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Atlanta: Four Coconut Facts

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

1. When you Google the word “coconut,” coconut poetry is fourth.

2. Bruce Covey, Gina Myers, Laura Solomon, Danielle Pafunda, and Kim Gek Lin Short just released the first issue of Coconut in four years.

3. Coconut Fifteen features work by Atlanta/Athens poets Megan Volpert, Molly Brodak, Kory Calico, and Gale Marie Thompson.

4. Coconut Books now offers subscription bundles and with free shipping. You can order the $50 Fall bundle and receive all four Fall 2012 titles–Emily Toder’s Science, Hanna Andrews’ Slope Moves, Christie Ann Reynolds’ Revenge for Revenge, and Jenny Boully’s of the mismatched teacups, of the single-serving spoon. The Spring bundle is also $50 and includes Megan Kaminski’s Desiring Map, Angela Veronica Wong’s how to survive a hotel fire, Molly Brodak’s The Flood, and Bruce Covey’s Reveal.

-Jenny Sadre-Orafai

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Featured Readings-Atlanta Edition

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

 

What’s New in Poetry hosts Alli Warren, Brandon Brown, Jessica Fiorini, and Karen Weiser at 8 PM on Thursday, November 1st. The reading will be held on the first floor of the Emory University Bookstore (1390 Oxford Road, Atlanta, GA 30322). The reading is free and open to the public. Listen to past readings here.

Georgia Tech’s Poetry at Tech will host Bob Hicok and Jamaal May at 7:30 PM Thursday, November 8th. The reading will be in the Kress Auditorium (500 Tenth Street, NW, Atlanta, GA 30309) at The Robert C. Williams Paper Museum. The reading is free and open to the public.

What’s New in Poetry hosts Chris Vitiello, Brian Howe, Kristin Abraham, and Theresa Sotto at 8 PM on Thursday, November 8th. The reading will be held on the first floor of the Emory University Bookstore (1390 Oxford Road, Atlanta, GA 30322). The reading is free and open to the public. Listen to past readings here.

GF Hosts || New South & Vouched ATL Present: Intimate Readings at The Goat Farm Arts Center featuring Carrie Murphy, Kate Sweeney, Jamie Iredell, Amber Sparks, and Michael Nye at 8PM Friday, November 9th. The reading will be held at The Goat Farm, the Warhorse Coffeeshop (1200 Foster Street, Atlanta, GA 30318). The reading is free and open to the public (18 and up).

Poetry at Callanwolde hosts Walter Griffin and Scott Owens at 8 PM on Wednesday, November 14th. The reading will be held at the Callanwolde Library in the  Callanwolde Fine Arts Center (980 Briarcliff Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30306). Tickets are sold at the door. $5 General Admission, $3 Students with ID, Seniors, and Members.

Nick Sturm, Molly Brodak, Kory Calico, Laura Straub, P.I. Navarro, and Jenny Sadre-Orafai will read at 8 PM on Saturday, November 17th. The reading will be held at Joe’s East Atlanta Coffee Shop (510 Flat Shoals Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30316). The reading is free and open to the public.

Berry College hosts Amy Pence at 7:30 PM on Thursday, November 29th. The reading will be held at Berry College’s Science Auditorium (2277 Martha Berry Hwy NW, Mount Berry, GA 30149). The reading will be followed by a Q & A and book signing.

FUSEBOX Presents: Maureen Thorson and Peter Streckfus at 7 PM on Saturday, November 17th. The reading will be held at Front Gallery at Chenoweth.Halligan Studios (1800 Rossville Avenue, Suites 1 and 2, Chattanooga, TN 37404). The reading is free and open to the public. For more information, contact avlenahan@gmail.com.

–Jenny Sadre-Orafai

 

 

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Featured Readings-Atlanta Edition

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

 

Emory’s Creative Writing Reading Series hosts Molly Brodak and Harmony Neal at 6:30 PM on Tuesday, October 2nd. The reading will be held in the Jones Room at Emory’s Woodruff Library  (540 Asbury Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322). The reading is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow.

