We are now reading for Issue 6 from June 15 through September 15! Please submit via Submishmash. You may submit any form of work, in any form. Evident familiarity with 1913 is a plus. There is a nominal $2.00 reading fee, for which we apologize in advance. Please contact 1913press@gmail.com with any questions.
You can see the fab work that we've already published in Issues 1 and 2, available here and here as PDFs.
1913 @ Boog City in NYC Tuesday 6/28!
Boog City presents d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press...
1913 Press
FREE!
Event will be hosted by 1913 founder and editrice Sandra Doller
Featuring readings from:
Claire Donato
Ben Gocker
Lucy Ives
Jeff Johnson
and music from Dorit and Friends
There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.
Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum
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**1913 Press
http://www.journal1913.org/
Founded in 2003 by l’editrice Sandra Doller, 1913 a journal of forms and 1913 Press are committed to publishing the baddest in poetry, poetics, prose, and their intersections with the arts of all forms in handsome book-as-art-objet fashion.
**Claire Donato
http://www.somanytumbleweeds.com/
Claire Donato writes across genres; lives in Brooklyn; and has taught at Hunter College, The New School, Brown University, and 826 Valencia/NYC. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, and Octopus. She holds an M.F.A. in literary arts from Brown University, where she received the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction. In August, she will be in residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, N.Y.
**Dorit and Friends
http://www.doritworld.com/
Dorit is a singer songwriter, actor and Middle Eastern Dancer. Also a very proud native New Yorker.
She is currently working on two different music projects. One is her debut solo album hopefully to be completed by August. The second is an E.P. for the hard rock band she is lead vocalist for. This acoustic show will feature original songs from both projects. Joining her will be Chris Medrano and James Gillespie.
Please check out her youtube video and original song tribute to her childhood hero Wonder Woman.
And for more information and updates about both projects please visit the above url.
**Ben Gocker
Ben Gocker was born in Rochester, N.Y. in 1979. He received an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa's Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Bushwick and works for the Brooklyn Public Library.
**Lucy Ives
Born in New York City, Lucy Ives is a graduate of Harvard University and of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems and criticism have appeared in 1913 a journal of forms, The Colorado Review, Fence, Ploughshares, Verse, n+1 online, and Wave Books' The Bedazzler. Ives is the author of a chapbook, My Thousand Novel (Cosa Nostra Editions) and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in comparative literature at NYU. She lives in Bushwick with her husband, Ben Gocker, with whom she ran the reading series Poetry Time.
**Jeff T. Johnson
Jeff T. Johnson’s poetry is forthcoming or has appeared in 1913 a journal of forms, Boston Review, Slope, VOLT,Caketrain, and The Laurel Review, among other publications. He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from The New School. He lives in Brooklyn, is the poetry editor at LIT, and is an editor at Dewclaw.
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Directions:
C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues
1913 Press
FREE!
Event will be hosted by 1913 founder and editrice Sandra Doller
Featuring readings from:
Claire Donato
Ben Gocker
Lucy Ives
Jeff Johnson
and music from Dorit and Friends
There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.
Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum
------
**1913 Press
http://www.journal1913.org/
Founded in 2003 by l’editrice Sandra Doller, 1913 a journal of forms and 1913 Press are committed to publishing the baddest in poetry, poetics, prose, and their intersections with the arts of all forms in handsome book-as-art-objet fashion.
**Claire Donato
http://www.somanytumbleweeds.com/
Claire Donato writes across genres; lives in Brooklyn; and has taught at Hunter College, The New School, Brown University, and 826 Valencia/NYC. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, and Octopus. She holds an M.F.A. in literary arts from Brown University, where she received the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction. In August, she will be in residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, N.Y.
**Dorit and Friends
http://www.doritworld.com/
Dorit is a singer songwriter, actor and Middle Eastern Dancer. Also a very proud native New Yorker.
She is currently working on two different music projects. One is her debut solo album hopefully to be completed by August. The second is an E.P. for the hard rock band she is lead vocalist for. This acoustic show will feature original songs from both projects. Joining her will be Chris Medrano and James Gillespie.
Please check out her youtube video and original song tribute to her childhood hero Wonder Woman.
And for more information and updates about both projects please visit the above url.
**Ben Gocker
Ben Gocker was born in Rochester, N.Y. in 1979. He received an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa's Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Bushwick and works for the Brooklyn Public Library.
