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words dance issue seven

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:57:40 -0500

$3.00
THEME of issue: DESIRE.

this issue is jam-packed w/ some of the
finest poetry & art of our day. 32 pgs.

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table of contents:

verses:(poetry)
4 arlene ang - the fifteenth street love poem
chris kornacki - radio
5 glenn cooper - jaded
nathan graziano - two girls in a tub together
6 adebe d. a. - to the one i desire
7 william taylor jr. - death and landlords and the dissolution of dreams
8 greg scharf - none in a million
john korn - this is love (part one)
9 michelledion matthews - we sit alone
10 michael estabrook - not how i had hoped the evening would go
jill knaack - i am not
11 lisa latourette - 23 cents, 2 cigarettes & a chapstick
21 greg scharf - all hope rests on the lips and early deeds of...
joe veronneau - sunday afternoon
kelsey jones - untitled
22 arlene ang - love in the time of couch potatoes
23 doug draime - war mall
24 justin barrett - the bachelor party
25 glenn cooper - one moment
26 kathleen paul-flanagan - wishful thinking
27 adebe d. a. - we bohemians
32 amanda oaks - tantric undertones one through five

shorts:(fiction)
12 shane jones - the thief
28 ryan pink - untitled (2/22/05)

images:
4 natalie shau - blue and black
5 hannah schlaak - the end
6 stephen mead - selection from the 31 kisses series
8 amanda oaks - did she really? yes she did.
9 alexandre incio - between us
10 hannah schlaak - be a lady
11 amanda oaks - comic (strip)
20 michelle delgado - prisoner
21 natalie shau - untouchable
22 amanda oaks - shifted passion
24 andrew lander - untitled
25 michelle delgado - our night
25 amanda oaks - push the envelope
26 michelle delgado - it felt love
27 natalie shau - devotion
32 amanda oaks - we circle in dreams

nothing unrequited here by heather bell

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:51:01 -0500

$10.00

♥ 8.5 x 5.5, kraft brown recycled card stock cover with a paper doily fastened with pewter brads, stapled, 28 pgs, first impression of 100.

Bell marries kaleidoscopic images with the familial in her unforgettable collection Nothing Unrequited Here. With honesty and faint humor, she illustrates the evolution of relationships and redefines poetry as the distance between two people. In "the Reason You Are Not A Poet," she nails the chasm of intimacy when she writes, "He says / I Love your hair in my shower. I love your hair in my shower. / You exhale and realize / e will never be a poet, but you love / the way he called / your eyes kettle drums one night, / for lack of anything else to say. The way he carved / names into his kitchen table." After taking a dip in this impressive first chapbook you will emerge, towel-less & shivering for more. - rebecca schumejda

for further review:
♥ http://www.prickofthespindle.com/reviews/2.4/small%20presses/bell/nothing_unrequited_here.htm
♥ http://www.readthismagazine.co.uk/onenightstanzas/?p=290
♥ http://wordsdance.com/nothingunrequitedhere.html
♥ http://wearduringorangealert.blogspot.com/2008/11/orange-spotlight_24.html

Bio: Heather Bell graduated in 2005 from Oswego State University in Oswego, NY. Since, she has been published in Mannequin Envy, From East to West: BiCoastal Verse, Empowerment4Women, Ditch, ReadThisMagazine, Pomegranate and Killpoet, among others. She spends her time polishing boots, gardening, painting and looking brightly at all raw stars. Heather dedicates all her writing to JNB. Without him, she never would have written any of it down. This is her first chapbook.

words dance issue twelve, ladies issue

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:51:01 -0500

$6.00
• 8.5” x 5.5”
• cream coverstock
• stapled
• cover photo hand-embossed & adhered
• 26 pgs
• verve bath press 2008

this issue is AMAZING, a must read! see what some of the contributors are saying below! this issue is full of talent, beautiful photos from erin wallace, katie elizabeth, roxanne carter & aleathia drehmer & poems from some of the best female poets of the present day, some young, seasoned, unschooled, etc!