Berry College’s Department of English, Rhetoric and Writing’s Reading Series hosts creative writing faculty Abigail Greenbaum and Sandra Meek at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, October 2nd. The reading will be held at Berry College’s Science Auditorium (2277 Martha Berry Hwy NW,  Mount Berry, GA 30149). The reading will be followed by a Q & A and book signing by Meek.

Poetry at Callanwolde hosts Travis Denton and Dan Veach at 8 PM on Wednesday, October 10th. The reading will be held at the Callanwolde Library in the  Callanwolde Fine Arts Center (980 Briarcliff Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30306). Tickets are sold at the door. $5 General Admission, $3 Students with ID, Seniors, and Members.

solar anus readings hosts Hugh Sheehy, Carolyn Hembree, and Jenny Sadre-Orafai at 8 PM on Friday, October 12th. The reading will be held at Beep Beep Gallery (696 Charles Allen Drive, Atlanta, GA 30308). The reading is free and open to the public.

What’s New in Poetry hosts Christie Ann Reynolds, Hanna Andrews, Emily Toder, Angela Veronica Wong at 8 PM on Thursday, October 18th. The reading will be held on the first floor of the Emory University Bookstore (1390 Oxford Road, Atlanta, GA 30322). The reading is free and open to the public. Listen to past readings here.

solar anus readings hosts Michael Jeffrey Lee, Elena Passarello, Laura Straub, and Kristin Conger at 6:30 PM on Friday, October 19th. The reading will be held at SCAD Ivy Hall ( 179 Ponce de Leon Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30308). The reading is free and open to the public.

FUSEBOX Presents hosts Gina Myers and Abraham Smith at 7 PM on Saturday, October 20th. The reading will be held at Front Gallery at Chenoweth.Halligan Studios (1800 Rossville Avenue, Suites 1 and 2, Chattanooga, TN 37404). The reading is free and open to the public. For more information, contact avlenahan@gmail.com.

–Jenny Sadre-Orafai

 

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Atlanta: Coconut Books Now Available at SPD

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

Coconut Books’ catalog is now available for purchase at Small Press Distribution. In addition to their newly published titles (by Molly Brodak, Megan Kaminski, and Angela Veronica Wong) and newly distributed title (Bruce Covey’s Reveal: All Shapes & Sizes), the following Coconut backlist books are now available as well: Sueyeun Juliette Lee’s That Gorgeous Feeling, Reb Livingston’s Your Ten Favorite Words, Natalie Lyalin’s Pink & Hot Pink Habitat, Gina Myers’ A Model Year, and Jen Tynes’ Heron/Girlfriend.

See the Huffington Post for Seth Abramson’s review of Angela Veronica Wong’s How to Survive a Hotel Fire.

–Jenny Sadre-Orafai

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Atlanta: Brodak’s Chapbook to be Published by Horse Less Press

Thursday, July 19th, 2012

Horse Less Press announced yesterday that they will publish Coldfront This Morning Editor Molly Brodak’s chapbook Essay on Parts of the Day. Comprised of three long poems written in sections (“Essay on Parts of Day,” “Day,” and “Pink Trees”), Brodak says, “although they were initially unrelated poems, I realized they all worked together when I put them near each other. I am really happy and excited about Horse Less Press publishing this chapbook because somehow I felt the long poems in a short format makes a nice balance.”

Molly is the author of A Little Middle of the Night (University of Iowa Press, 2010) and the chapbook The Flood (Coconut Books, 2012). She lives in Atlanta and edits the journal Aesthetix.

–Jenny Sadre-Orafai

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Atlanta: The Return of Coconut

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

 

Atlanta’s Coconut Books and Coconut Magazine are back in full effect. Publisher and founding editor Bruce Covey is now accepting submissions for the magazine, one of the first web-based literary journals. Covey has brought on board Gina Myers, Kim Gek Lin Short, Danielle Pafunda, and Laura Solomon as editors. They hope to launch the first new issue this summer.