**Lucy Ives
Born in New York City, Lucy Ives is a graduate of Harvard University and of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems and criticism have appeared in 1913 a journal of forms, The Colorado Review, Fence, Ploughshares, Verse, n+1 online, and Wave Books' The Bedazzler. Ives is the author of a chapbook, My Thousand Novel (Cosa Nostra Editions) and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in comparative literature at NYU. She lives in Bushwick with her husband, Ben Gocker, with whom she ran the reading series Poetry Time.
**Jeff T. Johnson
Jeff T. Johnson’s poetry is forthcoming or has appeared in 1913 a journal of forms, Boston Review, Slope, VOLT,Caketrain, and The Laurel Review, among other publications. He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from The New School. He lives in Brooklyn, is the poetry editor at LIT, and is an editor at Dewclaw.
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Directions:
C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues
1913 Reads Again. Anybook. Anygenre. May.
May might be grey, but don't let that get you down. 1913 is reading again, oh my.
From May 1-May 31, ANY NON-FIRST BOOK, ANY GENRE! Please submit your work via the submission button below. There is no page, genre, or other limitation. Collaborations, translations, and other animals are welcome & encouraged. Writer(s) must have previously published at least one full-length book or equivalent (chapbooks not included). Only electronic submissions will be accepted. The reading fee is $10. One or more books will be selected for publication by 1913′s l’editrice Sandra Doller. Please email 1913press@gmail.com with any questions. 1913press@gmail.com
From May 1-May 31, ANY NON-FIRST BOOK, ANY GENRE! Please submit your work via the submission button below. There is no page, genre, or other limitation. Collaborations, translations, and other animals are welcome & encouraged. Writer(s) must have previously published at least one full-length book or equivalent (chapbooks not included). Only electronic submissions will be accepted. The reading fee is $10. One or more books will be selected for publication by 1913′s l’editrice Sandra Doller. Please email 1913press@gmail.com with any questions. 1913press@gmail.com
1913 rides/reads...again!
1913 Press reads again!
From May 1-May 31, ANY NON-FIRST BOOK, ANY GENRE. Please submit your work via the Submishmash submission button on the website.
There is no page, genre, or other limitation. Collaborations, translations, and other animals are welcome & encouraged. Writer(s) must have previously published at least one full-length book or equivalent (chapbooks not included).
Only electronic submissions will be accepted. The reading fee is $10. One or more books will be selected for publication by 1913′s l’editrice Sandra Doller.
Please email 1913press@gmail.com with any questions.
From May 1-May 31, ANY NON-FIRST BOOK, ANY GENRE. Please submit your work via the Submishmash submission button on the website.
There is no page, genre, or other limitation. Collaborations, translations, and other animals are welcome & encouraged. Writer(s) must have previously published at least one full-length book or equivalent (chapbooks not included).
Only electronic submissions will be accepted. The reading fee is $10. One or more books will be selected for publication by 1913′s l’editrice Sandra Doller.
Please email 1913press@gmail.com with any questions.
1913 interviewed by Octopus
l'editrice Sandra Doller & managing editrices, Courtney Killian, Jennifer Tatum-Cotamagana, & myself, interviewed by Octopus in honor of our soon to be closing April reading period of first book manuscripts.
thank you thank you to Octopus for yr love! check out the interview on facebook. get some insight into the mind of 1913. then take advantage of these last two days and SUBMIT to us AND to Octopus!
1913's Diane Wald is reading!
Diane Wald launches Wonderbender!!!
Wednesday, April 27 · 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Wednesday, April 27 · 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
The 1913 Prize countdown...
So here's something:
1913's reading period for The 1913 Prize--first book, any genre, selected by Fanny Howe--ENDS after April 30th...that's like this Saturday!!!
We don't have many submissions so far, so your odds are way better than the odds for so many other things...(like James Franco teaching at your cousin's daughter's MFA)...really, send us your work!
ALL manuscript submissions to The 1913 Prize will be simultaneously considered for publication in 1913 a journal of forms. 1913 Press reserves the right to select more than one book for publication.
Cheerio to each & every--& pass it on!
-1913.
1913's reading period for The 1913 Prize--first book, any genre, selected by Fanny Howe--ENDS after April 30th...that's like this Saturday!!!
We don't have many submissions so far, so your odds are way better than the odds for so many other things...(like James Franco teaching at your cousin's daughter's MFA)...really, send us your work!
