All the poets on the interweb are talking about going to AWP, which reminds me that I'm going to AWP too. (AWP: sort of like "yawp" except not at all like that.) I will not have a book table and I will not be on a panel. I will fly into Chicago early Friday morning and leave early Sunday, and I will have a bag of my own books and the horse less chapbooks of some of my friends which I would love to peddle your way. Also, I will be part of the very exciting-looking Coconut/Milk Reading Saturday night at Myopic Books. The line-up keeps getting more and more exciting; here's the most recent list I've seen: Denise Duhamel, Jenny Boully, Susan Wheeler, Daniel Nester, Prageeta Sharma, Gene Tanta, Jen Tynes, Lea Graham, Reb Livingston, Mirela Ramona Ciupag, Ken Rumble, Gina Myers, Natalie Lyalin, Emily Kendal Frey, Zach Schomburg, Larry Sawyer, and Bruce Covey. Also, it is on Valentine's Day! Spend part of the evening with us, would you?

-Jen

Our December chap/book sale has been quite popular, so we're extending it into 2009! See the post below for details.

Happy December from Horse Less Press!

Here's a couple deals for you.

1. Pick up any two of the following chaps for only $7 (plus $1 shipping)! (Don't forget to let us know which two books you want!)
Anemic Cinema by Thomas Cook
To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation by Andrea Rexilius
Shadows are Weather by Allison Carter
Toward Eadward Forward by Emily Abendroth
A Mule-Shaped Cloud by Sarah Bartlett and Chris Tonelli
Vale Tudo by Sommer Browning
The Photograph by Sampson Starkweather
At Last Unfolding Congo by Alex Lemon

2. Or! Get any one chapbook from the above list plus a copy of Jen Tynes's new book, Heron/Girlfriend, for $10 (plus $1 shipping). More info about Heron/Girlfriend, published by Coconut Books, here: http://www.lulu.com/content/2203360

Another new chapbook from horse less press!

ANEMIC CINEMA
Thomas Cook

Read more about it here:
http://www.horselesspress.com/cook.html

And then order it here:
http://www.horselesspress.com/chapbooks.html



From ANEMIC CINEMA:

Forgive the pin my hand was giving a flower
Upside down
So here extends the path to my heart

I make sense of skin
And it is light like sun
The pin my hand was giving a flower

The door twists like a cloak
And collapses like a hinge
So here extends the path to my heart

The pin is the path of the hinge
The pin
The pin my hand was giving a flower

The door collapses all the light in the room
And the room is a pin
So extends the path to my heart

I filled the room the door collapsed the door with a hinge
And the light with the sun like a flower
The pin my hand was giving a flower
So here extends the path to my heart

A new horse less chapbook!

TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE A CONVERSATION
Andrea Rexilius



28 pages, staple-bound.
$5 + $1 shipping

More info here:
http://www.horselesspress.com/rexilius.html

Buy it here:
http://www.horselesspress.com/chapbooks.html

Two New Chapbooks

Look what we've been doing! Two new chapbooks from horse less press:

Shadows are Weather by Allison Carter

Allison is the author of A Fixed, Formal Arrangement (Les Figues, 2008). Work of hers has also been included in journals such as Fence, 5_Trope, P-Queue, 3rd Bed, and others. Allison currently lives on the east side of Los Angeles, where she co-edits PS Books with Joe Potts and teaches a workshop in hybrid forms at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).


&


Toward Eadward Forward by Emily Abendroth

Emily Abendroth is a writer and artist, alternately residing in the San Franciso Bay Area and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (where she co-curates the Moles Not Molar Reading Series with poet Justin Audia). Recent work of hers can be found in Encyclopedia, Pocket Myths: The Odyssey Edition, horse less review, and Cut & Paste. A chunky excerpt from her book-length work-in-progress “Muzzle Blast Dander” can be found in Refuge/Refugee (Volume 3 of the Chain Links book series).


Order them both here.

HLR #6

Better late!


HORSE LESS REVIEW ISSUE SIX: MTC Cronin, Jesse Crockett, Nicholas Grider, Joshua Ware, Mike Sikkema, Jared Stanley, James Belflower, Anne Heide, J Michael Martinez, Robyn Art, Mg Roberts, Jason Stumpf, Mark DeCarteret, Clint Frakes, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Daniel Godston, Jared White, James Capozzi, Laura Carter, Conan Kelly.

http://www.horselesspress.com/wintero8/review6.html

We're out of hiding and back to work!

