News

"A couple of years ago Geoffrey Gatza was in Buffalo, attending a conference devoted to the work of Charles Olson, when he had a chance to talk with poet Anne Waldman. Gatza, who launched the online journal BlazeVOX in 2000, and four years later, the small press BlazeVOX Books in Buffalo, was lamenting the fact that the press wasn't attracting more women writers. By that point, BlazeVOX Books had published about thirty titles—only three of which were written by women. "Even though that included two books nominated for Lambda Literary Awards, I wanted to be a more responsible editor," Gatza says. "So Anne offered the wonderful advice to place a note [on the Web site] to let women know in advance that their voices are appreciated." Evidently it worked. Among the press's new and forthcoming books are titles by Marcia Roberts, Amy King, Celia Gilbert, Sarah Sarai, Florine Melnyk, Jessica Baron, Sally Ashton, Elizabeth Hatmaker, and others. BlazeVOX Books is currently accepting submissions of poetry and fiction; guidelines are available on the Web site. "

Poets & Writers - Small Press Points, November/December 2009

American Book Review / Volume 31, Number 2 January/February 2010 – Scenes  http://americanbookreview.org/currentIssue.asp

Stoning the Devil; on BlazeVOX [books] — ‘So much good stuff is being published by Blazevox now that it seems to have, not a kind of monopoly, but a status like Subpop did in rock in the late 80s/early 90s.’ http://adamfieled.blogspot.com/2009/12/blazevox.html

Geoffrey Gatza on his book KENMORE: Poem Unlimited  http://experimentalfictionpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/03/geoffry-gatza-on-his-book-kenmore.html

+ Review of BlazeVOX and Publishing

+ Interview on MiPOesias Magazine

+ Article: Crazy Buffalo Poet Has A Lot Cooking

+ Article: Kenmore Native Is A Poet And Entrepreneur

+ Article: The Return of the Native Son   

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Online Published Poetry

3 Poems

Summer Stock #5

http://www.summerstockjournal.com/2011/06/geoffrey-gatza.html

Whatever happened to Topsy Jane

100Thousand Poets for Change

http://www.fieralingue.it/100_THOUSAND_POETS_FOR_CHANGE_Geoffrey_Gatza.pdf

TEMPUS FIDGET BY GEOFFREY GATZA

Poets for Living Waters

http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/850/

Poetry of the Week: "Will She Return to Dancing with the Stars," "The Sandra Bullock Story that Stunned Us," and "Tempus Fidget" by Geoffrey Gatza

http://www.sharkforum.org/2010/09/poetry-of-the-week-will-she-re.html

Widow of the Hound of Baskerville
Ekleksographia: wave three

http://ekleksographia.ahadadabooks.com/murphy/authors/geoffrey_gatza.html

Issue 04 of Source Material: A Journal of Appropriated Text 
http://www.housepress.org/SourceMaterial04.zip

Mayday #2 
http://www.maydaymagazine.com/cover2.php

RECONFIGURATIONS: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture 
http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/2009/11/geoffrey-gatza-4-poems.html

2 Poems:

Roof Top Poetry

http://library.buffalostate.edu/rooftop/members/gatza.htm

Moira Poetry
http://www.moriapoetry.com/gatza.html

Sugar Mule:

http://www.sugarmule.com/27GATZA-g.htm

Vert 6, 5 poems

http://epc.buffalo.edu/mags/vert/Vert_issue_6/ggatza.html

4 image poems

Blackbox

http://williamjamesaustin.com/blackbox.html

28th 11\f October 2011 Read More

Book Reviews

American Book Review
Volume 32, Number 5 July/August 2011
Who's In? Who's Out

“Introduction to Focus: Who’s In? Who’s Out?”

Mark Amerika, Lee Bellavance, Jeff Bursey, Terry Caesar, John Domini, L. Timmel Duchamp, Sascha Feinstein, William Flesch, Geoffrey Gatza, Robin Truth Goodman, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jerry Harp, Joseph D. Haske, George Held, W. Lawrence Hogue, Harold Jaffe, Steven G. Kellman, David Kress, Alyson Leitch, Michael Lindgren, Charles Marowitz, Christian Moraru, Lance Olsen, William O’Rourke, Liedeke Plate, Pedro Ponce, Jonah Raskin, Sheri Reda, Kevin Sampsell, Davis Schneiderman, J.D. Smith, Keith Taylor, Warren Woessner’s “Who’s In? Who’s Out?”

ON SECRETS OF MY PRISON HOUSE by GEOFFREY GATZA
EDRIC MESMER Reviews

http://galatearesurrection15.blogspot.com/2010/12/on-secrets-of-my-prison-house-by.html

Guest editor: The Del Sol Review (Web Del Sol) Fall 2009, #16 
http://delsolreview.webdelsol.com/dsr16/guesteditor.htm

The Joe Milford Poetry Show Hosts Poet Geoffrey Gatza

May 23, 2008 – Poet publisher and tireless wordsmith aficianado extraoidinaire Geoffrey Gatza joins us for a wonderful reading.

HOUSECAT KUNG FU by GEOFFREY GATZA | Brooklyn Rail

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2010/05/books/rapid-transit-may10

HOUSECAT KUNG FU by GEOFFREY GATZA | Thomas Fink
 http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/housecat-kung-fu-by-geoffrey-gatza.html

Geoffrey Gatza Scenes: Blazevox [books]: an interview with Geoffrey Gatza American Book Review - Volume 31, Number 2, January/February 2010, p. 31  American Book Review Scenes: Blazevox [books]: an interview with Geoffrey Gatza

American Book Review - On Micropresses: BlazeVOX [books]
American Book Review Volume 31, Number 4, May/June 2010 BlazeVOX [books]

Geoffrey Gatza on his book KENMORE: Poem Unlimited http://experimentalfictionpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/03/geoffry-gatza-on-his-book-kenmore.html

+ Review of BlazeVOX and Publishing

+ Review of Black Diamond Golden Boy Takes Bull By Horns

http://jacketmagazine.com/34/owens-gatza.shtml

+ Review of BlazeVOX and Publishing

http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/2007/11/jlyn-chapman-blazevox-and-publishing.html

+ Interview on MiPOesias Magazine

http://menoftheweb.blogspot.com/2007/10/geoffrey-gatza.html

+ Review of I Wear a Figleaf Over My Penis

http://artvoice.com/issues/v5n32/i_wear_a_figleaf_over_my_penis

And interview with LitTAP