Sleeping with Animals Second Editions Now Available

The first editions of Ashley Mace Havird's Sleeping with Animals have SOLD OUT!

We have released a second edition printing of 60 numbered copies so grab one before they are gone as well.

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Ashley Mace Havird - Sleeping with Animals - OUT NOW!

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Ashley Mace Havird - Sleeping with Animals
Chapbook (2013), 8.5 inches x 5.5 inches.

First Printing Limited to an edition of 26 lettered copies. 60lb. Textured Card-stock covers (in 14 varieties) with 20% cotton Antique Laid Paper, and vellum inserts. Hand-sewn ribbon binding. ($10).

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We are proud to release the new chapbook by Ashley Mace Havird, Sleeping with Animals. This collection spans the globe as it contemplates family and growth.

Ashley Mace Havird’s book, The Garden of the Fugitives, won the 2013 X. J. Kennedy Prize for poetry (Texas Review Press).  Her chapbook, Dirt Eaters, won the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Prize and was published in 2009.  Her poems and short stories have appeared in many journals including The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.  In 2002 she was awarded a Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship in Literature.  She lives with her husband, the poet David Havird, in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Anthony Frame - Everything I Know I Learned from Lazarus - OUT NOW!!

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Anthony Frame - Everything I Know I Learned from Lazarus Broadside (2013), 6 inches x 12 inches. 60lb. Textured Card-stock covers with 20% cotton Antique Laid Paper.

First Printing Limited to an edition of 28 numbered copies in 4 varieties: Rust, Blue, Forest, and Ivory. ($3).

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Our newest broadside is Anthony Frame's Everything I Know I Learned from Lazarus. This is a 6"x12" folded broadside in 4 varieties: Fire/Rust, Water/Blue, Earth/Forest, and Sky/Ivory.Click the link below to order any (or all) of the four versions.

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Anthony Frame is an exterminator who lives in Toledo, Ohio with his wife. His first chapbook, Paper Guillotines, was published by Imaginary Friend Press and recent poems have been published in or are forthcoming from Harpur Palate, Third Coast, The North American Review, Redactions, The Dirty Napkin, Gulf Stream and diode among others.. He is also the co-founder and co-editor of Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Learn more at http://www.anthony-frame.com/.

Toby Daspit - Bar Coasters OUT NOW!!!

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Toby Daspit - Bar Coasters
Chapbook (2013), 5.5 inches x 4.25 inches.

First Printing Card-stock covers, saddle stapled. Limited to an edition of 37 numbered copies, half with red card-stock inserts, half with parchment card-stock inserts.

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This mini-chap contains five of Daspit's "Bar Coaster" poems, #1, #7, #16, #22, & #37. As such, this  first run is limited to an edition of 37 numbered copies, half with red card-stock inserts, half with parchment card-stock inserts.

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Toby Daspit, the self-proclaimed “Bard of the Blue Dog Cafe,” is Associate Professor of Education and Co-Director of the National Writing Project of Acadiana at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Toby is a frequent reader in the Lafayette and New Orleans poetry scenes and conducts poetry workshops frequently in area schools. Toby’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies including “The Quarterly,” “Never Bundle Review,” “di-vêrsé-city,” and “The Maple Leaf Rag”. He is the author of the chapbook “Anatomy of a Ghost and other poems not about you” (2006, Southern Hum Press) and was a featured poet for the 2010 Festival of Words in Grand Coteau, Louisiana.

Amy Fleury - Spiritus Mundi - OUT NOW!!!

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Amy Fleury - Spiritus Mundi

Broadside (2013), 5 inches x 8 inches. Heavy textured fiber backs, handmade paper, card-stock. Hand-embossed titling.

First Printing Limited to an edition of 26 lettered copies.
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"And if all flesh is grass, then let us live humbly, as grasses do."

from "Spiritus Mundi"


We are proud to release this stunning poem from one of the best poets writing today. Enough said.

