Brave Men Press

MICHELLE TARANSKY - NO, I WILL BE IN THE WOODSNOW AVAILABLE

2011-09-19T06:58:00.000-07:00

Hello friends,

BRAVE MEN PRESS

(http://www.bravemenpress.com)

is pleased to announce to the release of

MICHELLE TARANSKY's

new chapbook

NO, I WILL BE IN THE WOODS

"Yes, I will be in Michelle Taransky's words. I will call Michelle Taransky into question. She says we are all addicted to evidence. Yes, I will be in Michelle Taransky's woods. Michelle Taransky decided to make these choices. And she says the word feverfew. No, it isn't as simple as taking one o away and putting in its place an r. But I love how she gets me to do this. These point the way, the way a slash on a tree in the woods blazes a path. A hint, an inkling. I will go there to see what she says see. And I'm pretty sure I'll be better off everafter."

- Dara Wier, author of Reverse Rapture & Hat on a Pond

Michelle Taransky is the author of Barn Burned, Then, selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize. Before moving to Philadelphia to work at Kelly Writers House, Taransky received a BA from The University of Chicago, worked as Programs Coordinator at The Poetry Center of Chicago, earned her MFA from The Iowa Writers' Workshop, taught poetry at the Iowa Young Writers Studio, and was a resident at Wave Books' Poetry Farm. She is a member of the Critical Writing Faculty at Penn and an adjunct poetry instructor at Temple University. Taransky is always happy to talk about poetry, glitter, Charles Barkley, or her book-in-progress: Never Quit: The Poetics of Charles Barkley.

Cover is letterpressed

w/ tan and black ink on cream paper.

Printed in a limited edition of 105.

21 pages.

$10

Buy NO, I WILL BE IN THE WOODS

with a limited edition coinside (i.e. tiny broadside)

for

$ 12.50

TO BUY

NO, I WILL BE IN THE WOODS

visiit - http://bravemenpress.com/woods.html

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ALSO AVAILABLE

HOW TO WRITE A MISTAKE-IST POEM by Chris Martin

http://bravemenpress.com/howtowrite.html

BRAVE MEN PRESS COIN LIBRARY

featuring

BECAUSE WE MUST by Ben Kopel

BEING ONE by Lily Brown

IN THE TRADE OF ALIVE LETTERS MIS-SENT

by Joshua Marie Wilkinson

as well as a Limited edition drypoint etching by E. B. Goodale

printed exclusively for the Brave Men Press Coin Library

http://bravemenpress.com/coinlibrary.html

(Copies of BEING ONE & IN THE TRADE OF ALIVE LETTERS

also sold separately - http://bravemenpress.com/books.html)

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Please help by spreading the word on Facebook and blogs near and far.

Select copies available for review upon request.

Contact - bravemenpress@gmail.com

Thank you for your support!

Best,

E.B. Goodale &

Brian Foley

2011-02-01T10:19:00.001-08:00

Hark Brave All,

As we plan our descent into this years AWP conference in Washington DC, we hope that you will spend some thought on the Brave Men & Women who fight for you - Chris Martin, Lily Brown, Ben Kopel, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Jennifer Denrow, Mathias Svalina, Brian Foley & EB Goodale.

It is right to say we have been up to much - four new chapbooks, a box set, posters, finer art, a massive reading. So in one fell swoop, we share with you all their awesome and our devotion, that you may now see for yourselves with your internet eyes.

Chris Martin - How to Write a Mistake-ist Poem

Chris Martin's second book of poems, Becoming Weather, is just now precipitating into material form compliments of the wonderful people at Coffee House Press. His first book, American Music, won the Hayden Carruth Prize and last year he was named one of the Poetry Society of America's New American Poets. Currently he is an editor at Futurepoem books and curator of the response blog Futurepost.

Lily Brown - Being One

Lily Brown is from Massachusetts and currently lives in Athens, where she is a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia. Her first book, Rust or Go Missing, is out from Cleveland State University Poetry Center, and recent poems have appeared in American Letters and Commentary and Colorado Review.

