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May 29, 2011
GPP Reader now a Free eBook
I'm happy to announce that the Guerilla Poetics Project has recently made the GPP Reader available as a free eBook--so those of you with all manner of elctro-reading devices run, don't walk, to the internets nearest you. That's right folks, I said free... now be the first on your block to own it, because y'all know the price is right!
From the description:
"Presenting work by such underground luminaries as David Barker, justin barrett, Luis C. Berriozabal, JJ Cambell, Alan Catlin, Leonard J. Cirino, Glenn W Cooper, Christopher Cunningham, Soheyl Dahi, Dave Donovan, Doug Draime, Nathan Graziano, S.A. Griffin, Christopher Harter, Richard Krech, Mike Kriesel, Ellaraine Lockie, Adrian Manning, Hosho McCreesh, Brian McGettrick, Amanda Oaks, Bob Pajich, Kathleen Paul-Flanagan, Michael Phillips, Sam Pierstorff, C. Allen Rearick, Charles P. Ries, Ross Runfola, William Taylor, Jr., and Don Winter, the GPP Reader delivers the very best in small press poetry.
GPP Poets and Operatives have covertly smuggled over 50,000 beautiful, letterpress broadsides into bookstores and libraries worldwide, and have been written about in the Wasatch Journal, Utne Reader, Poets & Writers, and featured in Quercus Review #7. Open the right book, and the GPP might just find you."
Find the free eBook HERE.
From the description:
"Presenting work by such underground luminaries as David Barker, justin barrett, Luis C. Berriozabal, JJ Cambell, Alan Catlin, Leonard J. Cirino, Glenn W Cooper, Christopher Cunningham, Soheyl Dahi, Dave Donovan, Doug Draime, Nathan Graziano, S.A. Griffin, Christopher Harter, Richard Krech, Mike Kriesel, Ellaraine Lockie, Adrian Manning, Hosho McCreesh, Brian McGettrick, Amanda Oaks, Bob Pajich, Kathleen Paul-Flanagan, Michael Phillips, Sam Pierstorff, C. Allen Rearick, Charles P. Ries, Ross Runfola, William Taylor, Jr., and Don Winter, the GPP Reader delivers the very best in small press poetry.
GPP Poets and Operatives have covertly smuggled over 50,000 beautiful, letterpress broadsides into bookstores and libraries worldwide, and have been written about in the Wasatch Journal, Utne Reader, Poets & Writers, and featured in Quercus Review #7. Open the right book, and the GPP might just find you."
Find the free eBook HERE.
April 29, 2011
Something Random...Back in Print Soon
After almost a decade out of print, there's talk that my second book Something Random & Tragic to Set the Guts Aflame...will once again be available, this time from Mary Celeste Press of Australia. It will be an expanded 3rd edition, perfect bound, fleshed out with a cache of unpublished poems all written during the era. Additionally we're planning to record readings of all included poems, and make them available both here, and at the Mary Celeste website.
For those keeping score, Mary Celeste Press is the revamped Mockfrog Press, both edited by Matthew Ward. He was one of the very first editors to support my work, and the first to send me a trans-Pacific letter asking for a chapbook-length manuscript. That was a great day. I am delighted to be working with him again, and I am especially glad that anyone who missed the book way back in 2001-2002 can finally get hold of not only the original work, but an expanded third edition. More specifics as they come in.
Have you sent me a postal address where you can be reached? No?! Pish posh...you're among friends here! If you'd like to share your address, you can reach me via the CONTACT FORM on the INFO page.
In other news: the week began with kind words for my three new poems featured at the Rusty Truck (who doesn't have any artwork I can swipe to promote it...hint hint), which then got re-popped here and here, and ended with a right fine review from the hallowed halls of the Lilliput Review. My thanks to Scot, Jack, Tyler, and Don for giving my work such opportunity & praise.
And it's a week late--but thanks, as well, to Ben Tanzer for the quick shout over at This Blog Will Change Your Life.
For those keeping score, Mary Celeste Press is the revamped Mockfrog Press, both edited by Matthew Ward. He was one of the very first editors to support my work, and the first to send me a trans-Pacific letter asking for a chapbook-length manuscript. That was a great day. I am delighted to be working with him again, and I am especially glad that anyone who missed the book way back in 2001-2002 can finally get hold of not only the original work, but an expanded third edition. More specifics as they come in.
Have you sent me a postal address where you can be reached? No?! Pish posh...you're among friends here! If you'd like to share your address, you can reach me via the CONTACT FORM on the INFO page.
In other news: the week began with kind words for my three new poems featured at the Rusty Truck (who doesn't have any artwork I can swipe to promote it...hint hint), which then got re-popped here and here, and ended with a right fine review from the hallowed halls of the Lilliput Review. My thanks to Scot, Jack, Tyler, and Don for giving my work such opportunity & praise.
And it's a week late--but thanks, as well, to Ben Tanzer for the quick shout over at This Blog Will Change Your Life.
April 6, 2011
The New NEWS Page...
While I can hardly abide the idea that the fruitless ways I dither away my days need somehow be chronicled, and while I certainly don't think I'm interesting enough to necessitate a blog, or Facebook page, or Twitter feed, or whatever the hell...I will reluctantly admit that there should be a better way for me to let you, my small but committed band of readers, know what's going on. So, welcome, one and all, to the brand new NEWS section--a half-assed and hair-brained attempt to keep most of my boring life offline. Believe me, if you were sitting in this chair, you'd thank me. If I can figure out what it is, and how to it works, I'll add a RSS feed for ease in getting the occasional updates. I'll likely announce new projects (including the pre-sale of special editions), or new audio, or interviews, or publications, or just new stuff added to the website. Hopefully this will be enough to keep you up-to-date without being shelled by electro-garbage and emails.
In other news: Over the years, I've written short stories. I'm making them available (most for the first time)--2 for $.99--on as many eBook platforms as I can. The far-off details of a short story collection are still in the works, so this seemed the best way to make them available until then. If you're an eBook type, or want to read them on your phone, or computer, follow the link below. As ever, I appreciate the support. The first 2Shot can be found HERE--on the cuff!
Also: I'm keeping a mailing list--not just email, but regular mail too. If you'd like your name and/or address added (or updated, if you've recently moved) drop me a quick line via the contact form on the bottom of the INFO page, and I'll fix you up. I know what you're thinking: "Why the hell should I give you my address, McCreesh?" Well, I'm afraid I don't have a good answer for that. Rest assured, there's at least a 67% chance I won't knock on your door at some rainy, unforgivable hour, and beg to sleep on an old couch. I almost never do that anymore.