 Buy Spiritus Mundi by clicking the link below.

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Amy Fleury is a native of Nemaha County in rural northeast Kansas. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals, including American Life in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, North American Review, The Southeast Review, Laurel Review, 21st, and The Yalobusha Review. Southern Illinois Press published her first collection of poetry, Beautiful Trouble, in 2004. It was the winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award.  As of Fall of 2008, she became the poet in the M.F.A. program at her alma mater, McNeese State University. Her new book is Sympathetic Magic.

Pushcart Prize Nominations

Yellow Flag Press has made our Pushcart Prize nominations for this year and the nominees are:

Katie Manning “The Interview”
from the chapbook I Awake in My Womb, (YFP-115, 2013)
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Bonny McDonald, “Kloster”
from the chapbook Kloster, (YFP-92, 2013)
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Kevin Dwyer, “Time Marches On”
from the broadside Time Marches On, (YFP-105, 2013)
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Joel Ferdon, “To the Belly and Back”
from the broadside To the Belly and Back, (YFP-114, 2013)
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Rodney Gomez, “Grackle”
from the broadside Grackle, (YFP-98, 2013)
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M. Rather, Jr., “Miracle”
from the broadside Miracle, (YFP-101, 2013)
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Upcoming Releases

We have six new releases that we will be rolling out in the next few months: Two broadsides, one mini-chapbook, and three full chapbooks. Here's the list (in no particular order...)

Chapbooks:
Ashley Mace Havird - Sleeping with Animals
Amy Watkins - Milk & Water
William Kelley Woolfitt - Chorus Frog

Mini-chap:
Toby Daspit - Bar Coasters
 
Broadsides:

Amy Fleury - Spiritus Mundi
Anthony Frame - Everything I Know I Learned from Lazarus

Not sure in what order these will be released yet, but they will all be released in time for AWP. 

New Chapbooks!

We have concluded our open reading period for chapbooks and are proud to announce that we will be publishing the following chapbooks in the coming months:

Ashley Mace Havird - Sleeping with Animals
Amy Watkins - Milk & Water
William Kelley Woolfitt - Chorus Frog

Two finalists we were not able to publish were excellent books by Susan Yount and Melinda Wilson.

Thanks to all who sent us books, the response far exceeded our expectations.

New releases on August 25th

August 25th is the official release date for both Bonny McDonald's chapbook Kloster, as well as Katie Manning's I Awake in My Womb.

The first editions of I Awake in My Womb have sold out, but the second edition printing is still available. Get a copy of this chapbook here http://yellowflagpress.tictail.com/product/katie-manning-i-awake-in-my-womb-pre-order

There are only four copies of Kloster left, grab one here http://yellowflagpress.tictail.com/product/bonny-mcdonald-kloster

Pre-Order: Katie Manning - I Awake in My Womb

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Katie Manning - I Awake in My Womb
Chapbook (2013), 5.5 inches x 8.5 inches.

First Printing French-fold card-stock covers, hand-sewn binding, with vellum inserts.
Limited to an edition of 26 lettered copies, pre-order only. ($10).

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We are very excited to announce the next book in our release schedule is Katie Manning's I Awake in My Womb. This collection ponders motherhood through a series of pregnancy dreams. Surreal and poignant, I Awake in My Womb  is not to be missed.

The first printing of 26 lettered copies will be available through pre-orders ONLY, but don't worry, we will be following that up with a second printing of 40 copies.


The Interview

I sit in a conference room
with 20 other people.
There’s an emergency call
mid-interview. It’s you,
newborn baby.
What will they think of me
if I take the call? What will they think
if I don’t?

The interview continues.
I have to ride a horse
around a muddy field. I wear a frilly white dress—
I want to look professional.
My left hand holds
the reins. My right
picks up the phone. You are crying.
I drop the reins and take up a sword.
I cut off
my breast to make room on my chest
for comforting you.



