Valerie Witte at Northeastern Illinois University

Valerie Witte, author of a game of correspondence, in a collaboration with artist Jennifer Yorke:

Northeastern Illinois University Art Gallery

    Jennifer Yorke: Savage Breast

with experimental poet Valerie Witte

 January 11th-February 5th

closed January 18th for MLK day    

Reception:

 Friday February 19th, 6-9pm 

Artist Talk and reading by visiting poet Valerie Witte

Wednesday January 27th, 3pm

Sneak peek at three new Black Radish titles

Check out the cover for j/j hastain's new title, ready in just a couple of weeks, and draft covers for Carrie Hunter's Orphan Machines and David James Miller's CANT .

Brittany Billmeyer-Finn interviewed about her forthcoming book the meshes

Brittany Billmeyer-Finn, whose Black Radish title the meshes will appear Fall 2015, talks with Madison Davis about the work as both book and performance at OPEN HOUSE POETRY.

Black Radish's Kindergarde at the Birthday Party Pledge

Black Radish Book’s Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children has been recommended by the Birthday Party Pledge, an organization which seeks:

• To encourage childhood literacy in order to promote a lifelong love of books.
• To assist adults in providing children with books that truly reflect the diverse society in which we live.

Have a look at all the work recommended at The Birthday Party Pledge! http://birthdaypartypledge.com/poetry/

Readings by Black Radish authors Jesse Nissim and Marthe Reed

Black Radish authors Marthe Reed and Jesse Nissim will be reading tonight in Syracuse, NY, at The Downtown Writer's Center (340 Montgomery St.). 7pm

Marthe Reed will also be reading Monday, May 4th in the Bianca Room of Pace University's New York City campus to celebrate Handmade/HomemadeExhibit 2015: Northeast by Northwest. Readers also include Jody Gladding and Bertha Rogers.  

Two new reviews of Black Radish titles

Benjamin Champagne reviews Nicole Mauro's Tax-Dollar Super Sonnet, Featuring Sarah Palin as Poet at New Pages.

"Nicole Mauro takes the idea [of reworking found texts] to the next logical level in Tax-Dollar Super Sonet, working with the fervor of a mash-up DJ."

John Olson reviews Sarah Mangold's Electrical Theories of Femininity at Tillalala Chronicles.

"The first title of this collection -- 'I meant to be transparent' -- put a smile on my face. One thing Sarah Mangold is not is transparent. I refer of course, to the actual Sarah, the flesh and blood Sarah, the Sarah who constructed these poems. The Sarah whose devotion to the written word is so profound that she brings in an entire community to share it with her as she herself remains behind the curtain. This is among the most ego-less writing I've seen."

mclennon reviews Mangold's new Black Radish collection

rob mclennan reviews Sarah Mangold's Electrical Theories of Femininity: "Mangold’s language sparks and flies, collides and flows in poems that fragment the lyric into impossible shapes." Read the full review here.

Copies of Electrical Theories of Femininity are available through Small Press Distribution.