Joyelle McSweeney, along with co-editors Johannes Göransson and John Dermot Woods, has launched ACTION, YES Online Quarterly, the "online arm" of Action Books.

Issue #1 includes poems, prose, translations, collages, love letters, and other forms of "hybridity, entropy, and inflammation," from Tom Benson, Aase Berg, Crystal Curry, Clayton Eshelman, Derek Fenner, Lara Glenum, Johannes Göransson, Brent Hendricks, Vladimír Holan, Cathy Park Hong, Josef Horácek, Matt Madden, Clément Pansaers, Michael Hays Sanchez, and Nathalie Stephens.

Peter Jay Shippy's new book, Alphaville, is availalable from BlazeVox, as part of editor Geoffrey Gatza's visionary Mobilis in Mobili Series.

CutBank Poetry 65

Features the poetry of Britta Ameel, Cal Bedient, Adam Clay, Phil Cordelli, Jennifer K. Dick, Greg Glazner, Arielle Greenberg, Kate Greenstreet, Bob Hicok, Janet Holmes, Lisa Jarnot, Kimberly Johnson, Amy King, Katy Lederer, Karen An-hwei Lee, Jill Magi, Aaron McCollough, Gina Myers, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, John Niekrasz, Carl Phillips, D.A. Powell, Peter Richards, Elizabeth Robinson, Matthew Rohrer, Ken Rumble, Cindy Savett, Leslie Scalapino, Evie Shockley, Stacy Szymaszek, Eileen Tabios, Jon Thompson, Susan Tichy, and Greta Wrolstad; with translations of Phan Nhien Hao and Phan Huyen Thu (by Linh Dinh), Daniil Kharms (by Matvei Yankelevich and Ilya Bernstein), Pablo Neruda (by William O'Daly), Jaime Siles (by Miles Waggener), Virgil (by Kimberly Johnson); an excerpt from a science fiction novella by Joyelle McSweeney; a long poem/chapbook by Dan Beachy-Quick; an interview with D.A. Powell; critical reviews including Adam Clay on Jen Benka, Nathan Bartel on Aase Berg, Jeremy Pataky on Suzanne Buffam, Joshua Corey on Shanna Compton, Haines Eason on Kevin Connolly, Ron Silliman on Forrest Gander, Jen Tynes on Kate Greenstreet, Britta Ameel on Christine Hume, Helen Losse on Anne Marie Macari, Marcus Slease on Dan Machlin, Alex Lemon on Ted Mathys, Chris Dombrowski on W.S. Merwin, Chad Blair on Jane Miller, Nabil Kashyap on Ange Mlinko, Sandra Simonds on Geoffrey Nutter, Gina Myers on Jeni Olin, Carly Sachs on Dara Wier; and photographs by—with a tribute to—Greta Wrolstad (1981-2005), a poet, friend, artist, and former poetry editor of CutBank.

Not to be missed:

Selah Saterstrom reads with Ron Silliman

Saturday, March 25 @ 8pm
Desert City Reading Series
Internationalist Books
405 W. Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC

Adam Clay's and Matthew Henriksen's Typo Magazine breaks new ground with Issue #7, guest edited by Johannes Göransson and dedicated entirely to showcasing modern Swedish poetry.

The issue features work by Edith Sodergran, Gunnar Björling, Henry Parland, Göran Sonnevi, Gunnar Harding, Ann Jäderlund, Jacques Werup, Lars Mikael Raattamaa, Johan Jönson, Aase Berg, Jan Sjölund, Jenny Tunedal, with translators Bill Coyle, Roger Greenwald, Johannes Göransson, Rika Lesser, Kristi Sigler.

Dan Chelotti's "The Eights" appears as a "Poet's Sampler" online at the Boston Review.

Coconut #3

Edited by Bruce Covey.