Katie Manning is the author of The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman (Point Loma Press, 2013) and Tea with Ezra (Boneset Books, 2013). Her poetry has been published in New Letters, PANK, The Pedestal Magazine, and Poet Lore, among other journals and anthologies. She lives with her husband and son in Southern California, where she works as an Assistant Professor of English at Azusa Pacific University. Find her online at www.katiemanningpoet.com.

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Pre-Order: Bonny McDonald - Kloster

From Kloster

Paint your angels with pupils, dark.

Keep your eyes open, jewel-toned, beautiful.

Not as sapphire, blind and blinding,

but as water: silty and reflective.

Somehow, I have missed the Mississippi.

Here, all the water is clear as glass,

not a speck of debris.

No tires and cups and foam spin in your waters.

Every creek is clear as if filtered,

with no record of where it’s been. 

Pre-orders are now available for our newest chapbook release, Bonny McDonald's Kloster. This chapbook is limited to an edition of 26 hand made hardcover books, with french-folded craft paper in 14 different varieties.

Kloster is a sweeping poem in five parts that spans many times and places, a deep questioning about the past and how it determines our present.

Click the link to order Kloster
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S. B. Ferguson reprint!

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S. B. Ferguson - Returning Home to

Chapbook (2013), 4 inches x 5.5 inches. Bound X-book with textured card-stock.

First Printing Limited to an edition of 10 numbered copies.
SOLD OUT

Second Printing Limited to an edition of 20 numbered copies, 10 on beige, 10 on blue.
AVAILABLE

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We are happy to announce that S.B. Ferguson's delightful little x-book chap is now reprinted and back in stock! This book sold out in minutes at Vision/Verse 5 so here's a second chance to grab one. This time we printed a second color, along with the original beige. Follow the link below to order!

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Open Reading Period for Chapbooks!

We are currently reading poetry chapbook submissions. Please follow the following link to submit!

Submit to Yellow Flag Press

We hope to release several new chapbooks this year, and a few are already in the works. 

New Webstore

We have a new fully interactive webstore, and we will be moving all of our available releases and tshirts to the new storefront. Check it out here...

http://yellowflagpress.tictail.com/

Vision/Verse 2009-2013: An Anthology of Poetry is now available!

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Vision/Verse 2009-2013: An Anthology of Poetry, Edited by J. Bruce Fuller & Erica McCreedy

Trade Paperback (2013), 6 inches x 9 inches, 156 pages. ISBN 978-1-304-02545-6

 

Yellow Flag Press is excited to announce the release of our first perfect bound release, Vision/Verse 2009-2013: An Anthology of Poetry. This is a 6"x9" trade paperback featuring 33 poets and 100 poems.

Featured poets:

Lou Amyx
Maya Beerbower
Jacob Blevins
Darrell Bourque
Steven Brown
Elizabeth Burk
Kolleen Carney
William Lusk Coppage
Rita D. Costello
Kevin Dwyer
S. B. Ferguson
Amy Fleury
J. Bruce Fuller
Trèe George
Rodney Gomez
Ashley Mace Havird
David Havird
Ava Leavell Haymon
Mary Hughes
Hillary Joubert
Julie Kane
Clare L. Martin
Erica McCreedy
Andrew McSorley
Patrice Melnick
Stella Ann Nesanovich
Jan Rider Newman
Angelina Oberdan
Philana Omorotionmwan
M. Rather, Jr.
Michael Shewmaker
M. E. Silverman
Kevin Thomason

Cover art by Heather Arsement, with additional art by Brendan Egan, Heather Ryan Kelley, Sue Zimmermann, Brad Arender, and Martin Castillo.

Joel Ferdon's "To the Belly and Back" Now Available for Pre-order

Now Available for Pre-orders!

Our newest broadside is Joel Ferdon's "To the Belly and Back." This is a 60lb. textured cardstock with 20% cotton folded interiors. Limited to an edition of 26 lettered copies. The official release date is June 8th when we will be debuting this at Vision/Verse 5. Pre-order your copy to reserve one of these by clicking the buy button below!

