Lisa Jarnot & Eleni Sikelianos: Poetry Trading Card Doubleheader

It's summer in America and as the season heats up, we thought it was about time for a poetry trading card double header featuring Lisa Jarnot and Eleni Sikelianos!

Lisa Jarnot's poetry trading card, patterned after a 1988 Donruss Baseball card design features a new poem, "from Amedellin Cooperative Nosegay." Her latest book, A Princess Magic Presto Spell, is available from Solid Objects.

Eleni Sikelianos' poetry trading card is based on a 1960 Leaf baseball trading card design and features a new poem "from Make Yourself Happy." Her new book, You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek) was just released by Coffee House Press.

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled cardboard and available for just 99 cents on our website.

Subscriptions to the entire 2014 Poetry Trading Card Series are available. Plus, all 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as complete sets.

Read on,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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Tom Raworth Poetry Trading Cards

They might not play baseball in England but poetry is an international pastime...yeah: Tom Raworth is this month's poetry trading card:

A key member of the British Poetry Revival, Tom Raworth is the author of more than 40 books of poetry and prose.

Patterned after a 1986 Donruss baseball card design, Tom Raworth's poetry trading card features a new poem titled Surfing The Permafrost Through Methane Flares.

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled cardboard and available for just 99 cents on our website.

Subscriptions to the entire 2014 Poetry Trading Card Series are available. Plus, all 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as complete sets.

Read on,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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Arthur Sze Poetry Trading Cards

It wouldn't be National Poetry Month without a Poetry Trading Card... Arthur Sze is closing out April:

Author of nine books of poetry, including the forthcoming Compass Rose (Copper Canyon, 2014), Arthur Sze is also a celebrated translator.

About his work, Jackson Mac Low once said, “The word ‘compassion’ is much overused—‘clarity’ less so—but Arthur Sze is truly a poet of clarity and compassion.”

Patterned after a 1967 Topps baseball card design, Arthur Sze's poetry trading card features a new poem of clarity and compassion (from Arctic Circle) from his forthcoming collection.

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled cardboard and available for just 99 cents on our website.

Subscriptions to the entire 2014 Poetry Trading Card Series are available. Plus, all 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as complete sets.

Happy Poetry Month!

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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Forrest Gander Poetry Trading Cards

Fact-Simile is excited to present the featured poet on this month's Poetry Trading Card: Forrest Gander.

Author of more than 28 books and translations, including Core Samples from the World (a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize), Forrest Gander is an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator.

Patterned after a 2008 Topps baseball card design, Forrest Gander's poetry trading card features a new poem titled "Anniversary" on the reverse side.
 

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled cardboard and available for just 99 cents on our website.

Subscriptions to the entire 2014 Poetry Trading Card Series are available. Plus, all 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as complete sets.

Thanks for Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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Now Batting: Bernadette Mayer

Fact-Simile is excited to announce #50 (second of 2014) in our ongoing series lineup of Poetry Trading Cards: Bernadette Mayer.

Bernadette Mayer -- former director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, former co-publisher of United Artists Books and Magazines, and author of more than 25 books of poetry (most recently The Helens of Troy, NY from New Directions) -- needs no introduction. Her work has influenced and shaped the world and its poetry for more than four decades and we are honored to share her latest here...

Patterned after a 1990 Fleer baseball card design, Bernadette Mayer's poetry trading card features a new poem titled "Poem For The Benefit For Me" on the reverse side.

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled cardboard and available for just 99 cents on our website. Subscriptions to the 2014 Poetry Trading Card Series are now available and shipping. Plus, all 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as complete sets.

Thanks for Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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Cole Swensen Poetry Trading Cards

Fact-Simile is excited to lead off our fifth (and final) annual lineup of Poetry Trading Cards with Cole Swensen.

Cole Swensen is a translator, editor, copywriter, professor and poet. She is the author of more than ten books of poetry, including most recently, Gravesend, (University of California Press, 2012) and The Glass Age, (Alice James Books , 2007).

Patterned after a 2005 Topps baseball card design, Cole Swensen's poetry trading card features a new poem titled "Field Theater" on the reverse side.

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled cardboard and available for just 99 cents on our website. Subscriptions to next year's 2014 Poetry Trading Card Series are now available at a discount. Plus, all 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as complete sets.

Thanks for Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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C.S. Giscombe Poetry Trading Cards

We know your inbox is probably inundated with holiday-themed emails and last minute gift ideas right about now. We don't want to add to all that noise, so we'll just say it plain and simple: C.S. Giscombe Poetry Trading Cards. Yep.

C.S. Giscombe has worked as a taxi driver, a hospital orderly, a railroad brakeman, a teacher and, perhaps most importantly, a poet. He is the author of Prairie Style (Dalkey Archive) which won a 2008 American Book award, Into and Out of Dislocation (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and Giscome Road (Dalkey Archive) among others.

