Flying Guillotine Press

All the Little Red Girls by Angela Veronica Wong

2009-11-21T11:11:00.000-08:00

The Aftermath

But maybe the wolf’s desire
was nothing more
than the want
to be with
someone else.
Maybe he loved
so much
he could only express
through consumption.

And maybe
she needed
rebirth, to destroy
evidence of her past.
Maybe she loved too much
and could only express
through destruction.

And maybe
climbing
out of a wolf’s belly,
our redness
covered by his redness,
is all want:
bodies
breaking free of bodies
consuming bodies.

Angela Veronica Wong was born and raised Texas. She lives in Manhattan and is working on a young adult novel.

All the Little Red Girls is a hand bound book of poems, with a vellum cover and attractive red ribbon to hogtie your dreams. It is printed in an edition of 74.

$8.50 includes shipping.

If you'd like a copy, please use the PayPal button below or send us 8 or so well concealed bucks. Email flyingguillotinepress [at] gmail [dot] com and we'll give you an address.

Thank you!

APOCALYPSE ANTHOLOGY!!

2009-10-26T18:12:00.000-07:00

The end must be created.

THANK YOU RON!!!

Thank you for the submissions

2009-10-05T19:44:00.001-07:00

We got a great many Doomsday submissions and now the submission period is over. Thank you all very much and we will get back to you in a week or so about what the heck is going on. Hang tough, NKOTB style.

Circus by Michael Robins

2009-10-01T17:40:00.001-07:00

Our casualties I hear precede the smoke,
in a bed of snakes. There can be no rain

in America, no grass: trains are angry here
as some are sad, processional for an ear.

Michael Robins is the author of The Next Settlement (UNT Press, 2007). He lives in Chicago.

Circus is a hand bound book of poems, with a photograph mounted on each cover, and printed in an edition of 74.

$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!

Calling Possible Poets of the Probable Apocalypse

2009-09-09T13:12:00.000-07:00

Flying Guillotine Press
& the First Annual Doomsday Festival & Symposium

are Asking You to Imagine Demise.

The First Annual Doomsday Festival & Symposium, a festival of revelatory film, destruction literature, Butoh, and intellectual disaster, will take place October 23-25 in New York City. In addition to a host of film screenings, expert discussions, panels, and Butoh performances, Flying Guillotine Press will curate a poetry reading and publish a limited edition anthology of Apocalypse poems.

We invite you to submit apocalypse poems for the anthology!

Please email them to flyingguillotinepress at gmail dot com by October 5th. We want to publish as many as possible, but depending on how many submissions we get we may not. Let us know if they are previously published.

Please feel free to tell everyone you know. The more voices, the more cacophonous our doom.

See you in hell,

Flying Guillotine Press

Kate Schapira Reads Thursday September 10th

2009-09-01T07:33:00.000-07:00

Kate Schapira, author of our latest book, The Saint's Notebook, reads for Rope-a-Dope Press!

That is Nico.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 7:00 P.M.

ACA Galleries
529 W.20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC

Free

Hosted by
Rope-a-Dope editors

Robert daVies & poet Mary Walker Graham

Kate reads with other amazing poets!

Mary Walker Graham
Sampson Starkweather
Chris Tonelli
Justin Marks
Kim Gek Lin Short

And we listen to music!
from Erik Schoster

You bet we'll be there.

There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.

Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues

Books are in the Works

2009-08-13T16:50:00.000-07:00

Here's a poem I wrote.

Someone in New Zealand Likes Us

2009-07-31T07:01:00.000-07:00

Ross Brighton!

God, Sebastian, Amy by Ana Božičević

2009-02-10T11:58:00.000-08:00

Cittadino in Campagna di New Jersey

The green by itself didn't mean anything;
it needed shapes to inform it.

The long hope of the long hill—
the incline spoke, the hill didn't.

On the burnt dog-grass, at the foot of the V tree
its shadow drew an X. —Me, a denominator?

—No, you were the line in tree's fraction:
one present point where bird-life in the crown

divided by death on the grass, equaled a soul…
The hill curved, now in starlight.

There was a sensation of falling. And how the hill changed.
—& the length of hope? —Didn't. Only the soul—

The soul was painted over and over, like an outlet.

Ana Božičević emigrated to NYC from Croatia in 1997. Her first book, Stars of the Night Commute, will be published by Tarpaulin Sky Press in Fall 2009.

