Fantasia Lights

June 8th, 2008

To commemorate the new Poetry USA logo I put together a nice little handmade poem box for the occasion! Inside a Nat Sherman’s Fantasia Lights cigarette box is a broadside poem Fantasia Lights.

The poem is from the Kenmore series, Vol. 1 under the section, A King In New York. The title of this section is taken from the Charlie Chaplin movie, and deals with my recent whirlwind trip to NYC for AWP.


Since this is a limited series and not everyone can get one, here is a PDF of the poem
Download poem here:

http://www.geoffreygatza.com/fl.pdf


How to get the limited edition in your hand?

Come to my reading is July 9th at the Roof Top poetry series at Buffalo State. OR send me an email and we’ll see what we can’t do!

BlazeVOX [books] Reviews

June 8th, 2008

Lisa Forrest - To The Eves

ArtsBeat: On poet Lisa Forrest’s “To The Eaves” http://buffalonews.typepad.com/artsbeat/2008/06/on-poet-lisa-fo.html

http://www.blazevox.org/bk-lf.htm

Buy it here :

at Amazon.com

Montserrat Review’s Best of Summer 2008

Among other great titles, Grace choose:

When I Said Goodbye by DiDi Menendez. c2008.
BlazeVOX Books. 67 pgs. ISBN: 9781934289860.

http://www.themontserratreview.com/BestoSummer2008.html

aberration or the beginning of a long-term trend

May 30th, 2008
Huge Increase In On-Demand Books In 2007 “The production of traditional books rose 1% in 2007, to 276,649 new titles and editions, but the output of on-demand, short run and unclassified titles soared from 21,936 in 2006 to 134,773 last year.” Publishers Weekly 05/29/08

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6564566.html?rssid=192

Spring Jacket Clearance

May 30th, 2008

Jacket 35 reviews are on fire!

http://jacketmagazine.com/35/index.shtml

Jeffrey Side: «Carrier of The Seed» reviewed by Pam Brown

Ted Pelton: «Malcolm & Jack: and other famous American criminals», reviewed by Matthew Hotham

Ruth Lepson and Walter Crump: «Morphology», reviewed by John Mercuri Dooley

The Joe Milford Poetry Show Hosts Poet Geoffrey Gatza

May 24th, 2008

Poet, publisher, and tireless wordsmith aficianado extraoidinaire, Geoffrey Gatza, joins us for a wonderful reading. 1 Hour 30 Minutes

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-jane-crown-show/2008/05/23/
the-joe-milford-poetry-show-hosts-poet-geoffrey-gatza

I was lucky enough to have been asked to come on Joe’s radio show last night. It is a reading and interview about my poetry and about BlazeVOX [books]. Great fun and rousing conversation! Reading from Kenmore, Sherlock Holmes poems and Not So Fast Robespierre!

David Daniels. 1933-2008

May 24th, 2008

From Chris Daniels

dear friends -

my father passed away on may 12 at 7:24 PM

he went peacefully and painlessly, surrounded by his family and a few old friends

we’ll miss him so much

his website will be maintained for at least as long as i live - please visit http://www.thegatesofparadise.com to see what kind of artist, what kind of person he was

yours always,
chris

- - - - - -

I met David for the first and only time at the ePoetry 2001 conference in Buffalo. I fell in love with him instantly. He embodied poetry! He argued or the heart and soul of the poem to be maintained within a room filled with young computer poets who wanted to, as Thurston puts it, see how high the box will jump. It was a real moment for me, excitingly alive with possibility!

Other will tell his story better and I hope you get a chance to look in on his work. He uses a concrete style which opens into larger ideas which open to other ideas which lead to others. These are his gates to understanding his work and it is a wonderful read.

I will miss you David and will never forget you or your art!

Love, Geoffrey

Review of Secondary Sound

May 24th, 2008

Check out the review of Secondary Sound by Justin Sirios
in the journal JMWW:

http://jmww.150m.com/Sirois.html

http://www.blazevox.org/bk-js.htm

Joel Chace Reading at ACA Gallery NYC

May 17th, 2008

Boog City presents

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

Paper Kite Press
(Kingston, Penn.)

Tues. May 27, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free

ACA Galleries
529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC

Event will be hosted by
Paper Kite Press editors
Jennifer Hill-Kaucher and Dan Waber

Featuring readings from

Joel Chace
Craig Czury
Barbara DeCesare
Andrea Talarico
Jim Warner

with music from

Alan Semerdjian

There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

New Thingy

May 12th, 2008

What are we working on at BlazeVOX [books]

May 11th, 2008

Hello everyone,

This is a group email for all 18 new books that I am working on now. I am not fond of writing thisway but it the most exedient way to discuss the same thing to 20 people. This was going to be a one on one with all of you but when I stopped and thought of you all in my apartment I realized what a large group this is. But please be assured I am able to work on all this in my way and am caught up with all the work in front of us and looking forward to the future!

Different stages of authors:

I may have all your book items and we are ready to go print-ready; I may have some things and we are working on others; or you may not have even sent me your final text yet.

Any case all is AOK - you know where you are and so do I, so that’s all that matters :-)

20 new titles are in production.