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Joel Ferdon - To the Belly and Back

$5.00 + FREE SHIPPING

Anthology Cover

The cover for Vision/Verse 2009-2013: An Anthology of Poetry is done! Be sure to drop by our Kickstarter page and get a copy! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1604284672/vision-verse-2009-2013-an-anthology-of-poetry

Pre-order Vision/Verse 2009-2013: An Anthology of Poetry

Yellow Flag Press is excited to announce the upcoming release of our first perfect bound release, Vision/Verse 2009-2013: An Anthology of Poetry. This is a 6"x9" trade paperback featuring 33 poets and 100 poems.

Pre-orders for this anthology are available exclusively through our Kickstarter page, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1604284672/vision-verse-2009-2013-an-anthology-of-poetry. Please check out some of our unique rewards and get your copy of this anthology.

Poets included in this book are

Lou Amyx
Maya Beerbower
Jacob Blevins
Darrell Bourque
Steven Brown
Elizabeth Burk
Kolleen Carney
William Lusk Coppage
Rita D. Costello
Kevin Dwyer
S. B. Ferguson
Amy Fleury
J. Bruce Fuller
Trèe George
Rodney Gomez
Ashley Mace Havird
David Havird
Ava Leavell Haymon
Mary Hughes
Hillary Joubert
Julie Kane
Clare L. Martin
Erica McCreedy
Andrew McSorley
Patrice Melnick
Stella Ann Nesanovich
Jan Rider Newman
Angelina Oberdan
Philana Omorotionmwan
M. Rather, Jr.
Michael Shewmaker
M. E. Silverman
Kevin Thomason

Cover art by Heather Arsement, with additional art by Brendan Egan, Heather Ryan Kelley, Sue Zimmermann, and others.

Edited by J. Bruce Fuller & Erica McCreedy. Layout and design by Lou Amyx.

Vision/Verse Sneak Peek

Here's the first sneak peek at the upcoming batch of Vision/verse broadsides. Up first: Kevin Dwyer's "The Snow, the Crow, and the Blood" 25lb. Linen paper on 110lb. black cardstock, hand-stamped crows with acrylic paint.

National Poetry Month Broadside Sale

In honor of National Poetry Month, we have decided to extend our broadside sale. From now until the end of April when you buy one broadside we will send you a second broadside free. That's 2 broadsides for $3. If you have a preference for your free broadside please let us know in the comment section of your order, if not, we will send a random broadside.
Below is a list of the broadsides we currently have in stock:

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Kevin Thomason - Artist

$3.00

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Maya Beerbower - Cross-Pollination

$3.00

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Clare L. Martin - The Bird in My Ribcage

$3.00

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Maya Beerbower - The Dispersion of Light

$3.00

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Patrice Melnick - Dancing at Tipitina's After the Flood

$3.00

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Kolleen Carney - Bluebird

$3.00

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Ava Leavell Haymon - Paper Doll

$3.00

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Andrew McSorley - N21

$3.00

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Andrew McSorley - Reflection

$3.00

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Erica McCreedy - Venison

$3.00

Spring/Summer Updates

Too many things are in the works to post them all individually, so here is an update for all YFP happenings...

BROADSIDE SALE!!!!
From now until Sunday, April 7th if you buy one broadside we will send you a second broadside FOR FREE! If you have a preference for your free broadside let us know in the comment section of your order, otherwise we'll send you a random broadside with your order. That's 2 broadsides for $3. Can't beat that...

Vision/Verse 5
We are beginning the process of making the broadsides for this year's Vision/Verse show. 20 new broadside titles from some stellar poets. We are also working on a trade paperback anthology of the first five years of Vision/Verse poems. We will be making more announcements about this as it comes together.