Patterned after a 1993 Topps baseball card design, C.S. Giscombe's poetry trading card features a new poem titled "Plague" on the reverse side.
 

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled cardboard and available for just 99 cents on our website. Subscriptions to next year's 2014 Poetry Trading Card Series are now available at a discount. Plus, all 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as complete sets.

Thanks for Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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Anselm Berrigan Poetry Trading Cards

We here at Fact-Simile are thankful. For you, our dear readers. For the fact that you opened this email despite yet another shameless Thanksgiving subject line. But most of all, right now, we're thankful for Anselm Berrigan Poetry Trading Cards and we think you should be too...


 
Anselm Berrigan is a poet, teacher and former artistic director at the St. Mark's Poetry Project. He is also the author of more than 10 books of poetry including Sure Shot (Overpass Books 2013), Notes From Irrelevance (Wave Books 2011) and Free Cell (City Lights 2009).

Patterned after a 1989 Fleer baseball card design, Anselm Berrigan's poetry trading card features a photo by Michael Grimaldi and a new poem titled "rectangle 58" on the reverse side.

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled cardboard 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, 2011 and 2012 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as complete sets.

Thanks for Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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Cecilia Vicuna Poetry Trading Cards

October wouldn't be complete without a treat for your poetry sweet tooth from Fact-Simile...We're pretty sure Cecilia Vicuña Poetry Trading Cards should do the trick!


Cecilia Vicuña is a visual artist and author of 16 books of poetry, including: Palabrarmas (RIL 2005), I Tu (Tse-tse, 2004) and Instan (Kelsey St Press, 2003). She performs and exhibits her work widely in Europe, Latin America and the US. She is also a political activist and founding member of Artists for Democracy.

Patterned after a 1981 Fleer baseball card design, Cecilia Vicuña's poetry trading card features a photo by James O'Hern and a new poem titled "The Shadow of a Loom" on the reverse side.

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled cardboard 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, 2011 and 2012 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as complete sets.

Ron Padgett Poetry Trading Cards

Happy Fall from Fact-Simile! We're starting autumn off right with Ron Padgett Poetry Trading Cards.



Ron Padgett is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator and a member of the New York School. He is the author of nearly 30 books of poetry, most recently How Long and How to be perfect from Coffeehouse Press.

Patterned after a 1954 Topps baseball card design, Ron Padgett's poetry trading card features photos by Jemimah Kuhfeld (right) and Ulla Montan (left) on the front and new poem titled "And?" on the reverse side.

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled cardboard 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, 2011 and 2012 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as complete sets.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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Dan Beachy-Quick Poetry Trading Cards

It's that time of year again...time to get your syllabus in order and put your summer reading aside. Do things a little differently this year: start your semester off right with your very own Dan Beachy-Quick Poetry Trading Card.



Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, writer, and critic. He is also the author of four collections of poems (most recently, Circle's Apprentice from Tupelo Press) and A Whaler’s Dictionary (Milkweed Editions), a collection of essays about Moby Dick.

Patterned after a 1999 Topps baseball card design, Dan Beachy-Quick's poetry trading card features a photo by Stephanie G'Schwind on the front and new poem titled "Drone" on the reverse side.

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled cardboard 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, 2011 and 2012 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as complete sets.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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Beat The Heat With Kate Greenstreet

Yeah, it's hot out but Kate Greenstreet Poetry Trading Cards are cool!

Kate Greenstreet's third book Young Tambling is new from Ahsahta Press. Her previous books are case sensitive and The Last 4 Things, also with Ahsahta. Her poetry can be found in Colorado Review, Boston Review, Chicago Review, and other journals.

Patterned after a 2004 Topps baseball card design, Kate Greenstreet's poetry trading card features a photo by Max Greenstreet and new untitled poem on the reverse side.

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled cardboard 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, 2011 and 2012 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as complete sets.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie

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June's Poetry Trading Card: Janet Holmes

June's Poetry Trading Card is here:

Janet Holmes is author of six poetry collections, most recently, The ms of m y kin (Shearsman Books, 2009).

Patterned after a 1995 Topps baseball card design, Janet Holmes' poetry trading card features a photo by Alvin Greenberg and a previously unreleased fragment on the reverse side.

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled cardboard 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, 2011 and 2012 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as complete sets.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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Dean Young Is Poetry Trading Card #41

Check out the latest addition to the Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Card series:

Dean Young's latest books include Bender: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon 2012), Fall Higher (Copper Canyon 2011) and The Art of Recklessness (2010). His book Elegy on Toy Piano (2005) was a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize.

Patterned after a 1978 Topps baseball card design, Dean Young's poetry trading card features a photo by Laurie Saurborn Young and a new poem titled, "The Life of a Poet".

