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First, Dan Magers' PARTYKNIFE was reviewed in Publisher's Weekly! "Magers’s debut is like a Fast Times at Ridgemont High of poetry, only faster."

Dan Magers and PARTYKNIFE then have fun in this wild & witty interview with Jess Novak: "Partyknife knows that you don’t overthink a playlist. If you are having a dinner party, and want to play Cambodian psychedelic rock music from the 60s, go for it, but don’t try it for a dance party. Obvious stuff works. If it’s midnight and you swallow your pride and put on “Dancing Queen,” you will get laid."

Finally, PARTYKNIFE also received the most amazing, insane, intense and sensational reviews EVER, see for yourself!

"Try and recall the last book you wanted to take up as a lifestyle. Try and recall in particular, the last book of poetry that you wanted to become. It made me feel good. When’s the last time poetry made you feel good? Not distant and admiring, not the literary equivalent of the Met. When was the last time you read a book of poetry that hit you cinema hard? That left you pointing frantically at the screen, a la Velvet Goldmine, saying that’s me."

So grab a Knife and join the Party, and like Ice Cube said HAVE A GOOD DAY!

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Elisa Gabbert and Sommer Browning will live tweet Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey!

Join them this Sunday! Start watching the film at 7pm Mountain time, 9pm Eastern time & 6pm Pacific!

You just need to be weird and have a twitter account.

Use this hashtag: #2001

Other participants include (this list grows daily!):

@AmyLawless (NYC)
Patrick Culliton @TheHauntedTooth (Chicago!)
@DanBoehl (Austin)
Dan Magers @partyknife (Brooklyn, NY)
@OrenSilverman
Aaron Angello
Bill Wetzel
Statler & Waldorf
Tom Servo
Crow T. Robot
@BiancaStone (NYC)
@emmabo
@lawnsea
@carolynhembree
@bryancoffelt (PDX)
@yaddyrap

and of course:
@egabbert & @vagtalk

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Check out this review of Sommer Browning's Either Way I'm Celebrating in the Boston Review.

If you’re going to be in Chicago for this year’s AWP, please swing by table N-22 where you’ll be able to check out:

Advanced copies of Partyknife, by Dan Magers, available exclusively at AWP.

Goat in the Snow, by the magnificent Emily Pettit.

FINALIST, SEMIFINALIST, FORTHCOMING, and PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEE T-Shirts made by the amazing Sommer Browing. All profits benefit Badgerdog.

Limited edition broadsides, posters and other ephemera.

We’re also teaming up with Brave Men, DoubleCross, Factory Hollow, Flowers & Cream, Immaculate Disciples, minutes BOOKS, and Projective Industries for, No Baby (Yes Baby), with readings by:Dan Magers

Emily Pettit
Ally Harris as Taryn Andrews
Cody-Rose Clevidence
Julia Cohen
Ben Fama
Elaine Kahn
Mark Leidner
Rob Ostrom
Caryl Pagel
Mathias Svalina
Paige Taggart
Michelle Taransky


Reading is Thursday, March 1, 7:00pm at Public Works Event Space.

Emily and Dan will also be available for author signings Friday afternoon from 2 to 3pm.

As always, thanks you for your love and support of Birds, LLC and indie publishing at large. Without you, there is no us.

Love,

The Editors

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We’re ecstatic to announce that a limited number of copies of Partyknife, by Dan Magers, will be available exclusively at AWP 2012. Once those are gone, you’ll have to attend one of Dan's readings or wait until the official release in June 2012.

Be sure to swing by table N-22 to get your copy of Partyknife, Goat in the Snowby Emily Pettit, as well as t-shirts, limited edition broadsides and posters, and other Birds, LLC titles.

Love,

The Editors

Birds, LLC is pleased to announce our mini tour in celebration of Emily Pettit's Goat in the Snow!

Poetry readings by
Justin Marks
Emily Pettit
Sampson Starkweather
Paige Taggart
Chris Tonelli

Here are the tour dates:

December 9th, Friday, Kansas City, MO. Facebook Event info can be found here. And here: http://acommonsenseseries.blogspot.com/

December 10th, Fayetteville, AK. Facebook Event info here. And here: http://improvedlighting.blogspot.com/

December 11th, Lawrence, KS. Facebook Event info here. And here: http://taproompoetry.blogspot.com/

Dear Friends,

Birds, LLC is happy to announce GOAT IN THE SNOW has arrived at our offices. Order it now exclusively at Birdsllc.com. If you've already purchased a copy, you'll receive it soon!

A limited number of broadsides are still available. Click the button to purchase yours.

In other news, Either Way I'm Celebrating and Kings of the F**king Sea have been named in No Tell Motel's year end "Best of" listings. Check them out here.

For those of you interested in teaching GOAT IN THE SNOW (or any of our titles), you can order directly from our website, and you'll receive books before the start of the Spring semester. Or if you're required to go through a distributor, Small Press Distribution and Amazon will have GITS by January 3rd.

Thanks for your support, and merry holiday times to you and yours.

Love,

the Editors

We are very pleased to announce that we are now taking pre-sale orders of Emily Pettit’s Goat in the Snow. To celebrate we’re offering 100 limited-edition broadsides of a poem by Emily, which will be adorned with original art by Rachel B. Glaser and letterpressed by Flying Object. Books and broadsides ship by December 15th.

But that’s not all. We’re also offering something extra-special: The first 26 people who order will get a lettered copy (A-Z) of the broadside, signed by both the author and artist. Click the button below to order the book and limited-edition broadside.

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Celebrate Either Way I'm Celebrating: Join Sommer Browning for A Week of Tweets: Draw Genitals, Exchange Insults, Collaborate on Exquisite Corpses, Tell Jokes & Guess Rebus Puzzles (whatever the hell those are)‏

Starting Monday Oct 24th Birds, LLC will celebrate Sommer Browning's EITHER WAY I'M CELEBRATING!

Sommer will be tweeting all sorts of awesome over at @vagtalk. There will be poems, jokes, and cartoons galore. And if you participate in any of it, you'll get 50% off her book EITHER WAY I'M CELEBRATING (if you already have it, you can get 50% off any BIRDS, LLC book!)

So start following her on Twitter and join in!

Oct 24 Day 1 -- Twitter Genital Day -- Tweet your own hand drawn image of a) boobs b) butts or c) front butts. I will collect them all and post them on my website (this can be anonymous). Let's work to make the largest online repository of front butt drawings in the world!

Oct 25 Day 2 -- Twitter Insult Day -- I will tell one joke about each one of my followers based on your bio, photo and FBI background investigation...Can I do it? Probably not!!

Oct 26 Day 3 -- Twitter Exquisite Corpse -- Let's write a 1000 line poem! Tweet a line of a poetry and I'll collect them all and post them on my website.

Oct 27 Day 4 -- Twitter Joke Day -- I will turn any subject you tweet to me into a very funny (or unfunny) joke.

Oct 28 Day 5 -- Twitter Rebus Puzzle -- During the day I will tweet Rebuses of poets' names -- Guess first and win the drawing!

Tune in to the tweets! In the meantime, you can read reviews of EITHER WAY I'M CELEBRATING at the Faster Times and Pank Magazine.

Czech out Sommer's Website (with Satanic Bed Bath & Beyond comic)