contributors:

gina abelkop • heather bell • courtney j. campbell • pris campbell • roxanne carter • jane crown • jessica dawson • aleathia drehmer • katie elizabeth • lori jakiela • marie lascu • lisa latourette • dorianne laux • miriam matzeder • ellyn maybe • amanda oaks • kathleen paul-flanagan • elly portnoy • misti rainwater-lites • erin reardon • rebecca schumejda • linda smith • tammy trendle • erin wallace • amanda wheelock

cover photo by: http://katieelizabethphoto.etsy.com

WHAT SOME OF THE CONTRIBUTORS ARE SAYING:

Simple, beautiful, daring! I LOVE kathleen paul-flanagan's "Because the World is So Fast and So Small:" "I teach them lemonade/comes from lemons/rolled on the kitchen counter/to bring up the juice,/not from yellow powder/in a tiny barrel/ sold on supermarket shelves."
- rebecca schumejda

I just got my issue of Words Dance 12--god, it's just beautiful and SO well put together, the amazing poems, the order of the poems, the photographs--everything. Thank you again for inviting me to be a part of it, I'm so proud! I'm going to order a couple more issues for family too--I think lots of women should have it.
- lisa latourette

i got my copy of words dance today, and i had to send you a message ... this is the most powerful little book of writing i've read in so long. by the time i finished dorianne laux's "Mother's Day" I was sobbing. when i went back, i got to heather bell's poems and realized THAT is what writing is, pris' poem and kathleen paul-flannagan's poem ... ah, they're all so good. it's just amazing.
- courtney j. campbell

The diversity of voices appealed to me in this book. The poems are well written and relevant to various atages of my own life. For example, in Parellel Universe, Ellen Maybe tells us: Sometimes I wonder if there are one million people/listening at the same time/to the same Leonard Cohen song,/the one that keeps people from killing themselves

In Curled, a poem about illness, Altheathia Drehmer says: She grips me now with tiny fingers,/speaking of her son curled/in a bed from stroke,/how he had never hurt anyone in his life,/to deserve such an end,/such a fate.

and in lost and found, we find Jessica Dawson: Your fingers perch on my bare hip,/search my skin like/hungry brown birds/and it's spring/under the covers,

I loved reading the journal. It has a permanent place in my library to read and reread.
-pris campbell

love notes by amanda oaks

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:51:01 -0500

$7.00
♥ this would make a lovely valentine gift!

FIRST EDITION OF 50 SOLD OUT! ♥ ♥

♥ this is the second edition of love notes!

♥ this is a handmade book of thirty love poems, most of them are sensual & under ten lines. the cover is made from textured brown cardstock. the title & heart was hand-punched out. the book is stapled together & a few of the pink pages on the inside are embossed by hand. measures at 7" x 5".

♥ to read an interview & hear me read my work, please visit: http://wearduringorangealert.blogspot.com/2007/06/writers-corner_14.html

REVIEW by william taylor jr.:

Amanda Oaks' new volume of poetry is titled Love Notes, and is a collection of 30 short, often Haiku-like poems that read, well, like love notes. The poems are filled with lush and erotic imagery, and collectively draw you into a world of crumpled bed sheets, longing sighs and soft kisses. The pieces often feel like little snapshots or stills from a film. They often ache sweetly with desire but are refreshingly free of pathos. Each piece is a little treasure and definitely reward repeated readings.

#19 (one of my favorites) reads: your thigh/brushing mine/is like a thousand doors/moaning open/all at the same/time.

One of the wonderful things about this collection is that is unapologetically and unabashedly feminine, and serves as a much needed antidote to the glut of overly macho Bukowski aping work that fills much of the small/independent press today. These love notes are ones you would love to find pushed under your door or left on your windshield where usually you would find only parking tickets.

