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	02 July 2009 Micah Ling's fortchoming Three Islands was recently reviewed at Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. 27 June 2009 The Review of Contemporary Fiction has recently published a nice review of Tim Horvath's Circulation. What to Wear During an Orange Alert? and Full of Crow have reviewed Rebecca Schumejda's Falling Forward. Nibble has published interviews with Rebecca Schumejda and Hosho McCreesh. And Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene has posted an interview with Tim Horvath. 09 June 2009 The Chapbook Review has just published its first issue and in it there are reviews of Alan Catlin's Only the Dead Know Albany and Lawrence Millman's Going Home. 13 May 2009 This weekend we drove out to Massachusetts to pick up a Golding Pearl that I hope to have restored before too long. While gone, Rebecca Schumejda's Falling Forward got a nice review in Midwest Book Review and Emerging Writers Network posted a nice review of Andrew Scott's Modern Love and also showed some love for Nathan Graziano's forthcoming After the Honeymoon (and also mentioned a work by Tim Horvath, whose Circulation we published not too long ago). 05 May 2009 Did we really not post for an entire month? We're back just in time to wish ourselves a happy fourth birthday, and to let you know that William Taylor Jr.'s The Hunger Season will be released August 20 and Micah Ling's Three Islands and Nathan Graziano's After the Honeymoon will be released a few weeks later in September. We'll also have a handful of chapbooks out in the interim—details to come. 26 March 2009 Some sunnyoutside titles got some love in the photo that the Buffalo News ran with its article of last weekend's Buffalo Small Press Book Fair. And three wonderful reviews came in: two of Lawrence Millman's Going Home (one by Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene and the other by Prick of the Spindle) and one of Michael Kriesel's Moths Mail the House (also Prick of the Spindle). Don't forget that a lucky person will get a $10 title free on April 1—you only need to subscribe to our mailing list to be entered. 05 March 2009 Today we released our first novella: Circulation by Tim Horvath. It was also recently reviewed by NewPages, as was Rebecca Schumejda's Falling Forward by Chronogram. 24 February 2009 We're finally back from AWP and thus ends free shipping, but we do have new letterpress-printed mini-bookmarks that are going out with all orders over $10. While we were gone, the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene blog ran reviews of MRB Chelko's letterpress-printed limited edition Six Recurring Dreams and Tim Horvath's novella Circulation. The latter will be released next Thursday and is available for pre-order, as is Rebecca Schumejda's Falling Forward, which we will release this Thursday. Finally, the kind Dan Wickett, whom we met briefly at AWP, mentioned Andrew Scott's Modern Love over at Emerging Writers Network. Jealous of his signed copy? We have a couple left—drop us a line if interested. 09 February 2009 This week we will be at AWP in Chicago, which is open to the public on Saturday. We're at table #744, so stop by and say hello if you're attending. It starts on Thursday, which happens to be the same day we'll be releasing the letterpress-printed Six Recurring Dreams by MRB Chelko. All orders placed this week will be shipped upon our return, but that's also part of the reason we've extended free shipping. 04 February 2009 Tomorrow we release our first sampler, Octothorp #1. Our intent is to offer an inexpensive introduction to many of our authors, present and future, as well as a general representation of the writing we wish to promote. And it's also part of our free shipping offer, which we'll continue to offer until mid-February. 29 January 2009 Today we released Going Home: A Horror Story by award-winning author Lawrence Millman. Also, Jason Heroux's chapbook The Sea Never Drowns received a wonderful review in Redactions. 27 January 2009 The elusive open submission period is here! The details: we're considering any genre, but are looking for short, complete manuscripts for chapbooks—sixteen poems or 2500 words max. All submissions must also be postmarked in February 2009 and contain a cover letter and SASE. While we don't mind if any of the pieces are simultaneously submitted to a serial publication, we ask that none of the pieces be simultaneously submitted to a press as part of another collection. 22 January 2009 To help pay our way to this year's AWP in Chicago, we're offering free shipping for the rest of the month—even on new releases available for pre-order, like Lawrence Millman's Going Home: A Horror Story. See the specials for how to order without paying shipping. 14 January 2009 Outsider Writers Collective has posted an interview with Hosho McCreesh and we've added a slew of new readings and events to the calendar. 