Reading by Sarah Mangold in Seattle April 26th

April 26 at 3pm at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Company, Sarah Mangold will read from her new Black Radish collection Electrical Theories of Femininity with Donna Stonecipher.

Mangold also has new work in the March/April Kenyon Review and the Spring issue of Lit.

New book by Black Radish author j/j hastain

j/j hastain, whose Black Radish title Luci will appear this June, also has a new book just published by Spuyten Duyvil: Non-Novels, The New Elementals Project.

Carrie Hunter and James Maughn: Bay Area readings April 16 and 19

Black Radish author Carrie Hunter, whose second title, Orphan Machines, will appear July 2015, will be reading twice this week in the Bay Area:

La Commune Presents: Michael Gottlieb, Carrie Hunter, Steven Seidenberg
Thursday, April 16 at 7:00pm
La Commune Cafe and Bookstore
4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, California 94609

Fellow Radish James Maughn will also be reading with her on the 19th:

Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv 8 Presents: Behm-Steinberg, Chiado, Hunter,
Maughn & Tuck: Five Chapbook Releases
Sunday, April 19 at 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, California 94110

Author Activity from Black Radish Books

Brittany Billmeyer-Finn, whose Black Radish title, the meshes, will be published in Fall 2015, is a recipient of the SAFEhouseARTS SF performance residency. Her ensemble cast performed a version of the meshes in a multi-media performance that dramatized the internal process of making art by embodying the textual practice of writing through the filmography of Maya Deren. the meshes engages Deren's silent films and the unfinished documentary, The Divine Horsemen the Living Gods of Haiti. The performances dealt in such themes as ritual, obsession, spectatorship and archive; pushing up against the passivity of spectatorship and drawing on the tension between the voyeur, viewer and witness. the meshes debuted on Thursday April 2nd and had a second showing on Friday April 3rd at SAFEhouseARTS. Brittany rocks!

Carrie Hunter, whose new Black Radish title Orphan Machines will be published this summer, has a new chapbook, Scienza Nuova, published by Little Read Leaves Textile Series.

Sarah Mangold, author of Electrical Theories of Femininity, has a poem up at Chaudiere Books, as part of the National Poetry Month celebrations.

Mark Lamoureux is collaborating with poet Chris McCreary as part of National Poetry Month. You can follow their project at MarisMcLamoureary. Lamoureux's most recent publication 29 Cheeseburgers + 39 Years is published by Pressed Wafer.

Marthe Reed will be reading from her new collection Nights Reading, Burton's Thousand and One May 1 at the Syracuse, NY, YMCA Writers Center at 7pm and May 4 at Pace University's Birnbaum Library (1 Pace Plaza, NY, NY) at 8pm.

j/j hastain, whose book luci will appear June 2015, presented at both &NOW at CalArts and at AWP in Minneapolis, knocking the socks off xyr audiences!

Pre-sales for both luci and Orphan Machines will soon be available via our website, so stay tuned!

Black Radish Books at AWP in Minneapolis

The Black Radish Book Fair table at AWP Minneapolis is # 229, shared with Tender Buttons Press. Find out more here. 

Our full Spring 2015 Black Radish catalog will be available, as well as earlier titles such as Nicole Mauro's Tax-Dollar Super Sonnet and Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children.

Black Radish Books will also be hosting an AWP off-site reading Thursday, April 9th, 6-9:30 at Studio 514 (514 North 3rd Street, Suite 101) with Tender Buttons, Station Hill, and Ugly Duckling: Bernadette Mayer’s Sonnets & Early Books, Julie Patton, Katy Bohinc, Valerie Witte, James Maughn, Mackenzie Carignan, Michael Ruby, Nathaniel Farrell, Cheryl Pallant, Nor Hall, Sam Truitt, George Quasha. For more information, go to our public Facebook page.

Author activity: j/j hastain

j/j hastain. whose Black Radish Books title Luci will appear summer 2015, has been busy! Take a peek at what xe has been up to:

Lyric essays: "Amiss and Amok" and "Copulatory Lock" at  Flapper House. And at Caliban, pages 70-75.

Interview at Touch the Donkey.

On collaboration at Harriet, along with others such as Juliana Spahr, Kevin Killian, Cedar Sigo, and jen hofer. Here is what j/j has to say:

For me, merge is a primary basis for proceeding in fulfilling ways.

There are the practicalities of collaboration and there are also the more subtle, vibration-based aspects. I find all of these in the pleasurable category. As long as attunement to the psychic particulars of the collaboration are kept at the forefront of one’s intentions therein, I find the practical and subtle components of collaborations to lend themselves in beautiful ways toward nurture. Is sharing in a shape or a stance a form of divine will? What can we accomplish together in the particulars of the premise or promises of this collaboration?

I work actively with Quan Yin. I appreciate her proclivity toward dispelling loneliness from its root rather than just applying a poultice at the event or experience or infliction of loneliness. I treat all of my collaborations as puja to Quan Yin’s choices, the vastness of her compassion field.

For me, collaboration is only troubling when it ends. I feel affront in my cosmic identities when this occurs, when for whatever reason/s we can’t work out a way to keep the telepathy open and pumping, and it atrophies due to human limit. Elaborate memorial services for such deaths need be made in me in order for them to not have the power to revert me to previous states of disparateness and mourning.

KINDERGARDE WINS 2014 LION & UNICORN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN NORTH AMERICAN POETRY

Kindergarde Wins Johns Hopkins University Press Prize

Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children has been selected as co-winner of the 2014 Lion & Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry

San Francisco, California, November 24, 2014—Sponsored by Johns Hopkins University Press, The Lion and the Unicorn Award will be announced via the publication of an essay discussing the year in children's literature. Judges for this years’ competition were Lissa Paul, Donelle Ruwe, and Craig Svonkin; the journal is edited by Joseph Thomas, PhD.

Published by Black Radish Books and edited by poet, Dana Teen Lomax, Kindergarde includes the work of internationally known innovative writers including Lyn Hejinian, Robin Blaser, Wanda Coleman, Kenneth Goldsmith, Cathy Park Hong, Harryette Mullen, Charles Bernstein, Eileen Myles, Christian Bök, Leslie Scalapino, Kevin Killian, Evie Shockley, Juliana Spahr, Anne Waldman, Juan Felipe Herrera, Rosmarie Waldrop, and many others. Kindergarde is without a doubt the hippest Holiday gift around!

Kindergarde is the first anthology to ever be recognized by the award.

PRAISE FOR KINDERGARDE

Adventurous writings for literary risk-takers and thrill-seekers.  –Kirkus Reviews

...the array of poets stepping up to present avant-garde approaches to writing for young writers is unprecedented; the anthology is a gift to writers of any age. –Rain Taxi

Kindergarde operates as a kind of guide for children, a blueprint of creativity written in the chalk of         

the avant-garde, where the inhibiting constraint of technique is second to innovation and experiment.

– Ella Longpre, Naropa University

Personally, I love this project a lot because kids are smarter and weirder than many books give them

credit for. –Kickstarter

Kindergarde successfully reaches the anthology’s intended audience of children as well as a wider     

audience: readers of avant-garde literature.  –Carolyn Hembree, Jacket2

A highly celebrated and joyful collection for children from ages 3-15, Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children is available through Small Press Distribution and Amazon Books.