FLASH SALE: National Coming Out Day Celebration

FLASH SALE! Just in time to celebrate National Coming Out Day on October 11th, Poets Wear Prada is offering 3 titles, 3 contemporary LGBTQ classics -- PAYDAY LOANS by Jee Leong Koh, THE SLIP by Michael Montlack, and THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T SHAKE HANDS by Chocolate Waters -- all at a special discounted price. Please use the links here or on the right side bar for the discount. These books will be available starting today through this weekend on Amazon for the special price of $6 a copy. (They normally list for $12 a copy.) GET YOUR PRIDE ON!

THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T SHAKE HANDS by Chocolate Waters  

Release Date: October 12, 2011 

ISBN 978-0935060096 

Paperback: 46 pages 

List Price: $12.00  $6.00

Now available on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2AZhIvi

Payday Loans
Poems by Jee Leong Koh
Saddle-Stitched Chapbook: 2007
Mass Market Edition: 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0981767895
Paperback: 36 pages
List Price: $12.00  $6.00
Now available on Amazon:

http://amzn.to/2itVqKl

 The Slip
by Michael Montlack
First Printing (Saddle-Stitched Chapbook): October 2009
Mass Market Edition: 2010
ISBN 978-0-9841844-2-2
Paperback: 32 pages
List Price: $12.00  $6.00
Now Available on Amazon:

 http://amzn.to/eaV1i9

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Poets Wear Prada at NY Rainbow Book Fair

Boutique publishing house Poets Wear Prada is pleased to announce that we will be tabling  with Eggplant Press at the eighth annual New York  Rainbow Book Fair and that several of our authors will be reading for the event.  The Rainbow Book Fair is the largest LGBTQ book event in the United States. The 2016 fair will be held on Saturday, April 9th from 12:00pm to 6:00pm at John Jay College of Criminal Justice located at 524 W. 59th Street (just west of 10th Avenue) in Manhattan. 

Our authors will be reading at two different readings at the fair.  Here's a list of the readers and their scheduled time slots. (Please note that this schedule is subject to change.)

2016 COME HERE! Poetry Salon hosted by Regie Cabico and Nathaniel Siegel


12:10-12:15pm  Geer Austin
01:05-01:10pm  Austin Alexis
01:20-01:25pm  Michael Montlack
01:30-01:35pm  John J. Trause
05:00-05:05pm  Joel Allegretti


2016 Main Reading Event

01:00 - 01:20pm  Chocolate Waters
04:00 - 04:20pm  Roxanne Hoffman

Roxanne Hoffman founded Poets Wear Prada in 2006 with the release of  a limited edition of B.D. Lyon's debut poetry collection, a chapbook titled "Your Infidel Eyes." From the press's  inception, it editors have continued to seek out the works of queer writers, women, and people of various ethnicity and cultural backgrounds as it strives to introduce unique and exceptional emerging writers and promote diversity to mainstream audiences with well-edited and beautifully designed volumes.  

Poets Wear Prada is proud to have published debut and early collections of Jee Leong Koh, John J. Trause, Austin Alexis, Michael Montack, Joel Allegretti and Geer Austin. In  2011 Poets Wear Prada in conjunction with Eggplant Press published groundbreaking feminist lesbian writer Chocolate Waters's first new book in over three decades, "The Woman Who Wouldn't Shake Hands." Hoffman co-edited "Pears, Prose and Poetry: Anthology of the 9th Annual Fresh Fruit Festival Poetry Event," also published in conjunction with Eggplant Press.

Founded in 2006 in Hoboken, New Jersey, birthplace of Frank Sinatra and professional baseball, Poets Wear Prada is a boutique book publisher devoted to introducing and promoting emerging writers to the mainstream audiences with beautifully designed volumes of well-crafted poetry and prose.

Boog City Hosts Poets Wear Prada at ACA Galleries, New York City in September

Boog City will host a reading featuring writers from Poets Wear Prada on Tuesday September 27th, 2011. David A. Kirschenbaum, editor of Boog City, will host the event on:

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 6pm

@

ACA Galleries

529 W. 20th St., 5th Floor

New York City

Featuring:

Austin Alexis
Joel Allegretti
Jee Leong Koh
Richard Marx Weinraub
Dorinda Wegener
Karen Neuberg
Maria Lisella
Carol Wiezerbicki

Please come out and support the writers, Poets Wear Prada, and Boog City at the reading!

