
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR
NEW MUD LUSCIOUS IS LIVE
Bad ass new work from lots of great writers, including:
brandi wells
rain
jamie lin
simply just together
jared ward
closer
charles lennox
a record of wrongs
laura hirneisen
street
lauren becker
erase
tim jones-yelvington
american kids
m.d. kempis
anything
ryan dilbert
opening a panther
howie good
after a phrase by rimbaud
kyle hemmings
pigeons
drew kalbach
the girl in my vent: the beginning
NOO 9 IS LIVE

Lots of great work in this issue, including pieces from:
KYLE HEMMINGS
http://www.noojournal.com/view.php?mode=1&issue=nine&id=177
JIMMY CHEN
http://www.noojournal.com/view.php?mode=1&issue=nine&id=178
NICK ANTOSCA
http://www.noojournal.com/view.php?mode=1&issue=nine&id=180
and a review of SAM PINK's
YUM YUM I CAN'T WAIT TO DIE
by BRADLEY SANDS
http://www.noojournal.com/view.php?mode=1&issue=nine&id=173
Monday, December 29, 2008
NEW THINGS TO READ
STEPHANIE JOHNSON
A CASE STUDY IN ACCIDENTS
CONTRARY
http://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Accidents.html
DECOMP
JANUARY ISSUE
http://www.decompmagazine.com/
LYDIA COPELAND
TWO FICTIONS
KEYHOLE
http://www.keyholemagazine.com/lydia-copeland/two-fictions
CLAUDIA SMITH
COLORS
KEYHOLE
http://www.keyholemagazine.com/claudia-smith/colors
CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY
WINTER CANDOR
WILLOWS WEPT REVIEW
http://willowsweptreview.blogspot.com/2008/12/winter-candor.html
CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY
WHEN I WAS LESS HUMAN
WILLOWS WEPT REVIEW
http://willowsweptreview.blogspot.com/2008/12/when-i-was-less-human.html
CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY
COW HILL, BULL HILL
WILLOWS WEPT REVIEW
http://willowsweptreview.blogspot.com/2008/12/cow-hill-bull-hill.html
ZACHARY C. BUSH
WHEN THE GREY MIST BROKE, YOU TOOK OFF, RUNNING FOR THE SEE
WILLOWS WEPT REVIEW
http://willowsweptreview.blogspot.com/2008/12/when-grey-mist-broke_29.html
DAWN CORRIGAN
NO ONE EVER GIVES ME WHAT I WANT
MONKEYBICYCLE
http://www.monkeybicycle.net/archive/Corrigan/noone.html
HOBIE ANTHONY
TORTOISE
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/200812tortoise.htm
MARY MILLER
AESTHETE
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/200812aesthete.htm
MARIE ANDERSON
CHILDREY MERRY
ROBOT MELON
http://www.robotmelon.com/issuefive/manderson.html
PETER SCHWARTZ
A.D.
ROBOT MELON
http://www.robotmelon.com/issuefive/pschwartz2.html
PETER SCHWARTZ
CALL ME RADIO
ROBOT MELON
http://www.robotmelon.com/issuefive/pschwartz1.html
LISA LADEHOFF
A POEM
ROBOT MELON
http://www.robotmelon.com/issuefive/lisa1.html
DREW KALBACH
SLAM
ROBOT MELON
http://www.robotmelon.com/issuefive/dkalbach.html
CURTIS SMITH
GOODNIGHT NOBODY
PEQUIN
http://pequin.org/archives/2008/curtissmith/goodnightnobody.php
MIKE YOUNG
CROCK
PEQUIN
http://pequin.org/archives/2008/mikeyoung/crock.php
TYLER ENFIELD
BACK TO NATURE
PEQUIN
http://pequin.org/archives/2008/tylerenfield/backtonature.php
MEG POKRASS
DESERT AIR
TULIP
http://tulipweekly.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/desert-air/
J.A. TYLER
IN BEAUTY, SNOW, BEGINNING NORMAL
ABJECTIVE
http://www.abjective.net/
DAVE ERLEWINE
THINGS ABOUT LIFE
DRUNK AND LONELY MEN
http://www.pearnoir.com/drunkandlonely.htm
KRISTINE ONG MUSLIM
BIGHEADS
SIX LITTLE THINGS
http://www.sixbrickspress.com/issue_13/page04.html
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
FREE BOOKS. I AM GOING TO CLONE MYSELF THEN KILL THE CLONE AND EAT IT