03 January 2009 Epic Rites posted an interview with Andrew Taylor; Prick of the Spindle reviewed Shell Games by Noel Sloboda, Swimming Back by Taylor Altman, Only the Dead Know Albany by Alan Catlin, and Hosho McCreesh's For All These Wretched, Beautiful, & Insignificant Things..., which has also been reviewed by Outsider Writers; and this always open to the story within... posted a wee bit about Karl Koweski's Diminishing Returns. 01 January 2009 Happy New Year! 10 December 2008 We'd like to give What to Wear During an Orange Alert? a big thanks for featuring some of our work in their Holiday Guide 2008,where they listed Taylor Altman's Swimming Back as one of the "Five New Faces in Lit" and Hosho McCreesh's For All These Wretched, Beautiful, & Insignificant Things... in the "Top 10 Books of 2008" (also on the list is sunnyoutside author Curtis Smith, whose The Agnostic's Prayer will be released in 2009). In other news, Fight These Bastards ran a nice review of Jason Heroux's The Sea Never Drowns and The Somerville News published Doug Holder's interview with Jason Tandon (who had a poem from Wee Hour Martyrdom published on Verse Daily). And, finally, there are ten days left in our holiday sale. Thanks! 05 December 2008 For the next two weeks we'll be offering a buy two, get one free deal. Details are in the Specials, but, basically, order two books and during checkout mention a third title of equal or lesser value and we'll stuff your stocking (or, in this case, envelope) with it. And if you miss the 12/19 deadline, we'll be at the 12/20 Last Minute Gift Buying Panic Marketplace being hosted by WNYBAC. 29 November 2008 The Wausau Daily Herald has published a short little story on Michael Kriesel's Moths Mail the House. 22 November 2008 Doug Holder (author of No One Dies at the Au Bon Pain) has just published a transcript of his interview with Jason Tandon (author of Wee Hour Martyrdom and Rumble Strip). We're also really excited to see sunnyoutside artist Kevin Charles Kline (who worked on Hosho McCreesh's latest book and also Lawrence Millman's forthcoming chapbook) have work featured in the third edition of Photographic Possibilities (he even got the back cover!) by Robert Hirsch. Sunnyoutside publisher David McNamara also contributed some illustrations (they're wee, but they're on every page). 19 November 2008 We would like to thank Alexander Parsons (author of Thunderbird) for mentioning us in his interview (by Andrew Scott, author of Modern Love) that appeared in the most recent Glimmer Train. Speaking about Thunderbird, Parsons said: "I liked the work of the designer, Dave McNamara. He showed great attention to detail and was a perfectionist." Aww, shucks. 14 November 2008 Yesterday we released Moths Mail the House by Michael Kriesel, and will be keeping up the related specials for at least a couple more days. Also, Andrew Taylor's And the Weary Are at Rest was reviewed in the latest issue of The Journal. 05 November 2008 The Toronto Small Press Affair was a good time and as we get ready for the drive out to Ohio for the Kenyon Review Literary Festival we are also preparing to release our next title—Moths Mails the House by Michael Kriesel. Anyone interesting in pre-ordering should check our specials out first. 20 October 2008 The most recent issue of Poesia contains reviews of two of our titles—In Chambers by Richard Krech and Wee Hour Martyrdom by Jason Tandon. Also, we will have tables at both the Toronto Small Press Affair and the Kenyon Review Literary Festival. 12 October 2008 Although our qualifications for "empire" are dubious at best, a big thanks to Shane Jones for sparing some kind words about sunnyoutside over at <HTMLGIANT>. 11 October 2008 Noel Sloboda's Shell Games has just been reviewed in Mud Luscious and the Midwest Book Review, and Hosho McCreesh's For All These Wretched, Beautiful, & Insignificant Things So Uselessly & Carelessly Destroyed... was reviewed in Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. Also, Kevin Sampsell of Future Tense was kind enough to give us a nice plug during an e-panel at Emerging Writers Network. 06 October 2008 Reviews galore! Prick of the Spindle reviewed Richard Krech's Rumors of Electricity and In Chambers (which was also mentioned by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley in Le Bathyscope), The Sea Never Drowns by Jason Heroux, And the Weary Are at Rest by Andrew Taylor, My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses by Christopher Fritton, and Wee Hour Martyrdom by Jason Tandon, which was also mentioned in j. a. tyler's blog along with Only the Dead Know Albany. Breaking it Down by Rusty Barnes was also reviewed in Front&Centre and Hosho McCreesh's For All These Wretched, Beautiful, & Insignificant Things So Uselessly & Carelessly Destroyed... was reviewed by What to Wear During an Orange Alert? and Alternating Current. 23 September 2008 Sunnyoutside publisher David McNamara will again teach his publishing workshop at the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative on October 14. Click here for a complete list of workshops currently offered. Also, J. A. Tyler wrote another brief review of one our books—this time for Hosho McCreesh's For All These Wretched, Beautiful, & Insignificant Things So Uselessly & Carelessly Destroyed.... 