Clark Coolidge Kicks Off The 2013 Poetry Trading Card Series

We can't think of a better way to kick off the 2013 Poetry Trading Card Series than this new poem from Clark Coolidge.

With more than 40 books of poetry to his name, Clark Coolidge needs no introduction. Closely associated with both the New York School and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, Coolidge's jazz infused verse has been influencing fellow writers and engaging readers' attention from the appearance of his first book (Flag Flutter & U.S. Electric) in 1966 to his most recent release (This Time We Are Both) from Ugly Duckling in 2010.

Clark Coolidge's poetry trading card, patterned after a 1965 Topps baseball card design, features a photo by Alan Bernheimer and a new poem, "THIS TRUCK IS FRESH".

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website. Subscriptions to the entire 2013 Poetry Trading Card Series are available at a discount and, as always, our 2010 and 2011 and 2012 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as complete sets.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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Poet Trading Card #31: Tyrone Williams

July almost snuck by us but with one day left before the arrival of August, we're pleased to announce that Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Card #31 features a new poem from Tyrone Williams.

Tyrone Williams is the author of  c.c. (Krupskaya Books, 2002), On Spec (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008) and The Hero Project of the Century (The Backwaters Press, 2009), Adventures of Pi (Dos Madres Books, 2011) and Howell (Atelos Books, 2011). He teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

This new poem ("IPO: A Sing-Sing-Along") by Tyrone Williams is featured on the back of July's Poetry Trading Card from Fact-Simile Editions.

These limited-edition poetic collectibles are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website. Subscriptions to the entire 2012 series are just $10 plus shipping and, as always, our 2010 and 2011 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as a complete set.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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Poet Trading Card #30: Tom Clark

Summer is officially here and with it comes Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Card #30, featuring the work of poet, editor and literary biographer Tom Clark:

In addition to publishing his own unique and varied style of insightful verse, this wildly prolific former editor of The Paris Review has written biographies of some of the most important literary figures of the last half century, including: Charles Olson, Jack Kerouac, Ted Berrigan, Robert Creeley and Ed Dorn.

This new poem ("Turning") by Tom Clark is featured on the back of June's Poetry Trading Card from Fact-Simile Editions and collected in his latest full length release, Distance (BlazeVox, April 2012). These super limited-edition poetic collectibles are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website.

Subscriptions to the entire 2012 series are just $10 plus shipping and, as always, our 2010 and 2011 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as a complete set.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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May's Poetry Trading Card Featuring Lyn Hejinian

We here at Fact-Simile Editions are honored to announce that yet another one of our poetic heroes has joined the poetry trading card team. This month's card features new work from Language poet, essayist, translator and publisher Lyn Hejinian.

Perhaps best known for her groundbreaking work My Life (Burning Deck 1980) Lyn Hejinian has been helping to enrich and redefine the boundaries of contemporary literature for the better part of four decades. Most recently with the release of The Book of a Thousand Eyes (Omnidawn 2012) and Saga/Circus (Omnidawn 2008)

This new poem (Abandon) by Lyn Hejinian is featured on the back of May's Poetry Trading Card from Fact-Simile Editions. These super limited-edition poetic collectibles are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website.

Subscriptions to the entire 2012 series are just $10 plus shipping and, as always, our 2010 and 2011 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as a complete set.

Happy Reading,

Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
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Fanny Howe is March's Poet Trading Card

We here at Fact-Simile Editions are pleased announce the release of Fanny Howe's latest work: "26." as part of our ongoing Poet Trading Card series.

Author of more than 20 books of poetry (not to mention nearly as many works of fiction) and winner of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Fanny Howe "employs a sometimes fierce, always passionate, spareness in her lifelong parsing of the exchange between matter and spirit." (Michael Palmer)

This new poem from one of American poetry's most important voices is the March Poetry Trading Card from Fact-Simile Editions. These limited-edition poetic collectibles are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents apiece on our website.

Subscriptions to the entire 2012 series are just $10 plus shipping and, as always, our 2010 and 2011 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as a complete set.

Happy Reading,

Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
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February's Fact-Simile Poet Trading Card Features Hoa Nguyen

Born in Vĩnh Long, near Saigon, in 1967, Hoa Nguyen grew up in the Washington D.C. area and studied poetry at New College of California in San Francisco.

She is the author of several amazing collections of poetry including As Long As Trees Last (forthcoming from Wave Book in the fall of 2012), Chinaberry (Fact-Simile Editions 2011), Hecate Lochia (Hot Whiskey Press, 2009), Your Ancient See Through (Subpress, 2002). Her latest poem, After The Song, is featured on the back of Fact-Simile's February Poetry Trading Card.

These limited-edition poetic collectibles are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents apiece on our website.

Subscriptions to the entire 2012 series are just $10 plus shipping and, as always, our 2010 and 2011 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as a complete set.

Happy Reading,

Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
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January's Poetry Trading Card Features Robert Kelly

It is with great pleasure that we here at Fact-Simile announce another year of Poetry Trading Cards. And we can't think of any better way to kick off the 2012 series than with a new poem from the great Robert Kelly.

Robert Kelly is the inimitable poetic force behind more than 50 books of staggeringly beautiful verse. His latest poem, "For Jack Spicer" is no exception.

These limited-edition poetic collectibles are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website.

Subscriptions to the entire 2012 series are just $10 plus shipping and, as always, our 2010 and 2011 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as a complete set.

Happy Reading,

Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
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November's 2011 Poet Trading Card Features Bhanu Kapil

This post is a bit overdue, but we here at Fact-Simile neglected to mention that November's Poetry Trading Cards are in and they feature new work from poet, teacher and humanimal Bhanu Kapil.

