New books (finally) available!

Hi friends! The new issue of We Are So Happy to Know Something and the final book of the Single Sheet Series (Brandon Shimoda's The Grave on the Wall) are finally up on the website, available for purchase! We've had these available at AWP and the CUNY chapbook festival, but we've been slow in finishing the edition binding. But we finally got a nice little stockpile of both, and are ready to get them into your waiting hands!

In the meantime, MC finished her MFA in Book Arts by making a whole heck of a lot of broadsides on handmade paper:


And Jeff designed a bunch of book covers (to be added in a later post, because he hasn't emailed them to me, MC, yet)!

Summer DoubleCross projects:

-finishing with the binding of both editions of We Are So Happy To Know Something
-finishing the printing/binding of a fancy fine-press chapbook of poems from Ashley McWaters' Whitework
-a letterpress comic by John Dermot Woods
-design for the fall's chapbooks
-soliciting essays on book-making from poets/book artists/micropress publishers
-beginning work on the next series, Tiny Broadside of the Month Club

The binding end of all these projects means lots of re-watching episodes of 30 Rock (because MC can't watch anything for the first time while bookbinding). Good thing it's been a rainy summer in Minneapolis!

No, really, we've been doing stuff!

NEW GOODIES

(at last! buy them here.)

Back from AWP, new books, and more!

I'm slowly recovering from this year's AWP conference, where DoubleCross Press and Projective Industries teamed up for another year of table-sharing and hijinks. I should be all caught up on book orders and correspondence by the weekend, and I'll soon have 3 new titles up in the shop. Yay!

So: coming soon (I'll link to them once they're in the shop):

Sextuplets Are Not That Heavy - Danielle Roderick (Single Sheet Series #4)
Museum Armor - Lily Brown (Single Sheet Series #6)

and (!)

We Are So Happy To Know Something, a handmade poetry magazine produced in collaboration with Projective Industries

The final chapbook from the Single Sheet Series, Brandon Shimoda's The Grave On The Wall, should be out by the summer--stay tuned for upcoming books and projects!

AWP: DoubleCross, Lame House, & Slash Pine Presents

Date: April 7th, 2010
Time: 4-8:30 p.m.
Location: Rackhouse Pub, 208 S. Kalamath St. Denver

If Wednesday afternoon at AWP finds you looking for some fun, come join us at this low-key and off-the-convention-path poetry mini-marathon. Whether just for a happy hour of local microbrews or distilled CO whiskey, a good pub dinner, or the entire reading, we’d love to share your company.

Readers thus far include Abraham Smith, Kate Greenstreet, Anne Shaw, Malachai Black, Mike Sikemma, Jen Tynes, John Dermot Woods, Daniela Olszewska, Patti White, Gina Myers/Nate Pritts, Matt Hart, Claire Becker, Matt Rasmussen, Brian Oliu, MC Hyland, Nathan Hauke, Joseph P. Wood, Dolly Lemke, Jeremy Hawkins, francine j. harris, and more.

It is 8 minutes by cab or driving. Here’s a Google map for your assistance.

If taking light rail, walk to the Theater District/Convention Center train station. Take the D-Line toward Mineral and get off at Alameda Station. From Alameda Station, head north on S. Cherokee toward W. Alameda Rd. Take a left on W. Alameda and follow for.25 miles. Take a right on S. Kalamath and follow for .5 mile. Bank on 20-25 minutes.

For more information about the restaurant, go to www.rackhousepub.com. Listen to some diverse and terrific poetry, and enjoy the selection of locally-made adult beverages.

A new year at DoubleCross Press

Hello friends!

I tapered off in the press-blogging in 2009; while 2010 is fresh and new, I'm going to make an effort to improve. It's a time of resolutions!

Good things have been afoot here at DoubleCross Press, even though they haven't made it to this little blog. For one thing, there's the Pocket Lab Reading Series, a bi-monthly series of readings and performances by poets and like-minded others we've been curating at Rogue Buddha Gallery in Northeast Minneapolis. We've got a reading coming up this week: Local poets Amara Hartman, Brad Liening, and Juliet Patterson, plus the tireless Syracuse-based Nate Pritts and musical guest Eliza Blue.

And, yes, I did say "we." There's been an addition to DoubleCross Personnel: Jeff Peterson, who designs the retro-scientific Pocket Lab fliers, has agreed to come on board as a collaborator. He'll be doing a lot of the artwork for the upcoming books: right now, he's working on a screenprint design for Danielle Roderick's Sextuplets Are Not That Heavy, to be finished by the end of the month (I hope).

I've also begun working a 20-hour-a-week administrative job at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, which has kept me a bit busier, but also allows me to form a closer relationship with an amazing community of studio artists. I run the adult programs: classes, tours, etc. If you're curious about MCBA, check out their website here, or drop me a line at my fancy new work email: mchyland@mnbookarts.org.

Another Word is out!

It's been a while, but look what I'm holding in my hand! An all-finished copy of Another Word, by Matthew Henriksen! Go buy one here!