18 September 2008 Today we release Hosho McCreesh's For All These Wretched, Beautiful, & Insignificant Things So Uselessly & Carelessly Destroyed.... Also, Alan Catlin's Only the Dead Know Albany has received a nice review from What to Wear During an Orange Alert? 15 September 2008 Penn State York has published an article discussing Shell Games with Noel Sloboda and J. A. Tyler wrote a very brief review of Christopher Fritton's My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses on his blog. 03 September 2008 Writers in Profile has published a nice interview with Rusty Barnes (that also discusses Breaking it Down a bit). Also, someone was kind enough to mention us in a response to an article on chapbooks published by The Guardian. (It's also good to see friends of the press such erbacce-press, Shane Jones, Verve Bath Press, and Bottle of Smoke Press getting their due, too.) If you're reading this, chances are you have an opinion on chapbooks, so why not join the discussion? 30 August 2008 Small Press Review has named Noel Sloboda's Shell Games as a July–August Pick. Also, What to Wear During an Orange Alert? has ran a review of Taylor Altman's Swimming Back. 24 August 2008 Both Only the Dead Know Albany by Alan Catlin and Swimming Back by Taylor Altman have pulled in their first reviews courtesy of Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. Further, Hosho McCreesh's For All These Wretched, Beautiful, & Insignificant Things So Uselessly & Carelessly Destroyed... is now available for pre-order. 21 August 2008 Today we release Only the Dead Know Albany by Alan Catlin, a writer you're likely familiar with as this is his fifty-ninth book. We hope you like it. Also, our next book, Swimming Back by Taylor Altman, will be released next Thursday and is available for pre-order. 13 July 2008 We letterpress-printed some coasters of Michael Kriesel's poem "Driving Around After Rain" for him and kept a few for ourselves. We're giving them away free with the purchase of any of his titles—Feeding My Heart to the Wind, Three Poems, or the postcard. 08 July 2008 What to Wear During an Orange Alert? has published a review of And the Weary Are at Rest by Andrew Taylor. Shell Games by Noel Sloboda is ready for pre-order. Swimming Back by Taylor Altman has been sent to the printer. New titles by Rebecca Schumejda, Alan Catlin, Tim Horvath, and Hosho McCreesh are in design. Work by Curtis Smith, Brian McGettrick, Maria Chelko, Michael Kriesel, and William Taylor Jr. are in editorial. And TypeCon is right around the corner. Excuse us while we grab another cup of coffee. 05 July 2008 We are pleased to announce that our next paperback, Shell Games by Noel Sloboda, will be released July 31 and is available for pre-order (from both us and Amazon.com). We have also added a few new postcards to our inventory—and are marking the occasion with a new entry in the specials. 29 June 2008 We had two books on the front cover of the current issue of Small Press Review—My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses by Christopher Fritton was listed as a May-June Pick and In Chambers by Richard Krech got a front-page review, as well as a recent mention in The Time Garden (as did Rumors of Electricity). 23 June 2008 Be Not Inhospitable to Strangers has posted a great interview with William Taylor Jr. Both his forthcoming book with us and So Much Is Burning get nice mentions. 22 June 2008 A couple nice blog reviews this week, one for Michael Kriesel's Feeding My Heart to the Wind and the other for our newest release, And the Weary Are at Rest by Andrew Taylor. 12 June 2008 Today is the official release of Andrew Taylor's And the Weary Are at Rest—which also happens to be our first release by a non-North American author. Click the title for more information and a sample poem. Also, Breaking it Down and Wee Hour Martyrdom pulled in colossal reviews at NewPages and Midwest Book Review, respectively. 04 June 2008 Glory Days! Our next title, And the Weary Are at Rest, by Liverpool author Andrew Taylor, will be released June 12 and is available for pre-order. Also, Breaking it Down was reviewed by NewPages, Noel Sloboda (whose Shell Games will be released this summer) was interviewed by Keyhole, and Christopher Fritton discussed My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses during his interview with What to Wear During an Orange Alert. 23 May 2008 The fine folk over at What to Wear During an Orange Alert? were kind enough to interview publisher David McNamara. Don at Lilliput Review has also posted a few words about Michael Kriesel's Feeding My Heart to the Wind. 15 May 2008 Congratulations to both Richard Krech—who had his book In Chambers reviewed in The Midwest Book Review—and Andrew Scott (author of Modern Love) who was recently published in Esquire. 12 May 2008 What to Wear During an Orange Alert? has written a nice, short little bit on Richard Krech's In Chambers. 