C. Waldrep reads at 4:15

SUNDAY, APR 22
Joshua Beckman & Matt Rohrer workshop at 1:00
Vis a Vis Society performs at 1:45
Mary Jo Bang reads at 2:15
I read at 4:00
JB & Matt read at 5:30

I can't wait. I fly out on Friday, back on Monday. I can't wait. Hope to see you there!!

Have your say about the potential postal rate hikes

2007-04-18T11:32:00.000-04:00

This is bad news for all small publishing ventures. If you are so moved, please go to www.stoppostalratehikes.com and sign the letter to the Postal Board protesting the new rate system and demanding a congressional hearing before any radical changes are made. The
deadline for comments is April 23.

Rabbit Light Movies

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are for you.

Press Press Press!!!

2007-04-09T00:09:00.000-04:00

is a new online "bookstore" for small press publications. click on the title of this post to go shopping there. it's always fresh. always new. it's Press Press Press.

inside the Pilot cockpit

2007-04-08T23:37:00.000-04:00

one of my favorite parts of book binding (besides the final product of course) is the meditative aspect of it. it's a similar sort of meditation that can happen while running or driving... a semi-distracted state of deep thought, a place you can seep into pleasantly while sort of trapped in the action. i don't listen to my ipod when i run but it's a necessity in the car. when it comes to bookbinding though for some reason music doesn't do it for me. so it's either silience (doesn't last long), my Gregorian Chant cd (a carryover from my undergrad years and a sort of tribute to my bookarts mentor) or This American Life episodes.

i'm always astounded when i meet a like-minded individual who hasn't heard of or doesn't religiously listen to this radio show. it's the best free entertainment available, in my humble opinion. it's been a part of my weekends for years---for a while it was what i listened to on saturdays while cleaning the house, then for a number of years with my ex it was tradition to go on long drives in the country and listen to the show. since i've moved to central PA, i miss listening to it on the radio because none of the local NPR stations air it. luckily, TAL archives all of their episodes online so you can listen to them whenever you want to. i highly recommend taking a listen if you aren't already familiar. my favorite episodes (very hard to pick) in no particular order: Act V, Liars, Fiascos, Testosterone, and Valentine's Day 98. but they're all good. you can't go wrong. and yes, i do have a tiny little crush on Ira Glass, but that's totally beside the point. there's a link to the TAL site on the title of the post.

this just in from Nate Pritts...

2007-04-05T18:57:00.000-04:00

In honor of National Poetry Month, that time of year when we all join forces
in the spirit of commodification & prostitute the art form we love, H_NGM_N
is announcing our new line of VALU_ DEALS!

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#1 COMBATIVES/CHAPBOOK - Start a subscription to COMBATIVES (#'s 4-6) & get
a chapbook too! $8 ppd.

#2 Any 2 chapbooks from the H_NGM_N list. $8 ppd.

Order buttons for these special VALU_ DEALS are right here at
http://www.h-ngm-n.com! Please email editor@h-ngm-n.com to let us know the
title of your selections. Offer expires Monday, April 30th.

Best!
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end of reading period for Pilot, issue #2

2007-04-05T13:21:00.000-04:00

Submission period is closed for the spring. Thanks to all who sent us work, we will be responding to everyone soon.

Keep an eye out for the next issue of Pilot comin at ya this May!

Rise Up

2007-03-15T13:37:00.000-04:00

You are really really looking forward to reading this: when it is officially released on April 1st. If you are lucky, you may already own this book and if you are super lucky you have already read it and have had your life significantly changed for the better by it. I am that lucky. If you live in Brooklyn, and are feeling especialy lucky, you should go hear Matt read from this book you are looking forward to reading on Friday MARCH 16, 2007 8:00pm at Unnameable Books (formerly Adam's Books) 456 Bergen Street (between 5th and Flatbush) Brooklyn, NY 11217.

Go there. Be lucky. (which is different from but sometimes even better than getting lucky).

Grab your partner...

2007-03-13T12:30:00.000-04:00

We are reading for issue #2 until March 31st, and are especially in need of collaborative pieces. submission guidelines here.

Vacation All I Ever Wanted

2007-03-11T22:39:00.000-04:00

Thank god it is Spring Break, I still have not fully recovered from the madness that was AWP... but now all I have is timetimetime... Mister Gorman is back from his jaunt overseas and we are rarin' to go for more Pilot projects. Keep an eye on this space for updates, including the official release of Coming Down in White.

