chapbooks

While many may disdain chapbooks for not being "real" books, and therefore not enough to get you a job, the Llama quite likes them. No, she doesn't run out and purchase them in great numbers, but she thinks some of them are quite pretty, especially those put out by The Center for Book Arts (truly, they make the Llama salivate) and the Poetry Society of America (lovely, if a bit on the New York-centric side).

She'd like to publish one, not to receive world-wide acclaim, but so that she can have something nicer to give her grandmother than a big stack of paper when her grandmother asks her to send more poems.

When the Llama finally gets her chapbook manuscript together, she will probably send it to some of the presses listed here on this useful site.

poetry star trash

Recently on Harriet, the Poetry Foundation's blog...
Emily Warn notes that Jim Behrle's cartoons are like Gawker for poets. But as I don't live in New York, am never moving to New York, and generally don't care about New York, I prefer Go Fug Yourself, which is funnier than both Gawker and Jim Behrle. Although I do think the leprechaun body suits Louise Glück particularly nicely.