05 May 2008 Happy third anniversary to us. Thank you. Thank you very much. 01 May 2008 Christopher Fritton's My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses got a nice review in dbqp: visualizing poetics. 24 April 2008 Buffalo Rising has just published a nice little interview with Christopher Fritton centered around his book My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses. 17 April 2008 Poet Hound has ran an interview with another sunnyoutside author—this time Christopher Cunningham (whose Flowers in the Shadow of the Storm is very near to being sold out). We've also released the third impression of Michael Kriesel's collected short poems, Feeding My Heart to the Wind, will be releasing the second impression of Richard Krech's Rumors of Electricity in early May, and publisher David McNamara has been invited to serve on the Advisory Board of the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative. 08 April 2008 Poet Hound has published an interview with Hosho McCreesh, whose sunnyoutside title will be released mid-year. Also, due to the popularity of the Jason Tandon special, we'll be extending it through the end of April as part of National Poetry Month and will also add other combinations in the coming days. 05 April 2008 ArtVoice has just published a nice review of Breaking it Down by Rusty Barnes. Also, we're currently accepting pre-orders for the third impression of Michael Kriesel's Feeding My Heart to the Wind. 03 April 2008 What to Wear During An Orange Alert? has just published a nice interview with Rusty Barnes about Breaking it Down and his writing process. 01 April 2008 Laurel Reed Books has published a nice little review of My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses, as has Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. 24 March 2008 Wee Hour Martyrdom and My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses are now available, and nicely represent our spectrum of work—from trade paperback to fine press chapbook that was entirely hand-set with lead type. And if you're a Tandon fan, be sure to check the specials. Also, Rusty Barnes has a new interview up at Sex, Food, and Writing, and a big thanks to everyone who stopped by during the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair. 19 March 2008 Between preparing the releases of Wee Hour Martyrdom by Jason Tandon and My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses by Christopher Fritton and getting ready for the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair we managed to get a few new postcards printed, by Jason Heroux, Ed Herrera, Brian McGettrick, Robert L. Penick, and Rebecca Schumejda. Hopefully more to come soon. 12 March 2008 We our pleased to announce that pre-orders are currently being accepted for our next two books: the paperback Wee Hour Martyrdom by Jason Tandon and the letterpress-printed chapbook My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses by Christopher Fritton. 29 February 2008 Richard Krech's In Chambers earned the leadoff spot in the East Bay Express's roundup of books. 21 February 2008 The end of February is rounding out to be a heck of a month for us: we're releasing In Chambers by Richard Krech a week from today, there are quite a few readings by sunnyoutside authors this week (more information in the Calendar), and we're currently finishing the printing for Christopher Fritton's My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses. 31 January 2008 We are now accepting pre-orders for Richard Krech's next paperback of poetry, In Chambers: The Bodhisattva for the Public Defender's Office. Also, Teaching Metaphors by Nathan Graziano pulled in an insightful review on the blog 18 Miles. 27 January 2008 Two new reviews in: by Main Street Rag on Doug Holder's No One Dies at the Au Bon Pain and Bookmunch on Rusty Barnes's Breaking it Down. 25 January 2008 A new review of Breaking it Down by Sex, Food, and Writing just came in, and there are a ton of new readings listed in the calendar. 09 January 2008 We are proud to be sponsoring this year's Buffalo Small Press Fair. Also, the WNYBAC workshops we are participating in got a little press in Buffalo Rising. 04 January 2008 Happy New Year! Hope everyone's 2008 is off to as good a start as ours is: The Short Review just published a rather nice review of Breaking it Down as well as a nice interview with Rusty. 27 December 2007 Nathan Graziano's Teaching Metaphors was honored by The Hippo as it was named 2007's Best Local Collection. Congratulations to Nathan. 22 December 2007 Our sale is now over, and we're wrapping things up until 2008. We wish everyone a happy and safe end of 2007—see you next year. 09 December 2007 Xujun Eberlein wrote a wonderful review of Rusty Barnes's Breaking it Down on her blog Inside-Out China and also interviewed him. 04 December 2007 Second Story in Syracuse is now carrying some of our titles, including The Sea Never Drowns by Jason Heroux and Diminishing Returns by Karl Koweski, both of which were recently reviewed in a nice write-up by Toronto's MONDOmagazine. Why not buy both and get a free book? (See entry below.) 