Also, Mary will be reading here:

The Boston Center for the Arts

February 23, 2011
10-12pm

Please come! (Click for details.)

CUNY Chapfest

We're going to this.

Hope you are too!

FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE GRAVITY AND OTHER PEOPLE by Chris Tonelli

Word. Chris Tonelli is everyone's favorite person, and an awesome poet besides. Did you know this chap includes a DVD? What are you waiting for? Click it.

$10 includes shipping.

The poems in this collection are also featured in Affects of Gravity and Untitled (Affects of Gravity), a public art installation and short film by Andi Sutton, conceived in collaboration with Chris Tonelli and sponsored by the MIT Council for the Arts.

Cover art by Kenichi Hoshine.

RUN by Kim Gek Lin Short

Kim Gek Lin Short's manuscript was selected from among the many dozens of submissions we received during our Golden Gloves open reading period. Congratulations, Kim.

Printed and handsewn in an edition of 144.
48 pages.

Our thanks to all who helped us print and fold and sew, and especially to artist Morgan Thomas, who drew the boots for the cover.

About RUN: In the technicolor timewarp called Hell, Hong Kong wannabe cowgirl La La is hellbent on realizing her dream to be a folk-singing sensation, even if it means surviving a dysfunctional relationship with her kidnapper, Ren, who is just hellbent. Ren thinks he'll win, but La La, dead or alive, always wins.

$10 includes shipping.

She had her country superstar humility . . .

Kim modeling RUN.

Mary modeling RUN.

Want to model RUN? Want to write a review?
Send us an email: ropeadope.press@gmail.com

RUN at AWP

Pre-release copies of RUN, by Kim Gek Lin Short, are available at the AWP Conference in Denver this weekend. Kim's manuscript was selected during our open submissions period for the Golden Gloves Chapbook Series. Stop by our table, shared with BIRDS, LLC and Brave Men Press, to pick up a copy.

Did we mention the first 12 copies come with a horse?

Pictures (and a PayPal button) coming soon.

Split Decision

The final collection of Manila Broadsides from Rope-a-Dope Press and The So and So Series. A slide show here.

Poems by: Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Elizabeth Bradfield, Lily Brown, Sommer Browning, Jennifer Firestone, Kevin Gallagher, Rauan Klassnik, Dorothea Lasky, Justin Marks, Hazel McClure, Lisa Olstein, Sarah Rosenthal, Zachary Schomburg, Janaka Stucky, James Tate, Jon Thompson, Aaron Tieger, Besty Wheeler, Dara Wier, and Mark Yakich

Prints by: Bartleby, Thomas Buildmore, Scott Chasse, Mike Dacey, Robert daVies, Tricia Gray, Vanessa Irzyk, and Carrie Siegel

Colophon

A collaboration between Rope-a-Dope Press and The So and So Series, Split Decision was made by hand in an edition of twelve in the autumn of 2009. The first twelve of each of The Manila Broadsides, Volume Two, published between April and October 2008 in editions of sixty, are collected within its covers. Our thanks to all of the Manila poets and artists--especially Mike Dacey, who lent us his Vandercook.

Curator, The So and So Series: Chris Tonelli
Art Direction, The Manila Broadsides: Robert daVies
Letterpress Printing: Jeremiah Gould & Mary Walker Graham
Book Design & Production: Mary Walker Graham

Cover: Iris bookcloth; screenprint & stencil by Thomas Buildmore
Endpages: Hahnemuhle Bugra; screenprint by Robert daVies
Text: Rives BFK; handset metal type printed on a Vandercook SP20
Binding: handwaxed linen thread

[Photo Credit: Jeremiah Gould. Thanks Jeremiah! You rule.]

Voir Dire

Justin Marks is the author of A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press, April 2009). He is the founder and editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City with his wife and their infant son and daughter.

Rope-a-Dope Press, 2009. Letterpress printed in an edition of 96, with illustrations by Robert daVies. $8 includes shipping.