November 2nd, 2009 / 5:27 pm
 Presses

New from Fence Books

Exciting news from Fence:

lake1. Fence Books has four new titles either out or imminently out. Please visit our new titles page to see them, read a little of them, buy them. If you want to buy all of them at once, you will get a great deal on that ($13 off plus free shipping in the US).

2. HOLIDAY DEALS. Really great options for pleasing your friends with gifts. Giant discounts on: Brandon Downing’s imminent Lake Antiquity; the accurately titled anthology Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing; the shrinkwrapped A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years, Vols 1 & 2; and the aforementioned ALL FOUR NEW FENCE BOOKS BOOKS.

3. Fence Books is delighted to announce the winner of the 2010 Fence Modern Poets Series, selected by Joyelle McSweeney from an excellent bunch of finalists: a self-titled manuscript by Nick Demske, to be published in the fall of 2010.

Nick Demske lives in Racine, Wisconsin, and works there at the Racine Public Library. He curates the BONK! performance series in Racine and is the editor of the online forum boo: a journal of terrific things. Visit Nick at nickipoo.wordpress.com.

jobThe finalists were:

Aquarium, Jon Woodward of Brighton, MA
Blutopic, Shane Book of San Francisco, CA
Cryptography for R. Lansberry, Robin Clarke of Pitttsburgh, PA
From Old Notebooks, Evan Lavender-Smith of Las Cruces, NM
I Saw A Theft Occur, Will Smiley of Cedar Rapids, IA
I Shall Love Death As Well, Brandon Shimoda of Seattle, WA
Negro League Baseball, Harmony Holiday of New York, NY
Palm Trees, Nick Twemlow of Iowa City, IA
Puberty, Michael Thomas Taren of Hanover, PA
Symphony No. 2, Emily Gropp of Pittsburgh, PA
The Accordion Repertoire, Franklin Bruno of New York, NY
The getting rid of that which cannot be done without, Anthony Madrid of Chicago, IL
Whale in the Woods, Blueberry Elizabeth Morningsnow of Iowa City, IA

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22 Comments

  1. November 2nd, 2009 / 9:34 pm Blake Butler—

      i want to read the finalists manuscripts, that seems like it’d be fun

  2. November 2nd, 2009 / 5:34 pm Blake Butler—

      i want to read the finalists manuscripts, that seems like it’d be fun

  3. November 2nd, 2009 / 9:48 pm Roxane Gay—

      I really love Nick’s writing. I met him at AWP. He remembered the meeting and sent us some work at PANK that we published in April. I regularly go back and read his poem, from Otis Henry, because I enjoyed it so much. I am definitely looking forward to this manuscript.

  4. November 2nd, 2009 / 5:48 pm Roxane Gay—

      I really love Nick’s writing. I met him at AWP. He remembered the meeting and sent us some work at PANK that we published in April. I regularly go back and read his poem, from Otis Henry, because I enjoyed it so much. I am definitely looking forward to this manuscript.

  5. November 2nd, 2009 / 9:54 pm Ross Brighton—

      I should be getting review copies of the Brandon Downing and Douglas Kearney titles soon.

  6. November 2nd, 2009 / 5:54 pm Ross Brighton—

      I should be getting review copies of the Brandon Downing and Douglas Kearney titles soon.

  7. November 2nd, 2009 / 10:06 pm Ken Baumann—

      yes
      i’d be high on evan’s, surely

  8. November 2nd, 2009 / 6:06 pm Ken Baumann—

      yes
      i’d be high on evan’s, surely

  9. November 2nd, 2009 / 11:58 pm Matthew Simmons—

      All right. I’m just going to mention it:

      Blueberry Elizabeth Morningsnow? Now that’s a name!

  10. November 2nd, 2009 / 7:58 pm Matthew Simmons—

      All right. I’m just going to mention it:

      Blueberry Elizabeth Morningsnow? Now that’s a name!

  11. November 3rd, 2009 / 1:08 am Ross Brighton—

      I’m jealous.

  12. November 2nd, 2009 / 9:08 pm Ross Brighton—

      I’m jealous.

  13. November 3rd, 2009 / 3:58 am John Dermot Woods—

      I’ve read Brandon’s book – each page is beautiful. I can’t wait to hold the physical version. $35 is worth every penny for an object like Lake Antiquity.

  14. November 2nd, 2009 / 11:58 pm John Dermot Woods—

      I’ve read Brandon’s book – each page is beautiful. I can’t wait to hold the physical version. $35 is worth every penny for an object like Lake Antiquity.

  15. November 3rd, 2009 / 10:16 pm Rawbbie—

      Evan is magic

  16. November 3rd, 2009 / 6:16 pm Rawbbie—

      Evan is magic

  17. November 3rd, 2009 / 10:18 pm Rawbbie—

      I wish he would teach another shop here…

  18. November 3rd, 2009 / 6:18 pm Rawbbie—

      I wish he would teach another shop here…

  19. November 5th, 2009 / 5:52 am Nick Demske—

      blake, you rule for posting this. roxanne, you rule for being nice. everyone else, you rule for reading and/or contributing to html giant. i agree about the finalist manuscript thing. if people don’t know nick twemlow’s work yet, it’s totally amazing. he’s one of my very favorite poets. he doesn’t have a collection out yet, which is insane…it’s sort of frightening, even. if anyone reading this runs a press, publish twemlow’s manuscript. it’s almost a little bittersweet to know that i’m indirectly contributing to the horrible lack of twemlow collections in this world. seriously, seek his stuff out. shimoda and madrid are both killer, too.

      you all rule. visit boojournal.wordpress.com and submit stuff and i will be happy. and come to racine sometime and make the world a better place.

      love,
      poo

  20. November 5th, 2009 / 1:52 am Nick Demske—

      blake, you rule for posting this. roxanne, you rule for being nice. everyone else, you rule for reading and/or contributing to html giant. i agree about the finalist manuscript thing. if people don’t know nick twemlow’s work yet, it’s totally amazing. he’s one of my very favorite poets. he doesn’t have a collection out yet, which is insane…it’s sort of frightening, even. if anyone reading this runs a press, publish twemlow’s manuscript. it’s almost a little bittersweet to know that i’m indirectly contributing to the horrible lack of twemlow collections in this world. seriously, seek his stuff out. shimoda and madrid are both killer, too.

      you all rule. visit boojournal.wordpress.com and submit stuff and i will be happy. and come to racine sometime and make the world a better place.

      love,
      poo

  21. May 2nd, 2010 / 5:28 pm Robin Clarke—

      We’re taking you up on that!

  22. May 2nd, 2010 / 9:28 pm Robin Clarke—

      We’re taking you up on that!