MAY 3-4 :: CHAPBOOK FESTIVAL and PRINT! DOCUMENT SERIES 1 READING at MELLOW PAGES
Poetry month has come to a close, but the poetry is still flowing all around us. This weekend will be packed full of amazing events. Exit Strata will be tabling at CUNY’s 5th annual Chapbook Festival. The two day event will have readings, workshops, and a book fair representing 60 organizations and publishers. In addition, Chapfest is putting... Read More
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 19 :: JOHN KROPA on CLARK COOLIDGE
“How I’d like to think is as words come. Instead I think how they go. Catch them as they recede. This is because my brain is in my head and not someone else’s so thoughts are leaving from the get-go. Think light in slow-mo. Think voice under chair. I was hunched with my head in my hands. It was dark & damp. Afterwards we ate at Zaytoons & I handed out 2 dollar bills. Think ape of the way things look.” —Notebook entry... Read More
LAYER TENNIS LIVE STREAM :: PRINT! VOL. 3 :: OLÉ!
Read this post from the bottom up for the full experience. Volley 10 – Eric Meyer Eric’s final volley stitches together pieces from the course of this long afternoon. The bee woman is back, though she has to be content with a little spot in the corner. The four icons reappear too, overlaid on a shimmering restatement of Aaron’s poster-inside-map. Strangely, and possibly unintentionally, it looks like money. Elsewhere, Lego Lincoln... Read More
AWP13 RECON :: EXQUISITE CORPSE and AFTERGLOW
Program Assistant Taylor Quilty (l) and Managing Editor Lynne DeSilva-Johnson (r) at the Exit Strata table at AWP. Coordinating animal silhouette shirts entirely coincidental. If you happened by table Q13 this last week at AWP you’ll know that we did our best to lure you with that ineffable combination of craft, collaboration, community, and, er…candy…. that you recognize as uniquely Exit Strata. You also know that alongside the... Read More
EVOLUTION :: NEWS and OPPORTUNITIES
Hello, Exit Strata family! what an exciting year 2013 has already been. It’s been a while since we checked in and shared a little update about goings on with our ever-evolving organization, and there’s so much to tell you! Read on below for announcements, upcoming events, and myriad opportunities for you to submit, get more involved, and co-create! PRINT: PRINT!:DOCUMENT Series 1 (front; l-r: Considine, Runge/Kropa, Hoffman, Quinlan) As... Read More
PRINT! Vol. 2 :: UPDATES AND GENERAL AFTERGLOW
Oh, Exit Strata family. What an amazing journey it’s been! and what an incredible experience we shared just a month ago at our launch party for PRINT! Vol. 2, at the aptly named Launchpad in Brooklyn. We’ve been busy as little bees, getting the issue out to Bookstores (and available everywhere online Print on Demand), getting our first chapbook series ready to print in time for AWP in Boston in March, and the Chapbook festival here in... Read More
PRINT! Vol. 2 :: EVOLUTION AND GENESIS : THE PLAY’S THE THING
Ripe For Pleasure on Mysterious Mountain – TRAILER from Eliza Swann on Vimeo. In the 1960′s, Brion Gysin and William Burroughs developed a method which allowed them to free themselves, together, from the strictures of either of their minds, alone. ‘The Third Mind was meant originally as a kind of How-To manual for the use of the “Cut-Up Method” to free human creativity from what [Gysin] and Burroughs both called “Control”... Read More
PRINT! Vol. 2 Launch Party Line-up Announced : HOLY COW
Please Choose One; Sara Shaoul, Woodblock on Rice Paper, 2012. hold on to your seats, boys and girls. we’ve got a stellar line up for you next friday. your resolution for 2013? go to truly awesome, staggeringly blessed events where people like THESE share their hard work and talents with you. every single one of them is an active member of this incredible community, and represent both our print and web publications. Exit Strata PRINT! vol. 2... Read More
ANNOUNCING :: Exit Strata: PRINT! Vol. 2 :: Launch & Party!
We are excited to announce the publication of Exit Strata: Print! Vol. 2, coming soon to a bookstore near you. Our second print issue of Exit Strata includes an incredible collection of poetry, fiction, play excerpts, prose, and conceptual work from artists in a wide range of mediums and from all over the world. We couldn’t be more pleased with our wonderful contributors (such as artist Justin Richel, whose oil painting “Unleashed”... Read More
SOUND: Billy Libby “Pitter Patter” EP
For those of you missed our Exit Strata: Print! No. #1 launch party, you also missed out on a rare acoustic session by singer/songwriter Billy Libby (although thankfully you can check out a video clip of the performance here). Billy Libby’s amazing voice and unique blend of indie rock/folk is addictive to say the least; his haunting melodies get stuck your head for days, so listener beware. Between teaching grieving children the beauty of song-writing... Read More
Taking Stock/In Stock :: Editorial Updates AND at a Bookstore Near You
clockwise from top left: Exit Strata PRINT! vol. 1 “brownie”, PRINT! vol. 1 limited edition, blood atlas (DeSilva-Johnson), obsolete objects in the literary imagination (Pinder), limited edition vol.1 broadside You know how, just when you think that everything is about to slow down, and you’re going to have time for all the things on your To-Do-list, which is looking more and more like an epic poem? And then, you know, it doesn’t... Read More
FICTION: Gardens by David Meiklejohn [excerpt]
We stopped going to school after our parents died. Grieving would distract us from our lessons, we reasoned. Who could be expected to learn cursive while under such duress? And because evading the army of replacement parents occupied much of our time, no one could reach us to prove otherwise. Friends were the new enemies. We spent our evenings locking the deadbolt, checking the peephole, latching the chain. People came by often, and... Read More
POETRY MONTH 30/30/30: Inspiration, Community, Tradition : DAY 9 :: Maryam Parhizkar on Paul Violi
In November 2011 H_NGM_N Books reissued In Baltic Circles, Paul Violi‘s first book of poems, originally published in 1973 by The Kulchur Foundation. This resulted out of funny circumstances: after seeing a review by Matt Hart of his last book, Overnight, in Coldfront Magazine, Violi sent Hart a photocopy of the original book with a handwritten note saying, “I like to think it’s not all juvenilia!” In Baltic Circles is... Read More
Poem: What Great Troubleshot Fauna We’ve Become by Peter Milne Greiner
I boycott his atoms after a glissade of bunk attempts then laud their inky, mobile residuum again. The ingredients of the music are my mimic falsetto and the sound of a door locking and unlocking and locking. This capotasto he handsignals from god knows where is really a chokechain muffling what taste I have left of him. ‘What can I say,’ I picture him saying, ‘I blackball and revere, make... Read More