01 December 2007 Call it a year-end sale, or a present-buying bonus, or a birthday celebration (don't ask), but we're going to call it three weeks of three-for-two: Buy any two books or chapbooks and get a third one free. We're also having buy one, get one free on broadsides and mini-chaps, too. Offer details can be found here. 26 November 2007 A few new reviews to mention: two of Breaking it Down by Doug Holder and Maryanne Stahl and one of The Sea Never Drowns by Aleathia Drehmer. 20 November 2007 It's been a good couple of days for Breaking it Down by Rusty Barnes: the book was mentioned in The Morning News and Doug Holder's interview of Rusty was listed as a selected community media clipping. 19 November 2007 A few nice reviews to talk about: The Sea Never Drowns by Jason Heroux in Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene; Teaching Metaphors by Nathan Graziano in Rattle; and No One Dies at the Au Bon Pain by Doug Holder in Midwest Book Review Bookwatch. Also, Doug Holder's interview of Rusty Barnes was published in The Somerville News. 08 November 2007 Today we are releasing our first trade paperback of fiction—Breaking it Down by Rusty Barnes. We would also like to welcome Old Editions Book Shop in Buffalo and Novel Idea in Kingston, Ontario to the list of bookstores carrying our books. 21 October 2007 Breaking it Down, a paperback of flash fiction by Night Train editor Rusty Barnes, will be our next title. It's scheduled for a November 8 release date, but pre-orders are currently being accepted. And Front&Centre just published a rather flattering review of our previous fiction title, Modern Love by Andrew Scott. A snippet from the review: "Andrew Scott's Modern Love is the type of short story that I like—it is spare, succint, has great pace and dialogue, yet the story's undercurrent (that which is not written but is there nonetheless) makes this short fiction feel more like a novel." 18 October 2007 Today we released The Sea Never Drowns by Ontario writer Jason Heroux. It's a collection of surreal humanist poetry that is both delightfully quirky and grounded in the reality of daily life, and also features cover art by San Diego artist Doni Conner and felt papers. 15 October 2007 Doug Holder recently interviewed Rusty Barnes on Poet to Poet: Writer to Writer and has posted a transcript on his blog. We will release Rusty's book Breaking it Down on November 8. 14 October 2007 We will release The Sea Never Drowns by Jason Heroux on 18 October 2007; pre-orders are being accepted now. Also, The Guild of Outsider Writers has published a nice review of Christopher Cunningham's Flowers in the Shadow of the Storm. Finally, we'll have a table at Toronto's Canzine; if you're in the neighborhood, swing by and say hello. 01 October 2007 We finally received our July-August issue of Small Press Review. It was nice to read the review of Doug Holder's No One Dies at the Au Bon Pain in print, and we were also delighted to see that Teaching Metaphors by Nathan Graziano was listed as a July-Aug Pick. 29 September 2007 What to Wear During an Orange Alert? has just published an interview with Karl Koweski. Previously, we were remiss to report, they also interviewed Christopher Cunningham. Diminishing Returns and Flowers in the Shadow of the Storm are discussed in each, respectively. 25 September 2007 Last night I decided to check out what Powell's had listed for their featured small press titles. Among officially being busted for not having looked recently, I am also quite flattered: Of the 52 books featured, we have four—Rumble Strip by Jason Tandon, Rumors of Electricity by Richard Krech, Diminishing Returns by Karl Koweski, and Teaching Metaphors by Nathan Graziano. And speaking of Teaching Metaphors, Graziano will be discussing and reading from it at 6:30 p.m. tonight on New Hampshire Public Radio. 19 September 2007 Many thanks for the many submissions we received during our open submissions—and also for the postcards. We sent out three postcard packs today for the best postcards and will begin reading through the submissions soon. Also, Nathan Graziano has filled in our calendar a bit with a few big readings upcoming in support of Teaching Metaphors. And finally, Rust Belt Books (Buffalo, New York) is carrying all of our books and Broadside Bookshop (Northampton, Massachusetts) is now stocking Jason Tandon's Rumble Strip. 09 September 2007 A couple of reviews to report: the first review of Karl Koweski's Diminishing Returns in The Guild of Outsider Writers and one of Doug Holder's No One Dies at the Au Bon Pain in Small Press Review. 06 September 2007 It's an exciting day: Diminishing Returns, by Karl Koweski, our first title with a Buffalo imprint, is being released today. Also, the University of Pittsburgh is now purchasing and archiving all of our full-length titles. 29 August 2007 We are proud to announce that our first release to have "Buffalo, New York" beneath the imprint is Diminishing Returns by Karl Koweski. To be released September 6, pre-orders are currently being accepted. 