The Devastation by Jill Alexander Essbaum is Now Available

Cooper Dillon Books is happy to bring you Jill Alexander Essbaum's long-poem chapbook, The Devastation.

Head on over to the Cooper Dillon Bookstore and start 2010 off right!

PS - Expect this blog to have a name other than my own soon. Ms. Rachel Dacus was kind enough to plug it and link it up, and it seems goofy that I never named this space. More to come as it comes.

Peace, babies!

Welcome to the New Year

Kick it off by reading Jason Schneiderman over at the Best American Poetry Blog.

My brother asked me the other day what my resolutions were. He got annoyed when I told him I don't make them because I don't think we need to wait for a day-to-come to make our lives better. Why should our resolve be waivering until the new year?

Just saying.

As for this blog, the resolve is the same as it ever was: expect announcements regarding other artists around the entire community whom I'm excited to support. The links to the right bring you to people who are making magical stuff, and I hope you enjoy it.

Jason Schneiderman's Next Book

Jason Schneiderman's won the Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press for Striking Surface. Find all the details here.

You can get his debut title, Sublimation Point, from Four Way Books.

Jason's one of the first people I met when I started writing, and he's always been so supportive of others around him. He's one of the kindest and most hard working guys out there. Keep an eye out for the new one, and pick up his first if you don't already have it.

Another Giveaway from Nate Pritts

Nate Pritts is giving away another one of his previous books on Goodreads. Check it out by clicking right here.

Enter to win a copy or you can order it from Main Street Rag Press via the H_NGM_N site.

This is all in anticipation for the next full-length book of poems by Nate Pritts, The Wonderfull Yeare, coming in January from Cooper Dillon Books.

But before that, Jill Alexander Essbaum's Devastation is heating up the printers as well speak, and should be available any minute now.

Year & a Day

It's been one year and a day since I arrived in San Diego after three years of living in Illinois, and a few months stumbling around all over New York State and wandering around Florida for a couple of days.

Thank you all for keeping up and supporting. I with I could see you more often. Feel free to get in touch if you're planning on being in Southern California. And please keep up here, on the facebook, and over at Cooper Dillon Books.

Peace.

Win a book by Nate Pritts

Win a copy of Sensational Spectacular by Nate Pritts by clicking on this link to Goodreads!

Catch The Wonderfull Yeare from Cooper Dillon in January of 2010.

Listen to Jill!

Jill Alexander Essbaum is featured in the December edition of the Poetry Magazine Podcast. Tune in around the 9th minute to hear her read poems, and catch the mention of Cooper Dillon Books by the fine gentlemen.