Octopus Magazine #10

Edited by the dynamic duo of Zachary Schomburg & Mathias Svalina, the tenth issue of Octopus Magazine is online. And it's bloody huge. TSky Press authors Sandy Florian, GC Waldrep, and Joshua Marie Wilkinson (interviewing Dorothea Lasky) represent, as do TSky Journal contributors Claire Becker, Hillary Gravendyk, Steve Langan, Ada Limon, Laura Sims, and Bethany Wright. This list hardly scratches the surface, however; you'll find about 70 other folks in there as well. No kidding.

We're pleased to say the issue also includes the most thorough reading to date, of Max Winter's The Pictures, courtesy of Lucy Ives. Click here to read it & everything else.

Sascha Aurora Akhtar's The Grimoire of Grimalkin

Conceived during passionate affairs with French fin-de-siècle literature and Russian poets from the 1920s of the obscure kind, Sascha Aurora Akhtar's The Grimoire of Grimalkin is for lovers, lovers of words, and lovers of language itself. Language melts into a bubbling cauldron of delicious trickery, sex and death, magick and mayhem and, above all, love. This is a work of contemporary Gothic, with a punk core and an anarchic sense of humour.

Currently available in hardcover only, from Salt. Paperback on the way . . .

Some AWP Discoveries--& Thanks

For the most part, these are books & journals that are new, or that we hadn't heard of, or that we'd heard of, but didn't own. Most were given to us--and for this we extend heartfelt thanks the authors and/or publishers.

Hugh and Mary Behm-Steinberg, A Book of Days, Pt.1: Sorcery (Dusie, 2007)
Big Bell (Big Bell, 2007(?))
Dan Boehl, Work (Pavement Saw Press, 2007)
Ana Bozicevic-Bowling, Document (Octopus Books, 2007)
William Cirocco, aerolith (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007)
Julia Cohen, Who Could Forget the Sensational First Evening of the Night (H_NGM_N B__KS, 2007)
Coowee Scoowee 2007 (Rogers State University, 2007)
Copper Nickel #9 (University of Colorado, Denver, 2008)
Degrees of Separation (featherproof books, 2007)
Scott Dennis, Very/Hyper (Forklift, Ink., 2007)
DJ Dolack, The Sad Meal (Eye for an Iris Press, 2005)
Julie Doxsee, Undersleep (Octopus Books, 2008)
Eleven Eleven, Vol.4 (California College of Arts & Letters, 2007)
Equilibrium #7 (2nd Ed., Aleph Knot Press, 2008)
Lou Faber, East and West (The Legal Studies Forum, Vol. XXXII, No. 1, 2008)
Lou Faber, New & Selected Poems (The Legal Studies Forum, Vol. XXX, No. 1 & 2, 2006)
Flint Hills Review #12, 2007
Forklift, OH, Issue #17, Summer 2007
Forklift, OH, Issue #18, Winter 2008
Jaime Luis Huenun, Port Trakl (Daniel Borzutzky, trans., Action Books, 2008)
Kim Hyesoon, Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Don Mee Choi, trans., Action Books, 2008)
Interim, Vol.26, No.1&2 (University of Nevada, 2008)
Sophie Klahr, ______ Versus Recovery (Pilot Books, 2007)
Rauan Klassnik, Holy Land (Black Ocean Press, 2008)
Reb Livingston, Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books, 2007)
Jill Magi, Threads (Futurepoem Books, 2007)
Matchbook, Vol.1 (Small Fires Press, 2004)
Peter Money, Blue Square (CD, Pax Recordings, 2008)
Peter Money, Che. (galley, Harbor Mountain Press, 2007)
Sawako Nakayasu, nothing fictional but the accuracy or arrangement//(she (Quale Press, 2006)
Robert Nichols, Address to the Smaller Animals (reissue, Harbor Mountain Press, 2008)
David Oliveira, A Little Travel Story (Harbor Mountain Press, 2008)
Danielle Pafunda, My Zorba (Bloof Books, 2008)
Parthenon West Review #5 (Parthenon West Books, 2007)
Kevin Rabas, Bird's Horn & Other Poems (Coal City Review Press, 2007)
Chad Reynolds, Victor in the New World (Rope-a-Dope Press, 2007)
Mary Ruefle, Go Home and Go to Bed (Orange Table Comics/Pilot Books, 2007)
Lori Shine, Coming Down in White (Pilot Books, 2007)
Claudia Smith, The Sky is a Well (Rose Metal Press, 2007)
Chad Sweeney, An Architecture (BlazeVox Books, 2007)
Mark Tursi, The Impossible Picnic (BlazeVox Books, 2007)
Mark Tursi, Shiftless Days (Noemi Press, 2007)
Karen Volkman, One Might (The Press Gang, 2007)
Jonah Winter, Book Reports (2nd Ed., Octopus Books, 2007)