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
Fact-Simile Editions
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One Hundred Colorado Places by Erik Anderson & Elizabeth Robinson

We are delighted to announce the official release of One Hundred Colorado Places by Erik Anderson & Elizabeth Robinson. If you stopped by the Fact-Simile Editions table at AWP in Boston, you may have caught a quick glimpse of this book before we sold out of the few copies we brought. If you missed it, it looks something like this:



One Hundred Colorado Places is a  hand-carved, accordion-fold book nested in a tin, windowed box. It is set in Arno Pro and printed in an edition of 100 on six interlocking 4x40-inch reclaimed 120 gsm Arches Text Wove “pages” bound together in a single “signature” with found twine.

You can watch a video of this unusual book here.

Since we are still hard at work carving all this paper, for the next 10 days (until 8/15) we are offering One Hundred Colorado Places at 25% off the cover price.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
Fact-Simile Editions
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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
Fact-Simile Editions
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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
Fact-Simile Editions
www.fact-simile.com