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News [03.21.08]: The chapbook contest deadline is coming up in a week. We're looking forward to reading manuscripts for this year's contest. (We've already started reading the manuscripts, actually, and are rocking them as this is typed!) We should be able to have decisions made in May. Hopefully a little sooner, but it always takes us longer than we think it will.
News [01.16.08]: New POE TRY Shorts, the Evil Gerbil T-Shirt available for order. Click the increasingly inaccurately named t-shirts link at left.
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News [01.14.08]: New chapbooks (Zwartjes, Monson) released and available for preorder, respectively.
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stitched (a surface opens): Arianne Zwartjes These intricate essays use mathematics and poetry, the intersection of language and thought, to interrogate and describe the world. The cast list includes Gauss, Euclid, Weil, Rumi, Heidegger, Eliot, Carson, and Calvino. Thinky and beautiful, Zwartjes's essays are open, electrical explorations in space. 5.5" x 8.5", 48pp. $8.00 ISBN: 978-1-934832-02-8 Shipping now. * Go to the Ordering page at left to buy! |
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Our Aperture: Ander Monson Elegaic and occasionally formal as always, this new collection of Monson's poems explores virtual and physical spaces, lining up world after world after world. These poems list, go associative, riffing on the manifestations of our manufactured lives. From methylchloroisothiazolinone, the wonderfully-named shampoo ingredient, to actor Wil Wheaton and digital shivs, these poems explore the muchness and emptiness of our lives. [Preorder: chapbook released and shipped on 30 January 2008] 5.5" x 8.5", 40pp. $8.00 ISBN: 978-1-934832-03-5 * Go to the Ordering page at left to buy! |
News [12.02.07]: New chapbooks (McGlynn! Zompa!) released.
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Scorpionica: Karyna McGlynn These are dark and playful, sometimes brutal, seemingly confessional poems. Here you will find: long electric hair, death by tetherball rope, sex, termite-infested houses, potato salads, prehistoric birds, body of missing teen found in family shed, a cousin’s slender curling neck, and suburban barbarism, among much more. 5.5" x 8.5", 36pp. $8.00 ISBN: 978-1-934832-01-1 * Go to the Ordering page at left to buy! |
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Jacket of the Straits: Vincent Zompa Presented here for you: three long and beautiful, spatial and fragmented, poems, variously influenced by Jorge Luis Borges’ Labyrinths, by James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, and by influence itself. There’s much water here, and language, book and song, all taken apart and reassembled into something surprising and new. 5.5" x 8.5", 40pp. $8.00 ISBN: 978-0-9791501-8-0
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News [11.25.07]: Release dates for the rest of the 2007-08 season:
12.01.07: Karyna McGlynn, Vincent Zompa
01.15.08: Ander Monson, Arianne Zwartjes
04.01.08: Paul Guest
News [11.17.07]: Charles Jensen's The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon joins the roster and is available for order today.
News [10.20.07]: 2007 Chapbook Contest winner Mathias Svalina's chapbook Creation Myths is available for purchase on the ORDERING page. Many more chapbooks are forthcoming as part of the 2007-08 season by: Paul Guest, Charles Jensen, Karyna McGlynn, Ander Monson, Vincent Zompa, and Arianne Zwartjes. Buy one or buy all (subscribe to the 2007-08 series on the ORDERING page).
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The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon: Charles Jensen This beautiful, haunting text describes Maribel Dixon’s crossing over to the Ghost-World and Edward’s attempts to reach her there, to bring her back or go himself—via found documents, interviews, prose fragments, and reassembled poems. 5.5" x 8.5", 36pp. $8.00 ISBN: 978-1-934832-00-4. * Go to the Ordering page at left to buy! |
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Creation Myths: Mathias Svalina This book offers, as the title suggests, a variety of creation myths that come in as beautiful, thoughtful, bizarre, hilarious, absurd, theological, disturbing, wack, and generally spectacular. Svalina has answers to most, if not all, of your theological questions concerning dimensionality, bacon, Larry Bird, teambuilding, chemistry, Des Moines, office supplies, and unexpected catastrophe. 5.5" x 8.5", 44pp. $8.00. ISBN: 978-0-9791501-9-7. * Go to the Ordering page at left to buy! |
News [09.14.07]: We are hard at work on the production of our winning and finalist chapbooks from the 2007 contest. Should have new guidelines for 2008 up in October.
In the meantime, though, we would like to invite all previous NMP chapbook contest finalists and authors to submit a new chapbook manuscript for consideration in October 2007. No contest, no fees, just reading and maybe some publishing. Email it to the nmp--at--thediagram.com address or snail mail to our home address. Send a SASE or email address to make sure we can get in touch with you.
News [06.01.07]: Chapbook Contest results are up.
News [04.11.07]: Melissa Ginsburg's chapbook Arbor, the last of our 2006 finalists, is released. Information below.
The chapbook contest deadline has passed. We look forward to the reading. Announcement via SASEs and website will be made of the results in early June, hopefully before.
The $5 innovative fiction contest deadline has passed too. We'll contact finalists and winners, and post the results here in May.