PRE-ORDER - SAM PINK - i am going to clone myself then kill the clone and eat it
Receive for FREE:
All 4 ACHILLES CHAPBOOKS currently in print:
DREW KALBACH - the zen of chainsaws and enormous clippers
HOWIE GOOD - tomorrowland
J.A. TYLER - everyone in this is either dying or will die or is thinking of death
BARRY GRAHAM - not a speck of light is showing
ORDER CLONE HERE:
http://paperheropress.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-am-going-to-clone-myself-then-kill.html
If you don't do PAYPAL, email me bgraham@dogzplot.com and we can work something out.
Keep doing what you're doing and God bless.
PRICK OF THE SPINDLE 2.4

This is crammed full of amazing things; fiction, poetry, art, reviews from the small presses, a novella, a graphic short, an interview with CLAUDIA SMITH.
Here are a few links:
SHELLIE ZACHARIA
ONE BED, TWO STORIES
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/fiction/2.4/zacharia/one_bed_two_stories.htm
HOWIE GOOD
VARIATIONS ON AN ENIGMA
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/poetry/2.4/good/variations_on_an_enigma.htm
review of DREW KALBACH
THE ZEN OF CHAINSAWS AND ENORMOUS CLIPPERS
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/reviews/2.4/small%20presses/achilles%20chapbook%20series/kalbach/the_zen_of_chainsaws.htm
Two of my poems are also included in this issue:
BIRDSONG
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/poetry/2.4/graham/birdsong.htm
A HALF GRAVE OF RETREAT
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/poetry/2.4/graham/a_half_grave_of_retreat.htm
I am extremely envious of this journal.
NEW FICTION EDITOR at DOGZPLOT
Thank you very much Dave.
Contact:
derlewine@dogzplot.com
Monday, December 22, 2008
CONTEST IS OVER
DARBY LARSON
In addition to J.A. TYLER's chapbook EVERYONE IN THIS IS EITHER DYING OR WILL DIE OR IS THINKING OF DEATH, he will receive a complimentary issue of KEYHOLE 5.
Thanks for ordering.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
I'M GIVING AWAY A FREE COPY OF KEYHOLE 5...
DREW KALBACH
HOWIE GOOD
BARRY GRAHAM
J.A. TYLER
Link is here. Do it now.
http://achilleschapbook.blogspot.com/
I'll tell you when there's a first...
ABJECTIVE. WIGLEAF. JEFF CROUCH. RANDALL BROWN
JEFF CROUCH
DRIFTER
ABJECTIVE
http://www.abjective.net/
And this from RANDALL BROWN.
RANDALL BROWN
THE UNION FOREVER
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/200812union.htm
Saturday, December 20, 2008
NEW ISSUE. PINDELDYBOZ
MICE
TAI DONG HUAI
http://www.pindeldyboz.com/tdhmice.htm
WE TALK IN A ROUNDABOUT WAY
LYDIA COPELAND
http://www.pindeldyboz.com/lcroundabout.htm
Friday, December 19, 2008
SPD. 75% OFF. END OF CAPITALISM SALE
MEG POKRASS. NIGHT TRAIN. TULIP
LAST OPEN
NIGHT TRAIN
http://www.nighttrainmagazine.com/contents/pokrass_fb.php
DESERT AIR
TULIP
http://tulipweekly.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/desert-air/
Thursday, December 18, 2008
NEW ISSUE. WORD RIOT
PLEASE READ BEFORE DELETING
JAIS BROHINSKY
http://wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1736
TELL MOM THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME BIG CHANGES
GREG GERKE
http://wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1738
INVENTING A FROWN
BRAD GREEN
http://wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1728
SAND #1
J.A. TYLER
http://wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1732
TWO POEMS
MATTHEW SAVOCA
http://wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1743
and a review of RANDALL BROWN's MAD TO LIVE
(reviewed by HEATHER BERGSTROM)
http://wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1753
WIGLEAF. LAUREN BECKER
LAUREN BECKER
LAUGHTER
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/200812laughter.htm
Also, while you're there. check out her postcard. DEAR WIGLEAF.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
ACHILLES CHAPBOOK SERIES. J.A. TYLER. HOWIE GOOD

