Review of PARENTS in Spring 2011 Issue of Rain Taxi

Noah Eli Gordon has a thoughtful review of PARENTS in the Spring 2011 issue of Rain Taxi (the print version).

Writing in the Chapbook Corner section, Gordon says, among other things, that "Parents is at its core a kind of darkly comic fairly tale cloaked in a sequence of narrative poems, which reject the clarity of event on expects from a narrative through a consistently shifting of consciousness, and a murky, amorphous articulation of action."

Definitely check it out.

Also, here's a great pic of the chapbook window display at the CUNY Graduate Center, taken during the Chapbook Festival earlier this month. Props to Hitomi Yoshio for the fine pic.

See us at the CUNY Chapfest this week!

Immaculate Disciples Press has a table at the Third Annual CUNY Chapbook Festival! The book fair is Thursday (3/3) and Friday (3/4) between Noon - 7pm. Lots of awesome panels are happening as well.

We'll be selling copies of Farrah Field's Parents, Sampson Starkweather's The Heart is Green from So Much Waiting, the Matt Bollinger/Dan Magers drawing/poem collaboration Passion, as well as the baby broadsides the artist Joseph Lappie created for Sink Review.

All of this and more at 365 Fifth Avenue, the lobby of Elebash Recital Hall.

For more info on the chapfest, go to http://chapfest.wordpress.com/schedule/

Farrah Field's new chapbook PARENTS available at AWP

Immaculate Disciples Press has just published PARENTS, a new chapbook by Farrah Field, author of Rising (2009) from Four Way Books. Copies will be available at AWP in Washington DC (Feb 2-5), and available for purchase online beginning in mid-February.

Logical Awesome: A Chapbook Release Party, June 19

We are teaming up with Flying Guillotine Press to present reading from Sampson Starkweather's The Heart Is Green From So Much Waiting and Steven Karl's (Ir)Rational Animals (published by Flying Guillotine). Both chapbooks will be available for purchase! (As well as a super-limited number of copies of Matt Bollinger's Passion).

The awesome starts on Saturday 6/19 at 3pm at the Four Faced Liar (165 West 4th street; take any number of subways to the W4 Street Station). It's the afternoon--come over, have some beers, listen to some poetry, buy some books, and still you'll have time to get ready for your hot date or dangerous rooftop dance party.

Steven Karl received his MFA from The New School and is the author of a collaborative chapbook, State(s) of Flux, with the artist Joseph Lappie (Peptic Robot Press, 2009) and (Ir)Rational Animals (Flying Guillotine Press) and Saturday(s) (Scantily Clad Press). He frequently writes reviews for Cold Front Magazine, Galatea Resurrects, and Sink Review. He lives in New York City. His blog is http://stevenkarl.blogspot.com.

Sampson Starkweather is the author of four chapbooks, most recently The Heart Is Green From So Much Waiting from Immaculate Disciples Press, and Self Help Poems, forthcoming from Greying Ghost Press. He is an editor of physics and chemistry books, and co-founder of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press.

Seriously, do this...

Saturday, 6/19, 3pm-5pm

Four Faced Liar (165 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10014)

Sweet Press Coverage

"If we're playing along at home, The Heart is Green From So Much Waiting feels like some kind of gameshow hosted by a monk." - Mike Young

more:

http://htmlgiant.com/book-reviews/a-photo-of-whales-on-your-phone-will-not-protect-you/#more-35061

"What does it mean to turn green? I can't help but think of Superman and his kryptonite, but I'm sure some nerd would mention Green Lantern, and some other references I was too busy playing "Barbie Whorehouse" to pick up on..." - Amy Lawless

more:

http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2010/05/the-heart-is-green-from-so-much-waiting-by-sampson-starkweather-by-amy-lawless.html

Mike, Amy: You is both good peeps.

The Heart is Green from So Much Waiting is now for sale

Sampson Starkweather's third poetry chapbook, The Heart is Green from So Much Waiting is now available for sale from Immaculate Disciples Press. The chapbook contains twenty-two transcontemporations of poems from Cesar Vallejo's Trilce. As Starkweather writes in the epigraph, "A transcontemporation is to a poem what RoboCop is to a normal police officer." On sale for eight dollars.

A Brooklyn release party for The Heart is Green will be going on in May. Check back for location and date.

For questions or comments, email immaculatedisciples@gmail.com

AWP 2010

Here is our table from AWP in Denver earlier this month. Immaculate Disciples shared a table with Rope-a-Dope, Brave Men Press, and Birds, LLC. We had an attractive spread.

Here is Sam Starkweather with Justin Marks