Features poems by TSky sister Heidi Lynn Staples, along with others by Bill Berkson, Eileen Myles, Catherine Daly, Denise Duhamel, Brian Henry, Wanda Phipps, Aaron Tieger, Anita Naegeli, K. Silem Mohammad, randy prunty, Jennifer L. Knox, Daniel Borzutzky, Sandra Simonds, Brandon Shimoda, Heidi Lynn Staples, Mark Lamoureux, Dana Ward, Donna Kuhn, Erin Martin, Sheila E. Murphy, Marina Wilson, Katy Lederer, and Clay Matthews.

Octopus #7 includes TSky editor Christian Peet and contributor Jonah Winter as well as with Anna Moschovakis, Matthea Harvey, Saburo Kuroda, Bill Cassidy, Dan Hoy, Lara Glenum, Amanda Nadelberg, Dean Young, Tina Celona, Sara Smith, Julia Cohen, Michael Robins, Nathan Parker, Ken Rumble, Bruna Mori, Genya Turovskaya, Sabrina Orah Mark, Peter Davis, Noah Eli Gordon, Erica Fiedler, Jim Goar, Alex Smith, Daniil Kharms, Brandon Downing, Anne Boyer, Timothy Liu, Emma Ramey, Anthony Hawley, Paul Guest, and Hank Lazer.

Editor: Zachary Schomburg.
Editorial Board: Mathias Svalina, Brandon Shimoda, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Adam Clay, Craig Morgan Teicher, Christopher Deweese, Philo Wang.
Designer: Denny Schmickle

Rebecca Brown's new book, The Last Time I Saw You, will be published by City Lights in January, 2006, and she will be reading in Seattle for early 2006:

* Jan 11, 7 PM, Bailey Coy Books, 414 Broadway
* Jan l9, 7:30, Elliot Bay Books, 101 S Main St
* Feb 5, Vain Hair Salon 2018 First Avenue. ( Reading with Ann Pancake at 8 p.m. $5 - Benefit For PUSH magazine.)

The Onion Twins, a dance opera (for which Rebecca wrote the libretto) with choreography by Alex Martin, music by Michael Katell, and dance by Better Biscuit Dance Co—will run Jan 20 - 22 and 27 - 29. The performance includes 5 dancers, 5 musicians, 2 singers, a narrator and some puppets! Hugo House, l634, 11th Ave, Seattle. Times vary. Tickets: 1.800.838.3006 or brownpapertickets.com

Rebecca's play, The Toaster, was produced by New City Theater, a co-propduction with On the Boards in Seattle in October. Her work has recently appeared in Arcade, and she was the guest editor of the first ever magazine of student writing from the Cranbrook Academy, a great graduate schools for visual arts. In the spring she will be visiting writer at Brown University, UC Davis, and a bunch of universities in Birmingham, Alabama.

obedience, the fourth book by kari edwards, "offers a rhythmic disruption of the relative real, a progressive troubling of the phenomenal world, from gross material to the infinitesimal. The book's intention is a transformative mantric dismantling of being."

Factory School. 2005.
86 pages, perfect bound, 6.5x9.
ISBN: 1-60001-044-X
$12 / $10 direct order

Number five in Factory School's first volume of Heretical Texts.

Curated by Bill Marsh, the Heretical Texts are an ongoing series that "begins with, and intends to investigate, the assumption that poetry is political. Inherent to the Heretical Texts mission is a focused imagining of 'political poetry' as a form of public intervention, invention, and invocation that calls on (and up) language to call out a public, a people."

Heretical Texts will appear in four volumes of five books each over the course of two years. Volume 1, availalable now includes United States, by Dan Featherston; Fantasies in Permeable Structures, by Laura Elrick; Borderless Bodies, by Linh Dinh; Human Star, by Sarah Menefee, and obedience, by kari edwards.

Volume Two (spring 2006) will feature work by Steve Carll, Carol Mirakove, Diane Ward, Brian Kim Stefans, and Kristin Prevallet.

Slope

"is currently soliciting your responses to the following questions, to which [they] don't pretend to have any 'correct' answers: How does war affect your ability to enjoy your personal life? Do artists have a duty to acknowledge war in their work during wartime? If so, to what extent? Must artists be consumed by war? Can art not dealing with war matter during wartime? Is thinking about sex during war somehow crass? In media, how much sex is too much sex during wartime?"