The books are a limited edition of fifty and are lovingly handmade in a fashion that well compliments the words inside. Another fine release from Verve Bath press, and I certainly look forward to more.

the map of our garden by rebecca schumejda

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:23:42 -0400

$10.00
8.5 x 5.5, sunflower & terra cotta card stock #80, 36 pgs, hand stamped/punched cover, includes signed, pressed sunflower petal bookmark, introduction by Nathan Graziano, author illustration by Hosho McCreesh, numbered, stapled, first impression of 100.

Please view back cover photo for blurbs.

no glass allowed by tammy foster brewer

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:42:23 -0400

$10.00
♥ 8.5 x 5.5, white card stock 110#, edges dipped in acid-free fade-resistant red ink, anatomical heart printed on vellum & hand-stitched, numbered, stapled, 36 pgs, first impression of 50.

♥ Samples Poems can be found here:

pumping breast milk at work:
http://www.denversyntax.com/issue17/poems/brewer/pumping.html

Monday Morning, After A Weekend With You:
http://www.fullofcrow.com/mondaymorning.html

I Read Your Poem While You Were At The Bank & Therapy Poem:
https://www.luciolepress.com/Tammy_Foster-Brewer.html

Bio: Tammy F. Brewer (formerly Trendle) is married to the poet, Robert Lee Brewer, and is a mom to 2 sons and 2 stepsons. She received her BA in English from Georgia State University in 1997. She was born, raised, and still resides in Atlanta, GA where she works as a paralegal.

words dance issue nine

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:42:04 -0400

$3.00
this issue is juicy-juicy! full, to the brim w/ some of the finest poetry & art of our day! 24 pgs.

the spine of each page is graced with a quote!

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table of contents:

verse:(poetry)
4 miles j. bell - unlucky
jessica mahlstedt - love and insects
glenn cooper - an excuse to smile
5 john dorsey - teaching the dead to sing: from the...
6 william taylor jr. - rainy afternoon
s.a. griffin - love is no. 69
7 luc simonic - art and birdshit
gerald so - precocious
8 j. korn & a. oaks - re:d radio drive-in
9 c. allen rearick - all else fails
10 karl koweski - living conditions
amanda oaks - before-work lexis
11 glenn cooper - no saviour
miles j. bell - the dignity of work
12 misti rainwater-lites - suicide tease
13 william taylor jr. - the suicide replies
mikl paul - went and there is still then
14 ryan pink - i fall in love too easily
16 hank beukema - martina in a liplock
tara stouch - i should cut out the middle man
17 miles j. bell - sometimes it takes a madman
18 s.a. griffin - reflections of a mind corrupted...
nathan graziano - the changing of the guard
19 kathleen paul-flanagan - the razor
john dorsey - untitled philadelphia love poem
20 john korn - sometimes you need a bad day

image:
crystal fox - 5
john korn - 7, 10, 14, 21
amanda oaks - 4, 9, 12, 13, 15, 19, cover art
chris mackessy - 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 16, 18
joff rolland - 8

review:
22 john dorsey - the world's last rodeo by a.d. winans

words dance four pack

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:42:04 -0400

$10.00
this listing is for FOUR ZINES,

issue 7, issue 9, issue 10 & issue 11!

this is a steal!

need a modern poetry fix, these will not disappoint!
each issue is packed full of amazing poetry & art!

for details on each issue please visit each individual
listing in my zines section.

IF YOU HAVE ONE OF THESE ISSUES & WOULD
LIKE A THREE PACK instead please convo me &
i'll make a custom listing for you!

i've been so lucky for the connections this mag has
brought me. i've met & collaborated with some pretty
amazing people, thank you.

some contributors include:

arlene ang, justin barrett, miles j. bell, robert lee brewer, roxanne carter, glenn cooper, christopher cunningham, brien dawson, jessica dawson, john dorsey, doug draime, nathan graziano, s.a. griffin, jacob johanson, kathleen paul-flanagan, misti rainwater-lites, jack t. marlowe, stephen mead, brian morrisey, jason neese, c. allen rearick, david smith, john sweet, william taylor jr., tammy trendle, a.d. winans

fyi: issues 1-6 & 8 were online issues @ wordsdance.com
at one time, i plan on making one issue of selected
work from those issues in the future.

thanks for looking!!!

