POOR CLAUDIA 5

 The fifth edition of Portland, OR’s  POOR CLAUDIA has come to.

“Clean-cut, slim, and summery, if No. 5 were a cigarette she’d be a Gauloises, if she were a drink she’d be a tart negroni. Saddle-stitched chapbook on laid and linen paper. Get your copy while supplies last. “

 

POOR CLAUDIA NO 5

Jae Choi

Julia Cohen

Jennifer Denrow

Brian Foley

Graham Foust

Noah Eli Gordon

Dorothea Lasky

Anthony McCann

Sawako Nakayasu

Christie Ann Reynolds

Mathias Svalina

 

Subscriptions for this years POOR CLAUDIA output are cheap too. $30 gets you everything they publish – chapbooks, nonbooks, broadsides and two issues of journal. Plus free shipping. Yes. So! For example, if you’d subscribed for this past year you would’ve received

SUCCESS WINDOW (a DVD collection of eight short films by Ish Klein, author of Union! and Moving Day),

 

DIGITAL MACRAME & HAPPIER LAWNS ( a hand sewn split chapbook by Justin Marks & Paige Taggert),

HEROISMS by Dan Beachy-Quick

& the incredible POOR CLAUDIA 4, which rents out my favorite poem of 2011 – “Spasmodic Tragedy” by Macgregor Card – which begins:

I feel community and peak

All over my community

But fear an anthem coming

 

How far is it to beat your rattle

To a friend that registers

A sound to kind of land

 

How far to count

I worry we agree

 

How far to count

Before we sing the country hit

“The heat of friendship”

On a technicality

 

“I want to be alone”

Is unavoidable in fact

But first

“I want to be so ratified

to be alone”  ON THREE

 

All of us excite me in particular…

 

Luckily you can still purchase all those treasures, plus the new issue, RIGHT HERE.

7 Comments

1. August 15th, 2011 / 9:53 pm kevocuinn—

   shame they don’t accept paypal, least not from europe.

2. August 15th, 2011 / 11:46 pm bobby—

   I was just going to say that their subscription is a wonderful thing, sorry you cannot get it in Europe. If it makes you feel better, universal health care, etc. 

   US dudes, get the subscription! 

3. August 16th, 2011 / 2:03 am Benfama—

   Great people, great press, great for all life 4 life

4. August 16th, 2011 / 11:51 pm Gendron—

   These guys are objectively the best

5. August 17th, 2011 / 8:45 am Riley Michael Parker—

   Oh, extremely objectively, I’m sure.

6. August 17th, 2011 / 8:46 am Riley Michael Parker—

   POOR CLAUDIA is on it. I love these guys.

7. August 18th, 2011 / 9:08 pm Guest—

   What a slush pile they must have…