25 August 2007 We've landed in Buffalo and, after some computer mishaps, are setting up office. While we were gone Nathan Graziano's Teaching Metaphors got quite a bit of press—a nice review ran in the Concord Monitor. The Nashua Telegraph also ran the review. 15 August 2007 Teaching Metaphors by Nathan Graziano is now being stocked at Brookline Booksmith and Trident Booksellers & Cafe. Brookline Booksmith is also carrying Jason Tandon's Rumble Strip. Soon we will be in Buffalo and shortly after that we will have some delightful new books coming your way. 11 August 2007 Sunnyoutside is moving: check the new address on the masthead. To celebrate—and fill that primal urge to have mail overflowing from our P.O. Box—we are having one of our rare open submission periods. We're looking for up to six poems; all entries must be postmarked August 2007 and follow the submission guidelines. Also, all postcards sent in August will be entered to win a sunnyoutside postcard pack—and there might be additional winners for best postcard and best stamp, so show us the love. 03 August 2007 Via Doug Holder today we found out that The Grolier Poetry Book Shop currently has two sunnyoutside titles displayed in their front window—Rumors of Electricity by Richard Krech and So Much Is Burning by William Taylor Jr. Congratulations to both writers. 02 August 2007 The Hippo has published a very nice review of Teaching Metaphors, giving it an "A" rating. Among the more savory nuggets: "It's a powerful book, as fine a collection of working-class poetry as anything Carl Sandburg's 'Big Shoulders' could have concocted has Sandburg been a teacher." 23 July 2007 The Elliott Bay Book Company is now carrying both Flowers in the Shadow of the Storm by Christopher Cunningham and Teaching Metaphors by Nathan Graziano. Speaking of the latter, The Somerville News has ran a review of the book and Graziano's Writers in the Round interview has been archived for download. 23 July 2007 Small Press Review ran a review of Andrew Scott's Modern Love in their May-June 2007 issue. 17 July 2007 McIntyre and Moore Booksellers in Davis Square (Somerville, Massachusetts) is now carrying all of our chapbooks and books. Looking for somewhere closer to you? Check out our map of bookstores carrying sunnyoutside titles. 14 July 2007 The Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Harvard Square (Cambridge, Massachusetts) is now carrying all of our poetry chapbooks and books. 10 July 2007 A review by Hugh Fox of Doug Holder's No One Dies at the Au Bon Pain has been published in the Wildnerness House Literary Review #2. A direct link to the PDF is here. 08 July 2007 Three independent bookstores in New Hampshire are now carrying Teaching Metaphors by Nathan Graziano: Gibson's in Concord, RiverRun in Portsmouth, and Water Street in Exeter. RiverRun and Water Street are also both carrying Thunderbird by Alexander Parsons and Rumble Strip by Jason Tandon and Water Street is also carrying No One Dies at the Au Bon Pain by Doug Holder. To find a bookstore near you that supports independent presses, check out the Google map we've created. 04 July 2007 Doug Holder has written a nice review of Teaching Metaphors. Both that title and Flowers in the Shadow of the Storm are also now available from City Lights in San Francisco. 29 June 2007 We are pleased to relay the information that Jason Tandon's Give Over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt—from which Rumble Strip was excerpted—has won the St. Lawrence Book Award. A round of applause for Jason, indeed. 24 June 2007 Today's Nashua Telegraph has a little article on Nathan Graziano and Teaching Metaphors in it. 17 June 2007 A quick note to mention that Teaching Metaphors by Nathan Graziano is now available from Powell's and Borders and Flowers in the Shadow of the Storm by Christopher Cunningham is also available from Powell's. 08 June 2007 Teaching Metaphors by Nathan Graziano was released yesterday. Nate's first reading since the release will be June 16 in New Paltz, New York with Rebecca Schumejda, who will read from Dream Big, Work Harder (more information in the calendar). 31 May 2007 What to Wear During an Orange Alert? has published an interview with Christopher Cunningham in which Flowers in the Shadow of the Storm is discussed. 29 May 2007 Thanks to everyone who stopped by to talk and/or buy some books at the Toronto Small Press Book Fair this Saturday past; we had a good time. Flowers in the Shadow of the Storm by Christopher Cunningham was released on May 24 and Nathan Graziano's Teaching Metaphors will be released June 7—and is currently somewhat discounted at Amazon.com. 21 May 2007 This week will be a big one for us. On Thursday we will release Flowers in the Shadow of the Storm by Christopher Cunningham, a beauty of a book complete with a letterpress-printed cover hand-painted by the author in a limited edition of 100. Plus, pre-orders will be shipped a signed copy. On Saturday we will have a table at the Toronto Small Press Book Fair, and sometime this week we'll be sending Nathan Graziano's Teaching Metaphors (also available for pre-order) to the printer. 