Monday, December 15, 2008
NEW ISSUE. SMOKELONG QUARTERLY 23
LYDIA COPELAND
KYLE HEMMINGS
STEFANIE FREELE
TANIA HERSHMAN
TAI DONG HUAI
BARRY GRAHAM
...and many others. Included in this issue is my story CAVED IN. Read it here:
http://smokelong.com/flash/barrygraham23.asp
And if you've read along this far, you might as well check out my interview. Here's an excerpt:
This story is a first-rate example of how every word is chosen purposefully: the resurrection of the cigarettes, the weaving of a small scourge, the coagulation of the blood. How do you choose these images – the weeping willows, cigarette butts, a cedar pew, the big white bus? And in the end, Karly draws pine trees. Why pine trees?
I chose words that held some sort of religious connotation; blood, pew, weeping, church, white, resurrect, and of course the small scourge, which for me invokes Jesus’ overly violent reaction against the Jewish tradesmen in the synagogue. I grew up in Sunday school, as did many of the children in my neighborhood. And I guess as an adult I am interested in the idea of so much violence and abuse happening to children who devoted so much faith and hope to memorizing Bible verses and singing Jesus Loves Me, and I wanted to bring that conflict into a collection of small fictions.
Read the rest here:
http://smokelong.com/interview/barrygraham23.asp
NEW ISSUE. LAMINATION COLONY
MATTHEW SAVOCA
ELIZABETH ELLEN
RYAN CALL
BRANDI WELLS
PETER DAVIS
GENA MOHWISH
ZACHARY BUSH
RYAN MANNING
DIDI MENENDEZ
...and many others. Check it out here:
http://www.laminationcolony.com/
THE ZEN OF CHAINSAWS AND ENORMOUS CLIPPERS. REVIEWED on ORANGE ALERT
Here is an excerpt from the review:
"Life is basically nonsense. We attempt to organize and plan and make some sense of everything. Yet, most moments feel random and uncontrolled, but as wee dig, explore, and evaluate we may discover a fleeting purpose. It is this odd sense of random logic that Drew Kalbach throws on to paper. Words and phrases seem to collide without focus and purpose, but suddenly there is a brief flash of subtle but substantial intention and clarity."
Read it here in its entirety:
http://wearduringorangealert.blogspot.com/2008/12/orange-spotlight_14.html
Order TZOCAEC here:
http://achilleschapbook.blogspot.com/2008/08/zen-of-chainsaws-and-enormous-clippers.html
NEW STORIES. WIGLEAF. ELIMAE
WIGLEAF
http://www.wigleaf.com/
MATT BELL
HOW THEY WERE FOUND AND WHO THEY WERE THAT FOUND THEM
JENNIFER PIERONI
NOW, RIGHT NOW
STEFANIE FREELE
BECAUSE CONDOMS SEEM SO DESPERATE, SHE ALSO BUYS FERNS
ELIMAE
http://www.elimae.com/new.html
AARON BURCH
KIM CHINQUEE
DREW KALBACH
HOWIE GOOD
MEG POKRASS
LAURA ELLEN SCOTT
TAI DONG HUAI
BONNIE ZOBELL
RANDALL BROWN
ZACHARY C. BUSH
MATTHEW SAVOCA
BRANDI WELLS
DAVID ERLEWINE
Saturday, December 13, 2008
YANKEE POT ROAST. ONE LINE LISTICLES