Coming in the next 2-3 months: chapbooks!
Anemic Cinema by Thomas Cook
To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation by Andrea Rexilius
Shadows Are Weather by Allison Carter
toward eadward forward by Emily Abendroth
Threat of the Wing by Anne Heide

Also coming soon: Horse Less Review #6

And more news about our first print anthology, New Pony.

Writers & Friends:

We have fallen behind in our work & as of May 2008 are not currently accepting any new submissions. Check back in the Fall! If you've not heard back on your submitted work or are anxiously waiting to see the next issue, never fear. We'll get back to you soon. If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to email. Horse Less Review #6 is really and truly going to be out and about soon, and we'll be announcing the rest of our 2008 chapbook line-up. Also coming soon, more information about our first print anthology New Pony: Collaborations & Responses from Horse Less Press.

Boyd Spahr's The Julias is reviewed at Sustainable Aircraft.
http://sustainableaircraft.com/?p=9
Thanks, Alex Linhardt!

The power of video! Hearing and seeing, simultaneously!
Kitchen Press & Horse Less Press authors read some poems in Hell's Kitchen, USA.
Thanks to Justin Marks for organizing and hosting this event.
http://youtube.com/user/KitchenPress

Two new chapbooks from horse less press!

Vale Tudo by Sommer Browning
http://www.horselesspress.com/chapbooks.html
http://www.horselesspress.com/valetudo.html

A Mule-Shaped Cloud by Sarah Bartlett and Chris Tonelli
http://www.horselesspress.com/chapbooks.html
http://www.horselesspress.com/mule.html

And the reading period for our collab/response anthology has almost come to an end! Send your work! Info below:



CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

HORSE LESS PRESS will publish a print anthology in 2008. THE THEME is response. WE ARE INTERESTED in the following 1) writings that respond to, collaborate with, collage from, extend, elaborate, etc. a piece of writing that HAS APPEARED in horse less review, 2) COLLABORATIONS WITH WRITERS who've been published by horse less press or review, 3) BEGINNINGS, FRAGMENTS, PROPOSALS, HALF-MADE WORKS which desire some attention. We may also be interested in collaborative or response-based writings that do not fall into these categories. Please query early if you have an idea. SUBMISSIONS GO to horselessresponse at gmail dot com. Our deadline is January 31, 2008. Send work IN THE BODY of email or as a single word, rtf, or pdf file. IN A COVER letter please tell us a little about yourself and a little about the work you are submitting. PLEASE CLARIFY whether your submission falls into category 1, 2, 3. If #1, MAKE SURE you identify the source work. IF YOU NEED MORE information, visit our website or send questions to the above email address.

Justin Lacour's poem Sees the ______ and Waits, published in Horse Less Review #4 (Summer 2006), was chosen by poet Chad Davidson to be included in the 2007 Best of the Net Anthology. Woohoo, Justin!

A new chapbook from HORSE LESS PRESS!

THE PHOTOGRAPH
by Sampson Starkweather

Learn more about it here:
http://www.horselesspress.com/photograph.html

Buy it here:
http://www.horselesspress.com/chapbooks.html

Coming soon: chapbooks from Sommer Browning, Chris Tonelli & Sarah Bartlett.

And only 43 more days to submit work for our response/collaboration anthology:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

HORSE LESS PRESS will publish a print anthology in 2008. THE THEME is response. WE ARE INTERESTED in the following 1) writings that respond to, collaborate with, collage from, extend, elaborate, etc. a piece of writing that HAS APPEARED in horse less review, 2) COLLABORATIONS WITH WRITERS who've been published by horse less press or review, 3) BEGINNINGS, FRAGMENTS, PROPOSALS, HALF-MADE WORKS which desire some attention. We may also be interested in collaborative or response-based writings that do not fall into these categories. Please query early if you have an idea. SUBMISSIONS GO to horselessresponse at gmail dot com. Our deadline is January 31, 2008. Send work IN THE BODY of email or as a single word, rtf, or pdf file. IN A COVER letter please tell us a little about yourself and a little about the work you are submitting. PLEASE CLARIFY whether your submission falls into category 1, 2, 3. If #1, MAKE SURE you identify the source work. IF YOU NEED MORE information, visit our website or send questions to the above email address.

