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First Annual Small Desk Press Fest!

Friday April 30th at Adobe Books 7:30 pm

Readings by the folks who run Small Desk Press and Lizzy Acker, the author of our forthcoming book, Monster Party! Wine, snacks, and hacky sacks. Free! Come listen to the voices of our generation, support Small Desk Press, buy a book, and enjoy the evening.

Readings by:

Corry Seibert
Lizzy Acker
Marisa Crawford
Matt L. Rohrer
Max Farber
Michael McCarrin
Tim Willcutts

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COME VISIT US AT THE AWP CONFERENCE!

Small Desk Press will be at the AWP conference tomorrow (Thurs., 4/8) in Denver, sharing table 017 with Invisible Ear, Agnes Fox Press, Skein, and Minutes Books. Come on By!

If you need to pump yourself up a bit, watch this audiovisual interpretation of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons --

Matt Rohrer's band's new Ep is available for download at www.goldenwestservice.blogspot.com!

SDP at the 2010 AWP Conference in Denver

Small Desk Press will have a table at the Association of Writers & Writing Program's (AWP) annual conference, which takes place in Denver this year, April 7 - 10.


Come stop by our table, say hi to Matt Rohrer and Marisa Crawford, and check out our books!

Review of Marisa Crawford's Haunted House in SF Examiner

LJ Moore Writes, "Crawford’s book is a softly shocking, sensory-waking collection of elegiac poems about childhood and young-adult friendships and how that not-adult, not-child changeling time is when we view ourselves and each other with the deepest acuity. Her free-verse poems are driven by a disarming combination of humor, true affection for her subjects, and a slightly off-kilter sense of the eerie quality of the everyday. There are tastes, scents, touches, thoughts, gut-feelings, knowings, voices: images so rich they cast a shadow over the now."

Read post below for details on next week's book release party (April 2nd at the Space Gallery in S.F)

Book Release Party for Marisa Crawford's The Haunted House

SDP Associate Editor Marisa Crawford's debut collection of poetry, The Haunted House, hits bookshelves next week. Friends, family, and fans are gathering at the Space Gallery next Friday, April 2 to celebrate. Please come and join us! There will be drinks, snacks, cupcakes, and OUIJA BOARDS! Also, dancing.

And Readings by:

Marisa Crawford
Chrissy Anderson-Zavala
LJ Moore
Lizzy Acker
Matt L. Rohrer
Seth Landman

When: Friday, April 2nd at 7:30pm

Where: Space Gallery, 1141 Polk Street, San Francisco

$10 suggested donation gets you a copy of the book. (What a steal!)
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About the book:

The Haunted House was selected by Denise Duhamel as the winner of the 2008 Gatewood Prize, and will be released by Switchback Books on April 1st. For more information, go to switchbackbooks.com/hauntedhouse.html

"This poetry is the unholy and inevitable spawn of Emily Dickinson and Judy Blume. And it's a sugar high. Enter and enjoy the rush."
– Arielle Greenberg

"What's a new book of poetry without a prom parade of ghosts and girlfriends, joyrides with monsters, poems that offer up humor with your thrills, language so sharp it chills, and lines that will make you stop dead in your tracks? 'If heaven was a house, what bone structure.' It's scary how good this is."
-- Toni Mirosevich

To view the event page on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=350986294818

For more on OUIJA BOARDS, watch this: