• Bhang by Ted Pelton
• Dreadful Quietude by Geoffrey Gatza
• Circular Descent by Ray Bianchi
• War on Words by John Bradley
• Vel by Alan Sondheim
• Antidotes for an Alibi by Amy King
• American Godwar Complex by Patrick Herron
• Quinn's Passage by Kazim Ali
• Epigramititis by Kent Johnson
• To Be Sung by Michael Kelleher
• Musee Mechanique by Rodney Koeneke
• Mainstream by Mike Magee
• The History of My World Tonight by Daniel Nester
• I wear a figleaf over my penis by Geoffrey Gatza
• I Want My Mommy by Cameron Kidman
• Nonexistence by Kenji Siratori
• Line And Pause by Forrest Roth
• WINDOW ON THE CITY by Michael Ruby
• The Lost Atlas of Desire by Jeremy Downes
• Alphaville by Peter Jay Shippy
• Disparity by Steven Timm
• Naming God by Jennifer J. Thompson
• Victory by Clarice Waldman
• Ladders In July by William Allegrezza
• Taste: Gastronomic poems by Francis Raven
• Inbox by Noah Eli Gordon
• A Pure Bowl of Nothing by Mary Kasimor
• Stirring Within Poems and Tales from Mount Carmel by G
Emil Reutter
• Finger ExOrcised by Joe Amato
• The Ecstasy of Capitulation by Daniel Borzutzky
• Face Blindness by Megan A. Volpert
• The Bird Hoverer by Aaron Belz
• Autobiography of a Stutterer by Joseph Cooper
• having been blue for charity by Kari Edwards (in production)
• Holiday Idylling by Vernon Frazer
• [#1 - #46] by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
• Black Diamond Golden Boy Takes Bull By Horns by Geoffrey Gatza
• Thanksgiving Poems : a feast to honor Charles Bernstein, Forrest Gander, Kent Johnson, Robert Creeley & John Ashbery by Geoffrey Gatza
• Sidewalk Portrait by Richard Henry
• Morphology by Ruth Lepson and Walter Crump (in production)
• homemade traps for new world Brians by Evan Willner (in production)
• Aurora by Jared Schickling
• Reading Gaol by Javier Rube
• Factory Manual by Michel Jérome Dufrénoy
Heroes
Charles Bernstein, Forrest Gander, Kent Johnson, Robert Creeley & John Ashbery
BlazeVOX Books has published over 40 volumes, mostly poetry, and will publish approximately 20-25 more each year during 2007 and 2008. Our latest publications, are by Noah Eli Gordon, Joe Amato and Megan Volpert. Also just out is the latest double-is
Geoffrey Gatza is a poet and editor of BlazeVOX [ a refuge ]. He is the author of several books of poetry including I Wear A Figleaf Over My Penis and Thanksgiving Poems. A former United States Marine; and a graduate of the Culinary Institute of Amer
About me: Geoffrey Gatza is a poet and editor of BlazeVOX [ a refuge ]. He is the author of several books of poetry including I Wear A Figleaf Over My Penis and Thanksgiving Poems. A former United States Marine; and a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and Daemen College. He works as a chef at the Mansion on Delaware when not immersed in the running of the press. He lives in Buffalo, NY with his partner Donna and two beloved cats Blaze and Clarice.
Issue 8 is now available for purchase at our website.
It includes stories by Sam Pink, Blake Butler, D. Harlan Wilson, Rhys Hughes, Ofelia Hunt, Cameron Pierce, Mike Young, Matthew Simmons, Darby Larson, Aaron Sitze, and Adam Breckenridge.
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday tooooo Yoooou. Haaaapppppy Birrrrrrrrrrrthdaaaay, Haaaapppppppy Birthhhhhdaaaaaay, Happy Birrrrrttthhhdaaaaaaaaay toooooooooooooo Yooooooooooooooooooooou! Celebrate and dance with gusto. Drink good wine or have (chocolate) whatever. And CAKE! Don’t forget the CAKE!!!
If you haven't yet had the intense literary pleasure of immersing yourself in a Sue Miller novel, please meet: Sue Miller, our feature author.
Also in this issue: our feature poet, Harry Owen, Poet Laureate of Cheshire, England.
Wander through four pages of poetry by many fine poets from various points across the globe... then lose yourself in a collection of stories, essays, and a memoir that will haunt you for days. Continue your tour of Greece, part two, then don't forget to read the book reviews. Gracing these pages with watercolor and oil paintings, etchings and charcoal sketches is the artwork of Viestarts Aistars.
THE SMOKING POET - Winter 2007-08 Issue Online Now! How quickly one year rolls by! This issue of TSP is our one-year anniversary issue, with feature author, Russell Rowland; feature poet, William Doreski; travel essay on Greece by Jeannie Sanders; and pages of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, book and cigar reviews, links and resources, and more. Visit TSP today to see why we have grown so quickly: A fine cigar and good literature, two of life's finest pleasures.
To submit your work for the spring issue, see our submission guidelines at THE SMOKING POET.
My collection Ancestor Worship has just been published by Salmon Poetry (Ireland), for real. For anyone interested, please buy at the above link (directly from the publisher). If you need to, it's also available on Amazon.
12.00 Euro | Paperback | 130 x 204mm | 72 pages | ISBN 978-1-903392-54-3 | June 2007
"Unusual routes become strategies. Mike Begnal is Irish-American, he writes in English and Irish, he can invent a hybridisation of st yle. Ancestor Worship is an extension of this, it can take on a new romancing and deciphering: 'the warm blood / that flows through to this age, / dangerous and violent in veins...' Likewise a journey or pilgrimage can be undertaken somewhere, from 'olive-green felt couch' to 'olive sky'. The essential is no one has been quite there before, along the genealogy or amid the furniture." --James Liddy