27 April 2007 We just found out that the Wausau Daily Herald ran this story on Michael Kriesel (complete with a poem from Feeding My Heart to the Wind in it) in their Sunday, March 25, 2007 edition. Kriesel also has a full weekend ahead—he'll be reading both at the Wisconsin Fellowship of Writers conference in Appleton, Wisconsin April 27 & 28 and at Barnes & Noble in Madison, Wisconsin April 39. 26 April 2007 News galore! Today is the release of No One Dies at the Au Bon Pain by Doug Holder and the second impression of Michael Kriesel's Feeding My Heart to the Wind. Holder will read tonight in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Richard Krech will read Saturday in Sacramento, California (consult the calendar for more details on both). Also, we've printed the third of our letterpress-printed postcards—this one by William Taylor Jr. Like the others, it is available in limited quantities for $1. 05 April 2007 There's exciting news at sunnyoutside: after acquiring a Craftsmen Superior a few months ago, the rollers for the press have finally arrived and we've run off a couple editions that are part of our evolving postcard project. In worlds-colliding excitment, we're also on the verge of releasing our next title—Rumble Strip by Jason Tandon. Since one of the poems from his book is also one of the postcards in the forthcoming project, we'll send a copy of the letterpress-printed postcard broadsheet to everyone who signs up to our mailing list in the month of April (with the ever-so-wee catch that there's an advertisement for the book on the reverse side). (If you really want one without the advertisement on the back, you can order one here.) 12 March 2007 The Winter 2007 issue of Blind Man's Rainbow came in and we were flattered to receive 2½ mentions. Sherosky writes of Dream Big, Work Harder by Rebecca Schumejda: "Schumejda makes the beauty of common situations tangible. Worth the $10 and then some." Of Rumors of Electricity by Richard Krech she writes: "...the poems inside are certainly something new for those of us who read poetry regularly. The collection has a fresh feel for that reason, complimenting its classy layout." And the ½ goes to the review of Other Investigations, which sunnyoutside publisher David McNamara was involved with. 05 March 2007 Červená Barva Press has ran an interview with sunnyoutside publisher David McNamara in their March newsletter. Also, Rebecca Schumejda's reading of selected work from Dream Big, Work Harder at the NYC Small Press Fair has been posted online; click here for the link to the video. News on forthcoming books by Christopher Cunningham, Jason Tandon, and Michael Kriesel to follow soon. 23 February 2007 We're quite flattered to have another title be a featured pick by Small Press Review—this time Rumors of Electricity by Richard Krech in the January-February 2007 issue. Also, Free Verse ran a thorough and interesting review of Feeding My Heart to the Wind by Michael Kriesel in which students of Lakeland College examined the book. Filled with praise, the last line of the review best sums up the tone: "Kriesel says what we have always wanted to say, but never quite could." Finally, a few new readings have been added to the calendar. 11 February 2007 A couple items in the papers—Richard Krech's reading on Monday in the Berkeley Daily Planet and the celebration of Somerville small presses on 2/19 in the Somerville Journal. 22 January 2007 The first two reviews of Richard Krech's Rumors of Electricity are in. The first, by Hugh Fox and published on Doug Holder's Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene, says that "Here in Rumors of Electricity [Krech] is the perfect guide into cultures and worlds that have been totally distorted by recent political events." The other review is by Christopher Harter and appears in the current issue of Bathtub Gin. His reviews closes: "In reviewing a book, I try to balance praise and suggestions for improvement. With Krech's Rumors, I am hard-pressed to do the latter and simply say this is a book to definitely add to your collection." The book has also been listed as one of three "Best New Poetry Collections by Lawyers in 2006" by James R. Elkins. 14 January 2007 Rebecca Schumejda's Dream Big, Work Harder is finally available through Amazon.com (and we've also put up a direct link to order it from Powell's). Doug Holder has transcribed excerpts of his interview with Nathan Graziano, available here. Small Press Review ran an edited version of Charles P. Ries's review of So Much Is Burning by William Taylor Jr. (and FireWeed ran the full version). The ULA Book Review Blog also ran the long version, as well as a new review of Modern Love by Andrew Scott. Plus we have a few new events listed in the calendar. Enjoy. 09 January 2007 Happy New Year! Today we found out that we received an arts grant from the Somerville Arts Council, so look forward to our first non-fiction title sometime this year. Tomorrow Nathan Graziano will discuss Honey, I'm Home and other things on Somerville Community Access Television. And we've finally updated the fine independent booksellers from which you can buy our three most recent titles (Dream Big, Work Harder by Rebecca Schumejda, Rumors of Electricity by Richard Krech, and Modern Love by Andrew Scott—whose neat little feature in Indianapolis Monthly we've also uploaded). 