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

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

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

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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

EWN

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.

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.

Go here to purchase.

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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

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