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.

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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.

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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.

Join us on Thursday, September 10th at 7PM for the 7th Season Kickoff of d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

ACA Galleries
529 W. 20th St., 5th Floor
NYC

Readings from Mary Walker Graham, Justin Marks, Kate Schapira, Kim Gek Lin Short, Sampson Starkweather, and Chris Tonelli

Music from Erik Schoster of He Can Jog

Please note that there's been a time change. The reading is now at 7PM, not 6.

The complete Welcome to Boog City Festival schedule is available for download here.

Golden Gloves 2

We're pleased to announce that Series Editor Chris Tonelli has chosen Kim Gek Lin Short's Run as the second Golden Gloves Series Chapbook.

Kim Gek Lin Short is the author of The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits (Tarpaulin Sky Press 2010) and the chapbook The Residents (dancing girl press 2008). She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and young daughter.

Congratulations as well to our finalists Friedrich Kerksieck (A Picnic is a Picnic) and Michael Robins (Circus, forthcoming from Flying Guillotine Press).

Thanks to everyone who submitted during the Golden Gloves open reading period. We enjoyed reading your work, and hope to see more of it in the future!

If you’re in (or near) New York on Thursday, September 10th, please join us for the D.A. Levy Lives Reading Series, at ACA Galleries in Chelsea, as part of the Welcome to Boog City poetry and music festival. Readers will include RAD poets Kate Schapira, Chris Tonelli, Sampson Starkweather, Mary Walker Graham, Kim Gek Lin Short, and Justin Marks. Eric Schoster of He Can Jog will also be there to make some noise. And there’ll be art, and books, and wine, and cheese! Woooo. (Details, directions, and a full schedule will be available here shortly).

Thanks again for supporting Rope-a-Dope.

Justin Marks on Poetic Asides

Justin Marks interviewed by Robert Lee Brewer here.

Voir Dire is still available! Scroll down to find the PayPal button.

Meanwhile, in Moth Land . . .

Rauan Klassnik interviews Sampson Starkweather here.

And Dan Magers reviews the chap here.

Drink up.

Open Submissions

We're reading chapbook manuscripts for the Golden Gloves Chapbook Series until March 31st. Please send us your work! Guidelines below (scroll down, and please read 'em!).

City of Moths

“My friend thinks that poetry has nothing to do with words. Poetry, she says, is a mountain. An actual mountain. A thing that fools climb simply ‘because it’s there.’ Poetry is there, but why do we constantly feel the need to prove it exists? To point to it? Like a mountain appearing in the distance. ‘Be an uncarved block of wood’ is what the Sarah Lawrence kids, who hadn’t slept in 40-some hours, still high off ecstasy and acid, sitting Indian-style on the rock, otherwise-silent, would shout at me during tennis matches. They were right. What lies in the uncarved block of wood. Whorls and grains, stories and held smoke. Surrounded by. My block of wood, another person’s mountain. The sound of a finger pointing to some unseen thing. To be reckoned with, or perhaps, reckoned by. Something to draw a door in” (page 6, City of Moths).

Sampson Starkweather was born in Pittsboro, North Carolina. He is the author of The Photograph from horse less press. His work can be found in Typo, Octopus, jubilat, Absent, Tarpaulin Sky, RealPoetik, and Sink Review. He lives in the woods alone.

Golden Gloves Chapbook Series, 2008/2009. Stab bound, with letterpress printed cover. Printed in an addition of 144, of which the first twelve are signed by the author. $10 includes shipping.

SOLD OUT.

Little Johnny Wants A Broadside!

And so do you. They make wonderful bathroom reads, and also come in a water-proof bag to keep you dry from those wintery showers. He also wants a copy of The Jungle, City of Moths, and Victor in the New World. (Sorry Johnny, we're out of that!)