Miss Sophie Klahr (author of the forthcoming _________Versus Recovery) visited this weekend. We played with paper, we talked book dimensions, we edited... she stalked the poet's cottage, searching for ghosts. i made her promise not to tell me if she found one.

CENTO BINGO!!

2007-03-06T17:11:00.000-05:00

A few months ago, while sitting in a crowded sports bar in Buffalo, NY (a rainy stop on the Poetry Bus) the genius who is Matt Hart shared with me his idea about creating the new game that is sweeping the nation. I remember thinking "fascinating. can it be done?" Well, folks, when Matt Hart is involved, anything can be done. I am in love with the idea of CENTO BINGO. I must now make my very own board. You should too!

100% of the dynamite exploded...

2007-03-05T18:41:00.000-05:00

I am home from Atlanta. I am enjoying my first hangover-free day since Wednesday. My voice is cashed. But man, did we have a great night on Saturday. I have no pics of Friedrich or Lori reading---none of FK because he and Aaron James McNally asked me to stand in for Aaron and read their collaborations along with FK, and none of Lori because I was so wrapped up in her reading that I forgot. I had even planned to make a video. I think it speaks for the incredible awesomeness that is the poem "Coming Down in White" that a proud publisher would forget to photograph one of her authors while reading said poem. But the whole evening was grand. Here is a mini photo-tour for you to gaze fondly upon... (in reverse order because i'm too tired to fix it, and with apologies to zach for his sideways placement)... Sir Janaka Stucky of Black Ocean was the evening's emcee... and not just because he was the tallest. I really admire what he does, and he does it all with what seems like such ease; chapbooks, check; beautiful full-lengths, check; complicated facial hair and confident swagger, check check. Miss Reb Livingston, whom I adore, and her pack of wild No Tell poets. This woman did, single-handedly, break down and rebuild in her patented sexy way the old pattern of poetry readings. The No Tell crew, fondly referred to as the Bedside Manners, were incredibly fun. Then there was dear, dear, Mathias Svalina of Octopus and his multi-tentacled partner, Zach Schomburg. These guys are raising the bar with their online mag, their press, AND their poems. Raising glasses at the bar also, yes, but only after they are done raising the other bar. And then there was the crowd, to which this photo does not do justice. Max Greenstreet in the front, a man who, in my opinion, wins the biggest trooper award for 2007... I think that's Dan Nester with a gesture of loving kindness in the back: All in all it was an incredible night. Thanks to all the poets who read (Friedrich, Lily, Paula, Shafer, Karl, Ravi, Jill, Bruce, Laurel, Reb, Julie, Zach, Lori). Thanks to everyone who came out to hear our poets read, to hang out with us, to look at and even buy (thank you!!) the books we all publish. We need you all: readers, poets, friends. Dean, you were missed terribly. So were you, Tony. Next year I hope we can get the whole family together again. I met so many great people this weekend: it was so wonderful meeting you all!! And excellent to see all of you old friends. I miss you all already. Now I must sleep. Be good, all.

Speaking Hungarian

2007-02-26T12:39:00.000-05:00

I've picked up some Hungarian. But mostly I've learned how to order beer and coffee and kabobs. Budapest is a gnarly, crumbling, fluid-stained, mysterious, magnificanet, operatic city. The youth look sharp and hungry. The old contemplative. We have been waking up to piano concertos and tenors from the neighboring apartments. I have been buying used gypsy records and glancing over Hungarian poets like the tragic Attila Jozsef. I have been wondering how in god's name all these book stores can stay in business (today we saw three that were literally back to back to back on one block). How wonderful, a culture of reading.

I took just two books with me on the trip: Mrs. Dalloway and The Selected Yeats. They turned out to be great choices. I can't get through two pages of Woolf without stopping, in great humility, to consider a particular passage or metaphor. She is truly a master. I read Yeats while in Ireland, cheesy I know, but wonderful. I hadn't read him for years. "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen" has to be one of the most audacious and powerful poems written in English.

We have been staying at hostels throughout, which has been both a blessing and a curse. Getting to meet travelers from around the world is great (even the weirdos). Getting inside tips from the hostel operators is priceless. Being in a seedy neighborhood in London for three nights above a dance club is not any kind of fun. We slept maybe 9 hours total. The only good thing I can say about our London experience is that the museums are free. Even the Tate, which is incredible. Right up there, if not above, MOMA.

