Stuff Your Literary Stocking With Poetry Scratch-off Tickets

A few winters back, we were talking excitedly about the idea of poetic scratch-off tickets with the artist Noah Saterstrom. Well, today are pleased to announce that the time has come to turn that idea into a reality!


MINImaxims by Richard Kostelanetz is a series of 10 one-line poems printed on 110# card stock, covered with silver "scratch-off stickers" and perforated to look and feel like real-life poetry lottery tickets. Available individually, in strips of 5 or in (complete set) sheets of 10, we can personally guarantee that every ticket's a winner.

Happy Holiday Reading,

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

Joan Retallack Poetry Trading Cards Make Great Gifts

Happy Holidays from Fact-Simile! December's Poetry Trading Card features new work from Joan Retallack, author of such essential critical and contemporary poetic texts as AFTERRIMAGES (Wesleyan, 1995), Memnoir (The Post-Apollo Press, 2004) and The Poethical Wager (University of California Press 2004).

As always, these limited-edition poetic collectibles are just 99 cents on our website. Subscriptions to the 2012 series are now available for just $10 and, for you collectors out there, all 2010 and 2011 cards are going fast.

Happy Holiday Reading,

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

2011 Equinox Chapbook Results

We here at Fact-Simile Editions are pleased to announce the winners of our 2011 Equinox Chapbook Contest:

TOTEM by Brian Foley
Very Different Animals by Frank Sherlock
Impossible Map by Jane Wong

In addition to these three amazing books, in 2012 we will be publishing a series of hand-lettered mini-broadsides featuring poems from each of our winners as well as the following finalists:

Kimberly Alidio
Jeff Alessandrelli
Scott Bentley
Michelle Disler
Jacob Russell
Rowland Saifi
Mark Terrell
Soham Patel

Many thanks to everyone who submitted work. Details on next year's contest will be posted in early 2012.

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
Fact-Simile Editions
www.fact-simile.com

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
www.fact-simile.com

Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Joe Harrington Reading at Moonstone Arts Center

Saturday October 15, 7pm - Poetry
Travis Macdonald and Fact-Simile Editions Presents
Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Joseph Harrington

Rachel Blau DuPlessis is an American poet-critic, whose ongoing long poem project, begun in 1986, is collected in Torques: Drafts 58-76, Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan University Press, 2001) and Drafts 39-57, Pledge, as well as Draft unnnumbered: Precis (Salt Publishing, 2004). DuPlessis was awarded a residency at Bellagio in 2007; she was the recipient of a Pew Fellowship for Artists and of the Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize, both in 2002. On October 21st, 2011 from 10am to 5pm, Temple University will celebrate her career and life’s work with an all day tribute featuring poets from Philadelphia and beyond.

Joseph Harrington is the author of Things Come On (an amneoir) (Wesleyan University Press 2011), a Rumpus magazine Poetry Book Club selection; the chapbook earth day suite (Beard of Bees Press 2010); and Poetry and the Public (Wesleyan University Press 2002). His creative work also has appeared in BathHouse, 1913: a journal of forms, Hotel Amerika, The Collagist, Otoliths, Fact-Simile, and P-Queue, among others. He teaches at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, USA.

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
Fact-Simile Editions
www.fact-simile.com