Author, Title, ISBN

Megan Volpert the desense of nonfense 1-934289-89-2
Eileen Tabios THE CHATELAINE’S KEYS Her Biography Through Your Poetics 1-934289-92-2
Mary Kasimor Gotham City 1-934289-85-X
Bill Friend American Field Couches. 1-934289-57-4
Ted Greenwald In Your Dreams 1-934289-54-X
Jesse Glass X 1-934289-71-X
Skip Fox X 1-934289-72-8
Jared Schickling Submissions 1-934289-73-6
Lance Phillips Imposture Notebooks 1-934289-65-5
mIEKAL aND BYSTANDER An Irreality 1-934289-63-9
Kane X. Faucher X 1-934289-69-8
Kent Johnson X 1-934289-32-9
Mike Sikkema Futuring 1-934289-74-4
Christophe Casamassima Joys: a catalogue of disappointments 1-934289-77-9
Jordan Stempleman X 1-934289-70-1
Gordon Hadfield X 1-934289-75-2
Richard Owens X 1-934289-76-0
Greg Gerke X 1-934289-78-7
Anne Waldman X 1-934289-91-4

Web Pages

Your web pages are in the midst of creation. Check it out and please send me the proper info that is needed, like bio and blurbs. If you need help with blurbs or if you wish me to ask anyone in particular, please let me know and I’ll do my best. And if you need any help with your bio, I’d be happy to create one for you as well :-)

* I am having trouble uploading the pages today but they wil be up nd running by MONDAY :-)

Author, Webpage

Megan Volpert http://www.blazevox.org/bk-mv2.htm
Eileen Tabios http://www.blazevox.org/bk-et.htm
Mary Kasimor http://www.blazevox.org/bk-mkas2.htm
Bill Friend http://www.blazevox.org/bk-bf.htm
Ted Greenwald http://www.blazevox.org/bk-tg.htm
Jesse Glass http://www.blazevox.org/bk-jg.htm
Skip Fox http://www.blazevox.org/bk-mv2.htm
Jared Schickling http://www.blazevox.org/bk-js2.htm
Lance Phillips http://www.blazevox.org/bk-lp1.htm
mIEKAL aND http://www.blazevox.org/bk-ma.htm
Kane Faucher http://www.blazevox.org/bk-kf.htm
Kent Johnson http://www.blazevox.org/bk-kj2.htm
Mike Sikkema http://www.blazevox.org/bk-ms.htm
Christophe Casamassima http://www.blazevox.org/bk-cc.htm
Jordan Stempleman http://www.blazevox.org/bk-jstemp.htm
Gordon Hadfield http://www.blazevox.org/bk-gh.htm
Richard Owens http://www.blazevox.org/bk-ro.htm
Greg Gerke http://www.blazevox.org/bk-gerke.htm
Anne Waldman http://www.blazevox.org/bk-aw.htm

Book Covers

I have the basic cover all set up and ready with proper spine size all set up. We need to make a front cover.

Fonts

I can use any font you may like. I have 2500 different fonts on my mac so I have just about any style covered. Most times, the insides text I choose based on what I think best looks right for that text. I have had some success with this so if that needs adjusting we’ll talk. But for the title and front title we can discuss. If you want to be part of the font choosing, go to fonts.com or your favorite font factory and look around. Let me know what you like and I’ll match it up with what I have here.

http://www.dafont.com/

Image gallery

I have 200 images online for you to look over and maybe one might jump out at you. No worries if you don’t like anything you see. We’ll work out something before you can say Jack Robinson. But give them a whirl. 95% of the books so far are from my designs and images so don’t hire an artist if you don’t have to :-)

Go here for book cover images
http://www.geoffreygatza.com/Covers

Texts

The text is attached to this email. It is set in Microsoft word doc which is easy to manipulate any changes you wihs to make. This easier to do on your end as you would take more time typing to me, change x to y and move it over three pegs, than to make the change yourself! I feel that it is best this way as you know your poetry and it’s flow much better than I do :-)

The PDF is what the printed version will look like as set in the word doc. Take a look at this first to see how the embedded fonts will flow over the page and so on. Don ‘t try to edit this as we are doing work in the word document. This is a proof print only.

You may not have the font I choose for your book. This will make things look a bit wonky in your version of Word. If this is something that irks you, I’ll mail you the font for you to install in your machine and then all will flow like rain :-)

Please know I am always here to anwer any questions on this or any other aspect of this book!

Library of Congress Catalog Numbers

All books are assigned a LOC number. I have completed

BlazeVOX [books] Author Resources

Check out the author resources page at http://www.blazevox.org/author.htm

Down the road

When we are print ready and you say go, you will be selling the book through two sources, Amazon (and SPD if you want) and the books you sell on your own. The online sales are as you’d expect, when someone buys one it is made right then and there, printed in 7 minutes I am led to understand, and shipped off to that person. You get 10% of the cover price for that sale. We don’t sell many that way, but most are at the point of the poet. Those sales are all yours to keep. This way you buy the book for the wholesale price of $1.57 per book and you sell them for $14. Mostly they sell best for $10 at readings, a perceived value. But from there you can drop them in local books shops and so on. But you getting this book in peoples hands will not be your problem, there is a real energy around you and your role in the poetry community. So hurray!

Oh, you make the order through me by putting money in my paypal account at http://www.blazevox.org/authorcopy.htm

In case anyone is wondering where I was and the work I accomplished:

Blog
http://www.blazevox.org/blog

Thank you
http://www.geoffreygatza.com/thankyou.htm