January 2009
5 posts
Our first print edition is finally available! After a serious flirtation with Amazon’s CreateSpace service, and not liking the results, we realized the truth of the Zen adage “first thought, best thought,” and went with Lulu.com. Here’s the storefront of our publishing partner, Phoenicia, and here’s what it looks like. As we say in the announcement post at the head of the issue archive,
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Qarrtsiluni contributor Alistair Noon’s first chapbook of poetry has just been published by Oystercatcher Press, and may be ordered here. Oystercatcher “specialises in contemporary, cutting-edge poetry,” according to the press release, which lauds Noon for his “worldly intelligence, striking verbal dexterity and a technical accomplishment by no means common in today’s...
Qarrtsiluni contributor C. E. Chaffin has a new book of poems out from Diminuendo Press. Order information and a sample are here. We’re pleased to see blurbs from two other Qarrts contributors, Kate Bernadette Benedict and Norman Ball. Kate says,
The unexpected light in these poems is a certain sort of light: faint, slant, the light of twilight or a fading penlight or a barely discernible...
We’ve rewritten our page on how to make an audio recording to include a couple of new suggestions, most notably: you can use a camcorder. Dave just discovered how easy it is to extract audio tracks from videos.
Qarrtsiluni contributor Sarah J. Sloat has a new chapbook forthcoming from Tilt Press. Order here. Sarah says,
22 poems for $8. That’s 36 cents a poem! Between the covers you may find: a javelin (p. 8), an Esso station (p. 2), musical chairs (p. 11), pilaf (p. 5), “your name on a grain of rice” (p. 15), more rice (p. 19), valentines (p. 21), a biblical allusion (p. 17), the...