Coconut Books will offer eight new titles in 2012. Four titles currently available are Molly Brodak’s chapbook The Flood and the following full-length collections–how to survive a hotel fire by Angela Veronica Wong, Desiring Map by Megan Kaminski, and Covey’s Reveal: All Shapes and Sizes, which Coconut is distributing for Bitter Cherry Books. Collections coming in October are: Slope Move by Hanna Andrews, I Am Going to Save Your Life by Christie Ann Reynolds, Like Likeness Renders by Emily Toder, and a new collection by Jenny Boully. In 2013, Coconut Books plans to publish new full-length titles by Serena Chopra, Amber Nelson, Gina Myers, plus their book contest winners and an anthology. They hope to publish one or two more titles, but those are currently top secret. SPD will stock all of the new titles, plus backlist titles by Gina Myers, Reb Livingston, Jen Tynes, Natalie Lyalin, and Sueyeun Juliette Lee. Look out for these by the end of June.

Finally, Coconut Books is sponsoring two new book prizes. The Joanna Cargill Coconut Book Prize for a First Book and The Elizabeth P. Braddock Coconut Book Prize (open to any poet with one or more previously published full-length collection). The deadline for both contests is June 30, 2012 before 6 PM EST. Covey and crew are not charging reading fees. Winners receive 25 copies of the finished book and 50% of all net profits (i.e., dollars earned by the press above total production, editorial, and marketing costs) earned by the book. Visit Coconut on Facebook for the full guidelines.

–Jenny Sadre-Orafai

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Featured Readings-Atlanta Edition

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Poetry at Callanwolde hosts Robert S. King and Robert M. Giannetti at 8 PM on Wednesday, April 11th. The reading will be held at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center (980 Briarcliff Road, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30306). Tickets are sold at the door. $5 General Admission, $3 Students with ID, Seniors, and Members.

New South presents an evening of readings featuring Jim May, Emily Schulten, Peter Fontaine, and Benjamin Solomon at 7:30 PM on Friday, April 13th. The reading will be held at Kavarna (707 East Lake Drive, Decatur, GA 30030). The reading is free and open to the public.

Solar Anus: Readings hosts CA Conrad, Magdelena Zurawski, Kate Zambreno, Gina Abelkop, and Gina Myers at 8 PM on Wednesday, April 18th. The reading will be held at Beep Beep Gallery (696 Charles Allen Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30308). The reading is free and open to the public.

What’s New in Poetry hosts Sandra Doller, Ben Doller, and Jessica Smith at 8 PM on Thursday, April 19th. The reading will be held on the first floor of the Emory University Bookstore (1390 Oxford Road, Atlanta,  GA 30322). The reading is free and open to the public. Missed last month’s What’s New in Poetry reading? Listen up.

Molly Brodak, Jessica Lindberg, and Jenny Sadre-Orafai will read at 8 PM on Tuesday, April 24th. The reading will be held at The Music Room (327 Edgewood Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30312). An open mic will follow the reading. The reading is free and open to the public.

Georgia Center for the Book hosts Sibling Rivalry Press authors Megan Volpert, Jessie Carty, Stephen Mills, Loria Taylor, and Bryan Borland at 3 PM on Saturday, April 28th. The reading will be held at the Decatur Library (215 Sycamore Street, Decatur, GA 30030). The reading and signing is free and open to the public.

Bound to Be Read Books hosts Franklin Abbott, Dustin Brookshire, Taryn Crenshaw, Rupert Fike, Collin Kelley, Janet Metzger, and Rico Revels at 7:30 PM on Saturday, April 28th. The reading will be held at Bound to Be Read Books (481-B Flat Shoals Avenue SE, Atlanta, GA 30316). Featured poets will reveal the poetry in the lyrics of their favorite musicians in celebration of National Poetry Month. The reading is free and open to the public.

 

–Jenny Sadre-Orafai

 

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