Elizabeth Burk's  Learning to Love Louisiana is flying off the shelf. We have sold out of the second printing, and are in the process of making a Third Printing of 50 copies. We will also be printing a Reading Edition of 10 copies for her reading in Lafayette on June 15th. There will also be a Special Edition (YFP-SE) version of the book that will not be for sale (but we will post pics!). There is also talk of doing an alternate art final printing later down the road. This book has gotten nothing but glowing responses so pick up a copy if you haven't already.

We are working on a new release by poet Bonny McDonald. Hope to have more info on this soon, but I can say that it may be our first hardcover release, which kinda explains why it is taking so long to get this release together. We are on the learning curve here... I can promise that the poetry is ridiculously good.

Stephanie Marker's mini-chapbook And Her Eyes Were Closed the Whole Time has now SOLD OUT. Check out Stephanie's new project here http://lazymousepress.blogspot.com/

Erica McCreedy's Red Winters chapbook has now SOLD OUT. We are thinking about a second edition printing sometime in the future.

There's much more going on but that's the main stuff. Keep in touch, y'all.

Stephanie Marker - And Her Eyes Were Closed the Whole Time

Now Available!

4.25"x2.75" xBook chapbook, heavyweight textured cardstock covers with brad bindings. Each cover is uniquely hand-drawn by the author. First printing limited to 15 hand-numbered copies and signed by the author.

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Stephanie Marker - And Her Eyes Were Closed the Whole Time
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Shelly Bryant - "At The Phoenix Pagoda"

Shelly Bryant's poem "At the Phoenix Pagoda" is now available as a Yellow Flag Press broadside. Shelly Bryant is a writer and translator living in Singapore. Find out more about her HERE.

This release is a fully mailable air mail postcard (postage stamp included) with hand stamped art. Shipping is free so buy a few and send to your friends.

For a more interactive and personal experience, please let us know if you would like these mailed directly to you, with your name and address written directly on the postcard. It'll be one of a kind. If you would like this option just let us know in the buyer instructions box when completing payment. Otherwise we will send it in a regular envelope.

$5.00 + FREE SHIPPING

New Releases

Two upcoming releases we are working on...

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Shelly Bryant - "At the Phoenix Pagoda"
Hand-stamped air mail postcards, with postage stamps. Limited to an edition of 26 lettered copies.
$5

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Stephanie Marker - "And Her Eyes Were Closed the Whole Time"
X-book chapbooks in multiple editions.
$5

First editions are in the mail!

Vision/Verse 5 Poets Announced

We have selected the poets that will be a part of the fifth installment of Vision/Verse Art and Poetry Exhibit. Here's the line-up...

Maya Beerbower
Elizabeth Burk
Kevin Dwyer
S. B. Ferguson
Amy Fleury
Rodney Gomez
Ashley Havird
Patrice Melnick
M. Rather, Jr.
M. E. Silverman

Vision/Verse 5 will open at the Arts Associates Gallery in the Central School for Arts and Humanities, Lake Charles, LA, on June 8th, 2013.

M. Rather Jr.'s "Lake Charles, Late May"

We are proud to announce the release of M. Rather, Jr.'s "Lake Charles, Late May." This is a re-release of a 2009 broadside that sold out WAY too fast. So we redesigned this puppy into an eight page xBook mini-chapbook (2.75"x4.25"), with 80lb. textured card stock covers and jump ring bindings. Limited to an edition of 12 copies, signed and numbered by the author.

These are NOW AVAILABLE, so please click the link below to get yours...

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M. Rather, Jr. - Lake Charles, Late May

$5.00

Holy Map Pack Batman! Making the covers for Learning to Love Louisiana!

"Learning to Love Louisiana" First Editions SOLD OUT

The first editions of all 26 lettered copies have sold out. All future orders of Elizabeth Burk's Learning to Love Louisiana will receive the second printings, which should be a run of about 40 copies. Thanks to all who have ordered a copy so far!