After spending a few months with 250 manuscripts,...

After spending a few months with 250 manuscripts, Octopus Books has chosen to publish these two titles in the summer of 2012:

Balloon Pop Outlaw Black by Patricia Lockwood

Hider Roser by Ben Mirov

This year’s finalists:

Poetry for Planes by Mark Yakich

The Pangaea by Nathan Bartel

Sign You Were Mistaken by Seth Landman

The Hearts of Vikings by Lesley Yalen

Off to the Nervous Museum by Claire Donato

My Hypertropes by Amaranth Borsuk

Little Knot Motion & Hinge/Aftermath by Karla Kelsey

Experiments I Should Like Tried at My Own Death by Caryl Pagel

If You Can Speak by Adam Clay

Imaginary Guns by Patrick Culliton

New Revised Standard by Jack Christian

Thank you to everyone who submitted manuscripts this year for helping to support our small press.

Other forthcoming Octopus Books titles:

At Me by Brandon Downing (chapbook)

The Black Forest by Christopher DeWeese

Dear Jenny, We Are All Find by Jenny Zhang