from our 2018 Chapbook Series, Laura Villareal’s The Cartography of Sleep <3
from our 2018 Chapbook Series, Stephen Furlong’s What Loss Taught Me <3
"passion : what keeps you up late at night and wakes you up in the morning"
mallory smart (@malsmart) is a Chicago-based writer and the Editor-in-Chief of Maudlin House. She is the author of “I’m AntiSocial, Coffee Never Lies” and “HIPSTER IDIOT”. Her first full length poetry collection, "I Want To Feel Happy But I Only Feel__." is coming out soon.
HOPE THINGS WORK OUT, TWEET SOMETHING VAGUE IF THEY DON’T
life can come at you fast if you’re strong enough smart enough and willing to just fucking hurt people enough maybe it was march maybe i listened to the airborne toxic event maybe on the hood of the car that night maybe i even thought of your face sometimes i do think of your face and your beard and how it might feel and then I remember that it is not mine to feel another face belongs to me and i know that that’s not fair i thought it would kill me it didn't
“Hope Things Work Out, Tweet Something Vague If They Don’t” is previously published in Fuck Art, Let’s Dance Issue #014
Source: SoundCloud / Nostrovia! Press
“Five bright Tucson lights to help ease what sometimes seems like the darkest of days”
We’re stoked to see F.A.L.D. #013's Feature Poet Teré Fowler-Chapman on the cover of our Tucson Weekly !!
Teré is a vivid light in our desert community--working hard at Words on the Avenue to provide an empowering space for local poets to be vulnerable & share their work.
Dig into the Weekly’s “Creative Soul” by Adiba Nelson to get a slice of a vibe for our potent little desert community. Featured alongside Teré are local, lucid voices Deanna Din + Elizabeth Denneau + Jaca Zulu + Anton Russell.
“Tucson has the privilege of holding space for some of the most multifaceted creatives this side of the Mississippi. First up, Tere Fowler Chapman, poet and host of the monthly poetry gathering Words On The Avenue, and, the newly minted playwright, whose first play opened at Centennial Hall, and closed to a standing ovation.
Not only did Teré just give a most compelling TED Talks presentation on the power of poetics and showing up "as you are," but they literally have the capacity to make you question your life and claim your life in the same breath, with merely a pen and paper. They believe that poetry is a life-saving instrument, much like an airport defibrillator, the Heimlich, or a stranger giving you CPR.
When asked why poetry, Teré says 'I am not sure.’"
Much love <3 Cheers!
Source: tucsonweekly.com
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Oi! We’re stoked to announce the floodgates have opened for @nostroviapoetry’s 2016 Chapbook Contest!
FREE TO SUBMIT! TWO-DAY ‘FLASH’ SUBMISSION PERIOD THRU 3/23 + 3/24!
- Winners’ books debut at 2016 N.Y.C. Poetry Festival, and have the opportunity to represent N! on stage
- E-book release ~Late 2016
- Winners are invited to feature @ N!‘s yearly online reading
- Winners receive ~25 free author copies & will have their chapbooks shared across two small print runs
- Winners will have their chapbooks reviewed within N!‘s network of allies
- Prose or Poetry welcome, as well as Hybrid or Translation
- Traditional or Experimental styles are fine
for more details, check this link <3
Oi! Nostrovia!'s 2016 Chapbook Contest has opened the floodgates to submissions thru 3/23 + 3/24!
Like last year, entry is free. Winners debut at the 2016 NYC Poetry Festival, & have the option to represent themselves + N! on stage. Later in 2016, winners have the option to feature at N!'s online gathering, & the collections will be made available as PDFs. Prose + poetry + hybrid + translation are welcome. Christopher Morgan & I are stoked to read your subs & continue using N! as an amp for great writers in our community.
From Arkansas arrests to busking New Orleans to dirty street poet ciphers in the Bay, we had one hell of a weird year distributing 2015's Chapbook Contest winners. Shit, I danced around muggy NH parking lots dressed as an Oreo to get gas funds.