Check out Boog City online at http://welcometoboogcity.com/

Austin Alexis has published poetry and flash fiction most recently in First Literary Review--East, Nomad's Choir, Mobius: The Poetry Magazine, Rusty Typer, Dance Macabre, Come Hear (an anthology), Quill and Parchment and Vox Poetica. His second chapbook, For Lincoln & Other Poems (Poets Wear Prada), was named a Small Press Review "Pick of the Month" and contains a Pushcart Prize nominated poem. One of his short stories was performed at the 2010 Woodstock-Diamond Dance Festival.

Joel Allegretti (www.joelallegretti.com) is the author of two full-length volumes from The Poet’s Press: The Plague Psalms (2000) and Father Silicon, selected by The Kansas City Star as one of 100 Noteworthy Books of 2006, a list that included novels by Cormac McCarthy and Thomas Pynchon. In 2010 Poets Wear Prada released his third collection, Thrum, a chapbook of poems and poetic essays about musical instruments. Allegretti’s work has appeared in The New York Quarterly, Margie, Fulcrum, Voices in Italian Americana, and Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics and many other national journals, as well as on the Best American Poetry blog. Allegretti’s poems were the basis of two song cycles by Frank Ezra Levy, whose symphonic work is available in the American Classics series on Naxos.

Jee Leong Koh is the author of two books of poems, Payday Loans (Poets Wear Prada) and Equal to the Earth (Bench Press). His new book Seven Studies for a Self Portrait was released by the same press in March 2011. Born in Singapore, he lives in New York City, and blogs at Song of a Reformed Headhunter.

Related to the Marx Brothers through his mother, Richard Marx Weinraub was born in New York City in 1949; he was a Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico from 1987 through 2010. A book of his poetry entitled Wonder Bread Hill was published in 2002 by the University of Puerto Rico Press. His poetry has appeared in many journals including The Paris Review, Asheville Poetry Review, South Carolina Review, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, North American Review, Measure, The Evansville Review, Slate, and River Styx. A

Spanish translation of Wonder Bread Hill was recently published by Terranova Press. A chapbook of his poetry entitled Heavenly Bodies was published in 2008 by Poets Wear Prada Press, and a poem from it was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize.

Maria Lisella's Pushcart Poetry Prize-nominated work appears in Amore on Hope Street (Finishing Line Press) and Two Naked Feet (Poets Wear Prada). Her poetry has appeared in The New York Quarterly, Skidrow Penthouse, Paterson Literary Review and New Verse News among others; her latest short story appears in Sweet Lemons 2, Writing with a Sicilian Accent (Legas Press). She co-curates the Italian American Writers Association monthly literary readings at Cornelia St. Cafe on the 2nd Saturday of each month. She is a travel writer by profession.

Karen Neuberg lives in Brooklyn, NY and West Hurley, NY. Her

poems have appeared in numerous publications including Big City Lit, decomP, elimae, NewVerseNews, Pirene’s Fountain, Stone Telling, and the anthology Child of My Child. She’s a two-time Pushcart and a Best of the Net nominee, holds an MFA from the New School, and is associate editor of Inertia Magazine and of First Literary Review, East. Her chapbook, Detailed Still was published by Poets Wear Prada Press and is available from Amazon. For more information and links to her on-line work, please see her website at http://karenneuberg.blogspot.com/

Carol Wierzbicki is a published poet, editor and reviewer. She has run poetry readings in New York City, and is co-editor of the Unbearables Worst Book and Sex anthologies. Her latest chapbook is Top Teen Greatest Hits, poems about teen angst (Poets Wear Prada, 2009). Her short story, “Mending,” will appear in the summer 2011 issue of Many Mountains Moving.

Dorinda Wegener holds a MFA from New England College where she was a Joel Oppenheimer Award recipient. Her poems have been published in The Antioch Review, Indiana Review, Hotel Amerika, and Mid-American Review, among many others. Dorinda has had the honor of reading with the louderARTS Project in New York City. Her poems, “The Harvest” and “Evening Service,” were both finalist for the Marlboro Prize as judged by poet Edward Hirsch. She currently resides with her husband and daughter in Staten Island, New York, where she’s a teaching artist of poetry for Teachers & Writers Collaborative. In 2011, she will present a reading and discourse on William Carlos Willams at the Williams Center for the Arts, Rutherford, New Jersey, as well as join the editorial staff of Green Mountains Review as a reader.