ALL manuscript submissions to The 1913 Prize will be simultaneously considered for publication in 1913 a journal of forms. 1913 Press reserves the right to select more than one book for publication.
Cheerio to each & every--& pass it on!
-1913.
An Interview with the lovely editors of Octopus
HEY. It's April 20th. Have you submitted to the 1913 first book prize yet? You have ten more days, ladies & gents, poets & poetesses, novelists & novellaistas. GET ON IT.
TURNS OUT, our friends over at Octopus Books ALSO have an April-only open reading period. April is a good month for small-press loving, manuscript-sending writers! Details on their reading period here. Also, they have this lovely option to get an Octopus book for $6 w/ your submission fee. Good deal! Send to them, send to us, get that hot manuscript out of yr hands & into ours!
Without further ado, 13 questions with the editors of Octopus Books/Octopus magazine, Zachary Schomburg, Mathias Svalina, and managing editor Alisa Heinzman. Thanks so much guys!
1) Octopus, like 1913, publishes a journal & full length books. How do you think about the relationship between Octopus the journal & Octopus Books?
They're like cousins, I guess. When they're at the same house, they're kinda expected to take out the garbage, even though they don't really live there. What I am talking about? I have no idea. They share some of the same authors, they like the same poems, and they have the same image, the same style and voice. And they have the same editors: Mathias, Alisa, and myself. But other than that, they have their own lives--one doesn't necessarily inform the other. We have to think about Octopus Books, in part, as a business--there is a benefit to its promotion, a chance to sustain itself, to keep printing books. The online journal doesn't come with that pressure. Its pressure lies only in its poetry. They are both fun to make. I am proud of them both.
2) What's a recent book cover that you love?
3) How do you feel about the song "Eight Days a Week"? How about "Sweet Little Sixteen"? Maybe Octopus should release a mix-tape.
Pretty much just punching in the face.
6) Reading periods in April seem to give new hope to manuscript-submitting poets in the great tradition of Spring. What are your favorite spring-y, spring-ful, spring-ish poems?
I'm going to have to say "Fat" by Dorothea Lasky, which doesn't necessarily strike me as "hopeful", but I have been thinking about it this Spring, and in the rain. It ends:
And no one kisses this paper
And in the end no one will protect
This paper from the rain
7) By organizing your issues around factors & multiples of 8 you seem to be honoring (or at least respecting) constraint. What is your relationship to constraint as a reader/writer/human?
I don't know. I don't know if constraint is the exact right word for what we're doing with 8s. We started using 8s primarily as a way to be less arbitrary about our structure. We needed a way to organize. In issue 10, we had 88 poets, which feel like the total breakdown of constraint. So, I guess I could talk about the illusion of constraint. I feel, as a human, unconstrained, and at times, in search of constraint, but I want to seem as though I've mastered it, that constraint. I feel constrained by my body, by my job, by the size of the earth, by the heavy elements, by the shape of the roads, but its all an illusion. Sometimes, for about 1 minute every 24 hours, another constraint, I remember that there is really no such thing.
8) ALSO, speaking of factors & multiples & numbers, how do you feel about math?
I'm for it.
9) What would Octopus' drink be?
I like milk with ice in it, sometimes, and diet cola. Mathias likes the purple stuff. Alisa has never had anything to drink.
10) 1913 is the year it became illegal to send children through the mail. Weirdest/most surprising/most pleasant thing you guys have received or sent through the mail/email?
When we used to receive more manuscripts by mail, I loved it when people would use barrettes as binder clips, especially sparkly barrettes.
11) What's a word that you really love?
12) 1913 is the year the first crossword puzzle was printed. What are your favorite GAMES?
Alisa, likes SET, the card game. I hate monopoly, but I like chess. Mathias has never before played a game. Though he did write a chapbook outlining a bunch of rules for games. It is called Play.
13) Make up a title of a manuscript you would love to read/jump up & down & up if you saw in your submissions pile.
The uncollected short poems of Anne Carson
TURNS OUT, our friends over at Octopus Books ALSO have an April-only open reading period. April is a good month for small-press loving, manuscript-sending writers! Details on their reading period here. Also, they have this lovely option to get an Octopus book for $6 w/ your submission fee. Good deal! Send to them, send to us, get that hot manuscript out of yr hands & into ours!