Yeah, we're looking forward to 2016's unraveling.
Submission Guidelines + full details, check this link <3
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Michael McClure reading poetry to lions
Traveling pop-up bookstore seeks examples of Passion
Books & Shovels, a nonprofit traveling pop-up bookstore, has begun accepting book / zines / [ anything that exhibits passion ] donations once again! We distribute the materials we receive at a pay-what-you-can rate to rip monetary drive out of the throat of art, and promote Passionate Living > Making a Living.
We get dirty doing this jazz. We live out of the Books & Shovels vehicle, hitting open…
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GREETINGS, FRIENDS!
Jeremiah (runtraccoonrevolution) and I have been reading and rereading these last three weeks, discussing your manuscripts! It’s incredibly clear that our community really trusts what we’re doing at Nostrovia! Poetry, as so many of you submitted an incredible mix of work we’d never seen before!
By the first weekend, we quickly realized five finalists couldn’t properly acknowledge all your hard work–so we’ve gone and doubled the count! We’re so excited to share the following list of Nostrovia! Chapbook Finalists(!):
- Dalton Day – “To Breathe I’m Too Thin”
- Meg Eden – “I am Linwood Eden or Current Resident”
- Logan Ellis – “City of Broken Analogies”
- Leah Mueller – “Allergic to Everything”
- Bob Schofield – “Moon Facts”
- Beach Sloth – “March 23rd, 2015″
- August Smith – “Bird Lizard Horse”
- Adam Tedesco – “Psycho Genetic Trans Fur”
- Barrett Warner – “Twin Speech”
- Sarah Xerta – “Juliet (II)”
From this pool of ten, we’ll (somehow, ugh!) be selecting our three winners–for details on the prize, check this earlier article. Again, thank you so much for your continued support of Nostrovia! Poetry–we have some big goals in mind and are fueled by your love! CHEERS!
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FRIENDS! Jeremiah Walton and I are thrilled to officially announce Nostrovia! Poetry‘s first ever chapbook contest! We know so many talented writers are looking for the proper place to send their work, and we want to help publish and promote you. With that in mind, we’re going to pick three winners for this contest(!), allowing us to publish a diverse set of styles and backgrounds. And since Nostrovia! Poetry is all about passionate living for our community, this opportunity is FREE.
Inspired by biglucks's recent BEST PRIZE contest, we're following flash submission conventions—sometime next week we'll announce that the floodgates have opened, giving you 48 hours to submit!
Submission Details
- submissions must be in standard format (doc / docx / rtf)
- we love poetry, prose, and hybrid forms!
- traditional and experimental styles are both great!
- we’re open to collaborations, translation, and anything you can think of–surprise us!
- we prefer ~20-25 pages, but will consider up to ~30 pages (note: this includes all front material, as a cover page & table of contents are required. And please include an acknowledgments page for any previously published pieces)
Winners & Prizes
All three winners will receive:
- their MS printed, with contributors receiving 25 copies each
- sharp customized cover art for their books, courtesy of Kyle Harvey’s expertise!
- focused promotion by the Nostrovia! family
Furthermore, winners’ books will debut at 2015 NYC Poetry Festival in July, where Nostrovia! has a vendors table for debut + distribution of your work.
You’ll have the option to represent yourself & Nostrovia! by hitting the stage with us! And from there, your chapbooks will distributed through Nostrovia!‘s traveling pop-up bookstore, Books & Shovels, taken across the country to LitQuake in San Francisco!
ATTENTION EVERYONE!!!
Nostrovia! Poetry’s 2015 Chapbook Contest has OFFICIALLY BEGUN!
You will have until the end of Tuesday the 24th (at midnight, PST) to submit your chapbook to: [email protected]
Jeremiah (runtraccoonrevolution) and I can’t wait to read your work and appreciate you sharing this update! :D
THE CHAPBOOK CONTEST HAS BEGUN! You have 48 hours to submit, unless you can squeeze more than 24 hours from a day. Submissions run 3/23/15 thru 3/24/15. Entry is free. Winners debut at the 2015 NYC Poetry Festival, and have the option to represent themselves + Nostrovia! on stage at the Festival. Please read the Submission Guidelines before submitting. Re-blogging this post to help spread the word is greatly appreciated. Cheers!