Bhanu Kapil's works of cross-genre literary experimentalism include: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), and Schizophrene (Nightboat Books, 2011)

These limited-edition poetic fetishes are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website.

Subscriptions to the entire 2011 series are just $10 plus shipping and, for you collectors out there, our 2010 cards are still available.

Or, better yet, order any Fact-Simile title and we'll include a card of your choice free of charge!

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie
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October's Trading Card Features Bob Perelman

October's Poetry Trading Cards have arrived and they feature new work from Language School poet, critic and editor Bob Perelman.

Bob Perelman's first book Braille, a series of "improvisations" inspired by William Carlos Williams, was published in 1975. His many works since then include The First World (1986), Face Value (1988), Virtual Reality (1993), Playing Bodies (2003) and IFLIFE (2006).

These limited-edition poetic collectibles are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website.

Subscriptions to the entire 2011 series are just $10 plus shipping and, for you collectors out there, our 2010 Poetry Trading Cards are still available.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie
Fact-Simile Editions
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Beverly Dahlen Trading Cards

Fact-Simile Editions is pleased to announce that September's Poet Trading Card (#21 in the series) features San Francisco poet Beverly Dahlen.

Co-founder of the groundbreaking feminist poetics newsletter (HOW)ever and author of the ongoing serial poem, A Reading, Beverly Dahlen is a poetic force whose contributions to the field inspire and resonate across an ever widening spectrum.

These limited-edition poetic collectibles are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website.

Subscriptions to the entire 2011 series are just $10 plus shipping and, for you collectors out there, our 2010 cards are still available.

Best Regards,

Travis & JenMarie
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Amiri Baraka Trading Cards Hot Off the Presses

Happy solstice! We here at Fact-Simile are kicking off what promises to be an action-packed summer publication schedule with a new "Low Coup" from the legendary poet and revolutionary activist Amiri Baraka.

Number 18 in our ongoing Poetry Trading Card Series, this month's poem answers that age-old question: "Who would win in fight...The King Of Rock & Roll or the Godfather of Soul?"

Wherever you stand on that particular issue, these limited-edition poetic collectibles are available for a song (just 99 cents) on our website and subscriptions to the entire 2011 series are just $10 plus shipping.

At that price you can frame them, trade them or put them in your bike spokes! Poetry Trading Cards are summer fun for everyone.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie
The Editors
Fact-Simile Editions

Poetry Beats Patriotism

We here at Fact-Simile are celebrating the Memorial Day Weekend in style with CAConrad Trading Cards!

The 17th installment in our monthly Poet Trading Card Series features this phenomenal Philadelphia writer at his very best as he commemorates, in verse, one of America's most beloved heroes: Elvis Presley.

As always, these limited-edition collectibles are available for a song (just 99 cents) on our website and subscriptions to the entire 2011 series are just $10 plus shipping:

For those collectors who can't stand to have an incomplete set, today's your lucky day: we've reduced the price of last year's Poet Trading Card series to just 8 bucks. At that price you can frame them, trade them or put them in your bike spokes! Poetry Trading cards are summer fun for everyone.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie
The Editors
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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
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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
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travis@fact-simile.com
jenmarie@fact-simile.com

Now Announcing Trading Card #8: Peter Gizzi

Fact-Simile Editions is pleased to present the 8th installment in our Poetry Trading Card series: Mr. Peter Gizzi!

In addition to introducing Jack Spicer to a new generation of readers and writers (see The House that Jack Built & My Vocabulary Did This to Me) Peter Gizzi is the author of more than 5 books of poetry including Artificial Heart (Burning Deck 1998), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan 2003) and more recently The Outernationale (Wesleyan 2007).

With this latest poem, Mr. Gizzi once again "[takes] language close to the bone...forces attention to operate closely according to the dictation of images."-Dale Smith

You can pick up your very own copy of this limited edition poetic ephemera for just 99 cents (plus shipping) on our website. Or collect the whole set with our generously discounted subscription plan.

Many Thanks and Happy Reading,

Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
The Editors of Fact-Simile Editions
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Trading Card #6 features Elizabeth Robinson

It is with great pleasure that we here at Fact-Simile Editions announce the 6th installment in our 2010 Trading Card Series: Elizabeth Robinson!

Author of more than 10 books of poetry including Pure Descent, winner of the National Poetry Series and, more recently, Also Known As, from Apogee Press, Elizabeth Robinson's poetry exhibits “a minimalist's precision and a logician's attention to linguistic morphology.” (-Ann Lauterbach)

You can pick up your very own copy of this limited edition poetic ephemera for just $0.99 plus s/h on our website. Or collect the whole set with our generously discounted subscription plan .

Many Thanks and Happy Reading,

Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
The Editors at Fact-Simile Editions
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April's Trading Card and Equinox Contest News

Fact-Simile Editions is pleased to announce the 4th installment in our 2010 Literary Trading Card Series; poet, author, playwright, librettist, and presidential candidate: Eileen Myles!

The complete series is available via subscription for $10 plus shipping, or you can collect each individual card separately for 99 cents apiece via our website.

In other news: after an exhausting month of preparing for, enjoying and winding down from AWP, we are finally starting to get caught up on our stack of reading materials for Fact-Simile 3.1 Spring/Summer 2010. If you have yet t receive a response, rest assured that your work is still under consideration.

We're also very excited about all the amazing chapbook submissions we've been receiving for our annual Equinox Chapbook Contest. The deadline for submissions is May 1, so there's still time to send in your manuscript. Submission guidelines are available here.

Sincerely,

Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
Fact-Simile Editions
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