(this is what happened when I yahoo imaged 'listicles')
JIMMY CHEN served as guest editor for YANKEE POT ROAST. This is what happened:
ONE-LINE LISTICLES
http://www.yankeepotroast.org/archives/2008/12/oneline.html
Thursday, December 11, 2008
NOT TOUCHING THE BRAKES. TULIP. PETER CAVANAUGH
Check it out here:
NOT TOUCHING THE BRAKES
BARRY GRAHAM
TULIP
http://tulipweekly.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/not-touching-the-brakes/
PETER CAVANAUGH, the editor has got some really bad ass work posted over there, including pieces from:
DANIEL BAILEY
PETER DAVIS
DREW KALBACH
MOLLY GAUDRY
SAM PINK
J.A. TYLER
and many other fine folks. Good shit Peter.
HOLIDAY GUIDE 2008. ORANGE ALERT

Please download the guide, tell everyone you know, and have a wonderful Holiday Season!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
BEST NERVE ESSAYS of 2008. MIKE YOUNG

Sunday, December 7, 2008
JOHN BRUCE. PERFECTLY ORDINARY. DIDDLEDOG
JOHN BRUCE
PERFECTLY ORDINARY
DIDDLEDOG
http://www.diddledog.com/0804bruce.html
Saturday, December 6, 2008
HOBART announces PUSHCART NOMINATIONS

HOBART just announced their PUSHCART nominess for 2008. It looks like I made the cut. Thank you AARON BURCH and ELIZABETH ELLEN, and congratulations to all six of these fine folks.
Mike Alber
“Magic: The Essay”
Matt Bell
“Ken Sent Me”
Bryan Furuness
“Ballgrabber”
Barry Graham
“Bad Beat”
Stefan Kiesbye
“Among Her Faces"
Mary Miller
“Pearl”
Friday, December 5, 2008
ABJECTIVE. MOLLY GAUDRY
MOLLY GAUDRY
THE SKY AS JOHN SAW IT THE NIGHT KATE SPARKLED
http://www.abjective.net/
I think this is an excerpt from a much longer piece she is working on. I would be honored if one of those excerpts found their way onto DOGZPLOT.
HOBART. NEW ISSUE
EUGENE CROSS
MOLLY GAUDRY
KYLE MINOR
EDWARD MULLANY
and an interview with JOHN BRANDON (conducted by MATT BELL)
http://www.hobartpulp.com/
STORYGLOSSIA 32. MATT BELL. WILLOWS WEPT PRESS
Matt Bell
Her Ennead
Sarah Sarai
The Amazon Mountains of Tibet
Dennis Mahagin
Casablanca Or Something Like It
C. Robin Madigan
I Wish He Were You
Cynthia Newberry Martin
Into the Woods
Alice K. Boatwright
Night Washing
Nicholas Ripatrazone
Found
Dianne Rees
Like a Monster
Jared Ward
Daily Grind
J. A. Tyler
Indians
Also. If you haven't heard already, MATT BELL's chapbook HOW THE BROKEN LEAD THE BLIND, published by WILLOWS WEPT PRESS, is now available for pre-order. It is being printed in a limited run of 100, minus the one I already ordered, so there are possibly 99 of them floating around. Grab them quick. This is MATT BELL. They aren't gonna last long.
ADDITIONAL INFO INCLUDING HOW TO ORDER IS HERE:
http://willowsweptpress.blogspot.com/2008/12/matt-bells-how-broken-lead-blind-is-now.html
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
GOOD READS
TED POWERS
THE POSTMAN RINGS A THIRD TIME
ABJECTIVE
http://www.abjective.net/002.html
EVERYTHING ON WIGLEAF
http://www.wigleaf.com/
KYLE MINOR
TWO RUBBER BANDS
PINDELDYBOZ
http://www.pindeldyboz.com/kmbands.htm
SCOTT GARSON
A MAN OF THE STAGE
SIR
http://www.sir-magazine.org/scottgarson.html
PETER SCHWARTZ
4TH
SIR
http://www.sir-magazine.org/peterschwartz.html
ACTUALLY, THE ENTIRE ISSUE OF SIR IS BAD ASS. READ THEM ALL.
RAVI MANGLA
LET IT SNOW
DECOMP
http://www.decompmagazine.com/letitsnow.htm
CRISPIN BEST
OF OPALS. SILVERS
PEQUIN
http://pequin.org/archives/2008/crispinbest/ofopalssilvers.php
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
ML PRESS. ANNOUNCEMENT
BE NICE TO EVERYONE by sam pink
MISERABLE FISH by colin bassett
DON'T GIVE UP & DIE by james chapman
A HEAVEN GONE by jac jemc
LIKE IT WAS HER PLACE by kim chinquee
SOME OF THE LETTERS THAT WERE CUT by michael kimball
IN ENVY OF GLACIERS& THE UNIVERSE OF THE BODY by norman lock
THREE ACTS WITH VINCENT by kim parko
WHAT I SAW by randall brown
THEY by brian evenson
BLUEBEARD by michael stewart
(forthcoming) by peter markus
ISN'T THIS WHAT YOU WERE LOOKING FOR? by ken sparling
THOSE BONES by david ohle
MOLTING by aaron burch
DA VINCI DIED BEFORE CIGARETTES by p. h. madore
ALTRUISM by matthew savoca
(forthcoming) by johannes göransson
six-month subscriptions are available now.
$36 / 18 volumes, beginning with the dec. 08 trio.
want to order?
go here.
Monday, December 1, 2008
TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY. NEW PAGES REVIEW

