ANNOUNCE: Boxcar Poetry Review Issue 7 is Up

bprfirstbooks — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:42:28 +0000

Boxcar Poetry Review celebrates its first anniversary in grand style — check it out here

In this issue:

Poetry
Aaron Anstett
Lyn Barzilai
Tamiko Beyer
Sarah Browning
Edward Byrne
Susan Grimm
Mary Crockett Hill
Matt Mason
Benjamin Morris
James Owens
Lynn Strongin
Lenore Wilson

Photography
Arlene Ang

Reviews
Emily Fragos’ Little Savage – reviewed by Scott Hightower

Interviews & Conversations
The Lyric Leap: Conversation between Thomas Heise and Jason Schneiderman

Also check out the About page for a sneak preview of the 2006 anthology’s cover.

Great poems. Great prose. Great photography.

Happy birthday Boxcar Poetry Review!

ANNOUNCE: Boxcar Poetry Review Issue 6 Is Up

bprfirstbooks — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:45:03 +0000

The first issue of 2007 is up! Check out latest great poetry, reviews, interviews, and photography.

Read it here.

Featuring work from the following:

Poetry
Arlene Ang
Aaron Anstett
Lana Hechtman Ayers
Brent Fisk
Ann Wood Fuller
Do Gentry
Jude Goodwin
Matthew Little
Marty McConnell
Heather Salus
Erin Elizabeth Smith
Florencia Varela

Reviews
Michael Catherwood’s Dare ~ reviewed by Jason Kahler
Patrick Donnelly’s The Charge ~ reviewed by Tara Gorvine

Interview
Conversation Between First Book Poets: Alexander Long and Kate Northrop (Part 2/2)

Photography
Ed Heckerman

2006 Best of the Net Anthology News

bprfirstbooks — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:46:07 +0000

Congratulations to both Patrick Rosal and Stephen Powers whose poems were selected by Paul Guest for inclusion in the 2006 Best of the Net Anthology! Boxcar poets did well overall, with Patricia Bostian’s “Winter Solstice” and Rob Baum’s “Fields of Peace” both placing as finalists. You can read the anthology online here

Selected for the Anthology
Stephen Powers – “Sunday After” (Mar 2006)
Patrick Rosal – “The Blue Room” (May 2006)

Finalists
Rob Baum – “Fields of Peace” (May 2006)
Patricia Bostian – “Winter Solstice” (Mar 2006)

ANNOUNCE: Boxcar Poetry Review Issue 5 Is Up

bprfirstbooks — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:27:36 +0000

New issue of Boxcar Poetry Review is up

Read it here

Featuring:

Poetry
Theresa Boyar
Jared Carter
George David Clark
Jack Conway
Iris Dunkle
Ann Wood Fuller
Evelyn Lauer
Matt Merritt
Corey Mesler
Sally Molini
Matthew Olzmann
Brian Simoneau

Interview
First Book Poets in Conversation: Alexander Long and Kate Northrop (Part 1/2)

Review
Kathryn Maris’ Book of Jobs ~ reviewed by Greg Santos

Photography
Arthur Westover

ANNOUNCE: Boxcar Poetry Review Issue 4 is Up

bprfirstbooks — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:47:06 +0000

The new issue is up — read it here

Poetry
Arlene Ang
Jon Ballard
Pris Campbell
George David Clark
Michael Estabrook
Amanda Laughtland
Willie Lin
Marty McConnell
Benjamin Morris
Erin Elizabeth Smith
Laurie Soslow
John Sweet

Photography
J. Marcus Weekley

Review
Puerta del Sol by Francisco Aragon — reviewed by Ruben Quesada

News from Barbara Jane Reyes (Review up at Pedestal Magazine)

bprfirstbooks — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:29:52 +0000

Barbara Jane Reyes wrote us recently and let us know that Collin Kelly’s review of her new book poeta en san francisco (Tinfish Press 2006) is up at the Pedestal Magazine. You can check it out here.

Click on the book below to go to Amazon and get your own copy of this award-winning collection.

“I displace the air as I walk,” by Marjorie Kanter

bprfirstbooks — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:52:49 +0000

Marjorie Kanter’s first book of short literary pieces/poems was published in 2004 by Ediciones La Espiral Escrita. This is a collection of her writings from her journals of the past eighteen years, during which time she has traveled through Madrid, the Dominican Republic, Morocco, and the United States. Please go to her website to learn more about her work: www.elasunto.com/mkd.htm.

FIRST BOOK OUT: “Dare” by Michael Catherwood (Backwaters Press)

bprfirstbooks — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:41:49 +0000

Congratulations to Michael Catherwood! He just wrote and let us know that his first book “Dare” has been published and is now available through Backwaters Press.

You can read more about it on the Backwaters Press site here.

Boxcar Poetry Review – Web Statistics for July

bprfirstbooks — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:45:09 +0000

Just a quick report for those curious about web statistics for the most recent issue of Boxcar Poetry Review

For the month of July

Page Loads: 1108
Unique Visitors: 821
Return Visits: 190

Now that’s impressive for a third issue!

News from Jared Carter (New Book)

bprfirstbooks — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 23:39:08 +0000

Jared Carter sent us word of his new book, Cross this Bridge at a Walk, just out (June 2006) from Wind Publications in Kentucky – http://windpub.com/books/bridgewalk.html

At this URL – http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1893239462/qid=1151854804/ — Amazon.com describes the book as follows:

The sixteen narrative poems and monologues in Jared Carter’s fourth collection of poems range across the American landscape from New England to the Midwest. Some take place during the American Revolution and the Civil War, while others date from the Great Depression or the period following the Second World War.

The phrase “Cross this Bridge at a Walk” is a traditional sign that may still be seen posted at the entrances of the many nineteenth-century covered bridges that survive in rural areas throughout Carter’s native Indiana. Opinion differs about what the sign meant to persons riding or driving horses a hundred and fifty years ago.

Some believe that galloping a horse across such a bridge would have set up rhythmic vibrations that could have been dangerous to the bridge’s structure. Others suggest it was simply a “No Speeding” sign for an occasionally congested area. Appropriately, the author offers one of his own photographs of a covered-bridge interior for the book’s front cover. This interior image invites us into a mysterious, shadowy, sun-dappled world. It is an old-fashioned Hoosier invitation to take one’s time with the poems to be found within.

Jared Carter is a Midwestern poet, based in Indianapolis, with three previous collections published during the last twenty-five years.

You can read about his earlier books on my web site at http://www.jaredcarter.com/books/ If you roll the curser over any of the three boxes and click on the thumbnails, more information will appear.