Well, I'm clearly monopolizing the lone hostel computer now and I think I should wrap this up. I just want to say I'm sorry to be missing the Dynamite Blow Up! (am I saying that right?) party in Atlanta, but hope to see (or officially meet, in most cases) some of you real soon. Have fun and always tip your bartender!

czia,

Dean

p.s. I will try to post some dynamite photos from Central Europe in the next couple of days.

COMING DOWN IN WHITE by miss lori shine...

2007-02-24T01:53:00.000-05:00

is coming together.

I just have to say it out loud:

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i HEART my new macbook. heart. it.

Where in Atlanta will the little Pilot be?

2007-02-24T00:30:00.000-05:00

We will be here: Table #225 (officially the table for West Branch magazine, but I will be there with a trench coat full of Pilot wares.)

AND

We will be here:

Stop by! say Hi. We'll have ourselves a little conversation. Maybe a whiksey. I'd love to meet you, whoever you are. Dean would too, but he's gallivanting around Europe, attempting to remain an enigma. But everybody knows he looks like a young Liam Neeson, what's so enigmatic about that, huh?

But do come by the table or the cafe. There will be poetry, there will be poets, there will be poets partying. And I have new constructions made of paper to show you...

Effing #6 hot off the press

2007-02-21T20:26:00.000-05:00

The always-entertaining, surprisingly soft-spoken, frighteningly-talented poet Joe Massey has an announcement to make:
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Dear friends,

I edited the 6th issue of Effing Magazine which has been released today. The issue contains generous selections of work from the following poets: Zach Barocas, Chris Rizzo, Mairéad Byrne, Andrew Mister, Rae Armantrout, Shannon Tharp, Aaron Tieger, Tom Devaney, Julie Doxsee, Sandra Simonds, Jess Mynes, and John Phillips.

The covers are printed with hand-carved linoleum cuts designed by Jared Faulkner, with a touch of letter-pressed words on the back by Scott Pierce. Each cover is unique. Hand-sewn. 64 pages. Cost: $7.00.

Obtain it here: http://osnapper.typepad.com/

Scroll down for the PayPal button on the sidebar. The cover has flowers on it, can't miss it. Soon information for the issue will be on the main Effing Press website.

Luddites, you can send a check or concealed cash directly to the press:

Send your check or money order (or cash, if you're feeling brave) to:

Scott Pierce
703 W 11th Street #2
Austin, TX 78701

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Thanks!

Joe
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So get your sweet ass over there and order yourself a copy, then hum a little tune of joy.

Multi-Tentacled

2007-02-15T10:32:00.000-05:00

have you ordered your Octopus yet? mmmhm i thought so...

Currently Reading for Issue #2

2007-02-15T10:06:00.000-05:00

We are currently reading submissions for issue # 2 of Pilot. submission guidelines here. send us poems or essays on poetics. We try to respond in 4-8 weeks but sometimes we take a little longer.

Small Fires Press all fired up again

2007-02-06T02:03:00.000-05:00

Poet, book artist, cyclist, and Pilot author Friedrich Kerksieck announces the rekindling of Matchbook and Small Fires Press. check it all out here.

Review

2007-02-06T02:01:00.000-05:00

Gina Myers reviews Tony's book here.

The November Launch

2007-02-06T01:15:00.000-05:00

Okay, so the launch for Anthony Robinson's book Brief Weather and I Guess a Sort of Vision, (which doubled as a launch party for the magazine) happened almost two months ago... so what, right? I fully embrace "Better Late Than Never"... So here are some of the pictures now. It really was a great reading; a grand old time involving wine, fancy desserts, and a legendary reading by Robinson that brought audience participation and good-natured heckling to a new level. You totally should have been there. But it's okay. You can relive the night in the photos below. And then you can buy the book here.

Before the reading started, Tony proposed we celebrate by going next door to the too-bright bar (Tiger Lily was it called?) and do shots. Tequila. Whiksey.
Yes, Tony drank right from the bottle. Demanding, he was. A glass is not big enough! he said.

Emily brought celebratory desserts.

Dean and Emily got psyched up for some serious karaoke. They can sing. Singing poets.

Dean Betsy Tony

Hello out there,

2007-02-05T23:45:00.000-05:00

dear readers of Pilot! here you will find news about all things Pilot (and some things not Pilot)... news from our authors. reading announcements. updates on new titles. tempting title teasers. shiny things we find and then want to show you...

so, yeah. come by anytime. we'll be here. and to those of you out there who've already stopped by to read the first issue of the magazine, or who have written to us, submitted poems, bought books, become a subscriber, linked to our site, told someone about us, etc. ... thank you!!