Open Submissions February-March 2009

Rope-a-Dope Press will read chapbook manuscripts during our first open submissions period, February-March 2009. The selection will be published in the Spring of 2009 as part of the first annual Golden Gloves Chapbooks Series.* This year's Series is edited by Chris Tonelli.

Please submit two copies of your original poetry manuscript, 15-35 pages, postmarked between January 25th and March 31st. Include two title pages with each copy: one with your name, contact information, and title of your manuscript; the second with title only.

We look forward to reading your work. A selection (and finalists) will be announced in the spring.

Mail your submission to:
Golden Gloves Chapbook Series
Rope-a-Dope Press
516 East 2nd Street, #42
South Boston, MA 02127

Include an SASE if you would like your manuscript returned. Entries without an SASE will be recycled after they have been considered.

Please consider buying some of our other chapbooks to get a feel for what we like. City of Moths, by Sampson Starkweather, and For People Who Like Gravity and Other People by Chris Tonelli, are forthcoming in the Golden Gloves Series and will be made available soon on this site.

Thank you!

*Three chapbooks are published annually through the Golden Gloves Chapbook Series. A guest editor works with Rope-a-Dope founders Mary Walker Graham and Robert daVies to select one chapbook through solicitation, one through open submissions, and one his/her own.

Open Studios

South Boston Open Studios is this weekend, November 1 and 2. Stop by The Distillery and see us!

Grand Finale!

Poems by Dorothea Lasky, Dara Wier, and James Tate.

Silkscreen and drawing by this month's featured artist, Robert daVies.

10 x 22" on Rives BFK, perforated to be torn into three panels. Text set by hand in metal type and printed on a Vandercook SP20 at Rope-a-Dope Press Collaborative.

$24 includes shipping.

Miss September - the eve of our expression

Poems by Rauan Klassnik, Justin Marks, and Lisa Olstein.

Silkscreen by this month's featured artist, Tricia Gray.

10 x 22" on Rives BFK, perforated to be torn into three panels. Text set by hand in metal type and printed on a Vandercook SP20 at Rope-a-Dope Press Collaborative.

$24 includes shipping.

BluePRINT Opening Reception

BluePRINT, an exhibit exclusively featuring artists working in The Distillery, will open next Tuesday, September 30th, from 7-9pm at The Blue Room in Kendall Square, Cambridge. This exhibit has been coordinated by Scott Chasse, Robert daVies, and Mary Walker Graham, all having work in the show as well. Please stop by the reception if you have a chance, or visit the restaurant on your own time to check out the work and have a great meal and/or drinks!

Click here for more info about the Blue Room.

And here for a complete list of participating artists.

A Smaller Type of Book

Mark Yakich's What, Friends, IS A City? is the latest book printed by Rope-a-Dope Collaborative's Thumbsized Editions.
All books are individually crafted and put through whatever method we can get our hands on. Next stop: Justin Marks!

Golden Gloves

Rope-A-Dope Press has chosen Sampson Starkweather's City of Moths as the first Golden Gloves Series Chapbook.

Sampson Starkweather is the author of The Photograph from Horse Less Press. He lives in Chappaqua, NY where he is an editor of physics and chemistry books.

Congratulations as well to our finalists Justin Marks (Voir Dire), Douglas Hahn (Standing Wave), and Phil Cordelli (The Incorporation). Rope-A-Dope has decided to publish Justin Marks' Voir Dire as well.

Justin Marks is the author of A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press, forthcoming 2009). His latest chapbook is [Summer insular] (Horse Less Press, 2007). He is the founder and Editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City.

As finalists, Douglas Hahn and Phil Cordelli will be considered automatic finalists for our open reading period, February-March 2009*. We invite all of you to submit then as well, and thank you for the opportunity to consider your work.

Best,

Chris Tonelli
Series Editor

*Please do not send manuscripts prior to the open submissions period. We can only consider manuscripts postmarked between January 25 and March 31, 2009. Please check back soon for more details regarding manuscript requirements and format. Thank you.