Ben Kopel - Because We Must

Ben Kopel, a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts where he edits Laminated Cats Press. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, he is currently continuing his education at UMass Amherst. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Conduit, Sir!, Forklift: Ohio, H_NG_M_N, Sixth Finch, Diagram, and elsewhere. Sorry ma, he forgot to take out the trash.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson - In The Trade of Alive Letters Mis-sent

Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Selenography, featuring Polaroids by Califone's Tim Rutili (Sidebrow Books, 2010). He has edited two anthologies for University of Iowa Press: Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook12x12: Conversations in 21st Century Poetry & Poetics. He lives in Chicago, where he is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Loyola University.

2011 Brave Men Press Coin Library

Made up three chapbooks by Lily Brown, Ben Kopel, & Joshua Marie Wilkinson, this custom designed box set comes with an exclusive etching by Brave Men designer and artist
E.B. Goodale. Supplies are limited.

Limited edition bad ass BMP posters designed by E.B. Goodale

We will also have books on hand limited quantities of BMP titles still available, by Jennifer Denrow, Brian Foley & Mathias Svalina

Jennifer Denrow - From California, On

Jennifer Denrow has two chapbooks: A Knee for a Life (Horse Less Press) and From California, On (Brave Men Press). Her first book, California, is forthcoming from Four Way Books.

Mathias Svalina - Whatever You Love of Weapons You Love For Weapons

Mathias Svalina was born in Chicago, where his parents were both chemists. He is the author of five chapbooks as well as five collaboratively written chapbooks. His work has been published widely in journals such as American Letters & Commentary, The Boston Review, Diagram, jubilat, and Typo. With Zachary Schomburg, he co-edits Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. Destruction Myth is his first book out from CSU press.

Brian Foley - The Black Eye

Brian Foley is the author of the chapbooks The Constitution ( Horseless Press, 2011) & The Tornado is Not A Surrealist (Greying Ghost, 2008). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Action Yes, Columbia Poetry Journal, Poor Claudia,Typo, H_NGM_N & elsewhere. He edits SIR! Magazine, curates The Deep Moat Reading Series, and with EB Goodale, runs Brave Men Press.

WHERE?

You can find us and these books at AWP this Thursday- Saturday at the HTML Giant table. Supplies are limited, so please plan accordingly. New titles & ephemera will be on sale on our website soon after AWP, providing we don't sell out.

READING?

On Friday night please join BRAVE MEN in celebrating WIDE NIGHT, an evening of readings with the following presses!

*BATEAU*

*BIRDS, LLC*

*BRAVE MEN*

*FACTORY HOLLOW*

*FLYING GUILLOTINE*

*IMMACULATE DISCIPLES*

*MINUTES*

*PILOT*

Readers include:

Chris Martin, Lily Brown, Mark Horosky, Sasha Steensen, Emily Pettit, Dan Boehl, Sommer Browning, Jessica Young, Farrah Field, Guy Pettit, Kelin Loe, Alex Phillips, Luke Bloomfield, Megan M. Garr & Francesca Chabrier!

Brave Men will be represented by Lily Brown & Chris Martin, reading somewhere near the end of the line up, for those of you planning a full evening.

There will always be a lot going on, but we really hope you stop by the table and/or reading and introduce yourselves. We've come to meet you.

Other Brave Men Happenings

Poems by Jennifer Denrow in 751 Magazine & Sixth Finch

Joshua Marie Wilkinson's new journal of poetics, EVENING WILL COME

Poems by Chris Martin in Sink Review

Sounds Thoughts & a poem by Mathias Svalina at Coldfront

A poem by Brian Foley in H_NGM_N

A book cover by EB Goodale of Aaron Burch's How to Predict the Weather

Safe travels to all traveling

Best,

Brian & Emily
Brave Men Press

bravemenpress@gmail.com

Now Available

2010-04-22T20:20:00.001-07:00

front

back

THE BLACK EYE
Brian Foley

Brian Foley has had poems appear or are forthcoming in Typo, Fou, Glitterpony, No Tell Motel, Sixth Finch, and others. He edits SIR! Magazine and was recently selected by Pam Rehm for the Academy of American Poets prize. He lives in Massachusetts where he attends the MFA for Poets and Writers at Umass Amherst.