Without further ado, 13 questions with the editors of Octopus Books/Octopus magazine, Zachary Schomburg, Mathias Svalina, and managing editor Alisa Heinzman. Thanks so much guys!
1) Octopus, like 1913, publishes a journal & full length books. How do you think about the relationship between Octopus the journal & Octopus Books?
They're like cousins, I guess. When they're at the same house, they're kinda expected to take out the garbage, even though they don't really live there. What I am talking about? I have no idea. They share some of the same authors, they like the same poems, and they have the same image, the same style and voice. And they have the same editors: Mathias, Alisa, and myself. But other than that, they have their own lives--one doesn't necessarily inform the other. We have to think about Octopus Books, in part, as a business--there is a benefit to its promotion, a chance to sustain itself, to keep printing books. The online journal doesn't come with that pressure. Its pressure lies only in its poetry. They are both fun to make. I am proud of them both.
2) What's a recent book cover that you love?
I like how those new Otis/Seismicity Editions book look. And the Letter Machine Editions books. I like the idea of creating a catalog through a repeating design element. For the most part, poetry makes pretty unattractive books. Fiction books are, in general, cooler looking.
3) How do you feel about the song "Eight Days a Week"? How about "Sweet Little Sixteen"? Maybe Octopus should release a mix-tape.
They're ok songs. I like the number 8, but those songs are just ok. If we made a mix-tape, it would just be 45 minutes of drone metal. It would have one song on it. It wouldn't really be a mix. You would only be able to listen to it once. It would jam up your tape players.
4) If Octopus had a land-bound-creature best friend to snuggle up to & hold its hand, what would it be?
4) If Octopus had a land-bound-creature best friend to snuggle up to & hold its hand, what would it be?
A mammoth. Or a land-bound whale.
5) Octopus "is named after a sea creature that is intelligent, lives in dens, and uses ink as a defense mechanism." What is your most trusty defense mechanism?
5) Octopus "is named after a sea creature that is intelligent, lives in dens, and uses ink as a defense mechanism." What is your most trusty defense mechanism?
Pretty much just punching in the face.
6) Reading periods in April seem to give new hope to manuscript-submitting poets in the great tradition of Spring. What are your favorite spring-y, spring-ful, spring-ish poems?
I'm going to have to say "Fat" by Dorothea Lasky, which doesn't necessarily strike me as "hopeful", but I have been thinking about it this Spring, and in the rain. It ends:
And no one kisses this paper
And in the end no one will protect
This paper from the rain
7) By organizing your issues around factors & multiples of 8 you seem to be honoring (or at least respecting) constraint. What is your relationship to constraint as a reader/writer/human?
I don't know. I don't know if constraint is the exact right word for what we're doing with 8s. We started using 8s primarily as a way to be less arbitrary about our structure. We needed a way to organize. In issue 10, we had 88 poets, which feel like the total breakdown of constraint. So, I guess I could talk about the illusion of constraint. I feel, as a human, unconstrained, and at times, in search of constraint, but I want to seem as though I've mastered it, that constraint. I feel constrained by my body, by my job, by the size of the earth, by the heavy elements, by the shape of the roads, but its all an illusion. Sometimes, for about 1 minute every 24 hours, another constraint, I remember that there is really no such thing.
8) ALSO, speaking of factors & multiples & numbers, how do you feel about math?
I'm for it.
9) What would Octopus' drink be?
I like milk with ice in it, sometimes, and diet cola. Mathias likes the purple stuff. Alisa has never had anything to drink.
10) 1913 is the year it became illegal to send children through the mail. Weirdest/most surprising/most pleasant thing you guys have received or sent through the mail/email?
When we used to receive more manuscripts by mail, I loved it when people would use barrettes as binder clips, especially sparkly barrettes.
11) What's a word that you really love?
12) 1913 is the year the first crossword puzzle was printed. What are your favorite GAMES?
Alisa, likes SET, the card game. I hate monopoly, but I like chess. Mathias has never before played a game. Though he did write a chapbook outlining a bunch of rules for games. It is called Play.
13) Make up a title of a manuscript you would love to read/jump up & down & up if you saw in your submissions pile.
The uncollected short poems of Anne Carson
John Keene is Harriet Poetry's Twitterer!
Check out 1913's most fabulous John Keene (Seismosis) today at Harriet Poetry's twitter...go Johnny go!
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