"Drunk as hell but no throwing up, half way home and my pager's still blowing up. Today I didn't even have to use my AK. I gotta say it was a good day."
Two reviews within an hour. Very cool. Thanks a million to ORANGE ALERT and NEW PAGES.
ORANGE ALERT link is in the post below.
This is a little bit of what RYAN CALL said about not a speck of light is showing at NEW PAGES:
"Graham has a good feel for how seemingly incongruous sentences, when placed together, can really ring out in a reader’s mind. And what is nice about this, is that Graham also knows that such a move needs only rarely to occur so as to have a greater effect."
I like what he said about my sentence structures a lot. Thanks a million Ryan.
Read the entire review here:
http://www.newpages.com/bookreviews/2008_12/december2008_book_reviews.htm#not_a_speck
NEW PAGES also reviewed DREW KALBACH's the zen of chainsaws and enormous clippers.
Read the review here:
http://www.newpages.com/bookreviews/2008_12/december2008_book_reviews.htm#zen
Additional info, including ordering info, is on the right somewhere and in the post below this one.
Thanks again to ORANGE ALERT and NEW PAGES.
NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT IS SHOWING. REVIEWED on ORANGE ALERT
Here's an excerpt:
"What drew me to pick up this chap and begin to read was its plain cover. A yellow piece of paper with seven words typed in black. "not a speck of light is showing." There was nothing to allude to the contents, and nothing to draw the focus away from the text.
I'm glad somebody gets it.
Read the rest of the review here:
http://wearduringorangealert.blogspot.com/2008/12/orange-spotlight.html
For additional info on not a speck of light is showing, including ordering info and info about other chapbooks from ACHILLES, click here:
http://achilleschapbook.blogspot.com/2008/08/blog-post.html
Thank you for the write-up ORANGE ALERT.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE CLOSING AFTER 73 YEARS
"DEAR FRIENDS:
DEATH
After 73 years ROBIN'S BOOK STORE, Philadelphia's oldest independent book seller, is about to: expire, perish, pass away, be taken, resign our being, end our days, breathe our last, depart this life, be no more, pop off, give up the ghost, pay our debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, go the way of all flesh, hand in our chips, come to dust, cross the Stygian ferry, go to Davy Jones' locker, go out like the snuff of a candle, come to an untimely end, catch our death, go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up our toes. Operating a book store was always a better hobby than a way to make a living, but now it is impossible. Blame it on the Economy. Blame it on the Chain Stores. Blame it on the Internet. Blame it on Reading Habits.
In the meantime, on November 24 all new books and calendars in stock will go on sale at 20% off, and the sale discount will increase 5% each week until January 5 when it will reach 50%. The discount will remain at 50% until we close on January 31, 2009."
ADDITIONAL INFO HERE
Friday, November 28, 2008
DANIEL CHACON. UNENDING ROOMS

