Welcome to Twitter & Verse our weekly roundup of our most popular tweets and a poem : Twitter Must see - These Rolling Bookmobiles Are Cooler Than Your Local Libraries | @io9 http://ow.ly/qwjbc Is the future of ebooks about to be decided by a judge in East Texas? | @melvillehouse http://ow.ly/qtHZe The first 24-hour library vending machine in the United States has arrived, it cost $200k and it lives in Oklahoma http://ow.ly/qwaDM Mapping a Literary City - The folks at @Dorothy_______ create a map using the titiles of 600+ books of English Lit http://ow.ly/qpbaI Building a book wall - Nova Scotia...
Some LitCrawl Love
Last week I had the pleasure of being able to attend Seattle's second annual LitCrawl, A three hour blast of literary goodness featuring over 60 authors reading at 19 different venues. Unfortunately family life prevented me from crawling all night but from what I did catch it is safe to say that, at least here in Seattle, the printed word has lost none of its luster. The energy was fantastic, the turnout out was impressive and the reading I went to was quite memorable. Cooper Canyon Press hosted Poets with Candy featuring Matthew Dickman and Ed Skoog. "Come for treats,...
A Trip Across America with the Dickman’s
With Memorial Day around the corner and summer ahead this is the time of year when many of us start thinking road trip. Regardless of our mode; car, bike, plane, train or ..., the goal is to get out there and have some fun. One item you might want to consider bringing along with you is the latest book from poetry's rising dynamic duo, Matthew & Michael Dickman. 50 American Plays (Poems) is a 52 act (don't forget Guam and Puerto Rico) fun-filled parade through America. From the singing jews and dancing blacks of Walt Disney Doesn't Give a Shit...
Erin Belieu on W.S. Merwin
This is the last in a series of guest posts on Book Patrol featuring the four poets who will be sharing the stage with W.S. Merwin at the upcoming "W.S. Merwin and Friends" benefit for Copper Canyon Press at Seattle's Town Hall.Erin Belieu is the author of three collections of poetry, all published by Copper Canyon Press. Her first book, Infanta published in1995, was selected for the National Poetry Series by Hayden Carruth. Her other books are One Above and One Below and Black Box, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Award.Belieu also co-edited the anthology The...
Matthew Zapruder on W.S. Merwin
This is the third of a series of guest posts on Book Patrol featuring the four poets who will be sharing the stage with W.S. Merwin at the upcoming "W.S. Merwin and Friends" benefit for Copper Canyon Press at Seattle's Town Hall.Matthew Zapruder is the author of two previous collections of poetry. His last The Pajamaist was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2006. CCP will also publish his next book, Come On All You Ghosts later this year. Zapruder's work has appeared in numerous publications, from The New Yorker to The Believer, and along with fellow poet Joshua Beckman...