POEM-FOR-A-DOLLAR

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:41:36 -0400

$1.00
a signed poem for a dollar!

i have a plethora of poems i want
to share, please choose from the
following subjects:

love
female power
politics
family
pregnancy
nature
poetry
anger
sadness
sex
sex appeal
the muse
morning
spring
winter
travel
neglect

or hit me with any general subject
& i can probably find something,
just ask!!

in the message with your order let
me know the kind of poem you'd like
to read along with your choice of paper:

white, pink, green & grey.

thanks so much for looking!

oh & you can order more than one
if you'd like! let me know & i'll
make a custom listing for you before
you order!!

Deer Tracks, handmade collaged poetry book (mature)

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:00:11 -0400

$30.00
Almost 3 inches tall & wide

Front & back cover plus 5 inside pages

Collage done w/ paper, cardstock, glue, ribbon, scissors & a typewriter over a children's board book- sits nicely for display

Text in the book is a poem by Richard Brautigan called Deer Tracks:

Deer Tracks

Beautiful, sobbing
high-geared fucking
and then to lie silently
like deer tracks in the
freshly-fallen snow beside
the one you love.
That’s all.

Richard Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – ca. September 14, 1984)

words dance issue eleven

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:56:13 -0400

$4.00
28 pgs filled with amazing poetry & art from some of etsy's own!!!

wordsdance.com

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verses:
4 ray sweatman —– there’s always a piano
william taylor jr. —– i bet they never
5 —– the next song on the jukebox
anna reihman —– except on christmas
6 marie lascu —– stirred
nathan graziano —– the woman i should never speak of
7 brian morrisey —– poisonous magic
8 erik scott —– neighbors
luc simonic —– tornado shelter
david barker —– machinery
luis c. berriozabal —– endless war
9 david labounty —– sprawl
misti rainwater-lites —– groundhog eve
10 jack t. marlowe —– beating at the bathroom door
11 wayne mason —– dead poetry gods
12 j.j. campbell —– a friend once told me to always choose...
kaveh akbar —– i was an ugly ten-year-old
13 kathleen paul-flanagan —– better than any west palm beach surgeon
robert lee brewer —– my sinister is sparking
14 tammy trendle —– instead i learned to please
—– four ballerinas resting between scenes
15 —– there are no instructions for this
16 john dorsey —– the wedding dance
—– a red sea of burning bridges
17 ryan pink —– people get worn down
christopher lockett —– page 63
18 lynn phoenix —– journal entry
19 —– journal entry
20 lisa zaran —– reluctance
21 miles j. bell —– 6 a.m. semi-sermon
22 dan provost —– the eleven of you
23 s.a. griffin —– patriot poem
24 pris campbell —– backwards into cleveland
jessica dawson —– today is a day for breaking
25 —– at
26 john sweet —– i would
george wallance —– a dream about fire
27 d. smith —– this heart

images:
ren adams —– 16, 17
nuri amanatullah —– 6, 7, 21, 28
t. bianca —– 11
molly caitlin —– 24
emma flanagan —– 20
kim mccullough —– 4
amanda oaks —– 10, 12, 14, 23
natalie richards —– 5
christine stoddard —– 8, 9
michelle young —– 13, 14

words dance issue ten

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:09:38 -0400

$3.00
i decided to put out a second edition of this brilliant bear. the work is just too good not to spread around. the cover is the only thing that's changed.

this lovely little lover was guest-edited by jessica dawson.

first edition: there were only 99 numbered copies
of that gem made & no two covers were alike.

filled with some of the best poets & poetry of our day.

