Dan Hoy reviews Jon Leon's HIT WAVE

in Octopus 11

The History of a Lake Never Drowns, by Julia Cohen

Now available from Dancing Girl Press for the affordable price of $7.00. BUY IT NOW!

Poetry Cubs - 3 Weeks to go!

photo by Erin Patrice O'Brien

Sent Forth to Die in a Happy City, Keith Newton

Read an excerpt from Keith Newton's new chapbook from Cannibal Books.

It rules.

Now GO BUY IT.

NEW ISSUE OF SALTGRASS

Featuring these fine poets & writers:

Eric Baus, CAConrad, Jessica deCourcy Hinds, Johannes Goransson, Kate Greenstreet, Brenda Iijima, Kristi Maxwell, Sawako Nakayasu, Keith Newton, Joshua Poteat, Joy Rhoades, Ken Rumble, Matt Sumell, Chris Tonelli, and Mike Young.

Order it. Read it. You can thank me later.

R A I N T A X I o n l i n e Winter 2008/2009

Chapbook Corner Round-up 2008

The Portable Boog Reader 3 Online PDF Now Available

Featuring poems by:

Ammiel Alcalay * Betsy Andrews * Ari Banias * Jennifer Bartlett * Martine Bellen * Edmund Berrigan * Kate Broad * Julian Brolaski * Donna Brook * Sommer Browning * Matthew Burgess * David Cameron * Mike Coffey * Jen Coleman * John Coletti * Matt Cozart * Elaine Equi * Jessica Fiorini * Jennifer Firestone * Ed Friedman * Ethan Fugate * Rigoberto González * Nada Gordon * Stephanie Gray * Shafer Hall * Diana Hamilton * Hayley Heaton * Cathy Park Hong * Vanessa Hope * Dan Hoy * Lauren Ireland * Adeena Karasick * Basil King * Martha King * Noelle Kocot-Tomblin * Dorothea Lasky * Jeff Laughlin *Amy Lawless * Walter K. Lew * Tan Lin * Tao Lin * Filip Marinovich * Justin Marks * Chris Martin * Tracey McTague * Stephen Paul Miller * Feliz L. Molina *Ryan Murphy * Elinor Nauen * Uche Nduka * Urayoán Noel * Akilah Oliver *Geoffrey Olsen * Jean-Paul Pecqueur * Greg Purcell * Elizabeth Reddin *Jerome Sala * Tom Savage * David Sewell * David Shapiro * Kimberly Ann Southwick * Eleni Stecopoulos * Christina Strong * Mathias Svalina *Jeremy James Thompson * Susie Timmons * Rodrigo Toscano * Nicole Wallace *Damian Weber * Max Winter * Sara Wintz * Erica Wright

WINNERs!!!

I couldn't settle on just one caption, so i chose 2.

1. O, c'mon Dad, we don't HAVE to like poetry
ron klassnik

2. "Worst game of hide and seek ever."
"If you don't take us to Disneyworld next year, I'm gonna start wetting the bed."
nicole steinberg

congrats to the winners. thanks to everyone for entering. you all came up with some funny shit!