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rock. paper. scissors by Scott Glassman hot!

Date added: 10/23/2009

Ahadada Books is pleased to present rock. paper. scissors. by Scott Glassman. rock. paper. scissors. is the twenty-third release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series. Because it contains an audio file, this Online Chapbook is 6.8 megabytes. Scott Glassman's most recent work is Quaternity, a collaboration with Sheila E. Murphy (Otoliths, 2009). He is also the author of several chapbooks: Exertions (Cy Gist Press, 2006), Surface Tension (Dusie, 2006) with Mackenzie Carignan, and Identity Crisis (Dusie, 2006). He was selected as a finalist for the 2006 Iowa Review Award for Poetry and included in Best New Poets 2007, edited by Natasha Trethewey. His poems have appeared in many print and online journals, including Jubilat, Iowa Review, CutBank, 580 Split, Sentence, Marginalia, eratio, and Shampoo. He is currently a doctoral student in clinical psychology and works as a mental health therapist in Philadelphia.

Attic, Shed, and Barn by Lewis Turco hot!

Date added: 11/04/2009

Ahadada Books is pleased to present Attic, Shed, and Barn by Lewis Putnam Turco. Attic, Shed, and Barn is the twenty-fifth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series. Lewis Turco is the author of The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, known to three generations of poets and students of poetry as “the poet’s Bible.” He was founding director of both the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 1962 and the Creative Writing Program at the State University of New York College at Oswego in 1968 from which he retired as Emeritus Professor of English in 1996. He took his B. A. from the University of Connecticut in 1959 and his M. A. from the University of Iowa in 1962. In 2000 he received a first honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Ashland University, and a second in 2009 from the University of Maine at Fort Kent. His poems, essays, stories and plays have appeared in most of the major literary periodicals over more than a half-century, and in over one hundred books and anthologies. Of his fifty books, chapbooks and monographs, his volume of criticism, Visions and Revisions of American Poetry won the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America in 1986, and his A Book of Fears: Poems, with Italian translations by Joseph Alessia, won the first annual Bordighera Bi-Lingual Poetry Prize in 1998. His most recent volumes areThe Collected Lyrics of Lewis Turco / Wesli Court 1953-2004; Fearful Pleasures: The Complete Poems, 1959-2007; The Museum of Ordinary People and Other Stories 2008; Satan’s Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and New England 1580-1697, and La Famiglia / The Family, Memoirs, both published in 2009. In 1999 he received the John Ciardi Award for lifetime achievement in poetry sponsored by the periodical Italian Americana and the National Italian American Foundation., and in 2007 the Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award given by the West Chester University Poetry Conference.

Lost in Music Found Again by Peter Riley and Kelvin Corcoran hot!

Date added: 11/13/2009

Ahadada Books is pleased to present Lost in Music Found Again by Peter Riley and Kelvin Corcoran. Lost in Music Found Again is the twenty-fifth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series. Peter Riley was born in Stockport in 1940. He has had fifteen books published, mostly of poetry, the latest a book of prose poems, Greek Passages (Shearsman 2009). A selected poems, Passing Measures, was published by Carcanet in 2000. In 1985 he returned to Cambridge after a varied lack of career, and ran a poetry book business until he retired in 2005. Kelvin Corcoran was born in 1956. He is the author of ten collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Backward Turning Sea. He also has two recent chapbooks: Helen Mania from Poetical Histories—a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Recommendation—and Roger Hilton's Sugar from Leafe Press, both of which are collected in this publication. In addition he has interviewed Lee Harwood for the volume Not the Full Story: Six Interviews with Lee Harwood, published in June 2008.

The Heartbeat Is a Fractal by Amy Catanzano hot!

Date added: 11/15/2009

Ahadada Books is pleased to present The Heartbeat Is a Fractal by Amy Catanzano. The Heartbeat Is a Fractal is the twenty-sixth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series. Amy Catanzano is the author of Multiversal (Fordham University Press, 2009), selected by Michael Palmer for the Poets Out Loud Prize, and iEpiphany (Erudite Fangs, 2008). Her poetry and prose have been published in literary journals such as Conjunctions, Volt, Denver Quarterly, Tarpaulin Sky, La Petite Zine, and Colorado Review. Her writing is also included in the anthology, A Best of Fence. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she works and teaches in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.