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Arbor: Melissa Ginsburg Poems that exist in and emanate out of silence and horizontal spaces, and a great deal of cold, Ginsburg's excellent Arbor is dark and clear and beautiful, all still water and towering columns of air. [Download Press Release in PDF] 5.5" x 8.5", 36pp. $8.00. ISBN: 978-0-9791501-4-2. * Go to the Ordering page at left to buy! |
News [02.25.07]:
- A poem from Kristy Bowen's chapbook will be featured Wed., 2/28, on Poetry Daily
- Come see us and our authors at the AWP conference,
2/28-3/3, in Atlanta, Georgia. We are in the bookfair. Our authors are
signing at the following times at our table:
- Thursday, 1pm: GC Waldrep
- Thursday, 2pm: Kristy Bowen
- Friday, 2pm: Joshua Marie Wilkinson
- Friday, 3pm: Paul Guest
- Saturday, 11am: John Pursley III
- Saturday, 1pm: Stephanie Anderson
- Saturday, 2pm: Jason Bredle
News [01.27.07]: New chapbooks out now: John Pursley III's A Conventional Weather and Kristy Bowen's Feign.
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A Conventional Weather: John Pursley III These poems include all of the following: supermarket fluourescence, wood thrushes, Chet Baker, geological strata, periodicity, failure, kerosene, gasoline, and varieties of light. Plus more of course. They’re restless, thoughtful, always in motion. You will enjoy following their constantly surprising and entertaining gaze. [Download Press Release in PDF] 5.5" x 8.5", 48pp. $8.00. ISBN: 978-0-9791501-3-5. * Go to the Ordering page at left to buy! |
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Feign: Kristy Bowen Bowen writes: "And what else to do with a girl / with a mouth like a dirty book, / a burnt out car." We could not have said it better ourselves. We'd rather just listen to her characters acting out in these ingenious poems. They're beautiful, not a little dangerous, a touch magical, algebraical (if that's a word at all—well, it is now; Bowen has driven us, pleasingly, to this). They are good. Better than. 48pp, $8. [Download Press Release in PDF] 5.5" x 8.5", 48pp. $8.00. ISBN: 978-0-9791501-2-8. * Go to the Ordering page at left to buy! |
News [01.08.07]: Stephanie Anderson's In the Particular Particular released! Next up (Jan/Feb 07) are: John Pursley III's A Conventional Weather, Melissa Ginsburg's Arbor, and Kristy Bowen's Feign.
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In the Particular Particular: Stephanie Anderson It's a great debut: we are thrilled to announce the publication of Stephanie Anderson's chapbook In the Particular Particular, winner of the 2006 NMP/DIAGRAMchapbook contest. These poems smoke when sprayed with water: that is how hot they are. (Technically that's evaporation, but it looks a lot like smoke.) They are each like evaporations, evocations, interactions with the world via verb and adjective and noun. They are gloriously in love with language, and we believe you will love them in return. [Download Press Release in PDF] 5.5" x 8.5", 48pp. $8.00. ISBN: 978-0-9791501-1-1. Go to the Ordering page at left to buy! |
News [09.15.06]: Paul Guest's Exit Interview is released. More Chapbooks to Come. New T-Shirts Are Here!
Just released, Paul Guest's new chapbook, Exit Interview. It's is available for order now on our ordering page.$8 + shipping. It's great. The work here is lyric, luminous, hilarious and heartbreaking by turns. Axe that: that description just doesn't do it justice; it's blurbese. Let us just say that this is really good. The poems are tender and speculative, lit up by Elvis, Jonny Quest, robot butlers and the general widespread need for them, the invisible man, Godzilla, and the worlds of pain and memory and love.
[Download Press Release in PDF]
Also, why not order the entire 2006 chapbook season by subscription? [$35] gets you all the chapbooks published from July 06 to February 2007. See the ordering page for more!
At left is our new and lovely t-shirt design, perfect for the poets in your life. Available now. They come only in white thus far (albeit with some options, and they're high quality Ts, American Apparel, don't you know). This is the first of more to come.
Click here or the [t-shirts] link at left to see a larger version and order.
Also available: new, one-of-a-kind MFA t-shirts. See the same link.
And soon to come are new NMP chapbooks by our 2006 winner, Stephanie Anderson, and also Melissa Ginsburg (February 07), Kristy Bowen (February 07) and John Pursley (Fall 06). More information here when we have it.
News [06.01.06]: The Contest Results are Announced
Click [here], yo, for the full list of winners and finalists. If you sent a SASE for results, it's been sent out to you. If you sent us a SASE for a chapbook, we'll fire it off when the winner is published later this summer or early in fall. Thanks very much for your support if you entered.
News [02.13.06]:
Just released, 2004 NMP/DIAGRAM chapbook contest finalist Sima Rabinowitz brings you a chapbook exploring the interior lives of spiritualists, scientists, and taxonomists. Available for purchase today through the ordering page at your left. Buy yours today: only $8 + shipping.
G.C. Waldrep's The Batteries is available now! Buy this lovely chapbook, a lyric meditation on the now-abandoned California seacoast fortifications of the Marin Headlands, now. In typical Waldrep fashion, these longer poems are thoughtful and evocative, introspective and fluid, above all, luminous. Includes photographs by Jennifer MacKenzie.
News [01.26.06]:
The DIAGRAM.2 print anthology is out and available for your purchase. Buy online through amazon, better bookstores, and the ordering page at left.