Boog City is a small press now its 16th year, and East Village community newspaper of the same name. The press has published more than three dozen volumes of poetry and various zines, featuring work by Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders, Eileen Myles, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Bernadette Mayer among many others, and theme issues on topics ranging from baseball to women's writing, Louisville, Ky. to The Ramones and Talking Heads making the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.

Read Koh's Ghazals in AT LENGTH

From: Jee Leong Koh

Subject: Ghazals in AT LENGTH

Date: Thursday, November 4, 2010, 5:44 PM

Dear friends,

AT LENGTH, a journal that specializes in long poems, has just published my divan of 49 ghazals "A Lover's Recourse." A number of the ghazals appeared in various journals, but you can now read the entire sequence here [http://atlengthmag.com/poetry/a-lovers-recourse/].  You can read it from start to finish, if you have the stamina, or you can dip in at any point. You can read it online or you can print the pdf file and read it anywhere you wish. I hope you find a pearl or two in the strand of words.

Paul, the poem is for you. Thank you for being the inspiration.

My best regards to everyone,

Jee

Bench Press: http://www.benchpresspoetry.com/

Song of a Reformed Headhunter: http://jeeleong.blogspot.com/




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Jee Leong Koh is the author of two books of poems, PAYDAY LOANS (Poets Wear Prada) and EQUAL TO THE EARTH (Bench Press). His new book, SEVEN STUDIES FOR A SELF PORTRAIT, will be released by Bench Press in March 2011. Born in Singapore, he lives in New York City and blogs at Song of a Reformed Headhunter [http://jeeleong.blogspot.com].

3 Oldies but Goodies Now Available at CreateSpace!

We just converted 3 of our older chapbook titles to perfect bound editions: PAYDAY LOANS by Jee Leong Koh, TWO NAKED FEET by Maria Lisella and PHASED by George Held. They are now available for sale at CreateSpace.com and will soon be available on Amazon.com.




PAYDAY LOANS
Poems
  by Jee Leong Koh
Original Publication Date: March, 2007
Publisher: Poets Wear Prada
ISBN/EAN13:  0981767893 / 9780981767895
Perfect Bound Paper Back: 36 pages
List Price: $10
https://www.createspace.com/3481468

Smart, irreverent, often unnerving, these sonnets smirk, smile, argue and bless. Jee Leong Koh has taken a month of days and rendered a very contemporary version of the artist as a young man. Cash in your paycheck and buy this book."--Marie Howe



TWO NAKED FEET
by Maria Lisella
Original Publication Date: September 2009
Publisher: Poets Wear Prada
ISBN/EAN13:0984184414 / 9780984184415
Perfect Bound Paper Back:  34 pages
List Price: $10
https://www.createspace.com/3477735

TWO NAKED FEET is brilliantly wired with the tension of paradox. It is about exile and the movement of peoples, the destruction and pastiche of cultures, the chasm between the idealized world and the colloquial one. Lisella writes with depth and simplicity. Her "I" rarely steps outside of the observing eye to become autobiographical, and yet the poems are remarkable for their passion.--Stephanie Dickenson, award-winning author of HALF GIRL and ROAD OF FIVE CHURCHES

PHASED
Poems, etc.
by George Held
Original Publication Date: August 2008
Publisher: Poets Wear Prada
ISBN/EAN13: 098176780X / 9780981767802
Perfect Bound Paper Back: 34 pages
List Price: $10
https://www.createspace.com/3479883

A delightful, entertaining, and attractively presented collection celebrating our sidereal companion, the moon.

--THE ICONOCLAST

Tonight Wed Sept 22 JEE LEONG KOH & more at Cornelia St Cafe, NYC

Wednesday, Sep 22 - 6:00PM

Alissa Heyman & Hila Ratzabi co-host

PERFECT SENSE

with

MIRANDA FIELD, featured poet;

JEE LEONG KOH;

LYNN MELNICK;

BRETT FLETCHER LAUER

Fine poets perfectly presented by generous hosts.

Cover $7

The Cornelia Street Cafe

29 Cornelia St

Between Bleecker and West 4th Streets

Greenwich Village in NYC

212.989.9319

http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com

Take A, B, D, E, F, M to West 4th Street

or 1 to Christopher Street/Sheridan Square

or NJ PATH to Christopher Street or 9th Street Stations.