Cover is letterpressed with black ink on red paper.
Printed in a limited edition of 150.
22 pages.

read sample poems

$9

WHATEVER YOU LOVE OF WEAPONS YOU LOVE FOR WEAPONS
Mathias Svalina

Author's Artist Statement:

"This poem comes from a manuscript of serial poems exploring what it means to be influenced by an artist. They are ekphrastic in the basic sense that they respond to artists or works of art. Beyond that they attempt to understand, via the lyric, how the art that matters to us continues to be present long after we’ve stopped thinking about the color, form & content of an individual work. This poem is a response to Caravaggio’s The Calling of St. Matthew, a painting that I have never been able to get out of my head."

Author's artist statement originally written for The Tusculum Review.

read excerpt

Cover is letterpressed with copper and black ink on blue paper.
Printed in a limited edition of 150.
27 pages.

$9

2010-03-29T09:43:00.000-07:00

EWN

2010-03-29T09:35:00.000-07:00

Dan Wickett at the Emerging Writers Network wrote a wonderful profile of Brave Men for Small Press Month. Check it out.

He also had a special feature on Julia Cohen's For the H in Ghost, saying

A great portion of my personal interest in chapbooks, while I'm obviously hoping to find writing that I enjoy, is the chapbook as object itself - this particular edition is stunning - Emily Goodale has created a lovely, sturdy, piece of art all her own here, infused with the art of Cohen's poetry.

Sadly, we are sold out of the book online. However, if you're going to AWP in Denver we will have a handful of copies available at our table. Look for us.

2010-03-03T07:30:00.000-08:00

The second printing of Janaka Stucky's YOUR NAME IS THE ONLY FREEDOM is now available. Cover is letter pressed with gold ink on red paper. Printed in a limited edition of 60.
Click here to purchase.

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Special Edition Coinside printed to commemorate
the Sir! Magazine, notnostrums, Noo Journal release party
at the Montague Bookmill, February 27, 2010.

Featuring Ben Kopel.
Hand painted and printed in an edition of 39.
Actual Size 2 3/8 x 4 1/8.

Ben Kopel
Single Coinside
$3.50

We only have about 10 remaining, so get on it.

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OPEN READING PERIOD IN MARCH

BRAVE MEN PRESS is pleased to announce its first OPEN READING PERIOD for CHAPBOOK MANUSCRIPTS. We are primarily interested in POETRY, will most likely choose POETRY, but are also possibly interested in ESSAYS & OTHER MULTIFARIOUS WORKS OF NON FICTION. Sorry though, NO FICTION. Manuscripts may range between 12-30 pages. Multiple submissions okay. Please send electronic submissions only in WORD document. Send your work to bravemenpress@gmail.com

2010-02-25T10:03:00.001-08:00

Hi all,

We have a limited number of Coinsides from the last Deep Moat Reading.

They are from Julie Carr (100 Notes on Violence),
Elizabeth Marie Young (Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize), &
Jessica Bozek (The Bodyfeel Lexicon).

Go here to purchase -

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IN OTHER NEWS...

we are finishing up the second printing of Janaka Stuckys' YOUR NAME IS THE ONLY FREEDOM.

While you wait, vote Janaka for Boston's best poet

If you like Brave Men Press, maybe you should check out - SIR! Magazine, Brian and Emily's online lit mag venture. Issue 3 just went live recently -

And if you're in the area, we're having an issue release party in conjunction with notnostrums and NOO Journal this coming Saturday.
Readers include Alex Phillips, Lauren Ireland, Leigh Stein, & Caroyln Zaikowski.

Michelle Taransky and Joshua Harmon will be reading for SIR!

All the info is here:

We're prepping for this years AWP in Denver.
We'll have new chapbooks available from Mathias Svalina and Brian Foley.

BRAVE MEN PRESS will be representing at the HISTORIC FALCON reading.