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled cardboard 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, 2011 and 2012 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as complete sets.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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Noah Eli Gordon Poetry Trading Cards

We here at Fact-Simile Editions are delighted to announce the latest release (#40) in our Poetry Trading Card Series, featuring a new poem by Noah Eli Gordon.

Noah Eli Gordon is the author of eight books, including The Year of the Rooster (Ahsahta Press, 2013), The Source (Futurepoem, 2011) and Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007), which was selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series.

Patterned after a 1981 Topps baseball card design, Noah Eli Gordon's poetry trading card features a photo by Sommer Browning and a new poem titled, "Yar's Revenge".

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled cardboard 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, 2011 and 2012 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as complete sets.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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Norma Cole Poetry Trading Cards

We here at Fact-Simile Editions are delighted to announce the latest release (#39) in our Poetry Trading Card Series features a new poem by Norma Cole.

Poet, painter and translator Norma Cole's recent work includes Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988—2008 (City Lights), Collective Memory (Granary Books), Do the Monkey (Zasterle), Spinoza in Her Youth (Omnidawn) and Natural Light (Libellum).

Patterned after a 1972 Topps baseball card design, Norma Cole's poetry trading card features a photo by Amy Trachtenberg and a new poem titled, "Silvertondevil."

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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Fact-Simile At AWP In Boston

We've got exciting things planned for AWP this year: In addition to the customary deals and discounts on all our handmade books and book-objects, we've lined up a steady stream of your favorite poets for live poetry trading card signing sessions at TABLE M3 all throughout the conference.

Here's the schedule:

Eileen Myles -- Thursday, 3-4pm
Hoa Nguyen -- Friday, 11am-noon
Elizabeth Robinson -- Friday, noon-1pm
K. Silem Mohammad -- Friday, 1-2pm
Charles Bernstein -- Friday, 2-3pm
Tyrone Williams -- Friday, 3-4pm
Vanessa Place -- Friday, 4-5pm
Marcella Durand -- Saturday, 11am-noon
Jena Osman -- Saturday, 2-3pm

Plus, the remarkable Rae Armantrout will be joining us at a surprise time to be tweeted at a later date...Follow us "@FactSimile" for updates on this and other big happenings throughout the conference.

We are also honored to be hosting a momentous offsite reading with a bunch of really great presses Saturday 3/9, 6pm at The Burren in Davis Square (247 Elm Street, Somerville, MA)

Last but not least, we will be debuting a miniature broadside series and awesome new books by Brian Foley and Elizabeth Robinson/Erik Anderson!

We hope to see you soon at TABLE M3 in Boston or points between. Until then...here's a couple of sneak previews:




All Best,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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Jena Osman Poetry Trading Cards

The 2013 Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Card Series is officially in full swing with a new poem from Jena Osman.

2009 National Poetry Series Award Winner Jena Osman's most recent books include Public Figures (Wesleyan 2012), The Network (Fence Books 2010) and An Essay In Asterisks (Roof Books 2004). With Juliana Spahr she founded and edited the innovative Chain magazine. She currently writes from Philadelphia where she teaches at Temple University.

Jena Osman's poetry trading card, patterned after a 1991 Topps baseball card design, features a photo by Amze Emmons and a new poem titled, "Security."

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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Paul Hoover Poetry Trading Cards Are In

It's the 12th inning and Paul Hoover is closing out the 2012 Poetry Trading Card season!

Paul Hoover is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, essays and translations, including desolation : souvenir (Omnidawn 2012), Beyond the Court Gate: Selected Poems of Nguyen Trai (Counterpath 2010) and Sonnet 56 (Les Figues 2009). He is the editor, along with Maxine Chernoff, of New American Writing and professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University.

His poetry trading card, patterned after a 1957 Topps baseball card design, features a photo by Sumit Bando and a new poem, "The Dog was Pleasant and the Cat was Firm".

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website. Subscriptions to next year's 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 a complete set.

Happy (Holiday) Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
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Sawako Nakayasu Poetry Trading Cards Are Here And They're HUGE

This is big. Really big. Never has a 2.5 x 3.5" piece of cardboard loomed so large ... Sawako Nakayasu Poetry Trading Cards are here!



Sawako Nakayasu is the author of Texture Notes (Letter Machine, 2010), Hurry Home Honey (Burning Deck, 2009), and a translation of Kawata Ayane’s poetry, Time of Sky//Castles in the Air (Litmus Press, 2010) as well as Mouth: Eats Color (Rogue Factorial, 2011) with Chika Sagawa. Her translation of Takashi Hiraide’s For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut (New Directions, 2008) received the 2009 Best Translated Book Award from Three Percent.

Her poetry trading card, patterned after a 1992 Topps baseball card design, features a photo by Alan Bernheimer and a new poem ("Huge Shadow") from her newest collection forthcoming from Les Figues Press.

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website. Subscriptions to the entire 2012 series are available at a discount 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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