verse by:

mike maguire
tyler mason
i.l. lamb hrydziuszko
stephen mead
a.d. winans
jason neese
christopher cunningham
julio peralta-paulino
john dorsey
jacob johanson
james babbs
gina abelkop
william wright
glen clark
justin barrett
gerald so
kristine ong muslim
katie murphy
david smith
john korn
william taylor jr.
phil tessier
c. allen rearick
adam fieled
brien dawson
miles j. bell
nathan graziano
s.a. griffin
jeremy hudson

images by:

jaleh afshar
david barker
roxanne carter
tyson crosbie
j. david
crystal fox
stephen h
jarod herniak
stephen mead
amanda oaks

bloodlines by amanda oaks

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:09:38 -0400

$5.00
♥ choose your cover color! eggplant purple,
midnight black & lunar blue!

please choose one & let me know when you
order in the message to the seller or
convo me!

♥ 20 pgs of poetry, comes signed

♥ beautiful hand-stamped cardstock covers

♥ please visit: http://wearduringorangealert.blogspot.com/2007/06/writers-corner_14.html --- to read an interview & hear me read my work

thanks for looking!

fossil fuels by jessica dawson

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:09:37 -0400

$10.00
✯ 8.5 x 5.5, recycled taupe brown fiber card stock 80#, faux bois cover image is hand stamped with rich cocoa fade-resistant, acid-free dye ink, stapled, 32 pgs, introduction by brien dawson, first impression of 100.

Jessica Dawson is a modern-day Wendy. She lives in California with Peter Pan, a baby bear and a future supreme court justice. She's ecstatic to see her first book of poetry published by Verve Bath Press, and has had poems published in Thunder Sandwich, The Hold, Passenger May, killpoet, Words Dance, Remark., The Seed, MEAT, Triptych Haiku, Lit Vision, Mastodon Dentist, Nefarious Ballerina and Slurve Magazine. She reads the dictionary for fun, speaks only in degrees of sarcasm and enjoys owning her eight-year old in Scrabble.

for further review:
✯ http://wordsdance.com/fossilfuels.html
✯ http://www.slurvemag.com/Issue8/index.php?page=fossilfuels

samples:
✯ http://www.slurvemag.com/Issue8/index.php?page=dearsir
✯ http://www.slurvemag.com/Issue8/index.php?page=name

not enough to fold by amanda joy

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:39:44 -0400

$10.00
✯ 4.5 x 6, painted desert grasscloth textured card stock, translucent vellum, repoduction of a mid-1800s line of indigo fabric, numbered, stapled, 28 pgs, first impression of 100.

✯ blasts your spirit with a brilliant breeze & then cradles your soul after the storm

✯ Amanda Joy is a poet, sculptor, installation artist & songwriter born in the Kimberley region of W.A. She currently lives, works & gardens in Fremantle & travels as often as she can, mostly between France & Australia. Her poetry has been published in various journals online & in print such as Up The Staircase Literary Review, Numbat, Killpoet, Fragile Arts Quarterly, Alabaster and Mercury, Heroin Love Songs, The Toronto Quarterly & Black Listed Magazine.

further samples:
✯ http://www.killpoet.com/issue_2/articles/25.html
✯ http://heroinlovesongsjournal.blogspot.com/search/label/amanda%20joy

simply put by s.a. griffin

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:24:41 -0400

$3.00
a broadside by s.a. griffin, one page poem booklet w/ envelope, numbered & signed edition of 50.

then somebody asks
does the poem matter...

this poem reads & looks like it already
stood up against the stand of time--
& is back for another well-deserved round.

simply put, it's the word & the word is.

each of the broadside's edges were burnt & sealed
with wax, comes in a matching parchment envelope.

s.a. griffin is the groovy, laughing love father of poetry,
an extraordinary human being- nothing less. if you'd like
to find out more about him go here:

http://www.getunderground.com/underground/features/article.cfm?Article_ID=2084

the picture of him & his wife lorraine,
aaron farley deserves credit.

google him, as always, works too.

thanks for lookin'!