"HISTORIC FALCON"

Location: Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street; walking distance from the conference.
Cost: Free
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
6:30-9:00 p.m.

You should definitely come to this reading of six small presses: Birds, LLC; Brave Men Press; Harp & Altar; Immaculate Disciples Press; Mississippi Review Poetry Series; and New Issues Press. Poets include: Julia Cohen, Brian Foley, Elisa Gabbert, Kate Greenstreet, Dan Magers, Justin Marks, Linnea Ogden, Christopher Salerno, Kim Gek Lin Short, Sam Starkweather, Janaka Stucky, and Chris Tonelli.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=344631388791&ref=ts

Hope to see you somewhere soon.

Love,

Brian Foley & E.B. Goodale

Now Available - Julia Cohen & New Coinsides

2009-12-10T07:56:00.001-08:00

We're pleased to announce Julia Cohen's new chapbook FOR THE H IN GHOST in now for sale.

In For the H in Ghost, Julia Cohen names the blank space,
representing what is and what is not with ribbons of text that run
like veins in an invisible, immutable tongue.

Julia Cohen's first full length book, Triggermoon Triggermoon,
is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. She lives in Denver
and is the poetry editor of the journal, Saltgrass.

Cover is letterpressed with grey ink on white paper.
Printed in a limited edition of 83.
17 pages.

read a sample poem

$9

Click Here to Purchase

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ALSO AVAILABLE FROM BRAVE MEN PRESS

Series #7 Coinsides featuring Dan Boehl and Mike Young

Featuring Mike Young and Dan Boehl.
Actual size 2 3/8 x 4 1/8".
Each Coinside printed in a limited edition of 23.
Set of Two.

$3.50 for each, $6.50 for both

Click here to Purchase

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Janaka Stucky's YOUR NAME IS THE ONLY FREEDOM has SOLD OUT.
We will be making a second edition in January. A pre-sale will appear on the website shortly.

A limited edition chapbook from Mathias Svalina is due this spring,
as well as a chapbook by Brian Foley.

Boog City Invites BMP to NYC

2009-11-07T12:06:00.000-08:00

Boog City presents

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

BRAVE MEN PRESS

(NORTHAMPTON, MA)

Tues., Nov. 24, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free

ACA Galleries

529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr.

NYC

Event will be hosted by

Brave Men Press poetry editor Brian Foley

Featuring readings from

Farrah Field

Sampson Starkweather

Mark Leidner

Luke Bloomfield

Brian Foley

and music from

French Ancestors
http://www.myspace.com/itsfrenchancestors

There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

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**Brave Men Press

http://www.bravemenpress.com/

Brave Men Press is a new letterpress venture run by artist E.B. Goodale and poet Brian Foley. In 2009 they released No Theater, a chapbook of spare and sculpted poems by Chris Tonelli. Chapbooks by poets Julia Cohen and Janaka Stucky will be unleashed before the year's end.

*Performer Bios*

**Luke Bloomfield**

http://glitterponymag.com/poetry/Luke-Bloomfield/56-Booms/

Luke Bloomfield is a co-editor for notnostrums journal and a Juniper Fellow at UMass Amherst. He has poems recently published in Glitterpony and Invisible Ear and other places. He is an out of work translator. He has read for 55 seconds at the Minutes Reading Series. He is a member of the Western Massachusetts Robert Walser Society.

**Farrah Field**

http://www.adultish.blogspot.com/

Farrah Field's first collection of poems, Rising, won the 2007 Levis Prize and is out from Four Way Books. Her poems have appeared in many publications, including The Mississippi Review, Margie, The Massachusetts Review, Pool, Typo, Harp & Altar, 42Opus, La Petite Zine, and Sojourn, and are forthcoming in Pebble Lake Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Fulcrum, and The Pinch. She lives in Brooklyn and blogs at the above site.

**Brian Foley**

http://www.eunuchsblues.blogspot.com

Brian Foley has poems in Front Porch, Sixth Finch, LIT, Strange Machine, No Tell Motel, Keyhole, Sleeping Fish, and Avatar Review among others. His chapbook The Tornado is not a Surrealist is out from Greying Ghost Press. He edits the online schism, SIR!, is poetry editor of Brave Men Press, and runs The Deep Moat Reading Series in Cambridge, Mass. He attends grad school for poetry at UMass Amherst and lives in Northampton, Mass.