“Unending Rooms is a visit to the hidden recesses of the mind, a place where Jorge Luis Borges and Stephen King sit down for coffee while a cello plays a bittersweet melody you can almost remember. Once you enter, you will emerge a different person.”
— Kathleen Alcalá
“Daniel Chacón’s distinctive storytelling, with its defiance to linearity and closure, with its leanings toward metafiction, gestures south to the Latin American greats like Borges, Cortázar and Paz, but his sensibility is puro Chicano—the hero and anti-hero of the twenty-first century who sinks and swims through libraries and barrios, politics and passions, tradition and innovation. “Unending Rooms” is a testament of identity as experienced, not on the margins, but at the center of the beautiful and terrifying cycles.”
— Rigoberto González
Additional info is HERE
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
HAPPY THANKSGIVING

EXPECT RESISTANCE FROM YOUR TURKEY THIS YEAR
LESS SHINY. MARY MILLER. MAGIC HELICOPTER PRESS
Monday, November 24, 2008
MC BREED. GOD BLESS

Toxicology reports were pending, but no foul play was suspected in the 37-year-old's death. Breed had suffered from kidney failure, according to The Detroit News and The Flint Journal. "More than just an artist, we mourn the loss of a beloved father, son, brother, and friend," his family said in a statement. "We are thankful and blessed to have been in his presence and want him to be remembered for his creative, caring, talented, and hardworking spirit."
Breed released 13 albums from 1991 to 2004, and collaborated with artists such as Tupac Shakur and Too Short.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
HOW MANY STORIES...
That's right, the debut issue of 12 STORIES is ready to be devoured. Here's the lineup:
Steve Almond
J.R. Angelella
Rusty Barnes
Matt Bell
Jimmy Chen
Timothy Gager
Richard Garcia
Kathryn Good-Schiff
Jim Hanas
Jeff Landon
Jennifer Levin
Dan Moreau
http://www.readtwelvestories.com/
HOWIE GOOD. TOMORROWLAND. ORDER NOW

Tomorrowland is a writer's envy and a reader's delight."
Susan Culver
"A fascinating series of vignettes, flashes, stories, each one incredibly focused, incredibly powerful, and surprising to the point of being scary."
Krishan Coupland
HOWIE GOOD
TOMORROWLAND
FLASH FICTION
24 PGS.
12 - 1 - 2008
$4.00
excerpt from TOMORROWLAND:
THE PARABLE OF SUNLIGHT
It’s a rare sunny day, but the streets are strangely empty, as if arrests are about to be made, or already have been. Head down, heart revving, I start across the square. The fountain is dry, stained with dead leaves. An old man, with the drab, diligent face of a lifelong student of numbers, scatters bread crumbs for the pigeons. I pretend not to notice – it’s safer – and in seconds, reach the far side, where bodies in the early stages of decay hang like gray rags from the trees. I glance back at the old man. He’s watching me, and I wonder why and whether tomorrow is supposed to be just as nice as today.
ORDER HERE
ALL ACHILLES CHAPBOOKS ARE BUY ONE GET ONE FREE
Saturday, November 22, 2008
DOGZPLOT REVIEWED at NEWPAGES
This from MICAH ZEVIN:
"Dogzplot is an amalgam of eclectic and varying styles of literary excellence publishing fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, artwork, opinion pieces, poetry and even photos (which are requested to be works that are not necessarily “good” or polished as polished can be, but works that will “blow our fucking minds”). When you read this journal, you will quickly realize that it is an energetic environment where the humorous and the serious artwork, writing and photography can coexist with the ironic, sardonic and satirical pieces that dominate this daring journal. And you may not know where the bones are buried in this unique universe, but rest assured you are one happy dog."
They also made mention of:
Stephanie Johnson - Dirty Laundromat
John Biando - Twenty-five Ways of Looking at Jeff Parker's Balls
Sam Pink - Advice Column
Very cool. Thanks a lot folks. Read the review in it's entirety here:
http://www.newpages.com/magazinestand/litmags/default.htm#dogplotz
MIRIAM WINTER. TRAINS

"Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood during and after World War II, is a collection of Miriam Winter's fragmented memories of hiding. Winter recorded her memories in short vignettes that are heavy with sorrow, misfortune and anger. Her reactions are well-founded: in a desperate attempt to save her life, without explanation, the eight-year-old was given to her cousin, who then passed her to a complete stranger on a train. In exchange for a place to hide, Miriam was treated like a slave..."
- Tobin Belzer
ADDITIONAL INFO HERE
WIGLEAF. KEYHOLE. ABJECTIVE
CHARLES LENNOX
THOSE WHO LOSE THINGS
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/200811those.htm
CHARLES LENNOX
COMMANDMENTS
KEYHOLE
http://www.keyholemagazine.com/charles-lennox/commandments
MOLLY GAUDRY
COME SEE THE MONKEY
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/200811monkey.htm
TED POWERS
THE POSTMAN RINGS A THIRD TIME
ABJECTIVE
http://www.abjective.net/
Friday, November 21, 2008
DOGZPLOT READING. EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
BILL BARR
MATT BELL
ALYSSA DAVIS (who represented her sister ANGELA DAVIS who could not be in attendance)
BARRY GRAHAM
JAMIE JONES
BRANDON POTTER
ANDREW POWERS
HANNAH SMART (who was going to read, but I read her piece before she had a chance, sorry Hannah)
Also, I read a few of my favorite pieces from the 2008 anthology even though the authors were unable to make it. Those contributors include:
CL BLEDSOE
AARON BURCH
ROBERT A. DOLLESIN
ELIZABETH ELLEN
JOSEPH GRAHAM
JR PEARSON
Thanks again to everyone for showing up and reading and listening and hanging out and blah blah blah. I love ya'll.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
HOWIE GOOD. PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINATION. TOMORROWLAND
excerpt from TINY FUGUE:
THE PARABLE OF SUNLIGHT
It’s a rare sunny day, but the streets are strangely empty, as if arrests are about to be made, or already have been. Head down, heart revving, I start across the square. The fountain is dry, stained with dead leaves. An old man, with the drab, diligent face of a lifelong student of numbers, scatters bread crumbs for the pigeons. I pretend not to notice – it’s safer – and in seconds, reach the far side, where bodies in the early stages of decay hang like gray rags from the trees. I glance back at the old man. He’s watching me, and I wonder why and whether tomorrow is supposed to be just as nice as today.
Check it out in its entirety HERE
and if you like what you read, please order the chapbook HERE.
Monday, November 17, 2008
BARRY GRAHAM. INTERVIEW

Scot:
What do you see online publications developing in the future?
Barry:
I may be wrong on this, but I think 2009 is gonna be a big year for returning to print. I think people want to hold books / objects in their hands and look at them, smell them, touch them. I think print on demand technologies are affordable and the quality is much improved, chapbooks are cheap to make. I see a big return to those types of printing. DOGZPLOT has branched out and started a small chapbook series: ACHILLES. Great things are on the way from lots of places: ML Press, Future Tense, Keyhole, Calamari, Hobart’s mini-book division – Short Flight / Long Drive. Misti Rainwater-Lites has some sexy publications I like a lot, the Instant Pussy series. All that to say I think the future is a grassroots return to cheap but aesthetically pleasing print.
Take a peek at the rest here:
http://midwestpoet.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/interview-with-barry-graham-at-dogzplotcom/
Sunday, November 16, 2008
BLACK TICKETS. JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS

