Holiday shopping for Children? Teachers? Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children!

Dear Holiday Shoppers,

Not sure what to give your favorite young person this holiday season? Go with Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children.

Kirkus says Kindergarde is inspiring for "Teachers and students willing to take a leap beyond conventionality."

Megan Burns in Rain Taxi writes, "With over eighty contributors ranging from seven years old to poets no longer with us, this collection of playful works and wide-ranging styles of play on language certainly earns the ;most fun anthology to read' award."

And, as another reviewer wrote, "Personally, I love this project a lot because kids are smarter and weirder than many books give them credit for." -- Kickstarter USA

The anthology includes work from over 80 of America's favorite innovative writers and is sure to inspire readers of all ages.

Help everyone in your life get their experiment on! Perfect for educators, young readers, and even adults willing to take a fresh look at literature, Kindergarde invites play with the world of language and ideas!

Kindergarde is available from SPD and at Amazon.

I scream!
You scream!
We all scream for innovative writing!

Happy Holidays from
Black Radish Books


From Kindergarde:

Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories and Songs for Children -- SPD Poetry Bestseller AGAIN!

Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children is a POETRY BESTSELLER this month at SPD! Up with some terrific company: check it out.

Why not buy a copy while you're there?! 

Chantel Langlinais reviews GAZe by Marthe Reed

Black Radish Book's Gaze by Marthe Reed has just been reviewed at Tarpulin Sky Magazine by Chantel Langlinais.

"Poems will contract and retract between subject matter: politics, the gaze, the female form, the Eastern landscape, a Raqib Shaw painting. When the experimental dance begins, the poetry will bring you into its rhythms....Ever-shifting. Ever-moving. Ever-fluid. After all, 'Texts moves without boundary...Without boundary. Text represents its own illusions.' (199)....get lost in the beauty of the language." 

Kindergarde in the Marin Independent Journal

Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs editor Dana Teen Lomax was recently interviewed by the Marin Independent Journal.

Not everyone would want to have his or her book called "weird" or "really far-out." But Dana Tene Lomax of Marin is pretty pleased Kirkus Reviews says it is.

"I'm glad they called it weird because I wouldn't want it to be something that people recognize right away, " says Lomax of Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children, which she believes is the first collaborative avant-garde book for children in the country.

Read the full interview here.

Dear Jack by Jill Stengel

Black Radish Books is pleased to announce the publication of Dear Jack by Jill Stengel, and August  SPD Recommends book.  A writer’s love of writing and an exploration of romantic love combine to take the reader on a poetic journey of questions, observations, fragments, and few answers. Travel with this Baedeker in hand through desire, through absence, presence, self, other, boundaries and the spaces between.

Praise for Dear Jack

Subtle, sly & wry, deeply moving in its deceptive simplicity, its depths unfold unexpectedly & this reader found it hard to put down until the last poignant words. —David Meltzer

In this collection of short poems, some only a few words, Jill Stengel has written a large book in psychological scope and emotional depth. These brief letters express thoughts, feelings and moods that come and go, repeating themselves, while no two are the same in their contexts, like days in a person’s life. Reading, I found myself feeling lighter, the weight of embodiment shifted by Jill, the writer’s, capacity to engage with the endlessness of ambiguity and paradox, desire and seeking. —Patricia Dienstfrey

Obsessive love keeps tumbling down the hill in Jill Stengel’s Dear Jack, an epistolary revelation on the

quotidian anguish of yearning. In brief sketches on the ontology of missed connections, desire becomes a black hole of want. But smuggled here too is a peek-a-boo playfulness about the clumsy impossibility of language-ing away the body’s insistence for connection. Part letters to the unseen, part journal of craving, Dear Jack maps the hunger to quench and the greed of what stays parched. —Samantha Giles

Dear Jack may be purchased through SPD.

Kindergarde news!

Much happening with Kindergarde these days: a new review by Megan Burns is up at Rain Taxi and Kindergarde was featured this week at The Poetry Foundation's Harriet Blog. Meagan Burns writes: "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."

Copies of Kindergarde are available through SPD, as well as Amazon.  

Kindergarde is a June Bestseller at SPD

Very exciting news: Dana Teen Lomax's anthology Kindergarde: Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children was a June 2013 bestseller at SPD. Number three on the list! Black Radish Books is thrilled and excited by this collection and its success. If you don't have a copy, do get one now while SPD still has them!