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May 1, 2013 in Hurray!, Twice Told Tales 0 Comments

Still want AWP fun? Stop here!

The AWP fun can still be had right here on BlazeVOX.

Read Geoffrey Gatza’s panel talk:

Cooperative Publishing and the Future of the Small Press

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BlazeVOX AWP iPad Poetry Reading Series. With readings by Travis Cebula, Burt Kimmelman, Michael Kelleher, Tony Trigilio, James Berger, Michael Ruby, Bill Yarrow, Christopher Shipman, and Geoffrey Gatza. Plus, find out why this list is all guys.

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Our AWP online Book Fair with half price books is still up and running. Have a browse on over 24 titles, flip through online previews and buy a book or two. The best part is that we ship the books right to your doorstop. And when you are done, have a look around our full catalog of over 300 books, our journal, videos, podcasts, Thanksgiving Menu Poems and free ebooks. Hurray!

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Our Submission Guide is here, so get cracking and send us your work!

March 11, 2013 in Twice Told Tales 0 Comments

Geoffrey Gatza interviewed in the Huffington Post on the whole NEA thing :-)

National Poetry Month Feature: Geoffrey Gatza of BlazeVOX [books] Talks About the NEA Ban on His Small Press by Anis Shivani

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/blazevox-nea-ban_b_1374042.html

A big controversy in the poetry world these days is the discussion surrounding Buffalo-based small press BlazeVOX [book]'s (now discontinued) model of charging some authors a portion of the costs of publishing their poetry books ($250, as I gather). In the closing months of last year, the revelation of this practice inflamed passions in the generally staid world of independent literary publishing. The controversy just got an enormous boost with the recent decision of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) banning poets from listing books published by BlazeVOX on their grant applications.

Questions arise about the viability of poetry publishing in an age of narrow audiences and little financial reward, and about gate-keeping, quality control, editorial integrity and the technologies of dissemination.

Read the whole interview here

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/blazevox-nea-ban_b_1374042.html