09 December 2006 The Nineteenth Annual Small Press Fair in New York City was a roaring time—we met a lot of great people and Rebecca Schumejda's reading was a great success. In fact, ForeWord editor at large Eugene Schwartz liked it so much that he bought a copy of Dream Big, Work Harder. Imagine our delight when their December 6 ForeWord This Week newsletter came out and he named it an editor's pick, writing: "This short book of striking poetry by a Kingston, NY area poet, uses words as they were intended to be used, combined in such a way as to create pictures of life and work and relationship that we can recognize—and yet so original and direct that you will turn the pages eagerly curious about the next." 25 October 2006 Pittsburgh was a good time. We'd like to thank Unicorn Mountain for putting on Tomb of the Spy Magicians. It was a good first showing and we look forward to seeing them grow. 18 October 2006 Feeding My Heart to the Wind by Michael Kriesel was listed as a Sept-Oct Pick by Small Press Review. 09 October 2006 We're proud to list the following bookstores to the roll call of places that carry our books: Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, Massachusetts; St. Mark's Bookshop in New York City; and Trident Booksellers on Newbury Street in Boston. 21 September 2006 Michael Kriesel's Feeding My Heart to the Wind is currently being taught by Karl Elder in his Advanced Poetry Writing class at Lakeland College in Wisconsin. 05 September 2006 So Much Is Burning has been listed in "New & Noteworthy Books" by NewPages.com. The review/interview Charles P. Ries wrote on the book has also been picked up a few additional places—in Barking Dogs #2 and forthcoming in 5_Trope and poeticdiversity. Iconoclast #93 also mentioned William Taylor Jr., but this time the mini-chap As the Days and Hours Pass, calling it "an imaginatively presented trio of poems." They also list Jason Heroux's The Morning Light and comments that "[sunnyoutside's] work seen thus far is reader-friendly and approachable." 21 August 2006 A quick thank you to a few newspapers for finding space in their pages to mention us: The Journal & Courier of Indiana for running a piece on Ed Herrera, who did the artwork for Modern Love (try our .pdf if the link no longer works); The Wausau Daily Herald for mentioning the release of Feeding My Heart to the Wind by Michael Kriesel; and The Somerville News for printing Doug Holder's review of Feeding My Heart to the Wind. 03 May 2006 In addition to City Lights in San Francisco, Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts and The Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, Washington now also carries some of our titles. We graciously add them to the list of independent booksellers whom we are proud to have our books sold by. 27 April 2006 Word Riot recently published an interview with Charles Nevsimal of Centennial Press by Charles P. Ries. The interview is worth the read on its own merit, but of our particular interest is that Nevsimal, who is quite the publisher himself, said this about three of our writers: "I'll say, without a doubt, three of the best voices in the vast world of small press poetry are William Taylor Jr., justin.barrett, and John Sweet." That's nice and all, but try this one out: "Nathan Graziano is another who's really come into his own. His book, Honey, I'm Home, is one of the best chapbooks I've ever read." Thanks to Charles for the kind words, and the other Charles for such a good interview. 10 February 2006 Alexander Parson's interview at the University of New Hampshire's Authors' Series has been edited and broadcast on New Hampshire Public Television's NH Outlook. You can view the show online here. 10 January 2006 A short while ago we received our Autumn 2005 issue of The Blind Man's Rainbow, who had some mighty nice stuff to say about us. And we quote: "Indeed, I recently got a letter with a huge pack of stuff—chapbooks, individual illustrated poems, and more. All of it is fantastically done. It is some of the best stuff coming out of the small press right now." Color us flattered. (We will post excerpts from the reviews that follow throughout the rest of the month.) 04 January 2006 Select sunnyoutside titles are now being carried by Powell's, the legendary independent bookstore based in Portland, Oregon. Currently available from them are Thunderbird by Alexander Parsons and Honey, I'm Home and "A Paper Ark" by Nathan Graziano. 08 October 2005 The Midwesterner has published a long interview with Michael Kriesel, and somewhere in there—Part Six, I think it is—the broadside of his poetry and Claudio Parentela's work that we published is mentioned. (It's still available in the catalogue.) (Since Part Three doesn't seem to link to Part Four, you can find Parts Four and on here.)