Posts tagged Octopus Books

Octopus Books’ first of two poetry books with Heather Christle, The Difficult Farm, is now available in its 3rd printing and it comes in a brand new color! It looks like we’re calling it coral. If you buy it this week, I bet we’ll be so happy for you that we’d sneak a complimentary book title in there. Or if you have the yellow one and the blue one, why stop now? 

If you already got your brand new issue of The Believer, you may have noticed something really cool. The Trees The Trees, Heather Christle’s second book from Octopus Books, won the 2nd Annual Believer Poetry Award. I mean, can you Believer it?! Congrats to Heather! Check it out, and read what the Believer said about this “unusually sensitive young woman moving through a fragmented—a dauntingly, majestically, at times kaleidoscopically fragmented—world.”

T-shirts! Get your Octopus Books t-shirts! Be the coolest foo in schoo. Tri-blend American Apparel black on grey or white on black. $20. There aren’t too many left. Click on the pic. And maybe buy a book while you’re in there.

T-shirts! Get your Octopus Books t-shirts! Be the coolest foo in schoo. Tri-blend American Apparel black on grey or white on black. $20. There aren’t too many left. Click on the pic. And maybe buy a book while you’re in there.

Along with our new assistant editor, Hajara Quinn, I read through Ben Mirov’s forthcoming Octopus Books book, Hider Roser, last night, so we can get it in your hands by August. And now I can’t stop staring at this poem-film of his.

You should check out our new Octopus Books website designed by Travis Meyer. We have a news section right up at the front now, and author pages with links to reviews and interviews. We’re just getting started on these pages, so check back in every once in a while. Also, you should click on the Submit tab and figure out how to send us your full-length manuscript for April. You have one week left to get that in.

You should check out our new Octopus Books website designed by Travis Meyer. We have a news section right up at the front now, and author pages with links to reviews and interviews. We’re just getting started on these pages, so check back in every once in a while.

Also, you should click on the Submit tab and figure out how to send us your full-length manuscript for April. You have one week left to get that in.

Clay Banes just showed me this photo he took of the first set of Octopus Books chapbooks on the poetry bookshelf at Pegasus Books back in February of 2007. Anybody still have this whole set? Somehow, I don’t.

Clay Banes just showed me this photo he took of the first set of Octopus Books chapbooks on the poetry bookshelf at Pegasus Books back in February of 2007. Anybody still have this whole set? Somehow, I don’t.

I’m hosting (for Octopus Books) and reading (for Black Ocean) on Friday night during the AWP conference at The Hideout. Black Ocean, Letter Machine, Octopus Books. 9pm. w/Feng Sun Chen, Christopher DeWeese, Peter Gizzi, Thurston Moore, Andrea Rexilius, myself, and Jenny Zhang. The Chicago Q Ensemble and Manual Cinema will reprise a version of their stage performance, FJORDS, at the Poetry Foundation a week prior. And DJ Jacob Ross will bring it all home.

I’m hosting (for Octopus Books) and reading (for Black Ocean) on Friday night during the AWP conference at The Hideout. Black Ocean, Letter Machine, Octopus Books. 9pm. w/Feng Sun Chen, Christopher DeWeese, Peter Gizzi, Thurston Moore, Andrea Rexilius, myself, and Jenny Zhang. The Chicago Q Ensemble and Manual Cinema will reprise a version of their stage performance, FJORDS, at the Poetry Foundation a week prior. And DJ Jacob Ross will bring it all home.

Octopus Books is proud to announce its two newest full-length poetry titles: DEAR JENNY, WE ARE ALL FIND  by Jenny Zhang and THE BLACK FOREST by Christopher DeWeese. Both are now available for pre-order and will ship March 1.

If you buy both titles before March 1, we will send you a free title from our catalog. Let us know in the paypal comments which complimentary book you’d want us to send. And, as always, the shipping is on us.

Look at what Kate Bingaman-Burt made for us. We’ll start selling them at our table at the AWP Chicago bookfair, so pack one less t-shirt.

Look at what Kate Bingaman-Burt made for us. We’ll start selling them at our table at the AWP Chicago bookfair, so pack one less t-shirt.

Octopus Books poet, Cynthia Arrieu-King’s second book, Manifest, was chosen by Harryette Mullen for the 2011 Gateway Prize and will be published in 2013 by Switchback Books. Hot Dog!

Octopus Books poet, Cynthia Arrieu-King’s second book, Manifest, was chosen by Harryette Mullen for the 2011 Gateway Prize and will be published in 2013 by Switchback Books. Hot Dog!

Semi-pro.

Octopus Books has reprinted our sold out 2009 limited edition hand-bound hardback of CD Wright’s 40 Watts as a perfect-bound foil stamped paperback.

It is now available for $12. Edition of 600.

And here’s the deal: If you buy both 40 Watts and Brandon Downing’s new chapbook AT ME before the end of the day Friday 12/16, we’ll send you our other available chapbooks, Patrick Culliton’s Hornet Homily (reprint) and Genya Turovskaya’s New Year’s Day, for FREE. We’ll ship them to you this weekend.

Also, if you have a subscription, 40 Watts and AT ME are on their way.