Dear Friends,

Please stop by and get your copy of Alex Lemon's brand new horse less chapbook, AT LAST UNFOLDING CONGO.

http://www.horselesspress.com/chapbooks.html
http://www.horselesspress.com/congo.html

The most recent postal rate increase means we're adding a $1 shipping charge to our books, but wait! Why don't you avoid the shipping cost by getting yourself a 6-book or 12-book subscription! Titles and purchasing info on the chapbook page.

http://www.horselesspress.com/chapbooks.html

Don't forget our upcoming collaboration/response anthology: the call for submissions is pasted below. If you've got an idea that doesn't fit into one of the submission categories listed, tell us about it! We are very open-minded.

Coming soon: chapbooks from Sampson Starkweather, Sommer Browning, Sarah Bartlett & Chris Tonelli.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

HORSE LESS PRESS will publish a print anthology in 2008. THE THEME is response. WE ARE INTERESTED in the following 1) writings that respond to, collaborate with, collage from, extend, elaborate, etc. a piece of writing that HAS APPEARED in horse less review, 2) COLLABORATIONS WITH WRITERS who've been published by horse less press or review, 3) BEGINNINGS, FRAGMENTS, PROPOSALS, HALF-MADE WORKS which desire some attention. We may also be interested in collaborative or response-based writings that do not fall into these categories. Please query early if you have an idea. SUBMISSIONS GO to horselessresponse at gmail dot com. Our deadline is January 31, 2008. Send work IN THE BODY of email or as a single word, rtf, or pdf file. IN A COVER letter please tell us a little about yourself and a little about the work you are submitting. PLEASE CLARIFY whether your submission falls into category 1, 2, 3. If #1, MAKE SURE you identify the source work. IF YOU NEED MORE information, visit our website or send questions to the above email address.

Below is a call for submissions from HORSE LESS PRESS for our first print anthology. Please forward or link to it far and wide! Our schedule has shifted a little, so we've extended the deadline for submissions to January 31.

Additionally, our mailing list has been disappeared! Whether you were on the old list or not, if you'd like to receive somewhat regular -- but not at all overwhelming -- notices from HORSE LESS PRESS, please email horselesssubmissions@gmail.com with "subscribe" in the subject line.

Coming soon: chapbooks from Alex Lemon and Sampson Starkweather.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS


HORSE LESS PRESS will publish a print anthology in 2008. THE THEME is response. WE ARE INTERESTED in the following 1) writings that respond to, collaborate with, collage from, extend, elaborate, etc. a piece of writing that HAS APPEARED in horse less review, 2) COLLABORATIONS WITH WRITERS who've been published by horse less press or review, 3) BEGINNINGS, FRAGMENTS, PROPOSALS, HALF-MADE WORKS which desire some attention. We may also be interested in collaborative or response-based writings that do not fall into these categories. Please query early if you have an idea. SUBMISSIONS GO to horselessresponse at gmail dot com. Our deadline is January 31, 2008. Send work IN THE BODY of email or as a single word, rtf, or pdf file. IN A COVER letter please tell us a little about yourself and a little about the work you are submitting. PLEASE CLARIFY whether your submission falls into category 1, 2, 3. If #1, MAKE SURE you identify the source work. IF YOU NEED MORE information, visit our website or send questions to the above email address.

http://www.horselesspress.com

chapbooks a'comin

I can finally announce our Fall/early Winter chapbook schedule!

October// Alex Lemon's At Last Unfolding Congo
November// Sam Starkweather's The Photograph
December// Sommer Browning's Vale Tudo
January// Chris Tonelli & Sarah Bartlett's A Mule-Shaped Cloud

TWO NEW CHAPBOOKS FROM HORSE LESS PRESS:


SURVEYIC HERO by JACK BOETTCHER



THE JULIAS by BOYD SPAHR


BUY THEM HERE!

Justin Marks is interviewed at the Ploughshares blog.

TWO NEW CHAPBOOKS FROM HORSE LESS PRESS:

Fog Quartets by Julie Doxsee
http://www.horselesspress.com/fog.html

[Summer_insular] by Justin Marks
http://www.horselesspress.com/summer.html

Buy them both here
http://www.horselesspress.com/chapbooks.html


COMING IN JULY/AUGUST:

Chapbooks from Boyd Spahr and Jack Boettcher