**French Ancestors**

http://www.myspace.com/itsfrenchancestors

French Ancestors is the moniker of Jesse Duquette, formerly of Boston pop mavens Emergency Music.

**Mark Leidner**

http://trembyle.livejournal.com

Mark Leidner grew up in Tifton, a small town in south Georgia. His two chapbooks are The Night of 1,000 Murders (Factory Hollow Press) and The Empire (Scantily Clad Press). He lives in Northampton, Mass. and his blog is located at the above site.

**Sampson Starkweather**

http://www.typomag.com/issue12/starkweather.html

Sampson Starkweather lives in the forest. His most recent chapbook is The Heart is Green from So Much Waiting from Immaculate Disciples Press. He is also the author of City of Moths from Rope-a-Dope Press and The Photograph from horse less press. Recent or forthcoming work can be found in Action Yes, Typo, Sink Review, SIR!, Open Letters Monthly, Pax Americana, RealPoetik, and Ekleksographia.

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Directions:

C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.

Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues

NO THEATER reviewed

2009-10-14T09:24:00.000-07:00

A seven gun salute review of Chris Tonelli's NO THEATER at Tarapaulin Sky.

Less than 20 copies left, get yours now at Brave Men Press.

We've moved!

2009-09-16T07:06:00.000-07:00

Brave Men Press is now located in Happy Valley! (Northampton, MA)
Don't worry we brought everything with us! Here is an updated list of our inventory:

NO THEATER by Chris Tonelli - $9.50 buy it.

CoinSides Series #5 - Emily Kendal Frey, Mark Leidner and Zachary Schomburg buy them.

The CoinSide Accordion Book - $18.95 buy it.

Stay tuned for the upcoming release of the CoinSides Series #6 for the Deep Moat Reading Series, September 26, 2009.

Also we are looking forward to the fall release of Julia Cohen's For the H in Ghost.

Happy Fall from BMP.

Scary, No Scary

2009-08-01T08:07:00.000-07:00

NOW AVAILABLE! Limited Edition Coinsides of Zachary Schomburg's poem Scary, No Scary only available with a purchase of the Limited Edition Hardcover of his new book of the same name.

This Coinside was lovingly letterpressed in an edition of 200 and comes with a white coin envelope printed on the flap. 2 3/4 x 4 1/4".

All this comes with the purchase of this book.

NO THEATER

2009-07-27T15:39:00.000-07:00

We have officially sold out of Sampson Starkweather's Coinside as well as Justin Marks!

As of now we very limited quantity left of:

Julia Cohen
Chris Tonelli
Jon Woodward

go here to take a look at what's left.

ALSO:

NO THEATER by Chris Tonelli is now for sale

buy it.

New Website

2009-07-23T18:26:00.000-07:00

Hello friends. As of NOW, we have a real website. For all future official Brave Men business and transactions, go to:

bravemenpress.com

This blog from now on will be used as a news site for BMP. So don't stop visiting...

Deep Moat CoinSide Series #4

2009-07-15T06:16:00.000-07:00

In affiliation with the Deep Moat Reading Series, we present the 4th incarnation of the Coinsides. The next reading takes place this Saturday, July 18th at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Harvard Square. This reading is also the official release of Brave Men Press's debut chapbook: No Theater by Chris Tonelli.

The CoinSides available are:

(NAPOLEON) by Chris Tonelli:

$3.50

PINK JELLYBEANS by Jon Woodward:

$3.50

and XXIX by Sampson Starkweather:

$3.50

and as always, the set of three is available for a slight discount:

$9.50

Black Ocean Collaboration

2009-06-23T19:41:00.000-07:00

We are very excited to announce our newest upcoming collaboration with Black Ocean Press.

We will be providing a special edition CoinSide for each of the limited edition hardcovers of Zachary Schomburg's new book, Scary, No Scary. These CoinSides will only be available with the purchase of the book, available now for preorder directly from Black Ocean only.