Send your ideas to Editor Ethan Paquin by March 2006.

The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel

Edited by Molly Arden and Reb Livingston

Includes Aaron Anstett, Molly Arden, Robert W. Barnett, Aaron Belz, Jasper Bernes, Remica L. Bingham, Anne Boyer, Elizabeth Bradfield, Gayle Brandeis, Suzanne Burns, Britton Carducci, Laura Carter, Shanna Compton, Bruce Covey, Matt Cox, Laura Cronk, Catherine Daly, Denise Duhamel, Peg Duthie, Jilly Dybka, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Marta Ferguson, Alice B. Fogel, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Amy Gerstler, Jim Goar, Noah Eli Gordon, Anne Gorrick, Carolyn Guinzio, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Shafer Hall, Michael Hoerman, Cynthia Huntington, Charles Jensen, Paul Jones, Kirsten Kaschock, Amy King, Craig Kirchner, David Laskowski, Dorothee Lang, Ann Neuser Lederer, Reb Livingston, Emily Lloyd, Rebecca Loudon, Oliver Luker, Tatjana Lukic, Clay Matthews, Corey Mesler, Charlton Metcalf, Michael Meyerhofer, Andrew Mister, Steve Mueske, Anita Naegeli, William Orem, Eden Osucha, Shin Yu Pai, Cami Park, Karl Parker, Dan Pinkerton, Lance Phillips, P.F. Potvin, Nate Pritts, Francis Raven, Kim Roberts, Anthony Robinson, Ken Rumble, Jenni Russell, Carly Sachs, Christopher Salerno, Standard Schaefer, Zachary Schomburg, Penelope Scambly Schott, Ravi Shankar, Brandon Shimoda, Matthew Shindell, Laurel Snyder, Heidi Lynn Staples, Hugh Steinberg, Matthew Thorburn, Aaron Tieger, Maureen Thorson, Betsy Wheeler, Allyssa Wolf, Christy Zink

Amy King is the new interview correspondent for miPOradio! Current interviews: Akron/Family - Ted Mathys - Janet Holmes - Ron Silliman - Elaine Equi - Linh Dinh . . .

Coming in January 06: Eugene Ostashevsky's Infinite Recursor, Or, The Bride of DJ Spinoza, a "high-production neo-Futurist (?) chapbook" by Ostashevsky and artist Eugene Timerman. The book is a joint StudioRADIA / Ugly Duckling Presse publication, and the release party will be February 10th, at the National Arts Club.

Jen Benka's book has arrived.

A Box of Longing with 50 Drawers:
A Revisioning of the Preamble
to the Constitution

Soft Skull Press

Paper | 5.5" x 7.5" | 68 pgs.
ISBN: 1-932360-84-0
$12.95

Catch Jen reading January 1 at the Poetry Project's New Year's Day Marathon, and January 3, with John S. Hall, at the Lungfull! Battle Hill Series

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In the past year, Jessica Anthony's stories were selected for Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 and Best New American Voices 2006, and she was awarded fellowships to the Macdowell Colony, the Millay Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is the recipient of McSweeney's "Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award," and her work has appeared in several literary magazines, including "the unstoppable Tarpaulin Sky" (her words, not ours--thank you, Jessica!)

Kaya Oakes recently received the Transcontinental Poetry Prize from Pavement Saw Press, editor's choice, for her manuscript, Telegraph, which will be published in the Fall/Winter of 2006. In January she will begin hosting a quarterly storytelling event, in collaboration with Kitchen SInk Magazine. Kaya is Kitchen Sink's Senior Editor and Poetry Editor.

Ginger Knowlton, editor of divide - Creative Responses to Contemporary Social Questions is accepting submissions, through 15 February, for work regarding "Travel & Enlightenment."

New work by Jenny Boully appears in

SOFTBLOW

Edited by Cyril Wong

Also featuring Laksmi Pamuntjak, John Kinsella, Kathleen Vibbert, Rob Mclennan, Jennifer Compton, Maurice Oliver, and RaeAnn Kime.