the irrepressible Rebecca Wolff

the undeniable Douglas Kearney

the unassailable Macgregor Card

the irrubrical Catherine Wagner

and the unflagging Brandon Downing

Nick Demske, winner of the 2010 Fence Modern Poets Series, was featured in Racine newspaper The Journal Times this week.

Nick Demske–important as a winter weather advisory.

Here it is.

Happy Monday.

and so does our friend Aaron Sinift, who’s making this (in honor of that):

Visit 5yearplan.org to find out more about this super-inspiring project, and how you can help make it a reality.

“5 Year Plan is love in action.”

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There’s still time to pre-order Lake Antiquity at a discount and receive it in time for gifties. $35 plus free shipping. (This book is still on its way across the water to us from Singapore but will for sure come shortly.)

here on Bookforum: Thanks, Bookforum!

This book is still slogging its way across the water from Singapore; those who pre-ordered will get it as soon after we do as possible. Those who haven’t pre-ordered it yet can do so here, for a sweet discount.

“Stacy Szymaszek, in her black Buddha-emblazoned t-shirt, returned to the podium to introduce Catherine Wagner. She talked about Wagner’s ‘singular[ity]‘ and her ‘removal of inhibitions’ – hers and ours – while, appropriately, referencing Freud. She made an apt comparison of Wagner to Lorine Niedecker – if Niedecker ‘had…kept a secret sex diary,’ that is – because of Wagner’s ability to use rough, raw language in tightly tuned lines.”

read the rest here

and go here to find out where to find Catherine Wagner and Rebecca Wolff at a reading near you!

by Anna Elena

What causes chills to thrill spells up your spinal binary child?

What metaphorical you might you transform into after a parade of costume?

Here’s a list of films to reel you phantasmagoric:

Let the Right One In (2008)

Suspiria (1977)

The Haunting (1963)

Session 9 (2001)

The Host (2006)

Rec (2007)

Jesus Camp (2006)

Wicker Man (1973)

Costumes to question interactivities:

The Suggestion Box (Wear a box, ask for suggestions)

The Kid Who Doesn’t Fit In (Stick protruding shapes onto your clothes)

Unicorn On the Cob (Tape a corn on the cob to your forehead)

My Self in Twenty Years (Spooky)

A Cloud (Wrap yourself in web netting—get cumulous yo)

My Self Stuck In Adolescence (Creepy)

Super Obvious (Tape an O to your chest, Say obvious things, Obviously)

Hot & Dog (Two people: One is hot: One is a dog: blur the boundaries—woof!)

I know you are but what am I? (You just have to say this—?)

Gerard de’Nerval (walk your dog, who’s dressed as a lobster, with the queen of sheba’s garter around your neck)

Sylvia Plath (Oven box on head)

Virginia Woolf (Rocks in sweater pockets)

Anne Sexton (Sexy bob, Inebriated confessions)

@ the 2nd Annual Small Press Fair, part of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival

w/ great deals on books and subscriptions

Saturday, October 17, 2009

10:30am – 5:00pm

45 Middle St., Lowell MA

Click here for the festival schedule.

“SLS is pleased to announce its 2010 unified (SLS-Montreal, SLS-Lithuania, and SLS-Kenya) literary contest, held this year again in affiliation with Fence.

We are excited this year to have Mary Gaitskill judging the contest fiction, and Mary Jo Bang judging the poetry.

Contest winners in the categories of fiction and poetry will have their work published in Fence, as well as the participating literary journals in Canada,Lithuania and Kenya. Additionally, they will have the choice of attending (airfare, tuition, and housing included) any of the SLS-2010 programs – inMontreal, Quebec (June 13 – 27); Vilnius, Lithuania (August 1 – 14); or Nairobi-Lamu, Kenya (December).

Second-place winners will receive a full tuition waiver for the program of their choice, and third-place winners will receive a 50% tuition discount.

A number of select contest participants, based on the overall strength of their work, will be offered tuition scholarships, as well, applicable to the SLS-2010 programs.

Contest Deadline: February 28, 2010.

Please visit the SLS website, at http://www.sumlitsem.org/slscontest.html, for detailed information on how to enter.

Good luck, much success with your work — and we hope to see some of you at one (or more) of our programs in the future!”