Hello friends,
a few quick updates for you on the Emily Rose front. Donna Vorreyer wrote a wonderful review of Mouthy over at Drunk in a Midnight Choir. Check it out if you have a moment or two. Also, Emily Rose will be featuring at Wit Rabbit, here in Chicago, on September 6th if you still haven’t gotten your copy of her amazing book signed. Stop by and say hello.
Hello friends,
check out this wonderful review of Emily Rose Kahn-Sheahan’s book Mouthy in New City Chicago. Our favorite line from the review: “Mouthy” expresses a self-assured elegance and an implicit argument about women’s self-expression through language and society’s reactions to it.
Many thanks to everyone who donated to or shared the kickstarter for Emily Rose Kahn-Sheahan’s wonderful new book. We’ve still got five days to go if you wanted to pre-order the book or snag any of the sweet prizes we are offering.
In other news, if you are in Los Angeles from March 30th-April 2nd, Captain Josh Gaines and Emily Rose will be representing Thoughtcrime at AWP. Stop by our table and say hello. We’ll have books, swag, hugs, laughter, whiskey.
After AWP, Emily Rose and Ben Clark will hit the road for a two week book tour. East Coast here we come!
Exciting times!
Holy moly friends! We’re now taking Mouthy pre-orders here. If you have a moment, check out the kickstarter, buy the book, or share with your friends. What a cover, what a collection, what an author. We here at Thoughtcrime couldn’t be more proud of Emily Rose and her incredible poems.
We at Thoughtcrime are so proud of, and excited to, share this book with all of you.
Hello friends. If you have a moment, here are a few wonderful book reviews for Ben Clark’s if you turn around I will turn around:
Danielle Susi for American Micro Reviews
Jacob Victorine for Poet’s Quarterly
Hello friends, as you may have already heard, we’ve got a Kickstarter going to help fund the initial run of Ben Clark’s upcoming book. There are bundles of sweet Kickstarter rewards, from letterpressed limited art, to personalized mix cds, to metal t-shirts.
Check it out, pass on the link, AND thank you for all your support!
Thoughtcrime friends in Chicago,
this Monday, Little Bones collaborator Stevie Edwards returns with her wonderful new collection Humanly. Please join her to celebrate this great release. Also reading, some of the most beautiful and talented poets in the city: Maya Marshall, Fatimah Asghar, Marty McConnell, Shelley Elaine Geiszler, Emily Rose Kahn-Sheahan, Aricka Foreman, and our own Ben Clark.
3020 West George St. #1 / Chicago, IL 60618 / 7:30 Doors / 8 Show
Free whiskey shot or beer with every book purchased!
If you happen to be in Minnesota April 11th, from 3-5 p.m., Thoughtcrime Founder Josh Gaines and author Ben Clark will be reading with this wonderful group of authors in a hotel room: Megan Burbank, Myfanwy Collins, Carol Hood, Brenna Kischuk, Christopher David Rosales, Libby Walkup, and Anne Yoder.
Ooh la la. The event is hosted by Ginger Piglet, Pioneertown Lit, Projecttile Lit, and Mixer Publishing who have called it a unique collection of readings by nine resistant, exciting, igniting, odd, and feminist authors from across the country. Please join us at the Le Meridien Chambers hotel. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
If you are into the facebook, here is the invite.
Thoughtcrime Press is busy collecting and editing this year’s manuscripts. A possible perfect bound Little Bones is in the works, and we already have the first chunk of poems by Chicago poet, Emilio Maldonado.
Somehow we all survived AWP, and in fact, a few of us survived it with some atypical (for a) poet style from near the top of the Seattle Wyndham, overlooking Elliot Bay, and the Space Needle. Champagne breakfasts in bed, surrounded by business cards, new books, and half-empty/full bottles of Motrin. Bottled water always went fast. While we suffered, we discussed some great, new ideas regarding the possibilities of small press publishing. And, we now have a line on a writing residency program within the next couple years that would make (your favorite serious-role celebrity, say Christian Bale) giggle in glee. More to follow…
Here’s a piece by Write Bloody, and Thoughtcrime Press author, Stevie Edwards. One of three Little Bones poets, Stevie is currently teaching at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and is as fine a poet and tour buddy as you’d ever hope to meet. Her first book, Good Grief, was released in 2012 and went on to win the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award for Poetry in 2013.
What I Mean By Ruin Is…
When there’s only condiments left in the fridge
and you join a free online dating service
so men will buy you dinner.
When you’ve shucked the night with the dull blade
of indecision and gulped down everything,
even the pearls.
When some old, left-handed love has left
your guitar strung backwards
and you can’t find any songs for rain
in its frets.
When you wake up next to the body
of your past and it looks ready
to wrinkle and bald.
When the last burn of summer is peeling
from your breasts and there’s nothing to husk
the pale raw of new flesh.
When the woman who wears her hair in the old way
quits mumbling about Jesus on street corners
and takes her salvation pamphlets
to a pauper’s grave.
When you’re too ugly to pray,
but pray
and the only voice
on the drunk subway wails
good grief.
—originally published in Good Grief, 2012, Write Bloody Publishing
