The Saint's Notebook by Kate Schapira

artist of coathanger girls and mitten girls




girls of the month forked men snakemen

beginning to people beginning to color





Kate Schapira lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches writing to college and elementary school students and makes chapbooks. She's the author of several chapbooks, including The Love of Freak Millways and Tango Wax (Cy Gist Press), Case Fbdy. (Rope-A-Dope Press) and Heroes & Monsters (forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs).


The Saint's Notebook is a hand stitched book of poems, covered in burlap, and printed in an edition of 74. Every cover is unique, every poem is a bursting canyon.




$7 includes shipping.

If you'd like a copy, please use the PayPal button below or send us 7 well concealed bucks. Email flyingguillotinepress [at] gmail [dot] com and we'll give you an address.

Thank you! You will love these poems.

Jackson Heights Poetry Festival in Jackson Heights!

Hello Friends!

You're invited to the Jackson Heights Poetry Festival on Saturday.

Flying Guillotine will be there. We'll have fresh copies of Kate Schapira's new chapbook, The Saint's Notebook.

Here are the details:

Saturday June 20th, 2009 -- 10am - 6:30pm

The playground of
The Garden School
33-16 79th Street
Jackson Heights, NY 11372


You can get there by the E, F, R & V and the 7 Train.
7 Train is closest.

Festival's Website

Here are some of the Featured Festival Readers AND the most amazing things I've seen in Syracuse in the past 32 hours:

Tony Mancus
Justin Taylor



Regan Good
Katie Fowley
Georgia Luna
Steve Dalachinsky



Ocean Vuong
Nicole Cooley
Esther Smith



Ivy Johnson
Julio Marzan
Roger Sedarat



Matvei Yankelevich
Laren McClung
Alex Cuff



Emily Brandt
Richard Newman

Participating Presses & Magazines

Ugly Duckling Presse
Lightful Press
Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs
Agriculture Reader/X-ing Press
Tarpaulin Sky
Flying Guillotine Press
Cannibal Books
No, Dear
Purgatory Pie Press
Factory School
Washington Square Review

Four New Chapbooks for 2009

We had such a wonderful response to our open submission period!

Sixty-four manuscripts and many difficult decisions.



We are so happy to publish the following four chapbooks this year:


The Saint's Notebook
by Kate Schapira

Circus
by Michael Robins

All the Little Red Girls
by Angela Veronica Wong

(Ir)Rational Animals
by Steven Karl


Image by Markus Hofer. Visit him.

Congratulations Melissa Koosmann!

Famed first Flying Guillotine author, Melissa Koosmann, was announced a finalist for the Bateau Press Boom Chapbook Contest!


Cheer. Cheer. Cheer.

Melissa also saw a Secretary bird last weekend near her Capetown home:

Michael Rerick reading for Marsh Hawk Press

The room was a bit sweltery, but the poems were fine and consistently more colorful than this picture suggests. Michael's first full length book In Ways Impossible to Fold is out with Marsh Hawk. It won their first book prize. You should get a copy and read it. It's damn good.

Only Three More Days to Send Us Your Chapbook.

Hello.

A fly is buzzing near me




and you should send us your 32 page (or less) chapbook manuscript!

Send it to us here: flyingguillotinepressATgmailDOTcom

We'll get back to you in late May.

Bzzz. Love. Bzzz.

Visit Us at the CUNY Celebration of the Chapbook Festival!!

Here are a few things you can do with Chapbooks:





See what we're doing here. We'll be there Today and Tomorrow, April 23-24.