BlazeVOX interviewed on Best American Poetry

Check out Best American Poetry's, Meet the Press: Nin Andrews in conversation with Geoffrey Gatza of BlazeVOX

Best American Poetry: Interview

Meet the Press: Nin Andrews in conversation with Geoffrey Gatza of BlazeVOX

Go here to read the whole interview!!!!

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Also, be sure to Go to Blaze's

BlazeVOX12, Springish 2012, an online journal

http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/journal/

Rockets,

Geoffrey Gatza

June 5, 2012 in Hurray! 0 Comments

Geoffrey Gatza interviewed in the Huffington Post on the whole NEA thing :-)

National Poetry Month Feature: Geoffrey Gatza of BlazeVOX [books] Talks About the NEA Ban on His Small Press by Anis Shivani

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/blazevox-nea-ban_b_1374042.html

A big controversy in the poetry world these days is the discussion surrounding Buffalo-based small press BlazeVOX [book]'s (now discontinued) model of charging some authors a portion of the costs of publishing their poetry books ($250, as I gather). In the closing months of last year, the revelation of this practice inflamed passions in the generally staid world of independent literary publishing. The controversy just got an enormous boost with the recent decision of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) banning poets from listing books published by BlazeVOX on their grant applications.

Questions arise about the viability of poetry publishing in an age of narrow audiences and little financial reward, and about gate-keeping, quality control, editorial integrity and the technologies of dissemination.

Read the whole interview here

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/blazevox-nea-ban_b_1374042.html

Rockets,
Geoffrey Gatza

BlazeVOX [books]
76 Inwood Place
Buffalo, New York 14209
editor@blazevox.org

April 16, 2012 in Hurray! 0 Comments

Tagged Geoffrey Gatza, Huffington Post, NEA

Thanksgiving Menu Poem - 10 Years

Thanksgiving Menu-Poem

: In Celebration of

Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop and 50 years of Burning Deck Press 2011

Hurray! It’s Thanksgiving once again, another November, another year gone by, and another time to feast with dear friends. This is the tenth Thanksgiving Menu-Poem and we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Burning Deck Press by toasting the wonderful Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop. The contributions of all three entities: Burning Deck Press, Rosmarie Waldrop and Keith Waldrop on the world of poetry are many and too numerous to mention here but provided in the next section is a full biography with works, awards and links to many forums of discussions on their work. There is also a nice exhibition on Burning Deck Press at the John Hay library, even if it is now ten years old. So make like an egg and beat it on over there and make a day of it! Hurray!

Clcik here to go the Thanksgiving Poems