Publication: Eleven Eleven issue 5 and submission call for online issue 6

From Hugh Behm-Steinberg at CCA, via the Buffalo Poetics Listserv:

Announcing the release of issue five of Eleven Eleven, edited by Hugh Behm-Steinberg and featuring the work of Cecco Angiolieri (translated by Brett Foster), Alfred Arteaga, Abbey Baker, Aaron Belz, Terry Bisson, Michael Reid Busk, Blake Butler, Jodie Childers, Hannah Craig, Richard de Nooy, Erik Ehn, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Andy Frazee, Elisa Gabbert, Carrie Hunter, Philip Jenks, Steven Karl, Katoh Ikuya (translated by Eric Selland), Chris Kerr, Bill Lavender, Juan J. Morales, Simone Muench, Sarah O’Brien, Pilar Olabarria, Benjamin Parzybok, Barbara Jane Reyes, Lisa Robertson, Elizabeth Robinson, Sarah Sarai, Jordan Scott, Xu Smith, Carol Snow, Jack Spicer, Nicole Steinberg, Nathaniel Tarn, Rachel Tompa, Rodrigo Toscano, Daniel J. Vaccaro, St. Johnnie Walker, Robert Wexelblatt, Andrew Zawacki, and Jan Zwicky.

On sale now for $10, directly from CCA. Make checks out to California College of the Arts, Attn: Eleven Eleven.

We are now reading for issue six, which will be an online issue and go up January, 2009. Send up to five poems or 7,000 words of prose, plus SASE. We are especially interested in work in translation, interstitial/new wave fabulist fiction and language-centered short plays. Deadline is November 1, 2008.

Send checks and submissions to:

Eleven Eleven
California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

For more information, write to us at eleveneleven[at]cca[dot]edu.

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Addendum: It’s great to see that they have included work by Alfred Arteaga in this new issue of Eleven Eleven. I wonder what he’d been working on before he passed away. Can’t wait to see this issue. It’ll be nice to hear his voice again.

Poet : Work : Updates

I’ve just finished proofing the pdf’s of chapbook #1, Easter Sunday. Carrie Hunter of Ypolita Press and I have gone over some really awesome cover art, so just you wait.

I’ve just updated my acknowledgments page for chapbook #2, Cherry, and submitted this to Brenda Iijima of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, so just you wait (again).

I have three poems — “Accessories,” “Corpse Eater,” and “Worry” — forthcoming in Eleven Eleven.

I am reading/speaking at two different places next week: Los Medanos College on Wednesday afternoon, and Manilatown on Saturday.

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