Metta Sáma interviewed at Kore Press

Nous-zōt author Metta Sáma chats with Rosebud Ben-Oni and Arisa White for Kore Press' interview series.

Chapbook by j/j hastain now available from Nous-zot Press

The second title in the Fall 2014 chapbook series from Nous-zot Press is now available. Please visit our store to purchase copies of Apophallation Sketches: a Theater of Affective Extremes, Strenuous Exercises for the Senses, as well as any of our other titles.

Interview with Metta Sama

Speaking of Marvels interviews Metta Sama about her Nous-zot chapbook After "Sleeping to Dream"/After After.

"The chapbook was, as I took it, a challenge from Marthe Reed, who asked me if I had more ekphrastic-ish poems, similar to ones I’d published in B O D Y. I did not, and those poems were not ekphrastic in the sense that we talk about it, but reverse ekphrastics: poems that had lived for a very long time under different titles and were then re-titled as being “After” artwork that, when I saw the artwork, made me think of the poems, in very very slant ways."

Copies of After "Sleeping to Dream"/After After may be purchased here.

Fall 2014 titles available for sale and pre-sale now

The fall 2014 Nous-zot Chapbook series is now available for sale/pre-sale. Please check our our online shop for all our chapbooks and for a bundle special price for all three Fall 2014 chapbooks:

After "Sleeping to Dream"/After After by Metta Sáma, $8.00

Apophallation Sketches: a Theater of Affective Extremes by j/j hastain, $8.00

XXX by Maria Damon, $8.00

 

Nesting Instinct

House, home, dwelling.place, here then there, Jesse Nissim investigates the pull of domestic spaces. Recuperating the distance between self and object, past and present, sheltered and homeless, Nissim returns us in the potencies of the first place, its walls, its loves, its absences, its lack, recovering, bitter and sweet, the walls of the lost.

FORTHCOMING: Fall titles for Nous-zot Press

Nous-zot Press is delighted to announce three titles to be published for Fall 2014:

The Autobiography of Eyes & Other Renderings by Metta Sama

Apophallation Sketches: a Theater of Affective Extremes, Strenuous Essays for the Senses by j/j hastain

XXX, cross-stitch vispos by Maria Damon (color)

New Nous-zōt's chapbook by Metta Sáma

Nous-zōt's newest chapbook, first of the fall 2014 series, is now available for order: After "Sleeping to Dream"/After After a dos-á-dos chap by Metta Sáma, 36 pages. Buy it here!

Review of Michael Ruby's AMERICAN SONGBOOK

My review of Michael Ruby's American Songbook, a re-mix of the American musical canon, is up at Rain Taxi online.

You can hear Michael Ruby read from this collection at Jacket2.

Copies of American Songbook are available through Ugly Duckling Presse. 

Forthcoming Nous-zot titles, Fall 2014

Nous-zot Press is delighted to announce three new chapbooks to be published in Fall 2014:

Metta Sama, One Hundred Eyes & Other Renderings

j/j hastain, Apophallation Sketches: a Theater of Affective Extremes, Strenuous Essays for the Senses

Maria Damon, XXX, cross-stitch vispos (color)

Metta Sáma, Assistant Professor of & Director of Creative Writing, is author of Nocturne Trio (YesYes Bøøks 2012) and South of Here (New Issues Press 2005 (published under her legal name, Lydia Melvin)). Her poems, fiction, creative non-fiction, & book reviews have been published or forthcoming in Blackbird, bluestem, Drunken Boat, The Drunken Boat, Esque, hercricle, Jubilat, Kweli, The Owls, Pebble Lake Review, Pyrta, Reverie, Sententia, Vinyl, among others.

j/j hastain is a collaborator, writer and maker of things. j/j is the inventor of The Mystical Sentence Projects and is author of numerous poetry and  cross-genre books including Forensics of the Chamber (Argos Books, 2013), myrrh to re all myth (Furniture Press Books, 2013) libertine monk (Scrambler Press), The Non-Novels (forthcoming, Spuyten Duyvil) and myrrh to re all myths  (Furniture Press Books).

Maria Damon is Professor and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at the Pratt Institute of Art. She has published several books of poetry scholarship and several collaborations (with mIEKAL aND and Jukka-Pekka Kervinen) of poetry. She currently works in cross-stitch visual poetry.