About the Poets:

MIRANDA FIELD was born and raised in London, UK. Her first book, Swallow, won a Katherine Bakeless Nason Literary Publication Award. She has also received a Discovery/The Nation Award and Pushcart Prize. Her poems appear in numerous journals, and several anthologies—including THE PUSHCART BOOK OF POETRY: The Best Poems From Thirty Years of The Pushcart Prize; LEGITIMATE DANGERS: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande), NOT FOR MOTHERS ONLY: American Poets of the New Century (Fence Books), and EFFORTS & AFFECTIONS (Iowa). She teaches poetry workshops at the New School and NYU, in Manhattan, where she lives with poet Tom Thompson and their two children.

JEE LEONG KOH is the author of two books of poems, Payday Loans and Equal to the Earth (Bench Press). His new book Seven Studies for a Self Portrait will be released by the same press in March 2011. Born in Singapore, he lives in New York City, and blogs at Song of a Reformed Headhunter.

LYNN MELNICK's poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals, including Boston Review, Guernica, jubilat, LIT, The Paris Review, and A Public Space. She grew up in Los Angeles and currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.

BRETT FLETCHER LAUER is the poetry editor of A Public Space. His poetry has been published in the Boston Review, jubilat, BOMB, American Poetry Review, Fence, Tin House, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.

Jee Leong Koh | Payday Loans

Jee Leong Koh in NYC at The Back Fence on January 15, 2006 (Video by Roxanne Hoffman)

GOOD NEWS

Jee Leong Koh's poem “Brother”, originally appearing in Ledge Magazine, has been selected by Natasha Trethewey for Meridian magazine's 2007 Best New Poets, an anthology to be published by the University of Virginia Press. Each year, Best New Poets sponsored by Meridian and Samovar Press features the work of fifty emerging poets selected from nominations by writing programs, literary magazines, and an Open Internet Competition.

Smart, irreverent, often unnerving, these sonnets smirk, smile, argue and bless. Jee Leong Koh has taken a month of days and rendered a very contemporary version of the artist as a young man. Cash in your paycheck and buy this book.

— Marie Howe

...this book refreshes our sense of what can be done in a traditional form when the poet uses his wits and has the wit of Jee Leong Koh.

— George Held

Click here to read Held's entire review for Home Planet News



PAYDAY LOANS
by Jee Leong Koh
soft cover/saddle stitched/30 pp.
$10.00 (+ $1.50 S&H)




Credit: Jee Leong Koh

In 2006 the Singaporean government banned the reading of his poem, “Come on, straight boy, and make gay love with me” (from this book) at ContraDiction, the second national gay pride poetry reading. The ban makes Jee Leong Koh out to be more dangerous than he is. Born in Singapore, he read English at Oxford University and studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Singaporean anthologies and American journals such as Crab Orchard Review, The Ledge and The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide. Based now in New York City, he blogs at http://jeeleong.blogspot.com.

Click my Hypster player to hear me read selections from my chapbook and discuss the book on Art Waves with Host Anne Cammon. (Originally aired on WKCR 89.9 FM NY on Friday August 24, 2007 at 9PM EST.)



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April 10, Sunday My love is curling dumbbells to his chest because he thinks I don’t love him enough and since he thinks I don’t love him enough my love is curling dumbbells to his chest. I turn the page of a flesh mag, obsessed with groping bodies beautiful and buff. Groping for bodies beautiful and buff, I turn the page of the flesh mag, obsessed. My love is groping dumbbells to his chest to turn his body beautiful and buff because he thinks I don’t love him enough since I am curling the flesh mag. Obsessed, my love is curling as I turn the page, because he thinks I love a beautiful image.

April 11, Monday I pound and pound this what-do-you-call-it, Elliptical, EFX546, pumping the body all that chemical shit, shooting morning its new daily fix, instead of pondering over a new sonnet: a little song to turn the body cold; a debt requiring its pound of meat; a Mini made from an injection mold. It’s true I haven’t moved although I’ve run 3 miles and, like my writing, I’m as far from what the mind wants and the mirror sees, and though it’s true I pound like everyone on these mass-produced wheels, my chariot-car signals I’ve lost four hundred calories.