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Upcoming Nostrovia! Poetry Chapbook Contest
Hi everyone! Wanted to give you all some advanced warning that Jeremiah Walton and I are hosting a chapbook contest in the next ~2 weeks!
We’ll have all the official info next week, but we’re looking for prose or poetry, about 25 pages. Three manuscripts will be picked as winners, printed as the primary focus for Nostrovia! Poetry’s advertising in 2015!
So excited to receive and judge some great chapbooks!!
Walking Is Still Honest Press & The Southern Collective Experience
ATTENTION ALL:
Walking Is Still Honest is up & running with new spine. The initial domains acquired to manage the website expired. I’m currently writing this in Tucson, Arizona, where Nostrovia! Poetry has been hosting shows, is preparing for the 2015 NYC Poetry Festival, and relaunching its love. There’s a lot of pancakes stacked here. Having gotten off the road recently, the financial…
Books & Shovels
Books & Shovels is a cross country pop-up bookstore that debuted at the 2014 NYC Poetry Festival. Founded under Nostrovia! Poetry’s umbrella, Books & Shovels toured from Manchester, New Hampshire, to Denver, Colorado, hitting open mics, slams, festivals, and street corners along the way.
We distributed poetry collections of all sorts, the hand bound and mass printed, zines and rags, paintings and…
The desert wants your blood
Tucson, Arizona, has been Nostrovia! Poetry’s and my base for the past month. We’ve gone from sleeping under a bridge, to a yurt, to a house, our small family slowly growing and cooperating to survive joyfully.
Tucson’s community is open arms. Tucson welcomed us with warm meals and kindness.
Bottlecap Press, Nostrovia!, and I organized the Mongolian Yurt Poetry Reading. ~80 people attended the…
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What the hell is in this mysterious manila envelope? Why would anyone sell a manila envelope without telling you what’s inside? Right now, maybe you don’t even
What the hell is in this mysterious manila envelope? Why would anyone sell a manila envelope without telling you what’s inside? Right now, maybe you don’t even care, but late tonight, when you’re lying in bed, you’re going to think about this envelope. It will keep you awake for days on end. You will be driven mad just thinking “what the hell was in that mysterious manila envelope.” Thinking “I should have bought that mysterious manila envelope.” Thinking “It was only $14 and now I’ll never know what’s inside.” Save yourself the trouble. For your own sake. Find. Out. What. Is. In. The. Envelope. Ed.- The total value of the contents of the envelope is guaranteed to meet or exceed the sale price of $14. Should you order more than one envelope, records will be kept to ensure that the contents of each new envelope will never be the same as the last.
2014 Memories
Here are photographs / videos from hitchhiking and tramping around the country, running Books & Shovels, the 2014 NYC Poetry Festival, #RuntRaccoonRevolution, my performances and shows, along with My Fistull of Moonbeams, living in Erie, P.A., and other weird jazz that occurred.
January, 2014
#ThisIsPoetry show in Springfield, IL
La…
Merry New Year, 2014 was a long scab
DEATH IS A FARMER IN A DIRTY WIFE-BEATER AND TORN JEANS HIS (or her) SCYTCHE HAS MORE FUNCTIONS THAN EVAPORATING BREATH
Looking down at the paper I am writing upon I see dark planets circling the sun.
Took a stab at yolo was reincarnated
I’ve died twice today.
once with the Moon & once drunk in tree tops.
Day offered itself to me
Dripping sun-blood all over face Wipe blood from lip
Morning awaits…
@ 2014 NYC Poetry Festival
I performed at the 2014 NYC Poetry Festival representing Nostrovia! Poetry, UndergroundBooks, and filling in for organizations that were unable to attend at the last minute. I hope you dig the performances! Cheers!
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