Artist Nashay Antoinette Jones has created the cover art for Kathleen Kirk’s chapbook, Nocturnes which will be out next week! Below is a preview of Nashay’s cover. We at Hyacinth Girl Press can’t wait to share Kathleen’s poetry and Nashay’s art together!
We’ve almost reached the end of these announcements! I am very very excited to post these last two (yes, there is one more – that one comes next week – promise!) and release the publication schedule!
In the next year, Hyacinth Girl Press will release Brooklyn Copeland’s chapbook Salt Ballads, which is a combination of original work by Brooklyn herself and translations of work by the poet Edith Sodergrän. This will be both the first collection we will publish of translated work AND the first collection to feature more than one poet. I’ve admired Brooklyn’s poetry for years and am beyond thrilled to get to bring Salt Ballads to publication with her.
Brooklyn Copeland lives in Indianapolis, where she works as an auditor and a yoga instructor. Her first full-length collection, SIPHON, HARBOR, is due out on Shearsman Books in 2012. Her chapbook LAKED, FIELDED, BLANKED was published by alice blue books in 2011 and is also available as a limited-edition hand-sewn art book. Another chapbook, RITUALISTS, will appear soon with Little Red Leaves/Textile Series. Her original work and translations have most recently been published in Burnside Review, Poetry, Parcel, Interrupture, and Sink Review (which nominated her for a Pushcart). In 2010 she received a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry foundation. She is also the editor of the slow-going print journal TAIGA (taigajournal.com). When she’s not reading or writing or doing headstands and back-bends, she’s probably baking a cake or watching cartoons-for-grownups with her boyfriend and cocker spaniel.
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Coming up soon – a preview of the cover art for Kathleen Kirk’s Nocturnes created by Nashay Jones, followed very soon thereafter by Nocturnes itself!
UPDATE: The sale is over! Thanks to those who purchased copies! They’ll be going out very soon!
With the end of the holidays and the beginning of a new year it seems fitting to have a small sale here at Hyacinth Girl Press!
For one week only, you can order any two chapbooks for only $9.00! Click the purchase button below and be sure to note which two chapbooks you are ordering.
Chapbooks eligible for the sale are Thirteen Designer Vaginas by Juliet Cook, Book Four by Niina Pollari, A Wicked Apple by Susan Slaviero, and Nocturnes by Kathleen Kirk. If you select Nocturnes as one of your choices your copy will ship upon the chapbook’s release.
It is with great pleasure that I get to announce another chapbook to be published by Hyacinth Girl Press in year 2.5! We’re approaching the finish line with announcements…
Sarah Kain Gutowski’s Fabulous Beast will be released in our second publishing cycle and I could not be more excited. The collection is seamless, unsettling, and made me cry at least once.
Sarah Kain Gutowski is an Assistant Professor of English at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island, where she lives with her husband, daughter, and son. Her poetry has been published in Epiphany, The Threepenny Review, and So to Speak: A Feminist Journal, and some of her poems are forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review and The Southern Review. She keeps a record of her writing life, experience in academia, and motherhood at http://mimsyandoutgrabe.blogspot.com.
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My apologies for the radio silence over the past month. My family went through multiple tragedies in December and I appreciate everyone’s patience as I essentially took the month off.
But! the new year has brought with it joy, it seems, and we’re back in the game here at Hyacinth Girl Press! We should have more announcements soon (two more!) as well as a sneak peak at the cover art print for Kathleen Kirk’s Nocturnes which is being finished up by the fantastically talented Nashay Jones. Her linocut prints are gorgeous and I can’t wait to share the art she is creating in response to Kathleen’s lovely, lovely poetry.
AWP is coming on fast, too, and we have been lucky enough to get to share a table with Arsenic Lobster (100% Susan Yount’s doing – I admire her drive and passion more than I can say) and Weighed Words – look for us at table C6!
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J. Hope Stein, one of Hyacinth Girl Press’ 2012 poets, has a new chapbook titled Corner Office out from H_ngm_n Bks! You can give it a read here, and you really really should. J. Hope Stein is blowing up poetry chapbook land with Corner Office, to be followed up by a chapbook from the lovely Dancing Girl Press, and, of course, [Mary]: coming out with us next year. And believe me, it’s all well-deserved.
While I usually try not to use this website as a forum to promote my own work, I do have to link to this new review of my most recent chapbook, Letters from Room 27 of the Grand Midway Hotel, which came out from Blood Pudding Press this past August. Susan Yount wrote the review for her literary journal, Arsenic Lobster, and I am simply tickled by what she has to say. The review is very insightful and makes me smile. A lot.
There will probably be one more announcement here before Christmas, and then one more again before the new year! So much is still to come!
A Wicked Apple by Susan Slaviero - $5.00 plus shipping
At long last it is here – Susan Slaviero’s chapbook of myth, fairytale, and maybe even a little horror, A Wicked Apple, is now available from Hyacinth Girl Press!
A Wicked Apple also features cover art by the lovely Renée Alberts and our first forays into hand-binding of chapbooks. Like our other chaps, A Wicked Apple is a mere $5 plus shipping, or for $18 plus shipping you can subscribe to our first year’s line-up and get copies of Thirteen Designer Vaginas by Juliet Cook and Book Four by Niina Pollari at the same time, with Kathleen Kirk’s Nocturnes forthcoming this January!
We’re coming up on the end the publication announcements for year two point five. I’ll do a wrap-up post by the end of December with a list of all the chapbooks and all the poets – promise! But for now I’m really enjoying posting about them one at a time. They’re all lovely and all deserve their own post.
In our second round of publications, Hyacinth Girl Press will have the pleasure of publishing the chapbook The Exhibit by Lauren Eggert-Crowe.
I’d not read Lauren’s poetry before she submitted to Hyacinth Girl Press, and it turns out there was a void in my life that I’d not even been aware of. Getting to know Lauren has been delightful. Lauren’s poetry has a haunting quality that really speaks to me and I can’t wait to share The Exhibit!
Lauren Eggert-Crowe has an MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona. She has been published in Puerto Del Sol, So To Speak, Water-Stone Review, Eleven Eleven, We are so happy to know something, TinfoilDresses, DIAGRAM, and terrain.org, among others. In 2007, she won the University of Arizona Poetry Center Prize, judged by Srikanth Reddy. You can follow her on Twitter at @laureggertcrowe
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After a small delay, Susan Slaviero’s A Wicked Apple will be available early early next week! If you are a subscriber already your copy will go out early in the week! If you want to review A Wicked Apple drop me a line – hyacinthgirlpress (at) gmail (dot) com!
Also – we will be at the AWP! With a table! I will post more on this soon…