"An exquisite and terrible insight in the hands of one who fakes nothing - the best short story writer since Eudora Welty."
- Nadine Gordimer
"These stories of America's disenfranchised are unlike any in our literature. She's an original, and this book of hers is a crooked beauty."
- Raymond Carver
I met Jayne Anne Phillips at the Rutgers-Newark (she is the director of their MFA program) reception last year at AWP. She is amazing. I really wish I was at Rutgers but I'm much too big of a slacker. But for anyone looking for an MFA program on the east coast, there are big, amazing things going on there. Put in your apps early.
Read this tiny flash from BLACK TICKETS, then if you don't click this LINK and order the book there is something wrong with your goddam brain:
UNDER THE BOARDWALK
Her name is Joyce Casto and she rides our school bus. The Castos all look alike. Skinny, freckled, straw haired. Joyce's is the color of broom sage, dried out by some heat in her head. She walks the halls of the junior high with a clipboard of ruffled papers, transistor radio beating in her hand.
Daddy is a fire-and-brimstone preacher at a church out the dirt road. Music is the work of the devil that licks at her legs. She stands, radio pressed to her face, lips working. Undah the boardwalk, down by the see ee ee ye eh eh, Ona blanket with my baybeh's where I'll be.
She walks into class fumbling to turn it off. Stays close to the wall and watches the cement floor. She never talks to the country kids. The town kids never talk to her. The gym teacher finds out she is pregnant. Yes, she confesses, It was my brother. He's went off to the mills.
She disappears from school but comes back a month later, having had it in a bloody way. She rolled up a horse blanket and walked to the field. Daddy thundering I won't lay eyes on your sin and big brother in Youngstown, holding a thing that burns orange fire. She rolls, yelping, dogs come close and sniff. They circle. The sky circles. Points of light up there that sting. Finally she sees they are stars. Washing herself in the creek she remembers the scythe against the grass, its whispering rip.
Next morning she sits in the house alone while the others shout and sweat at the the revival in Clinger's Field. The dogs come in with pieces in their mouths. She stands in the kitchen shaking while the Drifters do some easy moanin.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
SARAH JO PENDER. AMERICA'S MOST WANTED. # 15

From the America's Most Wanted site:
"Since her expertly-executed prison escape on August 4, 2008, officials have been hot on the trail of Sarah Pender. Now, after a few short months on the lam, U.S. Marshals Service officials have turned up the heat on Pender, and made her the newest addition to their notorious 15 Most Wanted Fugitives List."
I have no idea why I'm posting this. She's the most wanted woman in America. She escaped from prison and they can't find her. Good for her. Dirty ass punk ass bitch ass police.
Plus, she's a red head.
REVIEW of THE ZEN OF CHAINSAWS AND ENORMOUS CLIPPERS
DREW KALBACH's
THE ZEN OF CHAINSAWS AND ENORMOUS CLIPPERS
"His work seems to be based mostly on randomized fantasies and very dreamed-up, coked-up melodies; things he may have said out loud that sounded good, and so were written down late at night, perhaps while hallucinating. This is how it comes off, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. Things that most writers only manage to harness every now and then, when truly on top of their game, Kalbach seems to take very much for granted, as if they were as simple as writing grocery lists for him. After reading this, I am two things: addicted to his style, influenced heavily, wanting to tell the world about this chapbook, jealous, and enamored."
Read full review HERE
Also. Order CHAINSAWS anytime between now and Thanksgiving and receive a free ACHILLES chapbook of your choice:
BARRY GRAHAM - not a speck of light is showing
JA TYLER - everyone in this is either dying or will die or is thinking about death
HOWIE GOOD - tomorrowland
Thanks.