God, Sebastian, Amy is a 28 page, hand stitched book of poems printed in an edition of 74. There are three different covers with photographs by Shannon Davies and Tony Mancus. They are bound with red string!

The Many Articulated Love It!

SOLD OUT.

Our Books are in Your Stirrup Pants

2009-07-22T19:20:00.000-07:00

That's true folks. As true as yolk. As true as Scatman John invented scat rock.

Stirrup Pants is selling our books in St. Louis!

We're crossing statelines.

Best of luck to the Stirrup Pants crew.

The Gig is On!

2009-07-21T08:45:00.000-07:00

Subject: Rain Location for tonight's reading

In case of continued rain, tonight's reading will take place at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, 20 W. 44th St between 5th & 6th Aves, just 2 blocks north of Bryant Park.

Ana is Reading Tonight if We Don't All Wash Away

2009-07-21T06:10:00.000-07:00

The enlightened poet Ana Bozicevic (and author of God, Sebastian, Amy out with Flying Guillotine) is reading tonight, Tuesday July 21st, in Bryant Park at 7:30.

But it is raining and I'm not sure what that means!

See you there, unless it's canceled.

The Saint's Notebook by Kate Schapira

2009-07-02T17:28:00.001-07:00

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.

Endings by Melissa Koosmann

2008-03-10T19:46:00.001-07:00

King

I lost the tiny porcelain
lion on the lawn,
and after the mower passed,
his nose had vanished.
I became our leader, judging our predicaments
(the capture of the headless turtle, Shy),
declaring where to look
(under the deck), my face sore,
or gone, or stripped of function. After
my mistake, the lion
had perpetual congestion and couldn’t
pronounce his Ms and Ns.
“I ab kig of the juggle,”
I said with authority. I wanted
to be real, to prove the world—
mind from all sides.

--first published in Diagram.

Melissa Koosman is a graduate of the University of Arizona MFA program in poetry. Her poems have appeared in The Indiana Review, Diagram, Coconut, and other journals.

Endings, the first chapbook by both Melissa Koosmann and Flying Guillotine, is a 20 page hand-bound book featuring a linocut by Lawrence Spangenberg.

Jackson Heights Poetry Festival in Jackson Heights!

2009-06-18T19:13:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-05T13:55:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-06-01T11:03:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-20T12:15:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-04-27T15:07:00.000-07:00

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!!

2009-04-23T13:14:00.000-07:00

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.

What Does a Small Press Do to Get Ready for a Chapbook Festival?

2009-04-16T06:45:00.000-07:00

This Sunday April 19th in Richmond, Virginia Flying Guillotine Press will be displaying its wares!

From 1-5 at the Visual Arts Center.

There will be many fine readers and presses. Come if you can!

We will also have T-shirts available soon. After I learn how to not f*&% them up.

AND--APRIL is still Open Submissions month. Send us your chapbooks!

Open Submissions in April!

2009-03-31T13:23:00.000-07:00

Hello friends!

Flying Guillotine Press is accepting chapbook manuscripts in the month of April.

Turn this:

Into this:

We'd like to read yours.

Please email manuscripts under 32 pages to:
flyingguillotinepress [at] gmail [dot] com

The second image up there comes from Jack Rossi's blog. It is beautiful!

Trouble With Mapping by Brett Price

2008-11-18T19:51:00.000-08:00

--from "Vivid Flower"

Turn around to walk
Far enough and find

A back like the one
You turn

A wolf like the one
At your head

Brett Price is an assistant editor of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industrial Safety. He is working toward an MFA at Bard College. His writing can be found in such journals as H_NGM_N, Octopus, La Fovea, Big Bell, and Milkmoney. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Trouble With Mapping is a 32 page, hand stitched book of poems printed in an edition of 74. Each copy has a unique cover and smells like rubber cement.

SOLD OUT!

Thank you.

God, Sebastian, Amy Reviewed!

2009-03-03T06:35:00.000-08:00

The Home Video Review of Books has reviewed Ana Božičević's God, Sebastian, Amy!

Click here to watch.

I think Jake loves it!

Manufacture

2009-01-30T14:47:00.000-08:00

Here's Tony, putting the finishing touches on Flying Guillotine's newest release!

Here's Sommer testing the efficacy of the nucleic mounds.

It's Ana Božičević's new chapbook God, Sebastian, Amy!

And it will drop mid-February.