Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 78 pages 2013, ISBN: 978-1-936419-28-9 $15.95 Perhaps it is best to picture this book as a gallery space, for in Notes for the Novice Ventriloquist, Gerry LaFemina curates an exhibit of the curious and quirky. Surrealist art, big foot, magic shows, mythological creatures, love in all its manifestations hang side by…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 58 pages $14.95 plus S+H 2013, ISBN: 978-1-936419-26-5 Who is Miss Unthinkable? In this latest collection from Chicago poet Pamela Miller, she’s a shape-shifting sorority of mysterious, funny and wise female characters who don’t let anything get the better of them—from undependable husbands and lovers to breast cancer, aging or even…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 80 pages $15.95 plus S&H 2013, ISBN 978-1-936419-27-2 Feeding Wild Birds is a collection of poems rooted in the Michigan landscape, as seasons and lives undergo their seamless and subtle transformations. These are meditative poems in spare and simple language that examine the energies in animals, woods, lakes, land, weather and…
The cover art for A Palette of Leaves by Edythe Haendel Schwartz has been named as a finalist for the 2013 Eric Hoffer – daVinci eye Award. Each year, the Eric Hoffer Award for books presents the da Vinci Eye to the title(s) with superior cover artwork. Cover art is judged on both content and…
On April 16th at 11 am PST / 2 pm EST, Cati Porter, author of the Mayapple Press book “Seven Floors Up”, will appear on The Blood-Jet Writing Hour. Cati will be reading from her latest work “The Way Things Move the Dark” (Dancing Girl Press, 2013). The Blood-Jet Writing Hour is an online radio…
On March 21st, the Davis Enterprise newspaper ran a nice feature story about Edythe Haendel Schwartz, author of “A Palette of Leaves”. Entitled “Poetry, painting and dance overlap in life of Edythe Haendel Schwartz“, the piece included details of the author’s recently concluded art show and also explores aspect of her life in poetry and…
Marjorie Manwaring will join Derek Sheffield, Arlene Kim, and Rebecca Hoogs in a reading at King’s Books in Tacoma, WA on Thursday April 4th at 7pm. The reading will feature new and old works and will be part of the celebrations of National Poetry Month. Marjorie will read from her Mayapple Press debut “Search…
Tim Mayo, author of The Kingdom of Possibilities, will read new and old works at the Harmony Cafe at Wok-n-Roll on Monday April 1st at 7pm. The Harmony Cafe at Wok-n-Roll is located at 52 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, NY, 12498-1310. The weekly reading series there features local and national writers. Chinese and Japanese cuisine…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 90 pages $15.95 plus S&H 2013, ISBN 978-1-936419-25-8 A serious treatise on sacred sex. A history of prostitution. A chronological-geographical-psychological survey of contractual copulation. The uncensored autobiography of an articulate whore. The innate and irreverent humor of humping. How women survive. These are the stories told in this series of connected…
March brings one of the highlights of the American literary year, the annual AWP Book Fair. Each year, AWP holds its Annual Conference & Bookfair in a different city to celebrate the authors, teachers, writing programs, literary centers, and independent publishers of that region. The conference typically features 550 readings, lectures, panel discussions, and forums,…
