Joanne Kyger Trading Cards Make Great Mother's Day Gifts!

It is with great pleasure that we here at Fact-Simile Editions announce:
April's Poetry Trading Card features a previously unpublished poem by the
legendary Joanne Kyger!

"[T]he very nature of Joanne Kyger’s work, tracking time as it does through
many shifting perspectives, demands intimate attention and requires that it
be observed according to its own terms." - Dale Smith

Pick up your copy of this limited-edition poetic object for just 99 cents on our website. Or collect the whole set!

Also, you can now follow Fact-Simile on Twitter to stay up-to-date with new book and magazine releases, trading cards, contests, calls for submission and literary reviews.

As always, thanks for reading!

Yours Truly,

Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
Fact-Simile Editions
travis@fact-simile.com
jenmarie@fact-simile.com

Fact-Simile Trading Card #15

Fact-Simile Editions is pleased to announce #15 in our Poetry Trading Card Series: Rachel Blau DuPlessis!

Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a poet, educator and feminist literary critic living in the Greater Philadelphia area and teaching at Temple University. She is the author of numerous works of criticism as well as the "life poem" Drafts.

We are honored that Ms. Blau DuPlessis has chosen to share this excerpt from Drafts with us and hope that you will join us in celebrating the work of this wonderful poet. This limited-edition poetic collectible is available for just 99 cents (plus shipping) on our website.

If you haven’t done so already, take a moment to look through the great lineup of poets we’ve featured over the past 15 months. Subscribe today to receive a new trading card in the mail each month during 2011. And, of course, 2010 cards are still available individually or as a complete set.

Best Regards,

Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
Fact-Simile Editions
travis@fact-simile.com
jenmarie@fact-simile.com

Calling All Submissions

Dear Friends and Readers-

We know you're out there. Somewhere. It's that time of year: Canadian bears are honking their way north again and grizzly geese are stumbling around the woods hibernation-drunk. That's right. The Vernal Equinox is almost upon us and that means Fact-Simile's Spring/Summer 2011 issue is accepting submission for a few more days.

Seven of them to be exact. Any submissions received before (or on) Monday, March 21 will be considered for this issue. Any submissions received after Monday will be considered for the Fall/Autumn 2011 issue.

So if you have some superb writing and/or word-work that you think might be a good fit, please send it along to:

submissions@fact-simile.com

If you've sent some poetry and/or prose along already and haven't heard back yet, please bear with us. It is still under careful consideration. If you're not familiar with Fact-Simile's most recent issues, you can read them all right here.

Also, keep an eye out for the opening submission call for our 2011 Equinox Chapbook contest. Details to be announced next Monday. In the meantime, we look forward to reading your work!

Best Regards,

Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
The Editors @ Fact-Simile
submissions@fact-simile.com

Now Batting: Charles Bernstein

Fact-Simile Editions is happy to announce that February’s trading card features new work from poet, editor and educator Charles Bernstein.

Former editor of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E; co-founder and editor of PENNsound; co-founder and editor of The Electronic Poetry Center; and author of more than 40 books, ranging from large-scale collections of poetry and essays to pamphlets, libretti, translations and collaborations, most recently All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (2010) from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Charles Bernstein is an incomparable poetic force whose work has touched untold multitudes.

Now, with this latest, previously unreleased poem, Mr. Bernstein once again takes to the field. This limited-edition poetic collectible is available for just 99 cents (plus shipping) on our website.

Subscribe today to receive a new trading card in the mail each month during 2011. And, of course, our 2010 series is still available individually or as a complete set.

Best Regards,

The Editors
Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
www.fact-simile.com

Fact-Simile 3.2 is Alive

Seven states from where we started and only one month late, Fact-Simile 3.2 Autumn/Winter 2010 is officially live, in print and online.

Featuring an interview wih New Mexico Poet Arthur Sze plus new work from Laura Sims, George Moore, Erin Geegan Sharp, Debrah Morkun, Shawn Huelle, Andrew Schelling, Deborah Poe, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Cindy Savett, Susanne Dyckman, Changming Yuan, Scott Alexander Jones and Nicholas Chiarella, this issue is sure to please!

Download a PDF, read it online at the link above or, if you're planning to attend AWP next week in DC, swing by the Fact-Simile Table (I-20) and pick up a free hard-copy of the new issue.

While you're there, purchase $20 or more worth of Fact-Simile Book/Items and sign up to receive a complimentary AWP Tarot Reading by poet Hoa Nguyen! $20 purchase of FS books = basic 15 minute reading. $35 purchase of FS books= 15 minute reading, picture of spread emailed along with a comprehensive interpretation.

We should also have one or two exciting new Equinox Series Chapbooks making their debut at Table I-20, so swing on by to say hello and see what we've been up to.

We hope to see you soon. In the meantime...

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie
Fact-Simile Editions

The O Mission Repo No Longer Available on Amazon

Dear Readers-

It is with great dismay at the current state of book distribution outlets in America that we regret to inform you: The O Mission Repo will no longer be available for purchase via Amazon. In addition to requiring that small publishers such as ourselves swallow all shipping costs and taking a 55% consignment slice of the cover price, Amazon has also begun charging an annual "membership" fee that has more than reduced our profit margins. In fact, it seems that, despite marking up the Amazon price by $4 per book, we are not exactly breaking even. In fact, WE are now paying THEM for the privilege of being listed on their Walmartian website.

But do not despair! We will continue to offer all remaining copies of The O Mission Repo, on our very own website for the reduced cover price of $12. That's a steal...in the good way.

What's the moral of this story? The next time you buy a book, please consider doing so directly from your friendly local small press or publisher.

Sincerely,

The Editors
Fact-Simile Editions

Nathaniel Tarn is the 1st Trading Card of 2011

We here at Fact-Simile are pleased to announce that we will be continuing our Poetry Trading Card series in 2011. And so, without further ado, we present #13 in the series: poet, essayist, anthropologist and translator Nathaniel Tarn.

With a publication history that spans the last half-century, Nathaniel Tarn has left an indelible mark upon the pages of modern literary history. Recent titles include Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers (New Directions), Avia (Shearsman) and The Embattled Lyric (Stanford University Press).

Now, with this latest, previously unreleased, poem, Nathaniel Tarn once again takes to the field. This limited-edition poetic collectible is available for just 99 cents (plus shipping) on our website.

Subscribe today to receive a new trading card in the mail each month during 2011. And, of course, 2010 cards are still available individually or as a complete set!

Best Regards,

Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
www.fact-simile.com
travis@fact-simile.com
jenmarie@fact-simile.com