There are only 200 of these gems in the world, so make your purchase early.

Deep Moat Coinside Series #3

2009-06-08T18:47:00.000-07:00

Now available- the third installment of the Coinside series in conjunction with the Deep Moat Reading Series. Each Coinside contains a lithographed image with a poem in hand-set 6 point type.

Julia Cohen:

$3.50

and Justin Marks:

Also available as a pair for a slight discount:

$6.50

Don't forget to see the poets in person at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Harvard Square on Saturday June 13th. Coinsides and paraphernalia will be there in person also.

Each Coinside is printed in an edition of 21.

NEW!!! Coinside Storage and Display

2009-06-08T16:21:00.000-07:00

Now introducing our Brave Men Press accordion book specially made to store and display your collection of Coinsides. The accordion is double-sided with a total of 14 slots (enough for all the current Coinsides and room for future ones.)

It can fold up to be put on a book shelf or can spread out to be displayed.

Cover measures 3x4 1/4"

Buy the book alone for $18.95

Buy the book along with all the Coinsides to date that are still available (5)
$34

Deep Moat Coinsides Series #2

2009-05-07T11:05:00.000-07:00

In affiliation with the Deep Moat Reading Series, we present three new coinsides: one for each reader present at the May 8th event.

This series features Ben Mazer with his poem, A Movie Is Available Knowledge...

SOLD OUT

Eric Baus with his poem, Glass Ear...

SOLD OUT

& Elisa Gabbert with her poem, Dream Missive...

SOLD OUT

Each CoinSide is 2 3/8" x 4" and contains a printed image along with the poem in hand-set type. Each is printed in a limited edition of 23.

You also may buy the set of all three for a minor discount....

NO LONGER AVAILABLE

See you on the Coinside

2009-04-07T16:16:00.000-07:00

Introducing the first in an ongoing series of miniature broadsides, we are calling the "CoinSides" due to their fitting inside a coin envelope. This first one features a poem by Brian Foley:

Each one contains a lithographic image and was printed in 8 point type set by hand and printed on an 120 year old Kelsey letterpress.

Printed in an edition of 24. Actual size 2 3/8 x 4 1/8.

No Theater

2009-03-28T08:05:00.000-07:00

Now announcing Brave Men Press,a new letterpress venture in chapbooks and pamphlets.

Our first release will be a letter pressed chapbook by poet Chris Tonelli (pictured above) called No Theater. Poems from No Theater can be currently seen in SIR! and Sixth Finch, as well as a Dutch translation found at 1hundered1.

Chris Tonelli co-curates The So and So Series and is the author of three chapbooks: For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press, forthcoming), A Mule-Shaped Cloud (w/ Sarah Bartlett, horse less press, 2008), and WIDE TREE: Short Poems (Kitchen Press, 2006). He edits the Golden Gloves Chapbook Series for Rope-A-Dope Press and is the On-Line Editor for Black Ocean. He teaches at N.C. State in Raleigh, where he lives with his wife Allison.

Stay tuned for a forthcoming website with news from Brave Men Press, including info on the chapbooks, broadsides, pamphlets, ads, valentines, inventions & death threats we will be revealing in the future.

MS on CT

2009-03-28T08:00:00.000-07:00

Mathias Svalina praises Chris Tonelli's poems, part of the upcoming No Theater.

Brave Men Press

****MICHELLE TARANSKY - NO, I WILL BE IN THE WOODS****NOW AVAILABLE****

Now Available

EWN

Now Available - Julia Cohen & New Coinsides

Boog City Invites BMP to NYC

NO THEATER reviewed

We've moved!

Scary, No Scary

NO THEATER

New Website

Deep Moat CoinSide Series #4

Black Ocean Collaboration

Deep Moat Coinside Series #3

NEW!!! Coinside Storage and Display

Deep Moat Coinsides Series #2

See you on the Coinside

No Theater

MS on CT

MICHELLE TARANSKY - NO, I WILL BE IN THE WOODSNOW AVAILABLE